Immigrants save Americans' lives: "...a 25% increase in the steady state flow of immigrants to the US would result in 5,000 fewer deaths nationwide. We identify reduced use of nursing homes as a key mechanism driving this result." www.nber.org/papers/w34791

substack.com/@abio/note/c...? 🥴

White people are putting Mexican flag stickers on their cars to get pulled over and waste ICE's time. They call it "ICE fishing."

I used it in two classes last semester, went great 👍👍 www.chronicle.com/article/can-... Data on student responses www.swaybeta.ai/research/stu...

This is good It's hard to admit you're wrong; harder when you've been wrong longer If you want people to do it, make them confident you won't make them feel bad about it www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wQh...

"In other words, when the good leave and the bad don’t, the institution rots." Don't resign, fight from the inside marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

White House spokeswoman mocks people asking about this: “uM, eXCuSe mE??? iS tHAt DiGiTAlLy AlTeReD?!?!?!?!?!”

"Enhanced reasoning emerges not from extended computation alone, but from multi-agent [LLM] interactions - a society of thought - which enables diversification and debate among internal cognitive perspectives characterized by distinct personality traits and domain expertise" arxiv.org/abs/2601.10825

Spraying pepper spray directly into the eyes of a detained person who’s already fully subdued

It’s been awhile since I took micro, but my recollection is that the models give pretty clear predictions about what happens to consumer surplus under perfect price discrimination.

An intervention found that blocking internet access on smartphones for 2 weeks improved mental health, subjective well-being, and objectively measured ability to sustain attention; 91% of participants improved on at least one of these outcomes. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

An argument for commending MGT for moral courage from @koosterum.bsky.social kylevo.substack.com/p/partisan-o...

Opposing the far right isn’t an excuse to indulge our tribal instincts (literally half my posting on this site, but better stated by @danwphilosophy.bsky.social) www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/tribalism-...

Now this is an abstract.

Hi!!! I'm in the process of working on my syllabus for a course focused on US parties/partisanship/polarization. If anyone's taught a similar course and is willing to share their syllabus, I'd really appreciate seeing how others have done this! Plugs for undergrad friendly papers also welcome (:

"Academics underestimate the rewards, and overestimate the risks, to researching, teaching, and speaking freely" guidedcivicrevival.substack.com/p/and-thats-...

Loss aversion ("bad is stronger than good"): evidence from Buddhism

Interesting piece but if this claim is true that means students/parents don't actually care about teaching quality? "colleges and universities have no incentive to define or measure teaching quality and have not funded serious controlled studies" hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/teaching-q...

Appreciate this letter from MN State Sen Jim Abler (R-Anoka) to POTUS

We should just use standardized test scores + grades to admit students into college. Everything else is way too easy to game, allowing the extremely rich to dominate access to prestigious colleges. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... I've been saying this for a long time, but the data makes it clear.

Some social media algorithms are feeding us antidemocratic attitudes and intergroup hostility. But a new field experiment finds that an algorithmic feed can reduce out-group animosity & affective polarization by down-ranking this hostile political content. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Interesting session! www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...,

We’re trying to raise $1 million for desperately poor people in Rwanda to beat last year’s mark and do more good. www.slowboring.com/p/one-millio...

Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

Great @jamellebouie.net piece tying together many of the administration's grafts - for cash, for power... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

"Because the truth is, I'm lying when I say there is no truth. The truth is- the pathetically, stupidly, inconveniently obvious truth is- helping only ourselves is bad and helping each other is good.“ -Jeff Winger (Community)

Wow... @cnn.com MTG apologizes for taking part in "toxic politics" "I would like to say humbly for taking part in the toxic politics: She says she is workign hard to "put down the knives" Amazing. A step forward. She should be applauded for apologizing.

Schrödinger’s immigrant - destitute yet able to buy a house.

This is *excellent*

Idiom Origin “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” This was originally *sarcasm* & meant to convey that the act was impossible. A boot strap is a loop used to help put your boot on. This 1921 cartoon from the “Nonpartisan Leader” showcases that you can’t pull upward on your boots to levitate.

Good thread to share with those who question the value of viewpoint diversity (Eg www.aaup.org/academe/issu...)

For 478 (literal) swing voters, your vote really did matter www.pressherald.com/2025/11/05/b...

A coalition that ranges from democratic socialists to neoconservatives, including a lot of energized liberals in between, is large and formidable. A big pro-democracy tent. A united front. Any internal disagreements can be hashed out once the authoritarian emergency is over. This really can work.

According to Google AI I have coined the term "affective polarization" 😆

When the President of the United States of America starts bragging about his results on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment for dementia.

"Provalus looks for small towns where incomes are low and people are eager for positions that will teach them 21st-century skills" Gift link www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

www.chronicle.com/article/trum... @brendannyhan.bsky.social did you see this? Thoughts?

The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...

Consumer activism can actually work

For your mental accounts slides www.reddit.com/r/personalfi...