Brad LeVeck
@bradleveck.bsky.social
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political scientist at UC Merced Likes: 🌄📸, 🧠🔄🧠, 📊🧪 faculty.ucmerced.edu/bleveck
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An interesting possibility I had not considered, re: the apparent insider trading around the Iran war and other Trump admin actions.
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Tomer Ullman
about 2 hours ago
I generally try to motivate the undergrads about the things I cover in my decision making class (e.g. 'you WILL encounter the Sunk Cost fallacy in your life and recognizing it could save your butt'), but when it comes to counterfactuals I put this up:
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An interesting possibility I had not considered, re: the apparent insider trading around the Iran war and other Trump admin actions.
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Aaron Clauset
about 13 hours ago
tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world
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Conor Sen
about 15 hours ago
New high for May gasoline futures:
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Conor Sen
about 16 hours ago
Oil just ticked up on this:
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My general take on this is: Last week jawboning informed the market that he *wants* to 🌮. However, the market (correctly) does not believe that additional jawboning means he's any closer to a deal.
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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD
about 22 hours ago
and the best part is: the advice and guidance provided in this webinar is widely applicable to other grant and fellowship applications graduate students apply to. join us next week
#polisky
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A lot of people in my feed keep retweeting this story from 3 hours ago, but oil is up ~1pp and the S&P is already back to being slightly negative. Doesn’t seem like the jawboning was really that successful this time.
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about 21 hours ago
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Conor Sen
about 21 hours ago
Oil’s up.
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1 week ago, he got the oil futures to drop ~10%. This seems pretty small.
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about 23 hours ago
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Still interesting to me how little this jawboning has moved the markets since Friday, especially compared to how well it worked on Monday last week.
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about 24 hours ago
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Rory Johnston
1 day ago
The community note.
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Shashank Joshi
2 days ago
"Iran is now earning nearly twice as much from oil sales each day as it did before American and Israeli bombs started falling on February 28th. It may be pummelled on the battlefield, but the regime is winning the energy war."
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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How Iran is making a mint from Donald Trump’s war
Iran maintains oil exports of 2.4m-2.8m barrels daily despite war and sanctions, earning twice pre-conflict revenues as Gulf rivals slash output and prices surge.
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/03/29/how-iran-is-making-a-mint-from-donald-trumps-war
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Large protests are common knowledge machines 🧠🔄🧠
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Brandon Sheffield
2 days ago
Oh damn - the feature phone era finally ends in Japan! You will be remembered, fallen soldiers
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3 days ago
If I were a vast imperial power I would simply not become so hubristic about my military might that I become embroiled in a prolonged asymmetrical war with a weaker power who's fundamental willingness to stick it out means that they can bear not losing for longer than I can afford to not win.
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Large protests are common knowledge machines 🧠🔄🧠
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Roger Myerson
3 days ago
#NoKings
in Chicago.
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Omar Wasow
9 months ago
“The fact that organized protest can break the spiral of silence, and correct our impressions of what other Americans think, is one of the most immediate and important values of protesting in the first place. Scientists have [shown] protests update our impressions of what other citizens believe.”
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What a ‘Spiral of Silence’ Can Do to a Democracy
Protests show people they are not alone in caring about an issue.
https://www.aol.com/most-overlooked-value-political-protest-110000496.html
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Efrén Pérez
5 days ago
@christiangrose.bsky.social
didn’t deserve the public attacks he got for doing his job out here in CA. Here’s his take:
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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The professor at the center of the debate debacle
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2026/03/26/the-professor-at-the-center-of-the-debate-debacle-00845901
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Unforgivable for HyperCard to be this low
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4 days ago
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Pam Herd
4 days ago
While the situation is grim at NIH, it's closer to catastrophic at NSF. They're just not able to move any money out the door. It appears OMB has them on lockdown.
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I guess this explains some of it. Traders seem to believe he can still salvage this in a week or two.
