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Paul Macklin @mathcancer.bsky.social · 1d

So once they identified today's Nobel prize recipients, they couldn't quite track them down.

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Lucas Seehafer PhD @seehafer.bsky.social · 8d

Making sports gambling open and accessible to all will be seen as the "smoking is actually good for you" of our time

Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 8d

"When a fan links their Prime Video profile to their FanDuel account, their active NBA bets will be displayed and updated on the screen, along with relevant progress and won/lost status, providing an exciting new way to connect plays on the court with active bets."
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FanDuel and Amazon Announce Exclusive Odds Provider Partnership for NBA and WNBA on Prime Video

/PRNewswire/ -- FanDuel, the premier online gaming company in North America, today announced a partnership with Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) to become the oﬃcial odds...

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 13d

Whatever you're doing, STOP RIGHT THIS SECOND and watch a sperm whale gulp down a squid, I promise you will not regret it

Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 13d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Remy Levin 🌻 @remylevin.bsky.social · 20d

Papers can still be viable.

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Remy Levin 🌻 @remylevin.bsky.social · 28d

Ok, this is actually dope. First real solution I’ve seen to ensuring human writing in the age of LLMs.

Maybe the college essay isn’t dead after all?

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Just give me the grade I know I deserve

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20d

They are literally canceling culture

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Remy Levin 🌻 @remylevin.bsky.social · 28d

That’s what TAs are for.

Remy Levin 🌻 @remylevin.bsky.social · 28d

Could be. Effective ad in that case.

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Remy Levin 🌻 @remylevin.bsky.social · 28d

Maybe? I guess if they’re written in google docs? Never used the tool, but it seems promising.

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Remy Levin 🌻 @remylevin.bsky.social · 28d

Ok, this is actually dope. First real solution I’ve seen to ensuring human writing in the age of LLMs.

Maybe the college essay isn’t dead after all?

youtube.com/shorts/AhA1l...

Just give me the grade I know I deserve

YouTube video by Study with J

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Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE @richardtol.bsky.social · Sep 7

Hassett prepping lies for confirmation hearing.

Reuters @reuters.com · Sep 7

White House's Hassett says Fed needs to be fully independent from Trump reut.rs/4p2GBOC

White House's Hassett says Fed needs to be fully independent from Trump

A top aide to U.S. President Donald Trump who is on his short list to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve said on Sunday that the central bank should be "fully independent of political influence," including from Trump.

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Remy Levin 🌻 @remylevin.bsky.social · Sep 7

Could not agree more with this piece

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Sep 7

Excellent piece by Ezra Klein: if Dems really believe that Trump is creating an authoritarian government they should not continue to fund it. The shutdown is their only leverage right now to draw attention to what is happening and maybe force change.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Sep 7

Excellent piece by Ezra Klein: if Dems really believe that Trump is creating an authoritarian government they should not continue to fund it. The shutdown is their only leverage right now to draw attention to what is happening and maybe force change.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

www.nytimes.com

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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · Sep 7

Many studies claim a steady decline of cognitive ability with age, starting from as earlier as one’s twenties.

But this research is flawed, argues Aaron Dymarskiy—more accurate research finds it does not peak until at least age 60:

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · Sep 6

The biggest analytical weakness of Americans in trying to understand the current moment is that their powers of analogy begin and end with US history. The idea that something qualitatively different might be arising simply doesn’t occur to them.

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · Sep 3

We usually rely on GDP, trade, or wages to study the past. This amazing paper flips the script.

It analyzes 630,000 paintings (1400-2000) to extract emotions and shows how art tracks living standards, wars, inequality, and even climate shocks.

(How is this economics? Everything is economics!)

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Sep 3

About this Florida vaccine story:

When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.

We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.

“Oh, they’d have died.”

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Remy Levin 🌻 @remylevin.bsky.social · Aug 17

Interesting thought. The big challenge there is that we don’t have the underlying farm-level data in almost any setting (except our Kansas analysis), so it would be challenging to test. But it’s an intriguing question!

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Remy Levin 🌻 @remylevin.bsky.social · Aug 17

Take a look at section 7, the wave-by-wave distributions & maps are there. Also highly concentrated.

I don’t have a strong prior about how gradually preferences vary in space. But I agree it’s a good idea to look at the estimation noise & make an educated attempt at smoothing based on it.

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Remy Levin 🌻 @remylevin.bsky.social · Aug 17

+ a MUCH smaller share of the population works in ag, so the population you can actually measure with the method shrinks dramatically.

In principal we could extend the estimates forward, but the more appropriate settings to apply this to are developing countries in the past or in the present day.

Remy Levin 🌻 @remylevin.bsky.social · Aug 17

It’s less about the data per se (it’s actually improving over time), and more about the plausibility of using the parsimonious structural model to infer risk preferences from it. Starting with the new deal, the linkage b/w crop prices/yields and actual revenue becomes attenuated. 1/2

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Remy Levin 🌻 @remylevin.bsky.social · Aug 17

Good thoughts. The link with migration is very much on deck for future analyses.

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Remy Levin 🌻 @remylevin.bsky.social · Aug 17

(Section 4 on the historical setting addresses this question in depth)

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Remy Levin 🌻 @remylevin.bsky.social · Aug 17

That’s fair. I do know >90% of the distribution is within 2SDs of the mean. And I strongly suspect that the outliers are not only in the high-noise counties. But it’s an empirical question that we should look into, and we might be able to improve the estimates that way.

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Remy Levin 🌻 @remylevin.bsky.social · Aug 17

Thank you! I don’t have a direct prior about this. Preference heterogeneity is just as plausible for me (and it’s not the only location it occurs). We’ll give some thought to shrinkage methods, though! It’s a good suggestion.

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Remy Levin 🌻 @remylevin.bsky.social · Aug 17

Very good reasons to. Read the paper for the full answer, but in short, that’s the last period before massive govt intervention in Ag, and while a large share of the population was employed in the sector.

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