I’m sad for the loss of my wonderful coauthor, YingHua He, who died of having kidney cancer. We worked on this kidney exchange paper together during the last ~6 years, and he was full of ideas and a joy to spend time with and learn from. Rest in peace, YingHua…

In an economics conference: Me: how was your hike today? An economist: it was gorgeous, but too crowded and uncomfortable to hike. Cable car goes all the way to the trail and lake so there were many people with strollers and many people from the Middle East.

I’ve gotten to the point that (conscious or unconscious) racism in the profession doesn’t bother me as much, but such incidents are so frequent if you’re born Muslim, and they can have devastating consequences for students or junior faculty.

Next time you were talking about U.S. and human rights, remember who came to give a speech in the congress today.

In the last few weeks Elon has illustrated that whenever you think a human can’t go lower than this, he can show you that you’re wrong.

Yes, the killing of children is a grievous atrocity, no matter who commits it or where it occurs, whether it involves twelve children in the Golan Heights or thousands of children in Gaza. One should always take side with children against guns, period.

Libertarians believe in free expression and in particular in marketplace as a place to express preferences. #Cherry_Libertarians believe in that, except when advertisers decide it’s best for their business if they don’t advertise in a given platform.

A capitalist free market isn’t anti-price cap. Is there anyone who thinks we should have allocated Covid vaccines purely based on the market mechanism? Here’s if you want to learn more than what Econ 101 covers: x.com/akbarpour_/sta…

The great thing about Olympics is that you have to be better to win. It’s not about who you know, which committee is choosing an award winner, or which ethnicity or skin color you have. If you’re a better wrestler, or swimmer, or runner, or taekwondoin, you win.

We are pushing frontiers of science at Stanford.

paging Mohammad Akbarpour Scott Kominers and my excellent colleague not on Twitter

Indeed: finding and optimizing drugs in rudimentary in vitro assays is like “finding the best sprinter and sending them to run a marathon” Thank you nature Biotechnology and Michael Eisenstein for featuring our work in this great piece. As Michael elegantly outlines, we at Vevo

توييت قبلى درباره خانم نعمت زاده اين بود كه با مدال المپيك شانس قبولى اش در زمان ليسانس در دانشگاه عالى خيلى بالا مى ره. وقتى وارد اونجاها بشه مسير پزشكى خوندن همواره. ضمنا خود مدال المپيك داشتن براى قبول شدن در پزشكى امتياز محسوب خواهد شد.

Why censorship is okay for India but not Brazil? Oh let me guess, one of them is a left-wing government. theintercept.com/2023/03/28/twi…