this week’s list is being written at 35,000 ft while on a lot of cold medication. it may not be coherent.
This week, In Development Magazine hosts a Lant Rant.
Anthropic is hiring social scientists to train Claude to be a better social scientist.
New maps of remittance flows!
Agents + banks with weak security = probably a bad combination.
Nobel Prize-winning economists are surprisingly likely to have published in sociology journals (about 25% have).
This is a very long list of ways women avoid harassment by men in India. It is bleak.
Five times in the last 40 years, NSF polled Americans on whether they thought scientists were “odd and peculiar”. Weirdly, only about half said yes.