Noel Johnson
@ndjohnson.bsky.social
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Professor of Economics at GMU.
https://noeldjohnson.github.io
I love the difference in translation for this product. Says much about the difference between the two cultures.
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Mauricio Drelichman
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All you ever wanted to know about bread production, prices, markets, and political economy in early modern Spain, now on Early View! "The Bread of Toledo", Joint with David GonzĂĄlez Agudo at
@uv.es
. Open access:
doi.org/10.1111/ehr....
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<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library
We study the market for common white bread in the city of Toledo through a new 266-year-long series of bread prices, obtained from the cash purchases and wholesale bread-for-wheat contracts of large ...
http://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70130
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6 days ago
New working paper with Amol Singh Raswan and Chris Udry: "The Sisyphean Pursuit of Evidence for Poverty Traps." A central idea in development economics is that poverty can trap people. We went looking for the cleanest evidence. Here's what we found â and didn't.
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Peggy Stuart
13 days ago
Here is Elon Mush bragging about how he "accidentally" canceled all Ebola prevention efforts.
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arseblog
10 days ago
Love this one
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Heroes | Arsenal PL Champions Celebration Edit
YouTube video by Rouess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zvaoFMfsps
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I don't mean to brag, but my 10 year old is obviously an artistic genius...
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âthey called us bottlers⌠NOW WEâRE HOLDIN THE BOTTLEâ
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Guido Alfani
11 days ago
Glad to share this open-access article, based on the Tawney Lecture that I had the honour to deliver in 2025 Economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies: What we know, what we don't (but should) know - The Economic History Review
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library
In recent years economic inequality has become a major research topic in economic history. However, much remains to be done to complete our knowledge of long-term distributive dynamics. This article ...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ehr.70122
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Gunnerblog
12 days ago
22 years in the waiting, 6 years in the making: the title is Arsenalâs again. The squad gathered at Colney to watch tonightâs game, as they became champions. Hereâs how
#AFC
won the
#EPL
- a title not simply won, but engineered.
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
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www.nytimes.com/athletic/729...
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âToxicâ to title: Inside Arsenalâs first Premier League for 22 years and how they nailed their âwin windowâ (Gift Article)
Twenty-two years in the waiting, six years in the making: the Premier League title is Arsenalâs again. This is the story of how they did it
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7291434/2026/05/19/inside-arsenal-premier-league-title-win/?source=emp_shared_article&unlocked_article_code=1.jlA.laMm.R5K0tXxgJTjW
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arseblog
12 days ago
Never in doubt â¤ď¸ â¤ď¸
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Guido Alfani
20 days ago
Glad to share my online review of Patrick Boucheron's new book on the Black Death.
@laviedesidees.bsky.social
The lesson of the Pandemic
booksandideas.net/The-lesson-o...
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The lesson of the Pandemic
About: Patrick Boucheron, Peste Noire, Seuil
https://booksandideas.net/The-lesson-of-the-Pandemic
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Sheilagh Ogilvie
about 1 month ago
The University of Oxford is advertising a Professorship of Economic History, which will be held in the Department of Economics in association with Nuffield College. Closing date 25 May 2026, interviews 26 June.
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John Mullahy
about 1 month ago
Georgia O'Keeffe, Light Coming on the Plains No. I
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Astronomy Picture of the Day đŞ
about 1 month ago
đ Comet R3 PanSTARRS Behind Satellite Trails Image Credit & Copyright:
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We need a new word in English for "That feeling you get watching Claude Code address referee comments in your paper that makes you think you're being productive but actually you've been sitting in front of the computer now for 15 minutes and haven't done anything".
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Justin Wolfers
about 1 month ago
The Republican turn to postmodernism is really a thing.
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Ok guys. Iâve been investing a lot of time this semester learning about Claude code, agents, skills, etcâŚ. Iâm officially scared and feel old as fuck.
about 2 months ago
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Sireesh Gururaja
about 2 months ago
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NGC 2903 and messier 37. Caught from my front yard.
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Friday afternoon naps hit hard.
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Erik Bengtsson
about 2 months ago
The dept of Economic History in Lund is hiring a new Senior Lecturer! Ad is here, deadline 17 May:
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Senior Lecturer in Economic History
The department of Economic History employs around 70 researchers, teachers, doctoral candidates, and administrative personnel. Research at the department includes topics such as Economic demography, E
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:921972/
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Daniel Bergstresser
about 2 months ago
lunatic
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Justin Wolfers
about 2 months ago
Starting to think that if the founding fathers were any good at founding fathering, they would have given the power to declare war to Congress rather than one man in the White House.
