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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Sep 10

Violence is never the answer.

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · Jul 7

Promising results from McMaster's Phase 1 inhaled Aerovax Covid vaccine trial 💉

The vaccine safely produced respiratory mucosal immunity (trial didn't assess ability to prevent infections - later phase trials may do this)

brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/pro...

Promising results from Phase 1 human trials of McMaster's inhaled COVID-19 vaccine

McMaster University’s inhaled COVID-19 vaccine safely generates immune responses associated with protection in the lungs, recent clinical trial data show. The Phase-1 study, which ran . . .

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · Jun 26

Evicting NSF from their building in Washington is pretty revealing. But if they auction off its History Wall, I know which tile I’d bid on. Here’s the list to choose from…
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/evic...

Evicting Science from D.C.: the NSF building and it's History Wall

marketdesigner.blogspot.com

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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · May 23

Tim Roughgarden (a16z crypto and Columbia) is giving a seminar on Thursday, 29 May 2025: "Shill-Proof Auctions" (with Andrew Komo and Scott Kominers). Guest panellists: Marek Pycia and Zhou Yu. @timroughgarden.bsky.social @skominers.bsky.social

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Kevin R. McClure @drkevinrmcclure.com · May 2

FYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...

Meeting the Moment Together

We are returning from the AERA Annual Meeting in Denver reinvigorated and with a deep appreciation for all that scholars and higher education leaders are holding in this moment. Rapid shifts in fed...

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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · May 2

Happy Palindrome-Ambigram-Reflection Day, QED!!

I hope your day has been excellent in every possible direction 🙂🙃

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · Apr 20

Once again, I was left to wonder: was Pete Hegseth signal chatting military attack plans to everyone but me??

Am I the one that’s insecure, or is it his communication practices that are insecure?

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Michael Ostrovsky @mostrovsky.bsky.social · Mar 31

A podcast episode with @skominers.bsky.social and @rhhackett on #congestionpricing in New York City (and beyond). Link: web3-with-a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/con...

Congestion Pricing: Economics, Theory, Reality | web3 with a16z crypto

Everyone hates traffic. One way to reduce it is through congestion pricing, which New York City implemented at the start of the year — a first of its kind for the U.S. We spoke to two economists about...

web3-with-a16z.simplecast.com

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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · Mar 21

Wordle 1,371 4/6*

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@casssunstein.bsky.social and @rthaler.bsky.social must do Wordle today

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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · Mar 14

app.manifold.xyz/c/numerology...

PI DAY / PurIm / EclPIse

Edition commemorating Pi Day, 2025, which also corresponded with Purim and a lunar eclipse. (For more about the hamantaschen shape and its relationship to Pi, check out this great article from BEAM: ...

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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · Mar 14

Happy [PI / PurIm / EclPIse] Day!!

Hold some PIstachio hamantaschen up to the moon, QED 😄🤚📐🌑!

(And yes, of course, there's an NFT 👇)

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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · Feb 19

cc @shengwuli.bsky.social

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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · Feb 19

Cross-posting an extremely niche social science joke x.com/skominers/st...

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M. Utku Ünver @muunver.bsky.social · Jan 26

On the amazing downfall of Alzheimer's research by widespread manipulations and the crooked incentive structure in science: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

Opinion | The Long Shadow of Fraud in Alzheimer’s Research

Fraud in research needs to end.

www.nytimes.com

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · Jan 25

High pay for participating in clinical trials (for example) may require greater efforts to make sure consent is well informed. #econsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/01/info...

Informed consent and compensation for clinical trial participants (Ambuehl, Ockenfels and Stewart in REStat)

marketdesigner.blogspot.com

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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · Jan 25

What's the theory one would have to concoct to hypothesize the opposite of what this article finds? Maybe "postdocs who publish a lot of papers are probably tapped out and can't publish anything else now, whereas the ones who haven't are well rested and ready to start producing hit research soon."

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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · Jan 25

What a time to be alive

Shengwu Li @shengwuli.bsky.social · Jan 25

Edited by Susan Fiske, who also described replication studies as “methodological terrorism”.

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Shengwu Li @shengwuli.bsky.social · Jan 25

Edited by Susan Fiske, who also described replication studies as “methodological terrorism”.

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James Feigenbaum @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social · Jan 25

At least this one will surely replicate (as long as those evil replicators don't bring in any evil identification)

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Jan 25

Inspectors General, the govt’s internal watchdogs, were a post-Watergate reform, reporting abuses to Congress.

Trump fired some IGs in term 1 after his first impeachment showed that Senate GOP will defend abuse.

Only reason to fire 17 IGs now is to abuse power and break the law with less pushback.

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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · Jan 25

... which, to be fair, is basically what the authors say is their alternative hypothesis. But how could this ever be true in equilibrium?

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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · Jan 25

To hypothesize a null effect, we would need to believe something like "the postdoc period is just a holding tank while people wait for faculty jobs to become available that reveals no information about the candidate and also has no impact on their eventual academic work"...

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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · Jan 25

What's the theory one would have to concoct to hypothesize the opposite of what this article finds? Maybe "postdocs who publish a lot of papers are probably tapped out and can't publish anything else now, whereas the ones who haven't are well rested and ready to start producing hit research soon."

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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · Jan 25

Should we be surprised that people who have positive publication trends during their postdocs are more likely to get faculty jobs? What could the counterfactual hypothesis have possibly been?

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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · Jan 25

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