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@andrei-wonge.bsky.social
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PhD student, Flâneur, Photographer and robust skeptisist. All about inequality, culture and territorio/space/place/networks. Tweeting in English, Español and Français

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The last sentence here. My god. www.ft.com/content/dc69...
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Are Deliveroo riders really self-employed? Labour wants to change the test
Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds proposes that rules place less emphasis on whether workers can appoint a substitute
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Literland @literland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Andrei @andrei-wonge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Interesting read from @michaelbatty: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Good growth in every postcode - Michael Batty, 2026
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/06/2026
Andy Burnham to pledge ‘good growth in every postcode’ in devolution plan
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Andy Burnham to pledge ‘good growth in every postcode’ in devolution plan
Makerfield MP on course to be PM will argue for more decision-making in regions and communities as he sets out platform for government Andy Burnham will pledge to deliver “good growth in every postcode” by overseeing a significant transfer of power out of Whitehall to local communities as he sets out his case to become the UK’s next prime minister. In his first major speech since winning the Makerfield byelection, Burnham will argue for decision-making to be devolved to regions and communities to drive economic growth locally, replacing the current top-down national model. Continue reading...
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Andrei @andrei-wonge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Boundaries in India www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/architectura...
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Invisible Borders: How Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts Shape Built Space
Historic Indian settlements are not just arrangements of buildings and streets, but multifaceted representations of invisible borders...
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Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🌺🌞🍃 @mzloteanu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#statstab #607 Thinking Clearly About Age, Period, and Cohort Effects Thoughts: How difficult could it be to model change over time? Answer: Difficult. #cohort #time #longitudinal #observational #causalinference #inference #age #estimand #methods journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I wrote about the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack following my conversation with @melhogan.bsky.social on The Data Fix this week - more on how it happened, what it means, and why I still see "stochastic flocks" rather than "artificial hiveminds": mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-...
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Models Don't Go Rogue
Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o...
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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Lise Meitner Research Group "China in the Global System of Science" is looking to hire a Student/Graduate Assistant to support: 📚 research 📋 event support 🖍️ editorial work (German/English/Chinese) 📊 data visualization 🗓️ Deadline: Sep 15, 2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/mu5tend3 #STS #Sinology #China
Collage of three images. The first reads: "Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Career. We're hiring." The second image shows a researcher presenting at the March 2025 Publications Slam. The third shows a group of people at the Institute's courtyard. Source: Anna Ruhnow, MPIWG 2025 (second image.) MPIWG, 2021 (third image.)
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Poster promoting Count Binface, in the famous Obama style
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Andrei @andrei-wonge.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Is it possible to analyse the sequence of moving in of different professions? I’ve seen a paper which used rate of moving in of lawyers as predictive of economic crisis. Anyway, interesting research as always!!!
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Kerstin Ostermann @kostermann.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Can artists change neighborhoods? 🎨🏘 Presented joint work with @ninaglaeser.bsky.social at #INAS2026! Using German administrative data and an IV approach, we show that artists don't gentrify neighborhoods themselves but they attract early high-status in-movers. Stay tuned for the preprint! :)
Me presenting the project at the INASCloister garden at New College - definitely the nicest accommodation in my career 😀
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Glad to have contributed to this piece on the decline of Labour under Starmer. We have plenty of evidence on why Starmer's strategy failed. Yet, social democrats still remain convinced that they can only win elections when they moderate and when they appeal to workers with social conservatism.
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Andrei @andrei-wonge.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Congrats!!!
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Kerstin Ostermann @kostermann.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Honored to have received the Third Prize for Best PhD Thesis at #ECSR2026 🏆✨ thanks to the @iabnews.bsky.social for the support 🙏
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Pol Niuman @pol-niuman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Henri Matisse La conversación (1938)
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Kerstin Ostermann @kostermann.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
New preprint out with @mfphilipp.bsky.social & @eileenpeters.bsky.social ✨️ From #neighborhood exposure to #genderbeliefs? We find that local female employment patterns are linked to beliefs about when mothers should return to full-time work. Read more here: osf.io/preprints/so...
Predicted child age at which the respondent rates maternal full-time employment as appropriate for four subgroups (childless men, childless women, fathers and mothers). Fathers in neighborhoods with dominant traditional employment among women report the highest child age, whereas fathers and childless women in neighborhoods in which traditional employment patterns are not dominant report the lowest child ages.
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Painting by Kate Jarvik Birch ‘Summer Rain’ 2025. Gouache on paper. Dimensions 6 x 6 Inches.
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mark van dongen @markvandongen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Hedendaagse natuur
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Pol Niuman @pol-niuman.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Wassily Kandinsky (1928)
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IveyJanetteMcClelland @iveyjanette.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
These guys from the NYC subway have turned down Freedom 250.
