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UEFA says it has lost confidence in FIFA President Gianni Infantino and that “no option should be off the table” as it will pursue a full review of his now abandoned plan to sell stakes of the World Cup to private equity investors.

A deceased New York University sociology professor’s $5.2 million retirement account will go to the Democratic Socialists of America based on his 50-year-old beneficiary designation favoring the leftist New American Movement.

Propensity score matching/weighting and double ML. Not because the theorems behind them are wrong--they are right. But because there still needs to be some kind of conditional orthogonality or independence assumption.

Something can be both a brute fact and a social construct. The distance between points A and B? Brute fact. Unit of measurement to describe the distance (cm, inches, rods, parsecs)? Social construction. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Difference-in-differences.

If I could encourage one thing in my fellow academics, it’s this: resist the temptation to “stop when things look good.” You don’t know the answer to your research question, that’s presumably why you do research. Be radically skeptical of your work, your tools, and yourself.

What's it like inside your head

This was my introduction to Bayes in 1996! Little did I know then that I would see Jim Berger and a few other prominent Bayesian Scholars perform striptease in a run down night club in Spain two years later! #bayesian

Well, the between-person associations rule out within-person confounding don’t they? Glas half full, etc

New blog post! Odds ratios are...a bit weird. Here I explain two problems (interpretation, non-collapsibility) and provide some simple recommendations for improved reporting. www.the100.ci/2026/07/30/r...

After mocking business schools yesterday, I have to face the uncomfortable fact that researchers in my university also produce junk science. If you compare your anti-hangover drug to a placebo and you restrict the analysis to subjects who report a hangover when on the placebo, that's not good.

senior scholar conferencing with phd students who have no prospects in academia

"If there is a question to ask, then, it is this: Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

📖 World of Labour - New article "Does hot weather affect human fertility?" by @alanbarreca.bsky.social Research finds that hot weather causes a fall in #BirthRates nine months later. 🔗 Learn more: wol.iza.org/articles/doe...

It's the unseriousness of the whole thing that gets to me. What is produced as scientific research in one of the top business schools in the country. What they measure and what's being reported have nothing to do with each other. How do they not feel ashamed to circulate this report? (rhetorical)

Quality of life as measured across many countries of the world. Study done by Wharton School of Business. knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/u...