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Saurabh Lall

@lallsaurabh.bsky.social
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I study entrepreneurs trying to do good things. I frequently misspell 'entrepreneur'. Disciplinary nomad. Associate Prof at U of Glasgow. He/Him. Profile photo credit: My 3yo

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Scroll @scroll.in · 30/09/2026
Today on Scroll: scrollnewsletter.substack.com/p/daily-brie... - The Indian state has made Bengali Muslims outsiders in their own land - Cartoonist Satish Acharya’s Instagram account blocked in India - Why India does not have enough caregivers for people with disabilities More ⤵️
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Ángel Saavedra @polpsychangel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To people on the academic job market right now: so much of this is luck. Don't forget that, and never stop doing what you think is best.
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
tech ceos are openly salivating about the idea of kids losing basic literacy and numeracy. this tells you pretty much all you need to know
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My opinion on the TV list: Bluey got robbed
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 16/09/2026
Today's blast from the @aeajournals.bsky.social features my study on the effects of immigration for manual jobs, with @ethan-lewis.bsky.social We use nationwide, natural randomization of visa access to test the effects on US firms and workers —>
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Winning the visa lottery
Evidence from a US government lottery shows that restricting foreign low-skill workers shrinks businesses without creating jobs for Americans.
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Tony Ingesson @tonyingesson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good news for those of you who are interested in this paper on organized crime and intelligence! We got a preprint included with the submission, so the paper is already up and available (but NOT peer reviewed yet and will likely be revised in the future!). www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1...
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The Tradecraft of Homicide: How Organized Criminal Groups use Intelligence and Counterintelligence to Facilitate Acts of Lethal Violence
Homicides committed by organized criminal groups (OCGs) are a high-risk form of criminal activity due to the potential for apprehension and subsequent law enforcement targeting. To facilitate homicide...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 14/09/2026
A federal judge just enjoined one of the US Administration’s sharpest attacks on international students. The ruling references research by me & my stellar co-authors six times. Facts matter. Facts are necessary for democracy, accountability, and the rule of law. Research delivers them.
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Memorandum & Order – #50 in Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration v. United States Department of Homeland Security (D. Mass., 1:26-cv-13799) – CourtListener.com
District Judge F. Dennis Saylor, IV: MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION. Plaintiffs' motion for APA § 705 relief, a preliminary injunction, or, in the alternative, summary judgm...
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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Some great links this week: the most interesting one to me is work on "innovation bursts" in French firms, which shows how rapid firm growth and innovation are very sporadic - which aligns with work on "high-growth" firms in developing countries blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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Weekly links September 11: the fragility of high growth firms, women’s work and families, how many papers use AI now to write, and more…
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's for this paper. We'll release it soon.
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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In a new paper, joint with @michael-siciliano.bsky.social, @jbenitezphd.bsky.social, Jared Greathouse, and Jeff Diebold, we examine the use of quasi-experimental design tools in public management, finding that their use lags far behind most other fields. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Did the Credibility Revolution Skip Public Management?
<div> The credibility revolution has advanced social science research by using explicit </div> <div> identification strategies to address causality concerns t
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The window of my local queer bookshop was smashed last week. They're fundraising to install shutters so they can keep themselves and their community safe. Support this one-of-a-kind place, its one-of-a-kind proprietors, and the whole Glasgow queer & trans community: www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...
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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books
For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 07/09/2026
Michael Landon. Luciano Pavarotti. Patrick Swayze. Maybe someone you love. Their PDAC came too early. But we may have a pancreatic cancer vaccine before long.
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Aveek Bhattacharya @aveek18.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Important piece by @ruthjoneslabour.bsky.social in @labourlist.bsky.social, calling for the national screening committee to hurry up and review screening for harmful lead exposure. Ours is a "remarkably complacent and cavalier approach". We must take the issue more seriously, as in the US/France.
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'Lead is still harming British children. Why aren’t we screening for it? - LabourList
Screening for lead needs to become the norm. We cannot afford to continue to wait, for the children’s sake.
