Raymond Guiteras
@guiterasecon.bsky.social
NCSU (ARE, Global WaSH, CEnREP), JPAL. Work-related private account. All opinions my own. https://go.ncsu.edu/rpguiter Buy the sky and sell the sky Personal account at @raymondguiteras.bsky.social
This guy definitely "more of a comment than a question"s in #EconSky seminars. Love it
Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 4w agoA Norway fan has gone viral for not taking part in their Row celebration after matches and won't do it if they win the World Cup "It’s factually wrong; they didn’t row, they sailed over the Atlantic”
"Please fire my best friend and heroic freedom fighter Lockdown Jay," says radiologist and cheerleader for pediatric COVID Scott Atlas. By @gorskon.bsky.social sciencebasedmedicine.org/abolish-the-...
“Abolish the NIH”? Dr. Scott Atlas gives the antiscience game away
Dr. Scott Atlas, a senior fellow at the right wing think tank Hoover Institution who came to prominence as a COVID contrarian, recently wrote an op-ed advocating the elimination of the National Instit
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Water ... from the sky? Twice between sleeps? Seems strange.
This will incentivize people to hide symptoms, exactly the opposite of what you want. Thommy Tillis, this is your fault. You knew this is what would happen, and this is what you chose.
public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2mo agoblatantly unconstitutional
Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2mo agoIt’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
Love the idea of Anthony Gordon studying Spanish his whole life just to get to Barcelona and find out Catalan exists
Fabrizio Romano (MIRROR)@fabrizioromano.yopro20.com · 2mo ago🔵🔴 Anthony Gordon: “I speak Spanish because as a kid I believed I would play for Barça”. “I had a physio at Newcastle who was Spanish and we spoke Spanish every day. I told him I wanted to play for Barça one day, that’s why I speak some Spanish”.
Issue #1: The S-curve depends critically on the log transformation. BBBGH use log(x/1000+1); levels (x), log(x+1), and log(x/100+1) give qualitatively different pictures. The divisor isn't innocuous.
Share a song from the year you turned 18 youtu.be/iO2eIebQqWg
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 3mo agoShare a song from the year you turned 18 I still have my original copy, the 12”, from 1986 (you can see it’s a bit battered!) Seeing them at the Camden Palace remains one of the best gigs of my life The song criticized the hatred of people living with HIV or AIDS youtu.be/p3uBPPLx4O8?...
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Jake Wright@bcnjake.bsky.social · 3mo agoThere are two higher ed Bluskies right now:
Slightly diminish a book: The Williams Olio
Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 3mo agoSlightly diminish a book Meh Expectations
Always nice to see in the seminar paper. (Thanks to Dev Patel for his generous discussion of our prior work.)
I wish I could be glad that my former colleague Bryan Hubbell was featured in the NYT article about EPA science, but alas, it's not a happy story. The comments from EPA that "EPA science is continuing" are - to be exceptionally kind - hogwash. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/c...
How the Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at the E.P.A.
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