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Aija Leiponen @aijaleiponen.bsky.social · 6d

Amazing opportunity for young scholars to move from US to Europe

Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 6d

Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."

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Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 6d

Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."

uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

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Aija Leiponen @aijaleiponen.bsky.social · 8d

Wow this is a shockingly poor driving performance. We're not very close to autonomous driving, friends

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 8d

Tesla's robotaxis crash at 10x the rate of human drivers.

Last month, Tesla confirmed the fleet had traveled roughly 250K miles. With 7 reported crashes at the time, Tesla’s Robotaxi was crashing roughly once every 40K miles.

The average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500K miles.

Tesla reports another Robotaxi crash, even with supervisor as it moves to remove them

Tesla has reported yet another crash involving its Robotaxi fleet in Austin to the NHTSA. The new data keeps the...

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 8d

Tesla's robotaxis crash at 10x the rate of human drivers.

Last month, Tesla confirmed the fleet had traveled roughly 250K miles. With 7 reported crashes at the time, Tesla’s Robotaxi was crashing roughly once every 40K miles.

The average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500K miles.

Tesla reports another Robotaxi crash, even with supervisor as it moves to remove them

Tesla has reported yet another crash involving its Robotaxi fleet in Austin to the NHTSA. The new data keeps the...

electrek.co

Aija Leiponen @aijaleiponen.bsky.social · 12d

This is massive

Antonio Vecoli (@tonyveco on X) @tonyveco.bsky.social · 14d

🔴⚠️⛈🇺🇸The atmospheric river is still insisting with local rains in the state of #Washington where it released days of heavy rains causing historical #floods and the evacuation of more than 100000 people,as in #Snohomish ⬇️last 24hrs of #GOES18 via @zoom.earth
#ClimateEmergency

Antonio Vecoli (@tonyveco on X) @tonyveco.bsky.social · 14d

🔴⚠️⛈🇺🇸The atmospheric river is still insisting with local rains in the state of #Washington where it released days of heavy rains causing historical #floods and the evacuation of more than 100000 people,as in #Snohomish ⬇️last 24hrs of #GOES18 via @zoom.earth
#ClimateEmergency

Aija Leiponen @aijaleiponen.bsky.social · 28d

That didn't take long

daniel @dnl.ink · 28d

the internet is now a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy and so on

graph from Graphite showing 'AI-generated content has surpassed human-written articles' — shows ChatGPT launching just before 2023 and then shooting upwards as human articles shoot down

daniel @dnl.ink · 28d

the internet is now a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy and so on

Aija Leiponen @aijaleiponen.bsky.social · Nov 18

What he said

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Nov 18

5. AI data centers can bring their own clean energy and enough for the community too, while building out local grid for electrification so households don’t get stuck with the bill: fas.org/publication/...

Speed Grid Connection Using ‘Smart AI Fast Lanes’

Federal and state governments need to ensure that the development of new AI and data center infrastructure does not increase costs for consumers, impact the environment, and exacerbate existing inequa...

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Nov 18

5. AI data centers can bring their own clean energy and enough for the community too, while building out local grid for electrification so households don’t get stuck with the bill: fas.org/publication/...

Speed Grid Connection Using ‘Smart AI Fast Lanes’

Federal and state governments need to ensure that the development of new AI and data center infrastructure does not increase costs for consumers, impact the environment, and exacerbate existing inequa...

fas.org

Aija Leiponen @aijaleiponen.bsky.social · Nov 16

So epstein was a mentor to summers in abusing young women. In 2018.

Marshall Steinbaum @econmarshall.bsky.social · Nov 15

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

Aija Leiponen @aijaleiponen.bsky.social · Nov 16

Who Exactly Ruined the Workplace, Including the Economics Profession?

Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · Nov 15

1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.

www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)

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Marshall Steinbaum @econmarshall.bsky.social · Nov 15

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · Nov 15

1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.

www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)

www.nytimes.com

Aija Leiponen @aijaleiponen.bsky.social · Nov 15

Wow this is an incredible paper!
Frontier knowledge exposure can narrow socioeconomic disparities.

It actually matters what you teach!

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · Nov 15

Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · Nov 15

Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday

www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...

Aija Leiponen @aijaleiponen.bsky.social · Nov 14

This absolutely nuts.
I'm not sure there is a single scientist in the US who has not advised a Chinese graduate student in the past 5 years.

Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · Nov 14

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations

Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · Nov 14

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations

Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students

www.science.org

Aija Leiponen @aijaleiponen.bsky.social · Nov 10

Whoa! According to Jason Furman the only US industry to grow this year has been data centers & IT

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Nov 10

This seems significant.

"U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was almost entirely driven by investment in data centers and information processing technology, according to Harvard economist Jason Furman."

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Nov 10

This seems significant.

"U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was almost entirely driven by investment in data centers and information processing technology, according to Harvard economist Jason Furman."

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

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Aija Leiponen @aijaleiponen.bsky.social · Nov 9

Ok. Do you have a source that explains why it won't happen? I'm not a technical expert but am curious.

Aija Leiponen @aijaleiponen.bsky.social · Nov 9

Electrify! Electrify! Electrify!

And develop cheap green hydrogen.

Ember @ember-energy.org · Nov 8

Electrification could now reach 75% of all energy demand, as the road-transport and heating sectors rapidly electrify 🔥🚗

These two sectors account for 50% of global energy use and are now ready to switch from fossil molecules to clean electrons.

https://loom.ly/BwyhReA

Aija Leiponen @aijaleiponen.bsky.social · Nov 9

Did The New York Times soil itself? Some people say.

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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani

It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

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Ember @ember-energy.org · Nov 8

Electrification could now reach 75% of all energy demand, as the road-transport and heating sectors rapidly electrify 🔥🚗

These two sectors account for 50% of global energy use and are now ready to switch from fossil molecules to clean electrons.

https://loom.ly/BwyhReA

Aija Leiponen @aijaleiponen.bsky.social · Nov 8

Cornell's agreement actually explicitly restored academic freedom but it allows gov access to anonymized admission data (but not set the criteria).

Now would be a great time to stop legacy admission practices across the ivies and other top private universities.