today, i allowed myself some excitement about research for the first time in a long time by looking at some dormant papers that need to be revised and sent back out, just as a little treat, as i feel the end of the semester approaching. 📈📉

#econsky The School of Economics at Georgia Tech is searching for a new Chair. (We always do external searches...). Don't be spooked by the upcoming deadline for full consideration: Oct 31. I am on the search committee and happy to answer any questions! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

#econsky The School of Economics at Georgia Tech is searching for a new Chair. (We always do external searches...). Don't be spooked by the upcoming deadline for full consideration: Oct 31. I am on the search committee and happy to answer any questions! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

*tunes into @pbswisconsin.bsky.social hard af*

sure, things are terrible in america, but I got quoted by local public radio about riding bikes to school with my kindergartener. www.gpb.org/news/2025/10...

apropos of nothing, if any Swiss universities want to pay me many millions of dollars/francs to move to Europe, my email is publicly available.

having spent the day fighting jet lag by drinking espresso, eating stroopwafels and French fries, and drinking Dutch beer, while watching bicycles whiz around, I regret to inform you that it is no longer a fair coin flip.

coin flip on whether I decide to come back at this point. I’ll just send for the family and dogs.

alright fam, I am heading to Amsterdam Sun–Wed for a workshop (assuming, questionably, that US citizens are still allowed to travel internationally). in the very few unscheduled hours I have, what should I do/see? 📈📉

took a Tylenol PM last night, for solidarity.

one very low-stakes annoyance I have is how fantasy football win projections assume that points accumulate linearly throughout a game. I don’t have a better idea, but incorporating some larger margin of uncertainty feels appropriate.

had to ride my electric vehicle to the meeting with southern company’s chief economist. just to impress.

smdh at all y’all disney+ cancellers. you’ve been paying and not just ripping bluey of your sister’s account all these years?!

what’s the point of all this capitalism in healthcare if they still can’t make an antibiotic in a flavor that my kid will swallow.

idk who “we” is or where “here” is, but I am going to borrow this line. 📈📉

one of the worst parts of being a journal editor is that you develop a greater sense of empathy for other editors and thus end up saying yes to way too many referee requests. #econsky

idk I feel like they should make one of these guys the league mvp or something. tough to choose which I guess.

go bills

i really wanted to bluesky to work, but here i am, on a friday, making jokes on linkedin

5yo: dad! today two DOCTORS came to talk to us at school! me:

"The Economics of Equity and Affordability in Residential Water Pricing". Useful review by @cjwich.bsky.social

passwords were cool while they lasted, but now we live/die by the 6-digit code.

got to blow a few undergraduate minds today by telling them that a competitive eq’m maximizes net surplus because you’re just taking first derivatives of total bennies and total cost curves and setting them equal to each other. woke indoctrination starts after labor day, naturally.

me---behind on teaching, research, advising, editing, and referee duties---upon receiving a request to review a cool paper 📈📉

on this computer, i only read the classics

Fulton County Animal Services: “Free puppy Fridays!” Extremely economist voice: “You know, there’s no such thing as a free puppy…” Anyway, what up Frankie.

i really want LLMs to be able to recreate a screenshot of an econ figure in tikz code accurately. alas...

somehow I just discovered that I managed to design my courses around an imaginary fall break a week after our actual fall break. perhaps it was because our fall break does not fall on the federal holiday or the fall break for atlanta public schools. that, of course, would make too much sense.

ah, my teaching philosophy? stress out for a while, try to stay organized, then black out and hope i say mildly intelligent things in the classroom.

the cool thing about choosing to convert my keynote slides to beamer but written in quarto/markdown is that i don't really get to avoid kludgy latex syntax but i also don't get the full customization that kludgy latex code provides

forget kidneys, i have now learned that the final frontier for matching markets is for soccer practice / field location pairs.

year 6 i guess

still haven't finished my syllabi for Monday because I spent yesterday proactively completing an IRB application. unheard of levels procrastination. such extreme procrastination that i've looped back to being incidentally productive.

I move to amend the faculty handbook so that faculty "retreats" need to involve team-building exercises at an external location and conclude with a cocktail reception. Any faculty member who calls a really long, on-campus faculty meeting a "retreat" will be summoned. Do we have a second?

(to the tune of the PJ Masks theme song) IRB we're the IRB IRB we're the IRB

Alright #econsky fam, what are your fav replacements for written “reading responses” (a couple of paragraphs that go beyond summarizing) for undergrads? Worked well before LLMs and with a smaller class size.

Alright #econsky fam, what are your fav replacements for written “reading responses” (a couple of paragraphs that go beyond summarizing) for undergrads? Worked well before LLMs and with a smaller class size.

ONE OF WHOM WAS DOING A WHEELIE

*wins grant* woohoooooooooooooooohhhh crap i guess we have to do all that work we said we were going to do...

stephen miller on habeas corpus:

Yo #econsky, we're hiring a new Chair for the School of Economics at Georgia Tech (we always do external searches). Come steer the ship! We have a great, vibrant group of applied micro faculty and students (enviro, health, dev, trade) + metrics + theory. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

seems not good

well... didn't make much progress on syllabus updating, but i did mess around with having chatbots convert old keynote slides into markdown to render slides as revealjs/html. also, played around with having LLMs translate screenshots of textbook graphs into tikz code that i can embed in my slides.

the level of procrastination I am engaging in to avoid opening my fall 2025 syllabi is mind-blowing. procrastinating so hard, i'm like maybe it _would_ be a good idea to write these referee reports 3 weeks early. 📈📉

quick shout out to taxes. taxes get a bad rap. maybe because costs are acute, but bennies are diffuse. but i love paying taxes. massive appreesh to local taxes too. currently saving 2Gs a month now that my kid's in public school.

big parenting win: kiddo just biked himself to school on his first day of kindergarten.