Incredibly excited to see this paper with @ccrismancox.bsky.social at @iojournal.bsky.social.
We study outbidding using new models, methods, and data from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. #polisky

@mgibilisco.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in @iojournal.bsky.social that we’re really excited about. Mike has a great 🧵on it!

Scientific American strikes again with a sophomoric ramble about probability. www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

when an editor tells a senior professor that not all his ideas are good enough for the best journal in the world

Does anyone know where to find online Karl Marx's writing about derivatives?

very strange? why would you want to beat a mince pie it's already been minced

Without looking it up, which of the following is the ultimate origin of the word "dollar"?
1. The German word "Tal", meaning mountain, through "Thaler".
2. The Latin word "decem", meaning ten, through "dinar".
3. The Spanish word "dalar", meaning to give.

When French was still the lingua franca, were native French speakers more likely to be monolingual than others?

There will be a Very Informal Gathering of Logicians (VIG 2025) at UCLA, Fri, Feb 7 to Sun, Feb 9, 2025.
The 22nd in a series of biennial logic meetings at UCLA, this event honors Alexander Kechris on the occasion of his formal retirement from Caltech.
www.math.ucla.edu/~ineeman/Con...
#MathSky

A_n says to S_n when asked if it has any conjugates

Odds on Andrew Tate for secretary of education?

Advisee: [Going on the job market] Sometimes I feel like it's all a game. Our papers and talks are just sophistry, detached from the world.

Advisor: [Shedding tears] I am so proud. You are finally ready to be a professor.

Hello #EconSky 📈📉, I'm an economist working on growth, trade, industrial development, and environment (and occasionally on stuff that's hard to classify). I love to read posts summarizing and debating research, from economics & beyond, and that's also mostly what I (re-)tweet about.

last flight, sat next to a computer scientist who was a nervous flyer. when I heard a "ribbit" from their bag I asked if they had an emotional support animal, and they said it was their terror-correcting toad

At a hotel in Ohio. Somehow the Ohio hotel and Motel Code does not seem to have been revised since at least the late ninties.

Rejoice! The 2023 NSF/NBER/CEME Mathematical Econ Conference, in honor of Kim Border, will take place at Caltech on Dec 1 & 2. We welcome submissions across economic theory, with a focus on papers related to Border's research. Submit to [email protected] by Sep 1.