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@rduartegonzalez Felicidades Raúl!! Te extrañaremos!!

🎓 Defended my dissertation today! I’m deeply grateful to my committee @HLarreguy, @VinPons, @MelissaLDell, Alisha Holland, and Anders Jensen, and to everyone who supported me along the way

@Juanmmolinag @anup_malani thanks!

@JulioSolis @anup_malani github.com/anup-malani/cl…

Why it works: fact-checkers are blind to voice. Style critics are blind to specifics. The author-mimic critic is blind to rules. Each alone is a single-trick defender. Together they triangulate a draft that survives all three blind spots. That's the whole insight.

@anup_malani Anup, would you be able to share the skill? I use AI intensively to write (particularly to fix grammar) but I massively edit since it usually kills my “voice”. Would be very interested in trying your approach

cc @cblatts @aniketapanjwani @bcherny — Chris, you told me to start shipping these. Aniket, does the author-mimic critic show up when you teach agentic coding to economists? Boris, skill is in the link reply — worth including in the Claude Code skills docs?

@xuyiqing This is a true game changer

Super useful in the AI age 🤣 On Mac, you can make paste always remove formatting (no more Cmd+Shift+Option+V gymnastics). System Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts → App Shortcuts Add new: • Application: All Applications • Menu Title: “Paste and Match Style” • Shortcut: Cmd + V Now Cmd+V = clean paste everywhere. Source: makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-str…

@Tyler_Menzer @arthur_spirling @reluctantcrim @ryancbriggs @DrEmmaZang @AdamBerinsky but again, wouldn’t it be the same if you hired an army of RAs/MTurkers to label/tag observations? One can reproduce the process of coding schema is well documented and exhaustive. Otherwise really hard

@arthur_spirling @reluctantcrim @ryancbriggs @DrEmmaZang @AdamBerinsky If I am reading Arthur correctly, what he is talking about (and where I would share a concern) is say that someone uses AI to create a sentiment variable (a relatively common thing now). If the model goes away, recreating that variable as it was becomes impossible even w/ code

As moderator for the AI & Publishing panel at Yale, I’m planning to press @AdamBerinsky on the new AJPS AI policy: ajps.org/2026/04/10/upd…. We’re entering a moment where journals aren’t just evaluating research. They’re implicitly defining what counts as “acceptable” use of AI. So here’s a real question: What should editors actually be policing vs. leaving to authors and reviewers? If you had 30 seconds with journal editors, what would you ask?

@Original_Libbro @_alice_evans I was going to make exactly the same point! Current group distribution in Southern Africa is extremely modern

@_alice_evans Were these migrations due to the mfecane? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mfecane

I did not know this... The Ndebele only arrived in (present-day) Zimbabwe in the 1840s, They came from the Zulu state, as conquerors, then enslaved locals and built up military rule. (Reid 2025)

@MovistarKOILoL copa content

Joselito Pyun sabe MUCHO de español

From field experiments to policy interventions at scale. My latest commentary @ScienceMagazine - after reading @Econ_4_Everyone hard to think of anything else! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Ph.D. Candidate Chinemelu Okafor has published her first working paper, titled Protest Matters: The Effects of Protests on Economic Redistribution, in NBER buff.ly/tGsS17C #GovGrads

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP21239 Regional Favoritism: New Data, Larger Sample, Same Pattern Christian Düben @MonashUni, Roland Hodler @HSGStGallen, Paul Raschky @MonashUni ow.ly/SOSI50YnXtq #CEPR_DE #CEPR_PoE #EconTwitter

Check out this video interview with Andrew Kao, a PhD candidate at @Harvard, about his #ASSA2026 poster on the unintended consequences of political party bans. aeaweb.org/conference/vid…

Surveying recent research on changing culture and social norms in developing countries and proposing a simple framework to interpret these changes, from @elianalaferrara and @YanagizawaD nber.org/papers/w34784

Presentación en la cual don @srgsilvac va a flexear que no tuvo que leer el libro porque todavía tiene sus apuntes de clase de Womack

I am pleased to share the cover for my new book, WHAT HAPPENED TO LIBERAL DEMOCRACY?. It's an in-depth look at the rise and fall of liberal democracy, and invitation to remake liberalism with a new political philosophy.   Out Aug 11. Preorder here: bit.ly/LiberalDemocra…

In 40 years, it had never rained during the Super Bowl. On the day of 41st the heavens opened up and poured down hard. Because everything on the stage were live instruments and the stage floor was slick with water for he and his dancers, they asked Prince what did he want to do about the performance. Prince replied, “can you make it rain harder?” Long live Prince. The greatest halftime performance in Super Bowl history.

JOIN us for this year’s Rebecca Morton conference on experimental political science at NYU! March 6-7. We have a great line up of papers and posters! Program (scroll down) here: wp.nyu.edu/cesspoliticals… Register (no fee) here: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aY… @NYUpolitics @nyuniversity

Hello! I am hiring for two positions. One based at UCSD (first review of applicants next week) and one based in Mozambique (rolling review). Please see information here: saralowes.com/resources.html