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Firm’s Source Country or Project Characteristics? Survey Experiments on Preferences for Chinese Investment in the Global South Abstract. Do individuals favor a particular foreign investment project based mainly on the investing company’s source country or the characteristics of the

We find that, against conventional wisdom, Global South publics do not discriminate against Chinese investment projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia
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Mid-Autumn, Tiger Hill, Late Ming "Everyone was perfectly silent, even the mosquitoes."

For the Mid-Autumn Festival, I translated the 17th century failson, epicure, and memoirist Zhang Dai's account of the annual Mid-Autumn singing competition on Tiger Hill in Suzhou. www.burninghou.se/p/mid-autumn...

is pearl still the best intro to DAGs? Looking for something that assumes as little as possible (for a student but also me because I remember nothing TBH)

also discovered that many students could not yet distinguish between procedural and outcome-based notions of policy justification so that was a fun 20 minute detour I did not prep for

currently discovering how difficult it is to teach (contemporary?) college students the basic “is-ought”distinction and I get that I’m old but I don’t really remember it being this hard

the ones that live in my head

the energy of these articles is so much. look at that line plot. the table of evaluation metrics and methods!!

mods are asleep post Chinese experimental political reforms

“改革干部选用制度的新尝试”（中共宁波市委组织部、宁波市人事局）

《中国人事管理》1987年第一期。

I want to apologize to all the professors i secretly cursed for not responding to my emails and to apologize to everyone whose emails i'm not responding to but jesus why are there so many emails and people and things and we're in the middle of so many layers of crisis

my husband procrastinated by trialing several different painters tapes, definitely bought a few days

this will not stand

love this

a first chat says "happy taylor album drop day y'all" and the reply says "but can the new ones match the original banger" and posts a picture of a taylor series/taylor expansion

vindicate me! this was a good joke!!!

in an act of true epistemic violence, jeff refused my exhortation to expand data collection to other social scientists to assess comparative feline credit-assignment

some insider lore that the people truly crave: this paper was almost about people thanking their cats

library(lubridate) yr <- 2025 # This doesn't work ymd(yr) #> Warning message: #> All formats failed to parse. No formats found. #> [1] NA #------- # TIRED #------- # I've done this for *yeeeeears* ymd(paste0(yr, "-01-01")) #> [1] "2025-01-01" #------- # WIRED #------- # The truncated argument tells {lubridate} that it can # ignore up to 2 (in this case) formats to look for. # Ordinarily `ymd()` looks for three formats: a year, # a month, and a day. `truncated = 2` means it can skip # the month and day parts ymd(yr, truncated = 2) #> [1] "2025-01-01" ymd(c("2025", "2025-10", "2025-10-02"), truncated = 2) #> [1] "2025-01-01" "2025-10-01" "2025-10-02"

I just learned about the `truncate` argument in {lubridate} functions, which means NO MORE HACKY paste0(year, "-01-01") code to build dates when converting years to dates in #rstats

genuinely an unhinged thing to think or write

oof bud sorry to hear it

an elderly woman in a pink sweater says " let 's roll " ALT: an elderly woman in a pink sweater says " let 's roll "

it’s research morning, time to clean some ocr results

China Goes on Offense Beijing’s plans to exploit American retreat.

"Xi aims to establish China as the fulcrum of an emerging multipolar world, and he is advancing a new, more active diplomatic strategy to realize that goal." Jeffrey Prescott and @juliangewirtz.bsky.social write on shifting centers of gravity in a new article for @foreignaffairs.com.

Exclusive | White House Asks Colleges to Sign Sweeping Agreement to Get Funding Advantage An initial round of nine schools is being asked to sign a wide-ranging accord.

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

wait hi hello yes same

why is 1980s graphic design going so hard

jfc. v sorry to see this. being unable to describe anything as group conflict is a [deliberate?] death sentence to the social sciences

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find th...

There are individual anecdotes that they're useful for coding. I even have some myself. But AFAIK every systematic experiment finds they're not that useful, eg, metr.org/blog/2025-07...

Feels similar to last year's vibes economy debate. But I don't want to drop a 15-post thread in your mentions.

if you know who i am: no you don't

I updated my R Bootcamp slides if anyone is looking for an introduction to using R. Attempts to cover basics, ggplot, simple regression, and quarto. kevinreuning.com/workshops/r_...

considering asking my students to do a role play exercise as Chinese analysts on Wednesday, but I suspect the results would just depress and infuriate everyone

sending comfy dog vibes, hope she does better soon