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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

🚨 U Melbourne flagship McKenzie Postdoc - 3 years fully funded, no teaching - 25K research budget - fame and prestige EOI closing 7 May, need to have a supervisor (email/DM me with Qs!) sites.research.unimelb.edu.au/research-fun...

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Nathan Kettlewell @nkettlewell.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Position is two years in our great econ department at UTS. You'd be working with big admin data and with a multidisciplinary team. Must have right to work in Australia (no visa sponsorship I'm afraid). Applications open until the end of Nov.

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Nathan Kettlewell @nkettlewell.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Hello world. I am recruiting a post-doc to work with me and my collabs on an ARC funded project, primarily around public/private health care and health outcomes. More details in the advert. Please share with anyone who might be interested. recruitment.uts.edu.au/OA_HTML/OA.j....

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Nathan Kettlewell @nkettlewell.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

This Deficit is a major threat to my household's finances, and indeed, my family's Security!

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Nathan Kettlewell @nkettlewell.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

If for any reason you decide to raise your prices, then, whatever the number you choose to raise them by, will be added onto the 25% that I charge. Please understand that these fees are necessary to correct the many years of you not buying anything from me, causing an unsustainable Trade Deficit.

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Nathan Kettlewell @nkettlewell.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Starting from 1 August 2025 I will charge Jim's Plumbing a fee of only 25% on any and all plumbing work done to my property. Please understand that the 25% number is far less than what is needed to eliminate the Trade Deficit disparity I have with your company.

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Nathan Kettlewell @nkettlewell.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Nevertheless, I have decided to move forward with you, but only with more balanced, and fair, TRADE. Therefore, I invite you to participate in the extraordinary Economy of my household, the number one in the world, by far. Our relationship has, unfortunately, been far from Reciprocal.

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Nathan Kettlewell @nkettlewell.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Dear Jim's Plumbing, It is a great honor for me to send you this letter in that it demonstrates the strength and commitment of our Trading Relationship, and the fact that my household has agreed to continue working with you, despite having a significant Trade Deficit with your great Company.

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Nathan Kettlewell @nkettlewell.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Government already does a similar thing for private health insurance and in NSW for CTP green slips. When I sold a place a few years back I was shocked by the real estate .com fees,which no doubt are added to selling price. Then add in the other anti competitive stuff conglomerates do.

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Nathan Kettlewell @nkettlewell.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Like, I can see a 'free markets' type argument but this is a kind of natural monopoly scenario so I don't think that argument goes very far. Notwithstanding the opps for market manipulation from powerful vertically integrated conglomerates like Murdoch.

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Nathan Kettlewell @nkettlewell.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I think AI can do a lot of good for scientific progress, but this ain't it. Soul draining stuff.

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Nathan Kettlewell @nkettlewell.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I'm responding to a referee report that I'm convinced was entirely generated by AI. E.g., why did you do X? X isn't mentioned *anywhere* in the paper, but from the ref list you could see how AI could predict it is. And of course verbose 'kind of makes sense but not really' sentences abound.

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Nathan Kettlewell @nkettlewell.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Faster than average. I've never submitted there, good to know!

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Nathan Kettlewell @nkettlewell.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Fast econ? You might be searching for a unicorn Fabio. In seriousness, I'm not sure you can reasonably expect under 3-4 months at any 'top' journals. But fwiw, AEJ JPubE, JHR and EJ have been above average in my limited experience as submitter/reviewer.

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Nathan Kettlewell @nkettlewell.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

I started listening to Ashenfelter's podcast because you plugged it, and have really enjoyed it (not so much for the economics as the personal stories). So I trust your advice!

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Nathan Kettlewell @nkettlewell.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

Maybe just regular two-way scatter but plus C*quintile_number to the x values (where C is some constant)? At least for the basic structure... Then tedious fiddling for pretty colours and annotations

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

We are opening registration for the Australian Replication Games! Deakin University, Melbourne June 7th University Technology, Sydney June 11th We are looking for researchers, faculty and graduate students interested in a reproduction/replication challenge!

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