Thinking of starting a new club in my PhD cohort called the "Randomized DnD Club". Every week we roll a dice to decide whether we play Dungeons and Dragons or discuss the latest Difference in Differences literature

PSA: Do not attempt to fly with Burdick's hot chocolate mix. It will be tested for explosives (Thankfully it does not actually contain explosives)

New work on school cell phone bans just dropped. "Bans...led to a[n] ... increase in student suspensions in the short-term ... but disciplinary actions began to dissipate after the first year." "We find significant improvements in student test scores in the second year of the ban."

It's reaching that point in the morning where I am accidentally typing "reddit" into the Stata command line...

6 month update for anyone who cares: both desks are now covered in junk, and I am currently using neither

This goes so hard

I'm used to running into the sub vs. dub debate on the internet, but it is especially cool to see it pop up in academic bluesky rather than an anime subreddit

Female academics are much more affected by the birth of a child than are male academics. Academic mothers are much more likely to... ◾temporarily leave the labor force ◾and, if they return, shift away from tenure-track positions. scholar.harvard.edu/files/sdchen...

🤔 What kind of Pre-K experience sets students up for long-term success? Our new working paper offers important new evidence to help answer this question! 🔗 edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/ai25-1194.pdf And 🧵👇

Just finished watching #Andor. Great series. I think my favorite part was when Luthen and Cassian solved those really hard math problems together

Wow! Each $1 spent on Universal Pre-Kindergarten generates between $3-$20 dollars in aggregate earnings. That's enough to offset the costs of Universal Pre-Kindergarten through higher tax revenues.

🧵 But since Head Start's inception, there have been disagreements about whether or not the program "works." So let's review what we know from rigorous research on Head Start's effectiveness, and let's start with what it means for the program to work. 🧵 1/n

It's a rm(list=ls()) kind of day

AERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...

Here's why your education friends had a real rough one today. It's... it's the entire education data collection apparatus of the United States. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Hey folks who study education: @urbaninstitute.bsky.social's #Education Data Explorer has already harmonized federal datasets: educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

I’ve been sick all week so maybe this is just the cold talking, but I would totally buy this

From six years ago — “Whenever you think data is “accurate”, remember a crow’s wings in sunshine. In a world where purple is too expensive, the tips of those wings are black.” www.cyberneticforests.com/news/who-cho...

Report: No, Really, TSA To Require Real ID This Year theonion.com/report-...

To be clear the NSC data is absolutely invaluable It is critical for research & policy That’s exactly why a government statistical agency should be collecting it!

I now have two desks--one for handwriting/reading and one for my computer monitor. This will obviously fix all my problems

Can’t go visit my parents in NJ without coming back with a loaf from Bread and Culture in Flemington #breadsky

Disappointed to find I can’t purchase a 2025 Existentialism or Nihilism calendar online. Guess I will have to design one myself.

Swift economic change may lead to both generational and gendered conflicts that result in a rapid decrease in the total fertility rate, from Claudia Goldin https://www.nber.org/papers/w33311

Happy New Years, nerds

May we all aspire to career goal of “data monk”

I feel like a medieval manuscript illuminator writing out this note sheet for my econometrics exam

Using the results shown below and others, we estimate that couples in Germany act as if they value women's earnings at 48 cents on the Euro, compared to men's earnings. In Sweden, it's 80 cents on the Euro. Full paper here: bit.ly/MTO-T

Yeah I probably should have replaced my glasses after smashing the frame walking full speed into a glass door earlier this semester...

"the internet is forever" im on like my third internet now, and i cant find a lot of things from the first or second one anymore

Gross

My sister reminded me today that cats have no concept of reflections. So this gorgeous boy has no idea just how pretty he is 😢

more users are joining and the hog grows longer

I’ll take it

🚨 New @rand.org working paper, joint with Julia Kaufman and Lauren Covelli! Using nationally representative data from RAND's American Mathematics Educator Study, we examine socioeconomic and racial differences in student algebra experiences.🧵 www.rand.org/pubs/working...

Only 100% I’m going to get all year

Hadn’t seen a women in education policy research starter pack yet. Please let me know if I missed you… still getting my bearings in the new place. go.bsky.app/PixwBrM

Very helpful summary here of the results of various ECE-focused ballot measures across the country hechingerreport.org/how-child-fo...

Was told today I looked like I could be in high school 🙃 Perhaps I should go into undercover work for my research

Here's the student edition of my "Education economics and policy" Starter Pack. Help me build this up by suggesting names, including yours! go.bsky.app/FUjWT5E

New to this whole skeeting/tweeting thing, but I was a (wholesome) menace on YikYak back in the day so hopefully that has some transferable skills

Created a starter pack focused on early care and education research and policy. Hoping to grow this list so please let me know if you'd like to be added or have other suggestions for who to add! go.bsky.app/SpVmXZP