Violence is never the answer.

Promising results from McMaster's Phase 1 inhaled Aerovax Covid vaccine trial 💉 The vaccine safely produced respiratory mucosal immunity (trial didn't assess ability to prevent infections - later phase trials may do this) brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/pro...

Evicting NSF from their building in Washington is pretty revealing. But if they auction off its History Wall, I know which tile I’d bid on. Here’s the list to choose from… marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/evic...

Tim Roughgarden (a16z crypto and Columbia) is giving a seminar on Thursday, 29 May 2025: "Shill-Proof Auctions" (with Andrew Komo and Scott Kominers). Guest panellists: Marek Pycia and Zhou Yu. @timroughgarden.bsky.social @skominers.bsky.social

FYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...

Happy Palindrome-Ambigram-Reflection Day, QED!! I hope your day has been excellent in every possible direction 🙂🙃

Once again, I was left to wonder: was Pete Hegseth signal chatting military attack plans to everyone but me?? Am I the one that’s insecure, or is it his communication practices that are insecure?

A podcast episode with @skominers.bsky.social and @rhhackett on #congestionpricing in New York City (and beyond). Link: web3-with-a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/con...

Wordle 1,371 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩 ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟩 🟨🟩🟨⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 @casssunstein.bsky.social and @rthaler.bsky.social must do Wordle today

Happy [PI / PurIm / EclPIse] Day!! Hold some PIstachio hamantaschen up to the moon, QED 😄🤚📐🌑! (And yes, of course, there's an NFT 👇)

Cross-posting an extremely niche social science joke x.com/skominers/st...

On the amazing downfall of Alzheimer's research by widespread manipulations and the crooked incentive structure in science: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

High pay for participating in clinical trials (for example) may require greater efforts to make sure consent is well informed. #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/01/info...

What's the theory one would have to concoct to hypothesize the opposite of what this article finds? Maybe "postdocs who publish a lot of papers are probably tapped out and can't publish anything else now, whereas the ones who haven't are well rested and ready to start producing hit research soon."

What a time to be alive

Edited by Susan Fiske, who also described replication studies as “methodological terrorism”.

At least this one will surely replicate (as long as those evil replicators don't bring in any evil identification)

Inspectors General, the govt’s internal watchdogs, were a post-Watergate reform, reporting abuses to Congress. Trump fired some IGs in term 1 after his first impeachment showed that Senate GOP will defend abuse. Only reason to fire 17 IGs now is to abuse power and break the law with less pushback.

Utterly astounding to me that it's possible to publish a paper in PNAS that shows a correlation between having a "hit paper" as a postdoc and later academic success... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I'm judging a Quora knowledge contest, which is a cool way to talk about ideas. Entries due tomorrow (Jan 22). Here are three questions I'm excited about. Would love to read your answers, and the prize for the best answer is $1000 for each question.

Jesse Shapiro and I talked with Danielle Kost of HBS Working Knowledge about why social media platforms aren’t well-positioned to combat misinformation -- and what they should do instead: www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

A great follow

Did everything feel a bit more mathematical this morning? That's because 2025 is a perfect square ✅! Yes, 2025 is 45² = (1+2+...+9)². It's the first square year since 1936, and the next one is 2116. But that's not all… read on ⬇️👀

Happy Chanukkah! 🕎 Here's a thematic puzzle, styled after the cover of a children's puzzle magazine: The story is that there's been a bit of confusion – everyone's preparing for different holidays! Can you sort them out, and determine what we need in order to tune up the present celebration?

When you criticize Musk for endorsing the AfD, Vance threatens your employer. Free speech something something. Ht @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social @soyboy.bsky.social

Because it's *completely absurd.* The exec. director of the Am. Public Health Assoc. said it's "akin to malpractice." It's "like a physician having a patient with appendicitis...and refusing to [remove it], knowing that it will cripple or...kill the patient." www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

So the shortest day came, and the year died, And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world Came people singing, dancing, To drive the dark away.

Basic science is necessary for applied science, example #1000000

Helping colleagues put finishing touches on an absolute banger of an article on PT considerations for management of chronic pain and hypertension. Does PEM/PENE assessment make an appearance? Yes, dear reader, yes it does. We’re not coming close to recommending exercise as intervention without it.

As you're solving your optimization for this weekend, clearly the utility-maximizing strategy is to enter the December Quora Knowledge Contest in Economics: contests.quora.com/Now-Open-Dec...

As you're solving your optimization for this weekend, clearly the utility-maximizing strategy is to enter the December Quora Knowledge Contest in Economics: contests.quora.com/Now-Open-Dec...

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🚨New Paper🚨 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 Joint with Ella Segev Social choice theory provides ways for aggregating the preferences of individuals in a society, to tell us what is better for society: alternative a or alternative b. However, this theory is silent on 𝑏𝑦 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ a is better than b. 1/9

Also, I must say, I was extremely impressed with the publication process at @jmechinstdesign.bsky.social! Among other things, I'm pretty sure it's the only time I've ever seen copy editors cross-check the math itself to make sure formal definitions were specified properly 🤯

Ultra-honored to be part of this @jmechinstdesign.bsky.social special issue commemorating economics ubermensch @vincecrawford.bsky.social, QED 🙏🙌

#EconBluesky Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design, new volume 9, Special Issue in Honour of Vincent P. Crawford, available at www.mechanism-design.org @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social @york.ac.uk @t8el.bsky.social @skominers.bsky.social @vincecrawford.bsky.social @hexxxeh.bsky.social

“Disabled activists have been screaming about the dangers of mask bans since the great unmasking occurred. We warned that if people stopped masking - if they refused to assist us in normalizing masks - we would end up with mask bans. We were right.” www.disabledginger.com/p/nyc-mayor-...

I can't believe someone spent a ton of money on a ginormous spy drone and everyone keeps mistaking it for an airplane or a planet

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Happy 90th to Dame Judi Dench -- all-around legend, and excellent rapper (h/t @elkomnrs.bsky.social) youtu.be/H7ojygIbMYk?...

Fantastic writeup by @drewcoffman.bsky.social on Chris Dixon's Read Write Own 🟧, Steve Kaczynski's and my The Everything Token 📙, and the optimism both books offer for the future of the Internet. Honored to be included here, and to have had the opportunity to inspire such positive reflections 🙏.

a hot (nerd) take sometimes in economics the more mathy people care about writing their proofs pedantically with all details carefully spelled out interestingly many, if not most, professional mathematicians do not write their proofs this way 1/

I was perplexed by what @bengolub.bsky.social meant by redistribution through markets. So I asked perplexity.ai, and it immediately pointed me to the paper by that title by @skominers.bsky.social et al. web.stanford.edu/~mohamwad/In...

What a time to be alive

Your daily "Redistribution through Markets" tweet Three cheers for the Ohio legislature www.nbc4i.com/news/politic...

Super exciting result, solving a century-old puzzle problem 🟥 ↔️ 🔺️

My answer to "From a game-theoretic perspective, when should political candidates stake out extreme versus moderate positions?" received a gold prize in Quora's 3nd Knowledge Contest in Economics, judged by @skominers.bsky.social. I had fun writing this! qr.ae/p2jDr9

Apparently I am "The Academic Wiz with a Punchline" with "89% authenticity!" 🫡 blueskyroast.com/roast/skomin...