Tim Martens

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

International student arrivals to the US fall by 19% The US recorded a 20% drop in student visa arrivals this August, though the full picture remains unclear amid contradictory datasets.

New federal data has revealed a 19% year-on-year decline in international students entering the US in August 2025, including a 45% drop from India, America’s largest sending country. thepienews.com/internationa...

This looks super interesting (for an outsider at least)!

The Economic Geography of American Slavery Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Ending slavery increased GDP by 9.1% as slavery reduced the welfare of the enslaved substantially, while only generating minuscule welfare gains to slave owners. Fascinating topic that once again highlights how coercive instructions are economically detrimental!

www.nber.org/papers/w3435...

This is very cool.

Well, I only know that the IP profs conduct some super interesting research!

If you rebrand post-docs as AP non-tt, you have to highlight this no?

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

in Canada, the Liberals were historically unpopular, then Trump started talking about the 51st state stuff, the Liberal leader did a lot of talk about resisting him, and the polls looked like this:

Hahah SOURacha amazing! Please keep is updated.

Yes, sounds like a very cool example.

So none if the students has noted the proposal is cheap talk and there is a verification phase post proposal ;)

I bet this has nothing to do with a golf documentary on Netflix.

Fuck yea! Science!

Research active faculty teach classes that are significantly closer to the knowledge frontier.

Agree.

Just arrived.

Let's be serious, I do not have the feeling that anyone really has a strategy to attract the people. Top unis will attract them anyway and the rest will stay put.

You would think that.

Chinese AI labs must celebrate the 100k visa EO.

"Cutting the VAT rate on restaurant meals, for example, was not one of the most pressing priorities coming out of the Munich Security Conference."

Well put, Deutsche Bank. (On the disappointment with Germany's infrastructure fund helping to finance giveaways.)

"New study finds salary benchmarking cuts pay gaps by 25%. Pay dispersion partly arises from firms’ uncertainty about market rates, with key implications for pay transparency policy."

New paper from Perez-Truglia, Li & Cullen

www.restud.com/whats-my-emp...:

#econsky
#REStud

Best news I read all day.

I have to admit: this is legit funny and could actually work.

Hate speech fuels stochastic terrorism risk.

"Stochastic terrorism has been defined as the incitement of a violent act through public demonization of a group or individual.”

Amman and Malloy (2021)

www.jstor.org/stable/27073...

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

Fascinating read.

Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle age

"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds"

Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

Tired: Adjusting for covariates

Wired: “Building a digital twin”