Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules that there are no 4th Amendment rights in your Google search terms. When you search on Google, you tell them your search terms; the government can get those queries without a warrant. The third-party doctrine applies. www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...

PSA: does everyone know about the unclaimed funds thing? It seems like each state has a website where you can look for unclaimed funds, like checks you forgot to cash or whatever. I just got $2,000 back, spread across 5 different separate checks and 2 states.

I spoke with the @chronicle.com today about the Oklahoma woman with the zero grade. Link below, you may need to make a free account. nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor

Last words from the inspirational disability activist, Alice Wong.

I'm sad to hear this. Alice Wong was an inspiration, a leader, and a visionary.

So amazing to celebrate @payvandahdout.bsky.social on her tenure!! Brilliant scholar, extraordinary teacher, incredible colleague. A wunderkind!!

Here's a law professor lamenting the fads in legal theory popular among law professors that become popular for a decade or two and then fade away— written in 1950. Specifically, it's Roscoe Pound, reflecting on trends since he became a lawyer in 1890. jle.aals.org/cgi/viewcont...

When the literature systematically produces massive, unrealistic estimates, we should approach the research design as if there are flashing red lights and blaring sirens warning danger, not a "keep calm and ujive on."

Strong disagree. Judge IV is a high-variance, low-power estimator that tends to be extremely biased in the presence of publication bias and specification search. So proceed with caution and take those large effect size estimates with a grain of salt.

MEDICAL research. This is such a travesty.

It’s true. Not all of economics is totally insular.

Many people know that there are multiple metrics for racial bias in algorithms -- and that they can yield *very* different results. In a new paper with Aurelie Ouss, we show the same is true for racial disparities in treatment effects. 1/ #econsky #polisky

New project asking whether incarceration really prevents crime via incapacitation, or just shifts it behind bars. With @aurelieouss.bsky.social @emmaharrington.bsky.social and Hannah Shaffer

How extensive is crime in prisons? Prof. @meganstevenson.bsky.social received a $610,000 grant to study the phenomenon.

goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

I was born in 1972. The replacement rate he's panicked about has been below 2.1% for almost every year of my life. If you're really worried about the population falling, giving immigrants a path to citizenship is an obvious and easy solution. Unless there's ... something about them you don't like?

Ok but degree of niceness should not be a citation criteria. Agree with the rest though.

1. Many of you have seen a graph purporting to show trans identification has decreased in recent years. Matt Walsh and Elon Musk celebrated it as a victory over "transgenderism." Turns out, the entire graph is based on an egregious math and statistics error. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Worth a read

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector. Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

#SREE2025 had a really thought-provoking keynote Thursday evening by UVA Law professor @meganstevenson.bsky.social, on why so many RCTs fail to find effects (or fail to replicate when they do show initial effects). This is basically what she said at SREE: www.law.virginia.edu/news/202403/...

Honored to be giving the Hedges Lecture at SREE tomorrow 😊 Topic: “What RCTs Teach us about the Structure of the Social World”

I’m at an Airbnb and the host is conservative Christian. We talked about trans people a bit and his view was as you would expect. I told him about intersex people and showed him a pic of Alicia Roth Wiegel. Mind BLOWN.

This is worth a listen: fascinating explanation of why tick populations have been exploding youtu.be/8Pfy6XBp0QY?...

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Very excited to see my podcast with John Parman about our review of the racial segregation literature is out! Listen to “Reviewing Residential Segregation” here: www.aeaweb.org/research/rac... via @aeajournals.bsky.social

This is cool. Large, high-quality RCT shows that an over-the-counter antihistamine nasal spray protects against catching Covid.

Looking for research funding? Arnold Ventures has several open RFPs. This includes a standing RFP for causal research related to US crime/the CJ system/ppl w criminal records. First step is a 3-page LOI. We aim to get you a funding decision within 3 months of that first step.

I don't know who needs to hear this but slavery was bad.

Anyone know why this German UBI experiment seems to be have big impacts, while the US ones are mostly zip ?

What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...

A description of researcher initiative that is both accurate (imo) + unflattering

This is so important and long overdue.

Moving piece of journalism with gorgeous photographs

The images of children starved to death in Gaza should be the lead of every news program.

🚨 New NBER working paper: "The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Parenting and Children" This paper estimates the effects of receiving a $1,000/month guaranteed income for 3 years, compared to a control group receiving $50/month, on children and parents in the US. 1/

My keynote address for the Chicago Journal of International Law's symposium is now in print: cjil.uchicago.edu In addition, the Research Agenda for Global Power Shifts and International Economic Law, edited by Joel Slawtowsky, is now out: www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/a-r...

This week, millions across the US are under a sweltering heat dome. Heat waves are especially deadly for incarcerated people, as prisons are not equipped to handle these environmental emergencies – which will only get worse because of climate change.

I see a lot of people responding as if the factual claims of this lawsuit are false. I bet they are true; for a number of years, explicitly trying to increase race/gender representation was considered a good thing. I wish there was more vocal defense of that rather than pretending it never occurred.

The whole “population decline panic” thing is SOOO explicitly eugenic. There are *plenty* of babies being born, they are just more likely to be brown than white. Eugenics was always pro-natalist for the right “types” - its not just sterilization for the wrong types. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/w...

Worthwhile read for people who have kids, or like kids

Whoa it has like hundreds of detailed article editor reports about HLR submissions, mostly 2024. This seems like prime research material for anyone who wants to write a paper about the law review publication process.

“Prioritize working on the projects closest to publication“ Good advice

Seeing the discussion on fragile p-values makes me feel that a fair chunk of people are signing on without thinking too deeply. The argument goes that fragile p-values were 32% of findings and are now 26% of findings, roughly the expected amount... www.science.org/content/arti...

““Every day, we lose more ways to survive,” she said. “My son is only asking for the bare minimum — a loaf of bread. We’re not asking for proper housing or clothes or even meat. All we want is a loaf of bread to stop the children’s crying. Is that too much to ask?”” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/w...

South Dakota Law Review is doing a joint symposium with the Native America Law Student Association on issues related to access to justice in Indian Country. Call for papers is open and the event will be in Vermillion on Sept 29. Please share widely. Details here: www.usd.edu/Academics/Co...

I finally made a webpage! sites.google.com/view/megan-s...

This is an absolutely wild take. I don’t think teachers to be trying to impress on students that using LLMs is morally wrong. There’s certainly reasons for concern about LLMs in society, but they are also so *incredibly* useful.