Noel Johnson
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Professor of Economics at GMU.
https://noeldjohnson.github.io
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Erik Bengtsson
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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
3 days ago
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Justin Wolfers
3 days 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
8 days ago
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Bertha Rohenkohl
8 days 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
9 days 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
9 days 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)
17 days 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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Third Rate Podcasts Hat
9 days 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
13 days 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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Iām 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 zipfā¦
premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/d...
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Paul Krugman
15 days ago
Zipfās 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 havenāt 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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Itās almost like theyāre incapable of thinking about the consequences of their actions before they act.
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Wojtek Kopczuk
20 days 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
22 days 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
22 days 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 wrongā¦
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Nicholas A. Christakis
27 days 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 āautocorrect failsā can lea...
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008984
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Steve Kambouris
30 days ago
pull quote
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Interested in opinions on this⦠Iām 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.
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Nicholas A. Christakis
29 days ago
Actually, this is not false.
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David Ho
29 days 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 šŖ
about 1 month ago
š The Cranium Nebula from the Webb Telescope Image Credit:
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arseblog
about 1 month ago
Spurs are SO bad they're making me feel bad for a Spurs player
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NiCHE Canada
about 1 month ago
Cool opportunity to work at the intersections of climate/environmental history and history of medicine! History and Medicine ā Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure ā 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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Kris Inwood
about 1 month ago
Useful thread! COVID-19 led to the largest decline in life expectancy since WWII. Recovery is incomplete altho countries differ a lot. US had the largest life expectancy deficit of any studied. Deficits in countries that delayed widespread infection ( eg Norway Japan) had lower cumulative mortality
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Scott Shapiro
about 1 month ago
Two weeks until Trump claims the Iran war would never have happened if heād been president.
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This entire post is a very good read. And also depressing/disorienting. Unrelatedly, I also just ate an entire container of supermarket boneless buffalo wings.
causalinf.substack.com/p/claude-cod...
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Claude Code 27: Research and Publishing Are Now Two Different Things
Some Claude Code fan fiction about the economics of publishing with AI agents set in the very near future
https://causalinf.substack.com/p/claude-code-27-research-and-publishing
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Astronomy Picture of the Day šŖ
about 1 month ago
š Shapley 1: An Annular Planetary Nebula Image Credit & Copyright:
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Gunnerblog
about 1 month ago
š½ļø "Seven points clear - WHAT A NIGHT!" - Brighton 0-1 Arsenal | On the Whistle
youtu.be/9DRB36bqMPE
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"Seven points clear - WHAT A NIGHT!" - Brighton 0-1 Arsenal | On the Whistle
YouTube video by gunnerblog
https://youtu.be/9DRB36bqMPE
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Lauren O'Neal
about 1 month ago
I love that the first guy Googled him and then the second guy asked his mom for advice and SHE Googled him.
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David Powell
about 1 month ago
Believe in your work. Stop ending papers with āMore research is neededā and start concluding with āNo more research on this topic is needed.ā
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Delightful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FACq...
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Tschaikowski: Der Nussknacker Ā· Tanz der Zuckerfee / Nelsons Ā· Gewandhausorchester
YouTube video by Gewandhausorchester
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about 2 months ago
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Nash Is Here For It
about 2 months ago
Wow.
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New vocabulary word just dropped. From the Washington postāāThe storm will undergo a rapid intensification process called bombogenesis on Sunday nightā¦ā.
about 2 months ago
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So, walking around my house and this sticky note was stuck on the bottom of my shoe. I think good things are happening hereā¦
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Arya Sundaram
about 2 months ago
NJ lawmakers introduce the FUCK ICE Act. The bill "permits civil action for violations of US Constitution related to immigration enforcement."
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Phillips OBrien
about 2 months ago
This means that Trump is giving himself as the Head of the Board of Corruption, $10 billion to spend however he wants, with no oversight from the US government and without congressional approval. Itās outright thievery.
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Simon Fisher
about 2 months ago
āHumans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.āš²š§Ŗ
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Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naĆÆve baby chicks
Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords ākikiā and āboubaā with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of t...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq7188
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OlĆŗfįŗ¹Ģmi O. TĆ”Ćwò
about 2 months ago
the only place this should happen is academic conferences
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Joseph Enguehard
about 2 months ago
New data paper out!
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Oh Editorial Manager... thank you for keeping me honest with my login credentials. Also, does anybody want to do some referee reports for username noeldjohnson? DM me for the password.
about 2 months ago
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Paul Krugman
about 2 months ago
Something new: A short video responding to the Trump administration saying that economists whose studies arenāt what they want to hear should be ādisciplinedā
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZd...
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Now Trumpists are menacing economists
YouTube video by Paul Krugman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZdxmSmBaM
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Jacob T. Levy
about 2 months ago
How about if instead of onerous ID requirements on voters we institute constitutional literacy tests for members of Congress?
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Josh Marshall
about 2 months ago
This is the opposite of what is about as close as you get to an objective fact in economics.
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