Sander Wagner

NYtimes economics writing is having a bad run from the "trump winning tradewar" nonsense to this.

yes, also noted that american male workout culture has a slightly greater emphasis on buffness versus leanness, so thats definitely part of the puzzle.

yea, it might be a cultural reaction to dealing with the nutrition environment that emerged, which might also explain why its slowly migrating. I dont know, but I am fascinated by it.

right, also relatively higher salt, fat and sugar content of food makes hydration more important for digestion and bodily functioning. There is some good work on this.

but fair point, your suggestion is stylistically more kind on the brain.

it was meant to indicate the talking.

Before interacting a lot with Americans I thought about food in terms of vegetable/meat/preparation rather than chemical components.
Also, drinking was related to thirst, not to watering your body like a plant.
But the American way of thinking about this is slowly gaining ground everywhere.

There is nothing more american-coded than talking about "proteins" and "staying hydrated".

Editorial and Review Process

"Authors will never be asked to “revise and resubmit” their papers; after the initial review, all subsequent decisions will be made by the Editorial Staff without soliciting further reviews."

Source:
sociologicalscience.com/for-authors/...

another one: the quickly increasing number of friends getting sucked into the depth of womens football insta.

also more evidence for my "womens' football is becoming a much more multi-faceted complete entertainment product than mens'" theory.

Name a more iconic duo!

Interesting article on efforts by UK employers to provide healthservices to employees directly (more like in NL).

Understanding and finding solutions to the health related exodus from the UK labour force is also a great research topic for those working with uk administrative/health data.

European champion Chloe Kelly (x2)!!!!!

the lack of peer reviewers and the incredibly bad incentives around it are a real problem.

Relatedly I sometimes wonder if journals could bundle together and instate a journal credit system. Basically to submit a paper and get it peer reviewed the authors have to handle over a bunch of credits guaranteeing timely peer review on a couple of articles if requested in return.

How to speed up peer review: make applicants mark one another ‘Distributed peer review’ of grants makes process more than twice as fast — and includes some cheat-prevention measures.

Making grant applicants evaluate each other consiserable speeds up the peer review process.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Isn't there an old Steinbeck novel about this?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"I saw that you have no striker"

"What do you mean you want motivated soldiers? Do you even know how hard it is to publish with selection issues like that?"

"Media content leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering"

extremely online yoda

socialeconomicslab.org/research/wor...

Denmark Begins Drafting Women as Russian Threat Looms

Scandinavian registry research papers evaluating this policy reform will definitely get written www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/w...

I have no idea how practically feasible any of this ultimately is, but i am just fascinated that we are already able to build computers powered by human brain cells on a pretty big scale already www.ft.com/content/713e...

Fantastic goal. Lauren James is a national treasure!!!!

i never heard this before.

Economists looking at an idea from sociology literature that they will be the first to write a paper on.

The scale of US cancelled research grants versus the additional money being made available to allow US researchers to move to Europe.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"We are sorry to inform you that your AI assistant that has been trained on a model of how the human mind actually works is now addicted to gambling and has lost all your money."

This AI ‘thinks’ like a human — after training on 160 psychology studies The Centaur model goes beyond single tasks and predicts a wide array of human behaviour.

Doing a phd to learn to "think" like a human is the future!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The group games in the womens euro are already giving us two dating partners facing off. Pernille Harder (DK) vs. Magda Eriksson (SWE) and Beth Mead (ENG) vs. Miedema (NL). I hope the men learn from this drama provision and up their dating game before the world cup a bit.