"Trends in the prevalence of food insecurity have remained virtually unchanged, regardless of an over 87% increase in SNAP spending between 2019 - 2023." It was a massive policy accomplishment to have food security stay flat during COVID. www.fns.usda.gov/newsroom/usd...

So google maps updated some satellite footage, here’s one single Ukrainian village. One out of thousands

Very nice piece on the guardrails needed now that chatbots are used for therapy undark.org/2025/09/18/o... "When intimate chats double as fuel for training the AI algorithm or for marketing, care collapses into capture."

Fun article about “outsider” scientists and their breakthroughs. “Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.” worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...

I've been thorn about what to think and (not to) say regarding Kirk's horrific assassination. I think this is a very sensible position, by Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde in this NYT article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

Job! Two assistant/associate professors in educational sociology with a quantitative methods focus based either in Copenhagen or Aarhus dpu.au.dk/om-dpu/ledig...

I cannot state enough how much I love this website. I use it in my lectures all the time.

Some people call it a minefield. Others call it dangerous, even irresponsible. I call it the most promising field in life sciences. My love letter to social science genetics: communities.springernature.com/posts/a-love...

Favorite same-day sourdough pancake recipe No overnight rest Starter can be fresh and fed or dormantly lurking in the back of the fridge

I had the opportunity of teaching a class on social-science-genomics 🧬📈 with a focus on gene-environment interplay at the summer school Applied Health Econometrics and Health Policy at the uni of Bergamo. Here the slides that I used (any feedback welcome!) drive.google.com/file/d/1IeQq...

Attending the 15th fondaroli workshop www.frdb.org/en/eventi/xv... This is one of the workshop I love the most, seeing the great work of a lot of people who "grew" academically with me. #frdb #econsky

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.

Heroes in our public service are placing themselves at risk to protect Americans. What a contrast to what others are doing.

p.s. thanks again for asking; your tag made me finally get round to fixing about ten issues we had open on GitHub and internally over the weekend. Always looking for some additional #dev #devops #datascience #genomic #frontend help on this, in case anyone is interested in collaborating on v2.0.0!

#EconSky #AcademicSky #DoingResearch

Interesting overview paper by Cinelli @avifeller.bsky.social Imbens @edwardhkennedy.bsky.social @smaglia.bsky.social and Zubizarreta on open problems with causal inference arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17099

🧵 US states that implemented abortion bans saw higher than expected infant mortality rates, with larger increases among Black infants and those in southern states, according to this analysis of US national vital statistics data from 2012–2023. ja.ma/4aVchPn #MedSky

NEW: There’s been a lot of discussion lately about rising graduate unemployment. I dug a little closer and a striking story emerged: Unemployment is climbing among young graduate *men*, but college-educated young women are generally doing okay. www.ft.com/content/a9ea...

📍Genova, Italy "It is the largest humanitarian initiative in history with civilian ships." Italian dockworkers volunteered to help load the Global Sumud Flotilla with aid for Gaza. Their message is clear: Italian ports are civilian ports and they refuse to be complicit in war.

#Econadvice I'm looking for some resources for undergraduate teaching, with an overview of key insights from the main fields in economics. E.g. what are some of the main findings from labor, public econ, etc. Does someone have a class syllabus with such information? Or is there a book or similar?

Global Sumud Flotilla - Global chuffed.org/project/1388... Donate now

What unsolicited advice do you have for incoming PhD students?

Our department @yorkpsychology.bsky.social has 2 open lecturer positions (=tenure-track Assistant Prof). Social psych is one of the priority areas, so consider applying if you study social behavior, incl. intergroup relations, culture, environmental or media psych. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Academic economists don't agree on shit. Monetary policy independence is one of the few things virtually everyone might agree on. Decades if not a century of research going out the window because of "bureaucrats" and "the people"

That… is the entire point of the Federal Reserve.

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

My heart. Members of the US Public Health Service (the uniformed service branch no one has ever heard of, who serve at the CDC and elsewhere in the US), massed within the CDC property, saluting their departing uniformed leaders who were escorted out by security today after resigning on principle.

🧵 I know it's ridiculous, but when he's talking mitochondrial challenges & inflammation, he's again referring to his idea of vaccine-induced autism. Let me explain.

Overwhelmed by the shit show happening in the us at the CDC? Read this to take a breath. #vaccinesWork #yesVax

US life expectancy had already become 4 years lower than in comparable countries. Expect the gap to grow under RFK Jr.

We found almost nothing: no reliable link between interoception and mental health. This was in a sample far larger than any prior study, using carefully designed measures for specificity and reliability. Bayes Factor analyses further supported moderate–strong evidence for the null.

Did anyone ever update the Scientometric review of GWAS by @melindacmills.bsky.social and @crahal.com , to check if GWAS got more diverse? github.com/crahal/GWASR... www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Lisa Cook documented the devastation of the end of Reconstruction. This graph, from her paper "Violence and Economic Activity," shows the effects of Jim Crow on Black patenting and newspapers. As she said on Planet Money: "1899 was the peak year for African American patents per capita. It still is."

If you would like to be a speaker for my Workshops for Ukraine series, you can send me a DM or email me at [email protected] Looking for speakers for 2-hour weekly workshops starting end of October on #RStats, #Python, data science, #dataviz, methods in #EconSky, etc.

Call for speakers from Workshops for Ukraine! I highly recommend! It so so good and so much fun! …and helps Ukraine!

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

If you agree, you’ll find even more in our letter in solidarity with trans+ people: 👀 Read it ✍️ Sign it 🔁 Share it 🔗 change.org/nion_women 🖨️ Help spread the message further and download, print, and display our poster: linktr.ee/nionwomen 👍 Don't forget to follow, comment, and repost🩷 #NIONWomen

Coming up at 9 a.m., @FederalReserve Chair Jerome H. Powell will deliver the opening remarks at the 2025 #JacksonHole Economic Policy Symposium. Watch live here: https://bit.ly/41QLTCR. #EconSky #Economy

Our Arab concentration camp has no Jews, and *we're* the apartheid state?

Return or stay: How are #Ukrainians’ sentiments in the #EU changing? Are Ukrainians abroad ready to return home? Or are they becoming increasingly rooted in EU countries? Gradus Research has conducted the 2nd wave of the #migration survey: gradus.app/en/open-repo...

In 2025, the share of #Ukrainians who want to return to #Ukraine rose to 64%, compared to 55% last year. However, this figure is still lower than in 2023 (75%). This points rather to a persistent emotional desire to come back, despite rational restraining factors still prevailing. #migration #EU

Did someone say book tour??? Hopefully coming to a city near you!! Links to register for bookstore events here (NYC, Philly, Santa Monica, Boston), more links coming soon! linktr.ee/corinnelow

For some reason I missed that @davidpowell.bsky.social is here on Blue Sky! One econ-pun a day is what your timeline needs. Now.

"I must admit: I write this piece while starving – too hungry to think clearly, too weak to sit upright for long." a haunting account of a starving Palestinian academic in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Eleven days ago, Israel assassinated a Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist. Anas al-Sharif documented the relentless Israeli assault on civilians, breaking down on camera as he reported on the gathering famine. He was 28 years old www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...