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Stephen Williamson @1954swilliamson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Here's the AER editor trying to convince you how benign the use of AI is in the editorial process - "just a detailed technical proofreader." I've seen what AI does to students' behavior. Editors are no different. Once let it in the door, it will be asked to do all manner of stuff. e.g. desk rejects.

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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Who could have imagined legislating a bunch of costs onto landlords would have the effect of land lords leaving the sector and rents going up.

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

As per usual, Zucman misuses data in a desperate scramble to support his failing ideology.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Peer review is genuinely not a fraud detection mechanism and shouldn't be taken to be. It's not really a knock against a peer review system for failing to pick up when data is faked. The system is already over worked if we did data forensics at scale as a standard part of review it grinds to a halt.

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Being an academic really is one of the best jobs imaginable. No idea why so many academics complain about it so much.

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Maybe this is spitting hairs but “social media attack” sounds somewhat petty or like bullying behavior, whereas what happened here is that people documented that there were serious errors in a paper and got stonewalled when they tried to go through the “normal” academic mechanisms for addressing it

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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

3/ Examining the methods and code revealed a coding error caused by trying to include fixed effects perfectly collinear with the treatment. Correcting this error showed no effect of the reform on rape. We sent this partial replication to the author and journal.

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Hilary here is yet another example showing just why economics lessons should be compulsory for everyone before they go to university.

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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Democrats are so bad with messaging on this. These tariffs are unpopular and they are going to be extraordinarily unpopular.

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

It's strange how Tim is keen to highlight this yet ignores the fact that one of his own co-authors is responsible for the tariffs in the first place!

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

100%. Messaging needs to be clear and forceful. This is bad and it will not help workers.

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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Apparently Yanis Varoufakis thinks that Trump’s tariffs are based on a solid masterplan, which means that I have to update neither about the plan nor about Varoufakis.

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

In one fell swoop, Stephan Miran, Pierre Yared, and Kim Ruhl have destroyed not only their own reputations, but also those of anyone that has ever worked with them on any paper or other piece of work. I would be ashamed to have my name on the same project as theirs.

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Results that shouldn't surprise anyone. Yet I'm sure people at the AEA will still deny them.

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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

What is obscene is the argument - repeated here uncritically - that a public official doing their job (as mandated by law) is somehow personally responsible for someone else’s suicide

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pedroserodio.com @pedroserodio.com · 27/03/2025

OBR forecasts are increasingly contentious; not only do they reflect Government policy, they increasingly shape it. The 2022 mini-budget fallout is the starkest example of the OBR’s impact. A 🧵on the pressure this puts on the OBR to get things right 👇

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The OBR has been criticised rather a lot recently, and while some of that criticism is valid, much of it is misplaced. @pedroserodio.com and I have written for @ukdayone.bsky.social to set out where the OBR might be able to improve and suggest a way forward to implement improvements.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Wonk punditry was a mistake. I honestly can’t believe how bad the reporting has gotten on quant topics

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

"I wish we have more random shocks to leverage for my econ papers."

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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · 01/03/2025

Posting this here because it seems like a great job people should see, working for @stuartjritchie.bsky.social at Anthropic. If you’re a brilliant writer on economics and society and want to help the world understand AI better, consider applying. boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jo...

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

lmfao do you know how unpopular you have to be to poll 4 points behind international aid and 12 points behind the IRS here

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Adam knows all about fake economic research!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Oct 26: “I’ll slash prices — so fast it’ll make their heads spin” Feb 13: “Could go up” 🤷🏻‍♂️ www.barrons.com/articles/tru...

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This is extremely false - the link between Biden's excessive spending and the resulting inflation is obvious.

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Proud and grateful to be at what some people call "the worst public university in the US".

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This is a good policy! Universities should not get to skim off absurdly high proportions of grants to cover "overheads". Even 10% would be too high a proportion.

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Liam is a conspiracy theorist who doesn't understand economics.

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Haris @afcmhr.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

You know you fucked up when even Mike Dean says this on Sky Sports:

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Most of the time econ 101 is correct. This is one of those times, despite what Erin might claim.

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

After two rejections from this (and being part of an experiment without my consent), I can take the hint.

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 12/01/2025

Though America has the impressive achievement of falling literacy in every age group 🇺🇸👌

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

And if we had borrowed at that time, the debt and current interest payments would be even larger now! Austerity was the correct choice. And a wise one by Cameron and Osborne.

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Only people that don't understand economics are in favour of Trade Unions.

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Good: The Crucible Macbeth Lord of the Flies Atrocious: Pride and Prejudice The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

"We claim that Japan is one of our closest allies. We demand that they sacrifice economic growth by refraining from the export of high tech products to China. They accommodate our wishes. And then when a few union jobs are threatened, we turn around and treat them like an enemy nation" 🔥

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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

but if activism becomes the goal and people in universities are seen as having very different values and agendas than most people, then support erodes and universities can lose their legitimacy. To some extent, I think this is what is happening.

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Re-posting that the NBER experiments on programme applicants without their consent.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

How bad do editing standards have to be that a number this wildly wrong doesn't get picked up.

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Stop presenter on their first slide.

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Made it a decent portion through @maryrobinettekowal.com's The Spare Man and it's a decent enough story. It would, however, be made a lot better without the PC nonsense that slows things down and means the book is 25% longer than it needs to be.

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

US theatre really is missing a trick by not having interval ice-cream.

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Elliot Lipnowski @elliotlip.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I don't have data on this, but I'd guess hallucination played a key role in some important works.

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Looks as though Nap here is offering to fund all TAs across the globe 👍🏽

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Cory Smith @politicory.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I've been pretty disappointed by the academic response to this on BlueSky, including from some I follow. You may not personally want to use an AI tool in your class and that's OK. You don't have to! But cheering on hateful responses is just souring the vibe here for no reason

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Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Neither R nor Python are very good - the only reason a company might use them is because the company's a cheapskate.

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