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Amy Wolaver
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Health economist; travel, history, nature, knitting, cooking & baking, photography, sci-fi, & rug hooking enthusiast
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@hhsievertsen.bsky.social & S Smith find the opinions of visibly senior female economists carry more weight. Credentials may reduce or reverse discrimination as women who have made it in male-dominated domains may be seen as being even better than male counterparts.
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Who has more authority in the eyes of the public – male or female economists? This column uses an information experiment to show that the opinions of visibly senior female economists (professors in top economics departments) carry more weight. A plausible explanation is that credentials (signals of success) may reduce or reverse stereotyped discrimination: women who have made it in male-dominated domains may be seen as being even better than their male counterparts. In line with this, a follow-up experiment finds that the gender gap in favour of female experts disappears when the credentials are removed.
April 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Waiting for Fern Brady #standup #hipstamatic
Purple stage lights with microphone in a spotlight, stool in background
April 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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I love this more than I can say…
johnmullahy.bsky.social John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · Apr 2
Yet more evidence that wearing atypical headgear during political campaigns is not a formula for electoral success.
April 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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dmaanderson.bsky.social
For those who want to know more about what happens when a large percentage of a state's adult population loses #Medicaid enrollment all of a sudden, go read about #TennCare disenrollment:

#HealthPolicy

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February 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Joseph Lister, father of antiseptic surgery, died #OTD 1912. His pioneering work on antiseptic surgery began on the wards at Glasgow Royal Infirmary where he used carbolic acid for the first time. His antiseptic principles & practice revolutionised surgery & saved millions of lives.
#histmed
Black and white photograph of Joseph Lister. He is sat facing to the right with head turned slightly towards the camera. he is wearing a dark three-piece suit and bowtie. A class ticket from one of Lister's clinical lectures on the cases of surgical patients at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. The card belonged to Murdoch Cameron and is signed by both himself and Lister
February 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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mcbridetd.bsky.social
The disappearing federal data www.statnews.com/2025/02/03/h...
The disappearing federal data
Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning! There's a lot going
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February 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Double glass street light with misty sea green light, fog and trees in the backyard. Powerlines crossing above the streelight.
January 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Some delightful stuff in this collection. 🧶
dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social Jessica Cale @dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social · Jan 9
Holy cow. Did you know that the V&A has a collection of 1940s knitting patterns you can access for free? Saving these for later!

www.vam.ac.uk/articles/194...
1940s knitting patterns · V&A
Download free 1940s knitting patterns
www.vam.ac.uk
January 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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johnmullahy.bsky.social
A wish for 2025 is that empirical researchers in and beyond economics read or re-read this JEP paper by Guido Imbens and take to heart—and to practice—its message.

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December 31, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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mcbridetd.bsky.social
(27) Requiem for odds ratios? | LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/pulse/requie...
Requiem for odds ratios?
Health Services Research has decided that studies using logistic regressions should report marginal effects rather than odds ratios. Why did they make this decision? A paper by Norton et al.
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December 31, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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chrisneill.bsky.social
Even managed to do a reshape in front of a student, after saying "this never works the first time".
khoavuumn.bsky.social Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Dec 30
I did reshape in Stata without looking at the help file.
December 30, 2024 at 3:11 AM
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scientificdiscovery.dev
Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly.

Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time?

So, I visualized it myself!
A timeline titled "The Golden Age of Antibiotics" shows when each antibiotic drug class was first available for medical use, with example antibiotics labeled. Classes are color-coded by their source: actinomycetes, other bacteria, fungi, or synthetic. Milestones include the first antibiotics (arsphenamines in 1910), as well as the discovery of many actinomycetes-derived antibiotics, such as streptomycin, and sulfonamides, penicillins, and tetracyclines. Data: Hutchings, Truman, Wilkinson (2019). Created by Saloni Dattani for Our World in Data.
December 23, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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Rialto Bridge, at dawn 📷 #photography #Venice #RialtoBridge #bluehour
Rialto bridge in the blue hour with a water bus passing underneath
December 19, 2024 at 2:47 AM
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Goose Island, Glacier National Park 📷 #GooseIsland #GlacierNationalPark #photography
Small island with a few pine trees in a sparkling lake in the middle ground with pine trees in the foreground and mountain peaks in the background and a bright sky with a few puffy clouds.
December 18, 2024 at 3:29 AM
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Welcome back to #TrilobiteTuesday

Here are two pygidia belonging to Encrinurus egani. This specimen comes from the Upper Silurian (Wenlock-Ludlow Series) Joliet Dolomite in Grafton, Illinois. It was collected by the late Bruce Stinchcomb.
December 17, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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Tower Bridge 📷 #photography #TowerBridge #London #Hipstamatic
A view of Tower Bridge and the river Thames
December 16, 2024 at 3:16 AM
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Separated by glass. As well as the reflections in the window and the light, why are the men on the inside and the the women on the outside? Got me wondering. #photography #bluesky #art #vintagelenses
#france #shadows #blackandwhite #streetphotography
December 15, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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Vintage double decker bus 📷 #photography #London
Silver painted double decker Route 15 Tower Hill bus behind a black cab
December 15, 2024 at 3:33 AM
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johnmullahy.bsky.social
Seasons Greetings to all who celebrate Null Hypothesis Statistical Testing.
December 11, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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A guardian of Dunstanburgh Castle on the Northumberland Coast, northern England. 📷 #photography #DunstanburghCastle #Northumberland
A lone ram on the crest of a low hill with dramatic clouds above.
December 10, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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Sunrise at Norris Geyser Basin 📷 #photography #geysers #Yellowstone #Hipstamatic
Steam cloud arising from the ground in Yellowstone with a turquoise sky from the camera filter and the sun rising in the background.
December 9, 2024 at 3:40 AM
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Hidden Lake Overlook, Logan’s Pass, Glacier National Park 📷 #photography #GlacierNationalPark
Mountain pass with lake in the background.
December 7, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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Nothing says Christmas like a Viking ship ornament :-) 📷 #photography #Hipstamatic #Christmas
Viking ship Christmas tree ornament backlit by the tree lights.
December 7, 2024 at 3:55 AM
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Not the best shot of all time, but it’s pretty amazing to me for a bright red male cardinal to be so well camouflaged 📷 #photography #cardinal #Hipstamatic
Trees and brush with a cardinal hidden in the middle
December 6, 2024 at 4:28 AM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
I just found out that around 20% of the neanderthal genome still exists today in living people!!

No individual person has more than 3 or 4% but we don't all have the same bits. If you add up all the bits we've found, about a fifth of the Neanderthal genome is still present on earth today.
December 5, 2024 at 10:57 PM