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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
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Yale SOM professor & Bulls fan. I study consumer finance, and econometrics is a big part of my research identity. He/him/his
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we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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We just published a JOSIS paper on what spatial data science languages have in common and what they still need. Insights from across the R, Python & Julia ecosystems.

URL: doi.org/10.5311/JOSI...

#SpatialDataScience #GISchat #OpenSource #RSpatial #GeoPython #JuliaGeo
January 11, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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NEW from me:

Job growth has been functionally zero over the last five months, as the US sinks from a “low hire, low fire” labor market to a “no hire” one.

That slowdown is hitting young & low income workers the hardest 🧵
www.apricitas.io/p/the-no-hir...
The 'No Hire' Economy
US Job Growth has Zeroed Out as Hiring Rates Sink, Hitting Young & Low Income Workers the Hardest
www.apricitas.io
January 11, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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Today Claude is building a command-line app to convert sheet music to a music grid format I use personally to memorize tunes. Screenshots of the Claude Code session follow.
January 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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This week's comic: Thermathstat foxtrot.com/2026/01/11/t...
Thermathstat
FoxTrot by Bill Amend | January 11, 2026
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January 11, 2026 at 3:35 PM
I did not know this!
I have been hearing recently that many people don't know about the ability to submit to AEJ-Policy (or any of the other AEJs) after submitting to AER-Insights (following the same process that existed going from the AER to the AEJs)

More details and instructions here: www.aeaweb.org/journals/pol...
January 11, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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If you don't want Claude to load all this great #RStats content for each session, try asking Claude Code to deconstruct this content into distinct skills. On first pass it did not add required YAML headers, so needed second pass with those instructions. Here are the skills I ended up with.
January 10, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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Weeks after writing about how the best ideas bleed btwn R and python, I find out from @stephenturner.us 's excellent blog that the #rstats world is attempting their own Rust-based analog to `uv` (for deps mgmt not packaging)

Haven't tried but neat to watch

a2-ai.github.io/rv-docs/
January 10, 2026 at 9:07 PM
There’s this fact too (by a former Yale student now at MIT) bsky.app/profile/paul...
A recent finding has suggested that the medium to long term effects of this are smaller than we had hoped

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January 11, 2026 at 12:51 PM
A recent finding has suggested that the medium to long term effects of this are smaller than we had hoped

tahachoukhmane.com/wp-content/u...
January 11, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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January 11, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Ok guess it’s time for me to hop on the bears bandwagon
January 11, 2026 at 12:44 PM
If you’re not using the For you feed you’re missing out
i wonder how much of this is people using the For You feed which does a much better job at finding “your” cluster
The discussions about LLMs today have been fascinating. Genuinely healthy conversations (imo). I have no idea how public perception within the dev community here changed so much over the last 30 days.
January 11, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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i wonder how much of this is people using the For You feed which does a much better job at finding “your” cluster
The discussions about LLMs today have been fascinating. Genuinely healthy conversations (imo). I have no idea how public perception within the dev community here changed so much over the last 30 days.
January 11, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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Really fascinating to watch progress on AI-assisted research in mathematics, especially since we have an incredible narrator in Field Medalist Terence Tao!

#TIL he's been curating examples of attempts/successes here: github.com/teorth/erdos...
January 11, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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forgetting the word Domesticated and telling people at this party raccoons have gotten "more coachable." at some point i start adding "over the offseason" which i don't think raccoons even have yet
January 11, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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“Do not get lost in a sea of despair.”

- John Lewis #RIP
January 10, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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I have been hearing recently that many people don't know about the ability to submit to AEJ-Policy (or any of the other AEJs) after submitting to AER-Insights (following the same process that existed going from the AER to the AEJs)

More details and instructions here: www.aeaweb.org/journals/pol...
January 10, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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Things are so bleak right now, so I really appreciate @corinnelow.com letting me know I’m the subject of a legitimate SAT question. (A life goal I didn’t know I had!)

Sometimes you need things just make you smile just because. And I needed that.
January 10, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Secret economist
A team of scholars including Professor Jonah B. Gelbach is one of two recipients of the 2026 Civil Justice Scholarship Award from the National Civil Justice Institute for an article published in the University of Chicago Law Review last year: https://bit.ly/4jS6DlL #BerkeleyLaw
‘Secret Settlements’ Study Wins Civil Justice Award
A team of scholars including Professor Jonah B. Gelbach is one of two recipients of the 2026 Civil Justice Scholarship Award for an article published in the University of Chicago Law Review last year.
bit.ly
January 10, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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A team of scholars including Professor Jonah B. Gelbach is one of two recipients of the 2026 Civil Justice Scholarship Award from the National Civil Justice Institute for an article published in the University of Chicago Law Review last year: https://bit.ly/4jS6DlL #BerkeleyLaw
‘Secret Settlements’ Study Wins Civil Justice Award
A team of scholars including Professor Jonah B. Gelbach is one of two recipients of the 2026 Civil Justice Scholarship Award for an article published in the University of Chicago Law Review last year.
bit.ly
January 9, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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arXiv📈🤖
Large language models can effectively convince people to believe conspiracies
By Costello, Pelrine, Kowal et al
January 10, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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arXiv📈🤖
Towards a Sociology of Sociology: Inequality, Elitism, and Prestige in the Sociological Enterprise From 1970 to the Present
By Cook
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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Today in “Dudes Rock”:

A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
January 9, 2026 at 8:20 PM