Rosanna Smart
@rosannasmart.bsky.social
Economist @ RAND studying guns, drugs, and how regulations shape risky behaviors; personal account, opinions are my own
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July 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
More incredible work by this team, plus the ability to explore these data on credit scores (Look at those geographic patterns! Perhaps not surprising but still striking) and more here: www.opportunityatlas.org
July 19, 2025 at 3:39 AM
More incredible work by this team, plus the ability to explore these data on credit scores (Look at those geographic patterns! Perhaps not surprising but still striking) and more here: www.opportunityatlas.org
Aha, I learned the perfect new word to practice using for day 2 of potty training the kiddo
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
www.theregister.com
April 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Aha, I learned the perfect new word to practice using for day 2 of potty training the kiddo
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L.A. imposed a so-called mansion tax on real estate transactions > $5 million. Surprise! It covers, and has helped to depress, multifamily residential -- i.e., apartment construction -- along with commercial and industrial. Revenues are less than half expected. [@uclalewiscenter.bsky.social]
Contributor: L.A.'s 'mansion tax' needs a remodel. Here's how to fix it
New research shows just how serious the unintended consequences of Measure ULA have been for Los Angeles.
www.latimes.com
April 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
L.A. imposed a so-called mansion tax on real estate transactions > $5 million. Surprise! It covers, and has helped to depress, multifamily residential -- i.e., apartment construction -- along with commercial and industrial. Revenues are less than half expected. [@uclalewiscenter.bsky.social]
For weeks, I have thought about this at least 3 times daily: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGXE...
3O Rock 'Kouchtown' commercials with Stacy Keach 4-19-2012
YouTube video by jerry5040
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April 6, 2025 at 4:44 AM
For weeks, I have thought about this at least 3 times daily: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGXE...
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Today, it’s hard for me to look anywhere else besides what’s happening to our health agencies. US capacity for public health, regulation, research & development, research, etc. is being gutted in real time.
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April 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Today, it’s hard for me to look anywhere else besides what’s happening to our health agencies. US capacity for public health, regulation, research & development, research, etc. is being gutted in real time.
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The funding for these long COVID research grants was given back bc disability activists urged us to contact our reps persistently, in high volume, and we did. Remember that these tactics work the next time someone tries to get you to passively react instead of taking an active part in organizing!
March 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The funding for these long COVID research grants was given back bc disability activists urged us to contact our reps persistently, in high volume, and we did. Remember that these tactics work the next time someone tries to get you to passively react instead of taking an active part in organizing!
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New, from me:
Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America.
Here is a partial inventory. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America.
Here is a partial inventory. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
Whitewashing American history
The Trump Presidency as a project of erasure
donmoynihan.substack.com
March 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
New, from me:
Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America.
Here is a partial inventory. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America.
Here is a partial inventory. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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I had a front row seat to watch 18F get started a dozen years ago by some of the smartest and most dedicated public servants I’ve ever met. Their work saved countless lives, and yes, hundreds of millions, probably billions, of dollars. But just as significantly: it made government more responsive.
The work that I led at 18F I naturally feel was really important (I hope all 18Fers felt the same way about their work): codifying the procurement principals that we’d all identified there over the years. I thought this would have a tiny audience. Instead it became a foundational text.
Introduction | 18F De-risking Guide
A guide for government agencies to deliver successful technology projects, from pre-award planning through post-award vendor management.
guides.18f.gov
March 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I had a front row seat to watch 18F get started a dozen years ago by some of the smartest and most dedicated public servants I’ve ever met. Their work saved countless lives, and yes, hundreds of millions, probably billions, of dollars. But just as significantly: it made government more responsive.
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Been teaching @rand.org's useful Truth Decay framework for many yrs now in my Public Policy Ethics courses in a unit on policy discourse. If ever the consequences of diminished reliance on facts & analysis in public life for undermining govt institutions and decision-making were evident, it's now...
Declining Trust in Facts and Institutions Imposes Costs on Society
“Truth Decay” is the diminishing reliance on facts and analysis in American public life. It has many damaging consequences: the erosion of civil discourse, political paralysis, alienation and disengag...
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February 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Been teaching @rand.org's useful Truth Decay framework for many yrs now in my Public Policy Ethics courses in a unit on policy discourse. If ever the consequences of diminished reliance on facts & analysis in public life for undermining govt institutions and decision-making were evident, it's now...
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Well that's my cue. ✨NEW WP✨
What happens when SSA downsizes field office staff, even if the offices stay open? Fewer people end up enrolled for benefits.
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What happens when SSA downsizes field office staff, even if the offices stay open? Fewer people end up enrolled for benefits.
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February 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Well that's my cue. ✨NEW WP✨
What happens when SSA downsizes field office staff, even if the offices stay open? Fewer people end up enrolled for benefits.
🧵
What happens when SSA downsizes field office staff, even if the offices stay open? Fewer people end up enrolled for benefits.
🧵
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Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us?
A thread/
A thread/
February 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us?
A thread/
A thread/
Maybe I was naive, but the levels of “anticipatory censoring” and overcompliance I’ve seen over the past month have infuriated and devastated me. I hope shining light and pushing back on it can force change (or a hard conversation)
SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...
