Fabrizio Ferraro

Chronic fatigue patients have different genes, study finds ‘Groundbreaking’ research finds ‘genetic signals’ for debilitating illness

Important findings for those with ME/CFS. Let's hope that more research might help find a cure as well 🙏https://on.ft.com/3J1vFjX

Are superstars as good when they move jobs? The AI-talent scramble raises an old question

Honored to see our research with Matteo Prato cited in @economist.com AI talent war article. We found hiring “stars” can actually hurt team performance—especially for non-stars—as stars often absorb more resources than they share.
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The Texas Floods Were Made Worse by Climate Denialism Elected officials must be held accountable, now and in the future, for the lives lost in disasters brought on by increasingly extreme weather.

Michael Bloomberg: "Not every life can be spared from climate change, unfortunately, but many more could be saved if elected officials stopped pretending that they’re powerless to do anything about it."
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GodsTV - Fight for clout in this fame show arena roguelike A hilarious action game set in a madcap, 90's-throwback TV world where fame is a weapon.

Kickstarter campaign from one of the most creative video game studios in Barcelona - Check out GodsTV - Fight for clout in this fame show arena roguelike by Melbot Studios on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/mel...

Great start of EGOS conference in Athens with Max Richter's concert at the Odeon in the Akropolis! @maxrichtermusic.bsky.social

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and the most published one of the new batch is a statistician who famously wanted to go for herd immunity instead of vaccines 🤬

I am watching Andor - a Star Wars spinoff - and in one of the episode the Empire create a situation where protesters and poorly trained young soldiers are put in the same small square. A powder keg which predictably ends with violence...eerily familiar these days 😡

The rich, the ultra-rich and America’s shifting political landscape Two wonderfully detailed books explore the widening gap between the super-elites and everyone else

Good review but the author could have noticed the irony that Trump is the product of this unholy alliance between antielites and ultra-elites! The rich, the ultra-rich and America’s shifting political landscape - on.ft.com/3FKSirx

How to Dismantle a Democracy, One Job Posting at a Time OPM’s new hiring memo imports the authoritarian playbook—quietly, bureaucratically, and by design.

this @adambonica.bsky.social piece deserves to be read beside the yeoman work that @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social have been doing. The dismantling of administrative expertise is one of those stories that is so big that pro journalists with beats find it hard to focus on or explain .

Is there a future for responsible investment beyond ESG?
I’ll be sparring (constructively!) with Tariq Fancy (bio: stanford.io/3RNVd5c) May 12th at @iese.bsky.social
Join us as we explore what went wrong with ESG—and what comes next.
alumni.iese.edu/events/173999
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Investors’ risky bet: they can shrug off the trade war The relief they are banking on needs to come fast

“The strongest demand for stocks seems to be coming from retail investors in America, who like to “buy the dip”. Some of them could be allowing their investment in Mr Trump at the ballot box to cloud their financial judgment.” If this true it will crash again…
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I hope the Catholics who voted for him are happy now.

Why the green-technology race might not save the planet The emerging global competition for green innovation, markets and investments might boost prosperity without improving environmental sustainability.

Interesting reflection on the need to accompany national competition in green technologies with global cooperation to solve shared environmental risks, and avoid mercantilism (a major challenge today given the protectionist push of the US).

Top Venture Capitalist Says AI Will Replace Pretty Much All Jobs Except His, Which Relies on His Unique Genius Marc Andreessen recently argued that the AI revolution will take over for all jobs, except for his, coincidentally.

Top Venture Capitalist Says AI Will Replace Pretty Much All Jobs Except His, Which Relies on His Unique Genius

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I still cannot believe this is happening 😡😡😡

Of course it had to be a finance professor 😂 and just threw out there random claims without bothering to check his claim with scholars who actually know something about it.

Eight of the top 10 online shows are spreading climate misinformation  » Yale Climate Connections Often backed by large advertising budgets, a new breed of climate denial is gaining popularity.

Eight of the top 10 online shows are spreading climate misinformation  yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/eigh...

How to survive a purge: the secret diary of a DoJ staffer A lawyer struggles with their conscience. New colleagues are watching

The scary ethical quandary of DOJ staffers - How to survive a purge: the secret diary of a DoJ staffer
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Opinion | To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.

Beautiful and interesting visualization of new data on migrations released by Meta: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Harvard University Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.

Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

Apparently this was the breaking point for Harvard: cluster hires for conservatives.

he has no shame 🤮

I've never been a Treasury secretary, so what would I know, but I reckon transparently lying about easily checked facts won't calm fears in the market, or the broader population.

The "Moron Risk Premium" explains well what happened yesterday on the market 👍

So they put him there, now they sue him...

As NASDAQ opened, nice to see Microstrategy (Bitcoin), Tesla (Musk) and Palantir (Peter Thiel) leading the #TrumpCrash @teslatakedown.com

I hope margin calls starts hitting today for him and other enablers!