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Aveek Bhattacharya @aveek18.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Interesting research suggesting that lobbying is a) pretty marginal to most British businesses, even big ones, and b) those that get more meetings don't see much obvious financial benefit. Not a surprise to me, but suspect it would be to others. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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Is corporate access to ministers worth the effort? | LSE British Politics
Meetings between businesses and ministers are often treated with suspicion. But the evidence doesn't show any advantage gained as a result.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Florida is about to run a real-time experiment by kicking out immigrant workers. Spoiler: everyone loses. ⁣ ⁣ Kick them out and you don't just lose labor, you lose the people buying stuff that keeps other people employed.⁣ ⁣
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Scroll @scroll.in · 17/08/2026
As India turned 79 this Independence Day on August 15, India’s young offer a reality check. scroll.in/article/1095... By exposing the deep rot in the #educationsystem, the cockroaches are telling the world that India is failing, Debasish Roy Chowdhury writes.
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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 17/08/2026
➕➕➕ New Working Paper ➕➕➕ Fixed effects are the workhorse of management and economics for dealing with unobserved confounding. But what if they themselves create bias? 😲 A short thread 🧵 1/6
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Scroll @scroll.in · 26/07/2026
The point was never that the beatings were funny. It was that even the state’s harshest response could be stripped of the fear it was meant to inspire, notes Sara Varghese. Read here: scroll.in/article/1094...
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Scroll @scroll.in · 26/07/2026
Why a generation brought up on pro-Modi propaganda turned against the PM Thousands of young Indians who grew up in Modi's India — in BJP-supporting homes and amid a media ecosystem that discouraged questioning — took to the streets demanding accountability. Read Here: scroll.in/article/1094...
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Scroll @scroll.in · 24/07/2026
Hundreds marched in Pune on Friday as youth protests spread in different cities across India. Slogans targeting Prime Minister Modi were raised here as well. Credit: Divya Aslesha/ Scroll
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Scroll @scroll.in · 21/07/2026
A day after the police lathi-charged protesters of the political campaign Cockroach Janta Party and fired tear gas shells at them, the front pages of several major newspapers on Tuesday did not prominently highlight the voices of those who were injured. scroll.in/latest/10944...
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
thousands of indian students marched on parliament today. the incredibly democratic indian government responded by tear gassing them and shutting off the internet in the capital. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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CJP's parliament march from Jantar Mantar: Thousands of 'cockroach' protesters take to Delhi streets
Some protesters demanding education reforms said they were injured in clashes with police who banned the march.
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Wayne Rooney speaks for everyone.
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Saurabh Lall @lallsaurabh.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Was that halftime show... planned by ChatGPT?
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 18/07/2026
Yesterday the US Administration supercharged its explicit effort to bar international students from staying in the US after graduation. All Americans should know: 1/3 of *all* STEM PhDs working in the US are immigrants who graduated from US universities, then stayed. www.piie.com/index%2Ephp/...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This Egyptian goalie is really ... the king of denial
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Horatio Csi
ALT: Horatio Csi
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Ken Opalo @kopalo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Much of Africa is terribly under-governed. That needs to change: open.substack.com/pub/kenopalo...
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The mechanics of building strong states in 21st century Africa
On models of state-building and their applicability to the African context
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
We are leaving the Old Code Age, the Paleocodic, the artisinal code era, where if you needed a novel program, you would commission a local codesmith or code guild to hand-craft a work of code for you, bespoke.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 01/07/2026
The US Administration's radical, extreme cuts to science funding, student visas, and academic freedom are making foreign scientists prepare to depart. We are losing breakthroughs, cures, natsec technology. Conservative and Liberal Americans will suffer, permanently. www.nber.org/papers/w35330
Shortly after major policy changes to US science funding began in early 2025, we surveyed 916 young biomedical scientists – PhD students and postdoctoral researchers – about their career intentions and expectations. The results document a dramatic shift in sentiment. Barely half of respondents now say they are likely to remain in academia, down 22 percentage points from how they felt six months earlier. The fraction likely to stay in the United States fell by 21 percentage points. Even satisfaction with having pursued a PhD in science declined by 16 percentage points. These are not the complaints of established scientists defending their budgets, but rather the stated intentions of the next generation – the scientists who would, in ordinary times, become the principal investigators of the future.
