Tatyana Deryugina
@tderyugina.bsky.social
Ukrainian. American. Associate Professor at UofI. Co-editor at AER:I and EEPE. Co-founder of http://econ4ua.org. deryugina.com https://ukraineinsights.substack.com/
Writing a paper introduction is more art than science, but a good formula gets you most of the way there. Today's blog post: a paragraph-by-paragraph template that is used pretty commonly, plus the mistakes I see most often. 🧵 #EconSky deryugina.com/a-two-for-on...
A two-for-one blog post on writing introductions – Tatyana Deryugina
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Tens of thousands of Kyiv residents routinely spend the night sleeping inside metro stations to hide from Russian bombs. With their kids, their pets, without their comfortable beds. Last night, over 56,000 people spent the night this way. www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
Latest Midweek Update is out. Iran toyed with the USA this week. Trump continues to want out of the war, but Iran escalated. Their strategy seems pretty sophisticated and the end result is looking even worse for the USA. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Midweek Update #21: Iran Is Toying With The USA
Plus: Iranian Strategy; How Does This End?
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Writing a paper introduction is more art than science, but a good formula gets you most of the way there. Today's blog post: a paragraph-by-paragraph template that is used pretty commonly, plus the mistakes I see most often. 🧵 #EconSky deryugina.com/a-two-for-on...
A two-for-one blog post on writing introductions – Tatyana Deryugina
deryugina.com
It IS indeed time to crush Putin's war economy. Russia is not as resilient as it looks, and any resilience it has is not so much a show of its strength but of Western hesitance and myopia. time.com/article/2026...
Why It Is Time for the West to Crush Putin’s War Economy
Corporations walked away from Russia in historic numbers. Governments loosened sanctions just as the pressure was working.
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Do you find it really difficult to keep track of the ridiculous amount of wrongdoing by the #Trump administration? Here's a handy reference to keep on hand, organized by type and severity (and updated monthly). ruleoflawfail.com
Undermining the Constitution: The US Administration's Attack on the Rule of Law
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It IS indeed time to crush Putin's war economy. Russia is not as resilient as it looks, and any resilience it has is not so much a show of its strength but of Western hesitance and myopia. time.com/article/2026...
Why It Is Time for the West to Crush Putin’s War Economy
Corporations walked away from Russia in historic numbers. Governments loosened sanctions just as the pressure was working.
time.com
This video shows the deep impact of war on Ukraine in a fascinating way: some settlements are COVERED with drone fiber optic cables, and birds are now using them to weave nests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCa2...
The nature of war: Ukraine birds weave nests of fiber optic cable
YouTube video by Reuters
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Do you find it really difficult to keep track of the ridiculous amount of wrongdoing by the #Trump administration? Here's a handy reference to keep on hand, organized by type and severity (and updated monthly). ruleoflawfail.com
Undermining the Constitution: The US Administration's Attack on the Rule of Law
ruleoflawfail.com
This video shows the deep impact of war on Ukraine in a fascinating way: some settlements are COVERED with drone fiber optic cables, and birds are now using them to weave nests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCa2...
The nature of war: Ukraine birds weave nests of fiber optic cable
YouTube video by Reuters
youtube.com
1/3 New episode of #PolicyImplications with Jacob Kirkegaard. We discuss what Europe has actually built since 2022: the EU has become essential on money, sanctions, coordination, and long-term support for UA. But EU defence future increasingly runs through UA. Link: tinyurl.com/5hfs7u9p
A tool I hope someone creates: Assessment of how much a scholar overclaims in their papers when interpreting empirical results. Seems well within the skill set of AI, e.g., Refine. Useful for non-experts assessing evidence (especially working papers but even peer reviewed). + a deterrence effect.
I have a new policy brief on Russia's wartime economy (with Mariia Dzholos and Oleksii Shpanel-Yukhta. TL;DR: Russia can't sustain this war much longer without imposing substantial hardship on its population. Accompanying op-ed here: voxukraine.org/en/russia-s-...
Russia’s War Economy Is Running Down. Europe Should Press Harder
In mid-July, European leaders will gather for another review of the Union's sanctions against Russia. It is therefore a fitting...
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Observational evidence can be deeply misleading in health settings. In our study of workplace wellness programs, RCT and observational analyses reached opposite conclusions, despite having access to rich administrative data. www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/u...
