Some initial thoughts, and a complicated mix of feelings. Wow. I mean, Erdos problems are cool (I genuinely mean that), I didn't know about the Jacobian conjecture before it got disproved. But this newest batch from OpenAI hits home in a way the previous announcements did not.

The place I donate blood gives points that you can exchange for gas cards which means I actually know the current exchange rate of blood for oil. Blood is going for 20.618 times an equivalent amount of oil.

To me (someone w/ no dog in this fight) your reply shows you are not a good scholar: rather than publicly confronting the clear evidence of your misrepresenting your sources, you turn to (perhaps correct) personal criticism of Magness. This is the behavior of (bad) politician, not a scholar.

Unsurprisingly, it's mostly a shrug here except for a few people who pretend it is ok. I'll add another one in this genre that made my jaw drop.

Ben Golub@bengolub.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It seems this news hasn't reached this platform yet, but Phil Magness has some striking notes on how @quinnslobodian.com quotes sources, which I'll simply reproduce here 1/

New WP, just in time for #ASHEcon26! What started off as a project to learn LLM use for text analysis turned accidentally into a paper about stigma. [1/n]

NBER@nber.org · 2mo ago

Examining weight stigma shows that the "obese" cutoff increases patient mortality. Analyses of diagnostic effort and clinical documentation point to stigma as a mechanism, from Manasvini Singh www.nber.org/papers/w35277

💧New Paper Water Works: Causes and Consequences of Safe Drinking Water in America 📉US drinking water pollution fell by HALF in 2003-2019 💰Safe Drinking Water Act $ helped ❤️Investments reduce mortality, benefit/cost ratio >20 www.nber.org/papers/w35288 👇

Immigrants have founded or cofounded 59% (455 of 775) of America’s privately held startup companies valued at $1 billion or more, according to a new National Foundation for American Policy analysis nfap.com/research/new...

New NFAP Policy Brief: Immigrants and U.S. Billion-Dollar Companies - NFAP

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Some very interesting discussion, reposted from X, about standards of accuracy in some research areas -- those who follow/read Slobodian might be interested. My take is that the intellectual hygiene in some areas is terrible, and there is very limited interest in any self-correction.

Ben Golub@bengolub.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It seems this news hasn't reached this platform yet, but Phil Magness has some striking notes on how @quinnslobodian.com quotes sources, which I'll simply reproduce here 1/

It seems this news hasn't reached this platform yet, but Phil Magness has some striking notes on how @quinnslobodian.com quotes sources, which I'll simply reproduce here 1/

Huge thanks to refine.ink for alerting us to the mistake (and thanks to @bengolub.bsky.social and team for creating such a useful tool) Bottom line: refine.ink is great!

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I posted a short note correcting a mistake in an approximation formula in a recent publication of mine Publication: academic.oup.com/qje/article/... Corrigendum: users.nber.org/~notom/resea...

I joined the #nokings protest in Chicago. With the war between the USA, Iran, and Israel and grave human rights violations by the regimes of all three, the good people of these countries must not allow the acts of their leaders to be normalized. March 28, 2026.

🧵A thread on "AI one-shot papers". This has not been a focus on Bluesky, but on Twitter/X and LinkedIn, there has been a large discussion of the ability to "one-shot" policy evaluation, which David Yanagizawa-Drott has been pursuing in an interesting way: ape.socialcatalystlab.org

Great piece by @soumayakeynes.ft.com on AI in economics in today’s FT (link at end) featuring Refine.ink. Indeed, Refine regularly catches issues that need correcting but are missed by even the most rigorous current review processes. a short 🧵 1/

SocialCal #socialcal will read your @bsky.app feed and turn event posts into an ICS calendar feed that you can install in your calendar app. See the documentation here: socialcal.org It is open source. Suggestions or improvements are welcome.

Everyone freezing on the East Coast or in the Midwest remember: Kyiv has the same weather, except that hundreds of thousands of people don't have electricity, heating or running water

Is this too spicy for BlueSky

Tried refine.ink by @bengolub.bsky.social to get feedback about a paper and it's quite remarkable. Worth giving it a try. And if you use this link — www.refine.ink?ref=cGVkcm9t... — we can both get a free review.

I have just used refine.ink by @bengolub.bsky.social to proof-check 3 papers, and it is amazing! It checks for internal consistency, checks proofs and finds typos that I would not have seen! Sign up using my link so we both can get extra reviews when: www.refine.ink?ref=YS5wZWlj...

This is a common question - Refine seems about equally useful for theory and empirical work. It thinks about, e.g., whether - the numbers in a paper make sense taken together - the econometric equations match up with the verbal claims - whether signs of effects make sense.

James Feigenbaum@jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The sales pitch seems much more targeted at theory than empirical papers. Did it "just" proof your paper or tell you what robustness checks to run or which standard errors to use?

I just used refine.ink to proofread a paper that's nearly ready for circulation. It had 23 comments. The first caught us using "reduces" instead of "increases" when describing our main treatment effect in the abstract. I highly endorse this tool for preventing such embarassing errors!

If you sign up for Refine to proofread your papers, please use my referral link to create an account: www.refine.ink?ref=ay5ib2dh... That way we both can receive one free technical review!

Joshua Goodman@joshua-goodman.com · 9mo ago

I just used refine.ink to proofread a paper that's nearly ready for circulation. It had 23 comments. The first caught us using "reduces" instead of "increases" when describing our main treatment effect in the abstract. I highly endorse this tool for preventing such embarassing errors!

A meme I created for a presentation I gave today Best wishes to @bengolub.bsky.social and all other Eigenvalue appreciators

🚨 We are hiring! ‼️‼️ tenured track assistant or associate prof in economics at university of Melbourne @unimelb.bsky.social welcome applications from all fields (but especially from econometrics) econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...

This seems very interesting. I would be keen to hear about experiences with Refine.

Ben Golub@bengolub.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Check out refine.ink for AI technical referee reports on your papers if you haven't tried it yet DM me or reply if you want preview credits to see how it performs on papers of various kinds

Check out refine.ink for AI technical referee reports on your papers if you haven't tried it yet DM me or reply if you want preview credits to see how it performs on papers of various kinds

Jessica Leight@leightjessica.bsky.social · 10mo ago

#econtwitter #econsky: recently used Refine.ink (developed by @ben_golub) as a AI assessment tool for papers + it is amazing, so wanted to share some examples of what it can do if you are curious. (It's much, much better than other free tools I've used)

#econtwitter #econsky: recently used Refine.ink (developed by @ben_golub) as a AI assessment tool for papers + it is amazing, so wanted to share some examples of what it can do if you are curious. (It's much, much better than other free tools I've used)

Added Finance job decomposition, and Federal Reserve Bank/Board jobs (zero so far this year...)

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham@paulgp.com · 10mo ago

Posted a short blog post with updated data (and public repo with data) of current state of Econ job market: paulgp.com/2025/10/08/j...

Posted a short blog post with updated data (and public repo with data) of current state of Econ job market: paulgp.com/2025/10/08/j...

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