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economics, innovation, and random stuff

https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/ashish-arora

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 2d
And the Guardian! There are elements of her critique I accept, others I don't, but there you go...
Crick: A Mind in Motion by Matthew Cobb review – the charismatic philanderer who changed science
Genius and arrogance play leading roles in a new biography of the man who helped uncover the structure of DNA
www.theguardian.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d
> @samsteindc.bsky.social

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 2d
And that pressure just went up a few notches thanks to America's Finest News Source.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 2d
Genuine question: has any GOP member of house or senate spoken out about the Dept of defense and Hegseth threatening sen Mark Kelly with lawfare? Beyond disturbing

Especially any veterans?

Shame on all those who stay silent

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 2d
Senator Kelly & his fellow veterans are American patriots.

Their video simply reiterated the Uniform Code of Military Justice's requirement to only carry out LAWFUL orders.

Not surprising that Secretary Talk Show Host doesn't know that.
ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 2d
super interesting. Thanks Kevin
afinetheorem.bsky.social Kevin A. Bryan @afinetheorem.bsky.social · 3d
Hiring this year in economics or management? I try to read every JMP on innovation, entrepreneurship, or econ of AI; why not make the list public? Here's 54 candidates on the market this year (link below). Many great papers + NBER Innovation PhD boot camp grads! kevinbryanecon.com/2025innovati...
Innovation, Entrepreneurship, AI Job Candidates 2025
kevinbryanecon.com

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Kevin A. Bryan @afinetheorem.bsky.social · 3d
Hiring this year in economics or management? I try to read every JMP on innovation, entrepreneurship, or econ of AI; why not make the list public? Here's 54 candidates on the market this year (link below). Many great papers + NBER Innovation PhD boot camp grads! kevinbryanecon.com/2025innovati...
Innovation, Entrepreneurship, AI Job Candidates 2025
kevinbryanecon.com

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 3d
I also freely admit how absurd it feels to say that "fire ants are a type of wasp and also a type of crustacean" or "strawberries & apples are both a type of rose" in spite of the fact that this is, taxonomically speaking, true.

More here:
Phylogenetic Trees and Monophyletic Groups
www.nature.com

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 3d
#KavanaughStop
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 5d
Another example of what I want to call the 'Marine Corps-ification' of hoplites, where the agoge becomes boot camp and hoplite values idealized Marine values and all of the uniqueness of Greek martial culture is drained away and replaced with a self-flattering conception of American 'warfighters.'

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 5d
Watching videos of hoplite reenactors, I am struck by how many of them use the 'a-hoo' grunt from 300 or a 'huh huh huh' marching cadence, but none of them do the *actually attested* things of the "alale!" (ἀλαλή) battle-cry or singing a song (a παιᾶν).

Gotta do cool fake movie stuff, I guess.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 5d
The dumping will happen the day he's no longer of any further use in monetary and status terms and it will not happen one second before that

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 6d
I think Prescott’s edit was more misleading than the BBC’s…
He absolutely was winding up that mob.
FT:

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 7d
i first heard this argument in my high school history class. it didnt go well for the people making the argument.
nuremberg trial

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 7d
Joe Rogan and Theo Von slam DHS for using Von's image in a video promoting deportation:

"I was like, oh my God, what the fuck are they doing? That's not how you envision the government."

"They were making, like, deportation hype videos with trap beats and shit. What are we doing? It's idiocracy."

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 7d
No no no this can’t be right I was told that under Trump cancel culture had been eliminated.
raphae.li Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 8d
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

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Causalscience.org @causalscience.org · 7d
🚀 Nearly 800 people from 61 countries joined the Causal Data Science Meeting — making it one of the largest global gatherings in causal inference. The momentum in our community is unmistakable. #CDSM2025

🧵 Facts:

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 8d
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls
Elon Musk Gave Away $474 Million in 2024, Mostly to Entities He Controls
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls.
bloom.bg

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 8d
Some personal news: Regretfully, I will be stepping back from my public commitments for the next ninety minutes while I teach my class.
ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 9d
so lots of responsibility and little power.
ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 10d
Summers is also the chair of the OpenAI board.
joolia.bsky.social Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 10d
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The Harvard Crimson Throughout the seven months of correspondence reviewed by The Crimson, Summers and Epstein referred to the woman Summers was pursuing in some messages by the code name "peril" but never used her name in messages directly describing the relationship. On at least two occasions, the two men discussed Jin's emails to Summers, which he forwarded to Epstein. In later messages, the two men appeared to joke about the probability that Summers would have sex with the woman, apparently Jin.

ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 10d
Bhattacharya is the oddest one here - very much part of the establishment. I wonder if he will rue his actions

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 10d
And of course the names of the people who are responsible for the attack by the federal government on one of the great pillars of American society: Vought, Kennedy, Bhattacharya, Rufo.

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 10d
Seems like the sign worked.
vermontgmg.bsky.social Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 10d
Weird how many racists like to self-identify themselves as racists.
Screenshot of a Colorado Republicans tweet discouraging people from patronizing a coffee shop with a sign up saying they refuse to serve racists and bigots.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 10d
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The Harvard Crimson Throughout the seven months of correspondence reviewed by The Crimson, Summers and Epstein referred to the woman Summers was pursuing in some messages by the code name "peril" but never used her name in messages directly describing the relationship. On at least two occasions, the two men discussed Jin's emails to Summers, which he forwarded to Epstein. In later messages, the two men appeared to joke about the probability that Summers would have sex with the woman, apparently Jin.

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 10d
Burns and his team have held advance screenings of "The American Revolution" across the country, including in DC. Kerger described GOP lawmakers who voted against PBS $$$ waiting in line to shake his hand:

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10d
For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d
Trump shamelessly lies: "Go to Walmart and other companies, and in every case it's about 25% that a Thanksgiving meal and surroundings are 25% lower. That's big fact."

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 10d
Republican Sen. John Barrasso, the majority whip, doesn’t commit to holding a Senate vote on the bill to release the Epstein files if it passes the House. “We’ll have a discussion about it and make a decision from there.”

On @meetthepress.com:

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 10d
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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