Incompetency at the top yet again 🤷🏼‍♀️

USAID left a void in Mozambique after the Trump administration dismantled the agency. And it appears that ISIS has stepped into the vacuum. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh traveled to the African nation to see firsthand how quickly things have changed. Stream the full story at https://CNN.com/allaccess

SWIFTYNOMICS: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy by @mlheggeness.bsky.social is available for review via NetGalley - @ucpress.bsky.social #Booksky 💙📚 www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

These women are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥. So proud of them!!!

From the team that brought you the "Too Big To Fail" financial institutions, it's the "Too Brilliant To Be Held Accountable" men 🤢

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Something they may have wanted to assess before building their business off the backs of authors’ labor and output? Did they not speak to other companies and industries who pay royalties for art and intellect? 🤷‍♀️

NEW: An analysis finds that NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease.

Say it louder for the women in the back. 🙌🙌🙌

Disturbed by the #Epstein #LarrySummers dialogues reported by @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social? Check out my upcoming book #swiftynomics where I dig deep discussing the uphill challenges for women economists in a profession often run by Larrys… a.co/d/hkjfjtA

BREAKING: The House just passed my bipartisan legislation to help make it easier for moms to get through airport security and travel with the breastmilk they need for their newborns. Now it heads to the President's desk to be signed into law.

Continually disappointed by emotionally stunted men (in my profession)… 🤢🤢🤢

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

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Economist @mlheggeness.bsky.social's #Swiftynomics is an "astute debut...the balance of academic rigor and pop-culture verve makes complex economic ideas both digestible and entertaining...[a] smart fusion of cultural analysis and feminist economics." www.publishersweekly.com/9780520403116

So grateful for this review of my book! 🫶❤️‍🔥🫶❤️‍🔥🫶#swiftynomics @swiftynomics.bsky.social

How did Black families travel during the Jim Crow era? Learn the history, explore the data and contribute. Start local: search your city on the Community Map, and add your story to this living history. greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure. A really informative article, perfect for a weekend coffee read. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This remains an all time best intern error, and it SERVED.

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Decency prevails … Trump Administration Live Updates: Government Ordered to Pay Food Stamp Benefits During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Also hanging in the balance due to govt shutdown: federal heating aid. Funds for LIHEAP, a free program that helps eligible households pay winter heating bills, traditionally get disbursed Nov. 1 and are used to heat homes through at least March 15 www.berkshireeagle.com/news/local/b...

What’s spooky about Oct 31? 👻🎃 It is the deadline for SOLE! I’m on the scientific committee so pls send lots of great submissions for me to look through!!!!

Goodbye free labor from all past and present Mrs. Presidents? Adios to safe spaces in this administration for women? Hello Dancing with the Stars White House edition…

Just discovered the Telehealth app and service health providers have relied on since the pandemic is down because of the government shut down. 👀👀👀 [She says as she waits for her doc to snail call her…]

The East Wing y’all…where the WOMEN of the white house have historically engaged in voluntary unpaid labor…is being torn up for a dance hall. Should we laugh…or cry? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...

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On @cnn.com today talking women and work #swiftynomics www.cnn.com/2025/10/17/t...

Federal Reserve officials are preparing to decide in late October whether to keep lowering interest rates or hold them steady — but they’ll have to do so with limited fresh data. Here's what to know

This will disproportionately affect working women & mothers…tariffs affect women & families DIRECTLY.

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#EconSky Two weeks from tomorrow, the Women in Economics Leadership Network (spearheaded by Janine Wilson at UC Davis) will host our annual virtual networking event! Please share with your students! It is open to ALL. Register here: ucdavis.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_....

WE'RE HIRING! The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions Please share widely!

Trump inefficiencies [on repeat]

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Do you know what is too big to fail? Our families and the communities they live in. Motherhood, for example, is too big to fail. What are our leaders doing about it?

His name was kitty Made his money being pretty and witty They gave him the key to this city Then they went and said his litter was shitty

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The Kens are Kenning again…

So generals came back only to learn that our authoritarian leader is going to train them to turn them on civil disobedience? 👀👀👀

🚨For the past two years, we have worked feverously to create a solid set of starter statistics on the economics of care. I couldn’t be prouder of what our small but mighty team has created for y’all. Check it out below, download data, and follow us @thecareboard.bsky.social! 🚨

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Food for thought…

Quotes by moi! www.glamour.com/story/are-yo...

We are hiring at The Economist. This is not just any internship. You will be a paid staff member and writer for 6 months. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Sripriya Balasubramaniam left her job at Oracle to raise her son. She was worried about getting back into the workforce, but turned an internship into a full-time role.