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📍 Registration is open for Spatial Data Science across Languages (SDSL) 2025 – Sept 17–18 (+19), Salzburg, Austria. Connect R, Python, Julia & more in spatial science. 🔗 https://forms.gle/E9fpG88V2VQQKmjk9 -- Apply for on-site by mid-July – limited spots […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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Life hack: when reviewers say that your contribution is "not big enough"... ...Increase the font size of your manuscript.

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Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce this new project: a website dedicated to research and data on imperialism and inequality. You're going to love this... globalinequality.org

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Et voilà #ESR je t'inquiète saoulé mais le parpaing annuel est sorti ! C'est sur la socio-histoire du doctorat y'a plein de gens cools dedans et tu peux le lire gratos là books.openedition.org/pufc/73481 (Mais achète le quand même si tu as des sous ou offre le à tes potes-ses pour leur soutenance)

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1.5 months to go until my book Impact Evaluation in Firms and Organizations is out with @mitpress.bsky.social! An accessible introduction to impact evaluation & causal machine learning, with examples in #R & #Python: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255292... Examples: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

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How much of the intergenerational transmission of SES is due to social factors? To answer this, shared 🧬 between parents and children need to be considered. In our new study, we use two designs to account for genetic confounding. We find that roughly 20 percent is due to social factors!

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New post alert :) We’ve got 2 new DiD papers, 1 fantastic DiD guide, and a clever method from Athey–Chetty–Imbens on using experiments to fix observational bias open.substack.com/pub/diddiges...

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Here's how the gradient flow for minimizing KL(pi, target) looks under the Fisher-Rao metric. I thought some probability mass would be disappearing on the left and appearing on the right (i.e. teleportation), like a geodesic under the same metric, but I was very wrong... What's the right intuition?

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New one: regress everything on everything & when the standardized regression coefficient in one direction is twice as large as the one in the other direction, add single-headed arrow. Mum, can we have causal discovery at home? We have causal discovery at home. Causal discovery at home:

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Curious to know more about DuckLake? Next Tuesday, DuckDB co-creator @hannes.muehleisen.org will talk with @motherduck.com CEO @jrdntgn.bsky.social about DuckLake and the future of open table formats. 📆 June 17 (Tuesday), 8:00 PDT / 17:00 CEST ✍️ Register at lu.ma/mt9f8xh1?tk=...

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Just finished @adamjkucharski.bsky.social’s “Proof” about how we know that something is true, from Euclid to national axioms to statistics and AI. I found this a very enjoyable book with lots of fun anecdotes but also many important insights & accessible introductions to various topics.>

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The recording of the Leafmap and MapLibre workshop at the The Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) 2025. Video: youtu.be/MFejuhTrx9I Notebook: leafmap.org/workshops/CVPR_2025 #geospatial #leafmap #maplibre

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Bukowski Reads Bukowski: Watch a 1975 Documentary Featuring Charles Bukowski at the Height of His Powers www.openculture.com/2024/04/buko...

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📍 I gave a talk on measuring spatial autocorrelation in spatial machine learning at the #AGILE0GI conference. Slides: https://jakubnowosad.com/agile-gi2025/ Always glad to discuss spatial ML or autocorrelation --- feel free to reach out! #rstats #rspatial #gischat #machinelearning

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We'll host the DuckDB Berlin Meetup in two weeks with talks from Amine Mhedhbi, Marcin Rudolf and David Justen. If you're based in Berlin or will be attending SIGMOD 2025, register at www.meetup.com/duckdb/event... and drop by!

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Watch a recording of a #webinar held by @aussda.bsky.social‬ 🇦🇹 for the Infra4NextGen project on accessing data from social science research projects. Sergeja Masten and Irena Vipavc Brvar (@ArhivPodatkov 🇸🇮) covered #data access policies, and ensuring the data is used correctly and ethically.

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Network of the day: Wartime pigeon post network in Moscow and its surroundings. Source: pin.it/SWMUIDZlp

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Sociology is mostly about choosing whether something is “structured”, “contingent”, or “performed”

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🔥New #basicincome paper just posted:🔥 "Basic income and labor supply: Evidence from an RCT in Germany" (maybe not the wittiest title, but descriptive...) maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p... Feedback welcome, this is still subject to revisions!

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The expansion of free school meals announced this week will make a huge difference to many struggling families. But this should be the first step in a more ambitious child poverty strategy. Read more about the Government should do ⬇️ buff.ly/4biQa5z

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In quantitative social science analyses, it’s striking how often there’s uncertainty on whether various correlates of outcomes are CONFOUNDERS or MEDIATORS. In past ~20 years, we finally realized how pervasive & pernicious posttreatment control is. Collective learning on that is good. But…

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The "Gollum effect" - wow didn't know this name, but yes, this is exactly what makes certain fields so terrible (like network science). It's just about old men behaving like Gorillas 🤮 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01588-w It's so nice when PhD students can establish themselves […]

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If I have time I'll put together a more detailed thread tomorrow, but for now, I think this new paper about limitations of Chain-of-Thought models could be quite important. Worth a look if you're interested in these sorts of things. ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i...

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© Mária Švarbová

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#OtD 7 Jun 1968 women workers at Ford's Dagenham plant in England walked out on strike for equal pay with men. The strike led to the Equal Pay Act of 1970, although pay equality at Ford was only achieved after a later strike in 1984 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1071...

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trying to understand my ex better

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Firm wage premiums play a key role in intergenerational pay inequality, shaping access to high- vs low-paying firms. As advantaged workers sort into top firms, wage premiums become a key engine of earnings persistence. By @pengzell.bsky.social, @natewilmers.bsky.social. Read more: bit.ly/43vcdnq

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1993 warnings

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Guido Imbens, Chao Qin, Stefan Wager: Admissibility of Completely Randomized Trials: A Large-Deviation Approach https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05329 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.05329 https://arxiv.org/html/2506.05329

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#booksky

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It is the year 2025 and many economists do not know what Git is. Let's revisit a decade-old classic: web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/re...

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Notably, even in this context, I would still do(You = 1)...

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Reuniting spatial interaction and accessibility 🌐blog post: www.urbandemographics.org/post/reuniti... A new study (preprint) with @soukhova.bsky.social , @higgicd.bsky.social and Antonio Paez 🗺️📏 📑Preprint: osf.io/a9dxb_v1

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Addressing wealth inequality must be at the heart of racial justice 💰 Structural and historic wealth imbalances - rooted in slavery and colonialism - still impact the wealth of people of colour in the UK today. Our new report with @lseinequalities.bsky.social shows how Read here: ow.ly/L26L50W1sfB

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Exciting news! 🎉 The 2nd edition of Geocomputation with R is now available as a physical book! 📖🌍 Order your copy today and explore the latest in R for spatial analysis. Learn more about the book's journey: buff.ly/5QpqjPD #geocompx #rspatial #rstats #GIS

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Imagine if Latin American countries acted as one and said: "Our billionaires must pay their fair share" That's how global change starts So great to take part in the event hosted by @icrict.bsky.social Rumbo Colective & Oxfam at the Chilean Congress Library today—thanks for having me!

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The rise of non-response in surveys has led to the increase of non-probability sampling. USA case but problem is world wide.

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Academia will form these little pockets -- people whose theorizing is outrageous & supported by methods outdated since the 90s -- but once it reaches a critical size those people just review each others papers & grants, form societies, hand out awards etc, like a self-contained parallel society.

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Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller (2015) is where the replication crisis comes to economics and political science. Simply put, this chart is impossible. It implies that West Germany’s real GDP per capita grew by almost 8% per year from 1960 to 1990. But it clearly didn’t… 1/20

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ChatGPT ne "réfléchit" pas. C'est un "people pleaser" (une autre manière de dire que c'est un très gros outil statistique, qui dit "ce qui a le plus de chance de marcher"). Cette "conversation" est fascinante (allez jusqu'au bout, vraiment) : amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

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We spent over three years at the Joint Research Centre on DIGCLASS, studying social policy and inequality in the age of digitalisation. We’ve now put all our resources and insights together — check it out! digclass.eu

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Join us next week for a workshop on inequality and labour income share in Southeast Asia with great speakers including WIL researchers @markjmn.bsky.social @nitin-k-bharti.bsky.social @jonasdietrich.bsky.social 📆Thursday 12 June 📍 PSE @pse.bsky.social 📄Programme👇 inequalitylab.world/en/event/ine...

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El conflicto es de clase.

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Why do dictators target the socially isolated? 📢 New theory by @ksonin.bsky.social: Propaganda works best when people are either totally atomized or tightly unified rather than in between. 🎯 Optimal strategy? Don’t focus on influencers. Target the fringes of the network.

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The Modern R Stack for Production AI: doi.org/10.59350/z9f... Python isn't the only game in town anymore: R can interact with local and cloud LLM APIs, inspect and modify your local R environment and files, implement RAG, computer vision, NLP, evals, & much more #Rstats

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Libro - 'Rendición pública de cuentas. Métodos y experiencias inspiradoras en España y América Latina (2024)'. Coordinadores: César N. Cruz-Rubio y @redmatriz.bsky.social Edita @cepcgob.bsky.social sco.lt/6kWwWO

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