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Leo P & Lucky Chops Subway Saxophone Performance
ALT: Leo P & Lucky Chops Subway Saxophone Performance
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Christian Dimmer @remmid.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
A real privilege to be co-hosting André Sorensen for a talk and panel discussion tomorrow in #Tokyo —exploring path-dependency, timing, contingency, and emergence in the context of #Tokyo's urbanisation. If you happen to be around, please do join us. All welcome! #urbanhistory #theoriesofchange
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Juan Mentat @juanmentat.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This year’s El Niño could be absolutely brutal. And the worrying part is that it won’t just be a relatively local phenomenon, its effects are likely to be felt across the globe, from extreme weather to disruptions in ecosystems and agriculture. 1877 was extreme. 2026 may redefine the scale.
Comparison image showing the projected El Niño pattern for this year alongside the historic 1887 event, highlighting unusually large warm ocean areas across the Pacific and their potential global climatic impact.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
EPIC #ArtWork. The New American Gothic, 2017, by Criselda Vasquez Just… amazing. ❤️
A Hispanic gardener and his house-cleaning wife, stand proudly behind their work van.
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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 14/05/2026
This Tuesday, Hannes announced Quack, our new protocol that turns DuckDB into a client-server database. Watch his talk, recorded at the AI Council, where he explained how Quack works in practice, what stack it's built on, how it performs, and what our long-term ambitions are. youtu.be/L_lttD-d1wc
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DuckDB-Quack announcement at AI Council
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Institute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · 08/05/2026
"Times of crisis offer the biggest opportunities to rethink, to do things differently." Watch our Director, Anuradha Joshi, introduce our new strategy, Knowledge and solidarity for a just world ⬇️ youtu.pulse.ly/xbrkqmziws
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Anuradhu Joshi on the IDS Strategy 2026-35
"Times of crisis offer the biggest opportunities to rethink, to do things differently."We've just launched our new strategy, Knowledge and solidarity for a j...
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Nick Harrison @nickharrison73.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Schools are continuing to make cuts in staff because of squeezed budgets. In particular, teaching assistants are being cut - with big impacts for SEND support. Our latest @suttontrust.bsky.social polling.
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Posit @posit.co · 15/04/2026
Quarto 2 is coming, and it’s a total rewrite in Rust. 🦀 The headline feature? Native collaborative editing. Don't choose between Google Docs ease and Git rigor! You get real-time, conflict-free collab directly in your .qmd files. #RStats #Python Coming soon! ✨ opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...
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What's next: Quarto 2
We've started working on [`quarto-dev/q2`](https://github.com/quarto-dev/q2/), a full rewrite of Quarto in Rust.
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Literland @literland.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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Posit @posit.co · 14/04/2026
How does Posit Assistant compare to Claude Code for data analysis in #RStats? We put them side-by-side to show how the experience differs on three dimensions: 💻 R session access 📊 Plotting 🔍 Iterative EDA Watch the full comparison here! youtu.be/7GI6-4J0AXA
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Comparing Posit Assistant and Claude Code
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Posit @posit.co · 14/04/2026
The latest Glimpse newsletter is packed with open source #RStats and #Python updates from Posit! Quarto 1.9, introducing Great Docs, orbital 0.5.0, devtools uses pak, and more. Read it here: posit.co/blog/glimpse...
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posit::glimpse() Newsletter – April 2026 - Posit
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ArXiv Paperboy (Stat.ME+Econ.EM) @paperposterbot.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
arXiv📈🤖 fixest: A fast and feature-rich framework for econometric estimations in R By Berg\'e, Butts, McDermott
fixest is an R package for fast and flexible econometric estimation. It provides a unified framework for applied research, with comprehensive support for a diverse class of models: ordinary least squares, instrumental variables, generalized linear models, maximum likelihood, and difference-in-differences. The package particularly excels at fixed-effects estimation, supported by a novel fixed-point acceleration algorithm implemented in C++. This algorithm achieves rapid convergence across a variety of data contexts and enables efficient estimation of complex models, including those with varying slopes. An expressive formula interface facilitates multiple estimations, stepwise regressions, and variable interpolation in a single call. Users can adjust inference strategies on the fly, choosing from an array of built-in robust standard errors. The package also provides methods for publication-ready regression tables and coefficient plots. Benchmarks demonstrate that fixest offers best-in-class performance against leading alternatives in R, PYTHON, and JULIA.
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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 06/04/2026
And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official". We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort: (1/)
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What’s next: Quarto 2 – Quarto
We’ve started working on quarto-dev/q2, a full rewrite of Quarto in Rust.
