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both are subtypes of bakery

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Yeah. My underlying theory is that people that spend all day thinking for their job fantasize about either working with their hands or finally not being interrupted.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 10/09/2026

All academics fantasize of either opening a bakery or escaping to a remote cabin in the mountains

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I came here to post this, but you beat me to it

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 10/09/2026

When I was visiting my mom she gave me some bottles of alcohol that she was never going to drink, and I just opened this one and turns out it’s maple syrup

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 06/09/2026

No thats what you do if you’re in person

Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 06/09/2026

Nice place to take an APSA panel

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 04/09/2026

If you were mad about the original report then you should also be mad about garbage criticism! Everyone saying “this is good” is wrong. It is in fact bad. The more you think the subject matters, the more upset you should be about factually incorrect criticism that makes the critical side look stupid

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 04/09/2026

It has been embarrassing reading this and similar critiques, because they accuse the report of not doing things that it manifestly does do (like adjusting for time to accumulate citations). I hope everyone involved is more careful in their regular work. You hurt your causes by flubbing this hard.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 01/09/2026

The haskaps finally came in at my parent’s place! We made jam and haskap sour cocktails and a haskap pie is in the oven.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 22/08/2026

My pleasure! A bunch of Econ (and PS) profs chipped in. Your memory was quite good.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 18/08/2026

The main takeaway is that both arms produced the same signed effect, but the RCT estimate for the vaccine's effectiveness was about 10pp higher than the observational one. It makes an excellent intro teaching resource for a course on causal inference.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 18/08/2026

It's quite neat that the 1954 Salk Polio trial in the US had both a "matched" observational arm and a conventional RCT arm. There is an R package with the relevant data (PolioTrials in HistData) as well as an article about it by Paul Meier (webpages.math.luc.edu/~mgb/courses...).

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

aiddata.org

Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

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* The Bread Bible (2003) Rose Levy Beranbaum * The Pie and Pastry Bible (1998) Rose Levy Beranbaum * My Bread (2009) Jim Lahey * Ratio (2009) Michael Ruhlman

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* All About Roasting (2011) Molly Stevens * Land of Plenty (2003) Fuchsia Dunlop * The All New, All Purpose Joy of Cooking (1997) Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker * Classic Indian Vegetarian and Grain Cooking (1985) Julie Sahni

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* The Cake Bible (1988) Rose Levy Beranbaum * Classic Indian Cooking (1980) Julie Sahni * All About Braising (2004) Molly Stevens * Every Grain of Rice (2012) Fuchsia Dunlop * BraveTart (2017) Stella Parks * Liquid Intelligence (2014) Dave Arnold

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* The Zuni Café Cookbook (2002) Judy Rodgers * The Splendid Table (1992) Lynne Rossetto Kasper * Gran Cocina Latina (2012) Maricel E. Presilla * Rick Bayless’s Mexican Kitchen (1996) Rick Bayless * Mexico One Plate at a Time (2000) Rick Bayless * The Food Lab (2015) J. Kenji López-Alt

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What Silicon Valley gets wrong about taste.

I enjoyed this Asterisk article about taste: asteriskmag.com/issues/15/wh... My favourite little-known example of outstanding taste is cookbook editor Maria Guarnaschelli. Just while working at Norton her authors won 13 James Beard awards & at least 13 IACPs! Here are some of the books she edited:

asteriskmag.com

Why We Like Things

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 28/07/2026

It’s incredibly good at what it does

Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 28/07/2026

I’m late to this but the ninja creami is viral for good reason. It’s wild how good of a product you can get out of it, including vegan ice cream (almond milk + coconut cream).

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 26/07/2026

The food court in the Mississauga flea market has incredible food. We got Malaysian but just in general it seems very strong. maps.app.goo.gl/KkoR12QxjZsN...

maps.app.goo.gl

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

We are seeing similar at RP. It's not just AI. Also a huge increase in Chinese social science. Which is often very good. But AI slop is flooding the system. One author with 30 submissions in a month... now they "could" be super productive.... or it could be AI slop.

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If you haven’t, ask around in dev econ or related development studies journals

The nice data is because @dmckenzie.bsky.social did work, but I do think the data here is broadly if unevenly available. Maybe psych is weirdly secretive here?

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I think World Development also does this. It’s uneven but I think many journals do

Possibly one could make a list of journals that have been reporting this for the past few years and have some kind of policy of always reporting submission volume and then they could be tracked forward. AFAIK in PS journals connected to professional associations do this.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 02/07/2026

Spoke to an editor of a good social science journal who reported submission volume is now 400% higher than during Covid. He entirely blames AI.

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I think he deserved more than a dark corner in the Guinness museum

A photo of Gosset in the Guinness Storehouse. The quote reads “IN HIS WORK WITH BARLEY RESEARCH, GOSSET DREW CONCLUSIONS FROM ANALYSING SMALL SAMPLE SIZES....”

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 23/06/2026

Homemade ice kacang. I probably made lots of moderate execution errors, but it was good enough that the kids happily crushed it.

A large bowl of shaved ice (plain and mango), along wild bowls of taro balls, panda jelly, peaches, and evaporated milk.

A bowl of ice kacang, with taro balls, panda jelly, peach, and evaporated milk.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 20/06/2026

I won’t get into the data or analysis here (yet), but I’m very confident that lower ranked journals do not publish more null results than higher ranked ones. I looked across 11 disciplines and all have this (lack of a) pattern.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 10/06/2026

This was a fun paper. We analyze results from a global survey of development studies (DS) profs and find that the income group of their country doesn't explain much about their views on DS. Instead, their discipline is huge.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 26/05/2026

I’m sorry it’s true that it’s not a clafoutis but I wasn’t sure what else to call it. It’s clafoutis-adjacent

Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

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New blog post: Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/eval... On an AI generated description of a non-existent study, incorrectly citing findings from studies, and the importance of scientific criticism.

daniellakens.blogspot.com

Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth

In this blog post I will analyse the arguments that Dr. Amy Cuddy provided in a blog post “The "Power Posing Was Debunked" Myth: What the Re...

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 26/05/2026

You’ve got to be clafoutis maxxing

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@prachisrivas.bsky.social you would love the number of people wearing Habs jerseys at this Toronto Blue Jays game

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My wife is Jewish (Montreal) so we can bond over the Habs.

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hating the leafs is the least I can do to honour my heritage. anyways: Go Habs!

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I literally cheer against the Leafs. My rank order is approx: Montreal > Canadian teams that are not the Leafs > other Original 6 teams > ~everyone else > Leafs

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The Missing Middle - 99% Invisible

It's wildly strong. and Protestant Toronto really did despise the Irish. Our entire zoning is fucked to this day because Protestant leadership in Toronto saw the Irish tenements in NY and freaked out and banned midrise housing: 99percentinvisible.org/episode/491-...

99percentinvisible.org

Downtown Toronto has a dense core of tall, glassy buildings along the waterfront of Lake Ontario. Outside of that, lots of short single family homes sprawl out in every direction. Residents looking fo...

look whatever reason you need is a good one from my POV. It's the end that I care about here.