in the 1980s Soviet vets of the failed Afghan war formed “clubs” that became very violent mafia groups in the 90s. Putin is now creating a supercharged version of this. Russia is experiencing a flood of damaged men being dumped into an already atomized and low-trust society

Research output after tenure drops off a cliff for business, economics, sociology, and other non-lab fields.

But it remains high post-tenure in lab-based fields such as chemistry, physics, computer science, and engineering.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

So many echoes from this article for US politics....

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!

#Political #Entrepreneurs or #Bandits? The “Criminal” Origins of #Peripheral #Rebellions

By @janetilewis.bsky.social & Stephen Rangazas

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

I survived causal ML! will never look at forests the same way