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submitted 59 days ago • 14 comments

🧵: I was the Senior Civilian Advisor to the Commander of US Army Europe at the time of the initial invasion in 2014. I wrote the strategic assessment of Putin's objectives & motivations. There were no serious discussion in 2014, nor in 2021 or early 2022. 1/

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Wahoo ... waking up with an R&R on a question that had been bugging me since 2019

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The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

This is America. The only way you get to be king is if you have your birthday at a fast food place in 1987.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

My department is here! Give us a follow 👇

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Challenge Level—Impossible: Southerners, clean the snow and ice off the roofs of your cars before driving them on the highway.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

World domination planning meeting interrupted. #cats #BlueskyCats #ThrowbackThursday

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

Reviewing a paper this morning --- I am jealous of the authors as they came up with one hell of a question that as soon as I read the abstract, I realized I should have been thinking about this type of thing 5 to 8 years ago but had not thought about it until 1 coffee ago.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

If I had known that my both-siding and obsessive focus on “cancel culture” would lead to the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian civilians, I might’ve done things differently. No, who am I kidding, I would’ve done things exactly the same.

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

Can't use any of the classics as the eggs are too expensive youtu.be/LSFaDeRpSHA

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

submitted 3 days ago • 114 comments

It's not that it would be "difficult" for Energy and Commerce to hit their $880 billion target without steep cuts Medicaid. It's a mathematical impossibility, given the committee's jurisdiction and constraints of reconciliation.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Important to comment with solid evidence and multiple arguments. With fewer staff, they’ll have a harder time meeting APA standards for proper response.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional. This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on! Huge win for trans people in MT!

submitted 4 days ago • 94 comments

Listening to a brown bag/work in progress talk... and I really should spend more time drinking with the industrial organizational economists

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Been thinking a lot lately about how great it would be if only the American literary canon contained a novel about how the American people voted themselves into fascism, with many voters thinking they were just choosing a straight-talking non-politician who could clean up the mess in Washington.

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

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When Queen Victoria’s mourning disrupted the "London Season" (elite marriage market), peer-commoner intermarriage rose by 40%, marital wealth sorting fell by 30%, and peers' political power declined as a result. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

And that is the last grant I need to submit for the next several weeks!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Rejection day...

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Here's an example of the sort of tests I run with "AI" to see if they're still on their bullshit. One of these listed characters doesn't exist in the book. Gemini just plain made them up. Again: what does it get wrong about the things I don't know about?

submitted 5 days ago • 70 comments

Getting punchy responding to this reviewer on this R&R

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I was watching this bullpen the other day...and thought: "Two Seamer"? "Skenes doesn't throw a Two Seamer. " Welp, he throws one now. And a Cutter. Good luck. 🙏

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

A belated #healthpolicyvalentine based on my fun morning in Taipei: Roses are red Violets are blue In Taiwan an ambulance has a fixed, publicly advertised price And ours should too!

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Looking for an audio book that can be enjoyed by four people ages 42, 40, 7 and 6 while doing a jigsaw puzzle. We have access to three libraries - The Westing House, maybe?

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

Based on the current lawsuits, this appears to be the state of the U.S. government at the moment... (with apologies/thanks to @xkcd.com for the original diagram).

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

This week, we opened submissions for #2025APPAM, our Fall Research Conference in Seattle! Learn more about how you can submit your research for consideration here: www.appam.org/conference-e...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Rob Bresnahan is the newly-elected Republican Congressman from PA-08, which is a swing seat.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #RebeccaMyerson and colleagues found ACA navigators were good at enrolling marginalized populations.

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My co-author's ability to make snarky fixed effects of interest with appropriate Greek characters and subscript is impressive Key variable of interest for this problem is currently called Angst

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

It's also the largest health coverage program in America. You definitely know people who rely on it for their coverage. ANY funding cuts to Medicaid, however they're described (per-capita caps, work requirements, block grants, etc.) will result in vulnerable people losing coverage.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Reminder Medicaid is mostly very sick people, old people, kids and pregnant women #healthPolicy

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment