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👀 You have got to be kidding me. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Dear American friends. We agree that status quo in the Artcic is not an option. So let’s talk about how we can fix it - together. Lars Løkke Rasmussen Danish Foreign Minister

Congratulations, boss, you've done it: You're bigger than covid.

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“Ruination Day”: The new Economist cover amid Trump’s tariff war. Trump has launched a global trade war, calling it a “Liberation Day.” As an economist, I know a thing or two about tariffs. So here are some predictions of what we should expect if this tariff war continues. 1/n

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Research on "thin slices" shows humans can reach accurate judgements on relatively little information It works for AI, too. LLMs given 10% of a public science presentation can accurately assess whether people will find it interesting. Even seven seconds of a talk yields results

Åbent brev: Nedsæt en privatlivskommission og stop hastebehandling af PET-loven. PET-lovforslaget baner vejen for masseovervågning. 25 organisationer kræver en tænkepause og en privatlivskommission. Læs brevet og ”skriv under” ved at retweete. #dkpol

How we "guessed" the Pope using network science: inside the cardinal network. A study by me, Beppe Soda and Alessandro Iorio. Article: unibocconi.it/en/news/networ… Università Bocconi

Very big impact: The final version of a randomized, controlled World Bank study finds using a GPT-4 tutor with teacher guidance in a six week after school progam in Nigeria had "more than twice the effect of some of the most effective interventions in education" at very low costs

"having a name that takes longer to pronounce is associated with... 1) a significantly lower likelihood of...obtaining a tenure track position; 2) an initial placement at an institution with lower research productivity"

I feel the same way.

It’s so confusing…

1/ New working paper out (with Love Christensen and Jana Schwenk Love Christensen Jana Schwenk): "Processing Macroeconomic Signals: Voter Responses to Growth, Unemployment, Inflation and Stock Markets" 🧵

P1 Debat skulle i morgen handle om vores forurenede badevand. Men ikke én eneste af Socialdemokratiets 50, Venstres 23 eller Moderaternes 12 mandater kan stille op. Ikke én eneste af de miljøministre, der siden 2011 har svigtet havvandet og ladet erhvervslivet diktere

BREAKING: The U.S. economy shrank by 0.5% in Q1 2025, worse than the previously reported 0.2% drop, revised Commerce Dept. data shows. A sharp reversal from 2.4% growth in the last quarter under Biden Are you tired of winning yet?