A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

And all of this started because Stanisław Ulam didn't feel like calculating the odds of winning a game of Solitaire...

From there, I'd go straight to indifference curves

If This Is Your Wedding Date... We Have Bad News For You Well, this study is far from romantic.

The fateful V-Day is approaching once again, please be careful out there, folks!

www.huffpost.com/entry/valent...

'It means more than any medal' — Ukraine's skeleton racer sacrifices Olympic dream to honor war victims Editor's note: This story has been updated with comments from President Volodymyr Zelensky and Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha. Wearing a helmet commemorating Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia is no...

Vladyslav Heraskevych, Ukraine's skeleton racer, was scheduled to compete in his third Olympic Games on Feb. 12. He was barred from taking part in the competition after refusing to change his helmet, one depicting the faces of Ukrainian athletes killed during Russia's full-scale invasion.

If This Is Your Wedding Date... We Have Bad News For You Well, this study is far from romantic.

The fateful V-Day is approaching once again, please be careful out there, folks!

www.huffpost.com/entry/valent...

Nice! That's about the time I got my Epiphone too. Though mine is just a standard Les Paul clone.

Old Epiphones are superb. What's the vintage?

If you’re not using Claude Code, now’s the time to jump in!

Talking to lots of folks across various professions using Claude Code, it is genuinely surprising, even to me, how much of a leap they have seen in the ability of LLMs to do real work in the last six weeks.

I know people on this site are sometimes skeptical of AI, but worth paying attention to.

Call for papers for Workshop in Causal Health Economics (organized by Erik Grönqvist and @helenasvaleryd.bsky.social) with @hitoshishigeoka.bsky.social as keynote speaker. Just before #ESPE in Helsinki and best time to visit Sweden 👇

If you'd like to embed a Bluesky feed on your website, check out this neat and simple widget:

github.com/Vincenius/bs...

By the same token, Alfredo was just promoted to Full Professor, and I am sure the whole Wollongong is dancing in the streets. 🕺🎵🎶

My greatest 2025 accomplishment is that I pushed through a (very mundane) request that was summarily rejected by our central HR.

Becoming Associate is nice and all that, but Jan vs. Kafka was the true fight of the year. 🤜🤛

While most of us are enjoying a peaceful holiday season, this horrific war is still happening.

Please consider donating to the Ukrainian cause 💙💛

u24.gov.ua

G’day, mate. The night may lengthen, but it never has the final word—hate exhausts itself.

I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.

It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.

What. A. Line-up!!!

This is going to be such an amazing event, do make sure to submit your work! 🌈❤️

Check out the amazing line up of speakers!! Please submit and share 🌟 🌈
@jankabatek.com @drbrendannolan1.bsky.social

💻🏠 Work From Home arrangements are here to stay, so let's unpack their consequences for workers' mental health!

Take a look at @theconversation.com piece in which we explore the key findings of our new study 👇

What’s working from home doing to your mental health? We tracked 16,000 Australians to find out Is working from home good for your mental health? If so, how many days a week are best? A new study has some answers.

“ #Working from home had a strong positive effect on women’s #MentalHealth, but only in certain circumstances..biggest gains were recorded when #women worked mainly from home while still spending some time (1 to 2 days)..on-site each week.”: buff.ly/5cO4iR4

via @jankabatek.com

What’s working from home doing to your mental health? We tracked 16,000 Australians to find out Is working from home good for your mental health? If so, how many days a week are best? A new study has some answers.

Can working from home benefit your mental health?
Here's the promised Conversation article, reporting on the results of our new longitudinal study.

TL;DR: Hybrid work is most beneficial, and women benefit more than men.

theconversation.com/whats-workin...

The study itself: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

Really happy to see this paper published! We looked into the effects of WFH on mental health, finding substantive positive effects for women ♀️

A non-technical article in The Conversation is soon to follow, so watch this space 😊

Happy to see some uplifting 🌈 news!

EU court rules in favour of cross-border recognition of same-sex marriage rights. This is a big step towards marriage equality in member countries that are still dragging their feet on this matter.

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Incredibly proud of this 🤩🥹! So much work and determination behind this publication. What a journey this was! Honored to have done it with you @vickybarone.bsky.social 🚀❤️

Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects Of the Opioid Epidemic Abstract. In this paper, we establish a causal connection between two of the most salient social developments in the United States over the past decades: t

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects of the Opioid Epidemic,” by Arteaga (@caroartc.bsky.social) and Barone (@vickybarone.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Trump has murdered at least 83 people with extrajudicial military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats.

He needs to face consequences for this.

His secretary of DHHS, RFK Jr., will kill several orders of magnitude more with this disinformation.

I haven't been this irritated for a very long time. Such a terrible timesink...

Our new website for coding university expenses should be paying some serious royalties to the Franz Kafka's estate.