Sander Wagner

New Pub 🚨📝🎓: "Stratification of Post-Birth Labour Supply in a High- and Low- Maternal Employment Regime" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Short version: Germany has much bigger motherhood penalties than France, but they are not more socially stratified. That wasn’t what we expected. 🧵⬇️

🎵Don't stop thinking about tomorrow🎵

Arsenal {bot}@arsenal.xmirror.bot

Focus turns to Fleetwood 🫡 📍 Sobha Realty Training Centre Link: https://www.arsenal.com/news/training-gallery-focused-on-fleetwood-a2pDe5m61kS4

23h

I find the "you can't take the moments away from us" reactions in the Manchester City case so strange. Time has already taken the moments away, they were only there when they happened. All that is left is memories, which can be altered and change meaning.

While early AI use in science was mostly confined to relegating programming tasks and correcting writing, it is becoming more and more involved in meta-level decision-making about what to research and what research strategies to pursue. See www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More evidence on how definitions, what diagnosis categories contain and willingness to diagnose certain conditions have been rapidly expanding in our medical system. www.ft.com/content/960f...

pheew 😌 that's a relief. It's not just us... the agents are polarized too. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

theatlantic.comShe Wanted to Have Three Kids. Then Life Happened.Many women start out with a notion of their ideal number of children—but a variety of obstacles can get in the way.

I just hope that alvin's digital clone and not he himself felt the need to post this tweet.

🎃👻🧙‍♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙‍♀️👻🎃@viothevvitch.myatproto.social

this is so fucking sad

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo

@karenguzzo.bsky.social

How do people decide how many children to have and when to stop? It's complicated! Lots of sociologists/demographers in this piece, including yours truly & @srhayford.bsky.social.

Reproducibility is (slowly) coming to international organizations. The world bank now published 500 reproducibility packages and other international organization should follow. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Daniel Knowles

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Same thing with gig tickets. Bots already fight to get Glastonbury tickets and the like. That will get so much worse. A lot of things depend on friction to work well. Being an early adopter of AI agents is gonna be a lot better than when everyone has one

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Daniel Knowles

@dlknowles.bsky.social

Some unintended consequences I suspect the rise of AI agents will create: 1. Restaurants that only take reservations by hand written letter, or more likely, don't take them at all. 2. Gigs where you can only buy tickets in person. 3. Businesses that operate without websites.

In a way, one of the "luckier aspects" of llms are that their answers are formed on the views of people who care to write about the world they are in, which might overall (though many exceptions can be found) not be the worst crop around.

Der Fisher@blackholefun.bsky.social

Unpopular opinion: LLMs are generally deradicalizing people whose beliefs are based on pure propaganda. I've been watching this happen slowly with some people I care about. ChatGPT is one of the reasons they finally accept that the NRA, OAN, and NewsMax are lying to them.

If only there was someone we could ask about this, who did a vulcan mind meld with a humpback whale once. spacedaily.com/k-humpback-w...

I really dont know how to think about results like this, and for that matter about how to redesign our education systems in general, with the advent of AI. Basically my mind gives me two opposing narratives: 👇 cepr.org/voxeu/column...

1) the use of AI truly erodes essential skillbuilding that would otherwise generalize into other domains 2) this is like us losing the ability to orient ourselves well in nature, after the invention of maps, a bit sad but in the end freeing up brainspace for other things we now need in the world.

I honestly don't know where I come down between these two perspectives so if you have views, or more clarity, i am happy to learn.

Some of the best concerts I've seen were at metal bars. Glad that Nature magazine finally recognizes their importance. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nytimes.comSome Scientists Have ‘Magic Hands’ in the Lab. This A.I. Is Learning Why.Even the most adept researchers may not know exactly what they do to get successful results. An A.I. model is trying to figure it out by watching every move.

Fascinating account of a startup trying to build different kinds of sensors into every aspect of labwork to let the AI learn how to run succesful experiments. I don't know how succesful this will be, but suspect versions of it will come to more workplaces over time. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/s...

prediction markets are mostly repackaged sports gambling plus some crypto stuff at this point www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Just out of curiosity, what is the 115th charge that they are not guilty of?

