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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just had my flu jab at Tesco and it was shockingly quick, painless and otherwise not an issue. Consider this your annual reminder to book a flu jab 💉 Many companies will pay for it, either directly by issuing vouchers or through health insurance like Bupa.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This one raises a fascinating philosophical question: if you list your flat for £200k more than it is worth, have you really listed it, or are you just posting pictures of your home's interior online?

Georgia Dean and her husband recently took their property off the market.

He bought the two-bedroom flat in Haggerston, east London, for £470,000 in 2014. But the mortgage rate was due to rise from 1.6 per cent to 4.8 per cent: renting the flat out no longer made financial sense.

They listed it in June for £650,000, a below-inflation increase. An estate agent told them “no one would sniff around if the price stayed above £600,000”, said Dean, who works in product at a tech start-up.

In the two months before the couple pulled the listing, it attracted only two viewings.

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Al Pharazon-ass understanding.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Free international delivery here, on the off chance Graham's appraisal convinces you to give it a go: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Just finished Tom Cox book ‘Everything Will Swallow You’.

I thought I might tell you why I loved it so much and how it’s the most enjoyable book I have read for some time. But I don’t really know how to describe something that feels so profound whilst simultaneously being so light and hilarious.
As someone who used to spend hours sorting through second hand record shops and appreciates how the presence of animals opens something in us that is impossible to replicate any other way, I’ll just recommend you read it.
I noticed the Booker list yesterday and scanned through thinking it inevitable I’d find this title. I didn’t. More fool them. It’s timely, deeply affecting, full of delightful characters, and absolutely brilliant. What a triumph. I know what everyone is getting for Christmas.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

something has gone very, very wrong with the UK

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

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Peter Eibich @peibich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Incidentally, this is the reason I hate writing grants - a good application takes as much effort as writing a paper, success chances are as low as publishing in a top journal. If my paper gets rejected, I take it elsewhere - if my grant gets rejected, it is pretty much dead

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Georg Henning @georghenning.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Meine Berliner und MV Mäuse denken hoffentlich ans Wählen heute (hab Briefwahl gemacht).

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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Peter Eibich @peibich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I get these too, and to make it worse students are using AI to request recommendation letters from me.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not my most controversial opinion I realise but the Nazis were sick fucks and I find myself getting distraught when I see these posts. How tf you could do this to a child is just beyond me.

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A regression model without a colinearity diagnostic is like a fish without a bicycle

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I see everyone is posting about their labs taking PhD students with pretty AI made posters. So here's mine made with Paint because I'm a luddite. See lab website for details www.pbandjlab.com

a poorly drawn poster made in Paint with words saying "PB & J Lab is looking 4 new PhD student!! Apply!!"

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Incredible.

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Angry Byrd @tylerbigbyrd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

On Page 1, taking the entire page in this book called "How to not die like a peasant during the Dark Ages" Weird, there is no other pages in this book.

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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's the 1st of September and the new academic year is starting! #Academia #Teaching #University #Research

A meme with a cat and a factory in the back. The cat is wearing a tie and says "hope i don't have a lot of meetings" and in the back, over the factory, it says "lots of meetings factory".

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Peter Eibich @peibich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is a fantastic book, I really enjoyed reading it! Even more so than "Everything will swallow you", if I dare to say

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 24/08/2026

Time to get some perspective

Ernie and Bert from Sesame Street with reversed text asking, “How does it feel to be on the other side of a meme?”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

[Pls repost + break the filter bubble] Are there economists who are looking at the cost of long-term deskilling amongst knowledge workers caused by AI-enabled workflows? If yes, and you're interested to work on a frontier project that has tremendous funding potential, get in touch!

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vincentholst.bsky.social @vincentholst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In 2023, @nature.com published 'Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time', receiving world-wide media attention. Our Matters Arising, published after a 32 month delay (more on that soon), shows that the reported decline can largely be attributed to dataset artefacts. 🧵

The average CD_5 index per year for Web of Science. The original Park et al. decline (top curve) becomes essentially flat (bottom curve) when removing papers with CD_5=1. Those papers largely correspond to dataset artefacts.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bin Day cometh.

