After a lovely bike-cation, I wrote up some reflections on using AI to prep teaching, reflecting on mine and Erkmen's Thinking with Agents teaching workshop last month. We are planning another in August - stay tuned!

Iterating with agents in teaching prep

A series of light project emergencies and need-to-get-on-my-bike emergencies delayed my posting of reflections on our very fun Agentic AI for Teaching workshop we ran last month.

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New #ThinkingwithAgents Substack! I wrote about why Erkmen and I are running webinars about AI tools for economists. Short version: (1) "figuring out AI" doesn't have to be a summer-long project — try an afternoon (2) we want to bring in more voices to the econ/AI convo (3) it's fun to geek out!

Easing into agentic AI for research

What are we even doing here? And why does Claude never know what day it is?

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I'm THRILLED to be a part of the @ideadevecon.bsky.social International Development Economics Association as a board member. We're building a global home for development economists (researchers, practitioners, everyone!) Join us at idea.devecon.org for updates!

International Development Economics Association@ideadevecon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Welcome to IDEA!

Really enjoyed contributing to this write-up on @causalinf.bsky.social Substack — an NBER panel on AI in research production w/ Kosali Simon, David Bradford, Coady Wing + commentary from me, Jason Fletcher & @paulgp.com open.substack.com/pub/causalin...

What a panel of economists said about AI in the production of research

This is from a moderated discussion at the NBER Applications of AI in Healthcare meeting that happened in Cambridge, Massachusetts May 8th, 2026.

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Thanks for highlighting our work on the promise of group coaching programs! Lower cost + similar effects = easier scaling! www.nber.org/papers/w34309 @roccozizzamia.bsky.social @deankarlan.bsky.social @lassebrune.bsky.social

Group versus Individual Coaching for Rural Social Protection Programs: Evidence from Uganda, Philippines, and Bangladesh

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VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Group coaching in multi-faceted poverty alleviation programmes delivers the same results as individual coaching – at much lower cost. Read today's article to learn more:

My partner and I were tired of the hand-wringing about trans kids playing sports when, at the end of the day, it's just. a. game. So, we wrote an op-ed :) Thanks, @usatoday.com! www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Great website with LaTeX templates for slides, papers, and referee reports

Kyle Butts@kylefbutts.bsky.social · 3y ago

While prepping my JMP slides, I've made some pretty cool updates to my latex slides template: - color rows/cells (with reveal options) - bottom left beamer buttons: \bottomleft{} - customize theme colors(!) - full-size figures: \imageframe{} github.com/kylebutts/la...

"What immigration does for innovation" Nice interview with economic historian Petra Moser and labor economist Jennifer Hunt, on @wgbh.org —> blogs.wgbh.org/innovation-h...

Thinking about all the ways I would NEVER send a card celebrating weight loss

Am I the only one who had to request their own article via ILL? I forgot during my special, thanks-for-your-labor-enjoy-your-article-"free for 50 days" version 😩 #EconSky 📉📈

Pro tip if you are a person with those fun handy tracker things on all your possessions. They work best with batteries. 😭

#Econsky 📈📉:?What are your top recommendations for cool RCT papers with null effects? 📚 (I know there has been discussions about this before; I keep bookmarking and losing them. Maybe by starting this thread, I can easily locate them later). TIA!