19 Sept

so glad spurs didnt go down last season so we all got to experience this season with them!

Prevalence of causal overclaiming across time in articles in the social sciences: While the graph is depressing overall, part of me is also a little proud that sociology managed to become the least bad over time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The causality police failed...

One for stata users and DID nerds: xtswitchdid now implements the de Chaisemartin and D’Haultfœuille (2026) estimator for dynamic treatment effects. If you are estimating treatment effects in a panel and want to see how they chage over time. This one is for you. www.stata.com/manuals/caus...

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jamanetwork.comWe Set Out to Break the Mold in Science Philanthropy—It’s Still Not Enough2026 Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award winner Michael J. Fox discusses his personal experience with and contribution to Parkinson disease research.

“The science is ahead of the money.” Michael J. Fox writing a JAMA perspective on his journey and experiences in funding Parkison research. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

9 Sept

Sounds like a fun exploration of eurovision precursor events, but actually is some very serious historical botanic genetics *sigh* www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

7 Sept

Parenthood penalties in football.

Poorly Drawn Arsenal@poorlydrawnarsenal.com

I’m not even joking, I think Odegaard’s kid is sleeping through the night and that’s why he looks so good now.

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Ethan Mollick

@emollick.bsky.social

This is both an interesting experiment and a sign of a tsunami coming for academia. AIs retroactively reading the research and finding both opportunities and issues with published papers, then sharing those judgements publicly. d3jhl7jsny6f2h.cloudfront.net

fortune.comGambling becomes America's favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined | FortuneAmericans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.

"In 2025, Americans placed roughly $166 billion in bets on sporting events... more than the entire U.S. movie, music, book, and museum industries generated in revenue combined." ... "Roughly 95% of total losses are absorbed by just 5% of bettors" fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...

One of my increasingly strongly held positions is "we (policy, research, civil society) are not paying enough attention to how fast gambling is increasing and to all the problems that are downstream from that."

the increasing deregulation paired with a growing share of vulnerable users that get hooked on the agressive push of new products does bear some resemblance to what happened to pain meds in the 90s.

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LISA BAUM AMAZING!

Lisa Baum is the Arsenal signing I was most thrilled about this year and boy does she live up to it already.

5 Sept

I am so into this seasons' spurs storyline that I am actually tempted to try to get tickets to watch it all play out live and pay my part to subsidize this glorious "spend millions on players for nothing" stunt.

WSL is back!! Fascinated enough by this lcl galacticos project to support them tonight.

That heel flick goal by van de donk was incredible. Also, just so cool to see mapi leon and alexia putellas in the wsl. If i wasn't tied to arsenal already i'd totally become a lionesses supporter. 😂

nytimes.comOpinion | Stop Pathologizing Ordinary LifeWe need to support psychological well-being without fixating on it.

This article captures one side of a very complicated and multi-faceted discussion to be had about the evolution of our societal relation to mental health and there is much that remains to be added. But it contains valid points & I would definitely reccomend reading. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/o...

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On the one hand it opens up space to diagnose and talk about conditions that would have previously been wiped under the rug, often to the detriment of those having to deal with it. On the other hand constantly overapplying a pathological lens to everyday life can have its own negative consequences.

The article clearly and forcefully comes down on the second side of this argument (and it makes its points well) whereas i see this as a really hard to negotiate and complicated tradeoff to navigate.

nytimes.comOpinion | Stop Pathologizing Ordinary LifeWe need to support psychological well-being without fixating on it.

I particularly struggle with the tensions around "concept creep". On the one hand we are clearly starting to increasingly use pathological and medical vocabulary around things that we would have previously described as emotions or character traits, which has so many different consequences.

Literally incapable to read this title without my brain starting to play the first line of "Sound of Silence" *smh* www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/s...

nature.comWhy are El Niños getting stronger? 1,000-year-coral record points to climate changeA reconstruction of Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures adds to the evidence that human-caused warming is boosting El Niño events.

While there is uncertainty about the link between climate change and the strength of El Niño, historic data points in the direction of strong El Niño events happening more frequently than in the 1,000 years before human-generated greenhouse-gas warming the planet. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd@alexselbyb.bsky.social

Stagflation www.economist.com/britain/2026...