Daniel P

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A real "uber for buses" moment

Always incredible to have Adobe's AI offer to summarize an academic paper when I have the abstract pulled up

Postdocs: Penn is preventing a vote that would protect the workers who help it succeed | Opinion Penn's postdoctoral workers and research associates want to unionize — like the grad student workers did. But the university is putting obstacles in their way, say Marshall Padilla and Emily Perkins.

www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

Liam Neeson al Gaib

Leo having a degree from Villanova means Philly would only claim him after other Philly affiliated Cardinals were out of the running

Social network structure and the radius of risk sharing - Social Network Analysis and Mining Informal risk sharing, an important coping strategy, is mediated by social networks. Does risk sharing extend beyond immediate connections? If so, what is its radius? I examine the radius of risk shar...

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"Social network structure and the radius of risk sharing" at SNAM

Q: How distant can risk sharing partners be in networks?
A: Further than you might think!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Oh, you're a big fan of economics? What are your three favorite JEL codes then?

I've launched a massive testing and research effort that’s going to involve hundreds of dyadic regressions. By September, we will know what has caused risk sharing in networks.

This chart was made in America by skilled artisans.

It also provides important context for understanding our current tariff situation.

calling trump “orange”? kinda cringe but whatever

calling it “orange monday” thereby forcing future generations of economists to explain why its called that? absolutely hilarious

Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins The Heard and McDonald Islands are among the dozens of targets of President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs. But they have no exports, because no one lives there.

www.wired.com/story/trump-...

You wouldn't tariff a bear, would you? You wouldn't tariff a penguin

You could build a real life Gundam for six trillion dollars

i don't think all that stuff with the tariffs is a very good idea

Lol

Taking your combine harvester through TSA

The Decatur, IL airport has corn inside the fence

(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao

@spyhards.bsky.social Stumbled on the original adaptation of The Amateur today after seeing a trailer for the new version yesterday. Directed by Charles Jarrott, who directed Condorman (now you have to watch it too).

Feds Uncover Terabytes Of Free Speech During Raid Of Protestor’s Residence WASHINGTON—Following a daring operation that saw authorities seize the man’s property and detain him in an undisclosed location, FBI director Kash Patel announced Thursday that federal agents had unco...

Feds Uncover Terabytes Of Free Speech During Raid Of Protestor’s Residence

"You see, in their eyes... You're still a leaky ship."

Everyone loved to badmouth 538 but now we're going to have to get polling averages from real clear politics or something

Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned on Tuesday He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.

Why Dean Karlan, Chief Economist of USAID resigned yesterday:

"I was ready to rebuild from wherever we ended up to identify the most effective programs, figure out how to get them back in place, and to recommend new awards.

But I received no response. Zero engagement."
www.npr.org/sections/goa...

After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Yesterday, the NLRB’s Buffalo office (Region 3) received word from its landlord that GSA—acting on behalf of DOGE—had unilaterally cancelled the Region’s five-year lease, without any prior notice to the Agency. The Region has been given 90 days to vacate the building.

Really bad news for fans of the James Bond franchise, plus, additionally, people like me who aren’t Bond fans but have always appreciated knowing that the rights to James Bond were controlled by people called “the Broccoli family”

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country.

We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one.

I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread