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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Decided to fight a windmill today and see if @caltech.edu HR can fix the typos in the official EOE claims in job descriptions.

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Come to LA they said; we don’t have humidity mosquitoes they said.

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 20/09/2026

This is an actual public service ad created by the Norwegian government regarding this problem. If you think the Internet sucks now, you're not alone.

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Besides the measles, it is a great airport.

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Come work with us! And please tell your students to come work with us! #polisky #econsky

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Didn’t the Simpsons already do this?

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

After working through second and third derivatives, I am ready to abandon Bayes learning for something with an easier functional form.

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Cue the john williams's jurassic park theme song

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Political Analysis @polanalysis.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Currently in FirstView: In “Measuring the Quality of Answers in Political Q&As with Large Language Models,” @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social and Jacob Morrier develop an approach for measuring the quality of answers in Q&A sessions using data from the Question Period in the Canadian House of Commons.

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

These always strike me as strong associations and I’ve always wondered how these observed rates vary by field. Eg: effect of family background of becoming an MD/physician or JD/lawyer?

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

If we write papers using LLM generated data, and those papers are then used to create another version of LLMs and then new datasets for new papers, will the process converge? If not, will it be stationary?

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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

This is close to stenography: “An unnamed source told me all these things [many clearly false] so am repeating them to you” How is this different than publishing a press release?

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Next question: does monterey pdf word count pick this up? I dont know if I can sacrifice 1 of my 5 implications for this.

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Stand aside \bot here comes \swordcontradict

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Emily Kracht @emikracht.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences is getting hit with a 67.6% cut, worse than other programs within NSF. Funding for archaeologists comes from the division for Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, which is facing a 77.3% cut. It appears every post doc program has been 100% cut.

Screenshot of NSF budget cuts to various programs

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Farouk "Peter" Beardsley @sodiumboat.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I am looking at NSF's budget request, in awe at the disinvestment in learning anything. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE PROPOSED NSF BUDGET CUTS NEARLY A QUARTER OF A MILLION PEOPLE FROM NSF ACTIVITIES. FOR INSTANCE, JOBS.

A screenshot of the number of people involved in NSF activities being reduced from 330,100 to 90,000.

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

@caltech.edu and I both agree that international relations needs more theoretical models and fitting those models to data.

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Even after 8 years, I don’t fully understand caltech’s skip day, but this is the first year with an inflatable dragon outside my office.

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Dave Siegel @daveasiegel.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Happy to see that this is now out. The R package associated with the project, IRTM, can now be found on CRAN. Or can you still download it from my github. We'll continue to update it over time. This is a brief thread about what IRTM can do. 🧵 (1/7)

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

This is a neat paper that illustrates the benefits of combining theory with new data. You will find this interesting!

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I am never excited for 9am meeting, but today is dissertation defense day!

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

First day of class for the spring quarter

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This is just to say I have texted the war plans that were in the Defense Department and which you were probably saving for people with a security clearance Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold

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Brad Smith @bradsmithunc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

This is a fantastic paper. If you ever wondered “why would I want to use a structural approach?” this paper is a shining example.

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Rediscovering my love of integration by parts.

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Just got the dreaded email. University of Iowa is halting all NIH grant submissions. Losing a generation of scientists here will send the state backwards. What a travesty.

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Penn State also pausing new NIH submissions and pausing acceptance of new awards. #academicsky

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

At the Deathbed, by Edvard Munch, 1895

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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

As a UIUC grad I’m very familiar with this. This is beyond devastating. I joked about Lysenkoism taking root here awhile back but it’s not funny anymore. Science that feeds people is now under very grave threat.

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

We played OuiSi in my writing seminar to practice justifying creative choices and then providing feedback on the choices. This is our creation.

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I might not survive this conference

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

PSA to job market candidates: if you didn't get a particular flyout, it may have had nothing to do with the quality of your interview. Departments have a myriad of internal constraints and goals that are unobservable to you, and the process is a lot more complex than you think.

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The Ira Glass "taste gap" quote made it on my writing syllabus this semester, but I cannot remember what podcast I first heard it on. Was it This American Life?

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

This holiday season I’m thankful for coauthors who understand I couldn’t meet this afternoon because I had to start the dry brine this evening.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

People seem to think that ABMs have been limited because they’re too simple, motivating llms, but the real problem is they’re often too complex. More often than not if you dig a little their dynamics are driven by some leading order choice in behavior or parameters.

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

Proof: intermediate value theorem

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

Caltech is hiring this year in economics! Please share with your students and anyone who may be interested. #EconSky Target Fields: applied micro, finance, and behavioral/experimental applications.caltech.edu/jobs/econ

applications.caltech.edu

Assistant Professor of Economics | Caltech Applications

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Ken Opalo @kopalo.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

We are hiring an IR scholar who works on Africa! apply.interfolio.com/155789

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Overleaf can fail to compile a document without a bug. Sometimes refreshing makes the problem go away, but doing so means I lose the ability to "undo and redo" recent changes which are helpful to debugging code. So I have to judge: are my latex mistakes more frequent than overleaf getting stuck?

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Mike Gibilisco @mgibilisco.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

below the conventional threshold of 0.05

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