It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

the only AI i need is an earpiece i can wear at my kid's birthday party that tells me the name of the parent i've met like four times before

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪

From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

During the pandemic, I travelled from Michigan to Ohio to get a COVID jab, bc vax were in short supply

This weekend, I am traveling from Massachusetts to Rhode Island to get a COVID jab, bc brains are in short supply

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

Hi #econsky, If you need an interactive graph to show the welfare effect of #tariffs, I’ve sketched one up here: www.econgraphs.org/graphs/excha...

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.

I love all my friends saying things like, “I wish I could make a career off being petty and making diss tracks” after the halftime show, and I’m out here like, “Have you considered academia?”

We just released an enormous trove of US labor market data, all compiled from government surveys, now under threat

The @epi.org State of Working America Data Library provides comprehensive data on the US jobs and wages, with detailed cuts by demographics, over time and across states

data.epi.org

Our people and our peers are both misled,
Our treasure seiz’d

Apropos of nothing. Can’t wait for my CT pineapples

📈📉A great way to shorten a paper. Change the margins. Some paragraphs will have one-word last lines. Make those go away by writing better. Repeat until you are too tired to be obsessive anymore. Reinstate the original margins. I did this all day. My paper is three pages shorter with better writing

FANTASTIC news!!

Let’s remember that among the amazing things she did is also the Women in Economics (UWE) challenge, which made us start thinking of ways to increase women in economics. It was 2015 & that’s how my work in this space started.

Thank you & congrats Claudia Goldin!

Somebody please give Goldin an invite code 🟦

Paul Niehaus + Pierre Azoulay are incredibly inspiring mentors, researchers, and individuals -- I couldn't recommend this J-PAL/MIT Sloan post-doc in the economics of innovation / metascience more highly as an invaluable opportunity to work with and learn from them.
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I'm excited to announce that in April I'm running the London Marathon on behalf of Diabetes UK. If we've ever met in person I've probably managed to bring up T1D bc it is a topic I am both extremely affected by and passionate about. If we haven't, get ready.

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