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Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 10/08/2025
Income inequality for this week's #TidyTuesday. How do countries redistribute income through taxes and transfers? Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz
A horizontal line chart showing income inequality before and after government redistribution across 30 countries, organized by world regions. Each horizontal line represents one country, starting from market income inequality (right side) and ending at disposable income inequality after taxes and transfers (left side). The x-axis shows Gini coefficients from 0.2 to 0.7, where higher values indicate more inequality.

Countries are grouped into regions: Europe with 20 countries, North America (3), Asia (2), and one each from Oceania, South America, and Africa. The lines are colored by the ratio of redistribution effectiveness, with darker colors indicating countries that achieve greater inequality reduction.

Notable patterns include: Belgium achieves the most dramatic reduction, cutting inequality nearly in half from 0.49 to 0.26. In contrast, Dominican Republic shows minimal change from 0.52 to 0.52 (rounded). European countries generally show stronger redistribution effects than other regions. South Africa has both the highest initial inequality (0.71) and final inequality (0.62) despite some redistribution. Most countries reduce inequality to some degree, but the magnitude varies significantly even among countries with similar starting inequality levels.
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We Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 11/08/2025
Let’s start with an intro… I’m Jen Richmond. I’m a developmental psychologist by training and co-founder of R-Ladies Sydney. Until recently, I worked in academia, teaching psychology students about developmental psychology, open science and reproducibility 1/n
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Data Science Learning Community @dslc.io · 11/08/2025
Recent DSLC.io club meetings: 🔵 DSLC Project Club: R‑Ladies Rotating Curation (RoCur) relaunch on Bluesky youtu.be/JPFjC33zn2w Visit dslc.video for hours of new #DataScience videos every week! #dataBS #RStats #PyData #DataScience
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DSLC Project Club: R‑Ladies Rotating Curation (RoCur) relaunch on Bluesky (proj01)
YouTube video by Data Science Learning Community Videos
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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Reposting this fantastic quote with alt text added
There was a man who had invented a perpetuum mobile which worked by avoiding the second law of thermodynamics, somehow. And then, of course, there came the paper, and Bohr was obliged to write an answer. And then Bohr explained to him why it was wrong. This was simple, but I think either Klein or I, myself, suggested to Bohr that he not explain too much, because he would be sure to write a new paper, and a new letter, and Bohr would have the same trouble again. So the man actually did write a new letter and a new paper on a new machine which he had constructed, which was already more complicated than the first one. So it took considerably more time to find the mistake. Our advice was that one should simply not answer the letter, but Bohr didn’t follow the advice. So out went the second letter explaining why it was wrong. And then, of course, there came a third letter from the man saying that he was extremely sorry to waste so much of Bohr’s time, and he had completely understood what was wrong with the paper and was so grateful, but now he really had avoided the mistakes of the first two papers, and now he had found a scheme which certainly would work, and could Professor Bohr look into this, and so on. And. I think the story actually goes, but I cannot say that it’s true, up to the seventh paper of this man. Only then did Bohr stop answering.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 10/08/2025
We’ve discovered a magic trick where we tell the kids that they absolutely *have to* help us clean up, and suddenly they’re perfectly able to entertain themselves for extended periods of time while maintaining a low profile.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
'Golden Park Light' linoprint by contemporary printmaker Alexandra Buckle #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print of a rural scene with trees reflecting on the still water of a lake or river
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Spooky Amy 🦇 @amythehobbitplays.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Happy Sunday friends!
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/08/2025
Bluesky folks... can anyone help me figure out who this nice person is? This weekend, me eldest dropped their phone (in a waterproof pouch) in Wright's Lake, and we spent hours hunting the lake for it, only to find it at the ranger's the next day with this photo as the last photo added...
Photo of a guy in a kayak or canoe smiling and giving a thumbs up. He has a mustache, and a blue zip fleece, and is wearing a Sierra Nevada hat.
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Letter of the day (in the Times)
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
So the president is now planning to deploy military forces in DC to handle ordinary civilian crimes?
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Mark Cuban getting ratiod by a complete rando
Mark Cuban posts:

Want to use rich people like me to your advantage? Incent us to help those who need it the most.  Lower corp taxes for comps that pay a min of $25 per hour.  Lower corp taxes if employees get stock at the same pct as the CEO.  

Bottom up incentives work. Dems never innovate. They bitch

marthapearce55.bsky.social replies:

You have more money than God. But you want incentives to do good, moral things?
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INOMICS @inomics.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
3 PhD Positions in the Research Training Group 2865 “CUDE” #Econsky
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3 PhD Positions in the Research Training Group 2865 “CUDE”
Bielefeld University invites applications for 3 fully funded PhD positions at the second cohort of the established Research Training Group “Coping with Uncertainty in Dynamic Economies” (CUDE). The official language for all PhD courses is English. The positions are awarded for 4 years paid according to 75 % TVL E 13 (resulting in around 43.000 € gross yearly). Please use the application form in order to send your application (see page 2: APPLY NOW). After clicking on the link, you will be directed to the application portal where you can upload your documents.
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Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 17/07/2025
Bluesky’s user base is roughly 40% female and 60% male. While we don’t collect gender data directly, we manually sampled ~1,500 users to get a representative estimate and a separate analysis by Hootsuite came to a similar demographic split.
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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The Gaza "Humanitarian" Foundation seems more bogus by the day, an Israeli cover supported by the orange US without oversight. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls it “slaughter masquerading as aid” - over 500 people killed and 4,000 wounded in the first month.
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US funding for demilitarised Gaza aid distribution dodges...
Critics say shadowy $30m operation is ‘turning food into a weapon of war’
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Mikko Tuomi @mustapipa.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
A map of European forests indicating what Finnish politicians are refusing to admit. Finland has very little actual forests, and lots of tree plantations. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/07/2025
The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.
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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I'll be serving as Editor-in-Chief (EiC) for @pyopensci.org's Python package peer review process for the first half of 2025! Interested in reviewing scientific Python packages? Let us know at: forms.gle/GHfxvmS47nQF... #PyOpenSci #Python #SciPy
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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Scattered links 🔗 driving you crazy in a post? The linkate Quarto extension automatically collects every URL and creates a tidy "Links" section at the bottom. Just add one line to your YAML! 📚 Docs: quarto.thecoatlessprofessor.com/linkate/ 💻 Repo: github.com/coatless-qua... #quarto
A browser screenshot showing the linkate extension demo page rendered in HTML. The page displays the linkate hexagonal logo on the left sidebar and demonstrates different types of links (Basic Links, Reference-Style Links, Mixed Link Types) in the main content area. At the bottom, a "Links" section shows a bulleted list containing all URLs automatically collected from throughout the document, including links to Quarto, GitHub, CRAN, R Project, Python, and other resources.A hexagonal logo for the "linkate" extension featuring a dark blue background with white text reading "linkate" at the bottom. The center displays an abstract network design with interconnected oval shapes in orange and red gradients connected by thin lines, representing linked elements converging around a central hub.
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
From the WaPo yesterday: mask up. Well-meaning people can do it before there's a full surge (thereby preventing the worst of it) or after that horse is already out of the barn, when the need is more obvious, but (& because) more people have already been harmed. Before is better.
WaPo article talking about a summer covid surge. Photo of a masked person going up an escalator (wearing what looks like a KN95); caption is "experts recommend taking precautions, such as wearing a mask, against the coronavirus."
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/
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elis166.bsky.social @elis166.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Elon Musk is not African American. Pls stop this BS. In the U.S. ‘African American’ has a specific meaning, it refers exclusively to Black people.
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elis166.bsky.social @elis166.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
What does this have to do with anything though?
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
man i'm remembering the time on the other site where people defended idi amin's expulsion of asians
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Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 21/05/2025
Apparently, I upset some of my recent followers by being a "we must liberate the AI from the billionaires" girl and not a "we must obliterate all AI" girl I'm someone who, from a very young age, was convinced we would have a sci-fi-esque future in my lifetime and excitedly anticipated it.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
cremieux is known as TrannyPornO on reddit. he is a friend of Hanania's out of the ssc zone of the internet
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 05/07/2025
Roko is like this because he has had repeat neurotic breakdowns about women refusing to fuck him and insane eating disorder problems and this is how he chose to crawl out of those issues. I am not joking. His old blog was exclusively nothing but his eating problems and why women should fuck him.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 05/07/2025
Roko used to be suicidal and I am telling you that the world would be in a better place if people, in his real life, endeavored to put him back in that mental space. I know people want to still pretend we live in a world where this is impolite but I won’t afford it anymore.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Same "I'm going to playfully do a racism while allowing the NYTimes to have plausible deniability that I didn't explicitly do the racism" vibes. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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Dr. Mansa Keita @rasmansa.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Curtis Yarvin, who has been profiled in media like Politico and The Wall Street Journal, has publicly stated in the past that he thinks black people are naturally fit to be slaves.
