The latest edition of ‘The Cricket Statistician’ is now out: Issue No215 dated August 2026, edited on behalf of #ACScricket by Russ Houldin including fine articles by Ollie Randall, Steven Swain, Chris O’Brien, Michael Pulford, Stephen Blades & others. #cricketcounts

Cereal yields have increased in all regions, but Africa lags behind. Improved crop yields have allowed the world to feed billions more people while sparing forests and other land from agriculture. Global yields of cereal crops have tripled since 1961.

New post! open.substack.com/pub/paulgp/p...

Neither of my grandmothers could read or write. Economic hardship forced my mother out of high school & my father out of middle school. To now join the Harvard faculty is a surreal turn of events for me. I am forever grateful for my family’s hard work and sacrifices. I hope my mom is watching this.

I was delighted to hear that Raquel Prado, Marco Ferreira, and Mike West have won the DeGroot Prize 2025 for their excellent #timeseries textbook. Thoroughly deserved award, and couldn't have happened to a nicer set of authors! 😊 stat.duke.edu/news/mike-we... #Bayesian @isba-bayesian.bsky.social

My (brilliant) wife has written about our (annoying but admittedly worthwhile) parenting spreadsheet

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Let me introduce you to... the parenting spreadsheet My column this week (300 free clicks): as.ft.com/r/8afe1f37-b...

Reviews of our Bayesian Workflow book from Bin Yu, David Spiegelhalter, Brad Efron, Christian Robert, Rohan Alexander, and Mine Doğucu! statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/07/16/r...

Harvard, and IQSS in particular, ranks #1 globally in @nature.com's social science research index. As Harvard’s hub for the social sciences, IQSS—and the Murray Research Archive at IQSS—is proud to play a central role in supporting and driving that research. www.nature.com/nature-index...

Nature Index 2025: The world’s top 10 institutions for social-sciences research

American institutions lead the way in this newly added Nature Index subject.

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General Montague names the benefits of soldiers studying at top universities, despite new government bans. the current administration's war on universities is misguided, while universities don't appreciate the benefits of soldier/scholars. #academicsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/harv...

New course prep is officially underway for Fall! 🍁 I am incredibly excited to be teaching STAT 100: Introduction to Statistics and Data Science this coming Fall 2026 at Harvard. Teaching intro courses are always a joyful challenge.

Ultra-honored to be part of this @jmechinstdesign.bsky.social special issue commemorating economics ubermensch @vincecrawford.bsky.social, QED 🙏🙌

jMechInstDesign@jmechinstdesign.bsky.social · 2y ago

#EconBluesky Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design, new volume 9, Special Issue in Honour of Vincent P. Crawford, available at www.mechanism-design.org @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social @york.ac.uk @t8el.bsky.social @skominers.bsky.social @vincecrawford.bsky.social @hexxxeh.bsky.social

Thanks Mikkel for doing this job, the journal is lucky to have you.

Quantitative Economics@qe-editors.bsky.social · last mo.

We are thrilled to have Mikkel Plagborg-Møller (University of Chicago) join the editorial board as Co-editor, starting July 1st, 2026. He will be handling papers in a wide range of topics in econometrics and macroeconomics. Read more here www.econometricsociety.org/publications...

The great economist Alberto Alesina passed away unexpectedly six years ago. The next day, his former PhD student @sethsd.bsky.social posted an explanation for Alesina's incandescence as a scholar and mentor. I've thought about his words many times over the years. medium.com/@sethstephen...

Harvard put together a website about the connection between Harvard and the American Revolution. www.harvard.edu/in-focus/177...

1776 at Harvard - Harvard University

From training the leaders of the burgeoning nation to housing soldiers during the American Revolution, Harvard played an important role in early America.

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Congratulations to Nuffield College Professorial Fellows Barbara Petrongolo and Martin Weidner on being awarded prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants. #nuffsky #NuffieldCollege #EconomicsResearch Read more: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/... (1/3)

I continue to be impressed by the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, focusing on important innovations, rather than always trying to tease out individuals. Here it is given to the R project. Particular shout out to Brian Ripley whose contribution to the statistical commons was massive.

The R Foundation@r-foundation.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

Congratulations to Peter Hennessy, becoming a Knight of the Garter, in the U.K., probably the highest honour in the U.K.. A good person. hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-0... www.qmul.ac.uk/news/latest-...

Queen Mary academic Professor Peter Hennessy appointed to Order of the Garter by King Charles

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Amazing news! Cervical cancer deaths in younger women have plummeted in England following the rollout of the HPV vaccine, according to new research, published today in The Lancet. Read more: cruk.ink/4ozraO5

You can find a 20% discount code in our Bayesian Workflow book website avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor...

Aki Vehtari@avehtari.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bayesian Workflow book can now be pre-ordered directly from the publisher (shipping date June 26) www.routledge.com/Bayesian-Wor...

Nice article from Steven Pinker about data and historical context of progress. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Reflections on Half a Century of Progress | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

For all the crises and doomers and existential threats that may darken graduation day, it’s good to recall that past graduation days were darkened by crises that were as bad or worse. Still, those gra...

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...Packets Only Rise Once a Generation for a Half-Decade Span: CHART OF THE DAY** < braddelong.substack.com/p/when-media... > 2026-06-01 2/END

When Median Take-Home Pay Packets Only Rise Once a Generation for a Half-Decade Span: CHART OF THE DAY

We have built an economic régime where GDP climbs, markets soar, and the typical worker stands still unless the labor market is white‑hot. And if inflation fears keep us from ever running the...

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MIT economist Whitney Newey awarded Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics news.mit.edu/2026/whitney... Newey has been a leading figure in econometric theory for more than four decades, shaping both research and training in the field.

Please join in congratulating AMS members Emmanuel Candès and Camillo De Lellis, who have each been awarded the 2026 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences. Read more: https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=7656

Congrats to Mark Sellke, of Harvard Statistics, who was a leader in the OpenAI group disproving the Erdos conjecture "unit-distance problem." This result is viewed as the first AI breakthrough in pure math. It seems a unique moment in the history of math. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br4l...

The Erdős Breakthrough

YouTube video by OpenAI

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It's publication day for Moral Economics. You can buy it now at American bookstores, and you can still pre-order it in England at a discount, from independent bookstores #econsky #academicsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/05/mora...

Moral Economics: How to buy a copy at a bookstore

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@ACScricket was delighted to present in person The Brooke Lambert Trophy for #ACS Statistician of the Year to Marion Collin, whose statistical body of work across men & women’s cricket for over 60 years is remarkable. An outstanding career & still much to offer. #cricketcounts

March 2026 ISBA Bulletin, featuring a little contribution by Mark Steel and me on the 80th anniversary of the Jeffreys' prior. isba-bulletin.github.io/ISBABulletin/ @isba-bayesian.bsky.social

Prof Patrick Kline will deliver this year’s Sargan Lecture at the RES Annual Conference in Newcastle. Patrick will speak to his paper on the GMM when exchangeable specification errors of order n^{-1/2} contaminate the moment conditions. Register here: bit.ly/4s1RxMM #EconSky

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate

Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.

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