Lauren Hersch Nicholas

@lhnicholas.bsky.social

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health economist, climber, biker, looking for my #econtwitter, #econsky, #surgtweets, #healthpolicyvalentines communities

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Lauren Hersch Nicholas is an American health economist. She is a professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. .. more

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Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · 3d

Me!

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Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · 6d

Yes to all of these! And don‘t crowd tables with meaningless extra digits just because they are software defaults!

Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 6d

Short 🧵 on boring but imp topic: how to format tables! First, + most imp point: table in an econ paper should be comprehensible w/o any cross-reference to text. Variables should be clearly defined (not "lnconsexp"; write "Consumption)"; + specification described in notes

Reposted by Aaron Sojourner, Lauren Hersch Nicholas, Todd Pugatch

Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 6d

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Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · 7d

My research team has published research showing that malnutrition and hunger in childhood are long-term risk factors for dementia decades later in life. Makes me think about the long-term health consequences of withholding SNAP benefits from families.

Reposted by Frank Verboven, Lauren Hersch Nicholas

Erzo F.P. Luttmer @erzoluttmer.bsky.social · 17d

Some authors have contacted AEA editors about an unexpected loss of data access that affects their ability to respond to an R&R. If this affects you, please explain the circumstances in your cover letter. Or reach out to the coeditor if you need guidance before resubmitting. @aeajournals.bsky.social

Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · 20d

Sometimes I wonder why the editor didn’t have the same reaction, but maybe easiest to tell when it’s your immediate area?

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 20d

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero

Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...

www.thecrimson.com

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 27d

Just here to remind everyone that while the federal government is shutdown, all study sections at the NIH are currently on hold. Another blow to science and to early career scientists like myself with young labs and research groups. Very hard to remain positive about this career path.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · Oct 10

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · Oct 10

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Lisa W. Fazio, James Q. Wilson , and 39 more Meredith Broussard, Lisa W. Fazio, James Q. Wilson, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Dorothy Bishop, Anna Nagurney, Brigitte Nerlich, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Gavin A. Schmidt, Jesse H. Kroll, Julie L. Lockwood, Patrick A. Jansen, Joshua S. Weitz, Nicole Dubilier, Jason Stajich, Simon J. Greenhill, Michael A. Clemens, Hugo Mercier, Megan L. Ranney, Rosemary A. Joyce, Philip N. Cohen, Michael J. Allen, Andrew Curry, Jacob Montgomery, Juan Cole, Kris Inwood, Smith, Robert C. Richards, Rebecca Tushnet, Alan Richardson, Lauren Hersch Nicholas, Victor Galaz, Scott A. Imberman, Sebastian Karcher, Brian Keegan, Ann Bartow, Jack Stilgoe, Ted Temzelides, Christina Pagel, Annalee Newitz, David Darmofal, Jesse R. Lasky

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Oct 8

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Reposted by Philip N. Cohen, Valerie Mueller, Karen Benjamin Guzzo , and 1 more Philip N. Cohen, Valerie Mueller, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Lauren Hersch Nicholas

Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · Oct 7

The acting CDC director has now approved ACIP recs allowing anyone 6 months+ to receive an updated Covid-19 shot after discussing w/ their provider. If you are on the fence about getting an updated shot, read my in-depth take on the evidence we've accumulated on these vaccines. #publichealth

Do additional COVID vaccines really help?

We've accumulated a lot of scientific evidence in the last few years.

open.substack.com

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John A. List @johnlist.bsky.social · Oct 7

The econ PhD market will be difficult this year. The exact same thing happened when I went on the market years ago: I sent out 150 applications...and got 1 interview! Then I wrote a paper about it! ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura...

Both sides of the market responded. Is this happening now too?

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Oct 3

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · Oct 3

hopefully they use additional funds to help those affected? Happy to see @appam.bsky.social and others increase conference scholarships

Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · Sep 24

They posted it on all in account and tag you!

Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · Sep 19

congratulations, @burgards.bsky.social!

Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · Sep 18

my covid didn't hurt until I tried to sleep on that side, but pretty inoffensive side effect vs anything else.

Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · Sep 18

I was intrigued by your ED # which was what got me wondering about non-Medicare adults

Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · Sep 18

out of curiosity how does that compare to commercially insured adults (sorry if that's in the paper while I'm only reading social media...)

Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · Sep 11

So sorry to hear about your Dad! And also very grateful for NIA support to work on these issues- as you note still so much that we need to do.

Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · Sep 9

refurbished phones until they get to a reasonable size again!

Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · Sep 9

new results finds MA patients more likely to be stuck in hospital when they need SNF care, we found similar areas of concern with very sick patients being more likely to be sent home with no home care (along with less SNF) in MA vs TM jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · Sep 9

I had a thing like that that I’m pretty sure came from holding a friend’s baby, unenjoyable for about a week

Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · Sep 4

I got trapped in the outhouse at mt blue sky while an aggressive ma goat was trying to get in!

Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · Sep 3

:( so devastating!

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Martlet with a frying pan 🐦🍳🌊💙 @zenithmartlet.bsky.social · Aug 29

Hey Firefox users.

Screenshot from a Tumblr post by ralfmaximus: Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out

Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · Aug 29

Who wants to plan a field trip if we can’t get them at work?

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · Aug 29

NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.