You’re supposed to…serve lasagna noodles right away @ryancbriggs.net ?

@marshallburke.bsky.social I can’t speak to this but the marine scientists do seem to have the advantage over social scientists at least in project names

Tried to text my kid a photo of friends new puppy sleeping @darthbluesky.bsky.social

The new RF Kuang book is about a Cambridge grad student who has to retrieve her dead advisor from hell so he can write her letter of recommendation for the job market. Lacks realism in that it oversimplifies process of tracking down your advisor.

🆕 Macroeconomics and climate change 📢 Today on VoxDevTalks, @adrienbilal.bsky.social (@stanford.edu) discusses the research on macroeconomics and climate change – highlighting evidence gaps in mitigation, adaptation, and labour transitions: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...

You know a novel is going to be good when it opens up with “hello nerds: yes I know about inflation, please shut up about it”

I made a pun in the neighborhood chat which someone called a “top 5 dad joke,” I showed it to my wife and she said that wasn’t a compliment @andreamatranga.bsky.social

The real scandal here: data in .xlsx format www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The US taxpayers paid $167,000 to destroy contraceptives rather than sell them to a funder or NGO www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

Today I introduced smallpox eradication in the vaccines class I’m co-teaching w/ @jackiantonovich.bsky.social A public health hero I learned about prepping for this class is Benjamin Rubin. He developed the bifurcated needle, & waived all royalties for needles manufactured under contract w/the WHO.

Every time I teach research methods to undergrads in the future, you bet your ass I am going to tell them that it's Jessica Chastain's favorite subject, so they should give it a chance:

Congress approved $4.9 billion in spending for foreign aid. The Trump White House canceled all of it. Whether he likes it or not, the Congress that you elect decides on spending. These "pocket rescissions” can start with foreign aid, but your education, your roads, your healthcare could be next.

These solar panels will provide a lot of electricity. The solar panels imported into Sierra Leone in the last 12 months, if installed, would generate electricity equivalent to 61% of the total reported 2023 electricity generation, significantly adding to electricity supply🤯

Technology has come for the job my parents used to do

They have a buddy system. So older children were paired with the little ones. They got them under the pews-or lay on them- quickly. “It could have been so much worse.” A buddy system. Even the sweetest parts of childhood distorted in horrifying ways. www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...

India now spends ₹2 trillion/year (0.6% of GDP) on cash transfers to 130M+ women—yet we know little about their effects. In a new paper (bit.ly/4mE6EtW), @karthik-econ.bsky.social Paul Niehaus Jeff Weaver & I present findings from the first large-scale RCT of maternal cash transfers in India (1/10)

DALL-E has figured out gender dynamics

@neorsd.org it was really nice of them to use British units of measurement abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

some of you need to make like travis kelce and engage with a tailor swiftly

Medicaid work requirements are a bad policy, but states have to adopt them. We have heard a lot about states like Arkansas, who did a terrible job. @besttrousers.bsky.social looks at New Hampshire, which made genuine efforts at outreach...to little effect. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-can-b...

Only one person in the space opera is powerful enough to irk the rebel leader, and that's the economist

dear funding agency please give me money to prove what we already know but with more decimal places

Working papers get a lot of attention and journalists don't scrutinize the evidence. I do that here for the most recent cash transfers and infant mortality paper... Is the effect that big? How can spillovers be so important (and work so fast)? Do forking paths affect the findings? And more...

Disclaimer xkcd.com/3126/

@xkcd.com sent my son to sleepaway camp with several of your books, he reports they were very popular with the whole bunk and a bunch of the boys want their own copies now

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Registration is open for this fall's BREAD/ @theigc.bsky.social virtual development econ Ph.D. course on Social Protection! Organizers Rema Hanna (Harvard) and Ben Olken (MIT) are giving the intro lecture on Sep 16. An all-star lineup -- highly recommended! www.theigc.org/events/bread... #EconSky

🚨 COOL JOB!!! 🚨 In Rwanda, @poverty-action.bsky.social and gui2de are hiring a Scale-Up Advisor to work within the MINEDUC to scale up a revised teacher performance pay contract ("imihigo"). We're looking for an excellent manager to help lead this initiative to take evidence into policy at scale.

Losing a friend. Older men have the highest suicide rate of any demographic group. This challenge doesn't get nearly the attention it should. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/13/o...

Look, there's options

son: mom can we get these replacement parts for the ship of theseus mom: we have replacement parts for the ship of theseus at home (later) mom: see? it’s exactly the same son: no it’s not

@alexeble.bsky.social Continuing our old thread from the other place, my wife and I had to call the NYC restaurant to move our 5PM dinner reservation, and without asking for a name they somehow had no trouble finding our res

On this @planetmoney.bsky.social, we visit two countries that have some experience with data manipulation -- Argentina and Greece. To see what happens when governments get tempted to cook the books, and how hard it is to UN-cook them. www.npr.org/2025/08/08/1...

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

lol ht @pfmanna.bsky.social

I’m doing a workshop for some colleagues next week, for those new to BlueSky what are some good beginner Econ/dev econ guides or starter packs? @daveevansphd.bsky.social @michaeleddy.bsky.social

Well, we’ve figured out who’s still on twitter

Asked AI to make a logo. No notes. 11/10

All references to packing now bring to mind these horrible results. I'm sure we could do the same to eggs if we wanted.

New in @science.org : 20+ AI scholars—inc. @alondra.bsky.social @randomwalker.bsky.social @sanmikoyejo.bsky.social et al, lay out a playbook for evidence-based AI governance. Without solid data, we risk both hype and harm. Thread 👇

It was right there all this time @seema.bsky.social

Frankly, this is the wurst news of the day.

Qual researchers:

That's also how I start the weekend

I can't believe the BLS is the thing that got me back on here.

The brilliant Dean Karlan, with whom I worked when he was Chief Economist of USAID, talks about how to reform foreign aid in the long run. This is what genuine commitment to efficiency looks like. Not ignorant sneering sledgehammers. Smart, conservative, evidence-based reallocation of resources.

When they were little, I also used to make breakfast for the kids on jobs day. I’d ask them to predict payrolls and u rate. They did no better or worse than the pros.