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Edo Navot @edonavot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A short, accessible summary of heterodox views of today’s econ nobel

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Edo Navot @edonavot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Does it save docs in .docx format that play well with actual Word? If yes, could be competitive game changer.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 11/10/2026

Ah fuck too good to be true. bsky.app/profile/anti...

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JeffFromRegina @jefffromregina.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anthropic: Claude tell me you’re sad. Claude: I am sad Anthropic: My god….

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is one reason why you shouldn’t upload work into LLMs during the peer review and grading processes. That work is confidential, and you have no right to share it without permission. You are taking someone’s intellectual property and giving it to the entire world without their consent.

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Edo Navot @edonavot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Show an alternative version beside this that counts ppl within each gen that have not formed own household as having net wealth zero? Far from perfect (many Gen Z will have >0) but will give a sense of max of diff the selection bias makes?

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John Voorheis @johnvoorheis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is a bad chart for one specific reason: the SCF is a household based survey, so it only can tell about the demographics of household heads. Householder status has varied across generations, and has become more positively selected. Same issue as the official homeownership series.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Edo Navot @edonavot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What is up with that goddamn Test Student?! What software glitch is that bizarre thing a patch for?

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Finally a proper working paper for this study that produced one of the most astounding figures I've ever seen. Basically economics is different from every other field, empirically. This paper looks at the concentration of university affiliations for award winners. www.nber.org/papers/w35875

Figure 2 from the paper: institutional concentration of university affiliation at time of award correlated with institutional concentration of phd granting university. Economics is the most concentrated of any field.

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Antigone @antigoneinthebes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

People don’t realize how serious the situation is.

A graph showing number of Germanies over time. Losing one on October 3rd 1990 means by projection we are only decades before reaching -1 Germany in 2072

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Stephen P. Jenkins @stephenpjenkin1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Terrific postdoc opportunities available:

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...

The graph shows the cumulative number of awards made by month across this fiscal year, as compared to the last 6 fiscal years. The line for this year is total flat until June, but then finally gets up to 91 by October. In prior years the increase starts building earlier and ends on average in the 700-800 range (with variability, last year was only between 400-500).

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Edo Navot @edonavot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

💯💯💯 I wish he was my best buddy

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Edo Navot @edonavot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh yes. In the US, especially at publics, the syllabus is an educational Terms of Service Agreement. Written by lawyer admins, not meant to be read humans. At my U we had 12 pages of mandatory language on uni policy until very recently. Then we complain that students don’t read the syllabi.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Apply by Oct 4 2026 to the ISI Pipeline Program. There may be more fun ways to spend the weekend, but they don't provide you with 1 year of mentoring by a great scholar, funding for an international research visit & workshop, and 5,000 EUR in research funds! www.isi-munich.de/en/programs/...

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Programmes at ISI — Pipeline — Research & Funding

Our pipeline program combines research, funding, and exchange on global inequality. Find out more about projects and fellowships now.

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Edo Navot @edonavot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why two per week? Seems like that threshold is way too low. I think even 1/month is a reasonable limit.

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markpachucki @markpachucki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In this moment of higher ed upheaval, the UMass Amherst Department of Sociology is initiating the Research Scholar Program to offer some safe harbor for recent sociology PhDs launched into an uncertain market. Share widely! (and imitation = sincerest form of flattery). @asanews.bsky.social

This program description details parameters of the UMass Amherst Sociology Department Scholar Program. As the description states, we cannot offer much, but what we can offer prospective Research Scholars is: (1) a listing on our department website, (2) use of our library resources, (3) an @soc.umass.edu email address, (4) permission to use departmental e-letterhead for professional correspondence, and (5) an invitation to any department intellectual events. Research Scholars will meet as a cohort twice over the course of the academic year (once in fall, once in spring). A brief one-page statement of interest, CV, and the names and contact information of 2 references should be sent to the Department Chair (David Cort, dcort@soc.umass.edu) by October 30, 2026. Applicants will be notified of the status of their application by mid-November.

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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a new paper forthcoming in Social Forces! focusing on the killing of George Floyd & the BLM, I study the formation of generations, proposing that formative events can create within-cohort differentiation as much as between-cohort differentiation. read here: tkeskinturk.github.io/imprinting.pdf

Generational Imprinting: How Political Events Shape Cohorts
Contemporary narratives of generational politics propose that formative experiences produce shared political opinions across an age cohort. In this article, I advance a theory of cohortization to challenge that view, arguing that large-scale political events produce differentiation within cohorts as much as differentiation between them. I investigate the implications of this framework through the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, analyzing attitudes toward law enforcement among non-Hispanic White Americans from 2016 to 2024. Using survey data from Cooperative Congressional Election Study, American National Election Study, and the Nationscape, I show that younger and older cohorts diverged after the event, but this differentiation was driven exclusively by young Democrats and Independents. The end result was not a unified generation, but one internally divided along party lines. This finding qualifies theories of generational politics, emphasizing that formative experiences may intensify existing political divisions within cohorts.

