We should give the AAUP credit when they defend academic freedom and focus on their core mission. The AAUP has joined FIRE and the ACLU in defending threats to academic freedom in Texas.

Todd Wolfson@proftwolf.bsky.social · 23h ago

Booooooom 💣

🚨New Science Advances🚨 Untrustworthy sources on Facebook and Instagram in 2020: Concentrated exposure but no attitudinal effects www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... -Exposure very low but highly concentrated -Reducing exposure by ~70% for months had no measurable effects *even among frequent consumers*

#OpenAccess from @jepsjournal.bsky.social - The Policy Feedback Effects of State Assistance: Did Small Business Bailouts Increase Support for Public Aid Programs? - https://cup.org/4tKsazV - @nmalhotra.bsky.social & Saikun Shi #FirstView

In case people are salivating over the idiotic tariff formula for research papers, @jakejares.bsky.social and I took advantage of another simplistic formula for the 2018 farm bailout: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Only about 35% of UAW members work in the auto industry. Only about 25% work for the two US auto manufacturers (GM and Ford).

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢@regimecpa.bsky.social · last yr.

“What if the UAW are right about what is good for them?” would be a lot more convincing if they were not cheering on the destruction of the industry they work in. We’re capable of recognizing CEOs as economically irrational, unions can be too.

We are hiring a pre-doc at Stanford to work on (among other things) a project called Public Pulse, which will provide reports on public opinion in the US, and potentially fill the void of things like 538. Please share with your undergrads. iriss.stanford.edu/predoc/2025-...

My favorite discontinued products are: (1) Jello 1-2-3; (2) Nestle Alpine White chocolate bar. I would pay a lot of money for those.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

Tab soda, NARS lip pencils and more. There’s a thriving online market for discontinued products that fans are willing to pay dearly for. Here's a look into what customers are hitting up eBay and other resale sites to find.

If this is actually true, it is insane. It means that the value of X/Twitter has not dropped one penny since Musk bought it in 2022. It means that market is signaling the monetary value of Musk's relationship to the most powerful person on Earth. techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/x...

X in talks to raise money at a $44B valuation | TechCrunch

Elon Musk's X is in talks to raise money from investors at a $44 billion valuation, Bloomberg News reports. Musk purchased X, formerly known as Twitter,

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It's pretty amazing that this is a fairly extreme Cabinet and there will be only one failure (Gaetz). In comparison, Obama (2008) had three failures of moderate normies: Tom Daschle, Bill Richardson, Judd Gregg

This is one of the most electorally skilled politicians in the D Party. Interesting messaging that I think would resonate well outside of Bluesky. People don't care about USAID, impoundment, etc. But Americans wanted a strong leader, who now seems weak because he doesn't have his team under control.

Congressman Jared Golden@golden.house.gov · last yr.

I’ve been getting a lot of calls over the past few days, and the interesting thing is none of them are about Donald Trump. They’re all about Elon Musk. My constituents, and a majority of this country, put Trump in the White House, not this unelected, weirdo billionaire.

GOP presidents take different (legal) actions to control the executive branch, not because they have stronger will, but because they face a more acute problem of control. The agency loss for a GOP president is larger than for Dem presidents, and the difference is growing.

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 2y ago

Once again, a Trump presidency is an amazing lesson in how much authority the president has. Not referring to his illegal actions but his legal actions that many people on this app don’t like. My point: Democratic presidents have under utilized their executive power.

I wrote this paper a few years ago on how direct flight availability affects Congressional careers. Potentially relevant today in that Congress has a authority over DCA airport, and it's fairly well known they push for lots of flights in and out of it. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Transaction Costs and Congressional Careers: The Effect of Flight Availability on Retirement Decisions

How do the transaction costs of office holding affect congressional careers? These costs may influence the kinds of people who select into public office and therefore the representativeness of democr...

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Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2y ago

"presidents won more votes in counties where the federal government spent more money on disaster relief. But disaster prevention had no relationship with election outcomes" -@johnsides.bsky.social in the @goodauth.bsky.social email newsletter the research: digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Nobody reports property crime, both because the police don't do anything about it, and that if you show up on a CLUE report, you're screwed for getting insurance.

In case people are interested, we wrote the first study of preferences for H1-B visas in 2012. Tech workers are uniquely against H1-B visas over economic threat, but not broadly racist. Broad cultural concerns are actually there among non-tech workers: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library

What explains variation in individuals’ opposition to immigration? While scholars have consistently shown cultural concerns to be strong predictors of opposition, findings regarding the labor-market ...

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For people who haven't been following the happenings on X, tech bros are genuinely and sincerely shocked that MAGA contains a large number of virulent racists.

Just out! The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook During the U.S. 2020 Election, sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11...

The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook During the U.S. 2020 Election

Article: The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook During the U.S. 2020 Election | Sociological Science | Posted December 11, 2024

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If you don't know what Yglesias is getting at by "government-by-professor" era, I don't know what to tell you. It's going to be a long time in the political wilderness for you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profess...

Professional–managerial class - Wikipedia

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Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 2y ago

When exactly was this government-by-professor era? The Wilson administration?!

I don't think people like these billionaires but they hate the professional-managerial class even more, and are willing to have them on the team if they will destroy the PMC.

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 2y ago

There are 14 BILLIONAIRES that are part of the second Trump administration

The major divide I observe between center-left business elites and center-left journos/academics is on Elon Musk. VCs, founders, and finance professionals: "Elon is a little weird, but brilliant and great for humanity." Sociology professors, Vox journalists: "Elon is an idiot and evil."

The cheapest bored apes are currently selling for $40,000.

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