National Academies is altering pending reports to appease Trump administration, some members say
Words such as “health equity” are being replacing with vaguer terms, and 100 members sent a letter of protest to NASEM leaders.
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February 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Maybe I was naive, but the levels of “anticipatory censoring” and overcompliance I’ve seen over the past month have infuriated and devastated me. I hope shining light and pushing back on it can force change (or a hard conversation)
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An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation
Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.
www.insidehighered.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Good points. I’m not sure whether or what messaging might cut through, but the relative lack of outrage among policymakers about the potential dismantling of our country’s scientific infrastructure means we should clarify the potential consequences on all fronts.
Trump’s NIH cuts and purges are a direct threat to military readiness. It directly undermines our military effectiveness and will cost American lives - military and civilian.
#Civmilsky #Militarysky
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#Civmilsky #Militarysky
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NIH restrictions in 2025 weaken U.S. health and preparedness.
Restrictions on NIH programs curtail the U.S. response to both naturally occurring disease outbreaks and potential biological attacks.
goodauthority.org
February 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Good points. I’m not sure whether or what messaging might cut through, but the relative lack of outrage among policymakers about the potential dismantling of our country’s scientific infrastructure means we should clarify the potential consequences on all fronts.
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I had a very insightful conversation with one of my colleagues about the nature of indirects on NIH grants.
He pointed out that indirects are like a two-part tariff, helping defray fixed costs in a non-distortive way.
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He pointed out that indirects are like a two-part tariff, helping defray fixed costs in a non-distortive way.
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February 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I had a very insightful conversation with one of my colleagues about the nature of indirects on NIH grants.
He pointed out that indirects are like a two-part tariff, helping defray fixed costs in a non-distortive way.
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He pointed out that indirects are like a two-part tariff, helping defray fixed costs in a non-distortive way.
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This excellent piece by @chrisgeidner.bsky.social picks apart the precise extent to which the rule of law is holding.
It is realistic about the stakes, but argues that the Rubicon has not been crossed -- and we need to fight to keep it that way.
It is realistic about the stakes, but argues that the Rubicon has not been crossed -- and we need to fight to keep it that way.
Don't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracy
Trump and Musk are testing the limits, trying to sell America on being an authoritarian state — but they can’t do it unless we allow them to do so.
www.lawdork.com
February 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This excellent piece by @chrisgeidner.bsky.social picks apart the precise extent to which the rule of law is holding.
It is realistic about the stakes, but argues that the Rubicon has not been crossed -- and we need to fight to keep it that way.
It is realistic about the stakes, but argues that the Rubicon has not been crossed -- and we need to fight to keep it that way.
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New from me:
The deferred resignation offer expires on Monday.
An open letter from a federal employee as they decide their future, plus thoughts and insights about the damage being done from other public servants.
Please read, and share.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-forced...
The deferred resignation offer expires on Monday.
An open letter from a federal employee as they decide their future, plus thoughts and insights about the damage being done from other public servants.
Please read, and share.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-forced...
The Forced Fork and the Choice to Stay
Hearing from federal government employees as they make sense of their future
donmoynihan.substack.com
February 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
New from me:
The deferred resignation offer expires on Monday.
An open letter from a federal employee as they decide their future, plus thoughts and insights about the damage being done from other public servants.
Please read, and share.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-forced...
The deferred resignation offer expires on Monday.
An open letter from a federal employee as they decide their future, plus thoughts and insights about the damage being done from other public servants.
Please read, and share.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-forced...
Informative and frightening discussion of the recent NIH directive to cap overhead at 15%. Although I admittedly still don’t fully understand my org’s own indirects, this gets me way closer to understanding the big picture.
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Informative and frightening discussion of the recent NIH directive to cap overhead at 15%. Although I admittedly still don’t fully understand my org’s own indirects, this gets me way closer to understanding the big picture.
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This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.
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January 29, 2025 at 5:41 AM
This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.
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Everything you know about wrinkly fingers is probably wrong. Particularly, it is not a physical act of water on the body, it is a neurological effect of the body on itself. People who have fingers with severed nerves do not prune on those fingers.
@hankgreen.bsky.social do my dogs toes get wrinkly if he’s in the water for too long? Are humans that spend a lot of time in water less likely to wrinkle? Is there a scishow video on this that I missed?
December 29, 2024 at 3:52 AM
Everything you know about wrinkly fingers is probably wrong. Particularly, it is not a physical act of water on the body, it is a neurological effect of the body on itself. People who have fingers with severed nerves do not prune on those fingers.
Interesting to read this piece alongside our recently published study trying to detail the timing of precisely when (firearm) homicides started to deviate from expectation (hint: before 2020!). journals.lww.com/epidem/abstr...
December 18, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Interesting to read this piece alongside our recently published study trying to detail the timing of precisely when (firearm) homicides started to deviate from expectation (hint: before 2020!). journals.lww.com/epidem/abstr...
Plus evidence suggesting work from home increases employment supply for people with disabilities: www.nber.org/papers/w32943
December 16, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Plus evidence suggesting work from home increases employment supply for people with disabilities: www.nber.org/papers/w32943