Gargi

Living life, one variable at a time

[Congress @INCIndia]

मोदी ने इटली की प्रधानमंत्री मेलोनी को 'मेलोडी' टॉफी दी है।

इटली जाकर मेलोनी से मिलने से पहले मोदी ने हिंदुस्तान में भाषण दिया और कहा- आर्थिक तूफान आ रहा है, विदेश मत जाइए।

और खुद जेब में मेलोडी टॉफी लेकर अपने महंगे हवाई जहाज से इटली चले गए। फिर मेलोनी को टॉफी खिलाई और रील बनाई।

देखिए... देश की जनता के साथ क्या खिलवाड़ हो रहा है।

: नेता विपक्ष श्री @RahulGandhi

[sleepy cat || @iamdatemike.bsky.social @iamdatemike]

my list of things to do in Chennai (limited by geography - from ECR to parrys, sorry)

Things that you can do for free/economical cost

1. Lighthouse on Marina Beach

No idea why more people don’t go. Right now, only people in love or people experiencing heartbreak are going 🤣

[Gargi @kargillll]

@RKRadhakrishn @AcademicChatter This is unfortunately quite normal. Journals take up to 6–8 months just to send a first review. They usually provide a deadline for resubmission, but the process can be incredibly long/exhausting. Since you’ve made it this far, congrats, an R&R is a good thing.

[Gargi @kargillll]

@KPur3 @chennaipolice_ @chennaicorp

[Steven N. Durlauf @sndurlauf]

The emergence of "reject and resubmit" as a decision option for editors has been harmful to Economics, in my opinion, in particular for junior scholars.

Why? The receipt of a "reject and resubmit" has, in my observation, all too frequently caused untenured faculty to spending enormous amounts of time and energy revising papers where eventual success was very unlikely. I am comfortable saying the creation of this option has not been research quality maximizing for individuals and by implication for the discipline. At best, these decisions reflect the intense pressure on junior scholars to publish in a "top 5" and so my claim is that this inefficiency is another indictment of the way top 5 publication affect Economics. Beyond this, I am unconvinced that the subjective expected value calculations of junior scholars have accurately reflected success likelihoods. (I certainly would have done poorly at them had I faced such choices before tenure.) Christopher Severan @ChrisSeveren raises an additional issue: by increasing the length of the revision process, changes in editor become more likely, a possibility whose probability is not known and I think not assessed in a decision to revise.

Further, I believe that the option created an "out" for editors to avoid rejecting papers. It is no pleasure to reject an article, especially junior scholars, and my observation is that the option has allowed editors to avoid having to be decisive after a first round of decisions.

As an editor, I tried to clearly distinguish between "warm" revise and resubmit decisions versus "tough minded" revise and resubmit decisions in order to make clear differences in likelihoods of success, but this was always predicated on a clearly feasible path to publication.

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Pope Leo's Easter message:

"Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them!"

[Gargi @kargillll]

Can you help? @FitbitSupport @GoogleIndia

[Gargi @kargillll]

@FitbitSupport My Fitbit stopped working yesterday, it wouldn’t charge and is now dead. I tried a new cable and followed Google help steps, but it still won’t switch on. The device is only 7 months old and has had repeated charging/sync issues. I can’t reach Google support.

[TheNewsMinute @thenewsminute]

Viksit Bharat and the reality of women’s work: What the Economic Survey misses

Gargi Sridharan and Basit Abdullah write

https://t.co/kXgSnGLHUT

[Gargi @kargillll]

@IndiGo6E Done

[Gargi @kargillll]

@IndiGo6E my check-in suitcase wheel was broken on arrival at Colombo airport. Couldn’t find anyone there to assist & had to manage the whole trip with broken luggage, a huge inconvenience. Can this please be sorted?

[Det. Shrelock Holmes @shrey2107]

Today's Neeya Naana episode clearly showed how Stray dog "lovers" are the ones living a privileged life disconnected from ground reality and aren't the least bit affected by the Stray dog menace. All their ideas defy logic and common sense 🤦‍♂️

[Gargi @kargillll]

@IndianTechGuide @KPur3

[barathi @squarehaunting]

Priorities of the CM.

[Prakhar Dixit @dikshit_prakhar]

In 2023, Assistant Professor @sabya_economist of Ashoka University authored a working paper titled “Democratic Backsliding in the World’s Largest Democracy” that scrutinized data from the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and suggested patterns consistent with electoral manipulation by the ruling BJP. The study highlighted two key areas:
•Voter registration manipulation, including targeted deletion of Muslim voters from electoral rolls.
•Turnout/counting irregularities, such as discrepancies in EVM vote tallies and unusually high turnout skewed toward the BJP in closely contested constituencies .

Das noted these patterns were not definitive proof of fraud but were “consistent with” manipulation and recommended further detailed investigation .

The paper sparked a heated debate: some academics, like Yogendra Yadav, praised its empirical rigor, while others raised concerns about the strength of the evidence and whether such patterns could be explained by other factors like better voter mobilization .

The backlash was immediate. Ashoka University distanced itself from the research, emphasizing it was an unpublished working paper and did not reflect institutional views . Shortly thereafter, Das resigned (or was effectively compelled to leave) the university amid controversy.

But i always believed he was right all along !

For those of you intellectually bent to read mathematics and data, research paper link in comment.

[Gargi @kargillll]

@ganesh_sanjana Severance and Your Friends and Neighbours!

[Rosa @rosaabraham6]

🎉 Very happy to share that our paper, with @SurbhiKesar , is now out in @WorldDevJournal ! We use panel data from India to track how workers move across different employment arrangements to identify dominant labour market trajectories.
🔗 https://t.co/JTvvkzrKbW

[abhilash @UncleLash]

Received this completely unethical call for research assistant on WhatsApp. They are literally asking for an RA to write an entire book, which deserves authorship and not credit as RA. Idk who this is but this needs to be called out. They are offering 1000 INR per chapter.