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All the life goals, right here

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Our new paper shows that men benefit from couples' long-distance joint moves more than women do, in both Germany and Sweden. Is this just b/c men are usually the main breadwinner? No, it's hard to explain the patterns we see w/o a gender norm prioritizing men's careers. www.nber.org/papers/w32970

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

truly a Hall of Fame grift from weiss here. the frank lucas of bad faith bullshit. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

This is amazing: @ladwp.com, the Los Angeles utility, has launched a program that will install solar+battery systems on qualifying low-to-moderate-income households, *for free*.

Yes: free.

If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!

“A broad shift to electric vehicles -- which are quieter than traditional vehicles -- could yield noise reduction benefits of $77.3 billion, concentrated among low-income families in dense urban areas.” www.nber.org/papers/w34298

A new paper led by Cody Warner at Berkeley shows that utilities can mitigate wildfire risk much more quickly and cheaply by using dynamic grid management (such as fast-trip switches that very quickly de-energize power lines in response to faults) than by trimming trees or undergrounding lines.

At the Nicholas Roerich Museum, since I can’t go to the Himalayas.

A rather brilliant idea from Massachusetts. 🔌💡

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Perhaps this analysis showing where electricity and natural gas are priced above (blue) and below (red) the social marginal costs? not quite retail though…

The OpenAi preprint on arXiv arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04664

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

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- regimes exhibit tendencies to U-turn across liberal-authoritarian spectrum, i.e they bounce back to (largely) their original state
- past liberal democracies (LD) tended to skip intermediate electoral democracy (ED) stage & jumped straight to closed authoritarian regimes before reversion to LD

I enjoy cool descriptive papers so much

Also hospitals.

There's a serious shortage of doctors, especially in rural areas.

Americans have been nothing but wonderful. Every single day, they are gracious neighbours, colleagues, & friends. I can only hope to return the generosity through my teaching and research. But at the end of the day, there are things I can't/ don't want to change -- I'm not from here, and that's ok.

My impulse to come here is similar to what brings pastry chefs to France, bankers to London, and meditators and yoga practitioners to India. I'm happy to be a guest, pay the taxes, and be a good community member, never vote, and do some cool science.
But this is getting so, so rough.

I won't wade into the debate on this, but I personally came to this wonderful country to do science, and also a very specific kind of science that lets me use my engineering training to provide prescriptive climate solutions. It's a very neat niche that not many other academic institutions do

Most foreign-born professors, doctors, non-profit, and national lab staff are on H1-B as well. Many of us are part of cap-exempt H1B, which is often used to bring in highly specialized, skilled labour. There's also a lottery-based H1B, which has been heavily used in tech and IT.

Quite a rough morning. This means I will not be able to travel and see my family and partner for the foreseeable future.

www.reuters.com/business/med...

I had an idea that I was playing with for a while which was designing a Ramsey pricing for hyperscalers— currently assumed as inelastic — and finding the “flexibility premium“ but all is mathy toy modeling

Late to this but Ramsay pricing. Price inversely proportional to demand elasticity. Of course, a lot to debate on actual implementation but this was the theoretical underpinning