"I wonder if there's another domestic population capable of agricultural labor" - Curtis Yarvin
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
A little town in Vermont decided to make their 4th of July parade also about fighting fascism.
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
“With a regression discontinuity design and three distinct proxies for corruption, we show that better paid Italian politicians are more likely to promote transparency and competition in procurement, but also more likely to incur www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Plata y Plomo: How Higher Wages Expose Politicians
(Forthcoming Article) - What is the effect of politicians’ wages on corruption in the presence of criminal groups, that use both bribes and violence? With a regression discontinuity design and three d...
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Paul Sharp @paulbsharp.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
🚨New preprint! WHEN should we plan toward a goal? Most research focuses on how and where to plan, but the timing of planning initiation has been overlooked. We show humans leverage a cognitive map - called model-based meta-control - to learn when to deploy a plan. 🧵(1/15) osf.io/preprints/ps...
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swampybog @encelieu.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
wip #vampirehunterd
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raxdflipnote @raxdflipnote.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
road rage #animation #flipnote
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Mamdani does what I've been calling constructive politics: appeals to identity as a building block of solidarity rather than a replacement for it. love to see it
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 29/06/2025
A literal banana takes on learned helplessness and the “fact” that women try to leave their abuser X times before finally succeeding. carcinisation.com/2020/01/27/i...
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Ignorance, a skilled practice
Containment protocol: None. Words can’t hurt you. Words aren’t real. Philosophical ideas don’t affect reality. You won’t notice any changes after reading this. You won’t find yourself, in conversat…
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 27/06/2025
Jaw-dropping reporting by Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
See the {twoway} #rstats pkg. Does this and much more friendly.github.io/twoway/
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Analysis of Two-Way Tables
Carries out analyses of two-way tables with one observation per cell, together with graphical displays for an additive fit and a diagnostic plot for removable non-additivity via a power transformation...
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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Rough job market for PhD Economists
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I am having an exceptionally hard time reading this conclusion as anything other than "racism is true but we should be careful to talk about it publicly because if we're too impolite about it we might become nazis"
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Floris de Lange @predictivebrain.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
In @elife.bsky.social: Stimulus dependencies—rather than next-word prediction—can explain pre-onset brain encoding during natural listening doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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Stimulus dependencies—rather than next-word prediction—can explain pre-onset brain encoding during natural listening
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 10/04/2025
📊 Bruegel’s China Economic Database has been updated with fresh coverage of China’s auto sector! 🚗 🔗 buff.ly/bmXQfqS 🖊️ Compiled by @aligarciaherrero.bsky.social Michal Krystyanczuk, Robin Schindowski, Théo Storella and Jianwei Xu #EconSky
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Rob Francis @robfranciseu.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Fascinating map courtesy of @bruegel.bsky.social which shows which EU region is most exposed to US tariffs
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
#PinkMoon Over Water" by Georgia O'Keeffe. 1923 #WomensArt #FullMoon #SuperMoon
Painting of a pink full moon in a dusky blue sky over the sea
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Fabien Evezard @fabienevezard.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
@placepubliqueparis.bsky.social mobilisé ce matin sur le marché Edgar Quinet dans le XIVe ! Nous sommes en place pour défendre notre projet national et municipal, avec notre chef de file @sbenmouffok.bsky.social pour #parisenmieux !
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
For your mental health I present: Plum’s paws
Little gray cat paws on a pink bedsheet. They’re very round and small
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John Vibes @johnvibes.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/04/2025
#priorities new analysis @brendanvduke.bsky.social & @gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social @centeronbudget.bsky.social www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
“I think in each country, scientists are opposed to autocratic government." - Kseniia Petrova. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...
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She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her
President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.
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doctor eek (alt decorative ghost season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
when i was in undergrad my advisor –a very gruff but respectable ir guy– went on sabbatical my senior year. so i wound up with a classic pol econ guy who paid me to break into archives and liberate old bond rating data and honestly this had a huge impact on how i think about economics.
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