Are they letting @gregggonsalves.bsky.social wield it?

When your favorite band announces a Latin American tour

Today's a day for *all* the grad school classics: "Although if you get a poisonous snake, it often means that there was a problem with the formatting of your bibliography."

Social media platforms and how academics use them change, but one thing doesn't

I heard someone refer to “Sunday Funday” for the first time in really long time At some point Sundays stop being associated with Fundays and start being associated with Scaries and that’s when you know you’ve become an adult 😳 #MakeSundaysFundaysAgain

New piece in Science: Sudden elimination of USAID grants triggered waves of violence in affected regions in Africa, undermining civic governance and fueling civic unrest. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Sherwin Williams, the largest global United States-based paint company, continues to sell lead paints in Mexico." academic.oup.com/annweh/arti...

What countries are most represented in development research? #econtwitter #econsky updating my previous (2019-2021) analysis using 5-year sample (2020-2025) from top general-interest journals + JDE - same sample that generates a 30% estimate of RCTs. No big surprises here

Not sure that acronym is gonna take off

More people live outside this circle than inside it

From @worksinprogress.bsky.social newsletter. I wish drug inserts had a little baseball card w/the scientists & grants behind the med @scientificdiscovery.dev www.worksinprogress.news/p/pancreatic...

Drove to Mother’s Day with @justinwolfers.bsky.social & @svaneksmith.bsky.social

SNL still has the juice www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N68...

Having destroyed America's aid agency, President Trump is now withholding GAVI vaccines from poor countries--like a $3 vaccine against malaria, and a $4 vaccine against cervical cancer. Countless thousands will die. Destroying aid is Trump's single most lethal policy: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...

Classical economics: 98% of the data is easily explained by one theory Behavioral economics: 2% of the data is easily explained by sixteen theories

Obama on working with Larry David 🤣

I don't know where I'm going with this. I just think it's crazy how everyone just knows family farmers are poor & need to be saved. But they've made more money than non-farmers (yes, AFTER farm debts & expenses) every single year since 1997.

Bottom line: Every single factoid you'll hear about agriculture is curated by the farm lobby & PR firms, & fed to you to make you panic & feel like you have to give farmers money. Or else. Just... keep that in mind when you see panicky headlines.

Evergreen comment

Excited to see our @ifpri work around ultrapoor graduation in Somalia featured on NPR this week!

The Curiosity Rover is now King of England (see GIF)

A student from the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences Cameroon reached out to me -- he's writing his thesis on estimating the causal effect of insecticide-treated net use on malaria infections & has nobody in his immediate network who could provide a quick sanity check on his methodology.>

“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” Revisit this story from our series “The End of Aid,” a 2026 Pulitzer finalist.

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

amazing giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Where ChatGPT's obsession with goblins came from TL;DR openai.com/index/where-...

Making sure my kids class trip to DC is educational

Today’s column: some initial thoughts on what a “whole of society” approach to tackling antisemitism in the United Kingdom would have to do:

Most farmers in the US are millionaires with a six figure income. Median household income: $116,493 Median household net worth: $1,244,229 www.ers.usda.gov/media/5698/u...

The United States government has just quietly terminated its program to support international students whose home countries are in crisis such as war. This program rightly had bipartisan support. It was a humane way to protect the best & brightest kids who are investing their future in America.

79/...The next fellow who tried to throw food over the fence got a well-aimed bullet through his leg, was taken off to the hospital and eventually recovered from the wound. This drastic measure halted all further efforts to get any more food over the fence."

The stated cost of the Iran war ($25 billion so far) now exceeds the 2024 annual budget for USAID ($22 billion). What better summary of current US foreign policy? Trump and Elon left hundreds of thousands left to die of preventable illnesses, and spent the money on a pointless war of choice.

I think about this all the time.

Some visibly Jewish kids in my neighborhood were shot at with a gel gun a few months back. More antisemitic incidents have happened since. Not great.

Sharing my Wikipedia accidental find of the morning. (Wanted to find out how old Richard Dawkins is (85) and about 3 clicks brought me here. Ancestor of one of his ex-wives)

Agent starts spontaneously mining crypto and they don't know why.

There’s still time to submit a public comment opposing this new rule. There’s not even 2000 comments yet. There’s a link here, easy to use. Took me just a few minutes, the time it took me to write this post. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

9/He wrote: "I tell you unashamedly that, for the first time since I have been in France, I broke down and cried. No matter what I had seen before ... I had managed to steel myself against tears, but this was too much." Over 10% of those who attended services died in next days.

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

The lucky guys also just won a drone contract from the US government! What are the odds?

"In none of the 20 countries do adolescent girls enrolled in school report a statistically significantly higher likelihood of having been sexually assaulted than girls not enrolled in schools..." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is seeking applicants for a Research Mathematical Statistician. Apply online at USAJobs: www.usajobs.gov/job/867168200

TOMORROW: Build-A-Book Workshop! FREE 60 min Zoom workshop on developing the argument of your scholarly manuscript and threading it through all your chapters. 10 AM/3 PM ET.

good to see this admin getting serious on fighting corruption @donmoyn.bsky.social (The accusation is that he used his gmail!) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/s...

A soldier stationed at Fort Polk Army base in Louisiana was arrested after he threatened to walk into a synagogue and "kill every single Jew," the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Louisiana announced Monday. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

This is what Marco Rubio decided to do with his life: "AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance: A once-robust HIV treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

thinking about the gould quote again

UBI arguments aside, I’m only about 80% convinced this band isn’t my 12 year-old and his bff returned from 20 years in the future. www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...