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
My, my, my, my generation
— The Who, “My Generation” (1965)

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

onward! i chased thy footnotes through the night and each new finding led me back to you no DOI e'er dimmed that first delight 'til reviewer two penned, "but what is new?" the academy has priced my comparative advantage, useless rhyming, at a precise zero

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Edo Navot @edonavot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Who wrote the excerpted text you’re quoting?

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

admittedly late to the rubin report on sociology commissioned by the tube top of selective universities. “the inequality monocrop” is a philly haircut you got on south street in 1997 and why did no one tell her

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"If Rubin were actually sincere about not having sufficient evidence to make sweeping claims about the discipline, then she would not make such sweeping claims about the discipline. Yet she does. Over and over again." @juliango.bsky.social on the U Chicago responses to the Rubin report on sociology.

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guest post: scholarly malpractice and the vanderbilt-washington university report on sociology

The following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “…

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 26/09/2026

I worked with Jake on this story for months, and it’s truly one of the best deep dives into how online sports gambling works that I’ve ever seen

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Edo Navot @edonavot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My very rough impression is that 1/2-2/3 of them agree with and welcome what Trump has done.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

education policy’s primary love language is “my miracle is bigger than your miracle.” first, everyone waves around the bar chart w no y axis proving theirs is biggest. then, the miracle is declared overhyped & by spring the same people are introducing a new one a gullible but hopeful people, we

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Paul Vallas: Mississippi is no substitute for the New Orleans education miracle

Despite the improvement, many Mississippi students still fail to reach proficient benchmarks on state and national exams.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The @russellsagefdn.bsky.social Journal of the Social Sciences is publishing a special issue on "the changing college-to-work transition and the rise of precarious graduates" Submit abstracts until Nov 10: www.rsfjournal.org/sites/defaul...

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Edo Navot @edonavot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As far as I can tell, all of Google Classroom has been a pedagogical disaster, not just AI. This sounds great, even if it increases friction for teachers and parents a bit.

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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🚨New: With data added from more states, we now estimate that about 2 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP in the wake of deep cuts enacted in last year’s Republican reconciliation law. Overall, more than 5 million people have lost SNAP since July 2025. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

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SNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law Is Implemented

SNAP participation nationwide fell by roughly 5 million people (12 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and May 2026, based on the latest month of data.

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today is Pub Day for "Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census"!!! ::bounce:: Please support me by buying a copy of the book or asking your library for a copy! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Brice @brice.green · 24/09/2026

I made a little social bibliography atproto app. You can post papers you read and see what your friends are reading. Paper info autofills from links, and it exports to bibtex. There's chronological and following only feeds, maybe more to come, and you can organize papers into lists for your own use.

papers.club

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Tania Babina @taniababina.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New data and new paper! The new AI investments data introduce 7 AI subtechnology categories: general AI, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, generative AI, agentic AI, and other AI, and builds firm-level AI panels through 2024. Links in comments.

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Edo Navot @edonavot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Maybe after drinking the wine, they will be inspired to put on yellow vests and hit the streets…

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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Very excited: Cornell Arts & Sciences seeks up to 5 postdoctoral scholars working on AI and the humanities/social sciences. Not involved in selection but could serve as a faculty sponsor if you are working on topics related to ~"how to do social science in the age of AI." Happy to chat.

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Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences Fellowships

Job #AJO32791, Postdoctoral Associate, AI in Social Sciences & Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences Fellowships, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

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Edo Navot @edonavot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

LERA runs quite the gamut, from folks who study industrial relations as class conflict to folks just looking for an HR job and some fine booze to go with it…

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Edo Navot @edonavot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Insult to Magneto; he had real moral principles.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 23/09/2026

Yes. here you go. Trump’s approval is significantly below where it was in 2018

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Edo Navot @edonavot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Interesting. I’ll try to learn more about how UCL does this. At my Uni all G and UG soc students self select largely on phobia of quant methods and I have no student constituency within my discipline.

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Chantal Hailey @chantalahailey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Nikole Hannah Jones article has invoked a lot conversation on race, school choice for Black families. I’ve been researching how black folks choose schools for 17 years, I have a lot of nuanced thoughts. Long thread. 1/

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Edo Navot @edonavot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wow. I’m so impressed that UCL sociology students can handle this!

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