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Asst Prof @CarnegieMellon • Health and Behavioral economist • Enjoy limericks, fantasy, and mezcal • also go by Vini https://www.manasvinisingh.com/ (opinions mine)
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Reminder to please submit! Deadline is Feb 28. #econsky

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 19 days ago • 82 comments

My response, to myself and others who are STILL wishfully praying that universities will stand up for us, for science, for knowledge, for democracy, despite knowing FULL WELL that they've spent all their resources the past few decades converting these universities into ROI-driven businesses:

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Me, 2020-2024: They can't even do THAT????? Me, 2016-2020 & 2024-??: They can just DO that?????

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

find it extremely funny that today I'm resubmitting a proposal to the NSF with the following title:

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Recency bias is something we’ve known about for many decades, but Vini Singh (@vinisingh.bsky.social) has terrific new(er) research showing how consequential it can be when it influences doctors’ decisions. Learn more in this Q&A: open.substack.com/pub/katymilk...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Looking forward to co-organizing one of BFI's most popular conferences again! And this year, we were super duper lucky to nab @seema.bsky.social as the keynote speaker :) More info: bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event... Submission deadline: Feb 28 Please please RT and share with your networks!

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

This thread will be stories of how people hold the line--continue to behave responsibly and ethically.

submitted 34 days ago • 69 comments

Me, 2020-2024: They can't even do THAT????? Me, 2016-2020 & 2024-??: They can just DO that?????

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

If you'd told me in college that a decade later, Reddit would show more courage and integrity than almost every major news outlet in America, that Reddit would be one of the last remaining bastions of free and thoughtful speech against a fascist regime ... I would have asked you to pass the bong

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

No study section...no grant reviews No grant reviews...no grants awarded No grants awarded...no research No research...no functional NIH

submitted 35 days ago • 34 comments

Looking for photos of signs of fight in the U.S. Suggestions welcome.

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

Odds on a stiff right arm, 45-degree salute "mishap" at the rally today?

submitted 122 days ago • 15 comments

I know the feed is flooded with stories about what he's saying. As we learned last time, it can be exhausting trying to keep up with that (and wearing people down is part of strategy). To keep up with *what he actually does* you can check this page: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

my phone, rubbing salt in a gangrenous wound:

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

well i don't know what the average professor is afraid of, but on sept 6 this past year i found out that I just hadn't been imaginative enough with my teaching-related fears

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments

Really excited about this new WP. Changing #classification schemes present challenging and hitherto under-appreciated identification challenges. Here is an Adobe AI generated summary of the paper to go along with John's great thread. We look forward to your comments! #econsky #medsky #episky

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

... the answer my friend, is blowin' in the wind, the answer is blowin' in the wind 🎶🎵

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

[mashing avocadoes] Looks like one *does* simply guac in the mortar.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Frosty stillness at the Cambridge University Botanical Gardens this morning. Hard to stop photographing. This is as wintery as can be expected here, so drinking it in…

submitted 46 days ago • 16 comments

exhausted from the relentlessly apeshit musk-bezos-zuck-thiel-whatever-billionaire-du-jour newscycle. And as a professor, I can only wretchedly ponder the indisputable role our elite universities have played in laundering wealth into intelligence

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon criticizing billions currying favor with Trump was spiked — and now she has quit the paper

submitted 54 days ago • 91 comments