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I research gender and development and look at birds. Doing my best to read the articles before having hot takes.
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another year of us not running a super bowl ad
February 6, 2026 at 7:42 PM
another year of us not running a super bowl ad
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Being interdisciplinary mostly means everyone agrees your work is interesting but not for their journal.
February 2, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Being interdisciplinary mostly means everyone agrees your work is interesting but not for their journal.
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Pretty extraordinary to think about how much cardiovascular researchers figured out, and how that turned into public health campaigns, medicines, surgeries, and emergency care that changed millions of people's lives.
ourworldindata.org/cardiovascul...
ourworldindata.org/cardiovascul...
January 31, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Pretty extraordinary to think about how much cardiovascular researchers figured out, and how that turned into public health campaigns, medicines, surgeries, and emergency care that changed millions of people's lives.
ourworldindata.org/cardiovascul...
ourworldindata.org/cardiovascul...
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📢now forthcoming in ECMA!
The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia
Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.
Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia
Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.
Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
January 27, 2026 at 10:34 PM
📢now forthcoming in ECMA!
The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia
Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.
Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia
Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.
Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
Maybe it’s just because I follow the right people, but I’ve both learned about the awful ICE shooting before it’s covered in media outlets, and have been spared coming across the video. Bluesky really is the happy medium
January 24, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Maybe it’s just because I follow the right people, but I’ve both learned about the awful ICE shooting before it’s covered in media outlets, and have been spared coming across the video. Bluesky really is the happy medium
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This incredibly influential AI progress graph uses estimates for how long it takes for human to complete a task from an unrepresentative sample of ~3 people per task. 3! arachnemag.substack.com/p/the-metr-g...
We're spending untold billions on AI. Can't we spend millions on rigorous evaluation?
We're spending untold billions on AI. Can't we spend millions on rigorous evaluation?
January 11, 2026 at 3:16 PM
This incredibly influential AI progress graph uses estimates for how long it takes for human to complete a task from an unrepresentative sample of ~3 people per task. 3! arachnemag.substack.com/p/the-metr-g...
We're spending untold billions on AI. Can't we spend millions on rigorous evaluation?
We're spending untold billions on AI. Can't we spend millions on rigorous evaluation?
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Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.
January 4, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.
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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.
One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.
Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
www.propublica.org
December 31, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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.
One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.
Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.
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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.
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.
Please read this & speak out.
Understand how relatively modest US investments in health systems and commodities can stem an unspeakable burden of suffering.
Understand how relatively modest US investments in health systems and commodities can stem an unspeakable burden of suffering.
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.
One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.
Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.
December 31, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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.
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.
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I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself
December 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself
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Allegations of a double standard here miss the point: Weiss has followed a simple journalistic principle - comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.
In 2022, Bari Weiss ran this viral first-person piece by a top Levi’s executive. She claimed she was hounded out of the company because of her vocal stance on COVID restrictions.
There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...
There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...
Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could Be Free.
I turned down $1 million severance in exchange for my voice.
www.thefp.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Allegations of a double standard here miss the point: Weiss has followed a simple journalistic principle - comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.
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Until the end of my days I will harbor a burning rage toward anyone who entertained the slightest inkling of defunding American aid programs
Hundreds of underage girls married off and hundreds more children kidnapped as U.S. foreign aid cuts contribute to surge in violations against persecuted Rohingya children.
Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children’s lives crushed by foreign aid cuts
Severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, shuttered thousands of schools and youth training centers in camps for Rohingya in Bangladesh and crippled child protection programs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Until the end of my days I will harbor a burning rage toward anyone who entertained the slightest inkling of defunding American aid programs
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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"Pluralistic visions of liberal democratic market societies will lose out to AI-driven ones unless we reimagine the role of technology in human affairs."
Glen Weyl has a fascinating and prescient piece at @wired.com —> www.wired.com/story/opinio...
Glen Weyl has a fascinating and prescient piece at @wired.com —> www.wired.com/story/opinio...
AI is An Ideology, Not A Technology
At its core, "artificial intelligence" is a perilous belief that fails to recognize the agency of humans.
www.wired.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"Pluralistic visions of liberal democratic market societies will lose out to AI-driven ones unless we reimagine the role of technology in human affairs."
Glen Weyl has a fascinating and prescient piece at @wired.com —> www.wired.com/story/opinio...
Glen Weyl has a fascinating and prescient piece at @wired.com —> www.wired.com/story/opinio...
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Um, ok...
This paper forthcoming at the JOP provides evidence that rent control in Germany actually made tenants MASSIVELY *less* NIMBY.
This result was in the opposite direction of the authors' pre-registered expectations.
And the effect sizes are, truly, massive.
This paper forthcoming at the JOP provides evidence that rent control in Germany actually made tenants MASSIVELY *less* NIMBY.
This result was in the opposite direction of the authors' pre-registered expectations.
And the effect sizes are, truly, massive.
December 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Um, ok...
This paper forthcoming at the JOP provides evidence that rent control in Germany actually made tenants MASSIVELY *less* NIMBY.
This result was in the opposite direction of the authors' pre-registered expectations.
And the effect sizes are, truly, massive.
This paper forthcoming at the JOP provides evidence that rent control in Germany actually made tenants MASSIVELY *less* NIMBY.
This result was in the opposite direction of the authors' pre-registered expectations.
And the effect sizes are, truly, massive.
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Me when I cite myself:
December 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Me when I cite myself:
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It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.
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JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
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so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
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Incredibly proud of this 🤩🥹! So much work and determination behind this publication. What a journey this was! Honored to have done it with you @vickybarone.bsky.social 🚀❤️
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects of the Opioid Epidemic,” by Arteaga (@caroartc.bsky.social) and Barone (@vickybarone.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects Of the Opioid Epidemic
Abstract. In this paper, we establish a causal connection between two of the most salient social developments in the United States over the past decades: t
doi.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Incredibly proud of this 🤩🥹! So much work and determination behind this publication. What a journey this was! Honored to have done it with you @vickybarone.bsky.social 🚀❤️
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Bird conservation is often framed as optional, yet evidence shows it underpins ecosystem stability and human wellbeing.
This editorial explores why defending conservation is not idealism but necessity.
theornithologist.org/in-defence-o...
#ornithology #birds #birdconservation #theornithologist
This editorial explores why defending conservation is not idealism but necessity.
theornithologist.org/in-defence-o...
#ornithology #birds #birdconservation #theornithologist
In Defence of Bird Conservation in a Broken World
In a world torn by wars and crises, bird conservation can seem irrelevant. Yet to protect life itself is not indulgence – it’s resistance.
theornithologist.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Bird conservation is often framed as optional, yet evidence shows it underpins ecosystem stability and human wellbeing.
This editorial explores why defending conservation is not idealism but necessity.
theornithologist.org/in-defence-o...
#ornithology #birds #birdconservation #theornithologist
This editorial explores why defending conservation is not idealism but necessity.
theornithologist.org/in-defence-o...
#ornithology #birds #birdconservation #theornithologist
Such a great (and timely) talk
Video of my farewell public lecture at the World Bank on ‘Policy for the People.’ Honored to have Deon Filmer chair, with insightful discussant comments from Nandini Krishnan & Robin Mearns. Grateful for all the warmth. youtu.be/_UzbwmOL80o
November 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Such a great (and timely) talk
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it’s so funny when people act like their dream life is to be alive before modern plumbing and penicillin
November 21, 2025 at 6:37 AM
it’s so funny when people act like their dream life is to be alive before modern plumbing and penicillin
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was: