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senior instructor of economics, faculty unionist at the University of Oregon | pedagogy, astronomy, tabletop gaming, parodies, data visualization, maps, sundry | #TeachEcon #EconSky 📈📉 | alum UArizona & Berkeley Econ | he/him
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submitted 23 hours ago • 10 comments

If you're in or around Eugene, join us to see the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory at 8am Pacific Time on Monday, June 23, at Willamette 100 on the campus of @uoregon.bsky.social!

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Why the papal name Leo XIV when Butler I was right there?!

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

This epiphany unlocked a new dimension of intergenerational empathy.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Are all calls on actual phones as aversive to Gen Z as unanticipated calls on my computer through Microsoft Teams are for me?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Gift link - "Heather Holcombe, a senior lecturer in the English department, said ...That single executive’s salary could fund the hiring of 11 full-time instructors to run 66 classes" www.startribune.com/university-o...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Usually I root for Humanity.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 2 days ago • 131 comments

I've owned and driven our Honda Odyssey for 10.5 years, but only just today did I realize why there is a slot between the two cup holders.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

you: How am *I* the ass here? me: Not *the* ass. *An* ass. you: OK, how am I an ass? me (also an ass): Well, I just assumed...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

My dad's upset that I've bought him a card calling him the 200th best dad in the world, but that's still, like, REALLY good.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

First visit to PMO this season!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

*Bruce Campbell voice* ... Shop S-MART.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

A key advantage in saying "[by] the clock in San Dimas" is that you never accidentally write PST when it's currently PDT.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Friday the 13th to all the paraskevidekatriaphiles out there! (Although the paraskevidekatriaphobes probably need more well wishing.)

submitted 3780 days ago • 0 comments

"Who knows? God willing we'll all meet again in Game Theory 2: The Search for More Nash Equilibria." --student email at the end of the term

submitted 1470 days ago • 1 comment

HOLY SHIT!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The Duality of Mike

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Roughly three hours after being called the devil on Fizz, I was presented--completely unexpectedly and unrelatedly--with a laser-cut wooden disc that says: "Dr. Mike Our Lord and Savior" Quite a day! 😈😇

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Looks like someone on Fizz wasn't happy about the EC 202 final exam at Straub 156 this afternoon. :-/

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Fascism. www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlo...

submitted 9 days ago • 143 comments

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

submitted 10 days ago • 114 comments