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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Anglos had strong opinions about us Italian-Americans

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

India *and* Pakistan in the same group, again?? What a coincidence!

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We are melting the planet, there are 15+ daily flights between Oslo and Stockholm, and many days when there is not a single direct train to compete 🙃

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There are so many houses with trampolines in Norway, you’d think every parent’s dream is for their children to become circus performers

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Truly remarkable to write this whole story based on vibes and not include any examination of whether these fears are evidence based.

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Pakistan 🇵🇰 doing mercurial things, you love to see it 🏏

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We eliminated "op cit" in the social sciences and humanities, but not for the first time, lawyers stick with bad ideas

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

❗Call for Papers: 5th Norwegian 🇳🇴 Winter Games in Economic History ☃️ ❄️ Host: @oslomet.bsky.social 28 January 2027 📄 CfP Deadline: 23 October 2026 Obligatorisk skitur til Bislingflaka på fredag 29. kommer i tillegg

Call for papers for the 5th Norwegian Winter Games in Economic History. The full call is available at: https://www.okonomiskhistorie.no/?p=1676

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

🤣 of course Stokes was involved

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Finding out about the only Norwegian national team I could ever qualify for (Is there really a national team for baking and confectionery?? 🤨)

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🇳🇴: «semester» means academic term 🇸🇪: «semester» means…vacation 🤨

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The annual Scandinavian revelation of late summer that the sun does sometimes disappear 😳

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Nixon was also never prosecuted for violating the Logan Act in 1968. That killed a lot more people than Watergate!

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The number of non-specialists who can come up with interesting and informed new ideas once a week is ~0

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Norwegian word of the day: solformørkelsesbriller 😎 (Solar eclipse glasses)

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

These people absolutely hate the thought that he would go and make some incredibly well-judged comments that show he is not the insane boogeyman they keep trying to make him out as

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I don’t think that’s how it plays out when the conceptualization and measurement of skill is generally a high school or university degree as in Goldin & Katz.

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Academics Stop Drawing Big Conclusions From One Study That May Have Limited External Validity Challenge (We always fail the challenge)

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It also implies that the labor market gives people their just desserts: if you have a bad job, it’s because you weren’t good in school—your fault.

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I could not disagree more! These asides tell us how people presented themselves in the past—can’t understand them without understanding their mentalities

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Nuclear power is still very useful! Just not in every single use case.

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It’s giving nuclear powered roller skates energy Someone invents a new thing and then other people try to stick it everywhere

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

And, presumably in most cases, simple so you can explain them to the non-professionals that make up most of your force in a lot of cases?

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The United States of America: using liberatory narratives to sell multi-level scams for more than 100 years (From @larryglickman.bsky.social’s 1998 book)

Advertisement from 1911, printed in a labor newspaper. It says “Don’t be a wage slave” and then goes on to advertise a book that claims to teach readers how to become a Doctor of Mechano-Therapy, which will supposedly result in an income of $3000-5000 per year.

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

That’s fair—perhaps I’m giving them too much credit for thinking through consequences!

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

You’re the substantive expert, but don’t you think that admitting aerosol transmission is important has implications that many people don’t want to deal with? That what looks/smells like clean air may not be?

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

None of the pundits involved in this conversation want to talk about ventilation because it involves admitting that pathogens have aerosol spread

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I can suspend my disbelief while watching film in most respects except for when people use microfilm to look at old newspapers AND QUICKLY LAND ON THE EXACT PAGE THAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR. Without slowly scrolling through countless pages, without having to nudge the image or adjust the contrast.

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

IIRC the aerosol spread research was already out, and the government just…ignored it.

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

That was such an idiotic and infuriating policy. Also it sent the signal to the public that crowded indoor spaces were safe!!

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Armstrong is summarizing Arthur fairly, although his presentation is a bit off (it's a Harvard Business Review piece). I now think I need to go back and re-assess my view of Arthur's work, given that he seems to have missed out on...the assembly line.

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

There are concerning unintended consequences here

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Brian Arthur really said this? He knows too much history of technology for that, surely!!

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Extremely besides the point, but: the FT style guide says “aeroplane”? 🤨

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Sorry, have drifted away from the Lockerbie series! I also found the first episodes of the New Yorker series entertaining but it felt to me that the host was trying too hard to prove her counter-theory. Which I think goes back to what sorts of content are published (sensational/counterintuitive).

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

There’s no preregistration though, and probably a similar aversion to publishing null results/confirming the existing story.

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The New Yorker did a series about the White House Farm murders last year and I just didn’t believe the journalist spent months researching and pitching it to find out that the police were right. Kind of suspect the same incentives could be at play here?

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Aren’t there bad incentives with true crime podcasts that encourage journalists to put forward new theories/contest the accepted narrative? Is someone really going to listen to X episodes just to learn what they could have read on Wikipedia?

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Extremely disappointed to discover that the Norwegian word for “spork” is «spork» and not «skjaffel» («skje» + «gaffel»)

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

30 percent cheaper…than what? It doesn’t say anywhere on this page what the comparison is

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Neoliberal brain rot that doesn’t understand universities exist to do things that don’t make a profit is the root of the problem

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Klassekampen er også i Sørkedalen

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