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Misty Heggeness
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Author of SWIFTYNOMICS: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy 📚 Pre-order here: https://a.co/d/dDydwxe. Currently: co-director Kansas Pop Center & associate professor, KU. Formerly: Census|NIH|USDOL.
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🎆Come one, come all! 🎆 SWIFTYNOMICS: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy is now available for pre-order! a.co/d/hZLsS95 @ucpress.bsky.social #swiftynomics
Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy
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Continually disappointed by emotionally stunted men (in my profession)… 🤢🤢🤢
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣

"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Federal workers: The government shutdown may have ended, but we know that many of you are still dealing with its lasting repercussions.

We want to hear from you. Here's how to securely reach out: https://propublica.org/tips
How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica
Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Economist @mlheggeness.bsky.social's #Swiftynomics is an "astute debut...the balance of academic rigor and pop-culture verve makes complex economic ideas both digestible and entertaining...[a] smart fusion of cultural analysis and feminist economics." www.publishersweekly.com/9780520403116
Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy by Misty L Heggeness
Economist Heggeness’s astute debut analyzes the role women play in the economy through the lens of billionaire pop star Taylor S...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
So grateful for this review of my book! 🫶❤️‍🔥🫶❤️‍🔥🫶#swiftynomics @swiftynomics.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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How did Black families travel during the Jim Crow era? Learn the history, explore the data and contribute. Start local: search your city on the Community Map, and add your story to this living history.
greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
November 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure. A really informative article, perfect for a weekend coffee read. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
This remains an all time best intern error, and it SERVED.
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Decency prevails … Trump Administration Live Updates: Government Ordered to Pay Food Stamp Benefits During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Government Ordered to Pay Food Stamp Benefits During Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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This is the third death that I'm aware of this year where a person died trying to flee from ICE.
A man fleeing ICE agents ran out onto a busy highway and was struck and killed in Virginia, authorities say.
October 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Also hanging in the balance due to govt shutdown: federal heating aid.
Funds for LIHEAP, a free program that helps eligible households pay winter heating bills, traditionally get disbursed Nov. 1 and are used to heat homes through at least March 15
www.berkshireeagle.com/news/local/b...
Nearly 25,000 Berkshire residents at risk of losing heat if government shutdown continues
If the government shutdown continues into November, more than 8,000 Berkshire residents that rely on the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program could lose heating. "Congress has to act right
www.berkshireeagle.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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What’s spooky about Oct 31? 👻🎃 It is the deadline for SOLE! I’m on the scientific committee so pls send lots of great submissions for me to look through!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Goodbye free labor from all past and present Mrs. Presidents? Adios to safe spaces in this administration for women? Hello Dancing with the Stars White House edition…
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Just discovered the Telehealth app and service health providers have relied on since the pandemic is down because of the government shut down. 👀👀👀 [She says as she waits for her doc to snail call her…]
October 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The East Wing y’all…where the WOMEN of the white house have historically engaged in voluntary unpaid labor…is being torn up for a dance hall.

Should we laugh…or cry?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...
Part of White House Is Reduced to Rubble. Trump’s Ballroom Will Rise in Its Place.
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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October 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Federal Reserve officials are preparing to decide in late October whether to keep lowering interest rates or hold them steady — but they’ll have to do so with limited fresh data. Here's what to know
How the Shutdown Has Cut Off Key Data Guiding the Fed’s Decisions
The government shutdown has left policymakers flying blind at a crucial moment for the US economy. Federal Reserve officials are preparing to decide in late October whether to keep lowering interest rates or hold them steady — but they’ll have to do so with limited fresh data.
bloom.bg
October 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This will disproportionately affect working women & mothers…tariffs affect women & families DIRECTLY.
axios.com Axios @axios.com · Oct 16
Nestlé, the world's largest food company, is cutting 16,000 jobs as Trump's tariffs, volatile commodity costs, and evolving consumer tastes hit the industry.
Nestlé cutting 16,000 jobs as evolving consumer tastes imperil Big Food
The cuts include 12,000 "white-collar professionals across functions and geographies."
www.axios.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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There are at least 170 incidents where ICE held US citizens against their will.
This includes 20 children, including two with cancer. That includes four who were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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#EconSky Two weeks from tomorrow, the Women in Economics Leadership Network (spearheaded by Janine Wilson at UC Davis) will host our annual virtual networking event! Please share with your students! It is open to ALL.

Register here: ucdavis.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_....
October 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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WE'RE HIRING!

The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING

I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions

Please share widely!
Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
jobs.wisc.edu
October 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM