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kmcelheran.bsky.social
AP University of Toronto. Digitization scholar studying firm use of technology, productivity, strategy, and the future of work.
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Yay Also: this is exhausting for everyone, and I believe that is their point Gift article www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

NEW: First, diplomats warned what will happen if we halt aid to the rest of world. Now they are telling the Trump Administration what is actually happening: death, crime, sexual violence, trafficking. www.propublica.org/article/trum... @brettmurpsych.bsky.social & @annamaria.bsky.social:

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

My husband (un)helpfully pointed out that I am doing it wrong…this is NOT the summer of ‘69…

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Last night Russia attacked a European capital with ballistic missiles and hundreds of drones. Today the story barely registers in international news headlines. Western normalization and acceptance of Russian atrocities in Ukraine is what makes them possible.

submitted 5 days ago • 36 comments

SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:

submitted 8 days ago • 50 comments

#econsky What do we know about “Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation” and about MIT's investigation of this paper, which apparently led to expulsion of its author? And what should we change in response. /1

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Whoa.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Amidst all the posts about how NSF funds the basic science that (eventually) leads to marketable products, its role in funding data infrastructure is getting lost. The GSS (1972), ANES (late 1960s), and PSID (1968) are rounding error in the discretionary budget but vital national resources. 1/6

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

😂 At least your computer didn’t get randomly remotely rebooted by IT while they were ALL open and you went for a cup of tea unaware of the looming thought apocalypse…

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Absolute malpractice for Quebec to cap international student admissions right now, when so many extraordinary international students are looking for alternatives to American universities. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

It occurs to me on a regular basis that every news article, popular book, and a fair number of academic articles begin with some descriptive statistic…but few really pause to think about measurement, how hard it is, and that someone somewhere has to pay to collect the data. #bigyellowtaxi

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Um, Music Nerds are also (the best kind of) Nerds?!

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

#MusicSky #MayTheFourth

submitted 25 days ago • 538 comments

Quite the quote.

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

The day this happened and the variations on the theme were hilarious! Implications, however are quite sobering…

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Now is an excellent time to familiarize oneself with the “Bullwhip Effect.”

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

I’m sure that if we “keep a human in the loop” nothing bad can happen with AI.😳

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you for that, Slackbot.

submitted 41 days ago • 8 comments

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

submitted 40 days ago • 505 comments

Debate in my family today about whether finishing an expense report means one less thing to gripe about…or one fewer. (Hinges on whether the gripes are countable….)

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Can this scale? Seems on-point.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Yes! Stop the stupid takes distorting the fact that researchers actively compete to solve the government’s (and society’s) problems for often below-market wages while handling reams of red tape, training future innovation capacity, and submitting our ideas for scathing scrutiny.🧐

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

They need a Substack.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Doubling down on my prediction that the likelihood of economic catastrophe is highly correlated with the number of social media posts on supply chain mechanics.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment