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It's jarring to hear Peter Kyle naming the UK university sector as one of the country's key advantages when the whole sector is on fire

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1) A Southwest Boeing 738 was about to land on runway 31C when a Bombardier Challenger 35 crossed its path. The Boeing pilot reacted in time, initiating a Go Around even before the control tower alerted him to the danger. #avgeek #chicago

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.,,,getting worse every day Trump Gaza youtu.be/ybtb1nAghBM?...

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www.eeassoc.org/news/improvi...

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Is spring coming?

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Meine FDP-Forderungen an die neue Bundesregierung: --- Schuldenbremse einhalten --- Bundesweite Gedenkminute für NS-Opfer einführen --- Antisemitismus konsequent bekämpfen Diese Forderungen gelten auch nach der Wahl.

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Petr Sedlacek & Pontus Rendahl are running the "Tools for Macroeconomists" Summer School Course again in 2025! The Essentials: August 4-8, 2025 Advanced Tools: August 11-15, 2025 Research workshop: August 16, 2025 Highly recommended!! For more info: sites.google.com/view/toolsfo...

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Warum nicht mit Voltaire?

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Due to the latest developments in the world:

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Update 1st: 2: two small airplanes collided in Arizona.

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Lies of the oligarch Trump: 1st: "You should have never started this war." And by "you" he either meant the president of the Ukraine Zelensky or the Ukraine 🇺🇦 itself. Where were Trump on the 24th of February 2022?

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Burning up rocket parts from SpaceX rocket over northern Germany. www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...

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A lie that will cost the Ukraine, and Europe, a lot of money, land, health, schools,…

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This is the climate change! Within the next 7 days, there will be a 21⁰ Celsius temperature difference in Germany. From -10⁰ Celsius to +11⁰ Celsius! #Climate #ClimateChange #Germany

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Short summary of the book "How democracies Die" by the Harvard political scientists(!!!) S. Levitsky & D. Ziblatt: The authors warn of "the collapse of 'mutual tolerance' and respect for the political legitimacy of the opposition." In my opinion, these are the pillars of US democracy. (1/4)

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From the "Handelsblatt Morning Briefing" by Christian Rickens: "Without diplomatic flourishes, the US Vice President [J.D. Vance] made it clear where his country sees the greatest security risk for Europe: not the threat from Russia or China, (1/2)

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Aus "Handelsblatt Morning Briefing" von Christian Rickens: "Ohne diplomatische Schnörkel machte der US-Vizepräsident [J.D. Vance] deutlich, worin sein Land das größte Sicherheitsrisiko für Europa sieht: nicht in der Bedrohung durch Russland oder China, (1/2)

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Trump is already shutting down the free and independent press/media from doing its job. To where should this lead? Where are the checks-and-balances? And where is the outcry of the press? And it's Gulf of Mexico. Sorry.

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White House continues to restrict access of AP reporters, because they name the Golf of Mexico still Golf of Mexico and not Golf of America. What is Trump up to? #USA #Trump #AssociatedPress

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Senior macro academic has gone full Trump. Not sure whether he understands that this is not about 'rethinking' how university research is financed.

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I used AI to help write a paper and got it published. All in record time. What does this mean for research? My latest post. open.substack.com/pub/joshuaga...

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Prof. Kim Ruhl (UMN PhD 2004) of University of Wisconsin-Madison has been named as one of 3 members of President Trump's Council of Economic Advisors. I admire Kim for his service to our country, and I hope he is able to have a favorable influence on US economic policy. news.wisc.edu/uw-madison-e...

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NEWS: Sources tell me that DOGE is setting its sights on the Department of Labor next. DOL workers have been ordered to give DOGE access to whatever they ask for—or risk termination. “We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”

submitted 26 days ago • 532 comments

One of the words is “bias” so there go all grants about AI/ML/statistics 😬 These people are such dum dums

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 26 days ago • 1328 comments

The first little flower to bloom this year.

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BREAKING: Marco Rubio has presented an ultimatum to the President of Panama regarding the Panama canal, per Axios: "Absent immediate changes regarding Chinese influence, the US will take measures necessary to protect its rights under the Treaty"

submitted 28 days ago • 180 comments

The new OpenAI model announced today is quite wild. It is essentially Google's Deep Research idea with multistep reasoning, web search, and the o3 model underneath (as far as I know). It sometimes takes a half hour to answer. Let me show you an example. 1/x

submitted 27 days ago • 8 comments

Number of dead people Trump has up to now on his conscience 5: January 6th. 3: Army helicopter crash 67: airplane crash Washington D.C. 6: Philadelphia small airplane crash

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Wow. Just listen to this from Canadian MP, Charlie Angus on Trump's tariffs: “The threat comes, of course, from the president of the United States—a convicted felon and known predator”

submitted 29 days ago • 80 comments

Plane crashes are very useful distractions as #Trump guts the #FBI #FDA #CDC etc. #Project2025 #DEI the #USA is being turned into his empire, not a democracy #WashingtonDC #Philadelphia #FAA

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New article: "Risk loving and fat tails in the wealth distribution" by Aloisio Araujo, Juan Pablo Gama, and Timothy Kehoe. In a dynamic general equilibrium model risk-loving behavior by some investors generates unequal distributions of income and wealth. rdcu.be/d7RG4

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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

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