Kristina McElheran

@kmcelheran.bsky.social

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Associate Prof at University of Toronto. Digitization scholar studying firm use of technology, productivity, strategy, and the future of work.

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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · Sep 1

Beware of coverage of AI-related pre-prints...unless they are mine. ;-)

The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History

Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.

www.newyorker.com

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Mark Rice, Raúl Pacheco-Vega , and 2 more Anna O. Law, Mark Rice, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Kristina McElheran

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 2d

Or you might call them "camps" where people are to be "concentrated" until they are deported.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses

The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.

www.washingtonpost.com

Reposted by Kristina McElheran

Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 6d

Remember that there are multiple datasets with "age of first time home buyer".

The one diverging from the others is the one where the data is not accessible to the public.

(Graph from Connor O'Brien)

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 10d

Congrats!! Though, we used to joke that they come out before they are fully baked. Good luck for the “fourth trimester”…

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks for posting this. I teach about algo bias in one of my classes and it’s hard to keep up!

Reposted by Aaron Sojourner, Peter Gratton, Kristina McElheran

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 10d

"We welcome PhDs to a round table table discussion from assistant professors who were recently on the job market"

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Dean Eckles, Kristina McElheran

Zoë Plakias @zoeconomy.bsky.social · 12d

"Friedberg visited Rhode Island Hospital on Saturday night, where she said she spoke with her teaching assistant, who had traveled there to support several of their injured students." Wow, the TA was present at the shooting and then went with students in the class to hospital to support.

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 14d

Just a wee bit of marital trolling…

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 16d

Took them long enough. Good grief.

Reposted by Terry Gaasterland, Kristina McElheran

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 16d

My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me

Reposted by Kristina McElheran

public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 18d

she hates winter so much 😭

a frazzled gray tabby cat, biscuit, is curled up in the corner of a room on some blue towels downstream of the heat coming from the wall vent

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 18d

Yeah. I got stuck on the pen analogy. Guess it’s not obvious to anyone who never struggled to write by hand… In general, I have a hard time with how ableist a lot of the anti-tech, more-friction-is-always-better conversations can be.

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 18d

I often read these “code of conduct” things and wonder who the heck needs this information? Ah.

Reposted by Glenn H. Shepard, Kristina McElheran

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18d

To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.

RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves

“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”

lnk.thebulwark.com

Reposted by Stephen M. Walt, Joe R. Feagin, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 4 more Stephen M. Walt, Joe R. Feagin, Rosemary A. Joyce, Melissa Johnson, Nancy M. Wingfield, David Darmofal, Kristina McElheran

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 19d

Trainwreck? In October 2024, The Economist called Biden's economy "the envy of the world."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

BARTIROMO: What are you expecting the president's economic message to be?

SEN. McCORMICK: I think the message is that we inherited a trainwreck from the Biden administration and we made a lot of progress

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Christian Odendahl, Brian J. Enquist , and 22 more Diane Coyle, Christian Odendahl, Brian J. Enquist, Brendan Nyhan, Ricard V. Solé, Gavin A. Schmidt, Matthias Cuntz, Robert W. Wallace, Steven French, Rosemary A. Joyce, Martin Paul Eve, Erik Champion, Smith, Adrian Daub, Alison Johnson, Mary L. Dudziak, Zen Faulkes, Graham Dutfield, Sean P. Corcoran, Michael Larkin, Bartosz Bartkowski, Aidan O’Sullivan, Annalee Newitz, Kristina McElheran, Carly D. Ziter

Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 19d

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

Reposted by Kristina McElheran

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 24d

“the issue isn’t that we need more ‘boy-friendly’ reforms. It’s that boys are still socialized to compete only with boys & to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—& hostile climates for girls.” time.com/7335723/auto...

The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys

“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."

time.com

Reposted by Kristina McElheran

Michigan Advance @michiganadvance.com · 25d

Top lawyers for Consumers Energy and DTE Energy have donated to a Michigan AG candidate’s primary race, raising conflict of interest questions about whether the utilities are trying to influence a prosecutor who may handle their legal and regulatory cases.

