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Manasvini Singh

@vinisingh.bsky.social
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Asst Prof @CarnegieMellon • Health and Behavioral economist • Enjoy limericks, fantasy, and mezcal • also go by Vini www.manasvinisingh.com (opinions mine)

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Standard Error Research Editors @standarderror.bsky.social · 17h
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Spotted at a gas station in Maumee, Ohio
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Sheril Kirshenbaum @sheril.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few miles below a vacuum that'd suck the air right out of them. They live in a brief geological period between ice ages, when giant asteroids have temporarily stopped smacking into the surface. As far as they can tell, there's nowhere else in the universe where they could stay alive for ten seconds. And what do they call their fragile little slice of space and time? They call it real life. In a universe where it is known that whole galaxies can explode, they think there's things like 'natural justice' and 'destiny'. Some of them even believe in democracy... I'm a fantasy writer, and even I find it all a bit hard to believe." - Terry Pratchett, Whose Fantasy Are You?
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This was the paper (or a version of it) that inspired ours :)
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thanks for the suggestion, can def look into that!
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
trump can solve this by renaming "disapproval rating" to "approval rating"
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Hugh Grant in The Heretic
ALT: Hugh Grant in The Heretic
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
haha touche. though Hugh Grant D&D honor amongst thieves >>>> Hugh Grant paddington
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
May I recommend the recent exploits of Hugh Grant
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We will vote to rebuke him so decisively no president will dare such abuses again for centuries.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There’s a lot of doom & gloom around how AI is affecting higher education. To a certain extent, I get it. AI is making some things harder. But I’ve found that AI has in some ways greatly enhanced my teaching. For one, it’s opened up applied activities that weren’t possible before. One example: 🧵
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Stephanie Wang @sweiwang.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🚨Elsevier is now hunting for GEB editors without the input of the academic community. Please say no. We all understand the power of coordination. You can use @combeju.bsky.social letter below as a template. #econsky
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Stephanie Wang @sweiwang.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Great idea. everyone go to thecarobtrustprize.smapply.us/prog/the_car... and nominate Data Colada @datacolada.bsky.social
thecarobtrustprize.smapply.us
The Carob Trust Prize for Academic Courage - The Carob Trust
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
agreed! it needs multiple points of view, and also needs people acting non-deranged in relationships (big bang theory comes to mind as another show where relationships are depicted extremely strangely)
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
LOL. then HIMYM also for sure
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I like having 90s/00s sitcoms play in the background while I do emails/ clean etc and I was once like oh SATC could be a good one … unforch my cortisol spiked so heavily and so many times just in the first season I had to stop immediately
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We are told to ignore the racism of Hegel, Kant, Locke etc because they were just "men of their time". So what do we do with the racism of current academics? Are they too just "men of their time"? What is this "time" that seems to make racists of men?
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It’s a bit ironic that the more academia is treated like a business, the more we run into business problems (“branding”, etc.), and then the business problems are held up as proof of long-standing and deep-seated problems of academia
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I really can't get over this, this is such a wild example. there was a whole Church Inquisition torturing and extorting suspected heretics in Newton's day and we are being invited to ask whether he would have survived land acknowledgments lmfao bsky.app/profile/pwhi...
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There are many things where I think I just have really Basic tastes, and one of them is this - you show me a competently made impressionistic painting of a spring or summer scene wherein light and shadow interplay? Imma clap like a seal. Love it.
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
*@nkjemisin.bsky.social kicks door open*
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
and then Andrew Tate closed replies 😂
derek guy 
@dieworkwear. 6h
Replying to @Cobratate

you sound like an "in cell"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/07/2026
a dorito optimized for fiber on the other hand would be a massively important public health intervention
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/07/2026
A24’s ‘Elden Ring’ Film Stalled After Red Phantom Named TwinkPunisher Invades Set theonion.com/a24s-elden-ring-film-s…
A24’s ‘Elden Ring’ Film Stalled After Red Phantom Named TwinkPunisher Invades Set
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Edgeoforever🗽 @edgeoforever.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
🤷‍♀️
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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I want to see the odyssey but I’m worried about getting cyclopspora
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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I'm sorry to do this on Monday. But I need to ask: which DID do you tend to reach for and why? -Callaway Sant'Anna/Sant'Anna Zhao -de Chaisemartin D’Haultfœuille -Boruysak et al imputation -2SDID (Gardner et al) -LP-DID (Dube et al) -FLEX DID (Deb, Norton, Wooldridge) -SWIVEL DID #econsky #medsky
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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If you have direct political interference in the refereeing, you don’t even have a game. Certainly not a beautiful one
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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Elon Musk says that no one died because of his demolition of USAID, and that "Kristof is lying through his teeth." So here I invite him to join me on a visit to Africa to see for himself: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Killed People. That’s the Truth.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/06/2026
shoutout to everyone who recommended Apteka in pittsburgh. one of the best meals i have had this year
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Thank you for the kind words!
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:
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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
11:42 AM • 6/25/26 • 670K ViewsJill Tucker
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
CABO VERDE
11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 92K ViewsJill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
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You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 62K ViewsJill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
everybody repost their favorite version
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Thanks Andy! Hope to see you around soon!
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Thanks Dan!!
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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The best part of #science is the #process. In this case, it was spending some years learning from my smarter, more creative colleague @vinisingh.bsky.social while on a truly meaningful question. The paper also benefitted from a caring editor, good refs + copyediting by @standarderror.bsky.social.
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Thank you!! It needed your magic touch 🪄
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Thanks!! It's been a while 😂
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Thank you for the shout-out!
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
😂🥰🙏
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Yes, ditto!
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
It’s here, it’s finally hereeeee!!!! This paper is in the AER because of two people: my co-author @atheendar.bsky.social, and our copy-editor @sameyler.bsky.social.
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
or something a bit stronger :)
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🥰🙏
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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Acceptance day!!! After 8 years of work!
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 23/06/2026
Gawker, bless it, tried to warn us. www.gawkerarchives.com/gawker-was-m...
Tom Scocca, writing in the conclusion of the second-to-last post published by Gawker under Nick Denton's control:

"Gawker always said it was in the business of publishing true stories. Here is one last true story: You live in a country where a billionaire can put a publication out of business. A billionaire can pick off an individual writer and leave that person penniless and without legal protection.

"If you want to write stories that might anger a billionaire, you need to work for another billionaire yourself, or for a billion-dollar corporation. The law will not protect you. There is no freedom in this world but power and money."
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Big Sadness doesn't want you to know this, but just quietly being in the presence of someone you love and who loves you in return is very nice, actually.
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