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Adam Berinsky
4 days ago
New working paper: Rethinking Misinformation Interventions. The field has spent years searching for the one intervention that will solve misinformation. This search is the wrong approach — and our disappointment says more about our expectations than our tools. (1/5)
osf.io/preprints/so...
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OSF
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ck6gz_v1
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Rory Johnston
4 days ago
Brent crude prices (white) are high, but at $110/bbl they're still well below 2022 highs. But Brent crude Dated-to-Frontline timespreads (blue)—diff between spot Brent crude/futures, a measure of market tightness—are at all-time highs, almost DOUBLE 2022 highs. All-time tight.
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Catherine Rampell
4 days ago
Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear
www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...
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TBC this is mostly me expressing my own ignorance, but I don’t understand why oil futures are still much lower than 2022. Yes, Trump _wants_ to 🌮 in some sense, but can he fix this in time?
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Unforgivable for HyperCard to be this low
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I really do like this as an example of markets learning
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I really do like this as an example of markets learning
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Tom Clark
5 days ago
This is really bad. The federal government has basically stopped investing in basic research.
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Man, inflation is out of control. I remember when extending the deadline on Iran strikes bought a whole 10 percent drop in oil futures.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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johnny, uplifted octopus
5 days ago
i think the worst part of the anti-ai posts on here esp for coding agents is that THEY ARE EXTREMELY FUN TO USE AND YOU ARE SKIPPING FUN FOR MOSTLY BAD PRETENTIOUS AESTHETIC REASONS
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Alex Becker
5 days ago
New theory: pretraining on trillions of tokens causes models to vastly overestimate how much text I want to read
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Doro Bohle
6 days ago
Great opportunity for politcal economists
career.mpifg.de/jobposting/3...
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Senior Researcher in the field of Political Economy (tenure track)
The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) in Cologne is seeking a
https://career.mpifg.de/jobposting/33d87b1a53874040c565b27695057b05e43898770?ref=homepage&fbclid=IwY2xjawQxFYBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETB6ZHlJNVhOazAyR3ZZUzBic3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHicBm44HbJzK4ZOr3TgqigBl81d-xP3b8CzZzP_FivMszXG9PX4M-2OvPGyK_aem_WMeNN9sKwtM1y2qKnRCedA
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Daphne Keller
6 days ago
GREAT gig. Lots of Brussels folks aren’t on Bsky, let them know!
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Conor Sen
6 days ago
From a market price action standpoint, you have two sides both of whom are known for being liars who are incentivized to lie to move markets in their direction.
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This is something I’d be interested to hear from experts on. Has the market priced in most of the disruptions that will persist after the war ends? Or, another way to put it, how quickly does Trump need to TACO for the futures to make sense? cc
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Ironically, I think the transparency of Trump’s lie might be helping to sell the market on how badly he wants to 🌮.
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Dan de Kadt
8 days ago
Beautiful paper, read, set in your classes, think about, cite, extend, etc.
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Andrew Little
9 days ago
Trump admin violating domestic law, international law, and now the law of total variance
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I think you can absolutely do qualitative research and still be a scientist, but if you actively block *any* replication policy then you’re not. You’re anti-science.
bsky.app/profile/jere...
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9 days ago
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To clearly communicate the war’s purpose, the admin would need to clearly understand it themselves
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Benjamin Hanson
10 days ago
This past winter I visited boulder beach and sunrise with a goal to capture otter cliffs in a different way then I normally do. This is what I came away with.
#photo
#landscapephotography
#seascapephotography
#acadia
#maine
#photography
#sunrise
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Colin Camerer
9 days ago
So many ways in which ICE in airports could backfire. TSA has a union, but Trump has 2x tried to bust it. (It’s still in court). 7 months of training vs Imagine working for free next to paid ICE agents More TSA agents will call in sick.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Matthew Yglesias
9 days ago
Independents perceive themselves as slightly right of center
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This is bonkers
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Conor Sen
10 days ago
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Conor Sen
10 days ago
Well this doesn’t sound like deescalation
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