Robert Duval Hernández

Scientists hide messages in papers to game AI peer review Some studies containing instructions in white text or small font — visible only to machines — will be withdrawn from preprint servers.

It's official: we live in the stupidest timeline
"Nature has (...) found 18 preprint studies containing such hidden messages, (...) usually included as white text and sometimes in an extremely small font that would be invisible to a human but could be picked up as an instruction to an AI reviewer."

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

YouTube video by Scientific American What is Scientific American?

We finally made it to Bluesky—just a few billion years after the Big Bang, and only slightly late to the party ✨🌌

We’re sharing some of our best stories from the year so far to kick off our Bluesky journey!

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Allez les bleues

Oval-framed daguerreotype portrait of Frederick Douglass, a prominent 19th-century African American abolitionist, writer, and orator. He wears a dark jacket, patterned waistcoat, white shirt, and bow tie. His expression is serious and resolute, with his wavy hair parted to the side. The photograph reflects his dignity and strength as a leader in the fight against slavery.

In July of 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered one of the greatest speeches in US history. Today it’s often presented in abridged form, though, and skips what seems like a long-winded introduction. If you read the intro closely, however, there’s an ingenious structure. THREAD👇🏽

This is what the times call for

A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.

my @newyorker.com column this week goes in depth on how using AI makes us less original, unique, and creative as writers, thinkers, and communicators. Various new studies are proving that AI is a rampant force of homogenization: www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

A survey of advances in modeling cultural transmission in economics and how these models differ conceptually from those employed in evolutionary anthropology, from @albertobisin.bsky.social and Thierry Verdier https://www.nber.org/papers/w33928

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Growth can go hand in hand with degrowth in material use as economies shift toward quality and services, rising living standards and clean growth are possible, from Philippe Aghion, Timo Boppart, Michael Peters, Matthew Schwartzman, and Fabrizio Zilibotti https://www.nber.org/papers/w33634

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

Mad Men meme of Democratic politicians and consultants: Like my detailed policy proposal? Still upset about Joe Biden's age? When I used that word, did it lose you? Swing voters: I don't think about you at all

This is both ridiculous and very funny

A new milestone for this "don't believe your lying eyes" era

This is a great article in the latest issue of the JEP for anyone teaching panel methods (any level). Love this history of economic terms and ideas feature. #Econsky

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Regarding your last statement, I wonder, with a bit of dread, what will the returns to skills be when the measurement of the latter are muddled by AI

World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

Research at risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies | Cornell Chronicle After receiving a stop-work order from the federal government, the future of a device to help children with heart defects is uncertain.

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects.

It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this.

The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

“Generators at Gaza’s main desalination plant are producing potable water at only 10 percent of its usual capacity, she said, after Israel also cut off electricity..

The estimation is that 90 percent of the fuel that is in storage in Gaza today is inaccessible due to evacuation orders”

Donald Trump spent $23M on golf (up to mid march).

Over 56 days, he spent $410k of our tax dollars each day at his own clubs.

That is one 3-year NSF grant per day.

Waste and abuse, my ass.

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We need more data janitors in the world. 🧹
People whose focus is organizing, documenting, and wrangling data for other people. I would welcome the company. It’s not a glamorous job but it’s really important and it’s very needed.

Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

Gazans are again going hungry as Israel’s total siege nears two months No food, fuel, aid or commercial goods have entered Gaza since March 2. Residents say they are surviving on one meal a day or less.

No food, fuel, aid or commercial goods have entered Gaza since March 2. Residents say they are surviving on one meal a day or less.

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Graphic showing two Truth Social posts from Donald Trump, with the first (dated January 29, 2024) boasting about economic success and claiming “THIS IS TRUMP’S STOCK MARKET, and the second (dated April 30, 2025) contradictorily claiming “This is Biden’s Stock Market, not Trump’s” after this morning’s GDP Q1 report shows the economy has contracted under Trump so far.

The Trump Playbook:
 
Take credit for the strong economy he inherited.
Crash that economy with needless tariffs.
Blame others for the mess he made.
Repeat.

You should contact [replace with your name] to call him out on his/her lack of professionalism

¿Por qué (NO) penalizar las respuestas incorrectas en los exámenes tipo test? Por Pedro Rey Biel (@pedroreybiel), Marina Diez Rituerto, Javier Gardeazabal y Nagore Iriberri. El acceso al mercado laboral suele requerir pasar por una serie de procesos de selección diseñados pa...

¿Por qué (NO) penalizar las respuestas incorrectas en los exámenes tipo test? nadaesgratis.es/pedro-rey-bi... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía