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How is it that Google Weather says it's 27 Celsius and Weather Network says it's 33 Celsius in Toronto?

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I had the opportunity to speak with Brian Owens at Nature Index about why firms invest in scientific research and what drives their decisions to publish their findings. Grateful for the thoughtful reporting: nature.com/articles/d4158…

Chilling overnight in Boston today if anyone wants to grab my all time favorite ramen with me

My 76-year-old mother just informed me that she is going to her first "sex party" and doesn't know what to bring. After some awkward questions, I said, "Gender reveal. You're going to a gender reveal."

Give this toddler a travel show

Peter Hull will be doing a workshop on shift-share instrumental variables at Mixtape Sessions starting July 29th. Reach out to me if you are a resident of low income country ($1) or a student/et al ($95) to get those discount codes. mixtapesessions.io/session/shift_…

I’m incredibly proud of the work we’ve done this term. Our “Paris-style” reforms have made headlines, from The Economist to The Daily Show. Many people to me that for the first time they have real hope they can stay in the city they love. But big wins come with big pushback. Our

Any recs for a good explainer article on LLMs' environmental impact?

Swing dancing is bigger in Seoul than in NYC. Globalization is amazing nytimes.com/2025/07/11/art…

What do we think of Air Canada for long haul flights? Cc: Ryan Briggs

My kids have been in Singapore too long. Now when they tattle on each other they say the other kid should be fined.

The Economics of Bicycles for the Mind. With Joshua Gans and Ajay Agrawal. A bicycle amplifies human locomotion. Computers and AI amplify human intelligence. We model such cognitive tools, showing when they affect productivity, inequality, & teams. nber.org/papers/w34034

Excited to be back in Boston for Summer Institute this week, but we all know the main objective here is to satisfy my Toscanini's ice cream cravings

Developing a method to estimate producers' productivity beliefs in settings where output quantities and input prices are unobservable and using it to evaluate allocative efficiency in the market for science, from Fabio Bertolotti, @kroymyers, and Wei Yang Tham nber.org/papers/w34000

If you're at Summer Institute and see a lightweight, dark green sweater lying around pls lmk!

OH: "...so that's what the F-test does" "Right, and there's also chee" "There's a G-test???" (It was about chi-squared)

We are hiring at Rotman Strategy in the Fall. Apply here. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-As…

Slides from my discussion of (great) paper "Conversations at scale" docs.google.com/presentation/d… Interestingly, we're already seeing startups implement these kinds of ideas in market research e.g., Listen Labs & Voicepanel with seemingly great success

New PNAS paper on US academics' publication rates during tenure-track and post-tenure. Publication rates rise steeply until tenure and then plateau for lab-based fields, while declining for other fields.