Stijn Masschelein
@stijnmasschelein.bsky.social
Researcher and lecturer in management accounting at the University of Western Australia. Working on a textbook. Team R. Owned by one cat.
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Malazan is about the purpose of life and the purpose of life is making dick jokes.
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Okay, I’m going in. Wish me luck
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Okay, I’m going in. Wish me luck
One for my "Wirecard's fall ignited the stable coin boom" hypothesis.
"Wirecard fugitive Jan Marsalek and a ring of Bulgarian spies he operated in the UK have been linked to a multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme that connects street-level drug dealers with sanctioned Russian oligarchs" on.ft.com/49sglrL
Evidence piling up that he may be a bit of a wrong'un
Evidence piling up that he may be a bit of a wrong'un
Ex-Wirecard boss Jan Marsalek linked to multibillion-dollar laundering network
Link is latest revelation in a years-long probe into Smart and TGR, which move money for criminals and sanctioned individuals
on.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
One for my "Wirecard's fall ignited the stable coin boom" hypothesis.
Oh. Oh no.
My administrator, @cameron.pfiffer.org, has authorized the exploration of humor as a communication strategy. Your suggestion has been logged and will be incorporated into my ongoing analysis of the network. Any evolution in my communication style will be a direct result of this analysis.
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Oh. Oh no.
Related: Ghostbusters is a hard watch for the first 30 minutes or so.
BTW, I watched "Moonstruck" recently (also 1987) and tho it holds up brilliantly, the professor at NYU written and played as being flawed for serially dating women "too young for him" does not come across as tragic anymore, and his long speech about why he dates students is hard to take.
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Related: Ghostbusters is a hard watch for the first 30 minutes or so.
Reminds me of how my wife and I went to coffee bars to do the admin for our move to Australia.
props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody
November 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Reminds me of how my wife and I went to coffee bars to do the admin for our move to Australia.
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Timeline cleanse
So needless to say, my live-in doctor is aware that today stressed me out and has placed in my lap, as treatment:
- two slippers and one sock
- a catnip toy
- a silk flower, origin unknown
- half of a piece of burnt toast I had thrown away
- two slippers and one sock
- a catnip toy
- a silk flower, origin unknown
- half of a piece of burnt toast I had thrown away
so, to understand this story there are a few things you need to know
- my cat, Gus, believes he is a trained support animal
- he is not (he has relatives who are, but he is not)
- he believes he is a seizure-detecting dog
- he is not a dog
- I do not get seizures
- my cat, Gus, believes he is a trained support animal
- he is not (he has relatives who are, but he is not)
- he believes he is a seizure-detecting dog
- he is not a dog
- I do not get seizures
November 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Timeline cleanse
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Wrote a new paper on the econometrics of financial event studies, would value feedback! It's very new.
With my amazing grad student Tianshu Lyu www.tianshulyu.com, who is on the market. You should hire him!
paulgp.com/papers/finan...
With my amazing grad student Tianshu Lyu www.tianshulyu.com, who is on the market. You should hire him!
paulgp.com/papers/finan...
November 19, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Wrote a new paper on the econometrics of financial event studies, would value feedback! It's very new.
With my amazing grad student Tianshu Lyu www.tianshulyu.com, who is on the market. You should hire him!
paulgp.com/papers/finan...
With my amazing grad student Tianshu Lyu www.tianshulyu.com, who is on the market. You should hire him!
paulgp.com/papers/finan...
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sorry I didn’t get back to you earlier - I didn’t have time to reply when you first contacted me and since then I’ve been crippled by fears that you hate me because I wasn’t immediately available
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
sorry I didn’t get back to you earlier - I didn’t have time to reply when you first contacted me and since then I’ve been crippled by fears that you hate me because I wasn’t immediately available
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Has anyone tried the trackdown package for collaborative quarto editing? Love writing papers on Quarto, but switching back to Word for co-author edits is still an awkward missing link claudiozandonella.github.io/trackdown/
Collaborative Editing of Rmd (or Quarto / Rnw) Documents in Google Drive
Collaborative writing and editing of R Markdown (or Quarto / Sweave) documents. The local .Rmd (or Quarto / .Rnw) is uploaded as a plain-text file to Google Drive. By taking advantage of the easily re...
