Peter Eibich

This is pretty shocking to hear for a well-regarded journal

We are looking at a large room lit only by candles. The candles are placed around a fireplace, on ledges around central posts and on tables. The light makes the floor glimmer.

Have you ever wondered what the Hall would look like just lit by candles?

Wonder no more.

Happy Sunday!

Full Professor position in Economics | Laboratoire d’Économie de Dauphine (LEDa)

We're hiring a Full Professor of Economics - below you can now see the ad on our website!
@univdauphine.bsky.social

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Please note this link is initially free to read but will lead you inexorably to a pay wall, behind which you can interact with eager content creators who will respond to your demands* in exchange for £££££

*for detailed financial analysis and contextualised reporting

If someone were interested in getting an intro of drug pricing and drug pricing policy in the US, what books or articles would you recommend?

Thanks!

#HealthPolicy

A picture of various bell peppers cut vertically and the stem end has Googly eyes stuck onto the white part of the interior stem end . They all look either like they’re screaming or ecstatic The meme says “cutting bell peppers and adding googly eyes is bound to heal your soul a little, give it a try”

😀😂

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Study reveals elevated mortality risk for single parents, with single fathers at particularly high risk | Tilburg University A new study by Tilburg University and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research reveals that single parents in Denmark face significantly higher mortality risks than their partnered counterpar...

I’m excited to share our new publication in @readdemography.bsky.social 🥳 written w/ @angelacar.bsky.social, J. Caputo, L. Ahrenfeldt, @annaoksuzyan.bsky.social

👉 Read the full paper here lnkd.in/enf3Duvg

@sociologytiu.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social

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tbt the time a drunk was trying to insult one of the bouncers on the high street and got the devastating response "oh look, someone who doesn't matter has said something that isn't true". I often think about this when not replying to tweets

I am begging journalists to stop just repeating the phrase "pull factor" when it comes to a system which provides less than £50 a week to survive on, at best, per week, and denies people the right to work, among other things. The UK asylum system is not a "pull factor" by any measure.

Denmark Summons U.S. Envoy Over a Reported ‘Influence Operation’ in Greenland

This was just about a month ago, so I guess Greenland is not fully off the table?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/w...

Viewpoint: What we don’t see about vaccines COULD hurt us

Not only is RFKjr spreading disinformation about vaccines, infection & health but advertising for flu/covid vaccines and support for clinical teams to address questions re vaccines is not happening either. ie disproportionately negative vaccine messages dominate which likely will reduce uptake

British Politics' Midlife Crisis Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

Thread (will horrify researchers)

An angry man with branch hands pretending to be two conjoined Sycamore trees.

A tree on Exmoor which has some fucking stories to tell even though it doesn't go around shouting about it.

A tree on Dartmoor which, though old, is still quite cheeky, and likes using its branches to sneakily tickle cattle, ponies and people when they pass it.

A tree which is so endlessly proud of the village where it lives that it stands constantly at the edge of it, constantly welcoming everyone who arrives, with a wave and a smile.

I hand over an invisible ‘Tree Of The Day’ award to the most charismatic tree I see on each of my walks. Here are just a few past winners of this esteemed but still largely unknown prize.

Research on fertility and families enhanced with new harmonised cohort data | CLS Harmonised data on the fertility histories of four British cohorts are now available for the scientific community to download from the UK Data Service.

NEW DATA! Harmonised fertility histories of four British cohorts – born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989-90 – are now available for the scientific community to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social

Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr

We've all been there... 🫂

There seems to be some *confusion*
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them

“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”

“But, but he was in UKIP”

“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”

So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵

1/14

Just discovered what is possibly the greatest headline of all time:
"McDonald’s fries the holy grail for potato farmers"

twenty five years ago today, on September 25, 2000, the United States men's basketball team was playing France in the Sydney Olympics

with sixteen minutes left in the second half and the USA up 69-54, Vince Carter stole the ball

between him and the rim was 7'2" Frederic Weis

then he did this

This could change my practice. There are risks of overdiagnosis from breast screening but this looks like clear evidence of benefit.

“Healthcare personnel often do not realize that in the U.S., HPV-related mortality far surpasses the mortality from tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis & meningococcal disease combined. Each year, about 4,000 deaths are the result of cervical cancer; most are preventable through pre-exposure vaccination”

= THE NEW YORKER ICO In terms of human rights, I've always found it a little bit puzzling, given what you write, and given who your wife is, that you two were so close to Henry Kissinger. Of all the pre-Trump political figures in America, he is the one I think of as in some ways the opposite of liberal, given his behavior toward the rest of the world. I'll tell you a story. I wrote a book a few years ago on Star Wars. We invited Dr. Kissinger to my Star Wars book party, and he said, "You wrote a book about Star Wars? Why'd you write a book about Star Wars?" He was puzzled and courteous, but really confused. And then he came to the book party, which was quite generous. He was a busy person. But, despite his busyness, he came to the book party. Yeah, and then I gave a talk on Star Wars, and he came up to me afterward and he said, "Oh, I see why you wrote a book on Star Wars. There's a lot there. It's, like, about families and it's about governments and freedom." The amount of curiosity and generosity that he showed was incomparable. I don't know anyone who showed that level of curiosity and generosity. And we really got into Star Wars. He just wanted to think about it. I know there are strong views about his career, and I'm hardly an expert on his career.

But your wife is one of the great human-rights experts in the world. I asked you about him being anti-liberal, and your response was that he was very nice to you about your book. About Star Wars. It is certainly a touching story. But that's not totally an answer to the question. Yeah. Well, I don't know. What he would think of this book I'd love to know. But no second thoughts about being friends with him or anything? I feel generally very grateful for friendship, and he was, when I knew him, a person of immense kindness. Those who think of him as someone who was something horrible or worse, 1 don't know what to say about that.

But you could have an opinion on it. You have an opinion on all kinds of things, right? Well, on him and his role in government, that's not something I've particularly studied, so I don't know. I know some people who think he was a horrible historic figure. They would say, "Would you be friends with Genghis Khan? Would you be friends with Stalin?" And I wouldn't be friends with Stalin, so I concede that. Well, the next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam, I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides. Yeah. And I get those who think you shouldn't be friends with someone who did terrible things. I hear that. I can just say that he was, as a very large number of people would say, though many fewer would say it publicly, an extraordinarily generous friend. Professor, thank you so much for doing this. Great, thanks. If we go light on the Kissinger part, I wouldn't complain, because it could dwarf everything else. *

Isaac Chotiner interviews Cass Sunstein. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

23 September 1943, Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto is executed by German paratroopers at Torre di Palidoro, near Rome. He falsely confesses responsibility for an explosion that kills two Germans to save the lives of 22 innocent civilians rounded up for execution in reprisal [Thread] >> 1

Oh man this is cool

We are looking at the Hall - a timber framed building, surrounded by flood water. The garden and trees are submerged under water.

After all the rain we have had over the last few days it's not surprising that the River Ouse in York has flooded (a little bit).

A similar soggy outcome happened nearly 10 years ago but with a far more serious outcome for the Hall.

Join us as we tell you about the 2015 Boxing Day floods.

Restricting H1-Bs and tariffing solar panels are, in particular, so comically stupid that when you hear them you should find an economist to give a hug.

Good morning.

Immigration is good. Trade is good.

There are nuances but they are narrow enough that free and open movement of people and goods should be the default.

Has anyone liked or disliked any particular training resources for machine learning in Stata? Courses, videos...

If not in Stata, then in Python or R but pitched towards people trained in econometrics?