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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Honestly think this is one of the best videos on YouTube. Beautiful folk song that, like, were it not for the very specific circumstances of the modern internet I would never have been able to experience anything like at all in my life. I am enriched by such things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIMK...

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Özgür Baba - Dertli Dolap

YouTube video by Elif'in Hecesi

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David Van Dijcke @packlesshepherd.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I coded up an open-source, not-for-profit AI paper reviewer that rivals the performance of @reviewer3com.bsky.social, Refine.ink, and Stanford Agentic Reviewer (according to Gemini 3.1). Costs <$2! Live @ coarse.ink. Plug in paper, @openrouter.bsky.social key, and email. #econsky

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 10/04/2026

Turks have an unforgettable traditional saying that distills centuries of life under authoritarian Ottoman rule: ⟶ Öküz tahta çıkarsa öküz padişah olmaz, saray ahır olur “When an ox ascends to the throne, he doesn’t become king; the palace becomes a barn”

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Greg Veramendi @greg-veramendi.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Come to London for a great workshop organized by my colleagues!

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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Please consider citing if you are a fixest user!

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 23/01/2026

MSP airport protest

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Daniel Whiteson @danielwhiteson.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Are you in Boston next week and want to hear two serious physicists have a conversation about aliens? I will discuss whether aliens speak physics with @mattstrassler.bsky.social on Nov 17 at the Harvard Bookstore. @harvardbookstore.bsky.social

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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Thrilled to announce the publication of our @rooseveltinstitute.org report that uncovers the policy roots of the current crises facing our news, information & communication systems. We argue that media reform must become central to a US pro-democracy movement. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

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The Political Economy of the US Media System: Excavating the Roots of the Present Crisis - Roosevelt Institute

Bilal Baydoun, Shahrzad Shams, and Victor Pickard trace the roots of the US media crisis to decades of deregulation and commercial capture, outlining how consolidation, news deserts, and platform domi...

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Emma Tominey @emmatominey.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Does marriage still causally change the division of labour after having a first child? We revisit this question and find evidence of two types of households - some specialize BUT for more modern couples marriage increases coordination - men earn less, take more paternity leave and women keep working

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Colin Green @colinpgreen.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

IWAEE 2026 (16th) Meetings - Call for Papers now open! Submit your papers on education economics via iwaee.org/new/ Deadline for submissions 27th February 14th to 16th June 2026, Catanzaro, Italy Keynotes: Esteban Aucejo, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch and @marirege.bsky.social #EconSky

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Daniel Whiteson @danielwhiteson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Our new book is out today! @andycomics.bsky.social

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Daniel Whiteson @danielwhiteson.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Going to be in Boston 11/17? Come see me and @mattstrassler.bsky.social talk aliens and physics!

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I read @itsafronomics.bsky.social new book “The Double Tax” this afternoon. It’s engaging and one of the best popular ways to bring social science to the public and policy that I’ve read in a long while. Black women are uniquely disadvantaged in our economy. 😍 she gave Janelle James her flowers!

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Greg Veramendi @greg-veramendi.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Saying the quiet part out loud, again.

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Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Please join me in signing and sharing:

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Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

For Day 2 of our celebration of work using the Census Tree we highlight @lukestein.com & co's work on the gendered impacts of perceived skin tone. They find that among African Amer. sisters, women perceived to be darker-skinned were disadvantaged. *They also cite a great QJE pub by Lisa Cook et al*

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Greg Veramendi @greg-veramendi.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Worth a read if you don't already follow Phil. TLDR:

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

"Young political vigilantes" have historically been very useful to dictatorships--from Berlin to Beijing--because they gleefully engage in mass violent destruction of social institutions whose value and purpose they do not understand. Ex: Mao's Red Guard: www.theguardian.com/world/2023/j...

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

i understand the american people on average not reading history books what with the failing education system etc but what the fuck is the university leadership's excuse

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Gill Wyness @gillwyness.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

📝New @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social working paper Why are students from elite high schools much more likely to go to high ranked university courses than equally qualified students from the state sector? 🤔 w @opmc1.bsky.social @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social & Jo Blanden econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...

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Greg Veramendi @greg-veramendi.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

When an English person shares how they feel about good news: "I feel, um, unnecessarily emotional about it." from Thames Water documentary. Worth a watch.

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Gill Wyness @gillwyness.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Recognising the growing difference between predicted grades and achieved grades over time, UCAS are piloting personalised reports to schools These will show schools how their UCAS predicted grades compare to achieved results www.ucas.com/corporate/ne...

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UCAS pilots new reports to help teachers strengthen grade predictions and support student choice | UCAS

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 06/07/2025

Author of "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps" 👇

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Selene FeRNAndez @selfdz.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Yesterday, @carlbergstrom.com presented his course "Modern-day Oracles or BS Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world". Neat way to make students aware of the capacities and limitations of LLMs👇🎰 Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZC0... Course: thebullshitmachines.com @unswbabs.bsky.social

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Modern Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Seminar with Prof. Carl Bergstrom, University of Washington

YouTube video by UNSW eLearning

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Gill Wyness @gillwyness.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Is it better to have standardised exams or teacher assessments? Myself and my colleague @opmc1.bsky.social have read the literature so you don't have to. Our @iza.org world of labour summarises below #econsky

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Greg Veramendi @greg-veramendi.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This study by MIT authors shows students using LLMs exhibit decreased cognitive activity. I admit that it is a small sample and confirms my priors. Lots of crazy shit happening atm, but this still worries me a lot as an educator and when thinking about the future. www.brainonllm.com

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/06/2025

This is the third story I've read in a month about how AI chatbots are leading people into psychological crises. Gift link

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They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.

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Greg Veramendi @greg-veramendi.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I wonder what this guy is thinking as he takes a potshot at a journalists. Where do they find people happy to violate their oath?

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/06/2025

If I have time I'll put together a more detailed thread tomorrow, but for now, I think this new paper about limitations of Chain-of-Thought models could be quite important. Worth a look if you're interested in these sorts of things. ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i...

The Illusion of Thinking:
Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models
via the Lens of Problem Complexity
Parshin Shojaee∗† Iman Mirzadeh∗ Keivan Alizadeh
Maxwell Horton Samy Bengio Mehrdad Farajtabar
Apple
Abstract
Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models
(LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes before providing answers. While these models
demonstrate improved performance on reasoning benchmarks, their fundamental capabilities, scal-
ing properties, and limitations remain insufficiently understood. Current evaluations primarily fo-
cus on established mathematical and coding benchmarks, emphasizing final answer accuracy. How-
ever, this evaluation paradigm often suffers from data contamination and does not provide insights
into the reasoning traces’ structure and quality. In this work, we systematically investigate these
gaps with the help of controllable puzzle environments that allow precise manipulation of composi-
tional complexity while maintaining consistent logical structures. This setup enables the analysis
of not only final answers but also the internal reasoning traces, offering insights into how LRMs
“think”. Through extensive experimentation across diverse puzzles, we show that frontier LRMs
face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities. Moreover, they exhibit a counter-
intuitive scaling limit: their reasoning effort increases with problem complexity up to a point, then
declines despite having an adequate token budget. By comparing LRMs with their standard LLM
counterparts under equivalent inference compute, we identify three performance regimes: (1) low-
complexity tasks where standard models surprisingly outperform LRMs, (2) medium-complexity
tasks where additional thinking in LRMs demonstrates advantage, and (3) high-complexity tasks
where both models experience complete collapse. We found that LRMs have limitations in exact
computation: they fail to use explicit …

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Greg Veramendi @greg-veramendi.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I am happy to share a 3-year postdoc opening. My fantastic colleagues @kailirimfeld.bsky.social and Dan Anderberg recently won a grant to work on youth mental health at the intersection of psychology, genetics, and education. It is open to economics PhDs, among other fields. #EconSky #econ_ra

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Greg Veramendi @greg-veramendi.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

This is such a great demonstration of how LLMs function.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 02/06/2025

Above the fold at The Guardian: Ukraine launches major drone attack against Russian bombers Wall Street Journal: Breaking FBI Investigating Possible Terror Attack in Boulder, Colorado New York Times:

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Olivia Kortas @oliviakortas.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Sadly, after showing meager results for close to three years, these sort of campaigns might start working. The disappointment with the West is growing in Ukraine and for many, it becomes increasingly harder to find a source of hope.

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Greg Veramendi @greg-veramendi.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I worry the same is going to happen with coding. Learning coding with AI is like learning the streets of a city through using Google Maps directions.

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Greg Veramendi @greg-veramendi.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Who came up with the bright idea to alter how rhubarb grows ("forced") and turn something delicious into something with no flavor? Is this crime committed anywhere else besides the UK?

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Ines Helm @ineshelmecon.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

📢 WE are hiring a Professor in Labor Economics at JKU Linz! Come and join us! We are a young and active department with a strong focus in applied econ. Link: tinyurl.com/jkulabor Please help us spread the word and RT.

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Labor Economics

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 29/04/2025

The administration is moving the rule. Official public (that's us!!) comment period is open. Friends of BLS has resources making it super easy & efficient for you to: 1) submit evidence to the official record & 2) communicate to your federal reps #econsky www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Grateful for @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social voice. Excellent piece. I no longer have the patience he has for responding to these incredulous arguments about the qualifications and aptitude of non-White people.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This message is not just for researchers! Advocates and practitioners use government statistics all the time Relevant if you use the Digest of Education Statistics or NAEP or the College Scorecard or

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski says the quiet part out loud: “We are all afraid… I am oftentimes very anxious about using my voice because retaliation is real.”

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Greg Veramendi @greg-veramendi.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

President Bukele posted about Cecot concentration camp: "Let all the 'human rights' NGOs know that we are going to wipe out these bloody murderers and their collaborators, we will put them in prison and they will never get out" Trump plans to send US citizens here with no due process.

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El Salvador's secretive mega-jail - BBC News

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

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Greg Veramendi @greg-veramendi.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I cannot unsee the videos of Trump laughing with Bukele (and others) about rendering US citizens and residents to a concentration camp in El Salvador with impunity. This is the unambiguous moment to rally around. Bring Kilmar home (and all the others!)

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