Actually no, I think Trump should implement gas rationing & price controls. Someone go on Fox & Friends and say that the President can mandate that gasoline costs $0.10/gallon. People will be so grateful that they will only take as much as the need 🫡

Or measurement error, hard to tell which 🤷🤷

If the scientific community wanted to take back control of the AI industry, we might be able to do it by creating our own training data. I.e., we commit to creating a shared database for training AI models that is evaluated by scientists & students. Anyone could use for non-commercial purposes.

Across the nation, as many as 200,000 immigrant drivers could be pushed out of the trucking industry by the crackdown on commercial driver’s licenses, according to the Department of Transportation — even as the U.S. faces a shortage of up to 80,000 truck drivers.

When California implemented an 11% excise tax on firearms, prices rose about 10% while prices in other states barely changed—indicating the tax was almost entirely passed on to buyers. www.chicagobooth.edu/review/who-p... #econsky

Data centers increase employment rates in surrounding communities. They also place upward pressure on home and electricity prices.

As they say, some personal news www.gelliottmorris.com/p/one-year-o...

For all of Trump's 2nd term, his approval rating has steadily fallen with minor & brief improvements. This is *not* a normal public opinion trend. It is a harbinger of political disaster--so long as the democratic opposition keeps pushing hard. The dictator is vulnerable. Time to exploit that.

📝In SAFE Working Paper 480, the authors show that LLM-based chatbots increase stock market participation. Yet, LLMs may reinforce existing beliefs, creating the need for consumer protection & financial literacy. 👉Read more: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #econsky #financialliteracy #LLMs

thanks, claude, for inventing a JOP for me??

Patriarchy doesn't just puff up men's egos, it also enables men to extract rents. My essay digs into abuse in Southern Rhodesia, India's diamond industry, and Britain's old boys clubs. www.ggd.world/p/patriarcha...

Live footage of an academic installing the new Latex version

New Christian pseudo-scientific cult just dropped

Our government is lying to us.

Joy Connolly, the president of the American Council of Learned Societies, said in a statement: “The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...

Big personal/professional news—we've been hoping/trying to get back to the Middle East since we left in 2010 and we're finally headed back! In August, I'll be leaving GSU and heading to Georgetown University in Qatar as an assistant professor in international politics and quantitative methods.

weird, we kicked out all the immigrants but jobs didn't increase, I wonder what happened 🤔

A good news jobs report: Payrolls grew +115k (beating expectations of 55k), and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.3%. Revisions a bit negative: Feb revised down -23k, and March revised up +7k. Over the past 3 months we're creating +48k jobs per month, which may just be okay.

To slightly adapt Orwell: The Supreme Court told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was its final, most essential command.

I'm training my first (reasonably big) LLM. Send thoughts & prayers 😬

Me: complaining that Canva docs don’t support in-line LaTeX @tonypelleriti.bsky.social: maybe they have a latex allergy

I know I've really become an associate professor because it now seems like too much of a bother to update my email signature from "assistant professor." Also I can't update my CV b/c my latex distribution is broken and I don't feel like fixing that either. Anyways tenure is great 👍

Raising future earnings should always be a side benefit of going to college. If we made that the explicit goal, the value of college would perversely decline. It is precisely because education is *not* a market-defined process that makes it so valuable to employers. Wisdom is not substitutable.

I am not in the business of just preparing “future workers” no matter how hard they try to make me.

The U.S. continues to shoot itself in the foot. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/c...

This is the kind of smart regulation we need. Set the requirements, let the fancy tech companies figure out how to meet them.

I want to see a Star Wars movie that shows all the Sith Lords learning how to create their own custom masks in arts and crafts class

From March 2026 - The Politics of Using AI in Policy Implementation: Evidence from a Field Experiment - https://cup.org/4llsWAU - Yotam Margalit & Shir Raviv #OpenAccess #AI

Wow — #AOM seems to be slowly fleeing the U.S. at this point, probably because participation expectations for Philadelphia this year are so much lower than last year.

@monacharen.bsky.social: Trump’s Corruption Is Going to Sink Him open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

I share some people's skepticism that the data center build-out is as necessary as AI companies claim. But I think policy responses so far are inadequate. Simply banning data centers means they will get built elsewhere, potentially in places with limited regulation. Regulate, don't ban.

Dear Students, When you click on Properties in a Word doc it shows how long you spent working on it and how many revisions were made. Something to keep in mind if you’re using Chat GPT.

Really confused why this is an issue for most classes. Provide in person assessments. Done.

California Bill Would Create A $23 Billion Fund For University Research

“Writing is hard.” Thrilled to share that this simple idea led to a new paper in Political Analysis! Where most text methods focus on content, I test if expression is also effortful action. I find simple measures like character counts reveal attitudes and predict voting. cup.org/4cUmoXi 1/

Excellent take by Ezra Klein at the NYT on AI & jobs.👇 Sometimes what you need is a thorough understanding of the process (how people interface with AI) instead of lots of big & fancy statistical models. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/o...

It’s kind of a metaphor for American democracy in the 2020s. After Jan 6 2021, the coup appeared dead and even GOP elites were looking to oust the authoritarian wing. A few years later the same wing controls all of government and intimidated much of civil society into submission

Fantastic, well-researched article on health care costs in the US. I've seen this first-hand in Columbia where Prisma Health has bought out most private providers. They are clearly a monopoly provider & there are long wait lines for most any specialty in the city.

Has US democracy declined under the second Trump administration? For @lseusablog.bsky.social, I've summarized results from a survey of political scientists in the American Political Science Association's Democracy and Autocracy Section: tinyurl.com/3xcnkt46.

it's easy to lose a war when you don't have clearly defined outcomes at the start

OBAMA: A good policy that I'd like to see followed is that the president shouldn't have a bunch of side hustles that companies and foreign entities can invest in COLBERT: How much of that is just jealousy that you didn't think of selling sneakers?

When I was doing research for my book in Tunisia, this happened quite often. A wealthy businessman would purchase MPs from other parties to strengthen his bloc. Weirdly, Tunisians lost any interest in their parliament after a few years.

We looked into Polymarket's presence in Panama, obtained its government paperwork and visited its headquarters in Panama City. There was no sign of Polymarket. Nobody had heard of Polymarket there. www.npr.org/2026/05/05/n...

Or this one

White liberals' response to George Floyd's murder was largely to increase symbolic support. White liberals' exhibited little change in substantive/material policy commitments.

One day these guys are going to discover collider bias and it's going to be 🤯

I think people absolutely would love to replace the hard work of academic degrees with a certification in how to type things into a chatbot. The question is whether *employers* would share their enthusiasm...

Agree! And as my research with @timlapira.bsky.social shows: pundits, like other political elites, believe that their exact policy preferences are much more popular than they actually are! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ok but we gotta plot this relative to including govt. transfers, those are very important.

Call for proposals: $10,000 seed grants for research about religion in the U.S. https://www.ssrc.org/programs/religion-and-the-public-sphere/innovation-in-religion-and-spirituality-seed-grants/ Great opportunity!