One of the cool parts about being a regular blood donor and using the health charts on the Red Cross blood donor app is you can look at your blood pressure time series and see exactly when you started grad school

The @apnews.com reports that Chris Taylor will be the winner of the 2026 Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

𝐹𝓇𝒾𝒹𝒶 𝒦𝒶𝒽𝓁𝒾𝒸𝑜

I lived in New Haven for a couple years and genuinely loved it. I’m always a little confused when I meet other people who lived there who dislike it. This is based on one weekend trip many years ago so take it with a grain of salt, but I think Omaha is also underrated.

*Vince McMahon meme* The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. 35 mm. At the Music Box. With Bob Odenkirk introducing the screening.

Applications for mentees and mentors are being accepted until April 12 for the 2026 Mentoring Conference for LGBTQ+ Economics PhD Students and Early Career Economists on July 6-8, 2026, in Chicago, IL. The AEA covers travel costs for PhD student mentees. www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

It’s a really nice day in Madison for a casual walk to the state capitol

Few things are as self-gaslighting as grading a dozen problem sets in a row that all interpret confidence intervals incorrectly in exactly the same way

Currently remembering how important it is to just take a day off every once in a while to read whatever it is you want to

NEW: When a Wisconsin mayor ended his city's contract with Flock (the AI surveillance company), he was stunned to see Flock refused to remove cameras. So he covered them with plastic bags. Now local activists are taking their fight to Madison & the Dane County sheriff, wanting more cameras gone.

They should simply nominate only my favorite movies for the Oscars every year

The Holy Mountain (1973), dir. Alejandro Jodorowski

O Brother, There Art Thou

Me in high school journalism class: why would I ever need to develop the skill of writing about a topic I know nothing about and have no opinion on? Me in grad school writing class referee reports on papers that are way outside of my wheelhouse: *cracks knuckles* I was born for this

Really happy that my brain waited until I’d already worked past midnight to remember that daylight savings time starts tonight 🙃

The 2026 Bach Around the Clock event just kicked off. One of my favorite Madison events since moving here. Excitingly, a very harpsichord-heavy program this year.

The thing they don’t tell you about your 30s is that it’s when all your untreated high school cross country injuries randomly come back to haunt you

Unsure if this is useful for any UIC folks re: new document accessibility requirements for theses but sharing just in case it is

Calling all data enthusiasts! The Data Science Research Bazaar @uwmadison.bsky.social is set for 3/19, with more events throughout the spring. Students, faculty, staff and community members all are welcome! Register by 3/12 to secure your spot. bazaar.datascience.wisc.edu #UWResearchBazaar

I should probably do something about my WBD 401(k) shouldn’t I

When I was at D+ people would occasionally email Bob Chapek to ask why old shows/movies weren’t on the platform. He (or his team) would actually read them and reach out to the scheduling department, who’d basically have to drop anything they were working on to find out why.

This is my flux capacitor

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

It’s finally warm enough for a decent hike - the Ice Age Trail outside of Cross Plains

Lookup tables!

Third winter in Madison and somehow this is my first time ever pond skating

This is genuinely one of the best textbook covers

Does this mean Babcock dairy store can finally stop calling the ice cream “Mnookie dough”

These colors mean cold! This is the coldest Wisconet day, when it comes to widespread low wind chills. -40s all the way to the Illinois border and a few wind chills in the -50s!

Going to be a long day

Sometimes when I’m suffering from a little bit of imposter syndrome I think about this guy and it makes me feel better

Making a pot of tea to prepare for my ritual reading of Letter from Birmingham Jail (Reposting with better link) www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets...

When I’m secretary of education there will be at least twice as many linear algebra courses in schools as there are calculus classes. Day one. Sixth graders will have a unit on the singular value decomposition or states don’t get block grants.

The nuclear block is truly one of the best features of this site

Missouri state capitol

Mike Kehoe’s career prior to entering state politics was primarily owning one of the biggest (if not the biggest?) Ford dealerships in mid-Missouri

Illinois Enacts Protections for Immigrant Students with “Safe Schools for All Act” mahometdaily.com/illinois-ena...

Between this and Porco Rosso we really need to think more about how airlines commissioning inflight videos incidentally (or maybe not???) end up creating masterpieces

Took Amtrak’s Lincoln Service/Missouri River Runner back to my hometown for new year’s and lost track of how many deer, turkey, cranes, and bald eagles I saw. Also some sort of weird navy-looking boat on the Gasconade???

Cleaned the office yesterday and rediscovered some old tidyverse cheat sheets #rstats

I think tolerance of the pop tarts antics at the pop tarts bowl is the ultimate divisor of who’s worked at an ad agency or not

Happy holidays to (most of) the econ folks back home for the next week or so

My hottest unsolicited Christmas movie take is that The Polar Express is Very Good Actually™️ and everybody needs to get over the CGI

Merry Christmas, nerds

You know what, I completely agree

Introducing: The Christmas Bean™️

The Middleton WI public library has some incredible Lego builds on display from a local builder group

Final exams, projects, etc turned in so you know what time it is