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Niche life advice: if you attend a dance class/social as part of a couple, don't stick together the whole time. Dancing with other ppl helps you learn faster, is more fun, and contributes to the public good of building a community

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Heartbreaking

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chicken burger (sandwich! not combo!) from A&W costs $10 CAD

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whoa

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"The agency didn’t have to fire its experts but decided to in the interest of fairness, a top NSF official told staffers" huh???

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

"We didn’t know that studying Gila monster venom would lead to the invention of GLP-1...horseshoe crab blood would prove crucial to vaccine development, or...bacteria in geysers would lead to the development of PCR...on which much of modern molecular biology...rests."

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I watched the Kim's Convenience play and enjoyed it very much, but it also made me mourn what the TV show could've been opposabletham.substack.com/p/kims-conve...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

it is TOO. FORKING. COLD

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Besides being practically stupid, this seems politically unpopular?

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Living on the > 30th floor is mostly cool except when the fire alarm goes off and u have to take the stairs down

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

TIL Prince Edward Island is not a subset of Prince Edward County

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How does econ work for PhD programs? Let’s say a student gets into a top program but is really wanting to go to a program they haven’t heard from yet. How might you navigate that? I know what to do for other disciplines, but not econ! #EconSky

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

on one hand, would be nice for the world to stop burning, but I'll take the tiny win of having our work covered in the news statnews.com/2025/02/12/t... @bitsyperlman.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Penn State also pausing new NIH submissions and pausing acceptance of new awards. #academicsky

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

New essay on NIH and indirect costs: goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

submitted 25 days ago • 45 comments

Keep calling!

submitted 26 days ago • 14 comments

Your reminder: Hesgeth does not women in the military www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

popped into the old workplace slack to see that they're still dealing with the dirty dishes in a communal space problem (there are custodians but they don't do dishes). always makes me think of that Matt Yglesias story from his time at Vox

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I believe this is what is known in the journo business as a "nothingburger"

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Additional details on what's been going on inside the NSF. Absolute bananas (P.S. I make a small appearance at the end of the article)

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

A good summary of what's gone on with NSF funding, and some interesting new tidbits. I'm really pleased they chose to end with @wytham88.bsky.social and a link to our paper: “Grants don’t just generate knowledge or output now, they’ve become a way that we support the training of future scientists.”

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

I’m watching closely for anything happening inside BLS, Census and the other federal statistical agencies. Know something? Reach out — anonymity guaranteed. Signal: bencasselman.96

submitted 30 days ago • 13 comments

Some thoughts on funding delays opposabletham.substack.com/p/on-funding...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Guidance from Stanford leadership on the OMB memo.

submitted 35 days ago • 12 comments

Yup going to the Asian grocery store on lunar new year weekend may have been a mistake

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Timely paper about the impact of funding gaps in science. #econsky

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

It's such a weird thing to hear the news and think "that's bad, but also I have a paper about (an aspect) of that" Funding delays are really not great for people who work in science. Funding delays of > 30 days lead to: - 40% increase in scientists exiting US labor force - 20% decrease in wages

submitted 40 days ago • 7 comments

What is it with Toronto bus drivers? - never wait for passengers trying to catch up to the bus - closing doors on passengers disembarking (have gotten body checked by a bus door twice since moving here vs never in my life) - zooming straight past stops when stop requested

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

One unexpected downside of living in a high rise is that I can't look outside at people's footwear to decide whether I should wear sneakers or boots in the winter

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

Looking for things to do in late May? Submit your work on digitization, innovation, and IP to the www.munich-summer-institute.org by Feb 15. Join us for great food, city walks, urban surfing (if you like), and two exciting keynote speakers (@proffionasm.bsky.social and @michelag.bsky.social)

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Has anyone taught with ModernDive v2 (moderndive.com/v2)? It has more statistical theory than v1 and I worry that for my purposes they've maybe ruined it, but I'm open to being wrong. I'd otherwise like to switch as it has the base R pipe and some nice new or updated examples.

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Has anyone done the a/b test on whether more elaborate flight safety videos increase passenger attention/retention?

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

Underestimated how long things take to dry in Singapore' so currently boarding a flight with a slightly mildew-y jacket. Apologies in advance to my fellow passengers

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This article came out a couple weeks after the death of Dr Thomas F O'Brien, known for his "groundbreaking work in antimicrobial resistance." He was one of the first to call attention to the threat of antimicrobial resistance...

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

In the 1920s, my maternal grandparents immigrated to Malaysia. ~100 years later last week, 50 of their descendants (incl me), spanning three generations and at least five countries, returned to Hainan Island to visit the village my grandpa came from. Immigration and economic growth are rad 🤘

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As a Christmas treat, I put together a roundup of all migration job market papers in economics. International migration: www.laurenpolicy.com/p/2024-2025-... Domestic migration: www.laurenpolicy.com/p/2024-2025-...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

#econSky I saw a paper around here a few days ago about the rise of empirical work and the decline of theory, especially general equilibrium theory. Can you help me find it again?

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

The NYT article about Blake Lively’s lawsuit is incredible. Her director/costar’s PR team texting “Holy shit, I can’t believe how well our evil plan to destroy this woman’s reputation is working! Thank god no one will ever read these text messages!” back and forth to each other over and over

submitted 72 days ago • 189 comments