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
about 2 months ago
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Bertha Rohenkohl
about 2 months ago
Looking to use Claude Code as an applied economist? This excellent series by
@paulgp.com
covers how to set it up, data analysis and web scraping. Amazing work! Looking forward to the next episodes
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Winston Lin
2 months ago
Bilingual joke? French Wikipedia says the Poisson distribution is "not to be confused with Fisher's distribution" (the F-distribution)
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Kris Inwood
about 2 months ago
looking for an economic historian of the Soviet Union and successor states at the University of Toronto!
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David A. Jaeger (econ)
2 months ago
We are hiring! Applications are now open for a Lecturer in Economics and Public Policy! We are looking for someone doing policy-relevant microeconomics. Come to beautiful Scotland and help us build the UK's quantitatively-focused MPP! Apply here:
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Illegal Aliens And Women Hat
2 months ago
Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD
2 months ago
While social media shows you extreme content, AI is more likely to show people more moderate content This means the technology, on average, could have very different effects on polarization.
www.ft.com/content/3880...
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Iâm pleased to report that, apparently, in the eyes of my 10 year old my most outstanding characteristics are being a Brazilian jiu jitsu blue belt and having a very hyper-extended right elbow. The two are likely related.
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Is there a word for a scientific model that works absurdly well, nobody really knows why, everyone is a little embarrassed about that, and we use it all the time anyway?
#LLMs
#QuantumMechanics
#LoggingTheDependantVariable
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my favorite application of zipfâŚ
premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/d...
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Paul Krugman
2 months ago
Zipfâs law drives anyone who thinks too much about it into gibbering madness
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This is incorrect.
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One thing I havenât been able to get Claude to do is clip a figure or table from a paper to include in a beamer slide deck. Is this impossible or is it just me?
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Itâs almost like theyâre incapable of thinking about the consequences of their actions before they act.
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Wojtek Kopczuk
2 months ago
In the future when we look back, it will be clear that Musk and Trump were the two people most responsible for transition to EVs
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Stan Oklobdzija
2 months ago
Environmentalists that are anti-density and pro-parking are like public health advocates that are pro nuclear waste bathing.
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James Feigenbaum
2 months ago
Phew. Glad the disruption will last long enough for wise American voters to punish a future Democratic administration for it
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not wrongâŚ
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Nicholas A. Christakis
3 months ago
This is wild: Over a third of genetics papers published in top journals in 2014-20 (including Nature, Cell, and PNAS) have errors whereby genes with names like SEPT8, DEC1, or MARCH3, were turned into dates by Excel automatically! The issue was first noted in 2004.
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Gene name errors: Lessons not learned
Author summary Autocorrection is a feature of modern softwares including messaging apps, word processors and spreadsheets. These are designed to avoid data entry errors but âautocorrect failsâ can lea...
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008984
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Steve Kambouris
3 months ago
pull quote
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Interested in opinions on this⌠Iâm scheduled to teach phd gis/spatial techniques in the fall. I usually split it half coding and half discussing causal methods in papers. Should I tear it down, teach how to use Claude agents, and expand the scope of the class to cover research Methods in general?
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Dog is asking some very pointed questions right now about why it was 80 degrees yesterday but snowing today.
3 months ago
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Nicholas A. Christakis
3 months ago
Actually, this is not false.
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David Ho
3 months ago
The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.
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First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/11/world/iran-war-news-trump-oil-israel?unlocked_article_code=1.SlA.vTQm.rWeA0T_H9N7Y&smid=url-share
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Astronomy Picture of the Day đŞ
3 months ago
đ The Cranium Nebula from the Webb Telescope Image Credit:
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ESA
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STScI
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arseblog
3 months ago
Spurs are SO bad they're making me feel bad for a Spurs player
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NiCHE Canada
3 months ago
Cool opportunity to work at the intersections of climate/environmental history and history of medicine! History and Medicine â Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure â McMaster University Apply by March 31st
niche-canada.org/2026/03/05/h...
#envhist
#histmed
#climhist
#cdnhist
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History and Medicine - Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure - McMaster University
This role is designed for an exceptional scholar whose work bridges humanities-based historical inquiry and contemporary infectious diseases scholarship, with particular emphasis on the history of pla...
https://niche-canada.org/2026/03/05/history-and-medicine-associate-professor-or-professor-with-tenure-mcmaster-university/
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