Ryan Hill

*mulder’s eyes widen as scully hands him the ancient xylophone*

Banana ball brain

What a pull

Too busy hustling

You listed six different publishers that are operating at scale. That’s more competitive than many mature industries, and it doesn’t include the many non-profit and university publishers

The best way to think about academic publishing is that the creators are also the consumers. No one is “buying” our papers at the newsstand. Elsevier is basically a management company that gets a fee for running the peer-review process. If they charge too much, a competitor will replace them.

Henry Hudson to blame presumably

East River?

Love that 5% of people don’t care for maps on their phones. Give me the Rand McNally US Road Atlas or give me death!

He can ask the cash cab questions

Competitive rates!

If we’re being honest, straw is the best roofing material of the three. The pig appreciates the risks of damp

Curtis?

We didn’t look at that specifically, but it’s an interesting question for further research! My hunch is that experience is still a benefit even when pivoting. Other work on the “Matthew effect” suggests it’s hard to break into science at all. Thanks for the comment!

The pivot penalty in research - Nature An analysis of millions of scientific papers and patents reveals a ‘pivot penalty’ when researchers shift direction, with the impact of studies decreasing rapidly the further they move from their prev...

Here's the link to the full article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks to great co-authors @yianyin.bsky.social, Carolyn Stein, Xizhao Wang, @dashunwang.bsky.social, and Ben Jones. It was a long time coming!

Very excited for our new publication in @nature.com about the difficulty of pivoting in science. In some sense, this project was my own "pivot" to engage more with a general science audience for the first time. Its really gratifying to see it in print.

Dandelion infestations in suburban yards as a leading indicator for recession

@caseynewton.bsky.social @kevinroose.com Could be a good one to cover on Hard Fork

The whisper network remains influential and necessary

This case in particular is a reminder that "proprietary data" and "anonymous partners" can occasionally be permitted for social science research, but should raise additional layers of scrutiny in the peer review process

MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student’s AI Research Paper The university said it has no confidence in a widely circulated paper by an economics graduate student.

With the excitement (delirium?) surrounding the rise of AI, it's more important than ever that scientists and journalists maintain an attitude of skepticism and dispassion about new findings as they arrive
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-...

It just all seemed way too good to be true. I've had a number of skeptical conversations about this paper with other folks working in the area. We hesitated to publicly question the paper because he's a grad student and it wasn't peer reviewed yet. Glad the proper channels were followed to fix it.

Wow I hadn’t heard that!

A family friend went to Salzburg but didn’t want to pay for the TSOM bus tour. So instead they followed the bus and tried to figure out the sites on their own. After an hour they realized they accidentally were following the history of the Nazi occupation tour instead

Easy Street Burgers will blow your mind

How can this bombshell drop while @bryancurtis.bsky.social is on vacation!?! Emergency @thepressbox.bsky.social pod from the South Rim?

Great to see that your economics research is transcending field boundaries with the materials science crowd