Wow, this is fantastic.

Inserting @novosad.bsky.social's X post - I am still not very proficient in R, but I converted all of my Stata code to R for fun, which resulted in a very primitive version masala-merge in R (github.com/devdatalab/m...)! #masala-merge #R #India #economics

Young people and city-dwellers are among those most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss

Editing our writing is a common academic task. I *hate* how spell/grammar checks annoy me by thinking proper nouns or LaTeX code are misspellings (yes, I want `` ''). I also want *style* tips like a good editor would give me. Problem solved. 1/5

OMG is real www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

I have revise-and-resubmits older than ICE

every student taking the easy path here is putting a little more alpha on the table for their peers who don't

It's wild to me that in 2025 there are academics advising their students to never use AI.

Please do it less quietly, Europe. US political leadership needs to be more rattled by this! www.politico.com/newsletters/...

just register for your own protection. it will be fine

Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

fuck these fucking guys who did this slate.com/news-and-pol...

Academic creativity is underrated and technical methods are overrated. Take this excellent paper on Zero Sum Thinking—simple in retrospect, just an excellent idea! Graph shows rise in zero-sum thinking with Millennial and later U.S. birth cohorts. Congrats to @s-stantcheva.bsky.social

Parents are going to flip out when they learn that the 4th grade teacher hasn't answered all the math worksheet questions by herself.

Is EconSky dead? Scrolling through my feed, none of the posts by real people (as opposed to social media celebrities) have any engagement. Even "new paper alerts" getting like <20 likes.

U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)? Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions. U.S. Applicant Week: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool

Our paper on ingroup bias in the Indian judiciary — we didn't find any — is finally out! This paper has one of the two best graphs I've ever made — on publication bias in the judicial bias literature. Black circles are prior studies on ingroup bias. Explanation in 🧵👇🏻

Now that’s a split-screen. ⛳️ @wsj.com

Mad king watch

Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.

the internet starting to re-fragment into having Actual Websites again as centralized social media self-destructs is unironically one of the absolute best, most positive things happening rn

Seriously disturbing. Look at the prisoners standing at attention, being required to take part in this US propaganda video

Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.

Free speech is for ideas we like; otherwise, it's sparkling terrorism

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

We are very happy to publish the "National Elections Database," including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! www.nationalelectionsdatabase.com with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

#GDRI_rep Update 1: I4R are now reproducing all published papers that use data from GDRI, or are closely related in other ways. Here is a first update on our work. 🧵

Yea

Andrew Tate has learned his lesson. by Susan Collins

Three things worth knowing about the current fiscal debate: 1. When they're talking about savings, the numbers are usually billions (though sometimes millions). 2. When they're talking about tax cuts, the numbers are usually trillions. 3. A trillion is a thousand times larger than a billion.

It's a very sad day. Just notified that @iza.org is closing its doors as of 31 December 2025. At a time when labor is under attack and technological change moves at an ever-faster pace, I can't help but think that this is a short-sighted decision. My heart goes out to those folks who work there.

Awful timing given the funding meltdown in the USA IZA shutting down its institute in Bonn Hoping to maintain the scholar network www.deutsche-post-stiftung.org/media/202502...

The world's top network of labor economists—@iza.org—will close permanently at the end of this year. What a loss to research. Especially now when the rising waters of disinformation choke truth. It is up to us, now, to begin the work to rebuild. www.deutsche-post-stiftung.org/media/202502...

The NAEP 2024 -2025 Long Term Trend Age 17 assessment will not be administered in the upcoming weeks Unbroken testing series since early 1970s Nothing like ignorance to keep our country moving forward

Definitely worth highlighting, every time you get on a plane! www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/u...

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

🔥🔥🔥 Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe was arrested for civil disobedience after speaking against a MAGA display that the city council of Huntington Beach agreed to put up at the public library…..that’s what’s up….every word👇

One of the leading scholars of democracy is struggling to process what is happening just like everyone else: "Is democracy dying in the United States?"

Abel: I am writing in my capacity as Chair of I4R. Last year, I was contacted by a researcher that alerted me of potential scientific misconduct in a set of papers all using data from a specific NGO.🧵

🚨 Recently, I took a major decision by withdrawing my name from a series of papers on covid that I coauthored. After realizing that several crucial pieces of information about the design had been withheld from me by the team, I decided to withdraw myself,... 1/3

That’s the bet, and they’re clearly winning. US politics is not operating under the rules of a functioning democracy, and people need to recognize that asap. Otherwise you will think there’s some self-correcting mechanism that is simply not there anymore.

And more importantly, this case is how they are sending to every politician in America a crucial message: they will spare you any legal trouble, no matter what you do, if you align with them. That’s a massive power grab.

First of all: what scandal? Congress will do nothing, the media has already forgotten it. They’re going to get away with, and in the process pushed out prosecutors not willing to play their game.

It’s amazing how smart people like Ezra Klein fail to see the significance of the Eric Adams case. In an operational democracy, it would indeed be a disaster for the president; in our current autocratic logic, it could very well make Trump stronger.

Demolishing their arguments doesn't matter, what matters is who rules. Each honest offical who retires will be replaced with a corrupt one.

Like why did I spend two months ticking all the boxes when I could have just negotiated a readme that says "you can contact the author if you want the packet" Clearly, you should ask every partner org for a line in the MOU that denies permission to post a public replication repo.

This drives me crazy

The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law." Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...