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Mississippi has drastically boosted reading, thanks to careful improvements in teaching quality But eeep, look at Maryland... Great piece by Harry A. Patrinos theconversation.com/mississippis-e…

Polarization and inter-group conflict breed sympathy for authoritarianism. An obvious implication is that inter-group-conflict-based approaches to combatting authoritarianism will backfire.

Poland really is a miraculous economic success story.

Reminder: Only 14% of US residents are immigrants. But immigrants are responsible for 36% of aggregate innovation. Two-thirds of this contribution is due to making their native-born collaborators better.

Why Vladimir Putin is going to keep calling America's bluff. konstantinkisin.com/p/why-american…

this paper quantiatively shows what someone told me: "everyone loves interdisciplinary but no one will give u a job if you are interdisciplinary" Hiring at top universities rewards disciplinary loyalty over interdisciplinary breadth. Things are changing. arxiv.org/abs/2503.21912

Good explainer of how natural and human-caused forces have affected the climate over geologic time scales.

My immigrant dad asked me where the missing 10% went when I scored a 90. He came to America for the chance to work hard & pursue excellence. Giving A’s for 80% & no homework is not equity—it betrays the American Dream and every parent who wants more for their kids.

Here is another consensus study showing widespread support for age restrictions on social media. Americans are divided on most things, but not this: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

🚨New paper🚨 Excited to share our latest on nature today: The PIVOT PENALTY in research. nature.com/articles/s4158… More than five years in the making. Key finding: The impact of new research steeply declines the further a researcher moves from their previous work.

Romance is under-rated - both by political scientists & economists. It matters hugely - for our social glue, empathy, fertility, economic growth, & our politics ❤️

Fun Fact: Every state compares unfavorably to Mississippi in this type of chart. Every. Single. State. Comparing reading performance for underprivileged students:

There are two types of people: - Not bothered about demographics - Those who’ve read Jesus’s slides & paper

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

The pharma miracle machine is almost entirely powered by the US. Instead of appreciating it, left and right are attacking on all fronts--price controls on the market side, cuts to the research funding side. Because no one can see past their immediate political priorities.

I agree on value of govt-funded research @ universities. But portraying the Trump era as the start of politicizing research ignores NIH + NSF’s mixing of social justice issues w/serious projects You have to acknowledge this if you’re arguing why the govt should fund research