"By the time they graduate, students will have spent 220 hours doing clinical rotations inside Memorial Hermann’s facilities and will be eligible for jobs there. Starting salaries range between roughly $40,000 to $80,000 a year." www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Look what showed up in the mail! First copies of my book from @mitpress.bsky.social 🎉📚 Official release Nov 25th. If you're interested in using the book for a course, please feel free to reach out to me directly.

Editorial Manager account created

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Findings are entirely selection

Bad news: Firing Luke Fickell would cost about $25M given his contract's buyout clause. Good news: Bill Belichick might soon be available. madison.com/sports/colle...

This administration can't even be incompetent competently.

Has Stephen Miller ever experienced even one moment of joy, love, or empathy? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." Stein's Law www.cepweb.org/if-something...

Evidence-chaste health policy

Virginia Senate leaders say UVa should cease considering the “compact”: “The conditions outlined … are fundamentally incompatible with the mission and values of a premier public research university.” www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

"afflicted with the malady of thought" This excerpt from J.S. Mill's On Liberty is a bit long but so timely.

Duflo-Banerjee posts outnumbering Machado posts by about 4 to 1 on my timeline. 🤔

What is the sports equivalent of this? Ohtani to the Dodgers? Did MIT get draft picks?

Trump can still win the Nobel Peace Prize if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing.

Bravissima

"Nobel prizes in the sciences are the result of intellectual capital built over decades of hard work and research. The U.S. will get fewer in the future if the Trump Administration won’t welcome legal immigrants and refugees." www.wsj.com/opinion/nobe...

Peace

Happy release day! 📖✨ The Poems of Seamus Heaney is out now - a landmark publication edited by Rosie Lavan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Matthew Hollis, featuring all Heaney’s published poems, posthumous works and family-selected unpublished pieces. Available today from our Gift Shop!

The endowment effect in the 1880s. (The Rifleman, S3/E18)

Job posting! apply.interfolio.com/173947 Assistant or Associate Professor of Global Environmental Policy University of Michigan-Ann Arbor: School for Environment and Sustainability Come be a Wolverine! In Tree Town! In the Mitten!

It's that time of year: pumpkin spice Stata

Most Americans, Oct. 2025 www.thefarside.com/2025/10/08/4

Many thanks to Jim Flynn @jimflynn9.bsky.social for interviewing me for the ASHEcon Newsletter @ashecon.bsky.social. It was fun to chat about risky health behaviors, priorities for ASHEcon, the #EconJobMarket, and even favorite movie/book/teams. #EconSky www.ashecon.org/activities/n...

Have to start by identifying domains. I'll take a first crack at it: A: extrinsic factors: 1) weather; 2) company; 3) environmental aesthetics; 4) money/reputation on the line; B: intrinsic factors: 1) direction; 2) curvature; 3) impact sound; 4) divot depth; 5) injuries.

Consolidation in the EHR market -- where there are 2 dominant vendors -- is creating a big risk of a catastrophic cybersecurity event. @ajh.bsky.social, @natea.bsky.social, and I ponder the possibility of a "single-point-of-failure" risk in the EHR market in this Health Affairs Scholar commentary

Will Joy-Adjusted Life Years (JALYs) become widely adopted health-outcome measures? * * I seem to recall @davidmcutler.bsky.social years ago making reference to jogging-adjusted life years, so the JALY acronym may already be claimed. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/w...

The Wisconsin Department of Justice is asking a Waukesha County judge to immediately put on hold an order that would require elections officials to verify the citizenship of all 3.6 million registered Wisconsin voters before the statewide election in February 2026, reports @apnews.com.

This might've been interesting news back in the day when science mattered. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

"blurring the line between the reviewer and the reviewed" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/h...

Guha usually drinks coffee at home or in the office, but was intrigued by the expensive Panamanian iced coffee for sale. “I have to come back and get that $40 coffee just to see what it is at some point. Maybe for a birthday” www.wsj.com/business/hos...

Worsham and Jena on natural experiments and learning about Tylenol's effects www.wsj.com/health/does-...

"At least one institution, the University of Texas, said it would be eager to sign up." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

"The nine schools declined to comment or did not immediately respond to messages late on Wednesday." Which, if any, will be the first to say "Thanks but no thanks." to the extortion, er, proposal? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

October 2 is arriving despite the shutdown.

and 2025

Republican presidencies, then and now. images.wsj.net/im-95420207?...

When the cost-effectiveness ratio is ∞ www.wsj.com/sports/baseb...

"Parents of children with severe autism say the wider diagnosis has come at a steep cost" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/h...

"Antoni operated a since-deleted Twitter account that featured sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, derogatory remarks about gay people, conspiracy theories, and crude insults aimed at critics of Trump." Based on this he'd seem a perfect fit in the Trump Administration.

Big deal.

Great opportunity. Great colleagues. (Note: Oct. 24 application deadline) www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

"Trump…was unable to inspire the USA team" www.independent.ie/irish-news/a...