A good essay (but I think it does under-state the extent of true automation in technological history): www.normaltech.ai/p/what-will-...
What will be left for us to work on?
My keynote at ICML 2026
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Aditya Dasgupta
@adasgupta.bsky.social
Read, teach and write about comparative politics, political economy, and social science at UC-Merced: https://aditya-dasgupta.com
An urgent and important read on the unjust circumstances regarding the dismissal of my dear colleague and friend Sanjay Reddy. I hope our takeaway, in part, is a redoubling of our efforts to protect social inquiry and academic freedom against what's coming. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/n...
He Had Tenure. The New School Laid Him Off Anyway. (Gift Article)
The professor, a longtime critic of the university, was among 19 educators who lost their positions as the institution navigated financial woes.
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New (well, finally published) paper out at AJPS on "Bureaucrat Assignments as Instruments of Political Control": doi.org/10.1111/ajps... . We estimate Indian land officials' preferences over geographical posts and test a "matching market" model of how politicians use assignments to extract rents 1/3
New (well, finally published) paper out at AJPS on "Bureaucrat Assignments as Instruments of Political Control": doi.org/10.1111/ajps... . We estimate Indian land officials' preferences over geographical posts and test a "matching market" model of how politicians use assignments to extract rents 1/3
architecturally speaking, the biblioteca vasconcelos in Mexico City has to be one of the top-5 libraries in the world..
Pretty cool! (In anticipation of inevitable complaint that “we knew this” it’s good to bring data and research design to important ideas)
Belinda Archibong@belindaarch.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Why doesn't the US have national health insurance?" Fascinating new paper from Alsan and Neberai out in QJE @qjeharvard.bsky.social finds: rise of private health insurance in the US was enabled by 'strategic, interest group-financed effort to shape citizen views and influence policy' #EconSky
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Explaining Rural Conservatism: Political Consequences of Technological Change in the Great Plains | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Explaining Rural Conservatism: Political Consequences of Technological Change in the Great Plains - Volume 119 Issue 1
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Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3mo agoHi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.
I take from this that US public opinion is generally incredibly pro-war
Take a look at these fantastic photographs of Indian life by Raghu Rai. He has died aged 83 www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Raghu Rai’s masterful images of Indian life – in pictures
Recruited to Magnum Photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1977, the veteran photographer, who has died aged 83, made defining images of grand and intimate Indian life for five decades
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Cool day of book discussions happening at MPSA, if you're looking for something to attend on Friday:
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 4mo ago1500km charge in 6 minutes!! “The boundaries of electrochemistry are still far from being reached, and the possibilities of materials science are still far from being exhausted" - Robin Zeng, CATL founder Still think its all subsidies & copycat & no science or innovation? www.ft.com/content/1773...
The special issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social “Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies”, co-edited by myself and Isabela Mares, was just published. The issue includes 8 articles, many of which set new research agendas. A🧵w/overview 1/10 journals.sagepub.com/toc/CPS/curr...
Comparative Political Studies - Volume 59, Number 6
Table of contents for Comparative Political Studies, 59, 6
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I came prepared to be annoyed but it’s not an unreasonable report: president.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
NASA’s Artemis II Reveals the Basin in Full For the very first time, the mysterious Orientale Basin has been fully photographed. Thanks to Artemis II, humanity now sees the Moon in unprecedented detail, reminding us of the endless wonders beyond Earth. 🛰️
many things about us politics that made no sense to me made a little more sense after reading this essay: patrickwyman.substack.com/p/american-g...
American Gentry
Local Power and the Social Order
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Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 4mo agostiff competition but I found it, the worst policy proposal
A really impressive field experiment
American Political Science Review@apsrjournal.bsky.social · 4mo agoFrom our FirstView: Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India by @priyadarshi-amar.bsky.social, @sumitra.bsky.social, @simonchauchard.bsky.social and FLORIAN SICHART. doi.org/10.1017/S000...
This would have been useful to for anyone who imagined that a bombing campaign would result the spontaneous collapse of the Iranian regime to read
Reminded today that the term "developing democracy" is a weird vestige of modernization theory -- it elides level of economic development and democracy, but as the US demonstrates, you can be rich and have a very dysfunctional democracy. Very important to keep the two things conceptually separate
I’d say I do find bluesky less useful than (the old) twitter — I used to get tons of working papers and research on that feed but for some reason that’s not the case for me here despite mostly following academics. Not sure if it’s the algorithm or something else….
James Ball@jamesrball.com · 4mo agoI tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: as someone *who likes bluesky and benefits from being here* we have a problem. The network is shrinking, not growing. It's shrinking a lot: only about 1.1m people a day even like a post. This time last year it was 1.6m.
Interesting aspects of having a campus on a natural reserve
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
Interesting argument…( although the title is bothering me — worse than war: the costs of [concept that includes war] )
Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 6mo ago
Everyone talks about the "credibility revolution", but I think one of the most valuable shifts in econ over the last decade has been the rise of rigorous descriptive historical work like this in top journals:
The Quarterly Journal of Economics@qjeharvard.bsky.social · 10mo agoRecently accepted by #QJE, “The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890–2006,” by Lyons (@ronanlyons), Shertzer (@econhist-allday), Gray (@econhistoryorbust), and Agorastos: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
