Reminder, if you’re going to @ashecon.bsky.social 2026, come to our Wednesday session of creative uses of recession discontinuity with some of the best in the business, including @aschwartz.bsky.social, @vinisingh.bsky.social, @dzeltzer.bsky.social, and @mlbarnett.bsky.social!
New blog post: Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth.
daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/eval...
On an AI generated description of a non-existent study, incorrectly citing findings from studies, and the importance of scientific criticism.
In this blog post I will analyse the arguments that Dr. Amy Cuddy provided in a blog post “The "Power Posing Was Debunked" Myth: What the Re...
If you're buying plane tickets to ASHEcon '26, make sure you stay for our session (last of the conference) of 3 RDs studying heuristics, stigma, & guidelines. With @aschwartz.bsky.social, @vinisingh.bsky.social, @dzeltzer.bsky.social, and @mlbarnett.bsky.social! ashecon.confex.com/ashecon/2026...
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confirmed here by multiple sources!!
another fun rumor is apparently the small and inexperienced firm taking over will subcontract the work back to ResDAC! I can feel the efficiency growing!
A theory of university parking (and fireworks)
www.economicforces.xyz/p/parking-fi...
I hate a bad haircut as much as the next guy, but this seems disproportionate....
Another reminder that undertreated high blood pressure has real consequences. A physician bonus tied to blood pressure targets led to fewer medication increases for patients with borderline hypertension, and those patients then experienced more heart attacks and strokes.
This is a fantastic and rare (!) example of authors of a published paper and the author of a comment on that paper working together to fix the scientific record. Kudos to all involved. This is not easy, even with good faith all around. @droodman.bsky.social @i4replication.bsky.social #EconSky
"[Novartis, Amgen and Lilly are] developing medicines that lower the level of lipoprotein(a), a fatty particle in the blood that is known as Lp(a)... Tens of millions of people in the U.S. have elevated Lp(a), an inherited and largely hidden driver of heart disease."
www.wsj.com/health/pharm...
Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams?
A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...
Why do universities have persistent shortages of parking? Why do states allow you to purchase fireworks, but not set them off?
Supposedly they are shutting down ResDAC in 5 weeks, and, I’m told, replacing them with a totally novice firm with no experience/expertise in Medicare data.
