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Scott Kominers

@skominers.bsky.social
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Market Design/Entrepreneurship Economist • Harvard Research Partner • a16z crypto Editor • Review of Economics and Statistics Puzzle writer & NFT enthusiast, QED | scottkom.com

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Violence is never the answer.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Promising results from McMaster's Phase 1 inhaled Aerovax Covid vaccine trial 💉 The vaccine safely produced respiratory mucosal immunity (trial didn't assess ability to prevent infections - later phase trials may do this) brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/pro...
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Promising results from Phase 1 human trials of McMaster's inhaled COVID-19 vaccine
McMaster University’s inhaled COVID-19 vaccine safely generates immune responses associated with protection in the lungs, recent clinical trial data show. The Phase-1 study, which ran . . .
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Evicting NSF from their building in Washington is pretty revealing. But if they auction off its History Wall, I know which tile I’d bid on. Here’s the list to choose from… marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/evic...
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Evicting Science from D.C.: the NSF building and it's History Wall
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VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory @vset.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Tim Roughgarden (a16z crypto and Columbia) is giving a seminar on Thursday, 29 May 2025: "Shill-Proof Auctions" (with Andrew Komo and Scott Kominers). Guest panellists: Marek Pycia and Zhou Yu. @timroughgarden.bsky.social @skominers.bsky.social
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Happy Palindrome-Ambigram-Reflection Day, QED!! I hope your day has been excellent in every possible direction 🙂🙃
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Once again, I was left to wonder: was Pete Hegseth signal chatting military attack plans to everyone but me?? Am I the one that’s insecure, or is it his communication practices that are insecure?
Carrie Bradshaw at her computer
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Michael Ostrovsky @mostrovsky.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
A podcast episode with @skominers.bsky.social and @rhhackett on #congestionpricing in New York City (and beyond). Link: web3-with-a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/con...
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Congestion Pricing: Economics, Theory, Reality | web3 with a16z crypto
Everyone hates traffic. One way to reduce it is through congestion pricing, which New York City implemented at the start of the year — a first of its kind for the U.S. We spoke to two economists about...
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Wordle 1,371 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩 ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟩 🟨🟩🟨⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 @casssunstein.bsky.social and @rthaler.bsky.social must do Wordle today
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Happy [PI / PurIm / EclPIse] Day!! Hold some PIstachio hamantaschen up to the moon, QED 😄🤚📐🌑! (And yes, of course, there's an NFT 👇)
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Cross-posting an extremely niche social science joke x.com/skominers/st...
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M. Utku Ünver @muunver.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
On the amazing downfall of Alzheimer's research by widespread manipulations and the crooked incentive structure in science: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...
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Opinion | The Long Shadow of Fraud in Alzheimer’s Research
Fraud in research needs to end.
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
High pay for participating in clinical trials (for example) may require greater efforts to make sure consent is well informed. #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/01/info...
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Informed consent and compensation for clinical trial participants (Ambuehl, Ockenfels and Stewart in REStat)
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
What's the theory one would have to concoct to hypothesize the opposite of what this article finds? Maybe "postdocs who publish a lot of papers are probably tapped out and can't publish anything else now, whereas the ones who haven't are well rested and ready to start producing hit research soon."
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
What a time to be alive
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Shengwu Li @shengwuli.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Edited by Susan Fiske, who also described replication studies as “methodological terrorism”.
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James Feigenbaum @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
At least this one will surely replicate (as long as those evil replicators don't bring in any evil identification)
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Inspectors General, the govt’s internal watchdogs, were a post-Watergate reform, reporting abuses to Congress. Trump fired some IGs in term 1 after his first impeachment showed that Senate GOP will defend abuse. Only reason to fire 17 IGs now is to abuse power and break the law with less pushback.
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Utterly astounding to me that it's possible to publish a paper in PNAS that shows a correlation between having a "hit paper" as a postdoc and later academic success... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I'm judging a Quora knowledge contest, which is a cool way to talk about ideas. Entries due tomorrow (Jan 22). Here are three questions I'm excited about. Would love to read your answers, and the prize for the best answer is $1000 for each question.
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Jesse Shapiro and I talked with Danielle Kost of HBS Working Knowledge about why social media platforms aren’t well-positioned to combat misinformation -- and what they should do instead: www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...
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Meta Faces the Limits of Policing Misinformation | Working Knowledge
Meta's decision to end fact-checking might lead to more transparency and better strategies.
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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
A great follow
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Did everything feel a bit more mathematical this morning? That's because 2025 is a perfect square ✅! Yes, 2025 is 45² = (1+2+...+9)². It's the first square year since 1936, and the next one is 2116. But that's not all… read on ⬇️👀
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a penguin is holding a pink flag that says i 'm so excited 2025
ALT: a penguin is holding a pink flag that says i 'm so excited 2025
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Happy Chanukkah! 🕎 Here's a thematic puzzle, styled after the cover of a children's puzzle magazine: The story is that there's been a bit of confusion – everyone's preparing for different holidays! Can you sort them out, and determine what we need in order to tune up the present celebration?