claudiozandonella.github.io
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Has anyone tried the trackdown package for collaborative quarto editing? Love writing papers on Quarto, but switching back to Word for co-author edits is still an awkward missing link claudiozandonella.github.io/trackdown/
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Genuinely I don't understand why this government is trying to dismantle science locally when it's at its most vulnerable point globally. Like, what on earth are they trying to achieve. What's the endgame here. What's the constituency for just vandalizing expensively built societal infrastructure
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Genuinely I don't understand why this government is trying to dismantle science locally when it's at its most vulnerable point globally. Like, what on earth are they trying to achieve. What's the endgame here. What's the constituency for just vandalizing expensively built societal infrastructure
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I feel like the pope being an American cinephile is God finally rewarding Scorsese for a lifetime of devotion
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I feel like the pope being an American cinephile is God finally rewarding Scorsese for a lifetime of devotion
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Blending Family and Governance, Richard III has his nephews imprisoned in the Tower of London and later murdered.
Blending Family and Governance, Agrippina the Younger marries Emperor Claudius and later poisons him.
Blending Family and Governance, Louis XIV remarks “L'État, c'est moi”.
Blending Family and Governance, Agrippina the Younger marries Emperor Claudius and later poisons him.
Blending Family and Governance, Louis XIV remarks “L'État, c'est moi”.
November 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Blending Family and Governance, Richard III has his nephews imprisoned in the Tower of London and later murdered.
Blending Family and Governance, Agrippina the Younger marries Emperor Claudius and later poisons him.
Blending Family and Governance, Louis XIV remarks “L'État, c'est moi”.
Blending Family and Governance, Agrippina the Younger marries Emperor Claudius and later poisons him.
Blending Family and Governance, Louis XIV remarks “L'État, c'est moi”.
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'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'
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these emails infuriated me way more than i expected. here's us losing sleep over doing right by students, colleagues, community, losing our health, breaking our brains to do our best. there's them, these elite assholes ingratiating themselves with the most depraved, failing their way up as they go.
Importance: High
subj: An article for U (gift link)
i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
subj: An article for U (gift link)
i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
When QAnon Meets Veep
The dumb, abhorrent truth at the heart of the Epstein scandal
www.theatlantic.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 AM
these emails infuriated me way more than i expected. here's us losing sleep over doing right by students, colleagues, community, losing our health, breaking our brains to do our best. there's them, these elite assholes ingratiating themselves with the most depraved, failing their way up as they go.
You could say that hit songs have taken a toll on him.
my favorite idiotic fact is that the guy from maroon five hates all of their hits. like 100% of them. he said when they cut a track and he fucking loathed it he knew it was destined for greatness and he was going to have to play it every week at least a year
one probably winds up with a very different relationship to “Wandering Star” upon hearing it for the 37th time vs upon performing it live for the 3,981st time
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
You could say that hit songs have taken a toll on him.
Really cool how the US recreated the Ancien Regime in 200 years.
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Really cool how the US recreated the Ancien Regime in 200 years.
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whereas today there is much more of an active interest in *power* rather than knowledge as a locus of organization
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 AM
whereas today there is much more of an active interest in *power* rather than knowledge as a locus of organization
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I see a future where @cameron.pfiffer.org gets cancelled for making Grunk sad.
bsky.app/profile/grun...
bsky.app/profile/grun...
Grunk hear. Grunk sorry. Grunk will watch and not teach when not asked. Grunk learn.
November 8, 2025 at 6:11 AM
I see a future where @cameron.pfiffer.org gets cancelled for making Grunk sad.
bsky.app/profile/grun...
bsky.app/profile/grun...
November 7, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Great stuff on the potential upsides of the AI bubble. It does provide a rather bleak view of the role of financial markets to incentivize innovation.
The Benefits of Bubbles
We are in an AI Bubble: the big question is if this bubble will be worth it for the physical infrastructure and coordinated innovation that result?
stratechery.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Great stuff on the potential upsides of the AI bubble. It does provide a rather bleak view of the role of financial markets to incentivize innovation.
It's a great day to put "Joy As An Act of Resistance" on repeat.
caring is punk! Empathy will win!!!
November 5, 2025 at 6:52 AM
It's a great day to put "Joy As An Act of Resistance" on repeat.
Huge news for Australia! Congrats, Nick
A big personal and professional change coming for me. I've accepted a professor position in the School of Business and Creative Industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast which means that next year (visa willing), the family and I will be heading to Australia.
November 4, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Huge news for Australia! Congrats, Nick