Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
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Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
No big whoop, just Donald Trump pissing away three decades of U.S. diplomacy due to a fit of personal pique. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
Charging the solar powered battery
Thank you @brendannyhan.bsky.social & @jasonreifler.bsky.social for this impt research which illustrates that getting out *ahead* of rumors & lies about elections — instead of simply responding w/ fact-checking afterwards — is essential. We must tell the truth about how elections are actually run.
A reminder about this paper as the semester begins.
Is T.S.A. PreCheck worth it? We looked at the data. At the New York-area airports, for example, a lot depends on the terminal. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Black patients systematically receive lower rates of follow-up care than white patients even when the screening results would suggest they should receive higher rates of care, from @marcellaalsan.bsky.social, Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, and Jonathan Zhang https://www.nber.org/papers/w34168
Seems bad
Students were thanking us as they walked out of our “Diversity in the Workplace” class yesterday. They are so ready to discuss complex issues with honesty, compassion, and maturity. Many so-called adults have a lot to learn from them❤️
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Need a daily break from doomposting. Have you heard the music from KPop Demon Hunters? Go listen to "How It's Done". I dare you to sit still on your chair. youtu.be/QGsevnbItdU?...
Ban the bots
It me
So very sorry 😢
Just received this statement from Lisa Cook: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."
This is bad.
❤️ love this
Also, there will be no rational way to argue that the National Guard is needed to pacify New York.
HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)? Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts! NEW POST -->>>
This is true of everything. Modern journalists too often parrot what they are told instead of identifying and reporting what is true. How do we make it change??
Again:Journalists are not stenographers. We are to get information, report and verify the facts, and then report the reality not the talking point. What Trump is doing in DC and threatening in cities is NOT a crime crack down because he says it is. Don’t regurgitate. Report the truth not propaganda.
U.S. farmers are feeling the impact of Trump's immigration crackdown. In some communities, immigration raids have slowed farm operations. NPR reports from Central Florida's strawberry region.
Dr. Lisa Cook is an impressive economist and highly qualified to serve on the Fed. Any effort to cast her out is simply shameful.
Want to see the economic impact of #NIH grant cuts in your community? Check out @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and colleagues' project here. Tell your friends and neighbors what is happening. scienceimpacts.org
We learned about rising bollards in Cambridge, England long ago, and I’ve been obsessed ever since. This account is absolute gold.
If you'll be on the #EconJobMarket this coming year, you may want to join this webinar by @aereorg.bsky.social, titled, "Navigating Uncertain Waters: Advice for the Current Job Market," with Min Gong & @adrienneohler.bsky.social. 29 Sept 2025 @ 11am ET.
The most important U.S. climate legislation over the next few years is out! ASM Irwin's draft California Assembly Bill 1207 reauthorizes California's ground breaking GHG cap-and-trade (C&T) program. Here are 5 key takeaways from AB 1207 1/
Very pleased to announce that Springer-Nature are allowing free access for the next 8 weeks. @theguardian.com link.springer.com/article/10.1...
And the students would probably not mind…
This should be a huge red flag.
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
AUTHORS: particularly if you know your book was used, but even if you don't, there's a form where you can claim your (possible) share.
Turns out most Americans (70%) believe US universities should be receiving previous levels of funding - or even more! - to advance scientific research.
This. This is why we professors need to teach about AI.
I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person
🚀 I made a tracker that shows when the Census Bureau adds or removes datasets from their APIs. Dashboard at www.hrecht.com/census-api-d... and follow @censusapitracker.bsky.social for major updates. I've been wanting to build this for years but now seemed an especially important time to keep track.
This tattoo, by InkedMongoose on IG, is perfect. No notes.
Hangin in there.
That brings back core memories. So many hours spent in traffic, and the excitement upon seeing the bridge. “I can smell the salt water!” someone would shout
When tariffs were “maybe,” firms waited. The pause is over, and the tariffs are here. So finally, by August, businesses will be pushed to choose—absorb costs, reprice, or re-source. Expect consumers to really start to see price hikes over the next few months as the fog lifts and the invoices arrive.
I just love DC.
Do not trust AI or ChatGPT-5 to do the most basic things like labeling a picture of the hydrologic cycle. Here's what it gave me. (Evaporation arrow pointing into the ground. Both surface water and the "ocean" labels underground. Transpiration arrow coming from the #water surface, not plants...]
In a 21-point shift, 51% of Republicans now favor providing US military aid to Kyiv. (@global-affairs.bsky.social) globalaffairs.org/research/pub...
We have clay soil and too many deer, but a few things planted are blooming
Oof. A tough economy right now for anyone trying to get work
For example: the COVID vaccines, including mRNA based, saved many lives. They just did.
