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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 22h

Congratulations on this great honor!

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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 11d

The package doesn’t indicate the source of the grain.

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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 11d

What do you notice about this map?

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econmaett @econmaett.github.io · Jul 30

After this post *everyone* will take you seriously!

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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · Jul 25

😂

Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · Jul 25

This is what I call a happy accident:

“The Hi Mountain® Original Salami Sausage Kit lets you use your own meats or game to make incredible homemade salami. Each Hi Mountain sausage-making kit comes with seasonings, cure, casings, and instructions. The salami can be prepared smoked…”

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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · Jul 23

“Drawing on the first 487 reproductions hosted on the SSRP—including over 410 in economics...The team has found substantial heterogeneity …approximately 30 to 38% of recent economics papers reproduced on SSRP achieve some form of computational reproducibility…”

Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · Jul 23

“One challenge to assessing the rate of computational reproducibility … is the loss of knowledge from unpublished reproductions. ... Platforms like the SSRP are important because they lower barriers to replication studies and aggregate their findings.”

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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · Jul 23

From the BITSS newsletter I received yesterday: “Over the past five years, BITSS has supported the development of free, publicly accessible platforms like the Social Science Reproduction Platform (SSRP)…with funding from the Arnold Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.”

BITSS @ucbitss.bsky.social · Jul 17

Paper by Brodeur et al. assessing computational reproducibility in economics through the Social Science Reproduction Platform: www.nber.org/papers/w33753

Assessing Reproducibility in Economics Using Standardized Crowd-sourced Analysis

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · Jul 15

I’m sorry for your loss.

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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · Jul 15

I do wonder how many of these comments are actually trolls from bad actor states, just trying to sow division in the U.S.

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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · Jul 14

Exactly.

Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · Jul 14

Actually, Trump is threatening to do something that Biden never did. The threat is about SECONDARY sanctions on Russia’s trading partners, not just more primary sanctions on Russia.

This is a long overdue move.

Seems Trump is finally coming around to a correct strategy. 🤞

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Jul 14

How to sound tough but do nothing: Impose tariffs on a country where we already impose sanctions.

A 100% tariff on almost nothing will do almost nothing.

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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · Jul 14

You are correct. There’s a big difference.

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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · Jul 14

Trump didn’t threaten sanctions on Russia, but SECONDARY sanctions on Russia’s trade partners.

Secondary sanctions “…put additional pressure on the sanctions target by penalizing third parties that engage with the primary sanctions target…”

A big difference!

www.usitc.gov/publications...

www.usitc.gov

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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · Jul 14

You might be right. Hopefully the progress will continue.

Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · Jul 14

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karl the fog @karlthefog.bsky.social · May 30

Just your typical temperate range for a city that's only 7x7 miles

Map of SF that shows different temps ranging from 53 to 86 — within 6 miles of each other

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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · Jul 14

My PhD advisor told me, you have to take time to celebrate the good things in life. 5% European defense spending, restored U.S. weapons supplies, and a specific policy on secondary sanctions all seem positive to me.

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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · Jul 14

Fog in winter too. But the contrast in summer is striking.

“To the west, the marine layer sits above the cold Pacific. To the east, heat in the valley creates thinner air and low pressure. The valley becomes like a vacuum…It pulls that layer over San Francisco…”

www.kqed.org/news/70533/w....

Why It's Chilly in San Francisco | KQED

As most of the country swelters this week, San Francisco residents are pulling on their jackets and turning on the heat. The city is experiencing a winter-like chill, with temperatures in the 50s-- ab...

www.kqed.org

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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · Jul 13

The weather in San Francisco looked exactly the same yesterday, and this morning the ground was wet.

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · Jul 8

That’s a hero. Give this guy a medal.

Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · Jul 7

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has credited U.S. Coast Guard swimmer Scott Ruskan with saving 165 lives after Camp Mystic's flooding. bit.ly/46wzoj0

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Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · Jul 6

amazing!

Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · Jul 6

Meet Shraik, the wild kestrel who attacked a Russian drone mid-flight.

Wounded but alive, he was rescued by Ukrainian soldiers & underwent surgery.

Recovery will be long. His rescuers paid for everything. He is one of them now.

Now he rests. One day, he’ll fly again—over free Ukrainian skies.

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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · Jul 4

…what the Kremlin has called the “root causes” of the war, which is a euphemism for a sovereign Ukraine.

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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · Jul 4

Secondary sanctions now!

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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · Jul 3

A lot of those frontline soldiers were far from volunteers. It might seem unlikely that Ukrainians would help Russia invade Poland or Germany again, but those under Russian occupation have little choice.

Luckily some leaders in Europe seem to understand this point.