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Noel Johnson

@ndjohnson.bsky.social

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Professor of Economics at GMU. https://noeldjohnson.github.io

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Noel Johnson @ndjohnson.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks for the heads up "K9 advantix II large dog". For use on dogs only. Got it.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 6h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Patrick Fitzsimmons @patrubenfitz.bsky.social · 3d

Was thrilled to write this for @broadstreetblog.bsky.social (which I recommend for anyone interested in historical political economy)

www.broadstreet.blog/p/blood-and-...

Blood and Iron: Political Fragmentation in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean

How new technology reshaped the political equilibrium of the early Iron Age through violence.

www.broadstreet.blog

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Noel Johnson @ndjohnson.bsky.social · 5d

Science marches on. Also, I’m not eating this.

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 6d

Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants. Ants carry lactic and acetic acid bacteria that help coagulate milk, as well as formic acid to acidify it. They even partnered with Danish chefs to create three recipes using ant yogurt. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants

Ants carry lactic and acetic acid bacteria that help coagulate milk, as well as formic acid to acidify it.

arstechnica.com

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Daniel Bergstresser @dbergstresser.bsky.social · 5d

questions mount

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 6d

Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants

Ants carry lactic and acetic acid bacteria that help coagulate milk, as well as formic acid to acidify it.

arstechnica.com

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Noel Johnson @ndjohnson.bsky.social · 7d

Pierre Bourdieu was on to something… #theinheritors

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 7d

I was better informed than a lot of grad students about a lot of the hidden curriculum, but this stuff was *totally* invisible to me, and it took me years to see it and understand how important it was.

Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 7d

• Children of PhD-educated parents are 28 times more likely to become professors than those whose parents only completed compulsory school.
• Children of professors are 11 times more likely to join the faculty than everyone else.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 7d

Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 7d

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Guido Alfani @guidoalfani.bsky.social · 13d

The recording of the Tawney Lecture on "Economic Inequality and Social Mobility in Preindustrial Societies", which I had the honour to deliver in Glasgow last spring, is now online! Thanks
@echistsoc.bsky.social for inviting me.
ehs.org.uk/multimedia/t...

Tawney Lecture 2025: Economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies - Economic History Society

ehs.org.uk

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Melissa Thomasson @mthomasson.bsky.social · 13d

It’s always great to see that the world supply of soy (or virtually any other commodity) is indeed perfectly elastic. Gotta say that this tariff brought in a heap of revenue. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. Now, It’s $0.

www.nytimes.com

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 16d

This is The Dumb Place.

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 16d

Megyn Kelly has called on Etsy to burn the witches.

"You're playing with fire messing with this stuff. There are actually are demons in this world. Calling up the spirit world, in particular the devil's spirit world, can actually have real world consequences. It's not something to mess with!"

Screenshot of Megyn Kelly's Youtube channel

Video title: Megyn Kelly Reveals Erika Kirk Was Shaken By Jezebel's
Article About Placing a CURSE on Charlie Kirk

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 18d

From a new paper by @mjdcurtis.bsky.social, David de la Croix, et al. The Little Divergence in 'academic human capital' (kind of publications index) btw northern & southern Europe started ca 1500. Northern Germany diverged from central & southern German areas after the Thirty Years' War.

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Noel Johnson @ndjohnson.bsky.social · 28d

Working at the office today and somebody put the following out for free on the break room table. Nice try. I’ve been in this game long enough to know when some phd student in the experimental group is running a behavioral study.

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 28d

I was going to tweet this last year but somehow I was impeded…

“When [economic] growth does, and does not, reduce poverty”

www.bii.co.uk/en/news-insi...

— A great literature review by a team including @paddycarter.bsky.social and @paulsegal.bsky.social

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Noel Johnson @ndjohnson.bsky.social · Sep 9

When your little cousin’s new bed looks more attractive than your old one…

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Noel Johnson @ndjohnson.bsky.social · Aug 26

Sometimes the Devil tempts you and you just have to force yourself to look away.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Aug 24

Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · Aug 20

There are several recent papers which could fall under the heading ‘Economic History of the Scientific Revolution’ but this network analysis tracing how scientific ideas diffused amongst scholars in the period 1084-1793 is a real milestone, an ‘epidemiological’ model of how ideas spread like disease

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Noel Johnson @ndjohnson.bsky.social · Aug 18

Speaking of jiu jitsu, this is world class trolling on the wikipedia page for BJJ:

Noel Johnson @ndjohnson.bsky.social · Aug 18

The good news is that my Wife need never worry again about me taking my wedding band off. The bad news is that jiu jitsu is still really difficult and my guard passing sucks (which is why I jammed my fingers into the mat really, really, hard).

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Noel Johnson @ndjohnson.bsky.social · Aug 18

I bought these two guys during COVID lockdown. Just transplanted them to bigger pots. Feels like a win for everybody.

Noel Johnson @ndjohnson.bsky.social · Aug 18

One thought I have when I read various hand wringing commentaries about Professors using AI to grade papers is that they’re being a little precious regarding the quality of human TA graders (let alone the grading of the professors themselves).

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Stephan Heblich @heblich.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thank you for the excellent coverage of our article, @economist.com! You can find the full piece here: nber.org/papers/w33976

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 14

I believe we can teach data analysis/ econometrics with Python. From OLS to machine learning and event studies.

Scripts for 42 case studies. #pyfixest for regressions. (With Stata and R to compare)

Check out the revised
Github.com/gabors-data-analysis/da_case_studies

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · Aug 11

are there any conservatives left that know that the Road to Serfdom didn't refer to social security or government funding for healthcare or even regulation. It was about the sort of central planning of economic decisions that Trump and Vance are trying to normalize

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 10

NATO Ambassador Matthew Whitaker on Ukraine's territorial concessions: "No big chunks or sections are going to be just given that haven't been fought for or earned on the battlefield."