US politics will enter into and polarize every aspect of life and culture: premier league edition

As a general rule, making films that are also good art about the current moment in history is pretty hard. But seeing "one battle after another" and "bugonia" back to back convinced me that the moment we are living through is absurd enough that it has suddenly become much more possible.

With a little extra effort this analysis of dynasties in football (or "intergenerational occupational persistence in elite sports" if you prefer academiaspeak) could probably be turned into a sociology paper. www.linkedin.com/pulse/footba...

Early and late diagnosed autism are quite different, also genetically www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Has Christopher Nolan ever done a good movie before Oppenheimer?

Come and be our colleague!!!

As Food Stamps for 40 million Americans are now stopping, here is a classic results of the positive effects that the availability of food stamps has for the birthweights of newborns and for neonatal infant mortality. www.irp.wisc.edu/publications...

That thing you thought was random, it's actually not! Edition 35,867: "The offspring of longer whale mothers are more likely to be female than those of shorter mums" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

I have now changed my football opinion to "only setpiece goals feel like real goals." Maybe goals out of play should only count 1/2 or 3/4 points.

Teorema (Pasolini, 1968) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Thames Water doing its magic in the Champions League now, I see onefootball.com/en/news/atle...

NEW DID paper coming in 1..2...3... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/b...

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As Marie Antoinut said: "Let them eat peanuts" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...

There was another China shock and it exported people into the USs higher ed system (and mostly had positive consequences) www.nber.org/papers/w3439...

A whole mixed bag of consequences being described here, but overall this reads like a W for cell-phone bans in school www.nber.org/papers/w3438...

Universities are (so far) actually faring better than many other institutions in how much they succumb to power. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...

If you search hard there is still good news to be found (like, really good in this case) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/h...

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

Still not 100% sure how relevant the effects are and most studies we have are correlational, but the medical literature is slowly "micro-plastic-pilling" me (as in I think its much more of an issue than i did two years ago). jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

a thing we don't fully understand creating a thing we don't fully understand. cool. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

May he who never parked a furniture van in front of the louvre, throw the first stone.

The past 10 years have been good for the relative earnings of poor-income US households. That seems to be coming to an end. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

“Measuring itself is a political act with political consequences” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social. It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets. Thread 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Imagine being an economic historian and not having won a nobel yet...

Not gonna get into the population size - environmental degradation arguments, but what really caught me off-guard in this nature correspondence was the call for reduced urbanization, when evidence clearly shows urban populations being less stressful to the environment. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Study of Social Isolation in 159 countries between 2009-2024: Social Isolation increased by 13,4% with the entire increase happening after the COVID pandemic in 2019 but continuing to increase since. Low-income groups have much higher social isolation levels jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Abortion Access, Economic Hardship and Crime: The paper uses changes in abortion rates due to changes in the distance to the closest abortion clinic after the enforcement of Texas HB-2 in 2013. Less abortions led to more economic hardship and crime. www.nber.org/papers/w34245

Guessing Game: What does this graph show?

Society of Labor Economists (SoLE) Annual Conference will be May 1-2, 2026 in Denver, Colorado. Submission portal is now open! Deadline for submissions is October 31--don't forget to submit! It will be a great conference! (organized by me and @jrothst.bsky.social) mailchi.mp/sole-jole/so...

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well... low bar to clear

This foreword to "Restoring Control Over the Immigration System" contains some outrageous statements. The migration increase was driven by student visas. Have these tuition paying students truly done "incalculable damage" to the country? assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6821ae...

the marketing of this book is WILD once you see which Mitford it is

Good article on the diferences between profound and non-profound autism. Also goes into the problems for families with children with profound autism that stem from diagnosing this entire spectrum under one term. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/h...

If there is a film I would have loved to see: "In 1973, Andrei Tarkovsky was pondering an adaptation of Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus"... therestisnoise.com/tarkovsky-on...

How is it that the top 3 premier league clubs all have scandinavian strikers? Do they exclusively train banging balls in in the nordic youth academies?

thisisfinememe.gif www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/s...

On possible welfare gains in reducing air pollution: "We compare these prices to marginal benefits of pollution reduction estimated using leading air quality models and find that, on average, marginal benefits exceed marginal costs by more than a factor of ten." www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

"Doing gender" Saudi Arabia edition pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

Cross-country analysis of voter reactions to economic crises. tldr: economic crises benefit the right. If a center-right party is in power when the crisis hits, there is a shift even further to the right. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We've found a master regulator that controls the level of DNA repair 🧬 and thus how fast we accumulate mutations 🧪 The team that discovered it thinks this also determines the rate of ageing 👵, but they haven't quite proved it yet www.newscientist.com/article/2497...

right... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Good Michael Clemens op-ed on H1B visas and the current US administrations attempts to curb high-skilled immigration. www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

Study on maternal (ethnic and socioeconomic) characteristics and child mortality in the UK. The study uses linkage of the 2011 census with birth and death registrations. Educational differences, heightened risk of unemployed & Pakistani mothers stand out. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Entry discrimination in the NBA (black players with similar characteristics being less likely than others to start after the initial draft) used to be a thing in the 1980s but disappeared since the early 2000s. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...