Class cancelled because of the super typhoon! This is a chance to try out my new mic to record a lecture. 🤓 Stay safe!
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Class cancelled because of the super typhoon! This is a chance to try out my new mic to record a lecture. 🤓 Stay safe!
Just a few months ago many investors were convinced that Trumponomics would energise America’s business environment. These ten charts show how that has not been the case
Game boys were OG!
@bsky.app really needs a drafts feature. My brain can’t write a coherent tweet in one sitting without wanting to tweak and mull it over for 3 business days like an email
Just wrapped up the Canadian Sociological Association’s 2025 Annual Conference~ the waterfront was beautiful!
Philip Mayring had a well-cited 2000 piece on qualitative content analysis (article by the same name) in FQS, and I think Attride and Stirling’s 2001 piece on thematic network analysis basically became the template for it. My sense has always been it’s kinda just thematic analysis but for text 😅
Grateful for this generous and careful review, Wilfred!
But Hillary’s emails huh
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
Will #artificialintelligence and automation cause huge unemployment? Is the tech revolution going to deliver on its promises of transformational change to workplaces, the economy and beyond?
Professor Judy Wajcman uncovers the truth behind the hype, and separates #AI myths from reality.
Repairing storm-damaged homes has grown so expensive across the U.S. that insurers are increasing premiums and dropping vulnerable properties to protect profits.
I still have $10 of Skype credit damnit
THIS IS HUGE! A cancer vaccine developed by Yale University and DFCI shows MAJOR promise. Results of an early-phase trial reveal ALL patients with ADVANCED stage kidney cancer had successful anti-cancer immune responses AND have remained CANCER-FREE approximately THREE years after treatment. 🧪🧵⬇️
Econsky socsky
New research article! 🎉 my work shows that, similar to how firms offshore profits and operations to avoid tax liabilities, firms also offshore emissions and avoid emissions liabilities by listing in cross-border jurisdictions that are distant from their home jurisdictions. doi.org/10.1002/csr....
CLOSING TODAY: the Sociological Review Foundation is hiring an Editorial Officer to manage the journal’s review process and support the Editor-in-Chief and team of editors.
Applicants must be based in, and eligible to work in, the UK. Today, 17 February, is the final day to apply.
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Ah yes, his qualifications as recounted during the senate hearing committee included “could deadlift 50lbs”
Shocked and in disbelief that Professor Michael Burawoy was killed in a hit and run. He was a pillar of the discipline.
www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/04/o...
Modern supply chains don't look like trade theory 101!
They involve constant border crossings, each now hit by tariffs.
Tariffs raise prices, but the more important thing they do is disrupt supply relationships.
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Could you do it?
This hurts! We need better vetting mechanisms to assess whether folks are qualified to teach something in unis.
Welcome to Hell cont’d
Welcome to hell
Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Diffusion of New Technologies,” by Kalyani (@aakashkalyani.bsky.social), Bloom (@nickbloom.bsky.social), Carvalho, Hassan, Lerner, and Tahoun: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
IR scholars who use probabilistic annotations like P (A U B) and Nash equilibria but without actually understanding math and probability should be banned. Nash didn't get a Nobel prize for treating equilibria as metaphors and word salads
Trump’s inauguration will break tradition and will be held indoors due to cold weather.
Meanwhile, Yellen et al
slogging it out at Biden’s inauguration:
I'm very grateful for Alecea Standlee's generous review of my book, Chinese Social Networks in an Age of Digitalization: Liquid Guanxi, in Social Forces.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada is pictured seated at a table in a suit and tie with two Canadian flags in the background. Headline reads: "Canada's Plan for a Trade War: Pain for Red States And Trump Allies." Photo credit: Arlyn Mcadorey/The Canadian Press, via Associated Press.
Canadian officials said they specifically want to focus on goods made in Republican or swing states, where the pain of tariffs would affect Donald Trump's allies. nyti.ms/3Wj7zVl
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"Free trade is perhaps the closest thing to a universally held value among economists."
The problem is not that "free trade" is in fact a bad thing. It is that most economists don't seem to have a sense of what "free trade" actually looks like.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/b...
Reminder that “masculine culture” was what killed Activision and caused an exodus of their most talented designers and writers to competitors