What does #EconSky recommend for math in Google docs? The native equation editor is ok for basic stuff but a bit clunky and the output looks bad. The Auto latex equation extension is simple and looks great but I'm not sure about all the links to externally hosted images. Other ideas?

Through 250+ articles, 50+ podcasts & 13 VoxDevLits we featured ~900 researchers in 2025. A huge thank you to all of those who have contributed to building this public good. Here are some stats from the past year + a preview of what we have planned ⤵️

4 questions to understand the costs of ‘medical freedom’ www.statnews.com/2025/12/23/v... via @statnews.com

There's good interdisciplinary and bad interdisciplinary

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

Markets in everything: demand for and supply of suspension-worthy student complaints. Go!

Friends, we are mere days away from lechón season and I am here to once a again implore you to give up the eggnog and make the switch to the true nectar of the season, coquito.

Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪

I once convinced a whole gaggle of fellow customers that McSorley's only used sawdust imported from Galway because it was better at soaking up beer.

Great Job THOMMY SPINELLIS! everyone should call him tomorrow to thank him at (919) 856-4630

Great job, Bobby.

I have a killer joke about Persephone but it's too dark to share this time of year.

You intended to switch to R at the beginning of 35 consecutive semesters

Senator Thommy Spinellis, this is your fault.

@statacorp.bsky.social package #graphfunctions has been bumped to v1.6 and provides a modular grammar-of-graphics toolkit for data visualizations. ⭐shapes: generate, transform, round edges ⭐arcs ⭐radscatter ⭐labsplit ⭐catspline More info: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... Up soon on SSC!

This flower is scorched, this film is on On a maddening loop These clothes, these clothes don't fit us right

And Thommy Spinellis

Referee 2 won't even let me enjoy USMNT vs URU

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

🆕 When should big data and algorithms be used to determine programme eligibility? Today on VoxDev w/ Emily Aiken (CMU Africa), Anik Ashraf (LMU München), Joshua Blumenstock (UC Berkeley), Raymond Guiteras (NC State University), Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale) & Nicole Hu: ow.ly/7mVX50XsA2L

Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

A whole day's productivity goes poof

@scuffed.bsky.social I can confirm that Jimmy V really enjoyed yesterday's pod

Today, I am reminded of the wisdom of the ancient proverb known in all cultures since the dawn of time: Guys, you don't have to tweet. Or skeet. You really don't.

Big respect to the Class of '45 PhDs who are still getting their referee reports in

"We reject authoritarian rule." I hope this is true but voting behavior suggests it is not.

Scariest costume in town

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Thommy Spineliss grows, well, not exactly a spine, but some sort of slightly cartilagenous axis We will take the win and call him to congratulate him in the morning (919) 856-4630 (Occasionally they pick up the Raleigh line)

Thank you to North Carolina's own (*) Thommy Spineliss (*) Actually from Florida

Super excited for the inaugural summit of LGBTQ+ Economists and Allies in Asia-Pacific (LEAP)! Come and join us in beautiful Melbourne on May 13-14, 2026! ❗𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝟏𝟒 𝐃𝐞𝐜❗ melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au/conferences/...

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An oldie, but a goodie.

CSWEP proudly announces the new Janet L. Yellen Award for Excellence in Public Service. In recognition of her career & lasting impact, the inaugural award goes to Janet Yellen. She’ll speak at the awards luncheon & be honored at a reception at ASSA2026: aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

I've loved this story for 30 years now, one more day until it ends. The definition of bittersweet.

Boast about slapping on a tariff and then whine about prices being high ... good brain, the best brain.

The US Administration is nuking PhD programs around our country, including Harvard’s. The damage will be vast and permanent.

Intriguing...

New home office decoration. Much rejoicing from @adambonin.bsky.social , @stevevladeck.bsky.social and @emptywheel.bsky.social . futile boos and curses from @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social @dandrezner.bsky.social @awando.bsky.social among others.

Every once in a **very** long while, Catholicism is just metal as hel -- ah ... um ... heck.

I will humbly accept merely many hundreds of thousands of dollars. Let the (downward) bidding commence.

Well done #MIT although I would have skipped the "with respect"

Fascism in Europe destroyed the then greatest university system in the world. Fascism in the US well on the way to replicating the original. *list above (apart from Fermi) from pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

As far as high-profile academics moving out of Trump's America goes, it doesn't get more high-profile than this. 🇺🇸 → 🇨🇭

Lots of discussion on how the EU is supposed to catch up with the US in new tech. This is how: we preserve our democracy, rule of law, individual freedoms and general decency. Then very smart people who used to find that in the US will come to the EU. Sure, other things matter, but this central.

High-profile departures from the US - congrats to @econ.uzh.ch

Bahama Corolla Bolivia Durham All the boro-boroughs and ville-vuls. Basically any place name is a minefield.

That impact analysis has been done, by leading independent experts. Here it is, open-access in the @thelancet.com —> doi.org/10.1016/S014... "The complete defunding of USAID would cause an estimated 2,450,000 all-age deaths annually." Two. And a half. Million. Deaths. Each year.

Former USAID official here. The current Administration has done zero impact analysis to estimate the effects of its obliteration of USAID on deaths around the world. It just keeps saying "no one has died" as a mesmeric incantation. The facts, below. 🧵