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Here's a reminder for anyone who needs it (me) Drink some water

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

🆕Publication Fewer Heart Attacks, More Cancer Cases, Better Survival Chances Medical progress is currently one of the strongest forces shaping populations & their health. Researchers examined how disease prevention has affected various diseases in Sweden. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/advancesprevention

Two monitors display detailed brain CT scans in a medical laboratory.

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Pandy Fackler 🍂 @thatbrenna.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A bar sign in Japan

A liquor bottle is kicking a brain in the stones lol

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

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Marina Weisband @afelia.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Mein Partner und ich streiten uns darüber, ob ein Piratenschiff nach marxistischer Betrachtung eine Kolchose ist. Musste per Telefon meine Mutter belästigen, die in der Sowjetunion Wirtschaftstheorie studiert hat.

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Peter Eibich @peibich.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

As an economist, I understand the idea behind submission fees. But honestly, fees over 100 USD? What do these editorial Boards think our research Budgets look like?

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 26/07/2026

Economics is trending, you say?

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Peter Eibich @peibich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The years just pass like trains - I wave but they don't slow down

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

When the Vera Institute took a bunch of US prison officials on a tour of German prisons, they said the German officials were left literally speechless for a moment when they leaned about the gap in correctional officer training (which is ~same). Genuinely could not reply at first, in shock.

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Peter Eibich @peibich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This is quite a shocking figure

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 In 1942, these men didn't just enlist to fight a world war—they fought a grueling battle at home just for the right to wear the uniform. They are the Montford Point Marines. Pull up a seat🪑, my friends.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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James Feigenbaum @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This, but econtwitter

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Like this from @timharford.ft.com on how inclusive design principles can often help all users, not those just seen as traditionally excluded www.ft.com/content/4d8e...

Subtitles help people who can't hear what the actors are saying - and it turns out that, for some gritty dramas, that is all of us. Web pages that are designed with screen readers for the blind in mind are typically better structured, simpler and friendlier for mobile devices. The Oxo kitchen appliance company was founded by a retired cookware entrepreneur whose wife had arthritis, but the chunky rubber handles are far more widely enjoyed. And of course, the dropped kerb may be life-changing for wheelchair users but it is pretty convenient for anyone pushing a pram.
The challenges faced by users who are unusually small, large, old or young, or who have disabilities, are, writes Epstein, "more extreme versions of the challenges that
many other users face"

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Good news! Everything Will Swallow You got chosen as a recommended read for July in The Guardian. (The review's misleading in terms of what the book really is, but let's forget about that bit.) Nice to be in the company of Miriam Toews, who is rather great. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

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The best books to read in July: new paperbacks from Andrew O’Hagan, Miriam Toews and Oyinkan Braithwaite

Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some fantastic new paperbacks, from the gripping story of an international murder case to a state-of-the-nation yarn

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Wolf-Peter Schill @wpschill.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

1/ You might not have even thought you needed this, but here it is: an update of the German duck curve! 🦆 The curve shows the distribution of average hourly wholesale prices over the course of the day (normalized with the yearly average price). You can see an ongoing (and not so great) trend:

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Das Doak @dasdoak.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Just gonna stop supporting the teaching of nursing, huh? I'm sure that'll have no ill effects. On a completely different topic, how long are NHS wait times right now?

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Peter Eibich @peibich.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I would like my students to be like S1, but if I can't have S1, give me S22!

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Whenever I’m imprudent enough to post a complaint about DAGs

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

In politics, we’re torn between ideals and practicalities, aspirations and realities, the world as we want it, and as we find it But one day a manifesto comes along that reconciles both in every pledge. A rare moment of clarity and hope

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:

Third, faculty salaries are falling even if we statistically control for faculty rank and institution. By our analysis of National Center for Education Statistics data, tenured and tenure-track salaries are down 10 percent in real terms since 2016 and are lower today than they were in 2002; nontenured faculty salaries are down 4 percent since 2016 and are at 2002 levels today.

To put this plainly: Suppose sharply increased teaching loads enabled institutions to cut one out of every seven full-time faculty. (That’s roughly what we saw last year in severe cuts announced at West Virginia, Western Illinois, and St. Cloud State Universities.) The associated savings in salary and benefits even through such drastic action would amount to less than 2.5 percent of total institutional expenditures for the typical university.

The upshot? If you think higher education has a cost problem, squeezing more teaching out of faculty is not the first place you should look.

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