From Tom Perkins for @michiganadvance.com

Utility lawyers’ donations to Michigan AG candidate raise conflict-of-interest concerns • Michigan Advance

Top lawyers for Consumers Energy and DTE Energy have donated to a Michigan attorney general candidate’s primary race, raising conflict of interest questions about whether the utilities are trying to i...

michiganadvance.com

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 25d

I’m not saying I don’t believe it. I’m saying stop using bad studies to make important points. It’s counterproductive. The Replication Crisis is coming for everyone, and health is no exception.

Reposted by Kristina McElheran

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 25d

She was first in her family to go to college.

She’d been in the U.S. since she was seven.

They grabbed at the airport on her way to surprise her family for thanksgiving.

They put her in shackles. Her ankles, her arms, and her waist.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving

www.nytimes.com

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 26d

Drawing inferences off of 54-odd participants of unspecified age playing a video game compared to another, only slightly larger “comparison” group who’s actual COVID history is not verifiable is not the evidence we need for this important claim.

Reposted by Kristina McElheran

Sharyn @sharyn420.bsky.social · 26d

THE CRIME OF FEEDING THE HUNGRY
PENSACOLA’S MOST PATHETIC POWER TRIP YET
Closer to the Edge
and
Rook T. Winchester
Nov 30, 2025
Closer to the Edge stands with Kimberl, with Food Not Bombs, if feeding the hungry is a crime,

www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-crime-...

THE CRIME OF FEEDING THE HUNGRY

PENSACOLA’S MOST PATHETIC POWER TRIP YET

www.closertotheedge.net

Reposted by Kristina McElheran

If Not Us @ifnotusofficial.bsky.social · 27d

🔊 STAND WITH MICHAEL KIMBERL

Last night, Pensacola homeless-advocate Mike Kimberl was arrested — just for feeding unhoused neighbors. Criminalizing compassion is not acceptable. 💔

Mike has spent years providing meals, outreach, & care to those with nowhere else to turn. Instead of support, he’s

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Marc Lynch, Matthew Bunn , and 25 more Anna O. Law, Marc Lynch, Matthew Bunn, Brendan Nyhan, Gavin A. Schmidt, Tom Clark, Scott L. Greer, Mark D. White, Rosemary A. Joyce, David Rothschild, American Library Association, Dawn J. Wright, Janet Murray, Michael W. Kraus, David R. Miller, Adrian Daub, James Goodwin, Brian Murphy, Brian Keegan, Pádua Fernandes, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Stella M. Rouse, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Dan Immergluck, David R. Shumway, Élisabeth Vallet, Sofya Aptekar, Kristina McElheran

Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 27d

BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, Robert W. Wallace, Aaron Sojourner , and 2 more Rebecca Solnit, Robert W. Wallace, Aaron Sojourner, Greg Linden, Kristina McElheran

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27d

Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!

Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Kristina McElheran

Tifa | Sacred Ho🧘🏾‍♀️ @chicmojo.blacksky.app · Nov 26

These French babies arguing 🤣

Reposted by Timothy Snyder, Erica Chenoweth, Philip Nel , and 1 more Timothy Snyder, Erica Chenoweth, Philip Nel, Kristina McElheran

Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · Nov 26

We have spent more than 1,000 years trying to separate the awesome prosecutorial powers of the state from the personal whims and vendettas of the head of state.

Trump’s actions and ideology seek to reverse those gains.

Here’s the history he’d like to reverse www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-oldest...

The oldest abuse in human government

Donald Trump and the ‘king’s justice’

www.ifyoucankeepit.org

Reposted by Kristina McElheran

Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · Nov 25

Prévisions de COVID pour le Canada : NOV 22 - DÉC 5, 2025

CANADA

ÉLEVÉ [stable]

Environ 1 personne sur 161 est infectée

Par rapport au point le plus bas de la pandémie au Canada :

-Infections : 8.8 x🔺
-COVID longue : 6.0 x🔺
-Hospitalisations : 8.2 x🔺
-Décès : 11.4 x🔺