Manasvini Singh
@vinisingh.bsky.social
Asst Prof @CarnegieMellon • Health and Behavioral economist • Enjoy limericks, fantasy, and mezcal • also go by Vini https://www.manasvinisingh.com/ (opinions mine)
a dorito optimized for fiber on the other hand would be a massively important public health intervention
Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 2w agoi do not need my doritos to be packed with protein, they are beautiful and perfect the way they are
A24’s ‘Elden Ring’ Film Stalled After Red Phantom Named TwinkPunisher Invades Set https://theonion.com/a24s-elden-ring-film-stalled-after-red-phantom-named-twinkpunisher-invades-set/
I want to see the odyssey but I’m worried about getting cyclopspora
If you have direct political interference in the refereeing, you don’t even have a game. Certainly not a beautiful one
Elon Musk says that no one died because of his demolition of USAID, and that "Kristof is lying through his teeth." So here I invite him to join me on a visit to Africa to see for himself: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...
Opinion | U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Killed People. That’s the Truth.
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shoutout to everyone who recommended Apteka in pittsburgh. one of the best meals i have had this year
“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:
The best part of #science is the #process. In this case, it was spending some years learning from my smarter, more creative colleague @vinisingh.bsky.social while on a truly meaningful question. The paper also benefitted from a caring editor, good refs + copyediting by @standarderror.bsky.social.
Manasvini Singh@vinisingh.bsky.social · last mo.It’s here, it’s finally hereeeee!!!! This paper is in the AER because of two people: my co-author @atheendar.bsky.social, and our copy-editor @sameyler.bsky.social.
It’s here, it’s finally hereeeee!!!! This paper is in the AER because of two people: my co-author @atheendar.bsky.social, and our copy-editor @sameyler.bsky.social.
AEA Journals@aeajournals.bsky.social · last mo.Forthcoming in the AER: "Rationing by Race" by Manasvini Singh and Atheendar Venkataramani.
Gawker, bless it, tried to warn us. www.gawkerarchives.com/gawker-was-m...
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last mo.It seems somewhat bad that the richest man in the world can use his money to bankrupt individuals or organizations -- including officials who are tasked with holding him accountable -- that accurately point out that his actions plausibly facilitated the deaths of millions.
Big Sadness doesn't want you to know this, but just quietly being in the presence of someone you love and who loves you in return is very nice, actually.
Claude dispensing with all the BS and getting straight to the point
Every single word in this headline is a surprise
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoTherapy ferrets used to kill rats at UK’s largest children’s prison
Between this and the algae blooming in the DC pool, I feel like we’re in the part of the movie where the woodland beasts rush to the aid of the good guys as they take their last stand
Bonnie Honig@bonniehonig.bsky.social · 2mo agoDoing god’s work. Great NYT pic of the rainbow at the Kennedy Center last night for the “Great Unnaming”
The violence in Belfast is a reminder of something I don’t want to take for granted: The fascists here hoped the response to the depredations of ICE would be similar, with people turning in or attacking their neighbors. That it was the very opposite is worth remembering in this season of despair
1/ Today we @oppforhealthlab.bsky.social are releasing our report: "Stuckness in America." #Stuckness is a #feeling + material #reality that reinforce one another in a self-perpetuating #trap. 1 our of every 5 Americans are #stuck. opportunityforhealth.org/project/stuc...
Stuckness in America – Opportunity for Health
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New WP, just in time for #ASHEcon26! What started off as a project to learn LLM use for text analysis turned accidentally into a paper about stigma. [1/n]
NBER@nber.org · 2mo agoExamining weight stigma shows that the "obese" cutoff increases patient mortality. Analyses of diagnostic effort and clinical documentation point to stigma as a mechanism, from Manasvini Singh www.nber.org/papers/w35277
Reminder, if you’re going to @ashecon.bsky.social 2026, come to our Wednesday session of creative uses of recession discontinuity with some of the best in the business, including @aschwartz.bsky.social, @vinisingh.bsky.social, @dzeltzer.bsky.social, and @mlbarnett.bsky.social!
Dan Ly@meddly.bsky.social · 5mo agoIf you're buying plane tickets to ASHEcon '26, make sure you stay for our session (last of the conference) of 3 RDs studying heuristics, stigma, & guidelines. With @aschwartz.bsky.social, @vinisingh.bsky.social, @dzeltzer.bsky.social, and @mlbarnett.bsky.social! ashecon.confex.com/ashecon/2026...
there is nothing on this planet that comes close to a South Indian breakfast
Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 2mo agoLet’s do some discourse. Who has the best breakfasts? My vote is Mexico: huevos rancheros/divorciados, chilaquiles, molletes, tetelas, papas con chorizo, churros, migas… plus café de olla I dunno, I think they figured it out?
We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.
i was visiting a neighborhood bar in boston when a roving gang of elite college professors strode in acting like they owned the place. they saw me ordering a domestic lager and shouted "this motherfucker's not chasing novel gustatory experiences!" and started beating me with heavy wooden rulers
Been thinking about this a lot. Clearly reviewers will use AI to point out flaws. I upload my papers beforehand and try to address the LLM's critiques. Many of its points are nonsense, but won't look like nonsense to reviewers. Is the equilibrium prompt injection? www.reddit.com/r/singularit...
From the singularity community on Reddit: AI researchers are now injecting prompts into their papers
Explore this post and more from the singularity community
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Atheendar Venkataramani@atheendar.bsky.social · 3mo ago1/ I had a few AIs critique a result of mine. They came up with time varying confounders (a flu epidemic + a heat wave) which I could not adjust for and that they argued was perfectly correlated with my treatment. I looked it up myself and -- neither thing happened.