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Dan de Kadt

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Social and data science at the London School of Economics Democracy, behaviour, meta-science, 🇿🇦🇺🇲 Won't interact with anon accounts. www.ddekadt.com

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Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · May 14

🚨 “Good Description” with @annagbusse.bsky.social 🚨

What sets 'good' description apart from 'mere' description?

We develop a framework for evaluating descriptive research, whether we are doing it as scholars or assessing it as readers.

Two main contributions...

🔗📄 tinyurl.com/gooddesc

good_description/good_description_ddk_agb.pdf at main · ddekadt/good_description

Homepage of "Good Description" by Daniel de Kadt & Anna Grzymala-Busse - ddekadt/good_description

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Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 2h

There is technically nothing incorrect in this review tho. Everything about Warhammer is highly improbable.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 1d

“What did you write in the letter?”

Frog said,"I wrote, ‘Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend.

Your best friend, Frog.'”

Toad's mailbox awaits...something.

From "The Letter"
In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

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Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 1d

First he ruins Game of Thrones, now this. Are we really entrusting Star Wars to this man?

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 1d

Look how quickly the “justification” for deploying military troops to US cities mutated.

Just weeks ago it was, Crime!

Now it’s: hypothetical imagined crimes by Americans peacefully demonstrating in an act of constitutionally sacred dissent.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 1d

I continue to be a very proud alum of MIT

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Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 1d

As it's almost Econ nobel time I usually post a *joke* about how I am looking for someone to do a pencil sketch of my face (for the inevitable announcement) but last year I was inundated with messages from artists and so I won't be doing that again, sorry.

Anyway, I am delighted to annouce

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gelbach @gelbach.bsky.social · 1d

@ryanenos.bsky.social is right to highlight this passage.

In my youth, everyone would’ve seen this for what it is – Soviet-style doublespeak

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 9d

Somebody actually sat down and wrote these two sentences, one after another. www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

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Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 1d

As much as this makes "headlines" (in academia), the people to pay attention to are the not-Nobel prize winners.

Because as much as there are forces that will make people want to leave US academia, there are only so many Zurichs.

Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 1d

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 2d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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