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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
When you criticize Musk for endorsing the AfD, Vance threatens your employer. Free speech something something. Ht @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social @soyboy.bsky.social
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Because it's *completely absurd.* The exec. director of the Am. Public Health Assoc. said it's "akin to malpractice." It's "like a physician having a patient with appendicitis...and refusing to [remove it], knowing that it will cripple or...kill the patient." www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
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Public Health Experts Decry Louisiana's Ban on Vaccine Promotion
Doctors need to 'stand up' for their patients' health, they say
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 21/12/2024
So the shortest day came, and the year died, And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world Came people singing, dancing, To drive the dark away.
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Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Basic science is necessary for applied science, example #1000000
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Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Helping colleagues put finishing touches on an absolute banger of an article on PT considerations for management of chronic pain and hypertension. Does PEM/PENE assessment make an appearance? Yes, dear reader, yes it does. We’re not coming close to recommending exercise as intervention without it.
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
As you're solving your optimization for this weekend, clearly the utility-maximizing strategy is to enter the December Quora Knowledge Contest in Economics: contests.quora.com/Now-Open-Dec...
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
As you're solving your optimization for this weekend, clearly the utility-maximizing strategy is to enter the December Quora Knowledge Contest in Economics: contests.quora.com/Now-Open-Dec...
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
🤯🤯🤯
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Yannai A. Gonczarowski @yannaigonch.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
🚨New Paper🚨 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 Joint with Ella Segev Social choice theory provides ways for aggregating the preferences of individuals in a society, to tell us what is better for society: alternative a or alternative b. However, this theory is silent on 𝑏𝑦 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ a is better than b. 1/9
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Also, I must say, I was extremely impressed with the publication process at @jmechinstdesign.bsky.social! Among other things, I'm pretty sure it's the only time I've ever seen copy editors cross-check the math itself to make sure formal definitions were specified properly 🤯
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Ultra-honored to be part of this @jmechinstdesign.bsky.social special issue commemorating economics ubermensch @vincecrawford.bsky.social, QED 🙏🙌
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jMechInstDesign @jmechinstdesign.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
#EconBluesky Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design, new volume 9, Special Issue in Honour of Vincent P. Crawford, available at www.mechanism-design.org @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social @york.ac.uk @t8el.bsky.social @skominers.bsky.social @vincecrawford.bsky.social @hexxxeh.bsky.social
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
“Disabled activists have been screaming about the dangers of mask bans since the great unmasking occurred. We warned that if people stopped masking - if they refused to assist us in normalizing masks - we would end up with mask bans. We were right.” www.disabledginger.com/p/nyc-mayor-...
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NYC Mayor Wants to Ban Masks in the Wake of Shooting Death of CEO Brian Thompson
A look at how the shooting death of Brian Thompson is being used to re-ignite interest in banning masks in New York City - a move which would be a devastating blow to the disabled community.
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I can't believe someone spent a ton of money on a ginormous spy drone and everyone keeps mistaking it for an airplane or a planet
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
🟫🟥🟥🟧🟧 🟫🟥🟥🟧🟧 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟧 🟩🟩🟫🟧🟪 🟦🟦🟫🟪🟪 day 618: 165 points 80% digit.party
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match numbers, score points. daily challenge + random boards
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Happy 90th to Dame Judi Dench -- all-around legend, and excellent rapper (h/t @elkomnrs.bsky.social) youtu.be/H7ojygIbMYk?...
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Lethal Bizzle Teaches Dame Judi Dench How To Rap
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Fantastic writeup by @drewcoffman.bsky.social on Chris Dixon's Read Write Own 🟧, Steve Kaczynski's and my The Everything Token 📙, and the optimism both books offer for the future of the Internet. Honored to be included here, and to have had the opportunity to inspire such positive reflections 🙏.
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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
a hot (nerd) take sometimes in economics the more mathy people care about writing their proofs pedantically with all details carefully spelled out interestingly many, if not most, professional mathematicians do not write their proofs this way 1/
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John B Chilton @uaeeconomist.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I was perplexed by what @bengolub.bsky.social meant by redistribution through markets. So I asked perplexity.ai, and it immediately pointed me to the paper by that title by @skominers.bsky.social et al. web.stanford.edu/~mohamwad/In...
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
What a time to be alive
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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Your daily "Redistribution through Markets" tweet Three cheers for the Ohio legislature www.nbc4i.com/news/politic...
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Ohio bill would require high-demand liquor bottles to be opened when sold
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A bill introduced at the Ohio Statehouse would require high-demand liquor bottles to be opened and resealed at the time they are sold, in an attempt to combat an illegal sec…
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Super exciting result, solving a century-old puzzle problem 🟥 ↔️ 🔺️
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Alaka Halder @ahalder.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
My answer to "From a game-theoretic perspective, when should political candidates stake out extreme versus moderate positions?" received a gold prize in Quora's 3nd Knowledge Contest in Economics, judged by @skominers.bsky.social. I had fun writing this! qr.ae/p2jDr9
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From a game-theoretic perspective, when should political candidates stake out extreme versus moderate positions?
Alaka Halder's answer: Game theory can help us understand when political candidates should take an extreme or moderate political position to win elections. The Median Voter Theorem (MVT), developed by...
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Scott Kominers @skominers.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Apparently I am "The Academic Wiz with a Punchline" with "89% authenticity!" 🫡 blueskyroast.com/roast/skomin...
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Scott Kominers: The Economically Inclined Comedian of Bluesky
This Harvard economist mixes economic insight with a sprinkle of internet humor.
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