Ted Loch-Temzelides
@tedloch.bsky.social
Mitchell Professor in Sustainable Development, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University. Game theory & mathematical modeling in economics, ecology, and epidemiology. Science-based policy. Erdős #4
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New @nberpubs: "The Economic Impact of Brexit" www.nber.org/papers/w34459
"by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time." 😲
"by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time." 😲
November 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
New @nberpubs: "The Economic Impact of Brexit" www.nber.org/papers/w34459
"by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time." 😲
"by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time." 😲
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David Gale’s work was diverse and impactful in math and econ
#econsky
#econsky
David Gale (1921-2008) remembered, with a (belated) 100th birthday volume
marketdesigner.blogspot.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
David Gale’s work was diverse and impactful in math and econ
#econsky
#econsky
US leadership in science and technology under a self-inflicted threat.
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Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
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November 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
US leadership in science and technology under a self-inflicted threat.
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Humphrey School at Minnesota is hiring an associate professor in "water resources, sustainable agriculture, or the nexus of food-energy-water issues." Come join me in the frozen north!
hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...
hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...
Careers
We seek applications for a tenured faculty position at the associate professor level in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP). The faculty member will join a vibrant community of interdisciplinary scholars at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, maintain a research affiliation with the Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (CSTEP), and support graduate students in the M.S. in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (MS-STEP) professional degree program, the Ph.D. in Public Affairs program, and the certificate program in Sustainable Environmental, Social and Governance Leadership.
hr.myu.umn.edu
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Humphrey School at Minnesota is hiring an associate professor in "water resources, sustainable agriculture, or the nexus of food-energy-water issues." Come join me in the frozen north!
hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...
hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...
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After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.
October 31, 2025 at 4:08 AM
After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.
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The five biggest meat and dairy producers are generating more methane than the largest oil and gas firms, according to a new report.
Biggest Meat Producers Unleashing More Methane Than Biggest Oil Firms
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October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The five biggest meat and dairy producers are generating more methane than the largest oil and gas firms, according to a new report.
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Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
October 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
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More measles in South Carolina as US nears 1,600 confirmed cases
South Carolina officials said all new case-patients were in quarantine before they contracted the disease.
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South Carolina officials said all new case-patients were in quarantine before they contracted the disease.
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October 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
More measles in South Carolina as US nears 1,600 confirmed cases
South Carolina officials said all new case-patients were in quarantine before they contracted the disease.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...
South Carolina officials said all new case-patients were in quarantine before they contracted the disease.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...
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Paper for next weeks Biodiversity COP in AbuDhabi. Special issue of IUCN Parks. We need a UN Global Convention on Freshwater for humanity and biodiversity.
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October 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Paper for next weeks Biodiversity COP in AbuDhabi. Special issue of IUCN Parks. We need a UN Global Convention on Freshwater for humanity and biodiversity.
Parksjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/5.-DOBSON.PDF
Parksjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/5.-DOBSON.PDF
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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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October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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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CIDRAP is hiring a Deputy Director, who, in addition to other duties, will serve as a liaison between CIDRAP and other areas of UMN, so must either live in the Twin Cities area or have the ability to relocate upon accepting the position. Apply today!
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September 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
CIDRAP is hiring a Deputy Director, who, in addition to other duties, will serve as a liaison between CIDRAP and other areas of UMN, so must either live in the Twin Cities area or have the ability to relocate upon accepting the position. Apply today!
hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/...
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Trump’s reelection was the tipping point. In April, Matthias Doepke sold his house and permanently moved his family to England to teach at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
This Northwestern professor fled the US under Trump. He hasn’t looked back.
Trump’s reelection was the tipping point. In April, Matthias Doepke sold his house and permanently moved his family to England to teach at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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September 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Trump’s reelection was the tipping point. In April, Matthias Doepke sold his house and permanently moved his family to England to teach at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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🚨 JOB ALERT! Our group is recruiting a postdoc to develop novel methodologies for early outbreak detection and inference using AI/ML, modeling, and data science. This is a multi-year position providing stable research support. Welcome to apply and share with others!
👉 apply.interfolio.com/173722
👉 apply.interfolio.com/173722
September 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🚨 JOB ALERT! Our group is recruiting a postdoc to develop novel methodologies for early outbreak detection and inference using AI/ML, modeling, and data science. This is a multi-year position providing stable research support. Welcome to apply and share with others!
👉 apply.interfolio.com/173722
👉 apply.interfolio.com/173722
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Awesome faculty position alert! Tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a focus on organismal responses to environmental change.
Please help spread the word!
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Please help spread the word!
apply.interfolio.com/173889
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September 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Awesome faculty position alert! Tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a focus on organismal responses to environmental change.
