Paolo Crosetto

indeed. but given the breadth and depth of problems, after proper third party verification and/or other steps, the original paper ought to be retracted, don't you think?

🚨Replication alert🚨
I'm pleased to announce that my replication of Moretti (2021) is now accepted as a comment at AER.

I find ten issues in the paper. My comment focuses on two major problems; in the appendix, I document eight (relatively) minor problems.

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also called a non-replication agreement -- clever idea

Great chance for the synthesis of the Strain + Drain + Stain (PISS) team from Paolo here. Be sure to register in advance to get the Zoom invite on the day!

We're thrilled to open registration for the Utrecht Replication Games. The event will be at the at the University of Utrecht on June 4th. Psych, public health, pol sci and econ studies will be reproduced!

Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

🚨 Zoom Talk 🚨

Thu 19th 4pm CET I present the results of the strain (tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r) drain (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820) & PISS (arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563) papers at the Peer-Community In Webinar series.

Info: peercommunityin.org/pci-webinar-...

Let's debate the future of publishing together!

"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."

The editors involved are likely different people but they are asking you to work for them (for free). So any condition you'd like to impose on you providing (for free) work for them is totally legit IMHO.

Also, if the current editor needs your input, s/he can contact the other editor.

Scientific sleuths come in from the cold Research integrity investigators are starting to organize, but the field, and the people, remain idiosyncratic

Research sleuths are starting to organize, but the field, and the people, remain idiosyncratic — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social:

cen.acs.org/research-int...

@mcintold.bsky.social, @reeserichardson.bsky.social, @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @sholtodavid.bsky.social,
@eugenie-reich.bsky.social

PDF Accessibility and Standards – Quarto Quarto 1.9 brings PDF accessibility and standards support, building on new tagging features in LaTeX and Typst.

Quarto update out to render pdfs with tagging and other accessibility requirements and IT WORKS. (Verified with acrobat accessibility checker). except the tables made with kableExtra, which don’t have headers but still…huge #Rstats quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

Weekly reminder that Academic Publishers profit margins are among the highest in the world, this side of the law.

OA also means green OA: just host the paper on your own website or on a repo. Don't know about NZ / other countries, but eg in FR / NL you can do it. If the publishers sue, the country has your back.

Or they really mandate Gold OA to subsidize publishers?

Make sense, they don't have enough profits

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Just a reminder, we not only wrote about the profiteering nature of the Springer-Nature Discover journal series, but we made a "guess the publisher" game!

hal.science/hal-05113253

Game by @pagomba.bsky.social

pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/

#OpenAccess #AcademicSky #FoSci #MDPI #SciPub

Easy to turn it into a shiny app if you are interested, we could host a collection of those :-)

Wuhuu, Publication Alert! 📣 My first, first-author article (and first chapter of my dissertation), ‘Farmer Identity and Risk Preferences in Farmers' Choices Between Public and Private Agri-Environmental Contracts’, is now published #openaccess in #QOpen. 🔑🔒 1/9

Using Quarto to Write a Book I’ve spent the last couple of months revising my Data Visualization book for a second edition that, ideally, will appear some time in the next twelve months. As with the first edition, I’ve posted a c...

Using Quarto to write (and typeset) a book.

well, *it is* a model, isn't it? And it has a theory behind it -- "things better get back to normal or my ass is busted"

Data Visualization A Practical Introduction

@kjhealy.co has a new version of his data visualization book coming out and 1) you’d be a fool not to get it especially if you do R stuff 2) it’s gonna be even more beautiful than the first one, which is truly lovely book 3) he put the ENTIRE content on his website for free, you lucky so-and-so

Great thought-provoking blog here. On the nature of how we do science itself, cannot recommend enough Science is a strong link problem.
www.experimental-history.com/p/science-is...

The war is not over. Tibbles fight on.

True, and yet more fuel to the argument that Europe should decarbonize fast, faster, and even faster.

Of course our politicians have gone steadily in the opposite direction, what with Germany closing down nuclear plants, e-car policies (partly) reversed, half-assed renewable policies, and the like.

I wrote a short blog post that describes selection on significance in plain language and then proposes and criticizes two alternatives (selection on precision and registered reports). This is me working through my thoughts online, so feedback is very welcome.
ryancbriggs.net/blog/the-pro...

The EU took the energy transition as an "eco-hippy" thing and invested late, half-heartedly & slowly.

China deemed it both a strategic imperative & an econ niche they could exploit; it went big, fast, all in.

Now we are setting tariffs on Chinese energy products, and are vulnerable to everything.

Trump is slashing funds across all of science. But the flattest of flat curves is Econ & Social Sciences. ~5 grants in 5 months (vs ~50 in previous years).

If this trend continues -- and, really, any indication it won't? -- this is an apocalypse for US economics.

America is sabotaging itself.

I just estimated my risk preferences! My CARA coefficient is 0.61. Try it here: jamesblandecon.shinyapps.io/RiskApp/

#CARAestimate #TeachEcon #TeachBE

ESTIMATE MY RISK PREFERENCES

Version 0.0.3 now lets you download your choice data and posterior distribution

#TeachBE #TeachEcon #EconSky

jamesblandecon.shinyapps.io/RiskApp/

AI and the Nature of Science: Keynote presentation by Carl Bergstrom YouTube video by MN Center for Philosophy of Science

how LLMs change incentives for research - a great talk by @carlbergstrom.com , had to watch in parts, a lot to digest. #institutional_epistemology at its best! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mj3... #philsci

Anti-fascism should have broad support across the American political spectrum. Elections need to be defended. Here's an open letter from retired professors at HBS in which we call for business leaders to address that need.
#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/02/an-a...