At the request of Cory Smith , I looked into Francesca Gino's reply to Data Colada's claims, specifically just the first few claims of cherry picked data in study 1. See here for her reply: francesca-v-harvard.org/data-colada-po…

Something people find hard to process about bad-faith agents (frauds, abusers, etc) is how they have no trouble lying to your face, even when *they know* you are in possession of the facts. This article is incredibly powerful at laying that out: newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

The world now has a 2nd vaccine against malaria. Incredible. Malaria kills more than half a million people every year. Over half of these deaths are in children younger than 5. who.int/news/item/02-1…

Common mistake I see around this time every year: the prizes in physics, medicine, literature, peace and chemistry are NOT real Sveriges Riksbank Prizes in Memory of Alfred Nobel. They're "Nobel Prizes." They're fine too I guess but people should know the difference.

Historically, much of the gender gap in earnings could be explained by differences in education and occupational choices. However, this year’s economic sciences laureate Claudia Goldin has shown that the bulk of this earnings difference is now between men and women in the same

This is the high quality linguistics research the journals don't want you to see

The Gaza Christian community, and their church, has survived since Byzantine times. Let hope they survive the next week.

It seems like the Elyseè is using google translate

📢 (1/6) My job market paper uncovers an intriguing trend: 50% of British Muslims opt to marry someone from their country of origin. Join me as I reveal the reasons behind this choice! 🧵 #EconTwitter #EconJobMarket dropbox.com/scl/fi/wiiy4ks…

Aayushi Awasthy 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 Did you know Roy cited your BBC piece? Was revisiting his Famine EPW and saw this. epw.in/journal/2021/2…

You have to break your mental association between the blue check and a legitimate journalist or news source — these things are no longer corresponded

An author by the name Shadi has a job market paper on Shadi (: Good luck to the candidate

At the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences IIT Delhi we are looking for a postdoc to work at our Atmospheric Observatory (Sonipat Campus). Candidate must have a PhD (happy to speak with those close to finishing). Please email me (include CV) if interested. Happy to chat briefly.

Instagram wants me to pay them money to continue using it. Whaaaattttt??

LMAOOO

Woop Woop 😊 New (well sort of) paper announcement. Delighted to share my fully open access paper written with my wonderful co-author Catherine Locke on #rural #modernisation and migration - development linkages in #China Find it here doi.org/10.1002/jid.38…

This NYT piece is an endless stream of bangers. I swear, one of the more destructive recent cultural trends has been the combined push to frame all distress or discomfort as mental illness, and then to encourage people to form their identity around being “mentally ill.”

I know I posted this sixteen times but how do you see this in your timeline and not repost this