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Our #Econ5k group ran the shape of the Liberty Bell in downtown Philly as part of #ASSA2026. So much fun! Thanks @inaganguli.bsky.social @danielepaserman.bsky.social @owenozier.bsky.social Cynthia Bansak and Aurelia Lambert for joining!

Don’t forget to upload your #Econ5K results!

sites.google.com/view/econ5k/...

Got my @econ5k.bsky.social T-shirt, #EconSky, and you should too if you're an econ runner! I hope to see you in Philly in January #ASSA2026 sites.google.com/view/econ5k/...

Modeling the 2026 #ECON5k gear. For more information go to sites.google.com/view/econ5k/home

Cc @econ5k.bsky.social
@inaganguli.bsky.social
@sandrahgoff.bsky.social
@yanarodgers.bsky.social

Congrats!

Will Trump's Immigration Policies Hurt US Nobel Chances? This article explores the impact of the Trump administration's policies surrounding science funding and immigration on science.

Half of this year’s #NobelPrize winners in the U.S. were immigrants. Now, the Trump administration may be threatening the country’s Nobel future—and its top rank among global science powerhouses. nautil.us/will-trumps-...

Visualizations Trace How Immigration Underpins Dozens of Recent Nobel Science Prizes Of the 202 Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine this century, fewer than 70 percent hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize. These graphics trace their...

Very cool to have my colleague @inaganguli.bsky.social quoted in this @sciam.bsky.social article www.scientificamerican.com/article/immi...

Thank you, Anna!

BLS to Discontinue Selected PPIs BLS to Discontinue Selected PPIs

Falling responses, budgets & staff are biting. #BLS will cut 350 #ProducerPriceIndex #inflation sub-indexes.
It'll be harder to gauge effects of #supplychain disruptions, #tariffs, #monetary, #fiscal & #regulatory #policy and more.

www.bls.gov/ppi/notices/...
#econsky #PPI @aaronsojourner.org

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

Weird how "making America great again" consists of dismantling all America's soft power and also future source of hard power

tfidf cosine is a well precedented method for patent novelty measurement but not unproblematic
conference.nber.org/confer/2022/...
and paper @inaganguli.bsky.social et al 2024 www.nber.org/system/files...

“In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rapid response bridge grant opportunity for impacted scholars”

Truly an idiotic self-own to drive away US-trained talent.

Memoli’s email was sent to leaders of NIH institutes and centers Thursday in response to questions about whether clinical trials with foreign sites would be able to continue under the new policy. “I don’t know how to make this clearer. Subawards to foreign sites can’t continue,” Memoli wrote. “If a study has a foreign site, we need to start closing it down or finding a different way to fund it that can be tracked properly.”

Sorry, what now?!
www.statnews.com/2025/05/02/n...

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say.

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts for US science in next fiscal year
NASA cut by 24%
NIH cut by 40%
EPA cut by 55%
NSF cut by 56%
Analysis from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com team
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

💯. Why does almost no one in the public know this though?

If you think about it, the government’s creation of the internet is probably one of the greatest policy achievements and worst communication failures of all time.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has undertaken a review of its award portfolio. Each award was carefully and individually reviewed, and the agency has determined that termination of certain awards is necessary because they are not in alignment with current NSF priorites. Effective immediately, the following are terminated: NSF Award Id NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant to NSF Grant General Conditions (GC-1) term and condition entitled 'Termination and Enforcement,' on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities. This is the final agency decision and not subject to appeal.

Just got mine.

Totally expected, but it still sucks.

Probably the most for all the work that so many of us put in on behalf of US taxpayers that is now wasted and will never come to fruition.

Important thread explaining how proposed changes to federal employment policy threatens the federal statistical infrastructure. Comment period is open for those who rely on these data to convey their views to the Administration….

I was devastated to learn about the unexpected passing of gifted historian and my former committee member Laura Lovett. Dr. Lovett was not only a renowned expert in women's history, but also an incredible mentor. I will miss her greatly. www.history.pitt.edu/news/memoriam

NOT an email glitch!

Congestion on the Information Superhighway: Does Economics Have a Working Papers Problem? Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Yes, there is an @nber.org working paper on this! They also use the timing of submission and an email glitch though I think: www.nber.org/papers/w29153

Where Science Moves Progress Follows How global scientific mobility drives innovation—and what’s at stake when migration is restricted by war, politics, or policy.

How global scientific mobility drives innovation—and what’s at stake when migration is restricted by war, politics, or policy.

Great insights from @inaganguli.bsky.social for @ineteconomics.bsky.social

www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Folding 27 NIH institutes and centers down into *8*, which is even worse than the rumored plan for 15, is catastrophic for American biomedical research. Completely insane.

I'm reporting on what's happening at NSF for @cenmag.bsky.social!

If you're a researcher who had an NSF grant that was previously approved for funding but is now in limbo because of what's happening at the agency, my signal is kvasquez.12.

Always open to discussing options for anonymity.

UMass faculty calls on land grant universities to join in fight against Trump administration; McGovern, AG also weigh in AMHERST — Faculty at the University of Massachusetts are calling on Chancellor Javier Reyes and President Martin Meehan to form a compact with the 250 land grant and public universities across the cou...

This is how you do it.

The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact".

The moral imperative may be to fight...

but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone:

www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...

Been seeing some speculation about the NSF freeze being due to the "broader impacts" criterion.

There's not a lot of hard facts out there yet, so here's a few facts below (but still inconclusive).

Short thread 1/5 🧵