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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by: Daniel Stone, Linda J. Skitka, Efrén O. Pérez , and 2 more

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Resistance to authoritarianism is a coordination game. That's why universities and law firms and nonprofits can't let themselves be picked off one by one. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.
www.nytimes.com
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by Daniel Stone

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I do think it's a good point that if outlets are owned by firms/individuals with other interests affected by the admin, that increases their incentives to curry favor. But still think the power of using their outlet for this purpose depends on audience size - so they can't alienate too many people
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by Daniel Stone

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Well - that of course ignores the content of their coverage - he's not suing Fox News (and he doesn't do favors for podcasters with tiny audiences, as far as I know)
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by Daniel Stone

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Hmm, maybe - but a paper/outlet should be a more powerful vehicle for extracting favors when it has a larger audience...
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by Daniel Stone

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Delete Yik Yak

www.pressherald.com?p=7506232&uu...
Let’s rid Maine’s campuses of the stench of Yik Yak | Opinion
I thought UMF was a safe place ... until I read the things anonymously said about me on this hateful app.
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by Daniel Stone

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Good concrete advice toward the end of this hbr.org/2025/11/a-sm...
A Smarter Way to Disagree
To foster constructive disagreements, organizations should encourage individuals to modify their observable behaviors during conflicts. More specifically, the authors’ research has shown that employee...
hbr.org

by Daniel Stone

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Very good to confirm this: the vast majority of both Republicans and Democrats (still) do not think of the other party as "the enemy"

by Daniel Stone

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Marge and Homer walking through the new Springfield Squidport:

"This is what I imagine Paris must be like!" -Marge
"You've never been?" -Homer

by Daniel Stone

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"Chinatown? Only in New York!" -Marge
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 6d
what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.
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Reposted by: Daniel Stone, Shannon Vallor, Ian Campbell , and 5 more

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what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.
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Reposted by: Daniel Stone

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I wish people who think a lot about politics would try harder to reconcile their actual lifestyle choices with their stated views.

www.slowboring.com/p/live-your-...
Live your values
Ride the train, send your kids to public school. It’s the only way we get public services that work for everyone.
www.slowboring.com
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by Daniel Stone

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Hey you do all sports data all the time - you are already living the dream :)
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Reposted by: Daniel Stone, Ben H. Ansell, Steve Peers

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Rest of world already pouncing.

@bloomberg.com @reuters.com #H1B
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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by Daniel Stone

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Bowdoin econ is hiring two assistant professors!
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

This place is pretty great - see e.g. www.google.com/search?q=wha...
(Doesn't even mention the full year full pay junior sabbatical...)

Let me know any questions !
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by Daniel Stone

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I think a major TV star is an elite! He could have chosen to go easy on the criticism and stay safe or put his job on the line...
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by Daniel Stone

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Careful overstating stuff like this since if elites think most/all other elites are folding, they become more likely to fold (self-fulfilling prophecy)

Plenty of elites are being brave (like Kimmel) - we should focus on publicly praising them to encourage others
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Reposted by: Daniel Stone, Marc Lynch, Jacob T. Levy , and 3 more

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Student visas dropped to a four year low. Trump also cuts spending on research by hundreds of billions on college campuses. This is how you end American exceptionalism.
I gifted this article so you can read it www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Student Visa Arrivals Fall to Four-Year Low, Led by Asia Drop
Visitors to the US arriving on student visas hit a four-year low in August, portending a grim trend for the nation’s education sector.
www.bloomberg.com
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Reposted by: Daniel Stone, Alan Richardson, Jared Yates Sexton , and 2 more

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Saving America from Trump and preserving our democracy explicitly requires that people who voted for Trump change their mind. Which in turn requires that those who didn’t vote for Trump show grace and empathy to those whose change of heart came from being hurt by the guy they voted for…
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Reposted by: Daniel Stone, Stanislas Dehaene, Dirk Pilat , and 8 more

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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
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Reposted by: Daniel Stone, Matthew P. McAllister

by Daniel Stone

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www.betterconflictbulletin.org/p/why-build-...

More good stuff from @jonathanstray.bsky.social
Why Build Bridges when Democracy is Burning?
The only way to win is for "us" to ally with some of "them" - BCB #165
www.betterconflictbulletin.org
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Reposted by: Daniel Stone, Brad R. Humphreys

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A nicely done story about Dennis Coates and Brad Humphreys:

umbc.edu/stories/denn...
2025 Dennis Coates Closes Out His 30th Year At UMBC At The Top Of His Game With An Award From The North American Association Of Sports Economists
The North American Association of Sports Economists established an award in Dennis Coates name and his long-time research partner, Brad R. Humphreys's honor.
umbc.edu
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by Eugenio Proto — Reposted by: Daniel Stone, Eugenio Proto

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Thrilled to share that our article

“Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events” is forthcoming in the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA).

(with C. K. Becker, T. Melkonyan, @andissofianos.bsky.social Sofianos, S.T. Trautmann)

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👉 academic.oup.com/jeea/advance...
Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events
Abstract. Bayesian updating is the dominant theory of learning. However, the theory is silent about how individuals react to events that were previously un
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by Daniel Stone

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Obvious but not obvious to so many of us
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
Opinion | There Are Monsters in Your Midst, Too
www.nytimes.com
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by Daniel Stone

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"The number of deaths in politically motivated terrorist attacks is so tiny that any statistical analysis is extremely fragile. However, there is one consistent finding from analyses of politically motivated terrorism: There aren’t many deaths."
www.alexnowrasteh.com/p/politicall...
Politically Motivated Violence is Rare in the United States
It’s a tragedy nonetheless
www.alexnowrasteh.com
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Reposted by: Daniel Stone, Vincent Geloso

by Daniel Stone

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(So recent lit debating electoral effects of politicians being moderates might be confounded by not controlling for this... maybe picking up a 'civility' effect?)

Anyway link to the draft here, comments welcome! 🙏
osf.io/preprints/so...
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by Daniel Stone

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Effects are similar in red and blue states and in the later (i.e., even more affectively polarized) years of our sample

Interesting auxiliary result: w/o controlling for hostile rhetoric, ideological moderation predicts electoral success. But moderation is insignificant when hostility is included
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by Daniel Stone

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Causality is admittedly not cleanly identified but results hold up with lots of controls including LLM-measures of populism and ideological moderation/extremism, and mid-campaign polls (so we're not just picking up long-shot candidates going negative from the start of campaigns and still losing)
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by Daniel Stone

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Not sure if it's relatively bad or good timing to share this but... Some encouraging news re polarization in a new working paper with Jack Banks (Bowdoin 2027):

LLM-measures of *lack of* hostility in campaign rhetoric robustly predict electoral success for US gubernatorial candidates from 2010-2023
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