Hey folks: know of any collections of articles/best practices/policies for family friendly academia? Would appreciate any leads!
Agreed. Great story about a tinkering innovator from NZ, and how new ways of modelling economic systems changed the world!
This @TimHarford piece on Phillips is well worth your attention. An outstanding story. Should be a movie. timharford.com/2024/10/how-...
At the London School of Economics, a few weeks before Christmas, in 1949, the Lionel Robbins seminar was about to begin. The prestigious event was at the razor’s edge of postwar economic thought: R…
Soul food for when your next rejection comes in... (original Nevermind review by Rolling Stone, 3/5 stars)
Fascinating piece on the diffusion of “Printerism” as a business model. You drown customers in switching costs and use design and legal isolating mechanisms to inhibit reverse engineering by rivals. pluralistic.net/2024/09/30/l...
Fascinating new telescope springing forth in Chile www.abc.net.au/news/science...
High in the Chilean desert, the Extremely Large Telescope is taking shape. It promises sharper views of space than we've ever seen — but will Australian astronomers be able to use it?
With one word change I have delivered Google a killer app for scholars: “With one click, two AI hosts start up a lively “deep dive” discussion based on your [oeuvre]. They summarize your material, make connections between topics, and banter back and forth.” blog.google/technology/a...
NotebookLM is releasing Audio Overviews, which turns your sources into an engaging discussion.
We’ve just published a new pre-print on ArXiv titled "Inventor Mobility After the Fall of the Berlin Wall" (with Ann Hipp, Bremen & Thünen). Below is a summary of our key findings. We’d greatly appreciate any feedback you may have. doi.org/10.48550/arX...
