Ben Golub

SocialCal #socialcal will read your @bsky.app feed and turn event posts into an ICS calendar feed that you can install in your calendar app. See the documentation here: socialcal.org

It is open source. Suggestions or improvements are welcome.

Everyone freezing on the East Coast or in the Midwest remember: Kyiv has the same weather, except that hundreds of thousands of people don't have electricity, heating or running water

yeah, surprisingly bad even with some (i immodestly think expert) prompting

will try to be better about this - thanks!

Is this too spicy for BlueSky

Tried refine.ink by @bengolub.bsky.social to get feedback about a paper and it's quite remarkable. Worth giving it a try. And if you use this link — www.refine.ink?ref=cGVkcm9t... — we can both get a free review.

I have just used refine.ink by @bengolub.bsky.social to proof-check 3 papers, and it is amazing! It checks for internal consistency, checks proofs and finds typos that I would not have seen!

Sign up using my link so we both can get extra reviews when:
www.refine.ink?ref=YS5wZWlj...

Yes, we probably need an empiricist in-house to make it better at empirical pedantry!

DM me/email me at ben@refine.ink ? Could give you some free access to help you get a better sense of it/try it on a variety of manuscripts.

This is a common question -

Refine seems about equally useful for theory and empirical work.

It thinks about, e.g., whether
- the numbers in a paper make sense taken together
- the econometric equations match up with the verbal claims
- whether signs of effects make sense.

I just used refine.ink to proofread a paper that's nearly ready for circulation.

It had 23 comments. The first caught us using "reduces" instead of "increases" when describing our main treatment effect in the abstract.

I highly endorse this tool for preventing such embarassing errors!

If you sign up for Refine to proofread your papers, please use my referral link to create an account: www.refine.ink?ref=ay5ib2dh... That way we both can receive one free technical review!

Check out refine.ink -- would be very curious for your take. Please DM me if you want full reviews to test it.

A meme I created for a presentation I gave today

Best wishes to @bengolub.bsky.social and all other Eigenvalue appreciators

🚨 We are hiring! ‼️‼️

tenured track assistant or associate prof in economics at university of Melbourne @unimelb.bsky.social

welcome applications from all fields (but especially from econometrics)

econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...

just fixed!

This seems very interesting. I would be keen to hear about experiences with Refine.

Check out refine.ink for AI technical referee reports on your papers if you haven't tried it yet

DM me or reply if you want preview credits to see how it performs on papers of various kinds

#econtwitter #econsky: recently used Refine.ink (developed by @ben_golub) as a AI assessment tool for papers + it is amazing, so wanted to share some examples of what it can do if you are curious. (It's much, much better than other free tools I've used)

Added Finance job decomposition, and Federal Reserve Bank/Board jobs (zero so far this year...)

Posted a short blog post with updated data (and public repo with data) of current state of Econ job market:

paulgp.com/2025/10/08/j...

amazing tweet

presented without comment

I tried this on a manuscript—I’m impressed! It flagged:

- A missing variable in a first-order condition
- An outdated manual calc (“drop from X to Y is not Z%”)
- Inconsistent notation
- Miscellaneous typos (“and and”, “+ +”)
- Missing subscripts
- Several unclear passages

We'll make one. Email us at help@refine.ink or dm me so we have your info

Good idea! We'll try to develop something like that. Departments can get student subscriptions at very good rates.

You might have seen me posting about it before. One new thing is that we now give a free preview automatically to any new user.

If you signed up before and would like a free preview, just send a message to help@refine.ink.

This is the kind of feedback it gives -

We've been using it mostly on technical manuscripts in social science, statistics, applied math, philosophy, and other topics. Would welcome feedback on how it performs on your research.

I have just used it for the first time and let me tell you, it is well worth the money. Highly recommended for a last check before submission. Great stuff 👏

This @beijingpalmer.bsky.social post reminded me I have been meaning to update @pewresearch.org's estimate of total newspaper newsroom jobs - which was 30,820 as of 2020

Using BLS OEWS data (w/ same methodology as Pew) the 2024 number is 29,260 - down another 5%

www.pewresearch.org/chart/sotnm-...