Congratulations Mauricio!

I am obviously not speaking from experience writing these letters, but I always thought PhD cohort comparisons were not great because of tenure clock extensions, which aren’t supposed to count against you.

Hosting birthday parties! I say as a mom who is still recovering from one yesterday.

This is such sad news. Michelle White was a very kind and generous mentor to many of us women PhD students at UCSD.

I’m so sorry.

I’ve found the Quiet Posters feed helpful for finding EconTwitter-type content. But I’ve also noticed that the EconSky feed seems to have been taken over by news aggregators and the like. Maybe we need a new hashtag for researchers.

Each dot represents 10 people whose lives depend on US foreign aid, just for HIV prevention & treatment.

Without it, 1.6m people could die *per year*.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

I can send you mine. Hope you’re well!

Congratulations!

**New working paper**

How does the under-representation of females in Economics affect the career trajectory of female Ph.D. students?

Sahar Parsa and I look at this in a new working paper by exploring sabbatical leaves taken by female professors at top-50 US Econ departments.

Hi friends! I'm on the hunt for my next stories on the climate & gender beat. If you have any tips please send them my way! (my beat is U.S. focused)

I'm interested in how climate intersects with caregiving and reproductive rights but am broadly open to any story with a gender angle.

Long-overdue on 2024 recap of cool young researcher! #econtwitter #econsky My favorite part of social media + it's exciting to highlight a year's worth of exciting researchers. (Given cross-platform posting, won't link to the original 🧵s but direct to researcher sites)

Absolutely awful. Those penalties were totally unjustified.

Do you think Dak was overpaid?

5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVID Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.

It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

greenish brown wine bottle, slaked with sand and salt residue. it's sealed; through the dark glass you can make out a rolled letter.

major life update: went to the beach following high tide and found a message in a bottle.

News from #ASSA2025: There are only about 30 Black economists who received their PhDs after 2006 in economics departments. The share of economists who are Black has remained at 3% over the last 15+ years. The share of economists who are Hispanic has increased to 6% from 4% over the same timespan.

It also seems emblematic of how tech business types don’t understand general equilibrium effects. They think they can capture market share from the latter type without understanding how introducing these AI profiles affects their product and existing user base.

After a long lull, Covid-19 levels are surging in the US | CNN After a relatively slow start to the respiratory virus season, Covid-19 levels in the United States began ramping up just ahead of the winter holidays.

#COVID is again surging in the U.S.
www.cnn.com/2024/12/31/h...

Brock is my guy, but this season taken as a whole raises real questions about his performance in the clutch.

And the Lions hit it from 57. Must be nice to have a kicker.

I’m coming up on @cnbc.com where I’ll be discussing H5N1 bird flu. This remains a low probability risk but a potentially high impact event we have to take more steps to help mitigate. This includes broadening range of anti viral drugs in the stockpile and developing vaccines specific for this strain

I wonder if this can be explained by improvements in mental health treatment for teens. Is there any research on this?

Jimmy Carter, The Great Deregulator | The Regulatory Review By pushing for deregulation and adopting other reforms, President Carter left an enduring legacy on the U.S. regulatory system.

www.theregreview.org/2023/03/06/d...

RIP

Graph showing annual guinea worm cases going from a million per year to down to almost none

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Jimmy Carter took on the awful Guinea worm when no one else would — and he triumphed Carter targeted diseases primarily affecting the poor in remote areas — notably "Guinea worm disease." Because of his commitment, case numbers plummeted from 3.6 million a year to just 13 in 2022.

Carter used the power of his post presidency to nearly eradicate guinea worm. There were 3.5 million cases when the Carter Center’s work began in 1986. He said in 2015 that he wanted to see “guinea worm completely eradicated before I die.” There’ve been 7 cases this year. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Final* call for applications for our postdoc position due 1/3/25. I've deliberately made it easy to for you to submit (no LORs**, just a cover letter and writing sample). I'm especially interested in scholars looking to apply novel methods to repro research.

*famous last words
**b/c they're a scam

Wikipedia is an excellent technical resource for difficult math and statistics concepts. I wouldn’t have made it through grad school without it. Well worth my donation money.

Wikipedia is amazing—a truly great achievement—and we must protect it, especially from the powerful anti-truth forces that seek its degradation.