That is a new Substack by Jim Olds, here is the introduction: How science funding really works—from someone who ran the machinery at NSF and NIH. I’m Jim Olds, former head of the National Science Foundation’s $750M Biological Sciences Directorate (2014-2018), NSF lead for President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative, and co-chair of the White House Life […]

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13.10.2025

Sunday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. Poisoning LLM samples. 2. Will Germany succeed in luring researchers from America? A new Substack by Olaf Gersemann, in English about Germany. And a post about German deregulatory efforts and their failures. 3. The semi-global spread of bird language. 4. Decoding without pictures. 5. PC on Melville and the 19th century, recommended. 6. Will […]

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13.10.2025

How Immigration is Changing the Black-White Earnings Gap - Marginal REVOLUTION

We provide new evidence on earnings gaps between non-Hispanic White and three generations of Black workers in the United States during 1995-2024, using nationally representative data. Results reveal remarkable earnings advances among 2nd-generation Black immigrants, opposite to the well-documented widening in overall Black-White earnings gap. Among women, 2nd-generation Black workers have earnings higher than or […]

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13.10.2025

What should I ask Blake Scholl? - Marginal REVOLUTION

The Boom guy doing supersonic flight! I will be doing a podcast with him at the forthcoming Roots of Progress Institute event. He already has told “his story” on the supersonic side a number of times, so what else of interest should we cover? For background, here is Blake on Wikipedia.

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