Berk Özler
berkozler12.bsky.social
Berk Özler
@berkozler12.bsky.social

Animal lover/researcher/plant-based eater and cook.

https://sites.google.com/site/decrgberkozler/home.

Assaggiatore Professionista (https://onaoo.com/registro-internazionale/berk-ozler/)

Economics 24%
Political science 16%

This is a useful post to understand how scrolling is akin to gambling, with immeasurable loss, compared with some gain that makes the cost-benefit equation lopsided...

I'll take a break from here and follow a few of you on your stacks, blogs, etc.
You spend more time on social media than you intend to, because time flows faster on these platforms, causing you to lose hours in what feels like minutes. This is no accident; it’s a result of a decades-long plot to steal your time.

My new essay.
www.gurwinder.blog/p/how-social...
How Social Media Shortens Your Life
And How to Expand it
www.gurwinder.blog

The Circassian proverb that got a Turkish journalist arrested and charged:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedef_K...
Sedef Kabaş - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org

Had heard this one, however: "Eşeğe altın semer vursan da eşek eşektir." It's unfair to donkeys, but it's there...

Had never heard of this one before...

And the prices seem just normal...

My partner is at an epic vegan lunch in Beijing, where a robot is bringing some of the dishes...

Why Referee 2, who is an expert with knowledge of decades of research that preceded the paper they're reviewing, is often grouchy...

Today in Development Impact..
This week's links include a mini-symposium on power calculations, what makes for good descriptive work, publishing tips for econometrics, making nice dot charts, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Weekly links October 17: statistical power, good descriptives, nice graphs, publishing metrics, and more…
blogs.worldbank.org
This week's links include a mini-symposium on power calculations, what makes for good descriptive work, publishing tips for econometrics, making nice dot charts, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Weekly links October 17: statistical power, good descriptives, nice graphs, publishing metrics, and more…
blogs.worldbank.org

This is a good paragraph by Marie Harf:

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If I were the social planner, the next Nobel Prize in Economics would be awarded to Samuel Bowles, Glenn Loury, and John Roemer. Their work is foundational to the modern study of inequality, addressing normative and positive dimensions of inequality with profound insight.

Today in Development Impact...
I learnt something new from Patrick Behrer's blog today: there seems to be evidence that aerosol pollution, while bad for air quality, health & productivity, has a localized effect on reducing heat - and so as pollution falls, more heat and cyclones may occur blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?
Pollution, missing heat, and cyclones: what aerosols are doing to climate risk
blogs.worldbank.org
I learnt something new from Patrick Behrer's blog today: there seems to be evidence that aerosol pollution, while bad for air quality, health & productivity, has a localized effect on reducing heat - and so as pollution falls, more heat and cyclones may occur blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?
Pollution, missing heat, and cyclones: what aerosols are doing to climate risk
blogs.worldbank.org

Like Twitter, I only see things from (or about) it without actually being there...

I was doing a NYT crossword puzzle where T3 was a clue, so I got to wondering about the link between the novel and Shakespeare, which led me to all this info, which is obviously old but new to me...

Can't go on sites like Goodreads because of 1-star reviews of books saying only "Zionist author"...

I found out today about the controversy surrounding Gabrielle Zevin re: her lifting a game for her book without credit and charges of Zionism. So glad I had no clue about these when I was reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow...
Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...
Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline
People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.
www.technologyreview.com

Funny, because people who are not big Tay fans on my TL enjoying this album more than the Swifties...

One day you're minding your own business as the director of a library and museum no one has heard of, the next one you're out of a job because the crybaby dictator didn't get what he wanted from your museum...

The most random job firing ever.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out
www.nytimes.com
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.
interestingengineering.com
At event in DC, Sen. Chris Van Hollen keeps it going with Hakeem
Jeffries over not endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: if you can’t back the kind of campaign he ran, “don’t ask those young people to show up for other Democrats across the country — that’s the message that will be sent.”
Young’s opinion, which rules that the Trump admin illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation, is absolutely scathing.

“In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."
This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face.

democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

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I have never in my life felt as ashamed of the settler state of New Zealand as I am today. #FreePalestineNow

Nice to have birthdays like this🥰