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Peter Bergman
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Associate Prof. of Economics @utaustin. Director http://learningcollider.org. @NBERpubs affiliate. Co-Chair @mit @jpal edtech. Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow. www.peter-bergman.com.

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · Jun 2
Our work now published showing how better AI can improve both accuracy and diversity in hiring relative to supervised learning tools and status-quo human hiring.
reveconstudies.bsky.social The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) @reveconstudies.bsky.social · Jun 2
Li, @lindseyraymond.bsky.social & @peterbergman.bsky.social show that incorporating exploration into an interview screening algorithm improves demographic diversity & hiring efficiency, while traditional supervised learning-only tools improve hiring rates at the expense of minority applicants.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This approach, of course, is quite familiar to communities that have been dealing with police abuses for as long as there have been professional police forces. In 2000, then–New York City Mayor and future Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani justified the killing of the Haitian American Patrick Dorismond by police by quipping that he was “no altar boy.” Embarrassingly for Giuliani, whose capacity for shame was overestimated even then, it turned out that Dorismond had literally been an altar boy. Dorismond’s mother responded to the campaign to justify her son’s killing with an observation that continues to haunt me decades later. “They kill,” Dorismond said, “and after that, they kill him the other way—with the mouth.” Taking Good’s life wasn’t enough. The moment she died, it became imperative for the administration to also destroy her memory.

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Ryan Eichten @reichten.bsky.social · 4d
Timberwolves hold a moment of silence for Renee Nicole Good

Reposted by Michael Wagner, Fabián Muniesa, Peter Bergman

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d
A New York Times video analysis of an ICE agent’s fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis contradicts the Trump administration’s account. Watch our investigation here. nyti.ms/4sEdp2r

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 4d
This is where we are. No transparency and no accountability.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
"The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has just revealed that federal officials have 'reversed course,' and the investigation into the killing of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE agent will be conducted by the FBI without assistance from the BCA."
Live: FBI pushes Minnesota investigators aside in ICE shooting probe
Demonstrators gathered near the Whipple Federal Building after thousands attended vigils to remember Renee Nicole Good, who was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. Minneapolis public school classes...
www.startribune.com

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 4d
Bluesky community! This is my official NYC mayor account. I’ll be posting updates on what’s happening at City Hall and how we’re delivering for New Yorkers. It’s great to be here.

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 6d
Am putting together a video / workshop on how to use LLMs / AI for research projects + coding. What are some things that you would most benefit from seeing? This would be targeted towards economists.

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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 6d
A new roundup from me:

-Was the Mississippi miracle really debunked?
-Can better schools help address affordability?
-An update: Which party do voters trust on education
-Higher-ed's "vibecession" continues

cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/a-debunkin...?
Has the “Mississippi miracle” been debunked?
Chalkbeat Ideas roundup: Debunking a purported debunking, examining affordability and education, and higher-ed’s crisis of vibes
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 6d
Remember when U2 forced their songs onto our iPhones? Man that was bad.

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 6d
Thanks. That analogy is helpful, but since the information is publicly available, I’m not sure why it’s like barging into your private living room? I totally agree if copyright prevents that, however. I am not endorsing this research; sorry if I’m being dense here.

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 6d
The copyright claim makes sense to me. But otherwise this does seem akin to public info that can be analyzed. The AI relevance seems to be the copyright aspect — rightly. I don’t have a strong opinion here, and can be convinced otherwise, but I’m not sure why an IRB would view this as harmful.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 7d
Magnificent 7 stocks rose about 26 percent in 2025, with chipmaker Nvidia alone rising nearly 40 percent.
Collectively these seven stocks alone accounted for nearly half of all S&P500 returns last year.
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-says...

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 7d
globalnews.ca/news/3555877...
No, Radiohead fans didn’t mistake guitar tuning for new material - National | Globalnews.ca
A story that went viral over the weekend mocking Radiohead fans who mistook the tuning of a guitar as a new song from the band was all a hoax.
globalnews.ca

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Fiona Scott Morton @proffionasm.bsky.social · 7d
I have a new paper w Andrea Prat & Jake Spitz. We show that Republican appointed Supreme Court Justices vote in favor of the richer party by over 70% today, as compared to D’s at 30%. In the 1950s and both were at 50%. This strong trend may contribute to rising inequality. www.nber.org/papers/w34643
Ruling for the Rich: the Supreme Court over Time
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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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 9d
Sticking with Week of Art despite it all... Day 5, art that describes the word to challenge it & make it otherwise.

NY Print Center showed works by William Villalongo & Shraddha Ramani, remaking DuBois's famous data visualizations.
Freeform shapes in a rainbow of colors showing "Occupations of Black Americans, 1900-2021"

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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 10d
Heading to Philadelphia for the #ASSA2026. Presenting research you think our readers would be interested in? Working on something you think I should know about? Reach out here or by any of the ways linked in my bio: www.nytimes.com/by/ben-casse... #EconSky
Ben Casselman
Ben Casselman is the chief economics correspondent for The Times. He has reported on the economy for nearly 20 years.
www.nytimes.com

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 10d
True, too

gwagner.com/risky-climate-nyc
robertdsullivan.bsky.social Robert David Sullivan @robertdsullivan.bsky.social · 10d
Also the best thing New York City can do for the United States

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 10d
On monotonicity violations in judge leniency IV designs: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 13d
The richest man on earth, the richest man in human history, personally obliterated the US agency that had been preventing these horrors.

He sneered that he had to miss some good parties in order to spend his weekend erasing the agency these people had depended on.

Inhuman.
pwhickey.bsky.social Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 13d
Please read this & speak out.
Understand how relatively modest US investments in health systems and commodities can stem an unspeakable burden of suffering.
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · 13d
A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive.

One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.

Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 13d
Yo what the fuck short form videos are bad

Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions

arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03714

Ht: HowTown

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 14d
Is this AI? I saw there’s a trend of using AI to turn a song into a soul version, eg lightning crashes with strings and a gospel choir: music.apple.com/us/album/lig...
Lightning Crashes by
Song · 2025 · Duration 4:44
music.apple.com

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 17d
Also, I do value and miss discussions from you and @itaisher.bsky.social but I understand it can be frustrating and not worth it!

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 18d
Bluesky is getting too many anti-mastodonites. That and anti-dentites.

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 18d
Totally agree re: your original post, and point taken.

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 18d
Okay. We disagree.

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 18d
I’m left handed, FWIW. So you got that too.

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 18d
I think ownership is just another product characteristic. I would view a boycott as a concerted effort to coordinate. But I’m no expert on boycotts so others probably have more informed opinions there.

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 18d
I don’t see that as a bigger problem than bigoted ownership, no. But there’s not much to argue there. You disagree. That’s fair enough.

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 18d
Many people find the owner of the other platform repugnant and therefore choose not to use it. It doesn’t seem there’s much more to it than that. It could be greatest platform on earth otherwise but people would, nonetheless, choose not to use it. The rest is largely subjective line drawing.

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 19d
To put it rather dryly: the ownership is a product characteristic I strongly disfavor. I don’t like being on a platform he owns.

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 19d
In seriousness X is really bad and a lunatic controls the algorithm and people’s social temperature there. I do not understand why people keep using it.