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Adam Altmejd @adamaltmejd.se · 15/05/2025

AI is already improving itself.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow. snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...

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The War Trump Chooses

That wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason

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Econometrica @ecmaeditors.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

We use a new machine learning technique to identify the most cost-effective policies to boost immunization demand in India. We evaluated 75 combos of reminders, incentives, and local community ambassadors. The most effective increased immunization by 44%. buff.ly/4j0v3IF

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Alexander Berger @albrgr.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I just got the kids down for naptime so I wanted to take a second to point out two key problems (and a few areas of agreement) I see with this morning’s @emmagoldberg.bsky.social @nytimes.com article about effective altruism: 🧵 bsky.app/profile/nyt...

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Effective altruism, the recent trend in philanthropy, has been to look for the most bang for your buck. Maybe you don’t have to, Emma Goldberg argues. https://nyti.ms/41GHinN

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Adam Altmejd @adamaltmejd.se · 03/12/2024

Tried it for the the first time a few weeks ago. The speed, clean syntax, ability to typeset tables directly from csvs, don’t think I’ll be able to go back.

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Adam Altmejd @adamaltmejd.se · 02/12/2024

Jag fattar verkligen inte. Han pratar om hur AI ska hitta cancer men nuvarande lagrum tillåter redan forskare att samla in data på hela befolkningen från en massa olika myndigheter, träna en AI-modell och sen publicera så vårdpersonal kan använda den.

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Adam Altmejd @adamaltmejd.se · 02/12/2024

That was fun. R-datatable is a bit more concise :).

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Adam Altmejd @adamaltmejd.se · 27/11/2024

Was really surprised by that framing. Isn’t 60-77 a really narrow range given the plurality of both opinions and methods?

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Adam Altmejd @adamaltmejd.se · 25/11/2024

Looking very much forward to presenting my research on the inheritance of fields of study at the @tinbergeninstitute.bsky.social tomorrow!

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Adam Altmejd @adamaltmejd.se · 22/11/2024

I’ll be giving a new Econ msc-level course on applied methods/data science/AI tools starting this spring. Please send suggestions of topics to cover and best practices. (In addition to the awesome courses by @gmcd.bsky.social and @mattblackwell.bsky.social, of course!) #econsky

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Adam Altmejd @adamaltmejd.se · 08/02/2024

Was just gonna say the same, Dutch data is a mark of quality!

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Adam Altmejd @adamaltmejd.se · 10/11/2023

🔗 [8/8] This study is part of our COVID-19 research program SWECOV (see swecov.se). For a more in-depth understanding, I invite you to read our full article: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... And please do share your comments and thoughts!

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Adam Altmejd @adamaltmejd.se · 10/11/2023

🤝 [7/8] By taking a bird's-eye view and applying uniform methods to gauge the many dimensions of inequality, our study provides fresh perspectives that complement the many specialized studies on the pandemic's impact.

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Adam Altmejd @adamaltmejd.se · 10/11/2023

🔎 [6/8] This strong persistence surprised us. It suggests a structure of inequality so rigid that even a global, unexpected, crisis leaves it unaltered. These findings underscore the need for pandemic policies to take inequality seriously.

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Adam Altmejd @adamaltmejd.se · 10/11/2023

📉 [5/8] (2) Interestingly, the pandemic didn't significantly reshape the structure of social inequalities. The relative positions of different social groups remained strikingly consistent with pre-pandemic patterns. For 2020, only 2/72 markers fall outside the 10%-change cone!

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Adam Altmejd @adamaltmejd.se · 10/11/2023

🌍 [4/8] Our paper reports two central findings: (1) Disadvantaged groups—those with lower incomes, education, and non-European immigrants—suffered more, both from COVID-19 and from wider health issues and economic strain. The graph reports risks relative to the population mean.

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Adam Altmejd @adamaltmejd.se · 10/11/2023

📈 [3/8] Life during the pandemic got worse in almost every way. We observed an overall increase in negative events, deviating from pre-pandemic trends. This uptick underscores the pandemic's sweeping impact on societal wellbeing.

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Adam Altmejd @adamaltmejd.se · 10/11/2023

📊 [2/8] Using comprehensive Swedish population data, we analyzed the relative risks of nine adverse events before and during the pandemic, across different social groups by gender, education, income, and birth region.

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Adam Altmejd @adamaltmejd.se · 10/11/2023

🧵 [1/8] Our latest research (with Olof Östergren, Evelina Björkegren, and Torsten Persson) published in PNAS sheds light on the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on already disadvantaged groups. Here's a thread summarizing our findings. 📉📈 #COVID19

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Adam Altmejd @adamaltmejd.se · 17/10/2023

Trying to answer an ethics review about why my data collection does not process personal data, but unsure. GDPR says IPs are PII. But web sites (servers) use IPs for content delivery. This means all sites, routers, etc process PII? Can this really be true? Is there a #gdpr-sky community yet :)?

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

As if she expected to win the Nobel, Claudia Goldin just published a new NBER working paper entitled "Why women won". www.nber.org/papers/w3176...

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Adam Altmejd @adamaltmejd.se · 03/10/2023

Grattis!! Så välförtjänt!

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Jon de Quidt @jondequidt.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

I was looking for a good example of Simpson's paradox for teaching and stumbled across this excellent one. Colored lines scientifically hand-drawn by me. Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

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Adam Altmejd @adamaltmejd.se · 26/09/2023

Working on something related in a multi-country setting, albeit with a much cruder "matching" concept, should have a WP out quite soon!

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Adam Altmejd @adamaltmejd.se · 24/09/2023

Worked well! Awesome to find so many here already! Its happening!

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