Please help spread the word!
apply.interfolio.com/173889
Please help spread the word!
apply.interfolio.com/173889
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Kidney exchange has given rise to work not only in medicine but in economics, computer science and operations research.
#econsky #operations
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#econsky #operations
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Kidney exchange in Operations Research (and elsewhere)
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September 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Kidney exchange has given rise to work not only in medicine but in economics, computer science and operations research.
#econsky #operations
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#econsky #operations
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RFK Jr. went on Fox News today to claim that HHS has had “no successes” in the past 40 years.
I beg to differ.
Figure from Lei et al., NEJM 2020. Link below.
I beg to differ.
Figure from Lei et al., NEJM 2020. Link below.
September 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
RFK Jr. went on Fox News today to claim that HHS has had “no successes” in the past 40 years.
I beg to differ.
Figure from Lei et al., NEJM 2020. Link below.
I beg to differ.
Figure from Lei et al., NEJM 2020. Link below.
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What an unprecedented and strong bipartisan voice to sound this alarm. Will the Republican Congress wake up and stop playing politics with the health of the American people?
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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September 2, 2025 at 5:21 AM
What an unprecedented and strong bipartisan voice to sound this alarm. Will the Republican Congress wake up and stop playing politics with the health of the American people?
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This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.)
h/t @joshuajfriedman.com
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h/t @joshuajfriedman.com
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Firefighter arrested by US border agents was on track for legal status, lawyers say
Lawyers say arrest of man fighting Bear Gulch fire in Oregon was illegal and demand immediate release from detention
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August 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.)
h/t @joshuajfriedman.com
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h/t @joshuajfriedman.com
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I have an unusual problem with the elimination of the "de minimis" tariff exemption. When I give talks abroad, the host often offers a lovely but awkward gift — say, a 20 lb coffee table book on the history of their city. So I ask them to mail it. No more. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Postal services around the world suspend deliveries to US: how will it affect you?
Suspensions including from Australia and Europe come after Donald Trump removed a rule exempting parcels worth less than US$800 from his tariffs
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August 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I have an unusual problem with the elimination of the "de minimis" tariff exemption. When I give talks abroad, the host often offers a lovely but awkward gift — say, a 20 lb coffee table book on the history of their city. So I ask them to mail it. No more. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
An op-ed from the world’s most distinguished active mathematician
I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding.
The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
August 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
An op-ed from the world’s most distinguished active mathematician
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JAMA reports on the latest estimates of COVID vaccine effectiveness
“COVID-19 vaccinations averted 2.5 million deaths during 2020-2024… but this benefit was mostly limited to a minority of the population of older individuals."
#vaccine #covid #medicine
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“COVID-19 vaccinations averted 2.5 million deaths during 2020-2024… but this benefit was mostly limited to a minority of the population of older individuals."
#vaccine #covid #medicine
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Covid vaccines saved millions of lives, mostly of older people
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August 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
JAMA reports on the latest estimates of COVID vaccine effectiveness
“COVID-19 vaccinations averted 2.5 million deaths during 2020-2024… but this benefit was mostly limited to a minority of the population of older individuals."
#vaccine #covid #medicine
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/08/covi...
“COVID-19 vaccinations averted 2.5 million deaths during 2020-2024… but this benefit was mostly limited to a minority of the population of older individuals."
#vaccine #covid #medicine
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/08/covi...
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Trump's nominee for BLS commissioner, EJ Antoni, is disastrously terrible. He's a 1200%, 1300% maybe 1400% in-the-tank Trumper, with few credentials beyond a history of misrepresenting or misunderstanding economic statistics. He has shown no commitment to truth
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August 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Trump's nominee for BLS commissioner, EJ Antoni, is disastrously terrible. He's a 1200%, 1300% maybe 1400% in-the-tank Trumper, with few credentials beyond a history of misrepresenting or misunderstanding economic statistics. He has shown no commitment to truth
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Let's focus on qualifications: Antoni finished grad school 5 years ago at Northern Illinois with no distinction. Dissertation: No focus on labor or data collection. Zero publications. One lifetime citation (by a former colleague).
This record would not earn you a job as junior economist at BLS.
This record would not earn you a job as junior economist at BLS.
Trump's nominee for BLS commissioner, EJ Antoni, is disastrously terrible. He's a 1200%, 1300% maybe 1400% in-the-tank Trumper, with few credentials beyond a history of misrepresenting or misunderstanding economic statistics. He has shown no commitment to truth
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com
August 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Let's focus on qualifications: Antoni finished grad school 5 years ago at Northern Illinois with no distinction. Dissertation: No focus on labor or data collection. Zero publications. One lifetime citation (by a former colleague).
This record would not earn you a job as junior economist at BLS.
This record would not earn you a job as junior economist at BLS.
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1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."
It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.scrippsnews.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:48 AM
1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."
It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.