The so-called MAHA movement actually includes a lot of things (anti-vax, anti-fluoride, switch from seed oil to tallow, etc) that strong evidence shows will actually make people much less healthy, and even kill them. Words matter. We can't let that ideology claim healthiness.
Nonononono This will drive me to work in a cave in a mountain, scratching with a quill on parchment
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/b...
It’s gorgeous
Science friends, life is difficult now, but please still try to peer review papers if you can. I'm the editor handling a paper that just had it's 43rd person decline to review. We may have to reject it because no one is willing to review it, which sucks for the authors.
Just saw someone repost this so I thought I'd resurface it for everyone. It's still relevant.
Think of data as a lighthouse: once it’s there, everyone can use it, and your use doesn’t diminish mine. That’s why we don’t leave lighthouse-building to the market — and why government collects & shares economic data.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/d... Ozempic Is Shrinking Appetites. Restaurants Are Shrinking the Food.
A break of floral beauty to get through the day
yes! adding to this: * Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) * Flickr, using the filter by license feature (www.flickr.com/search)
“The study, by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), also found that similar care needs in women were more likely to be omitted or described in less serious terms. Dr Sam Rickman, the lead author of the report… said AI could result in “unequal care provision for women””
Former chair of Council of Economic Advisors and actual economics professor weighs in. If official statistics are cooked, then we are all just flying blind. Disaster.
Tonight was a back to school event at the public elementary school down the street. Many families with nervous and/or happy kids in tow, walking the sidewalks. Entrepreneurial kids who love across from the school selling lemonade. Heart full.
And so it begins. We are gutting the flow of new cutting edge researchers.
This post and replies are a lovely rabbit hole
Canada has a strategic reserve of maple syrup in a warehouse in Quebec, in case of economic catastrophe. Somebody robbed it in 2012, in an event repeatedly referred to as The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.
(I uploaded a PDF for GPT-5 to summarize. Rather than read the document, it just read the title of the document and wrote a summary based on what it thought the article would be about.)
It really is!
Anyone looking for a short video in their Intro Econ course on international trade and tariffs? Show this and you'll have plenty of time left over to talk about the Red Sox.
I love this ❤️
Wonderful!
Truth
Glad the Apollo 13 movie is getting reruns lately. This scene is even more moving today: right, Tom Hanks playing Jim Lovell; left, cameo appearance by actual Jim Lovell (1928 Mar 25 - 2025 Aug 7).
Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. He's one of a growing number of people who are having persuasive, delusional conversations with A.I. that have led to institutionalization, divorce and death.
This will hurt science and industries who need scientists.
Similarly, the M is invisible and silent in Alaska and California. Wtf
#facepalm
AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.
time.com/7306896/wome... Why So Many Women Are Quitting the Workforce
I guess you can call me bearish on AI for this basic reason, because there's just no conceivable space for evading it. The entire value proposition turns on the outputs being of usable quality, but only humans can assess that—& the more complex the output, the more human labor is needed to check it!
Oops I posted without alt text. That GIF was of the black Borg cube from Star Trek TNG. It feels like resistance is futile but we need to help students learn how to maintain their individuality and beware of the ethical and quality challenges of AI, but it’s a rear guard action
Our Drake Institute is trying to put out materials and have workshops to help support faculty. But faculty time is so limited, and AI is upon us already.
A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.
For $5/month or $60/yr you get access to PBS Passport and the entire Masterpiece library plus Great Performances, etc. Defunded but not defeated. www.pbs.org/passport/lea...
The American Economics Association is as non-partisan as it gets.
We are going to end up with something like the Waffle House Index to measure distress in the economy
This. Biased data yields worse policy. All industries should demand that the president let professional government statisticians just do their nerdy, unbiased jobs
Gut punch
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“The EPA’s proposed rollback of the endangerment finding is open to public comments until September 15” - link is provided in the article below
Big news in today's #jobs report are the revisions. The labor market is much weaker than originally reported the last two months. While payrolls grew 73k in July, May and June data were revised down a total of 258k to 19k and 14k, respectively, bringing 3-month average growth down to 35k. #EconSky
Updated our economic index with today's new data. Not a good trend! www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”
I guess it’s an interesting time to teach a course that presents actual evidence about discrimination and bias, while encouraging students to reflect and discuss
I thought we had a deficit spending problem that made us cancel all cancer research
The list is only whispered alone at night
I find myself thinking about Arya Stark these days.
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
This is grim.
Good idea for SCOTUS reform: create another court that's got the features it should have and give that court most of its jurisdiction
The prize is one of the most prestigious awards in literature. This year's crop of nominees includes two debut novelists going up against a previous Booker Prize winner.