My kid and I watched the commercial for TikTok that swore up and down it’s safe for teens and she asked why she can’t have TikTok and I showed her this youtu.be/v1fY2xtyXsY

All rich datasets are alike; each limited dataset is limited in its own way.

In the UK it used to be the case that discovering a dead body and reporting it meant you had to pay for the burial unless someone else claimed the body. Great way to ensure disappearances remain unsolved.

This is a real rollercoaster, esp for the Criminology peeps.

Gotta love DC area thrift stores

For every year from 1994 to 2023, immigrants in the US paid more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government. Check out the latest study from Cato’s David Bier.

@olihanney.bsky.social any chance of adding an audio reader to VoxDev articles the way some newspapers have? I’d love to listen to them while I’m on the go or doing household work

Great reflection in the NYT from German Lopez on donating his kidney, including this truly incredible line. (And he's yet another person inspired by @dylanmatt.bsky.social!) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/...

cc @leecrawfurd.bsky.social

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Seems like we should hear more of an outcry from Congress, the media, and the public over this

For BA and MA students from low- and middle-income countries: My course “Global Policy Analysis” will again be open to a select number of remote students via Zoom. Course starts on Feb 17th, application deadline is Feb 10th. More information and application form here: forms.gle/GGNyai3eG3pw...

My 7yo daughter’s best friends’ family fled the country a few weeks ago. Today she came home with a drawing of her and another friend blowing whistles at ICE agents. “We’re blowing the whistles and so ICE will go away and our friends can come back,” she said. I started sobbing uncontrollably.

For absolutely no reason, let me remind people of this banger of a paper by @caroartc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

Here’s a recording of yesterday’s Q&A on science communication with Emily Oster!

I asked Gemini how to unfreeze my car's wiper fluid nozzles - it started to answer but then some sort of safety kicked in and it erased the answer. Really curious what it was going to suggest, @dggoldst.bsky.social

That’s why I follow @socio-steve.bsky.social

Wait @besttrousers.bsky.social @socio-steve.bsky.social out of all the accusations of people secretly working for George Soros, Scott Bessent actually *did*?

I have been printing these out and leaving them lying around on desks in the office. Nobody throws receipts away in offices just in case they are important.

We're hiring a research associate and a research intern for a field project on taxation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in gaining hands-on research and work experience in a low-income country in partnership with the local government.

Anybody know how much of the field of economics (by publications? faculty?) is what the public thinks of when they think econ (financial/macro)? @paulgp.com ?

Someone really missed an Goodmanager opportunity here @joshua-goodman.com

me cheering for ryanair

Teaching econ dev this term? Feeling depressed about teaching it? Me too. #econtwitter #econsky I always love getting syllabus additions from others, so I'll throw out that I'm adding these new (sad) readings this semester: www.thisamericanlife.org/862/some-thi... www.cgdev.org/blog/update-...

It has been one year since the January 2025 suspension of USAID. In our new paper (with Annabelle Tan and @ashani.bsky.social), we treat this suspension as a natural experiment and examine how foreign aid withdrawal affects conflict dynamics. A thread: [1/7] papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The photos yesterday of the elderly man being removed from his house in his pajamas looked straight out of 1941. He his home now, I really thought he had been taken away and shot when I saw the photos.

I honestly don’t know if “crypto” Nazis refers to hidden or currency scams

The Lutefisk Wars

Time for some game theory pagesix.com/2026/01/18/e...

Hope you're having/had a good weekend @peterevansguv.bsky.social , GWAR covering Chappell Roan is the positive spirit of unity we all need youtu.be/I5XR48KLE8I?...

@economeager.bsky.social @andreamatranga.bsky.social

@karenho.bsky.social thanks!

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

"A staggering 55 million people in the region are expected to endure crisis levels of hunger, or worse, during the June–August 2026 lean season" "[O]ver three million people will face emergency levels of food insecurity (Phase 4) this year - more than double the 1.5 million in 2020."

🎶 But the very next day / you gave it away // Next year, to save me from tears / I'll give it to someone special 🎶 – The Norwegian Nobel Committee, probably

@professajay.bsky.social your old block?

Do you think on her way out Trump was like "Hey, this is a regular Nobel, right? It’s not like some bank’s ‘Peace Prize in Memory of Alfred Nobel’”?

Need a doomscrolling break? GWAR covering Pink Pony Club is uplifting youtu.be/I5XR48KLE8I

My wife just told me that for her 60th birthday she wants a pool party and wants to hire GWAR to play. 😳 GWAR covering Pink Pony Club is possibly to blame. youtu.be/I5XR48KLE8I?...

Absolute savagery from @bsky.app (complimentary)

Cymbolic moment in diplomacy @cullenhendrix.bsky.social youtu.be/Qvu6Nh8bJq0

In a recent symposium on M&A, I heard something really striking: firms contemplating deals have created go-teams of lawyers in the event that Trump becomes interested. They’re ready to negotiate directly with the White House. My brain kept picking over exactly what was wrong with this.

Great; now Julia programmers will start using this for variable names all over the place.

Poor Minneapolis fed comms people - what a Venn diagram to be caught in today and have to continue with regularly scheduled posts. @davidmwessel.bsky.social or someone should send a pizza their way

Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested. It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

All are welcome to the launch talk for the new VoxDevLit on International Migration! Co-authored with @catiabatista.bsky.social, @econgaurav.bsky.social, @dmckenzie.bsky.social, @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social , Caroline Theoharides. Wed 14 Jan, 9 am US eastern.

It’s wild that this is empirically true but not part of any political narrative.

This is a guy who has his dream job. And there’s only one of those positions in the world. Yet he’s still speaking out and risking reprisal. Where are 90% of the others in entertainment, music, movies etc?