Here's a very cool paper from David Pozen and Julian Nyarko finding what they call the "Twitter bump" -- a very large uptick in citation counts and journal prestige for law professors who use Twitter. Here's the key figure:

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death | Yle News | Yle yle.fi/a/74-20174831

First time hearing about this for me. There’s platforms for buying someone else’s non-refundable vacations at a discount. There’s always a trade to do.

lol you can see very clearly that Economists are using ChatGPT to help write their abstracts.

Social Media Participation = Scholarly Success in Law.

The key result of the study: Twitter follow-back rates by group.

A Single Mutation Made Horses Rideable and Changed Human History via @zmescience zmescience.com/science/news-s…

They solved for the Kansas City Chiefs enforcement equilibrium marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

The History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking Department | The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

"French pensioners now have higher incomes than working-age adults" - extraordinary By John Burn-Murdoch

I reverse engineered the San Francisco parking ticket system. I can see every ticket seconds after it's written So I made a website. Find My Friends? AVOID THE PARKING COPS.

Footballism Ryan Fitzpatrick fan club was the best!

Leuk dit. De Deense minister van Buitenlandse Zaken gaf tijdens de opening van het Grand Egyptian Museum vandaag een LEGO-set van de Grote Piramide van Giza cadeau aan de Egyptische minister van Buitenlandse Zaken.

Het grote processen-verbaal Tweede Kamerverkiezingen draadje.🧵 Deze komt uit Rotterdam, dus ik ben even gaan kijken naar Arnhem. Heb je mooie voorbeelden uit je gemeente, post ze in de comments!

In stembureau 433 kun je overal geld vinden!

One of my favorite recent findings is that opponents of the scientific consensus on vaccination, GMOs, and homeopathic medicine are - Objectively less knowledgeable about those topics - But think they're actually much more knowledgeable

today: think tank staff falsely modify disclosures in order to loot prediction market liquidity tmrw: warming armies modify their battle plans to achieve polymarket gains in order to finance their war efforts a world that is predicted is a world that is predictable

We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation. - The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/11/17/sci…

The 2026 World Cup draw looks random, but it really isn’t. With forced hosts, confederation limits, and bracket placement for the top seeds, some teams are way more likely to get grouped together than others. Here's the outcome of 1 million simulated draws under FIFA’s rules.

Cool personal tale of how one couple went about choosing embryo selection, and ranking the potential babies. Very sensible in general. nudgedice.substack.com/p/our-son