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Jonathan Renshon @jonathan-renshon.bsky.social · May 28

Let’s go!

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Jonathan Renshon @jonathan-renshon.bsky.social · May 23

NYT Pitchbot now reduced to summaries since there is nothing left to satirize

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Jonathan Renshon @jonathan-renshon.bsky.social · May 21

Game not over and already blaming the officiating 👀

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Jonathan Renshon @jonathan-renshon.bsky.social · May 16

Hard to say, @donmoyn.bsky.social .

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Jonathan Renshon @jonathan-renshon.bsky.social · May 16

Modest proposal to fix NBA games: instead of the same old terrible post game interviews with players (“we just executed”), interview family members. Don’t you want to know what Jokic’s older brother thinks about the officiating?! He cannot be fined! #nba #playoffs

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Jonathan Renshon @jonathan-renshon.bsky.social · May 13

Bottled *just* around the last time the Knicks were in the Eastern Conferenxe Finals. Just a coincidence. No jinxes.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · May 12

NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Congestion pricing has improved life in New York City by: reducing cars on the street, speeding traffic (especially at peak hours), speeding buses and making them more reliable, expanding transit ridership, reducing car crashes, reducing noise complaints, and increasing the number of visitors.

Fire response times fell in the NYC congestion zone, even as they increased in the rest of the city.

Car crashes with injuries fell citywide, but they fell especially dramatically in the congestion pricing zone from 2024 to 2025

Local buses have sped up dramatically in the congestion pricing zone.

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Jonathan Renshon @jonathan-renshon.bsky.social · May 11

I, for one, am glad we are finally throwing these DEI planes into the sea.

Gail Waldby ❌👑 @gailwaldby.bsky.social · May 10

Another Navy jet falls into sea, marking fourth major mishap in months
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Another Navy jet falls into sea, marking fourth major mishap in months

The latest loss of an F/A-18 fighter jet occurred during a failed landing aboard the USS Harry S. Truman, an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea.

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Jonathan Renshon @jonathan-renshon.bsky.social · May 10

This time with real blood tests!

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Gail Waldby ❌👑 @gailwaldby.bsky.social · May 10

Another Navy jet falls into sea, marking fourth major mishap in months
wapo.st/4dlyTda

Another Navy jet falls into sea, marking fourth major mishap in months

The latest loss of an F/A-18 fighter jet occurred during a failed landing aboard the USS Harry S. Truman, an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea.

wapo.st

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Anton Strezhnev @astrezh.bsky.social · May 10

www.wpr.org/news/uw-madi...

UW-Madison faculty joins Big Ten schools in vote for 'Mutual Defense Compact'

University of Wisconsin-Madison professors have joined their colleagues at Big Ten schools to formally say they’re frustrated by the Trump administration’s cuts to research funding and efforts to dict...

www.wpr.org

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Jonathan Renshon @jonathan-renshon.bsky.social · May 8

Absolutely incredible ending. Again. Thibs - I forgive you for running Hart and Brunson into the ground. All is forgiven.

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Jonathan Renshon @jonathan-renshon.bsky.social · May 6

Amazing

Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · May 6

This new package for mediation is great! The user interface is *so intuitive* but the unsung hero of this software is the documentation:

Arguments
data
Not needed, wouldn't make your analysis and more correct.

Details
We have:

X: a binary treatment variable, that is affected by an unmeasured confounder (U).

M: a mediator, that is mostly driven by U, not X

Y: an outcome, that is influenced by both M and U, but you can’t see U.

What you don’t have:

Any valid identification strategy

Temporal ordering

Careful causal reasoning

Value
Nothing, because you shouldn't do mediation analysis.

Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · May 6

This new package for mediation is great! The user interface is *so intuitive* but the unsung hero of this software is the documentation:

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Jonathan Renshon @jonathan-renshon.bsky.social · May 4

Delighted to be a part of this and hear about a bunch of great new work!

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · May 3

Celebrating a successful Europe Amidst Uncertainty conference in the traditional Wisconsin fashion, at the Terrace @stefwalter.bsky.social @florianfoos.bsky.social @stephofmann.bsky.social @jonathan-renshon.bsky.social @amyren.bsky.social

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · May 3

Celebrating a successful Europe Amidst Uncertainty conference in the traditional Wisconsin fashion, at the Terrace @stefwalter.bsky.social @florianfoos.bsky.social @stephofmann.bsky.social @jonathan-renshon.bsky.social @amyren.bsky.social

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Jonathan Renshon @jonathan-renshon.bsky.social · Apr 30

All of it

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Jonathan Renshon @jonathan-renshon.bsky.social · Apr 30

😜some people are determined to put The Onion out of business

Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · Apr 30

AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels.

The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people

Marc Andreessen says when AI does everything else, VC might be one of the last jobs still done by humans.

It's more art than science. There's no formula. Just taste, psychology, and chaos tolerance.

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · Apr 30

AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels.

The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people

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Jessica Weeks @jlpweeks.bsky.social · Apr 25

It's hard to find the words. NSF just terminated the grant for Journeys, a mentoring workshop that tried to tackle underrepresentation of women in international relations. Future scholarship will be the worse for it. But this photo from our last gathering will motivate me to keep fighting.

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Jonathan Renshon @jonathan-renshon.bsky.social · Apr 25

Locking down the pro-salmonella vote early

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Apr 25

"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat."

www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...

USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry

The Agriculture Department says it is withdrawing a plan to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products.

www.seattletimes.com

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Apr 25

Very useful interactive spreadsheet of the college/univ prez who have signed this declaration of academic independence.

Up to 480 signers now, up from 180 three days ago.

Thanks to @ejgoldstick.bsky.social for putting it together.

For reference, his doc is here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Apr 25

"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat."

www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...

USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry

The Agriculture Department says it is withdrawing a plan to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products.

www.seattletimes.com

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Jonathan Renshon @jonathan-renshon.bsky.social · Apr 23

Source:

a man is smiling in front of a sign that says get your complimentary bottle text 321321 enter demand

ALT: a man is smiling in front of a sign that says get your complimentary bottle text 321321 enter demand

media.tenor.com

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Jonathan Renshon @jonathan-renshon.bsky.social · Apr 22

I'd like to say that this quote is as true out of context as it is in the proper context.

Jonathan Renshon @jonathan-renshon.bsky.social · Apr 22

Probably worth it

ESPN @espn.com · Apr 22

Anthony Edwards has been fined $50,000 for directing inappropriate language and making an obscene gesture to a fan during Minnesota's game Saturday against the Lakers.

Jonathan Renshon @jonathan-renshon.bsky.social · Apr 22

This one is easy. "Yes," right? You can do anything you set your mind to!

ESPN @espn.com · Apr 22

Anthony Edwards has been fined $50,000 for directing inappropriate language and making an obscene gesture to a fan during Minnesota's game Saturday against the Lakers.

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Jonathan Renshon @jonathan-renshon.bsky.social · Apr 22

Contender for best book title

Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · Apr 22

Something I have always been aware of but apparently some men less so - reading @jess-davies.Sky.social ‘s new book

NO ONE WANTS TO SEE YOUR D CK
A handbook for survival in the digital world
JESS DAVIES

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · Apr 22

Something I have always been aware of but apparently some men less so - reading @jess-davies.Sky.social ‘s new book

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