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Today, the United States eased sanctions on Russia, whose head of state is the subject of an #ICC arrest warrant, and imposed sanctions on the ICC…this is what this country is

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Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social · 19h

Once again, Australia goes missing.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 08/10/2026

this working paper from Harvard PhD students Fiona Chen and James Stratton is making the rounds, perhaps because it confirms many people's suspicions about the tradeoffs in vibe coding: LLMs mean lots more code written, but also lots more problems created, and relatively little productivity benefit

Artificial Intelligence in the Firm:
Bottlenecks in Software Production
Fiona Chen
Harvard University
Job Market Paper
James Stratton
Harvard University
Current version: August 4, 2026
First version: January 7, 2026
Click here for current version
Abstract
We study the impacts of AI coding assistants and agents on software engineering work, using
a novel proprietary dataset from an engineering analytics platform, covering 300 million work
events — including GitHub coding activity, Jira issues, and Google Calendar events — across
718 firms. We use a staggered difference-in-differences design, exploiting variation in firmlevel adoption timing of AI coding assistants and agents. Both technologies increase coding
productivity. However, productivity gains do not fully pass through to changes in software output
or employment. For AI agents, this incomplete pass-through reflects a bottleneck from code
review: review times increase, a larger share of code updates require revisions, and reviews
involve more comments. We develop a model of software production to structure these results, in
which AI affects both productivity and quality of intermediate outputs, and in turn can generate
a review bottleneck and limit pass-through.

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A family member (female, Professor) worked on Hamilton's team as a grad student. She has fond memories of literally being in the capsules with astronauts as she programmed and tested. This was an extraordinary feat of science and technology. Thank you, Margaret, for your inspirational leadership.

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We were just talking about this in class today! (Afghanistan and its treatment of women as a crime against humanity)

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh come on. I see Harvard is already full with sinecures, but seriously, SIPA? Diplomacy? From HIM?

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Tony Martin @tonymartin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What better base from which to tackle corruption!

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Once again - the problem isn't "ooo AI models are too scary and powerful". It's that the developers of these products are irresponsible dolts, who have absolutely no intention of changing how they behave. Stop making excuses, use existing laws and make them responsible for their own actions.

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Charles McPhedran @charliekreuz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Civilians burnt alive, indiscriminate drone attacks, torture: Russian forces’ reign of terror in Mali exposed in new Amnesty report

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also on the docket for today: is it raining hard enough, for long enough, to get my dog to learn to use the porch potty?

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In the midst of @unimelb.edu.au enterprise bargaining, this piece clearly identifies much of what I see as a union rep trying to improve working conditions. It's technically about firms, but might as well be about modern universities. @nteunion.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Varieties of Firm Republicanism: Institutional Models of Workplace Governance - Sean Irving, 2026

Recent scholarship treats the firm as a regime of power in which workers are subject to arrangements analogous to those between state and citizen. Republican po...

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Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seems like some of you are just now learning that TItle IX offices are on survivors' side in the same way that your HR rep is on your side in an employment dispute.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Minnesota has been hosting Truth Councils since the end of Operation Metro Surge, to make sure that the horrors of the federal occupation do not go forgotten. Check out today's, which is the fourth and final meeting.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm guessing if you put up this graph in an intro statistics class and asked if it was a spurious correlation or not, the answers you'd get in different states would roughly align with the graph itself.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Historian here UT Austin has eliminated courses on slavery, civil rights, the Holocaust and women from its core curriculum. We know the kind of people who have censored history in the past. www.statesman.com/news/educati...

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UT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classes

The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026

it is 64 degrees at Joint Base Andrews right now and yet Trump is wearing gloves are he greets President Xi

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this is also the rare moment on the calendar when media and the public are primed to think about diplomacy, and what these leaders choose to say here represent their choices about how to use that attention

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

oh my god, he says the US had to intervene to stop the obscure organization of the International Maritime Organization from secretly establishing global tax on shipping. That is an intergovernmental body; states fully agreed to the tax; the Trump administration blackmailed them out of it.

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For context: www.ohchr.org/en/instrumen...

