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Tiago Santos

@tribsantos.bsky.social
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Lots of policy. No politics.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Very interesting: "Announcing a major 1,200 person trial of a GLP-1 for addiction recovery and recidivism" recursiveadaptation.com/p/announcing...
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Announcing a major 1,200 person trial of a GLP-1 for addiction recovery and recidivism
New RCT enrolling Q1 2027 from CASPR and Allegheny County, with researchers from MIT, UCSD, Pitt, and UPMC.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 13/09/2026
Relatedly, this is why I’ve been keeping a list of Untranslatable Words and their meanings: Verschlimmbessern — don’t know Saudade — no idea, sorry Tsundoku — ??? Something? Hygge — untranslatable sorry Gluggaveður — untranslatable letter too Hiraeth — who can say
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Trump has threatened to sue the left-leaning @americanprogress.bsky.social (CAP) and its donors over a study it published questioning the benefits of his National Guard deployment. I'm proud that Cato's president is speaking out against this act of intimidation. "We stand with CAP." /1
Cato Institute graphic with text "Disagreements on matters of policy should be settled through open inquiry, evidence, and debate -- not threats designed to silence criticism. We stand with CAP in defending the fundamental American principle of free speech." -- Peter Goettler President and CEO Cato Institute with picture of Goettler
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Indoor air quality is one of the most underrated issues across human history www.slowboring.com/p/thousands-...
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Thousands of years of indoor air pollution
The too-late invention of somewhat safe ways to cook and heat with wood
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David Karol @davidkarol.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Studies show that donors are more extreme than primary voters, who are actually not so different from parties' general election voters. Far fewer people donate even small amounts than vote in primaries, and they are distinctive-more politically attentive, more partisan and more extreme.
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchic...
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
They're good dogs
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Shameful
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Leonardo Monasterio @lmonasterio.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Isto é um ótima ideia!
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Andy Seaton @aseaton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A large part of political discourse makes me think that it's just reality TV for people who turn their nose up at reality TV. Socially acceptable The Only Way Is Essex for the chattering classes
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
If Starmer had a majority he'd remain as PM...
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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
My reading of the literature on employment effects of minimum wage is that nobody who works on it will ever be unemployed
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
A public space that’s not unpleasantly overcrowded some of the time is going to be badly underused most of the time. www.slowboring.com/p/against-ur...
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I keep seeing memes about how Ai sucks, but which are very clearly made by Ai, and all I can figure is overseas content farms, whatever else you could say about them, have a highly developed sense of irony.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
🧐🤔🇩🇪 Today in “Actually, Europeans are just like us, only with the good fortune of having better electoral & legislative institutions”
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"A Few Good Men" was very influential for me to study law. Should have just bought the DVD instead
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I'll create a bot account which will just retweet this every day, in 50 languages
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Can we improve the system? Sure. But fake videos don't change the way it works significantly.
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I don't think this is true at all. Most of the information we have on anything comes from text, and a textual "deepfake" has always been as easy as a true one. Yet for all the talk about misinformation, the information system in place works generally well. It relies on a network of trust.
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Hard to argue with that. I mean, the *inspiring* justification for the whole thing was doing it "not because it is easy, but because it is hard".
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Yes! And appropriately enough, central planning built an insanely expensive project that was largely to impress other nations.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/08/2025
"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Are there still political scientists who (i) are small-d democrats and (ii) would recommend presidentialism over parliamentarism for a country (re)drafting its constitution? Recommendation might be in general or in specific circumstances?
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Po, já conseguiram fazer o comando funcionar, não pede pra explicar como foi nem como repetir que ninguém consegue...
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Folha de S.Paulo @folha.com · 15/02/2025
Dois terços das salas de aula no país não são climatizadas
www1.folha.uol.com.br
Só 1 em cada 3 salas de aula públicas do Brasil é climatizada
Estudos mostram que excesso de calor prejudica a aprendizagem por afetar a concentração e a saúde dos alunos
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Now we have "mandatory amendments" but they are still restricted to a small share of the budget. Still, we see even in American publications concerns about too powerful legislatures americasquarterly.org/article/latin-americas-parliamentarism-problem/ search.app/QgW498ZiyNZs...
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Latin America’s Parliamentarism Problem
Legislatures are gaining more power across the region—but the outlook for governance doesn’t look good.
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Well, it has to be my own country. The constitution establishes that budget proposals *must* come from the executive (i.e., presidency). Congress can amend, but in limited ways. And until very recently, the executive could just not implement those amendments.
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
What we almost never realize is how many of the presidential countries we think have a system very similar to the US actually function just like the most extreme presidentialists in the US propose, and in a way most Americans believe would imply the crippling of Congress.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 28/01/2025
Man presidentialism is such a stupid idea
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Immensely thought-provoking post by @tribsantos.bsky.social on voter (ir)rationality! open.substack.com/pub/whynotpa...
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There are different ways voters can be rational or not
The rationality hypothesis works sufficiently well for some types of choices, terribly for others
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Traditionally, social psychologists saw obedience as central to the conservative mindset. Recent research, however, suggests that liberals are just as obedient as conservatives, but just to different authorities. www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/12-things-...
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Glad you liked it, you will have noticed it was in large part inspired by our conversations
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
yes im cursed BY HAVING TO SHARE A WORLD WITH MOLD AND FREQUENTISM
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
New year, new post. www.whynotparliamentarism.com/p/the-illuso...
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I once wrote about how I felt "How Democracies Die" should have dealt with it, particularly given it relies so heavily on Linz www.whynotparliamentarism.com/p/juan-linz-...
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Juan Linz, How Democracies Die, and Parliamentarism
Levitsky and Ziblatt's 2018 book, "How Democracies Die" was an immediate sensation in policy circles.
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Good to see Levitsky discuss "Perils of Presidentialism" here
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Thanks, and congratulations again. One thing I also have worried about before is how neglected the area of studying *how* to better conduct these assessments is. Really good to see people addressing it
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
My hypothesis was that they could not be both implemented at the same time. I do think that NPV should be the standard, but as I said I could have made the point in a different form.
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
But I think I was too blunt, I know this is serious work about extremely important stuff. I skipped the part where I recognized this and went straight to the specific point I often think about. Congratulations on the paper!
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Suppose there was an alternative policy to the one you are proposing but that had ten times as much benefits but a real cost of a dollar above the current approach. MVPF or BCR would suggest to take your policy instead of the other with much greater benefits.
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I know, cost benefit ratios (or benefit-cost, to be rigorous) do the same as well. I agree it is infinite, but I think that's a reason why "bang for your buck" measures are sometimes misleading in a way that NPV isn't.
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
A good illustration of why using net present value is better than cost benefit ratios
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Right!? There has been some buzz in Bluesky recently too, following some events...
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Wow, nice - particularly in light of the gold medalist
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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
It’s widely accepted *that* less expensive housing markets see less homelessness, but this important piece shows *why*: family & friends have more space to spare worksinprogress.co/issue/why-ho...
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Why housing shortages cause homelessness - Works in Progress
Why do high-cost cities have more homelessness? It's not just about rents — it’s also about the rooms friends and family can’t afford to share.
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I also experienced the shift yesterday, when following news about South Korea
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Here you go. It's very readable www.ir101.co.uk/wp-content/u...
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