I was gonna give macro some credit bc I recently had to dig back in my memory and use some of their tools I'd learned in my own work (it's useful stuff!), but then I just saw an embarrassing number of folks in their feelings about the "credibility revolution," so I'd say we broke even this week
Tbf he also said I talk too fast. I put that on there, too, to keep me humble
Update: A Nobel laureate said I’m a really good presenter, so that’s on the CV now
Aah, I see the (unnecessarily) angriest on here are still the most illiterate. Good equilibrium, very healthy
Curious what you chose! The short answer is, in my admittedly biased (but informed!) opinion, there’s very little around campus that’s notably worth eating. Usually gorgeous to walk around, tho!
Made a mental note of all the weird little men in the Georgia Archives at 9 AM on a Saturday, until I remembered I’m here with them. These are my people; apparently I am weird little men
Day 1 of my cross-country voyage for archival work
Austin: food has been fantastic, but on a “Terrible layout for interstate driving” scale from 1 to New Jersey, it’s registering at about a 7 — not great!
I think @lavaredmonds.bsky.social is tongue in cheek here, but I honestly love this. Easiest way to screw up as a grad student or especially junior faculty is to not submit any papers.
Sure I’m biased, but, just as grad students send a + signal with published work on their CVs, I should be able to flaunt how many times I’ve had my papers rejected. Look at all this resilience I’m building! Pretend it’s 10 years ago and look at this ~grit~. That’s gotta count for something, right?
(Please don’t be mean to your RAs)
Like Claude, YOU’RE the RA here! Why are you talking to me like that
Today in “I think I might be part of the problem”:
Look I’m not saying the sycophantic, weirdly casual voice of ChatGPT is good or not creepy, but sometimes the direct, sometimes stern tone of Claude Code makes me feel like I’m in trouble, and idk about that
(If you’re over 45 and reading this: Search your feelings, you know it to be true)
There’s no reason for Led Zeppelin to have made music this meandering. At least real jam bands will find an interesting new riff sometime around the 6:00 mark
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Proposals due: March 22, 2026
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Conf dates: Nov 21-23
#econconf 1/2
I’d like to apologize for spreading disinformation. Listening to the rest of this EP and it’s, generally, quite mid. I no longer believe, in fact, that uncs still got it
A band I liked in college just put out a good single, after nearly a decade of straight garbage. Hopium is back on the menu, boys
Update: Still unclear! I got sufficiently spooked and left haha. But our admin staff are ON it: if there’s something running around here, I fully expect a department-wide email in the near future
Working on campus today and, twice now, I've caught something seemingly darting quickly into the corner under the desk next to mine
Maybe it was nothing, just my imagination! Conversely, the building has a mouse in it, and I will momentarily be burning this campus to the ground. Stay tuned
Another week, another cool data product release from LEHD and Census. This week, we released new PSEO data for schools from North Carolina and BYU-Idaho, bringing our total count of institutions to 952.
Check out the data here: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications...
maybe a slight overgeneralization tbf, but undeniably shit is getting weird
Screenshot from Twitter: “It’s been frequently pointed out how much “gen z slang” is just cribbed from AAVE but what seems to go less noticed is that all the other gen z slang is just actual incel forum lingo”
I had a similar thought recently, but feared I was approaching “Old man yells at cloud” territory. Glad I’m not alone
(Tbf you can usually tell the stuff with non-Black etymology bc it sounds so deeply uncool)
Picture of Shaq with the printed text “You can’t fool me. I am familiar with your game”
I came across an article with an insipid, annoyingly clickbait-y title, and immediately gave it the biggest eye roll. Then I checked the author, and saw it was written by, by far, the most annoying student I’ve encountered here (they’ve since graduated)
Sorry, world: We’re not sending our best!
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I can't be here right now because my words are not safe for the public. Leaving this here, going to go donate and check on my friends.
www.standwithminnesota.com
Tbh I’ve needed both
Interesting the varying responses I’ve seen over the weekend:
My Bluesky feed: eloquent thinkpieces, resource guides, inspirational rallying cries, up to the minute news updates, etc.
My Twitter feed: “On a pike, up by their heels, idc idc”
My group chats are full of Minnesotans reacting to today’s murder by figuring out ways they can help.
We need people outside of the state to do the same thing. Whatever you wish everyone else was doing right now? Do it today.
Let’s make a list of things that could help.
Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.
I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
