Useful analysis by @arbelharpak.bsky.social‬ and co-authors "Confounding fuels misinterpretation in human genetics" doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

In 2018, Eric Turkheimer took a bet with Charles Murray, who said that by 2025, the genetics of intelligence would be basically understood. Turkheimer knew otherwise. “I am here to declare that I was more right,” Turkheimer writes.

The first paper from my postdoc is now live. I learnt a lot from my mentor/coauthor @jasonmfletcher.bsky.social in this and our other projects. Full article: Trend breaks in life expectancy in the United States over 120 years and potential sources of future gains www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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....

My quote of the day My dad used to say: “Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value." Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

This whole thread is great, but I particularly appreciate this idea of a “ladder” of research questions implied by a broader theory (and we should be very clear about which question we are attempting to answer in a given paper)

👶 Do early life conditions shape how long/well we live? Find out w/ @Jasonmfletcher.bsky.social (UW-Madison): 🗓️ 27 May | 🕑 2–3:30pm | @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Oxford 👉https://www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/jason-fletcher-gives-lcds-seminar-moving-forward-looking-back-new-evidence-early-life-shapes

One rule of thumb I live by: when the ratio of “I” to “you + we”approaches infinity or is undefined, beware.

Question: “Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages”? Vikesh Amin, @hanspkohler.bsky.social @jasonmfletcher.bsky.social et al. dig into the Harmonized Cognition Assessment Protocol of the HRS to examine education & cognitive aging. @SociologyatPenn read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

The #PAA2025 preliminary program is online: submissions.mirasmart.com/PAA2025/Itin... Make sure you are registered before rates increase in March: www.populationassociation.org/paa2025/reg-...

Genetic basis of partner choice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.03.636375v1

We are delighted to announce our next brownbag seminar is Feb 19, 12pm, w/ Jason Fletcher (@jasonmfletcher.bsky.social), who will present on "Moving forward by looking back: New evidence that early life shapes our lifespan.” 310 Social Sciences & zoom. Do join us!

Let’s celebrate a life well lived Sandy Jencks died this weekend He was a giant in social science He spanned disciplines He trained legions of researchers He pushed us to engage with policy He was a wonderful colleague & a lovely person I will miss him www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/chri...

Any type of cost that is included in the indirect cost rate calculation is disallowed as a direct cost. If your school charges you rent on space, you cannot add this rent as a direct cost. It is assumed that the government is already reimbursing the school for this.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

How to Access the EOT Web Archives Visit web.archive.org Scroll to 🔎Collection Search section Select "End Of Term (US Gov 2024)" from the menu Type in your query term and click search Or download bulk WARC files from eotarchive.org/data/ #EOT2024 #EOTArchive

**Call for Papers** The Advances in Social Genomics Conference Series (TAGC) May 14-16, 2025 UW-Madison @uwmadison.bsky.social Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2025 Funding available for presenters Keynotes: Kelly Bakulski and Dan Belsky isg.wisc.edu/events/the-a...

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

Thanks @glebeda.bsky.social for pulling this list together! Consider this a bat signal for population health scientists everywhere... let's GOOOOO. go.bsky.app/FP7rYaJ

Bluetorial-A dream and a bit of a nightmare Serving as Editor-in-Chief at Science was fascinating. I greatly enjoyed working with talented and committed editorial, news, graphics, and production staff. But the inside look into scientific publishing and AAAS was also deeply disillusioning.

Help me get the word out, folks: Health Economics (the journal, not the field) is now live on BlueSky. Please follow the journal's account if you're so inclined - and also repost the announcement (for the same reason). Thanks!

DYK in 2024 we averaged over 1,000 data requests every day? That's an average 690 downloads per day (29/hr, 1 every 2 minutes) and users analyzed data with our SDA online tabulator 545 times per day (23/hr, 1 every 3 minutes). Learn more at www.ipums.org/by-the-numbers

TFW you think--it seems unlikely researchers could find effects of a state policy on a rare outcome--and then look at the figure and recall the work of @jondr44.bsky.social

I thought we were past "genes for X" "Exome sequencing identifies genes for socioeconomic status in 350,770 individuals" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

**Professional/Personal Update** I am happy to share that, come Fall 2025, I will be (re!) joining the Department of Economics at the University of Texas. Hook 'em!🤘

Why economists need to review the preregistration!* This is a hot mess; hard to believe it's in the QJE datacolada.org/122 * docs.google.com/document/d/1...

You can still submit for the NBER's Children & Families spring meetings on April 3-4. Submit by Jan. 31 here: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

Ok, following on that last thread, here are my suggestions about how to be a good mentor (though this is still a work in progress!) (And others should feel free to add to my list!) A🧵

I was incredibly honored to be awarded the CSWEP Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. When I accepted the award, I talked about the importance of mentoring. The lessons I pass on are kind of obvious. But they are important, so I am going to share them yet again. (A🧵)

Here are the first five sets of slides: 01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro... 02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b... 03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust... 04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct... 05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...

I wrote a joint book review on three longevity books, posted here. I viewed each book as a different bait-and-switch move. What do you think--do we have any silver bullets for longevity right now?

The long-term effects of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission's hookworm eradication campaign, initiated in the American South in the 1910s, from Hamid Noghanibehambari and Jason Fletcher https://www.nber.org/papers/w33249

HA "That sounds bad. But 60 times 7,000 is not 42,000. It is 420,000. This is what Joe Schwarcz noticed. The estimated exposure is not even a tenth of the reference dose. That does not sound as bad." On black plastic spatulas, and scientific mistakes nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

IN MICE news.asu.edu/20241204-sci...

Here are some I have used from econ for teaching purposes aside from LaLonde: Fraker and Maynard (1987, JHR); Heckman and Smith (1999, JEP); Cook et al. (2008, JPAM). In other fields: Heineken and Shadish (1996, Psych Methods); Glazerman et al. (2003, Annals); Shadish et al. (2008, JASA).

Did you know there’s a site to search for starter packs of people to follow? Built by @mubashariqbal.com blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

Happening today at 9am PST!

I forgot to use any keywords that would get this Very Demography post into Demogsky feeds #demography #PopulationStudies

Check out our (Emil Pedersen, Theresa Wimberley, and me) news and views out today in Nature Genetics, highlighting the importance of selection bias and information bias in genetic studies. #statgen #genepi #selectionbias eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

I'm organizing a CenSoc Users Conference this Friday, Dec 6th! Please consider tuning in (all are welcome) to hear about some of the fascinating mortality research being done with these data. Full program and Zoom link: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🔊Next conference of the European Social Science Genetics Network (ESSGN) in Bristol, 22-23 May. ✅Keynote by @michellemeyer.bsky.social ✅Panel on the current frontier of MR w/ George Davey-Smith (Bristol), Dalton Conley (Princeton), and Alice Carter (Novo-Nordisk). essgn.org/essgn-confer...

I made a list of all the economic historians on the economics job market! Help me update the list by tagging those I've missed.

If you're using the Census Tree 📈🌳in your research, or know of someone who is, we'd like to know about it! If you aren't in our bibliography below, please reply here or email me with a link to your paper. #econhistory #econsky

Absolutely fascinating--recommended www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Amazing move by Bluesky. I think it's underappreciated how much computational social science was affected when X gated the data behind exorbitant pricing. Lots of potential for multimodal models/AI research as well!