Luke Sanford
@lcsanford.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. at Yale School of the Environment. Political economy of climate and environment, land use change, remote sensing, causal ML. https://sanford-lab.github.io/
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You can read find more about details at www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Thanks to all that helped along the way!
July 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
You can read find more about details at www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Thanks to all that helped along the way!
Met @annaleen.bsky.social and got to spend some good time talking science and spec-fic and they were even more amazing and brilliant than I expected. They had just thought deeply about such interesting and important things and knew how to say things in exactly the right way.
Screw "never meeting your heroes." What were some times you met your heroes and they were super cool?
May 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Met @annaleen.bsky.social and got to spend some good time talking science and spec-fic and they were even more amazing and brilliant than I expected. They had just thought deeply about such interesting and important things and knew how to say things in exactly the right way.
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If your research involves RD designs, check out this important new working paper from Ghosh, Imbens, and Wager: "PLRD: Partially Linear Regression Discontinuity Inference" arxiv.org/pdf/2503.09907
March 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
If your research involves RD designs, check out this important new working paper from Ghosh, Imbens, and Wager: "PLRD: Partially Linear Regression Discontinuity Inference" arxiv.org/pdf/2503.09907
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Watching Jurassic Park, where a computer nerd with a debt problem and delusions of grandeur tears down all the safety systems, with no understanding of the consequences, so he can better facilitate his planned espionage and theft.
March 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Watching Jurassic Park, where a computer nerd with a debt problem and delusions of grandeur tears down all the safety systems, with no understanding of the consequences, so he can better facilitate his planned espionage and theft.
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If Vladimir Putin had a plan to foul our air and water, wreck public health and drive America over the cliff of irreversible lethal climate change, it would look exactly like Lee Zeldin’s plan. This is a plan for self-inflicted environmental disaster.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump’s environmental rule-shredding will put lives at risk, ex-EPA heads say
Former agency leaders, including two Republicans, say rollbacks by Lee Zeldin could cause ‘severe harms’
www.theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
If Vladimir Putin had a plan to foul our air and water, wreck public health and drive America over the cliff of irreversible lethal climate change, it would look exactly like Lee Zeldin’s plan. This is a plan for self-inflicted environmental disaster.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@jonproctor.bsky.social @vivianodavide.bsky.social @bstewart.bsky.social and others I can't find tags for
9/9
Other great work in this area: www.nber.org/papers/w30861, arxiv.org/abs/2501.18577, arxiv.org/abs/2411.10959, arxiv.org/abs/2306.04746 focus on “predict-then-debias”—the right move if using off the shelf data. But if you’re training the ML model yourself, give our adversarial approach a try!
Other great work in this area: www.nber.org/papers/w30861, arxiv.org/abs/2501.18577, arxiv.org/abs/2411.10959, arxiv.org/abs/2306.04746 focus on “predict-then-debias”—the right move if using off the shelf data. But if you’re training the ML model yourself, give our adversarial approach a try!
Parameter Recovery Using Remotely Sensed Variables
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
March 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
@jonproctor.bsky.social @vivianodavide.bsky.social @bstewart.bsky.social and others I can't find tags for
1/9
We are excited to share our new working paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2502.12323
If you use ML predictions (like remote-sensed data) as outcomes, the resulting regression coefficients can be biased by measurement error. With @megan-ayers.bsky.social @mdgordo.bsky.social @eliana-stone.bsky.social
We are excited to share our new working paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2502.12323
If you use ML predictions (like remote-sensed data) as outcomes, the resulting regression coefficients can be biased by measurement error. With @megan-ayers.bsky.social @mdgordo.bsky.social @eliana-stone.bsky.social
Adversarial Debiasing for Unbiased Parameter Recovery
Advances in machine learning and the increasing availability of high-dimensional data have led to the proliferation of social science research that uses the predictions of machine learning models as p...
