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ashish arora

@ashisharora.bsky.social

1.4K followers 920 following 590 posts

economics, innovation, and random stuff

https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/ashish-arora

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ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 9h

publicly name them.

Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 1d

One of the most serious problems in academia is that there are basically no consequences for sloppy peer review. What can the journal do? Ban them from reviewing again (the horror!)

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 1d

Springer-Nature statement

“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”

How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?

ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 9h

the time perhaps for severe penalties. Authors named and shamed, and likewise reviewers publicly identified.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 2d

Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 1d

I'm thinking of starting a business selling books & writing supplies out of the back of a station wagon.

I'll call it: "The Non-Stationary Stationery Station(wagon)"

How did we get words with almost identical spelling & pronunciation with such different meanings?

They started as the SAME word!

Boxes labeled "books" in all orientations packed firmly into the back of a Sprinter cargo van.

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 1d

One of the most serious problems in academia is that there are basically no consequences for sloppy peer review. What can the journal do? Ban them from reviewing again (the horror!)

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 1d

Springer-Nature statement

“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”

How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?

Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town

Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?

nobreakthroughs.substack.com

Reposted by Ashish Arora, Alistair Munro, Éva E. Plagányi , and 2 more Ashish Arora, Alistair Munro, Éva E. Plagányi, Tuomas Mattila, Brian Keegan

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 2d

Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.

Reposted by Ashish Arora, Marina Jirotka, Martin Gaynor , and 5 more Ashish Arora, Marina Jirotka, Martin Gaynor, Robert C. Richards, Alan Richardson, Aaron Sojourner, David Rosnick, Élisabeth Vallet

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

you've tweeted 452k times since december 2013. that's 103 tweets a day. assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, that's a new tweet every ten mins for twelve years. talking about how to attract a high value man. brother, you need to attract a HIGH VALUE JOB

Dee on Twitter writes: "I don't understand what unmarried women are expected to do. Just coast through life, hoping someone will feed and clothe them forever? Or are they allowed to work, but only in a minimum wage job that requires no schooling? Not everyone can just stay with their parents forever."

Defiant Baptist retweets her and writes: "A high value man would much rather marry a sweet girl that works at a coffee shop than a boss babe CEO type that sees herself as his equal or superior. That's just a fact. She should stay at home under her father's roof and focus on attracting such a man."

This is part of a long convo chain about women who go to college and grad school, build careers, and buy a home. Defiant Baptist notes that this makes women unattractive to "high value men."

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 2d

I can't believe the Lizza Nuzzi stories are still going 😭

This is definitely better. We talk about eels and rabbits, and separately, people trying to keep smallpox vaccines alive

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3d

🚨Imagine ICE conducting a raid on your PRIVATE PROPERTY.🚨
Illegal, unconstitutional, and an elevation of ICE’s encroachment. This needs to have national attention. 1/2

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 4d

And the Guardian! There are elements of her critique I accept, others I don't, but there you go...

Crick: A Mind in Motion by Matthew Cobb review – the charismatic philanderer who changed science

Genius and arrogance play leading roles in a new biography of the man who helped uncover the structure of DNA

www.theguardian.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

> @samsteindc.bsky.social

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 4d

And that pressure just went up a few notches thanks to America's Finest News Source.

Reposted by Ashish Arora, Martin Gaynor, Scott A. Imberman

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 4d

Genuine question: has any GOP member of house or senate spoken out about the Dept of defense and Hegseth threatening sen Mark Kelly with lawfare? Beyond disturbing

Especially any veterans?

Shame on all those who stay silent

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 4d

Senator Kelly & his fellow veterans are American patriots.

Their video simply reiterated the Uniform Code of Military Justice's requirement to only carry out LAWFUL orders.

Not surprising that Secretary Talk Show Host doesn't know that.

ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 5d

super interesting. Thanks Kevin

Kevin A. Bryan @afinetheorem.bsky.social · 5d

Hiring this year in economics or management? I try to read every JMP on innovation, entrepreneurship, or econ of AI; why not make the list public? Here's 54 candidates on the market this year (link below). Many great papers + NBER Innovation PhD boot camp grads! kevinbryanecon.com/2025innovati...

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, AI Job Candidates 2025

kevinbryanecon.com

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Kevin A. Bryan @afinetheorem.bsky.social · 5d

Hiring this year in economics or management? I try to read every JMP on innovation, entrepreneurship, or econ of AI; why not make the list public? Here's 54 candidates on the market this year (link below). Many great papers + NBER Innovation PhD boot camp grads! kevinbryanecon.com/2025innovati...

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, AI Job Candidates 2025

kevinbryanecon.com

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 6d

I also freely admit how absurd it feels to say that "fire ants are a type of wasp and also a type of crustacean" or "strawberries & apples are both a type of rose" in spite of the fact that this is, taxonomically speaking, true.

More here:

Phylogenetic Trees and Monophyletic Groups

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 6d

#KavanaughStop
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6d

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon

The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.

www.oregonlive.com

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 8d

Another example of what I want to call the 'Marine Corps-ification' of hoplites, where the agoge becomes boot camp and hoplite values idealized Marine values and all of the uniqueness of Greek martial culture is drained away and replaced with a self-flattering conception of American 'warfighters.'

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 8d

Watching videos of hoplite reenactors, I am struck by how many of them use the 'a-hoo' grunt from 300 or a 'huh huh huh' marching cadence, but none of them do the *actually attested* things of the "alale!" (ἀλαλή) battle-cry or singing a song (a παιᾶν).

Gotta do cool fake movie stuff, I guess.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 8d

The dumping will happen the day he's no longer of any further use in monetary and status terms and it will not happen one second before that

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 9d

I think Prescott’s edit was more misleading than the BBC’s…
He absolutely was winding up that mob.
FT:

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10d

i first heard this argument in my high school history class. it didnt go well for the people making the argument.

nuremberg trial

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 10d

Joe Rogan and Theo Von slam DHS for using Von's image in a video promoting deportation:

"I was like, oh my God, what the fuck are they doing? That's not how you envision the government."

"They were making, like, deportation hype videos with trap beats and shit. What are we doing? It's idiocracy."

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 10d

No no no this can’t be right I was told that under Trump cancel culture had been eliminated.

Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 10d

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

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Causalscience.org @causalscience.org · 10d

🚀 Nearly 800 people from 61 countries joined the Causal Data Science Meeting — making it one of the largest global gatherings in causal inference. The momentum in our community is unmistakable. #CDSM2025

🧵 Facts:

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 10d

Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls

Elon Musk Gave Away $474 Million in 2024, Mostly to Entities He Controls

Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 11d

Some personal news: Regretfully, I will be stepping back from my public commitments for the next ninety minutes while I teach my class.

ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 11d

so lots of responsibility and little power.

ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 12d

Summers is also the chair of the OpenAI board.

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 12d

gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The Harvard Crimson
Throughout the seven months of correspondence reviewed by The Crimson, Summers and Epstein referred to the woman Summers was pursuing in some messages by the code name "peril" but never used her name in messages directly describing the relationship. On at least two occasions, the two men discussed Jin's emails to Summers, which he forwarded to Epstein. In later messages, the two men appeared to joke about the probability that Summers would have sex with the woman, apparently Jin.