Workplace Wellness Programs Don’t Work Well. Why Some Studies Show Otherwise. (Published 2018)
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Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 2mo agoUnpopular opinion but if you're interested in the effects of a medical product, it's 'RCT or bust' for me. I can see the case for observational analyses when randomization isn't possible, ethical, or the condition is too rare or some other such thing, but there's no such excuse here.
🎧 Today, as RU launched another massive attack on Kyiv, I’m sharing an episode that feels especially timely. Link: tinyurl.com/4fbjbrvs 🎧 Listen as a podcast: 🟢 Spotify: shorturl.at/Ho3jh 🍎 Apple Podcasts: shorturl.at/gOlvb ▶️ YouTube Podcasts: shorturl.at/otJaq #EconSky #PoliSky #EconTwitter
Nice review of John List's new book. Relatedly, for those interested in experimental methods, I'm a big fan of Gerber & Green's Field Experiments book: wwnorton.com/books/978039...
Field Experiments
A brief, authoritative introduction to field experimentation in the social sciences., Field Experiments, Design, Analysis, and Interpretation, Alan S Gerber, Donald P Green, 9780393979954
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David McKenzie@dmckenzie.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn today's blog, I read through all of @johnlist.bsky.social's new mammoth textbook on experimental economics. I highlight the parts I think will be particularly useful to development economists, including great chapters on ethics, DUAs, ... 1/2 blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
I think for me /paper_verification skill, see here: github.com/dariia-m/my_... It basically reads the paper and checks every single table and claim in the paper text to check whether it is actually backed up by the code/output. It really helps, you can update code but not numbers in text
my_claude_skills/paper_verification at main · dariia-m/my_claude_skills
Here I share the Claude skills I created as well as links to some other useful repositories - dariia-m/my_claude_skills
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Some sobering statistics about how the people of Sumy, #Ukraine lived in May. 561 hours of air raid alerts. At least one alert every day. ~1960 instances of shelling. Russia is not waging war. It's terrorizing civilians, pure and simple. Full article (in Ukrainian): cukr.city/city/2026/ob...
«Противник продовжує просуватися, але великого наступу немає». Аналізуємо атаки росіян на Сумщині у травні
За квітень 2026 року росіяни обстріляли Сумщину близько 2 тисяч разів. Проаналізували дані ОВА, а також розповідаємо, як ситуація на фронті.
cukr.city
Nothing better than a forecast that tells you the chance of rain at 8pm is 100% but the overall chance of rain for the day is 15%...
Do you care about animal welfare OR state rights? If so, take a minute to call your Senators ASAP and tell them to oppose HR4673, aka "Save Our Bacon Act". Suggested script below. TL;DR: the act would override states' animal welfare provisions. Read more here: www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-way-we...
The way we treat pigs is a sin
The practice of "crating" is torture, plain and simple. Voters want to end it, but Congress might not let them.
noahpinion.blog
Do you care about animal welfare OR state rights? If so, take a minute to call your Senators ASAP and tell them to oppose HR4673, aka "Save Our Bacon Act". Suggested script below. TL;DR: the act would override states' animal welfare provisions. Read more here: www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-way-we...
The way we treat pigs is a sin
The practice of "crating" is torture, plain and simple. Voters want to end it, but Congress might not let them.
noahpinion.blog
Another reminder that undertreated high blood pressure has real consequences. A physician bonus tied to blood pressure targets led to fewer medication increases for patients with borderline hypertension, and those patients then experienced more heart attacks and strokes.
Claire Boone@claireboone.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew diff-in-diff paper in @jamainternalmed.com. We document some unintended consequences of a hypertension control quality metric and financial incentive -- one that's widely used in US healthcare. In the overall population with hypertension there were almost no impacts, but..
I just followed this suggestion - better to stop AI hallucinations from entering my Google Scholar in the first place than flushing them out later!
Aaron Schwartz@aschwartz.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt’s tricky to find the setting. “Configure article updates”
The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF
New Grant Disruptions at NSF - We Need Your Help to Report! – Grant Witness
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Great pleasure to contribute my chapter on #Ukraine to CEPR's Europe 2050 Years ago, #California was the frontier of the “Wild West.” Today, it is the beating heart of innovation and the new economy. In much the same way, Ukraine is poised to become the “Wild East” of the European Union (EU).
Thank you for this warning. I checked and found exactly what you said I'd find. About 10 imaginary articles, with some imaginary people as co-authors. Deleting them now; one more thing to worry about.
