I found the settings to shut off Copilot and my life feels better now

I got my banana! Totally worth it

Been a while since I did something like this. This is a bigger production than I expected.

MILA AI Policy Fellows application deadline is next week. Amazing opportunity for junior scholars and practitioners. Working with and supporting last year’s cohort was one of the highlights of my career. Incredible fellows and support team. mila.quebec/en/ai4humani...

So.... not expected? What is happening in the CPC? and LPC? So much of the world is not making sense today.

⏰ CRDCN’s upcoming webinar on the new national data space for sensitive social sciences data is happening next week. Join us on April 14 at 1:00 PM for a 45-minute informational webinar in English and don’t miss your opportunity to learn more and get involved. 📅 Register now: buff.ly/kuFnT2L

I've been trying to simply not post such thoughts for a while now, but I like this approach 😊

Need a good name for this type of soup (leftovers thick enough to hold up the spoon)

It's a nice Thursday before Good Friday, and I wish I knew about this beer earlier. Have a lovely weekend 🍻

New linked data for 6M 🇨🇦 children born 1963-85 reveal very low levels of intergenerational income mobility for Indigenous children. Connolly & Haeck show that Indigenous parents were more likely to have low income, & their children had lower adult income even after conditioning on parental income!

So my kid had to go to McMaster Children's Hospital this year, and got to join a cool research study, then saw this Million Reasons Run fundraiser and said "hey Mom, you could do this", so.... I'm running 100km in May, raising funds for MacKids. Help me out? www.millionreasons.run/fundraisers/...

🇨🇦📈📉 The March 2026 issue of Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de politiques is available (with free access to all articles for a limited time) 👇 utppublishing.com/toc/cpp/curr...

Canadian Tax Journal call for proposals: Policy Forum on National Defence and Public Finances. Canada has set targets to sharply increase defence spending. What does this mean for public finances? Write for the CTJ Policy Forum! Proposals due April 15th. www.ctf.ca/EN/Publicati...

I have been asked to complete my New Employee Health and Safety Orientation. I've been working here for nearly 20 years 🤦🏻‍♀️

Look who showed up in my backyard

Looking for a great 🇨🇦 'kids these days' quote re: current youth unemployment rate. Help please?

It's done! Writing a textbook takes a really long time. Thanks to my coauthors and all the 🇨🇦 economists that offered input and resources along the way. www.mheducation.ca/product/labo...

I'm all for dismissing a referee early when the journal realizes they don't need the extra report. But the editor should really notify the referee. [Signed Angry Tired Mom after wasting several hours trying write a reasonably constructive report, now with no where to upload it.]

TL cleanse

Confidence men. Never surprised, always amazed.

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One of my fave undergrad courses was History of Economic Thought (w Anthony Waterman). I wish more students read Wealth of Nations before trying to use quotes from it

Happy IWD! Woke up this morning, remembered I hadn't changed that clock, and then had less time to get everything done.

Breathe Jeff Dillon 2022

It's been a tough week, with a tough week ahead, so here's to the dogs who seem to understand what matters

There is just too much news for my morning.

I think I found the definition of dystopian

We really need a 🇨🇦 Heritage Minute video for our grand tradition of blaming immigrants for [enter anything that makes us unhappy that we could fix but don't want to try].

Ok, I'll do that too.

📢 Brown Bag Seminar 🗓 Feb 23 | 💻 Online | ⏰ 1 PM ET 🎤• Andrea Craig, UBC-Okanagan, Rapid Transportation and Dwelling Prices: Proximity and Market Access 🎤• Epio Odette Bayala, Université de Sherbrooke, Environmental Shock and Children’s health: The Case of Toxic Waste Dumping in Ivory Coast

A very large part of my post-secondary education was funded with student loans. FTR I have never taken a basket-weaving course.

It really is all about the pastries. I mean, really.

So people are talking about fertility again. I keep some notes/links here 👇 FTR "I think women having control over their fertility is a good thing. I am not in the business of convincing women to have more children for reasons that aren’t in their own best interest" sites.google.com/view/tammysc...

Online Mentoring Series CWEC and CEDC are thrilled to invite you to our next Online Mentoring Series event: "Pursuing a career outside academia with Austin Nichols", Principal Economist at Amazon. With a PhD from the University of Michigan and a career spanning the Urban Institute and Abt Global

I need to create a 'conversation starter' graph about 🇨🇦 public pensions. Think this could work?

Join us for our International Women’s Day Lecture with professor Ulrike Malmendier, on March 4th, 2 pm Eastern time.

Wow. This matters.

So... I'm gonna wait and see what @alexusherhesa.bsky.social figures out, but at least we're recognizing inflation matters. Details matter, but I'm sure the headlines today will overlook that.

Once upon a time, long, long ago, I lived in subsidized social housing. I don't know what my counterfactual would look like today, but it probably changed my life. 👇🇨🇦🤔

Dear email sender #162: I'm working on it, really.

Great to see @trevortombe.bsky.social today at @lcerpa.bsky.social Economic Outlook 2026: The Era of Uncertainty. Mentioned it's worth checking out www.policyuncertainty.com

Student evaluations are up! Let's look for some constructive feedback... "made my life a living hell, I hope you're reading this right now. I really hate this course, every single aspect of it... all you do is yap and yap and yap and draw your little useless graphs that no one understands but you"

Fertility? A difficult conversation and everyone comes with their priors, priorities, and personal stories. Lots to talk about 👇 www.iheart.com/podcast/962-...

Sigh 😔 My kid is in high school 'civics', and I'm waiting patiently to see if she learns *anything* about fed/prov/municipal responsibilities.

It's LFS PUMF day! I even got to start my 2026 folder. 👇🇨🇦 Employment rates of parents, by gender and age of kids. Jan 2015- Jan 2026

1. I answer these calls when I can (maybe someone thinks I have an agenda 🤷🏻‍♀️) 2. With no notice on questions that actually require some minimum work (checking numbers, double checking details), and TV hair (not my PJs, or looking like I just got back from the gym), I have to say no 3. see next in 🧵

Dear Ontario: sprinkling salt on a snowbank is not the same as clearing your sidewalk.

Just feeling annoyed: Our uni research office always makes me over-estimate payroll taxes before approval, so after my RA is paid, there's always a small amount left in the account. I'm just trying to use up these funds with an RA, get the money into a student's hands, and close the account

Another important paper, now in print at AER: "Potential" and the Gender Promotion Gap 🎯Subjective assessments of employee "potential" account for about half the gender promotion gap. 🎯 This is despite fact that women go on to outperform their male colleagues. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Sidenote: In a convo with some tax accountant types today, they don't seem to recognize how their average client might not be representative of the broader population, and that there really is a large group whose taxes are really very simple.