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Academic economist. Bon vivant. "Enfant terrible". Website: https://sebastianbuhai.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/sbuhai Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@sbuhai Threads: https://www.threads.net/@sebastianbuhai

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Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · Jul 14

So Science Magazine recently asked this question:
"What one change to scientific policy or culture would substantially decrease incidents of scientific misconduct and/or unethical behavior?"

My very serious answer (which they—seemingly—did not consider serious enough to publish) was:

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Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 15h

Bravo, @NobelPrize laureates of 2025; yet the juicier drop lands Monday! :)

My wish:
Blundell-Manski (essential microeconometrics, broadly)
or
Bresnahan-Pakes-Porter (state-of-the-art EIO)
Long overdue in both cases!

My sneaky suspicion:
They'll lean the/ a macro way this year.

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Bård Harstad @bardharstad.bsky.social · 23h

Note the wording.. Ms. Machado receives the prize for:
- promoting democratic rights
- struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition
- At a time when democracy is under threat
- where democracy is in retreat
- more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norm
www.nobelpeacecenter.org/en

Nobel Peace Center | Museum of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway

The Nobel Peace Center in Oslo is the museum of the Nobel Peace Prize. Experience our exhibitions, events and guided tours inspired by the ideas and work of the Nobel Peace Prize laureates.

www.nobelpeacecenter.org

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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 21h

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

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Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 1d

My big regret: I haven't (& still can't) properly read his books in the original Hungarian, my mother's tongue, which I spoke perfectly until about age 5. I've read some of them in English translation instead, missing many intricacies. A lifelong frustration I carry daily...(2/2)

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László Krasznahorkai's @NobelPrize was way long overdue. He could have won it for Sátántangó alone (100% with Sem-Sandberg: for a *debut* novel, that quality remains unsurpassed), not to mention later pearls like The Melancholy of Resistance or Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the Hungarian novelist, for his “visionary oeuvre.”

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

The award comes with prize money of almost $1.2 million.

nyti.ms

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Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 2d

Sí: con vino, fluyo; sin vino, improviso. 😂

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Nature @nature.com · 3d

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit"

Stay tuned for more.

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Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 4d

Thrilled to start a long-term academic visit today at UC Chile’s Instituto de Economía: https://economia.uc.cl/
In Santiago/Chile/LatAm? Let’s connect: ideas on the table, wine (or pisco sours!) on the side. Bring your priors; we’ll update the posteriors & boost our networks' R²!

Inicio - Instituto de Economía

Espacio que alberga las noticias, eventos destacados, últimas publicaciones, documentos de trabajo, profesores, programas y centros del Instituto de Economía de la Universidad Católica

economia.uc.cl

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Collège de France @college-de-france.fr · 4d

#Science #Mathématiques
🧮 « Entropie et combinatoire »
📌 Cours Pr Timothy Gowers, titulaire de la chaire Combinatoire
⏰ 13 octobre → 17 novembre 2025
👉 https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/cours/entropie-et-combinatoire

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Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 5d

Acabamos de ver NUBE de Jose Vidal en el Teatro Municipal de Las Condes: nos encantó a todos, pero nuestra hija de 7 años (que hace danza moderna) quedó completamente cautivada. Pura poesía en movimiento! www.tmlascondes.cl/n...
#NUBE #DanzaContemporánea

Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 8d

And a delight it is, indeed!
(Also a timely nudge to @nobelprize.bsky.social Econ Committee: Pakes’s toolkit reshaped how we study markets; Bresnahan–Pakes–Porter as laureates in 10 days would fit the evidence. P.S. Long overdue Nobel for EIO!)
HT @paulaaureo.bsky.social on X:
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Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 8d

Mi se șoptește că Păturică a ajuns ditai prof la Școala Națională de Studii Politice și Administrative, unde va preda „dezvoltare economică”. După ce-a dezvoltat ministere până le-au ieșit fulgii, urmează dezvoltarea studenților — cei scăpați nedezvoltați de Bulai & Pieleanu.
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 8d

Straight up asking public universities to set up governing structures to violate the first amendment

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10d

My petty gripe: not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it’s stealing my em dashes too

The humble em dash is being used as a tell that something is written by a large language model. But it’s James Shackell’s favourite piece of punctuation, and he’s not ready to lose it

www.theguardian.com

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The Economist @economist.com · 10d

“Stablecoins, like money-market funds, project security but can collapse under pressure,” argues Jean Tirole in a guest essay. The Nobel laureate explains why these digital tokens are riskier than promised

A Nobel laureate on why stablecoins may be nothing of the sort

Payments systems must be built on public infrastructure, not speculative tokens, writes Jean Tirole

econ.st

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Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 12d

De la subida por Parque Mahuida, entre bosque verde y montaña, a la bajada hacia Caleta La Reina para un almuerzo simple-perfecto de mariscos (¡con música chilena en vivo!): del mapudungún al chileno, hasta este gringo cacha el ritmo, po. #SantiagoDeChile

Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 12d

Persistent habit alert: bashing math diagnoses the basher, not the discipline. And BTW, 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑎𝑡ℎ can matter: the treatment effect is operator-dependent.
My 2¢: apply the 'Terry Tao move'—master rigor, then recalibrate intuition in situ. That's how econ gets traction.
(Déjà vu: x.com/sbuhai/statu...)

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Nature @nature.com · 14d

The creator of the NumPy and SciPy libraries reflects on their supporting role in the story of Python, now the subject of a documentary

go.nature.com/4gHDSGF

Python, the movie! The programming language’s origin story comes to the silver screen

The creator of the NumPy and SciPy libraries reflects on their supporting role in the story of Python, now the subject of a documentary.

go.nature.com

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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 15d

Bernanke, Cochrane, Greenspan, Mankiw, Paulson, Rogoff, Romer, Rubin, Summers, Yellen, etc & me: "allowing the removal of Governor Lisa D. Cook while the challenge to her removal is pending would threaten that independence and erode public confidence in the Fed." www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

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Collège de France @college-de-france.fr · 17d

#Science #Mathématiques
"Analyse en grande dimension et problèmes ouverts"
📌 Cours du Pr Pierre-Louis Lions, titulaire de la chaire #Équations aux dérivées partielles et applications.
⏰ 3 octobre → 19 décembre 2025
👉 https://tinyurl.com/yz9kkvp9

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 18d

Our project is to create a database of what we call "structured motivated proofs". For more details about this, and for information about how you can get involved (if you have suitable skills), see a blog post I have just written.

gowers.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/c...

Creating a database of motivated proofs

It’s been over three years since my last post on this blog and I have sometimes been asked, understandably, whether the project I announced in my previous post was actually happening. The ans…

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22d

Late-night show hosts decry suspension of Kimmel’s show: ‘Blatant assault on freedom of speech’

Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon and David Letterman criticize ABC’s parent company, Disney, and FCC chief, Brendan Carr Late-night show hosts Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon and former host David Letterman have all rallied behind Jimmy Kimmel following ABC’s decision to indefinitely suspend his popular late-night show after his comments about the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk. In his opening monologue on Thursday night, Stephen Colbert mocked executives at Disney, ABC’s parent company, for caving to threats from Brendan Carr, the FCC chairman, when they pulled Kimmel off the air. Continue reading...

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Bård Harstad @bardharstad.bsky.social · 22d

Happy Fiestas Patrias and Independence Day to Chile --
which issued the first ever sovereign sustainability-linked bonds (March 2022).
These ideas can be valuable at COP30 or beyond.
americas.societegenerale.com/en/news-nort...

First ever sustainability-linked sovereign bond supports the Republic of Chile's climate ambitions

Societe Generale was active bookrunner and joint sustainability structuring advisor of first-ever sustainability linked sovereign bond.

americas.societegenerale.com

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Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 25d

Au passage, valable aussi pour la 🇷🇴, où Moody’s maintient une perspective négative. Sans vision de long terme — avec, entre autres, réforme éducative et investissements publics rentables — les spreads s’élargissent. Clé : crédibilité + compétences (NB. pas d’austérité folle!).