The USDA has decided to scatter one of ag research’s crown jewels. What was once a hub where entomologists and plant virologists worked side by side is being left to rot. I was lucky to be part of it for nearly a decade. A hundred years of history gone in a flash.
#entomology 🧪
WFH increases productivity by 12% in the public sector.
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list of banned keywords
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
Everyone concerned about data loss right now should learn about the End of Term Web Archive, which I believe has been working on preserving federal websites for the past 8 months. The dataset you fear has been lost may well be here
Just an incredible project. Thank you to everyone involved
A new era of government censorship has begun.
It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
If you have data! Please share it! We can all do better science when we do it together!
8 ceramic tea light holders on a shelf surrounded by other pieces of pottery. 4 are white. 2 are green. One is blue and one is brown.
I made some ceramic tea light holders for some holiday gifts this year.
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
From ERS Charts of Note: As income increases, the share of income spent on food falls.
(I think about this chart a lot.)
Resharing the government economists starter pack. go.bsky.app/K7fAcMi Plenty of room to add more, so ping me if you should be included.
Had a great session this morning at #aaea2024! Thank you everyone who came and big shoutout to Yingxin, @LagoudakisA, and Pratibha for showcasing their excellent research!
Was so excited to see my coworkers in person I set up a free raffle with some custom made mugs for each branch!
Sometimes I tweet about my work, most times retweet my amazing coworkers and friends, and occasionally I make pottery. The last thing is unrelated to the first two.
My office mate and I are attending the iFARM workshop where many of my great @USDA_ERS colleagues will be presenting (after helping out it together)! Excited to learn from so many and see where food acquisition research is headed!
Last month, my first lead author journal article, about conflict and dietary diversity, & part of my dissertation was released after 6 years in the making. Very excited to see it out in the world, and grateful to my coauthor and committee for helping me.
Had a great time presenting my work and meeting so many colleagues and collaborators last week at #AAEAAna22. It was a wonderful experience that made me excited many more to come.
Went to type ‘weather’ in my phones search to check the temperature, typed ‘FAFH’ - at least I know I’m working hard 🙃🙃🙃
My advisor suggested we work on beeronomics for one of my chapters. A year later she’s talking about our current findings! #EconTwitter #beer #beeronomics #phdone
Dear #EconTwitter, I’m excited to announce that I successfully defended my dissertation last Monday! I’m so grateful to my advisors, friends and family who got me through. It was a pretty surreal day and I am excited to see what comes next.
Had a great time at #NAREA2019! Met so many nice people and saw some great presentations! Also got a chance to showcase my work on breweries throughout New England and received some great feedback! @NAREA_Economics
9 years to the day after graduating high school, I successfully defended my dissertation prospectus. #justonemoreleft
I’m so proud of my students! This is the first time I’ve helped students with such a big research project and they did so well and they enjoyed it. Looking forward to many more years of this.