Article 2
For the purposes of this Convention, "enforced disappearance" is considered to be the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the State or by persons or groups of persons acting with the authorization, support or acquiescence of the State, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or by concealment of the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person, which place such a person outside the protection of the law.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What’s your fake starwars academic paper

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A free society cannot allow the government to disappear people in order to cutoff access to legal remedies.

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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

113 days shall now be known as a Findlay, which is 10 Scaramuccis if you’re American and 2.3 Trusses if you’re a Brit.

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Can anyone think of another treaty-based international institution which has been sanctioned? This is insane.

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/five-we... 90 courses to be closed at Edinburgh, most in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, incl. Portuguese, Persian studies, and apparently Medieval History. 1,800 job losses estimated. The University has confirmed there is no financial deficit.

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Five-week strike at Edinburgh University at start of new academic term — UCU Edinburgh

UCU SCOTLAND PRESS RELEASE 11:00 AM Thursday 17 September 2026 Members of the University and College Union (UCU) Scotland at Edinburgh University will strike for 25 days over five weeks from 2...

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Best alumnus so far. Way better than the quasi-famous dudes from my year.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

JUST IN: The 1st Circuit rejects the Trump administration's 3rd-country deportation policy, finding blanket assurances from countries who say they won't torture U.S. deportees is not good enough. And the judges raise this point: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

two different paragraphs, two different sections but encourage you to click and read the unsealed (pink) of both of them together. And stop and think about the impact and harm to news media and civil society. /8

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

His appetite knows no bounds. Not satisfied with the photo below, he's going to carve it into the building to make it insanely difficult to remove once he's gone.

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Higher education is already one of Australia's most important exports, and right now the US is torpedoing its until-now highly lucrative higher ed sector. With global talent now looking elsewhere, we should make ourselves *more* appealing to prospective international students rather than less

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Alexandre Klein @alexandreklein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(Call for applications) Postdoctoral Researcher position at @mcgill.ca Social Studies of Medicine Department histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/09/post... #histmed

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

On a smaller scale, Australia is squeezing international students in much the same way. Hiking visa fees to study and fees to stay after study, turning down a higher percentage of applications, and limiting places at universities, Oz is losing global talent when it should be trying to grab it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/09/2026

this is a prisoner’s dilemma where if you defect while your opponent cooperates you get hundreds of billions of dollars everyone’s gonna defect

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity.

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's nearly Rosh Hashanah, on a Friday night to boot. Welcome 5787. Will I go to synagogue this weekend? No. Shofar? Maybe I'll hear it from the synagogue down the road (where I do not belong and where I will not be attending services). Will I eat a festive meal with family? No, they're not local.

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you need an example of the hollowing out of everything….

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Home river (the Gunpowder). Spent many a lovely weekend morning biking on the rail trail right next to it.

small river with some downed tree branches and logs fallen into it from shore, with otherwide thick green tree and grass coverage.

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

procrastinating on teaching prep because after that I have to do marking, interrupted only by meetings. #academia #thatprofessorlife

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 05/09/2026

You know, honestly, more than monetary donations, if somebody worked at a company that had access to a lot of 18 terabyte and larger hard drives and could talk to us, that's where we are really suffering. The internet archive has no special priority in buying hard drives and those things are insane.

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Sassan Gholiagha @sassangholiagha.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today at 4 pm we have a Roundtable on the Oxford Handbook of Norms Research in IR with @antjewiener.bsky.social @carolinefehl.bsky.social Anna Holzscheiter, @ruji-aue.bsky.social @qiaochuzhang.bsky.social, & yours truly. Come along for a conversation about norms research #EISAPEC26 #EISAPEC2026.

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Daniel R. McCarthy @drmccarthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

📣OCIS 2027 Call for Papers is now open - check it out 👇 Jointly organized by ANU and USP, it is taking place in Suva, Fiji, July 7-9 2027 For our American IR friends: Fiji in July > Atlanta in March 😉 ocis.org.au/2027-call-fo...

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2027 OCIS Call for Papers – 2027 OCIS

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