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It's time to end fur farming. Beyond the animal cruelty, fur farms are a serious health risk. Farms pack thousands of inbred animals into cramped cages, allowing viruses to replicate, mutate, and jump back to humans. Read PPATS Executive Director Neil Vora, MD's newest piece in the Guardian:

Andrew's talk will highlight the use of @visualpde.com for visualizing numerical solutions to PDEs and related work informing a wide range of interdisciplinary collaborations. You can check out the VisualPDE platform to try out your own simulations. visualpde.com

Welcome to join Columbia Mailman seminar series on infectious disease modeling featuring Prof. Pejman Rohani from the University of Georgia on 4/21 Tue at 2 pm ET! Open to the public over Zoom. For information and registration: events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...

Celebrating the ousting of Orban’s corrupt authoritarian regime in Hungary. Lots of work needed to tame the curse of rising nationalism, but this is a good day for both Hungary and the EU.

Katalin Karikó will be @jhu.edu's 2026 commencement speaker. Excellent choice! www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2026...

If you have the experience required and an interest in serving as Minnesota State Economist, our department is hiring someone at the tenured level for that position: www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

Thinking about a PhD in Economics? I have an opening for a pre-doc / research position at UPF in Barcelona. You’ll gain research experience and I help you apply for PhD programs Highly relevant for Master’s students. Please share euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/420232

So weird: there's more than one scammy memorial site inviting donations or tree-planting in my dad's memory. We are not asking for that, but if people feel moved, donations in lieu of flowers to www.aclu-mn.org, www.aclu.org, or www.eff.org Econ folks, can you help get the word out?

David Gale passed away 16 years ago. #econsky www.facebook.com/groups/22394...

What do financial markets, pandemics, and ecosystems management have in common? They're all complex systems that can be described by mathematical principles, as demonstrated in the research of CHW affiliate Simon A. Levin. Read his interview with American Scientist: tinyurl.com/4c575keh

The NSF has played a key role in American science, and risks being collateral damage in the war against science. #econsky #academicsky #NSF #science marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/01/hist...

The Energy Institute at Haas is looking for a new Associate Director to fill unfillable shoes when Karen Notsund retires in June. The AD manages financial and research admin, participates in policy outreach, and helps build the EI community. Info at haas.berkeley.edu/energy-insti...

Pitt three-year postdoc: primary responsibilities will be managing PEEL lab; postdoc will be an integral member of Econ dept. and join a large team of behavioral/experimental economists, attending/presenting in seminars, and pushing forward own research agenda #econsky www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

Amazing…

We use a coordination game to study repeated emergence and abandonment of mutualistic interactions. The game reflects that mutualisms must be widespread to generate robust benefits. Mutualisms can collapse even in the absence of cheating and even if they would result in higher fitness. rdcu.be/eWnIc

John List has a disturbing LinkedIn post on the job market for economists. Between trump's attack on university/research and his destruction of the government infrastructure for managing and evaluating policy, big hit on economics hiring. www.linkedin.com/posts/johnal...

Covid Vaccines Reduced Children’s Likelihood of E.R. and Urgent Care Visits, the C.D.C. Reported www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/h...

Next talk at the #NaturalPhilosophy Symposium was by Simon Levin, on The Mathematics of Consilience. Commentary by David Haig. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc0e...

Final plenary talk at the #NaturalPhilosophy Symposium was by Michael Tomasello, on What Makes Humans Human? Commentary by Claudia Passos Ferreira. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH-t...

A super interesting study on how ants alter their nest networks to prevent epidemics! Network topology metrics were used to measure the effect on disease transmission. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

New @nberpubs: "The Economic Impact of Brexit" www.nber.org/papers/w34459 "by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time." 😲

David Gale’s work was diverse and impactful in math and econ #econsky

US leadership in science and technology under a self-inflicted threat. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Humphrey School at Minnesota is hiring an associate professor in "water resources, sustainable agriculture, or the nexus of food-energy-water issues." Come join me in the frozen north! hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...

After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.

The five biggest meat and dairy producers are generating more methane than the largest oil and gas firms, according to a new report.

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

More measles in South Carolina as US nears 1,600 confirmed cases South Carolina officials said all new case-patients were in quarantine before they contracted the disease. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...

Paper for next weeks Biodiversity COP in AbuDhabi. Special issue of IUCN Parks. We need a UN Global Convention on Freshwater for humanity and biodiversity. Parksjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/5.-DOBSON.PDF

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

CIDRAP is hiring a Deputy Director, who, in addition to other duties, will serve as a liaison between CIDRAP and other areas of UMN, so must either live in the Twin Cities area or have the ability to relocate upon accepting the position. Apply today! hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/...

🚨 JOB ALERT! Our group is recruiting a postdoc to develop novel methodologies for early outbreak detection and inference using AI/ML, modeling, and data science. This is a multi-year position providing stable research support. Welcome to apply and share with others! 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173722

Awesome faculty position alert! Tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please help spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/173889

Kidney exchange has given rise to work not only in medicine but in economics, computer science and operations research. #econsky #operations marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/kidn...

RFK Jr. went on Fox News today to claim that HHS has had “no successes” in the past 40 years. I beg to differ. Figure from Lei et al., NEJM 2020. Link below.

Beatiful article @tobykiers.bsky.social ! Source: NPR search.app/tP7Ep

This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

An op-ed from the world’s most distinguished active mathematician

JAMA reports on the latest estimates of COVID vaccine effectiveness “COVID-19 vaccinations averted 2.5 million deaths during 2020-2024… but this benefit was mostly limited to a minority of the population of older individuals." #vaccine #covid #medicine marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/08/covi...

Only a flop nation fails to support its brilliant, world-leading mathematicians.

Unbelievable…

Richard is a metastatic cancer patient whose life could be saved by a custom cell therapy — one that is currently sitting unused in a freezer because of Trump's NIH cuts.
 Yet another example of the real impacts of the Trump Admin's attacks on science and our federal workforce.

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬: 𝐀𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐔𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑 (MIT Press) has an official publication date of November 25, 2025! Instructors interested in using the book for free in the fall can comment or send me a message. Great resources available. #econsky probstats4econ.com

Please join us for the 4-lecture mini course I will give on minimalist market design at University of StGallen this week. The course is open to all and available both in person and via zoom. See below for the registration info and the link in the next comment for the course slides.