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Erin Krupka @erinkrupka.bsky.social · 3d

Goodall’s passing hit me hard. A mighty force of her own, pushing humanity to be better. Public goods provision must feel hopeless to the individual - Goodall urges us to keep on. But Yeats captures the moment for me. I am hanging on to Goodall for direction and energy while the beast slouches on.

Erin Krupka @erinkrupka.bsky.social · 3d

This made me laugh!! Good point!!

Erin Krupka @erinkrupka.bsky.social · 3d

Well said!!

Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 4d

Iconoclastic scientists not only do novel science, but they do science in novel ways.
#academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/jane...

Jane Goodall (1934-2025)

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JFSNMAR10 @jfsnmar10.bsky.social · 5d

Instead of blubbering and mumbling about some GOP members and Mike Johnson, why is this Democrat not announcing, full-throated, that the GOP controls the House, the Senate, the Oval Office and the Judiciary- and the shutdown is their fault.

End of soundbite.

Democrats gotta mumble.

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Erin Krupka @erinkrupka.bsky.social · 12d

Congrats for Austria! My home away from home ❤️

politicoricky.bsky.social @politicoricky.bsky.social · 12d

The “brain drain” effect will be long lasting. We’ll lose our edge in R&D, which impacts everything from healthcare to energy to engineering.

#econsky

www.reuters.com/world/austri...

Austria hails 'brain gain' in luring 25 academics away from US after cuts

Austria has lured what it calls 25 "top researchers" away from U.S. institutions including Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton with grants set up in response to the Trump administration's funding cuts targeting universities.

www.reuters.com

Erin Krupka @erinkrupka.bsky.social · 15d

They all have one thing in common though, don't they?

Erin Krupka @erinkrupka.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you for pointing to something worth reading about this issue! I am eager to read well informed analysis closer to present conditions. Might I also ask if you can direct me to something re effects of Grad +loans on enrollment, income inequality etc.

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Erin Krupka @erinkrupka.bsky.social · 15d

So if I’ve got this right, then it’s women’s fault for taking aspirin? Anything else we messed up?

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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 17d

Trump and DHS will de facto auction off H1-B visas: if you pay them in some currency— flattery, side deals,— they will make the visa free

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 18d

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 18d

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

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Erin Krupka @erinkrupka.bsky.social · 20d

FWIW I don't get a sense that it will be ok. I observe tension among competing prerogatives (eg save jobs, protect others, call out wrongs, fight, flee). Sometimes I find a compass believing that resistance, anger, care, fighting comes in many forms. A second compass from finding what *I* can do.

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Erin Krupka @erinkrupka.bsky.social · 20d

I think the Judith Butler letter, and the UC system’s handing over of names, is already playing out. It’s all so sad. I keep asking, what can I do?, and I’m looking and finding concrete actions that I hope make a difference to those around me. It’s hard times right now.

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Erin Krupka @erinkrupka.bsky.social · 21d

One of the most profound books pub’d during my college yrs was “Hitler's Willing Executioners”. What stayed w me is the documentation of how ordinary ppl through ordinary actions furthered terrible ends. But the opposite is also true: Ordinary ppl can play a small part adding up to lg scale good.

The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 22d

"Of course, I am not K, but I find myself uncannily identified with his predicament." Judith Butler's open letter to UC Berkeley.

Kafka-land at UC Berkeley

The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOE's Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.

www.thenation.com

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Erin Krupka @erinkrupka.bsky.social · 23d

I am so excited to announce the publication of our paper: Experimental methods: Eliciting and measuring social norms (Charness, Dimant, Krupka, and Dimant)

JEBO website: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

Erin Krupka @erinkrupka.bsky.social · 26d

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

A beautiful remembrance and reflection on 9/11 and what could be.

September 11, 2025

Twenty-four years ago today, terrorists from the al-Qaeda network used four civilian airplanes as weapons against the United States, crashing two of them into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in N...

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Erin Krupka @erinkrupka.bsky.social · 29d

Wow. This is a powerful image

My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · Sep 8

"The mural is being seen as a possible reaction to the arrest of hundreds of demonstrators at the weekend supporting banned group Palestine Action."

Defend Our Juries spokesperson: "When the law is used as a tool to crush civil liberties, it does not extinguish dissent, it strengthens it."

Sky News @news.sky.com · Sep 8

New Banksy artwork appears on court building showing judge attacking protester

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · Sep 8

"The mural is being seen as a possible reaction to the arrest of hundreds of demonstrators at the weekend supporting banned group Palestine Action."

Defend Our Juries spokesperson: "When the law is used as a tool to crush civil liberties, it does not extinguish dissent, it strengthens it."

Sky News @news.sky.com · Sep 8

New Banksy artwork appears on court building showing judge attacking protester

New work by street artist Banksy has appeared on the wall of the Royal Courts of Justice in London - showing a judge attacking a protester with a gavel - in an apparent reference to the arrest of hundreds of demonstrators.

news.sky.com

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Erin Krupka @erinkrupka.bsky.social · Sep 6

Re job numbers, Trump answered: "Well, we're going to have to see what the numbers, I don't know, they come out tomorrow. But the real numbers that I'm talking about are going to be whatever it is. But, uh, will be in a year from now … I think you’ll see job numbers that are absolutely incredible.”

Erin Krupka @erinkrupka.bsky.social · Sep 5

I wonder whom we should fire for these numbers?

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is a cool paper that suggests that AI agents can indeed be used for social science experiments, but that just using a chatbot isn't good enough, instead prompts developed based on social & game theory makes AI agent actions predictive of real human outcomes. benjaminmanning.io/files/optimi...

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · Aug 29

On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..."

Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ;

We really need more papers on this issue

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Matthew O. Jackson @jacksonmatthewo.bsky.social · Aug 29

How well can LLMs mimic human behavior in playing games? What is revealed by the prompts needed to generate different behaviors? They reveal quite a lot:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
just published open access with Yutong Xie, Qiaozhu Mei, Walter Yuan

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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · Aug 29

Tour de force review on “Economics of Attention” by Loewenstein just published in J Econ Lit
@aeajournals.bsky.social

#behavioraleconomics

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Erin Krupka @erinkrupka.bsky.social · Aug 26

NYT can’t/won’t report whom they voted for in the presidential election. Whole article is about how important public broadcasting is to these communities. It took a quote from Mark Amode ALL the way at the bottom (after detailing Murkowski’s “brave” efforts to carve out funding). Just gross.

Erin Krupka @erinkrupka.bsky.social · Aug 24

I’m heartened to see that Publics appear less susceptible to legacy. However the pipeline after under grad perpetuates initial disparities. Would love to see more risk taking in the Ivy’s & more options in the public’s for ppl with fewer means to get xtra curriculars that enrich & prepare students.