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Reposted by: Noel D. Johnson, Nuno Palma

patrubenfitz.bsky.social
Was thrilled to write this for @broadstreetblog.bsky.social (which I recommend for anyone interested in historical political economy)

www.broadstreet.blog/p/blood-and-...
Blood and Iron: Political Fragmentation in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
How new technology reshaped the political equilibrium of the early Iron Age through violence.
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by Noel D. Johnson

ndjohnson.bsky.social
Science marches on. Also, I’m not eating this.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 4d
Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants. Ants carry lactic and acetic acid bacteria that help coagulate milk, as well as formic acid to acidify it. They even partnered with Danish chefs to create three recipes using ant yogurt. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants
Ants carry lactic and acetic acid bacteria that help coagulate milk, as well as formic acid to acidify it.
arstechnica.com
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Reposted by: Noel D. Johnson

dbergstresser.bsky.social
questions mount
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Reposted by: Noel D. Johnson, Nicholas A. Christakis, Catherine J. Frieman

jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants. Ants carry lactic and acetic acid bacteria that help coagulate milk, as well as formic acid to acidify it. They even partnered with Danish chefs to create three recipes using ant yogurt. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants
Ants carry lactic and acetic acid bacteria that help coagulate milk, as well as formic acid to acidify it.
arstechnica.com
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by Noel D. Johnson

ndjohnson.bsky.social
Pierre Bourdieu was on to something… #theinheritors
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 5d
I was better informed than a lot of grad students about a lot of the hidden curriculum, but this stuff was *totally* invisible to me, and it took me years to see it and understand how important it was.
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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 5d
• Children of PhD-educated parents are 28 times more likely to become professors than those whose parents only completed compulsory school.
• Children of professors are 11 times more likely to join the faculty than everyone else.
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by Jacob T. Levy — Reposted by: Noel D. Johnson

jacobtlevy.bsky.social
I was better informed than a lot of grad students about a lot of the hidden curriculum, but this stuff was *totally* invisible to me, and it took me years to see it and understand how important it was.
aresherman.bsky.social
Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 5d
• Children of PhD-educated parents are 28 times more likely to become professors than those whose parents only completed compulsory school.
• Children of professors are 11 times more likely to join the faculty than everyone else.
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by Guido Alfani — Reposted by: Noel D. Johnson, Patrick Svensson

guidoalfani.bsky.social
The recording of the Tawney Lecture on "Economic Inequality and Social Mobility in Preindustrial Societies", which I had the honour to deliver in Glasgow last spring, is now online! Thanks
@echistsoc.bsky.social for inviting me.
ehs.org.uk/multimedia/t...
Tawney Lecture 2025: Economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies - Economic History Society
ehs.org.uk
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mthomasson.bsky.social
It’s always great to see that the world supply of soy (or virtually any other commodity) is indeed perfectly elastic. Gotta say that this tariff brought in a heap of revenue. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...
China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. Now, It’s $0.
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by Jacob T. Levy — Reposted by: Noel D. Johnson

jacobtlevy.bsky.social
This is The Dumb Place.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 14d
Megyn Kelly has called on Etsy to burn the witches.

"You're playing with fire messing with this stuff. There are actually are demons in this world. Calling up the spirit world, in particular the devil's spirit world, can actually have real world consequences. It's not something to mess with!"
Screenshot of Megyn Kelly's Youtube channel Video title: Megyn Kelly Reveals Erika Kirk Was Shaken By Jezebel's Article About Placing a CURSE on Charlie Kirk
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pseudoerasmus.bsky.social
From a new paper by @mjdcurtis.bsky.social, David de la Croix, et al. The Little Divergence in 'academic human capital' (kind of publications index) btw northern & southern Europe started ca 1500. Northern Germany diverged from central & southern German areas after the Thirty Years' War.
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by Noel D. Johnson

ndjohnson.bsky.social
Working at the office today and somebody put the following out for free on the break room table. Nice try. I’ve been in this game long enough to know when some phd student in the experimental group is running a behavioral study.