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Saurabh Lall @lallsaurabh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Sadly, we're probably going to see declines in the UK too. 30% decline in international students overall since 2024.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 24/06/2026
The US government has succeeded in in its stated goal of cutting inflows of international students. Inflows are down 1/3 or more. This slashes a key source of productivity-enhancing high-skill STEM workers for the US economy. In a new Brief at @piie.com, my co-authors and I quantify the impact—>
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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The poorest economies in the world are not achieving economic growth. The consequence is that progress against the very worst poverty is coming to a halt. This is one of the worst problems in the world today, but hardly gets any attention.
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Ryan D. Edwards @ryandedwards.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Nice quote of @economeager.bsky.social here about no serious reckoning yet in microfinance www.wsj.com/finance/bank...
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Hundreds of Billions in Loans Didn’t Make a Dent in Global Poverty
Microfinance aimed to foster prosperity but stoked hardship for those borrowers who took on debt they couldn’t afford.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 09/06/2026
US tariffs are taxes on Americans. They are not "external revenue", they are not taxes "on other countries". They are taxes on every American who buys anything with any ingredient made overseas—that is, all of us. Every dollar of wine tariffs is paid by US consumers—> www.nber.org/202603/diges...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 09/06/2026
Which American benefited from this pointless cruelty? None. No Conservative, no Liberal. But it does degrade us, collectively.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I was thinking this morning about how AI is pretty good at starting research projects, but not very good (at least for now) at finishing them. As a result, it’s become much easier for scholars to accumulate an unmanageable backlog of half-baked, AI-assisted projects... 1/n
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 21/02/2025
Migration does not have to be what it is now Innovation can change what migration *is*—more orderly, skilled, integrated, & tangibly beneficial to everyone affected In 2012 I proposed one way: Global Skill Partnerships The World Bank just released a major GSP roadmap—> hdl.handle.net/10986/42780
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/02/2026
I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.
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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Would anybody like to read one of my long threads about a 2.5bn year old rock, bacteria that could produce oxygen but not consume it, and tank production in wwii
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 18/02/2026
There’s something sad about how many blogposts are simply copy-pasted ChatGPT output now. It’s not writing, it’s content — not voices, but outputs. When the only button you press is for an LLM, blogposts don’t earn applause, they earn scrutiny.
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Eva Vivalt @evavivalt.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I've built a new tool! You can upload your pre-analysis plan or registered report, pre-submission to a registry or journal, and it will screen it for completeness, clarity, and consistency. 1/ 🧵
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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 11/02/2026
I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.
It must be very hard to publish null results
Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.
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UofG Centre for Public Policy @uofgpolicy.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
New #UofGSpotlight episode on 'Work, Ageing and the Employment Rights Act'💡 @kezdugdale.bsky.social speaks with Kat Riach about ageing and work then @melaniesimms.bsky.social about employment rights and recent legislation. Listen and subscribe: uofgspotlight.com 🎧
Episode artwork including Kat, Kez and Melanie
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Saurabh Lall @lallsaurabh.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I'm not an audiophile, but making the choice to switch back to wired headphones has massively improved my music experience
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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
“We measure the impact of increased immigration on mortality among elderly Americans, who rely on the immigrant-intensive [health care] sectors… [we find] striking effects on mortality: a 25% increase in the steady state flow of immigrants to the US would result in 5,000 fewer deaths nationwide.”
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Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
So now we can see the official report of what happened to PEPFAR coverage in 2025 compared to 2024. 14.5m fewer people received testing and counselling (leading to a 400k drop in positive tests) 100,000 fewer on ARVs 1.6m drop in ART patients with documented viral load
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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I have used @raulpachecovega.bsky.social's to teach reading and literature reviews to easily 500+ students (mostly undergrads), and I regularly get feedback that they're among the most valuable lessons in my science and teaching writing classes. Cannot recommend enough.
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