Scientists and policy makers with feet of clay
Warson, Summers and others:
βThere was always going to be a complex reckoning in the obituaries of James D Watson (1928β2025), the American geneticist who co-discovered the structure of DNA.β
#metoo #science #econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/12/scie...
04.12.2025 15:19 β π 10 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Interview with Joel Mokyr: "I'm Not Sure Democracy Will Survive"
βdemocracy is a fragile system. I'm not sure democracy will survive, but I'm sure technological advances will."
#econsky #academicsky #democracy
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/12/inte...
02.12.2025 15:16 β π 10 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Women in Thoracic Surgery,
"Cardiothoracic surgery had a reputation, which is fading but probably not gone, as the toughest, meanest and the most macho specialtyβ¦β
#medicine #econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/11/wome...
30.11.2025 13:17 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Gift to deceased donor family (generous ex-post, but illegal ex-ante)
Timing makes a big difference here, legally speaking.
#econsky #transplantation
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/11/gift...
29.11.2025 16:21 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
Congestion and signaling in the job market, as the ratio of applications to positions continues to rise
βrecruiters don't just want qualified applicants. They want to know β amid the sea of people applying with a single click β who's actually serious enough that they'd likely accept an offer.β
#econsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/11/cong...
27.11.2025 12:21 β π 22 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0
Modern warfare: going into battle with laptops
βthe vehicle was able to produce enough power to charge multiple laptops, drones, Starlink receivers, and more for two weeksβ
#army
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/11/mode...
26.11.2025 13:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Illicit organ trade, in Nigeria and elsewhere
A view of black markets from Nigeria
#nigeria #econsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/11/illi...
24.11.2025 11:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
Magic staircase
A computer assisted set of stairs
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/11/magi...
23.11.2025 12:42 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Viewpoint diversity on swastikas and vaccines: one close call and one further descent
A headline I had to red twice:
_In reversal, _ Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/11/view...
21.11.2025 13:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
MATCH-UP 2026, Paris 1-3 July, 2026, call for papers
Invited speakers:
Itai Ashlahi β Stanford University
Irene Lo β Stanford MSE
Rebecca ReiffenhΓ€user β University of Amsterdam
#econsky #econconf
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/11/matc...
19.11.2025 14:03 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Artificial intelligence and the future of Wikipedia
βThere are definitely threats to the web, but theyβre not necessarily coming from AI,β he says. βI think the bigger threat is the rise of authoritarianism....β
#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/11/arti...
18.11.2025 17:54 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Judd Kessler: the most helpful advice I ever got (YouTube short video)
I'm also grateful to whoever gave him that advice:)
#EconSky #AcademicSky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/11/judd...
15.11.2025 13:16 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Ethical considerations and global cooperaton in transplantation, Wednesday in Cairo
It's morning in Cairo, and there will be a wide ranging discussion of ethics in transplantation, including global cooperation.
#EconSky #medicine #Egypt
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/11/ethi...
12.11.2025 04:12 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Opinion | The science that extended Dick Cheneyβs life was a choice - The Washington Post
10.11.2025 02:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Economics and CS (AI+ML) in Ithaca in June: call for papers
Econ, artificial intelligence and machine learning β¦
#EconConf #econsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/11/econ...
09.11.2025 14:08 β π 8 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1
International Transplant Week in Egypt, 2025
There's some chance that something quite exciting could happen at the first day of this conference on Wednesday...
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/11/inte...
07.11.2025 13:32 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
School choice and performance gaps in England: a report by Burgess, Cantillon, Greaves and Cavallo
How to address the problem of poor children being assigned to poor schools, in England
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/11/scho...
#econsky
06.11.2025 15:03 β π 3 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
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Assistant Professor at UT Dallas
ER doc, public health professional, researcher, and former chief medical officer at the CDC. Working to improve health in communities while figuring out what is next for me
Donβt hate others, just love themβ¦.
Econ prof University of Zurich.
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Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
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Economics professor at Princeton. I study environmental conservation, gender equality, and (too many) other topics in developing countries.
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Law professor; author of Free to Move: Foot Voting Migration and Political Freedom; Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter; The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain; Volokh Conspiracy blogger.
Google Chief Scientist, Gemini Lead. Opinions stated here are my own, not those of Google. Gemini, TensorFlow, MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner, ML things, ...
Mellon Professor of Economics and former director at CERGE-EI. Former Deputy Minister for Science, Research and Innovation in the Czech government.
Economist at Stockholm School of Economics
My book, Institutional and Organizational Economics is available at this link: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=9781509558995
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