arxiv.org
March 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
1/9
We are excited to share our new working paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2502.12323
If you use ML predictions (like remote-sensed data) as outcomes, the resulting regression coefficients can be biased by measurement error. With @megan-ayers.bsky.social @mdgordo.bsky.social @eliana-stone.bsky.social
We are excited to share our new working paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2502.12323
If you use ML predictions (like remote-sensed data) as outcomes, the resulting regression coefficients can be biased by measurement error. With @megan-ayers.bsky.social @mdgordo.bsky.social @eliana-stone.bsky.social
Adversarial Debiasing for Unbiased Parameter Recovery
Advances in machine learning and the increasing availability of high-dimensional data have led to the proliferation of social science research that uses the predictions of machine learning models as p...
arxiv.org
March 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
1/9
We are excited to share our new working paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2502.12323
If you use ML predictions (like remote-sensed data) as outcomes, the resulting regression coefficients can be biased by measurement error. With @megan-ayers.bsky.social @mdgordo.bsky.social @eliana-stone.bsky.social
We are excited to share our new working paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2502.12323
If you use ML predictions (like remote-sensed data) as outcomes, the resulting regression coefficients can be biased by measurement error. With @megan-ayers.bsky.social @mdgordo.bsky.social @eliana-stone.bsky.social
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Trump's enthusiasm for evil vastly exceed his competence at it.
March 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Trump's enthusiasm for evil vastly exceed his competence at it.
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Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
March 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
March 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
My undergrad institution, grad institution, and current employer are all on this list
The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's
March 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
My undergrad institution, grad institution, and current employer are all on this list
Still:
From www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
From www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
March 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Still:
From www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
From www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
5yo: “what’s a Nigerian prince scam?”
March 7, 2025 at 3:10 AM
5yo: “what’s a Nigerian prince scam?”
I already had lots of respect for Mad River Glen skiers from when a few of them showed up and stomped the competition at the Crested Butte extreme freeskiing comp. Now it’s at the top of my list of ski areas to visit
March 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I already had lots of respect for Mad River Glen skiers from when a few of them showed up and stomped the competition at the Crested Butte extreme freeskiing comp. Now it’s at the top of my list of ski areas to visit
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It wasn't a "crisis" when women were earning less than men.
Young women are now consistently earning more than their male counterparts for the first time, according to a report that warns of a social “crisis” gripping young men
The lost boys: how a generation of young men fell behind women on pay
www.thetimes.com
March 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM
It wasn't a "crisis" when women were earning less than men.
My students on Fulbright fellowships are dealing with this right now. Another on a USAID fellowship just told me their fellowship was terminated yesterday.
A “guarantee” from the USFG means nothing
A “guarantee” from the USFG means nothing
The Fulbright Foreign Student Program invites graduate students from abroad to come study in the US and guarantees funding for them to do so paid in a monthly stipend. Yesterday, some FFSP scholars received notification that they're only getting a week of their stipend.
March 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
My students on Fulbright fellowships are dealing with this right now. Another on a USAID fellowship just told me their fellowship was terminated yesterday.
A “guarantee” from the USFG means nothing
A “guarantee” from the USFG means nothing
He’s weirdly stuck on “the cards”
Trump thinks Zelenskyy needs to be nicer to Putin, the criminal who invaded his country unprovoked and killed hundreds of thousands of people for no good reason. Incredible.
March 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
He’s weirdly stuck on “the cards”
What’s the Grok prompt that will be used to “analyze” these replies?
Here’s the email everyone is getting from OPM. Embarrassing stuff.
February 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
What’s the Grok prompt that will be used to “analyze” these replies?
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Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off
www.sfchronicle.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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Exactly, we're always "wanting one weird trick" for causality but I think that's usually (RCTs actually are one weird trick) going to be at odds with the reality that you need to understand the system you're studying in a lot of detail to do good inference
February 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Exactly, we're always "wanting one weird trick" for causality but I think that's usually (RCTs actually are one weird trick) going to be at odds with the reality that you need to understand the system you're studying in a lot of detail to do good inference
Just finished the book Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy, narrated by Barrie Kreinik.
Easily top 3 among the ~50 cli-fi books I’ve now read.
Easily top 3 among the ~50 cli-fi books I’ve now read.
February 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Just finished the book Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy, narrated by Barrie Kreinik.
Easily top 3 among the ~50 cli-fi books I’ve now read.
Easily top 3 among the ~50 cli-fi books I’ve now read.