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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 14d
I have a very bad feeling about this...

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Reuters @reuters.com · Oct 10
MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling reut.rs/471tkNZ
MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling
Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she "cannot support" a memo that the White House sent to nine elite U.S. universities last week detailing policies they should follow to get preferential consideration for federal funding.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Oct 10
MIT holds the line bsky.app/profile/dyna...

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Oct 10
This Beaver is super proud of her alma mater

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
www.nytimes.com

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Zeke Emanuel, MD, PhD @zekeemanuel.bsky.social · Oct 10
RFK Jr.'s claim that vaccines didn't save lives, sanitation did, is half right—and dangerously wrong.

While sanitation helped in the early 20th century, vaccines saved millions of lives in the later 20th century and reduced severe impairments like brain damage. More in @statnews.com
RFK Jr. says vaccines don’t save lives. He’s wrong
Now RFK Jr. is claiming vaccines don’t actually save lives. Here’s the math to show what he gets wrong.
www.statnews.com

Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Johannes Emmerling, Keith Head

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · Oct 8
Posted a short blog post with updated data (and public repo with data) of current state of Econ job market:

paulgp.com/2025/10/08/j...

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · Oct 8
Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...
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Keith Head @ckhead.bsky.social · Sep 20
I would go back to X more often if you guaranteed lots of yelling at Matt Stoller.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Sep 20
I cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject.

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Kennedy’s Vaccine Panel Votes to Limit Access to Covid Shots
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Keith Head @ckhead.bsky.social · Sep 14
Beauman is the son of Persephone Books founder Nicola Beauman and economist Christopher Beauman

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Sep 5
Trying to explain why international trade is good to an American: okay so imagine a burger

(yes this is a real ad on the Canadian embassy in DC)
A picture of the Canadian embassy ad saying “we make great burgers together!” with a picture of a burger and an ad saying “we make great planes together!” with a picture of a F-35 c

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Zeke Emanuel, MD, PhD @zekeemanuel.bsky.social · Sep 3
Because of Florida's decision to phase out childhood vaccine mandates, many will die of preventable diseases like measles, chickenpox, tetanus, and diphtheria. This is regressive, bringing us back to the early 1950s when parents had to worry that their kids might die from diseases like polio.
Florida will work to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, officials say
Florida will work to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, building on the effort by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to curb vaccine requirements and other health mandates during the Cov...
www.statnews.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Sep 3
Florida moves to end vaccine mandates to attend school, the first state to do so.
So many own goals across America right now.

www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
DeSantis and Ladapo to ‘end all vaccine mandates in Florida law’
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced the move in Hillsborough County on Wednesday.
www.miamiherald.com

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Keith Head @ckhead.bsky.social · Sep 1
The study does not randomize birth control method. So I think it’s rather hard to control for selection effects.

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Keith Head @ckhead.bsky.social · Sep 1
Who’s Pickle?

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Sep 1
Nine former CDC directors, from Bill Foege onward, speak out about the incalculable harm that RFK, Jr. is doing to public health in the US and around the world.

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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com

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Keith Head @ckhead.bsky.social · Aug 31
Football pundits agree! The only thing worse than VAR is not having VAR. ( see Rayo Vallecano vs Barcelona)

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Keith Head @ckhead.bsky.social · Aug 31
Why is everything on the 45 line? Ostensibly 2 dimensions but de facto only one?

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Aug 30
Back-to-school reminder: The market rewards education

Average earnings:
High school dropout | ### ($35k)
High school grad | ##### ($47k)
College degree | ######### ($87k)
Masters degree | ########### ($106k)
Professional degree | ##################($184k)

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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · Aug 29
Doesn't everyone feel overburdened with mitochondrial challenges at the airport though? Those TSA procedures are tough these days.
bunnibytz.bsky.social jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · Aug 27
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RFK JR: I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation—you can tell from their faces, movements, and lack of social connection

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Keith Head @ckhead.bsky.social · Aug 28
it's not for me to say what others should do with their careers, but economists thinking of quitting the Trump admin might want to time their departures to reinforce this collapse narrative.

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Keith Head @ckhead.bsky.social · Aug 28
www.slowboring.com/p/waning-day...
Waning days of a dying empire
Is this what collapse looks like from the inside?
www.slowboring.com

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April Sharp, MD @ansharp.bsky.social · Aug 28
Firing RFK Jr would unburden a lot of overworked mitochondria in this country

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Keith Head @ckhead.bsky.social · Aug 28
How do you track what is actually implemented?

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Keith Head @ckhead.bsky.social · Aug 23
This is the reasonable conclusion. But why doesn’t Trump just come out and say so? He’s generally not that shy about declaring his stances.

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Keith Head @ckhead.bsky.social · Aug 23
“Whom does it help?” Should be a core question of government policy. This administration seems more likely to ask “who can I spite? Whose timidity can I exploit?”

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · Aug 20
I’m sorry to say but the claim that the US under Trump is going to provide Ukraine with militarily enforced security guarantees, is simply the newest version of the Trump will hit Russia hard with sanctions delusion. Neither will ever happen, but if it makes you feel better….

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Keith Head @ckhead.bsky.social · Aug 16
"Arm Ukraine, expand sanctions, stop the lethal drone swarms, break the Russian economy, and win the war. Then there will be peace."

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Keith Head @ckhead.bsky.social · Aug 16
"It was determined by all..."