experimenting with Typst recently. any recommendations for templates? cc @paulgp.com

If you're at Summer Institute and see a lightweight, dark green sweater lying around pls lmk!

I appreciate the offers from other scientists to help Harvard (students, labs, etc) through this attack, but what would be most helpful is for you to use your position to contact your elected representatives and make it clear this fight isn't just Harvard, it will affect you, and their districts too

Rümeysa Öztürk has been freed!!

The #NIH will no longer allow researchers working on its grants have sub-awards in other countries, a common practice that allows US scientists to investigate questions that cannot be studied in this country. @mmolteni.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2025/05/01/n...

NEWS: After canceling thousands of foreign students' immigration records — threatening their ability to study and live in the US — the Trump administration has reversed course and restored them all. It follows intense pushback from courts across the country. Details TK

I just contacted all of my representatives in the US Congress. I demanded immediate and drastic action to defend our Constitutional order. If you are American, please stop what you are doing and take 15 minutes to do the same. ▸ www.senate.gov/senators/sen... ▸ www.house.gov/representati...

"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (April 8, 2025)

If you are a university researcher NOT paid on soft money, and federal grant cancellations or disruptions are impacting your personal income (e.g., via summer salary losses or other direct-compensation disruptions), I would like to speak with you: [email protected] or Signal ibogost.47.

Looks like the cat is out of the bag. Good post by @stuartbuck.bsky.social on indirect cost recovery citing new joint work with @sampat.bsky.social and @pierre-azoulay.bsky.social. Find it here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g8792...

The building was built to have that level of telework. People built their lives around not having an office. This is a much bigger deal than "commuting sucks" (thought it does) and "figuring out childcare is hard" (thought it is). It's am I going to move my family for an uncertain job?

JUST IN: The Census Bureau is ending its telework and remote-work agreements for unionized federal workers and requiring a full return to office for telework employees by April 21 and a return for remote employees within 60 days, according to emails shared with @npr.org

NEW: The Census Bureau hasn't been recruiting and retaining enough interviewers for three key surveys, including the source of the monthly job report, and lacks a plan for building up a field representative staff, the bureau's internal watchdog, Commerce OIG, finds www.oig.doc.gov/wp-content/O...

if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12

I love data visualization

worth seeing

Niche life advice: if you attend a dance class/social as part of a couple, don't stick together the whole time. Dancing with other ppl helps you learn faster, is more fun, and contributes to the public good of building a community

Heartbreaking

chicken burger (sandwich! not combo!) from A&W costs $10 CAD

whoa

"The agency didn’t have to fire its experts but decided to in the interest of fairness, a top NSF official told staffers" huh???

"We didn’t know that studying Gila monster venom would lead to the invention of GLP-1...horseshoe crab blood would prove crucial to vaccine development, or...bacteria in geysers would lead to the development of PCR...on which much of modern molecular biology...rests."

I watched the Kim's Convenience play and enjoyed it very much, but it also made me mourn what the TV show could've been opposabletham.substack.com/p/kims-conve...

it is TOO. FORKING. COLD

Besides being practically stupid, this seems politically unpopular?

Living on the > 30th floor is mostly cool except when the fire alarm goes off and u have to take the stairs down

TIL Prince Edward Island is not a subset of Prince Edward County

How does econ work for PhD programs? Let’s say a student gets into a top program but is really wanting to go to a program they haven’t heard from yet. How might you navigate that? I know what to do for other disciplines, but not econ! #EconSky

on one hand, would be nice for the world to stop burning, but I'll take the tiny win of having our work covered in the news statnews.com/2025/02/12/t... @bitsyperlman.bsky.social

Penn State also pausing new NIH submissions and pausing acceptance of new awards. #academicsky

New essay on NIH and indirect costs: goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...

My RAND paper showed a temporary funding cut would have long-lasting effects on overall research output through its adverse impact on investment in young PIs. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

Keep calling!

Your reminder: Hesgeth does not women in the military www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

popped into the old workplace slack to see that they're still dealing with the dirty dishes in a communal space problem (there are custodians but they don't do dishes). always makes me think of that Matt Yglesias story from his time at Vox

I believe this is what is known in the journo business as a "nothingburger"

Additional details on what's been going on inside the NSF. Absolute bananas (P.S. I make a small appearance at the end of the article)

A good summary of what's gone on with NSF funding, and some interesting new tidbits. I'm really pleased they chose to end with @wytham88.bsky.social and a link to our paper: “Grants don’t just generate knowledge or output now, they’ve become a way that we support the training of future scientists.”

I’m watching closely for anything happening inside BLS, Census and the other federal statistical agencies. Know something? Reach out — anonymity guaranteed. Signal: bencasselman.96

Some thoughts on funding delays opposabletham.substack.com/p/on-funding...

Guidance from Stanford leadership on the OMB memo.

Yup going to the Asian grocery store on lunar new year weekend may have been a mistake

Timely paper about the impact of funding gaps in science. #econsky

It's such a weird thing to hear the news and think "that's bad, but also I have a paper about (an aspect) of that" Funding delays are really not great for people who work in science. Funding delays of > 30 days lead to: - 40% increase in scientists exiting US labor force - 20% decrease in wages

What is it with Toronto bus drivers? - never wait for passengers trying to catch up to the bus - closing doors on passengers disembarking (have gotten body checked by a bus door twice since moving here vs never in my life) - zooming straight past stops when stop requested

One unexpected downside of living in a high rise is that I can't look outside at people's footwear to decide whether I should wear sneakers or boots in the winter

Looking for things to do in late May? Submit your work on digitization, innovation, and IP to the www.munich-summer-institute.org by Feb 15. Join us for great food, city walks, urban surfing (if you like), and two exciting keynote speakers (@proffionasm.bsky.social and @michelag.bsky.social)

Has anyone taught with ModernDive v2 (moderndive.com/v2)? It has more statistical theory than v1 and I worry that for my purposes they've maybe ruined it, but I'm open to being wrong. I'd otherwise like to switch as it has the base R pipe and some nice new or updated examples.