Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺

Our large-scale study of phone bans just came out in Science. We randomized phone-free classrooms for 16,000+ students across 10 institutions in Odisha, India. Students deposited phones in a box at the start of each class, for a full semester.

A beer to recommend. Tasted great! The warm sunny afternoon also helped…

Who hasn’t wished for consistent European micro-geographic house-price indices? Start: Germany + England & Wales in one dashboard. Data ready to download. Send me yours sites.google.com/view/ahlfeld... Send me your AHS index from your country! @bsoeberlin.bsky.social @heblich.bsky.social

They're not out there insisting the urgency means its time to stock up on water, tinned foods, candles and wind up radios (to be fair UK has issued guidance and stock levels of 1l water a radios has dropped sharply, I know because I was stocking up). The majority pay no attention, they have zero

2) England is a rare exception. During the 2010s many other countries (including the other 3 UK nations) changed tack, experimenting with ideas like transferrable skills instead of focusing on tried-and-tested disciplines and methods. It looks like those experiments have failed.

My wife is a lawyer. And the 6/8 months old tools they are using is doing wonders to both save time AND challenge e.g. professionals’ due diligence findings, resulting in lower costs and higher quality for the client. One year ago I would not have thought we’d get here so fast

An influential paper by Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002) reported two studies with tampered data. Post 1 of 2. datacolada.org/138

It is drawing extreme values from unobserved random variables? Is it? Is it?

they always look like this

For the past six months @mariaa.bsky.social and I have been working on creating an improved research experience on atproto. It's now live! Check out: lea.ac

I am turning into a bear, enjoying the relative solitude of a low density residential neighborhood. But today, eating at my favorite ramen place, and being offered dark glasses by random people gathering in the street to see the eclipse, Nørrebro reminded me of why dense neighborhoods are special

Seen from a European perspective, on the one hand the US capabilities as a potential defense partner are lower, on the other hand the US capabilities as a potential aggressor are lower. “Fun” times not knowing if this is mostly good or mostly bad…

As I said to multiple colleagues in the past years, Italy rightfully refuses to participate in World Cups held in undemocratic and dictatorial states committing crimes against humanity 🇮🇹

Et helvede.

That even *progressive* Americans seemingly don't have this instinct is almost as damning about America as anything Trump's done. It makes, say, the partisan gerrymandering both sides have indulged in far more understandable.

Climate change and the AC debate

Why does planning an essay feel like you're doing all the work before doing the work, Grammarly? Because learning the subject, figuring out what you want to say, and planning out of the structure of how to say it *IS* the vast majority of the work of writing. Any writer knows this. You do too.

Også bemærkelsesværdig at, om sommeren og i weekenden, det er ikke muligt at være i den største by før kl 10:00 hvis man kommer fra den 2. største by (uden overnatning) med offentlig transport. Anyways, elbilen er under opladning

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This strip is amazing because exactly this happened this winter, exactly as described, and I am getting teary eyed and missing my kids already while on my way to work.

I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

Putins mercenaries’ man the shadow fleet. Through fake job interviews and more than 2000 crew lists Danwatch and our international partners are now able to tell exactly when, why and where Russian mercenaries man tankers from the shadow fleet. Three articles out today. In Danish. Read here.

Is it the phones? New NBER WP this morning with Zeke Hooper: we estimate the diffusion of the iPhone explains 33–52% of the decline in US births from 2007–2011. #econsky🧵 www.nber.org/papers/w35310

As you get older you get too tired and sad to do bad things. This is interpreted by others as wisdom and moral development.

Photos of newly arrived immigrants at Ellis Island. Augustus Sherman took the photos between 1902 and 1920 when he worked as the Chief Registry Clerk. Striking to me how the outfits all look good because they have a discernible silhouette (shape and drape).

Sardines have been sold out for months in Denmark. They are apparently in fashion because of some social media trend, but they also were our kids favorite food for lunches. Influencers be damned. Go back to your chia seeds

There is no film more pleasant to the male audience that Master and Commander. Change my mind

I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app

Ration instead of ratio. No idea why my fingers insist on typing the last n

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

To convey the insanity of this to my wife, I explained that at the very top of my running form, while doing intervals, I could in a good day approach during a 100m sprint the pace at which this guy ran 42km.

Sunny in Germany, windy in Denmark, means charging 150km on the EV for 2kr. That is the price of a small glass 🥃 of gasoline. Skål!

Deadlock over. The EU just cleared way for the €90-billion-loan for Ukraine and the 20th sanctions package. Russia’s war economy is under growing strain, while Ukraine is getting a major boost. We will provide Ukraine what it needs to hold its ground, until Putin understands his war leads nowhere.

That comes of dunshire spinoff does sound promising. Anyway, here’s me and my friends opening Nemesis Lockdown for the first time