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pseudoerasmus.bsky.social
I was going to tweet this last year but somehow I was impeded…

“When [economic] growth does, and does not, reduce poverty”

www.bii.co.uk/en/news-insi...

— A great literature review by a team including @paddycarter.bsky.social and @paulsegal.bsky.social
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ndjohnson.bsky.social
When your little cousin’s new bed looks more attractive than your old one…
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by Noel D. Johnson

ndjohnson.bsky.social
Sometimes the Devil tempts you and you just have to force yourself to look away.
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Reposted by: Noel D. Johnson, Anne Applebaum, Edward Witten , and 15 more

robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
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Reposted by: Noel D. Johnson, Diane Coyle, Garry Peterson , and 4 more

pseudoerasmus.bsky.social
There are several recent papers which could fall under the heading ‘Economic History of the Scientific Revolution’ but this network analysis tracing how scientific ideas diffused amongst scholars in the period 1084-1793 is a real milestone, an ‘epidemiological’ model of how ideas spread like disease
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ndjohnson.bsky.social
Speaking of jiu jitsu, this is world class trolling on the wikipedia page for BJJ:
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by Noel D. Johnson

ndjohnson.bsky.social
The good news is that my Wife need never worry again about me taking my wedding band off. The bad news is that jiu jitsu is still really difficult and my guard passing sucks (which is why I jammed my fingers into the mat really, really, hard).
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by Noel D. Johnson

ndjohnson.bsky.social
I bought these two guys during COVID lockdown. Just transplanted them to bigger pots. Feels like a win for everybody.
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by Noel D. Johnson

ndjohnson.bsky.social
One thought I have when I read various hand wringing commentaries about Professors using AI to grade papers is that they’re being a little precious regarding the quality of human TA graders (let alone the grading of the professors themselves).

by Stephan Heblich — Reposted by: Noel D. Johnson

heblich.bsky.social
Thank you for the excellent coverage of our article, @economist.com! You can find the full piece here: nber.org/papers/w33976
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by Gábor Békés — Reposted by: Noel D. Johnson, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Gábor Békés

gaborbekes.bsky.social
I believe we can teach data analysis/ econometrics with Python. From OLS to machine learning and event studies.

Scripts for 42 case studies. #pyfixest for regressions. (With Stata and R to compare)

Check out the revised
Github.com/gabors-data-analysis/da_case_studies
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Reposted by: Noel D. Johnson

bradhansen.bsky.social
are there any conservatives left that know that the Road to Serfdom didn't refer to social security or government funding for healthcare or even regulation. It was about the sort of central planning of economic decisions that Trump and Vance are trying to normalize
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Reposted by: Noel D. Johnson, Anne Applebaum, Michael McFaul , and 12 more

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NATO Ambassador Matthew Whitaker on Ukraine's territorial concessions: "No big chunks or sections are going to be just given that haven't been fought for or earned on the battlefield."
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👇👇
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Reposted by: Noel D. Johnson, Anna O. Law, Lesley A. Hall , and 3 more

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by Richard McElreath — Reposted by: Noel D. Johnson

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Several ppl sent me this extraordinary chart crime. Thank you I love it
A chart showing median home price (in $100,000 increments) from 1967 to 2021 with a trend on same y-axis for "real weekly wages". The home price trend goes up. The weekly wages trend is flat at what appears to be zero, because weekly wages are small in terms of $100,000.
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Reposted by: Noel D. Johnson, Nandita Sharma, Silvia Secchi , and 2 more

kleinman.bsky.social
This really feels like a defining post of our time
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Reposted by: Noel D. Johnson

quantamagazine.bsky.social
For the first time in four decades, a new algorithm has improved upon the speed limit for calculating the fastest route to every point in a network. @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social‬ reports: www.quantamagazine.org/new-method-i...
New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes | Quanta Magazine
A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks.
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by Noel D. Johnson

ndjohnson.bsky.social
There are some very confused Germans and Danes with me. But don’t worry, I’m using this opportunity to explain supply side economics to them. Really think we’re making progress.

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