I think people should be very, very careful when leaning ChatGPT or any bot for help navigating relationship issues or any other interpersonal conflict/crisis: futurism.com/chatgpt-marr... futurism.com/artificial-i...

I'm not going back to X to explain it to Iain, but the way to get through to people like that is to point out this: People are not like goods imports. When they come they also need to eat, look after and entertain themselves. To do that they buy goods and services from people here, creating work.

Canadian police said they caught a hot dog thief this week, and the bandit did not make an attempt to conceal the evidence. “The suspect was released without conditions — and a full belly!” said a post from the police department. https://wapo.st/43d7JRi

Herzog: With the Mandalorian as his psychopomp, Grogu seeks a return to the void whence he came. You may see yourself reflected in the black of his pupils, but I see only the infinite chasm of nothingness that awaits us all Interview: All that from a Disney show? Herzog: What show?

Do people have favourite tools for detecting hallucinated citations (that aren't themselves reliant on LLMs)?

I have never yet met a student who wasn't shocked by how much work it takes to publish an academic paper, no matter how much I preview the process in advance. Every fact, every number, every citation.

‘Learning to Talk’ by Jim Dodge.

Guten Morgen! ☕️

What research would you love to carry out if only for the sheer chaos it would cause in your online spaces? I'd like to carry out a comparative study of which academics, *by discipline*, are most likely to share misinformation/disinformation online.

I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore

You may have noticed that the word for ‘night’ in many languages appears to be that language’s word for ‘eight’ with an ‘N' in front of it. English: N + eight = Night German: N + acht = Nacht French: N + huit = Nuit Spanish: N + ocho = Noche Italian: N + otto = Notte Portuguese: N + oito = Noite ⬇️

🎉 AFÉPOP 2026 wrapped up yesterday! 🗣️A fascinating 2 days of research, capped by a brilliant keynote by Marianne Simonsen (Aarhus Uni @cesifo.org, @iza.org), chaired by @hleforner.bsky.social, on the importance of early childhood resources for families and child development & the role of policy🧒📚

Thanks to the local organizing team of BETA @unistra.fr for their flawless organization and… the incredible food 🍽️🤩 #AFÉPOP2026 ran like clockwork & none of this would have been possible without your hard work behind the scenes 👏 @mathieulefebvre.bsky.social @agathesimon.bsky.social

One aspect that I have not seen discussed much is that "automating social science research" here clearly seems to require standardizing research to some extent. 1/7

🏥 Can an unethical environment quietly damage hospital care? A new Health Economics study of 500+ hospitals in China links more medical corruption to worse management, more complications, and longer hospital stays. tinyurl.com/2nhz2pm7

A great thread on the evidence regarding human capital vs. signaling explanations of the return to higher education.

economists ca. 2027, probably

Decisions have been communicated, if you applied and received no decisions, please get in touch. @peibich.bsky.social and I look forward to seeing you all in Paris in June.

Bluesky Paris Meet Up (Drinks): By the power invested in me by the Bluesky Paris Entertainments Cttee (ie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social @jonhenley.bsky.social @donnad.eurosky.social ) I am delighted to announce that there will be drinks on the evening of June 4 venue TBC — pls DM me if interested.

The “hybrid” model that’s easiest to work with is adding the time averages of the time-varying covariates to logit, probit, Tobit, and so on. Those become control variables, and so, after using plain vanilla logit, probit, and so on with clustered stnd errors — not the random effects versions —

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

Honestly think this is one of the best videos on YouTube. Beautiful folk song that, like, were it not for the very specific circumstances of the modern internet I would never have been able to experience anything like at all in my life. I am enriched by such things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIMK...

Pope Leo has lost the Protestants, I repeat Pope Leo has lost the Protestants, this is unpreced— <wait my producer is just whispering something in my ear> Apparently this is precedented

Reject non-essential cookies? Hell no, I’m hungry

One of those papers I wish I had written

love bluesky because the replies to this post immediately descend into people fighting about whether the minions would have worked for stalin

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

"The damages [...] are small relative to potential productivity gains" Is that the right measure to use?

WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS

A fantastic giveaway from a must-read author! I have several of Tom’s books and they are treasures. Lyrical treasures that dip you hidden worlds that intersect and wind around the familiar to reveal the secrets underneath. And the linoprint bookmarks that Jo makes are beautiful - I framed mine!

President’s Invited Lecture at #SES2026 🎓 @scoteconsociety.bsky.social We’re delighted to welcome Jeffrey Wooldridge to deliver the Scottish Economic Society President’s Invited Lecture 2026. "Simple, Flexible Strategies for Estimating Causal Effects with Staggered Interventions" #EconSky

I’m very happy to share that my first paper has been accepted for publication 🎉 Together with my great co-author Nayeon Lim we look at early public childcare in Germany. More details and the paper link below 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

me when I think i've been clever getting a deal in a brick lane curry house but then can't eat it all

Do questions in titles attract more attention? Evidence from you

Times like this call for sustaining a serious intellectual culture in your imagination, not imagining a serious intellectual culture

Chères·chers collègues enseignant·es en français, pour un cours de 1ère année portant sur les systèmes politiques, je suis à la recherche d’un manuel en français. Est-ce que quelqu’un aurait la gentillesse de partager une suggestion ? Merci bcp ! @iguinaudeau.bsky.social @fredericmerand.bsky.social

Thoughts and prayers to our fellow academics in Germany. Seeing lots of posts today about the new term, while I only have some grading and student presentations left

If the Pope is weak on crime, then why does the Vatican City have the single largest police force in the world, on a per capita basis? Pop of Vatican City: ~900 Police: ~150. That's ~17,000 per 100,000. US? ~750,000 cops for ~325M ppl. That's ~230 per 100,000. Trump can't even DREAM of those #s.

Finally, Bluesky discourse on our research agenda @georghenning.bsky.social

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

ORBÁN CONCEDED

Orban has conceded

This is me when I mention one of my papers in class and students ask a follow-up question

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

Not autistic, just German german.millermanschool.com