Providence RI up to 32.8 inches through 1p which is the biggest snowstorm on record there. Beats 28.6 inches Feb 6-7, 1978. Records begin 1904. (edited)

I have a new essay out this morning about Black History Month, remembering in a moment when those in power want us to forget, and the importance of seeing people in the past as people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Almost a month after abruptly dismantling exhibits about slavery from the President’s House, National Park Service employees began reinstalling the panels late morning on Thursday ahead of a court-imposed deadline. Story w/ @fallonroth.bsky.social & Maggie Prosser. www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

let's stay together

Ahead of Valentine’s Day, I’m thinking about this 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship bio from Harry Bernstein, who published his first novel at age 96, which was written shortly after the death of his wife of almost 70 years. I’m crying, you’re crying, we’re all crying.

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

As expected, the annual benchmark revisions sharply lowered estimates of job growth in earlier months. BLS now says we added just 181,000 jobs in 2025, down from the earlier estimate of 584,000. #NumbersDay

If you know the moral thing for an organization to do, feels important to state it, even if you recognize that the org likely won't do it. We should recognize the way that powerful orgs historically capitulated to censorship and suppression. Shame only works when we remember the transgressions.

We deserve good things!

Again, if you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

If they make a sequel to Muppets Take Manhattan I hope they do it while he’s mayor and put him in it.

BREAKING: @ajc.com on Tuesday evening said it will lay off approximately 50 staffers, about 15% of its headcount, as it seeks to cut costs and marshal resources to invest in its growth. The AJC published its last print edition on 12/31. About half of those laid off will come from the newsroom.

Cool workshop in DC in June for higher ed policy academics with less than 10 years of research experience. Deadline to apply is March 1. www.peer-center.org/research/sum...

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

Ascendium Education Philanthropy is providing support for researchers working in postsecondary education and workforce development to attend #AEFP2026! @aefpweb.bsky.social Details and link to application here: aefpweb.org/ascendium-aw... #EdResearch

I needed to make a temporary variable for the cost of room and board at colleges, so I instinctively named it “room_temp” and it took me a full two minutes to realize what an amazing variable name I’d created.

New QJE for the minimum wage literature uses IRS data to study effects on small and medium size businesses. The effects seem…very good academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

Because of my relatively common name, I’ve always gotten stray emails and text messages meant for other people. Now, I’m also getting the joy of receiving a slew of messages related to the legal entities (e.g., LLCs, trusts) created by my name-sharers. Thanks, Franken-data brokers!

Today in newspaper headlines about fictional crises

Perhaps the most British thing about the TV show Industry is that they have a company named Rican that they insist on pronouncing “RYE-can” as if Puerto Rico doesn’t exist

*cracks knuckles* Well, looks like it’s time to break out this classic www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTAA...

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Is this the look Rob Schneider was going for?!??

They’re not perfect, but golly, public universities are one of the best engines of economic mobility we have

it is almost Christmas which means it’s Muppet Christmas Carol season and that, in turn, means it is time to revisit this delightful interview with Michael Caine, who loves everything about that movie even more than you do

And one of them is throwing the horns in slo-mo! No notes, Bull City

Steph Curry always seems like he’s just days away from doing a live-action remake of the Jordan v. Bird “Nothin’ but Net” ad from the ‘90s

I would like the phrase and concept of "common decency" to make a comeback

"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep remembering mine -Lucille Clifton, “why some people be mad at me sometimes”

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

In case you missed it, Vanderbilt is over on LinkedIn posting embarrassing itself by quoting someone who says “maybe [Vandy] should be ranked as high as 6th” for the College Football Playoff. Be serious.

One of the most astounding streaks in any sport. Nearly 50% higher than the second-longest run of double-digit scoring (Michael Jordan at 866 games).

Letter below is by surgical oncologist and professor Dr. Michael Baum about how a character explaining chaos theory in a Tom Stoppard play sparked an expansion in his understanding of breast cancer, leading to exploration of adjuvant therapy that protects distant organs. This is what art can do.

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

Have any NCES data users gotten a disclosure review approved for a paper/report since spring? I've been waiting for 6+ months 😞

Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

Oreoboros

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This Veterans Day I want to acknowledge the Black veterans of WWII who fought fascism and nazism and came home to fight for civil rights and democracy here. New research shows Black veterans were critical in securing the voting rights currently under attack. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨Calling all education+social science researchers! 🚨 For the second time ever, Common App is hosting an open Call for Research Proposals to solicit innovative and rigorous research projects using our expansive (& still mostly untapped) data warehouse! www.commonapp.org/files/DAR/Co...

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

Slides from my @mit.edu IDSS Distinguished Speaker seminar "Networks untangle gender differences in productivity and prominence among scientists" this week I argue that collaboration networks act like unequally distributed (and gendered) social capital aaronclauset.github.io/slides/Claus...

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Repair Video xkcd.com/3163/

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Even winning this year’s Halloween costume prize couldn’t ease Carol’s existential ennui. “Another October, another ghost, another shiny prize. Maybe a pig’s ear would cheer me. Ah nuts, who am I kidding.”