Entshittification — today we’ve had it with Netflix. Now we can’t even use Chromecast. This blogpost sums it up. « Netflix - like Airbnb, Uber, and the rest of the share economy from the 2010s - just isn't what it used to be anymore. » www.whistleout.com.au/PayTV/News/w...

Keep an eye on this JMC, fascinating work in Econ of education.

Introduce yourself in 5 shows you’ve seen Neil Frahm Olafur Arnalds Jacob Collier Bohren & der Club of Gore Beirut

Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature. 2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise! That "feature" is now gone.

Too little too late

CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.

Very exciting JMP on teacher value added — beyond test scores and into socio-emotional value added.

🤮 disgusting on so many levels

À really interesting short study — based on a survey in the US, the public supports Unis championing initiatives (environmental, DEI, free speech, …) beyond research & ed, but finds political engagement inappropriate. Women & liberals support DEI initiatives but men & conservatives do not.

« The era when American politics could make or break global climate co-operation is over. The world is no longer waiting for Washington. This time the global south is leading the way. » — a great piece by an architect of the Paris agreement @economist.com economist.com/by-invitatio...

People are crazy.

Researcher at OpenAI studied why LLMs hallucinate: it’s a fundamental feature of the approach, it’s not an engineering glitch that will be solved with more money or data.

Open source baby

Change one letter, ruin a candy: Milky Wax

Very important developments on regulating digital platforms operating in the EU. Glad to see Europe abiding by its principles on this one.

NEW: Something remarkable happened recently and hardly anyone noticed – GB electricity demand was 100% covered by clean power We took a look at the data and this has happened for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, twice as often as ever before 🧵 www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7

Very interesting read

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.

Evidence from random roommate assignment and a gaming ban for minors in China once again show what I now believe incredibly strongly: smartphones and social media destroy civilization via @arpitrage.bsky.social

🔬♻️ « Quand la science s’amuse à se reproduire » Merci à @lemonde.fr et à David Larousserie pour la mise en lumière des #ReplicationGames du 3 octobre, co-organisés par le Réseau Français de la Recherche Reproductible et @i4replication.bsky.social.

A fascinating blog post on the generational loss of reading & its consequences for human knowledge & society — 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...

Thought about scientific consensus recently? We have a new DP @i4replication.bsky.social that probes into the famous replication debate between Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson (AJR) and Albouy - and how experts assess this debate. We find that they disagree. 1/8 www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

Who's doing rigorous analysis on the effects of data centers on economic, health, energy, and climate outcomes? #econsky #energysky #climatesky

Important thread for people using causal inference methods in applied work

That is a very interesting short paper, and it reflect the mixed experience I’ve had and many academics around me have had with LLMs. Fully agree with @mjamurphy.bsky.social here ; perhaps we’re all better off sticking to open source that the web of Bernard-Lee was made to be

The best post I’ve seen on Bluesky in a very long time! Brilliant idea and brilliant accounts out there !

Fascinating piece on the very unique influence if the tech industry on the school system

S’truth

If ever anybody believed Trump’s claims at the UN here is a short article debunking each lie. www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

This is why one should follow the dictionary account

Just spent two very inspiring days at the Summer School on Networks organized by my friend and coauthor @yveszenou.bsky.social at Monash Uni. Great lectures by Matt Jackson (Stanford), Sanjeev Goyal (Cambridge) and Yves — I learned so much! Thanks Yves!!! www.monash.edu/business/eve...

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

New The Effect materials today: introductions to basic coding and data manipulation in R, Stata, and Python. Get the wheels turning on using these languages with data with these intro pages and exercises: nickchk.com/Coding%20and... nickchk.com/Coding%20and... nickchk.com/Coding%20and...

Incredible!!!

academia is a v. strange mix of “we expect you to behave like an employee” (forms, webinars, insanely bad admin software, etc) but also “go fund your entire research operation yourself including paper towels for the sink in the lunchroom we don’t have the budget for that”. #academicsky

If you want to learn Bayesian data analysis, this guy wrote one of the best textbooks! 👉🏽👉🏽👉🏽

Excellent @newyorker.com piece citing lots of recent studies with very mixed evidence on the productivity gains of Gen AI — and a great complementing thread by @kmcelheran.bsky.social whose work is cited in the article. Thanks for adding many refs to studies Kristina!

Shout it from the rooftops: the real AI revolution will be later, less, spotty and uneven

A few days ago I learned you can skip the AI summary feature in Google by adding "-AI" to your search. I love it!

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The best news of these past days

NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵

Great interview with @stevenstrogatz.com with a lot of discussion of research advising. Parts reminded me of @eegilbert.org and @informor.bsky.social's (excellent) guides to PhD mentorship, with a big focus on ideation. Eric's: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Mor's: s.tech.cornell.edu/phd-syllabus/

On the AI hype - what if the greatest threat is not that it changes the world, but that we are in a massive AI delusion that distracts us from solving the actual problems of here and now? An excellent piece by @cwarzel.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com 🔗 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

At Our World in Data, we spend much of our time counting deaths. But it’s just as important to know the number of lives saved — even though it is harder to estimate and involves much larger uncertainty. My Data Insight today includes this chart of some estimates.

Thank you. Really good piece and so heartbreaking. The hype about AI is not only insufferable, but as you point out, is destroying entire industries based on hot air. The cultural damage and loss is incalculable. I like its description as a mass delusion... www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Getting a first hand on the STAR experiment data is a pleasure thanks to @jbietenbeck.bsky.social ‘s amazing replication files. Jan, you are such a great member of the community ❤️

@kareemcarr.bsky.social ´s excellent newsletter Vital Statistics says it all: « [… academic] journals look [elitist because] They are professional documents, more like architectural blueprints or doctors’ notes than popular magazines. They exist to let people in the field advance the work.»

Now that’s some excellent news!!!