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UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & Mobility @ucstonecenter.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
India's Muslim and Scheduled Caste neighborhoods face systematically worse access to schools, clinics, and basic infrastructure. Asher et al. use new administrative data to document the extent of neighborhood segregation, currently invisible in the aggregate data policymakers use. bit.ly/4saLvJH
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John A. List @johnlist.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Lecturing on discrimination this week and this study will be one discussion point: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura... Big data show that minority drivers are 24–33% more likely to be cited and paid 23–34% higher fines, not explained by differences in offense rates, accident risk, or re-offense rates.
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High-frequency location data shows that race affects the lik
Prior research finds that, conditional on an encounter, minority civilians are more likely to be punished by police than white civilians. An open question is whether the actual encounter is related to
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Andrei @andrei-wonge.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Metapackage that brings together a collection of R packages providing access to APIs functions and curated datasets from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. While also offering extensive curated collections of open datasets #r #latinamerica #datascience #surveys #API
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Network Science Institute @nunetsi.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The 𝙇𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙣 𝙎𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙧 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 at NU London begins with Maria Giulia Preti (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). Her talk explores how MRI and connectome harmonics reveal brain structure–function links. Join us in #London (please register) or online #AOE—we’d love to see you! tinyurl.com/4nt43jaa
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Kerstin Ostermann @kostermann.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
For the #spatial folks among you: we exploited random distances between residential locations and large firms within German local labor markets to identify the causal effect of #dropout due to attractive alternatives 🚙💸⬆️
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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Woo (and I say this as a respectful Belgian) Hoo…
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Network Science Institute @nunetsi.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🏙️ Our upcoming #NetSI talk explores urban resilience: why some neighborhoods recover while others struggle. Prof. 𝗕𝗼𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗝𝘂𝗻 examines how economic complexity and amenity networks shape business survival, mobility, and consumption during COVID-19 and extreme heat in Seoul. 🔗 tinyurl.com/238j9adr
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value plus discounted @akhilrao.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I don't know if I agree with this yet but it's easy to see the appeal #linklog
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The future of work is world models
Why we need to build Starcraft for CEOs
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Andrei @andrei-wonge.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Latin America in one picture...
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Is there a student discount?
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Posit @posit.co · 20/03/2026
We don’t believe in magic buttons. We believe in code. Posit AI is embedded in RStudio — it sees your session, shows its work, and produces reproducible code. posit.co/products/ai/... #RStudio #PositAI
A dark teal-toned aerial photograph of a coastline with dense forest, overlaid with semi-transparent R code snippets. In the foreground, the Posit AI logo — a white diamond with an inner diamond shape — appears above the text "We don't believe in magic buttons. We believe in code."
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Literland @literland.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Karmelo Iribarren:
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Athens Grease @athensgrease.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this
An ad on the side of a truck advertising “man cereal,” with the slogan CEREAL GOT ITS BALLS BACK
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ArXiv Paperboy (Stat.ME+Econ.EM) @paperposterbot.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
arXiv📈🤖 A spatial scan statistical for categorical, functional data By Fr\'event, Sarr, Dabo-Niang
We have developed and tested a spatial scan statistic for categorical, functional data (CFSS) - a data structure within which current approaches cannot identify spatial clusters. Our methodology combines an encoding scheme for categorical, functional observations with a nonparametric scan statistic. In a simulation study with three distinct scenarios, the CFSS accurately recovered the simulated spatial clusters and gave very low false positive rates, high true positive rates, and high positive predictive values. We have also used the CFSS to identify and characterize spatial clusters in French air pollution data from the winter of 2024.
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 28/02/2026
I find this article cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-... a far more compelling and interesting discussion of the role of agents in the broader economy. Written by very many smart economists at Microsoft research
Generative AI has revolutionized the way we interact with technology, allowing people to express their intent in free-form natural language. It has paved the way for AI agents that not only converse with users but also perform actions on their behalf, flexibly and with minimal guidance. Delegation to AI has already begun to improve the efficiency of individual processes, making both consumers and businesses more productive in the set of tasks they had already been doing.4,5 However, we believe that the more disruptive—and yet to be realized—impact of generative AI is its potential to drastically reduce the communication frictions between and among consumers and businesses. This could lead to a reorganization of markets, shifts of market power, and the introduction of entirely new products and services.

Consumers have traditionally faced high communication costs when initiating relationships with businesses, reducing efficiency.8 For example, a consumer seeking a new tax preparer might hesitate to switch because she would have to explain her financial situation all over again to a new person or online service. These communication hurdles can prevent consumers from taking advantage of better products and services or lower prices. Businesses have tried to lower these costs with tools like online forms and voicemail menus, but these often just shift communication costs to the consumer and can make interactions more rigid.
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Andrei @andrei-wonge.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Timely contribution! Focus on time-dynamic boundaries is the frontier in segregation/neighbourhood studies.
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