Jason Arday appears to be a plagiarist, a liar, and a charlatan. The real question is why Cambridge University doesn’t investigate and take commensurate action. Maybe they know and gave him tenure anyway?

Exclusive: News outlet killed story on plagiarism allegations after Cambridge prof hired law firm

Jason Arday In September 2025, Times Higher Education had a bombshell story in the works: A star sociology professor at the University of Cambridge had allegedly plagiarized parts of his Ph.D. thes…

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A leading environmental economics journal is looking into claims that a 2025 study linking national innovation to lower carbon emissions contains data that does not match its source, after an expert in the field requested the paper be retracted.

Journal investigating apparent data mismatch in climate study

A leading environmental economics journal is looking into claims that a 2025 study linking national innovation to lower carbon emissions contains data that does not match its source, after an exper…

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Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.

Lesson? I don't know about the econometrics - but don't use --quietly-- in #Stata ! (or "source()" without "echo=TRUE" in #R, or drop the ";" in #MATLAB). Good night, and good computing!

Was ist der wahre Grund für den Angriff auf das #IFG? Auf diese Weise solle @fragdenstaat.de ausgeschaltet werden, schreibt der renommierte Verwaltungsrechtler und IFG-Kommentator Prof. Friedrich Schoch in der FAZ. Das Portal sei Vielen "ein Dorn im Auge" und "lästig" 🧵

Long after potential became a real danger and did actual harm, we hear about in a nice partnership coating. You know, we had robbed some people's house but it's all good as we partnered with them (btw, it is our super cool kid who did it, so how nice is that?). openai.com/index/huggin...

OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation

OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.

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Research by Hyndman & Bisin seeking to replicate original research by Ariely & Wertenbroch finds no evidence that evenly-spaced deadlines improve performance on any of the three metrics use in the original: buff.ly/Iy548Sx

What if, instead of paying wind farms to switch OFF, we paid households to switch ON? New paper: we ran nationwide natural field experiments in 🇬🇧 and 🇪🇸 with ~120,000 households to find out. 🧵

The intensity of the excess is completely off the chart and multiple orders of magnitude higher than those from any other heat wave in Germany since 2000 NB: the high 2022 figures also include excess from covid as Germany saw its main infection waves during that year 2/

„Ein demokratischer Rechtsstaat darf seine Bürgerinnen und Bürger nicht zu Bittstellern machen, wenn sie Informationen über staatliches Handeln verlangen. Wer Vertrauen gewinnen will, sollte Transparenz nicht als Belastung verstehen, sondern als Investition in die Demokratie.“ #IFG 👇

Informationsfreiheitsgesetz: Das Misstrauen der Regierung in ihre Bürger wächst zunehmend

Mit der geplanten Reform des Informationsfreiheitsgesetzes erschwert die Regierung es, staatliches Handeln nachvollziehen zu können. Ein Gastbeitrag von Anne Brorhilker.

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So now millions of football fans around the world view the US as cheaters who used political corruption to influence FIFA and we lose anyway. So much winning. When’s the next war?

The Cover-Up in Gino v Harvard datacolada.org/136

Looking for a new colleague! We have an open professorship in applied microeconomics at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Important: Fluency in French is required for this position. www.unifr.ch/ecopol/de/ne... Feel free to reach out if you have questions!

New RIO (@the-peio.bsky.social) editor: Christopher Kilby After more than 20 years as editor of the Review of International Organizations, I'm stepping back from new submissions. As of today, Christopher will take them over. I will continue with resubmissions for papers I originally handled.

Alternative headline: "After decade-long grace period, market-based climate policy shows effect" Sub-hed: "Domestic vacations and night trains as big winners"

DARPA proposed a prediction market in 2003 that became characterized as a terrorist prediction market But a terrorist who wanted to profit ahead of the 9/11 attacks wouldn’t need a prediction market. he could short United and American Airlines. #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...

The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊

Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!@standplaatskrk.pl · last mo.

Sports Commentary xkcd.com/3262/

The new rule in economics: One star is p < 0.20, two stars is a set of steak knives, three stars is you're fired. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/06/22/o...

A letter from mainstream economists to the 🇩🇪 government, with a simple message: Renew and Electrify, to counter the energy crisis. www.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de/Redaktion/DE... 1/n

This paper finds that economists whose job market papers report (marginally) statistically significant results are more likely to secure academic jobs. Hiring committees prefer statistical significance; this creates incentives for researchers to p-hack.

"But I’ve also been around long enough to see how the quest for clever identification can sometimes lead us to miss the forest for the trees." open.substack.com/pub/jenndowd...

Did the iPhone Cause the Baby Bust?

I'm not so convinced. An interesting new paper highlights the power and pitfalls of simple stories

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I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

"911, what's your emergency?" "Hello, Police? Yeah, our highest award recipient is at our meeting handing out copies of an article that we published. And uh....we....well....shit, nevermind." (gift link)

Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration

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gonna post 100 likely permutations of the World Cup knockout bracket on bsky and then delete all the ones that were wrong after the final and then claim I predicted everything before the tournament to demonstrate p-hacking for my classes next semester

Electric school buses would normally sit idle over the summer - but in one school district in Massachusetts, three such buses are getting a holiday job as grid-balancing infrastructure! www.canarymedia.com/articles/ev-...

In Massachusetts, parked EVs will start feeding the grid this summer

Three electric school buses will kick-start the state’s groundbreaking vehicle-to-grid pilot program once school's out, with more EVs to be added in the…

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New post on the pressures squeezing American higher education open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...

A Pincer Grip

The following remarks were prepared for delivery to the board of the Teagle Foundation a couple of weeks ago.

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In a new post, I pull data from four different sources --- arXiv, NBER working papers, SSRN, and the AEA --- to look at how much working paper growth and submissions have changed with the growth of AI. paulgp.substack.com/p/the-number...

Cooperation with Harvard: Cass R. Sunstein Visits Universität Heidelberg – Public lectures and academic exchange with the distinguished scholar www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...

just another thursday in a modern dictatorship. a private university with over 20K students gets shut down overnight by presidential decree, leaving students, faculty, and staff in massive uncertainty. take whatever lesson you will about bringing dictators to power

Dr. Ethan Kutlu@ethankutlu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Extremely concerned and heartbroken by the news that Istanbul Bilgi University was shut down by presidential order in Turkey. I hope that my colleagues and thousands of staff and students receive the recognition they deserve.