Are you a doctor treating transgender patients in a state with restrictions on gender-affirming care? I am an investigative reporter and I want to talk to you. If you’re not, mind sharing this post?

Thank God for metadata indicating what students versus AI did

Seems like national name your antidepressant day! Wellbutrin for me. I've done Zoloft too--its an amazing drug. The entire class of antidepressants is simply miraculous.

A lot of people reacting to this post do not understand that beans actually taste good and are a healthier source of protein than meat.

Dude there are actual real legit reasons that hospitals serve jello. But I guess brainworms are scared of them.

This is insane! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/c...

reading "Into Thin Air" before doing a workout called Everest makes one question ones life choices

This is a very nice piece of scientific writing that lays out how evidence and theory interact. I may assign it to my Econ students even though it’s about physics so that they can better understand how science progresses theconversation.com/our-large-ha...

Ooohhh. I may be picking up a new hobby in a few years. Sourdough and beer is for suckers!

Ugh. I hate speed grader in Canvas! If I’m grading by question I want you to save my grade for each question as I go god damn it

Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats • The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸 We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto. The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

@edzitron.com seems up your alley

I’d also note that targeting the leadership of a country was (and is) a very big line to cross.

Dear Dean, In lieu of a grant proposal I will construct a cruise missile and I intend to sell it to the government. I believe this has a higher chance of success.

Has anyone else noticed the AI summaries in google searches are getting worse? I recently “discovered” that the 2017 World Cup was held in the USA for example.

Hello all! We will continue normal business hours during UNCG Spring Break. Thank you! 💛💙

typos are an interesting signal that one did not use AI on an assessment

Service!

This is NOT a fucking mystery folks

Trump’s propaganda czar Brendan Carr and Trump-controlled CBS refused to let Colbert air his interview with James Talarico. You can watch the interview here, and it already has 1.4M views. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

I'm sure @edzitron.com would have a field day with this!

Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

“Trump is not a hypothetical. . . He is a uniquely authoritarian, vindictive, racist, corrupt and lawless demagogue — of which there isn’t remotely an analog on the other side of the aisle.” www.ms.now/opinion/libe...

Selection bias in action! I have a feeling there's a great econometrics hw problem in here.

Hard to see how any biopharma CEO sleeps well tonight. As @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social notes there could be some legit concerns with the study but ... I would not give the FDA the benefit of the doubt.

Major news outlets: Please consider prominently reporting what this all-star team of researchers has found. www.nber.org/papers/w34791

excellent letter from president of U of Michigan faculty senate: "In March last year the U-M administration bowed to legal and political pressure from federal authorities and shuttered the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion." 1/2

#TeachEcon #EconSky

Whenever I prepare for class I end up longing for the good old days of 17 page JPE papers instead of the massive tomes we get now

Det går hurtigt med at ændre vores opfattelse af normalt vejr. Den dyne af drivhusgasser, vi har lagt over planeten, får os til at glemme vintrene, fra før forandrede klimaet. Til denne uges nyhedsbrev har jeg kastet et blik på DMI's statistikker. #dkgreen #dkpol politiken.dk/nyhedsbreve/...

I feel lik3 politicians should take a page from Cato and end their speeches with "Furthermore, I think that ICE must be destroyed" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthag...

This is the same fucking playbook that worked so well against vaccines...and we saw where that took us. Do not believe him! Bessent Says Fed Lacks Accountability and Has Lost Public Trust www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

I feel like everyone with a pending federal grant deadline is secretly hoping for a brief government shutdown. Who wouldn’t another week to polish the proposal?

whatever Microsoft did in their latest windows update, it has certainly made things feel a lot snappier

The amount of craziness here is a lot.... Like the basic premise of Big Orange's complaint is false. Trump Threatens Canada Over Business Jet Dispute www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Key point for many

🚨 SCHUMER just now: “Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.”

I’d love to know where and when data centers got built to look at the impacts on the local economy. But if everyone is being this secretive that might not be possible. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.

I'm looking for witnesses/victims of DHS retaliating against people who were recording their agents (ICE, Border Patrol, FPS, etc.) in Southern California. This is for LA Press Club v. Noem case, but victim does NOT need to be press/journalist. Everyone has right to record. We're fighting for all.

My pet peeve: I can't stand the red blue color scheme. Colors rotated every cycle until the cluster fuck that was 2000. We should go back to rotating colors. Or do stripes and polka dots. Keeping red vs blue is a recipe for tribalism.

There is an irony that Trump is trying to steal Greenland from Denmark while copying their vaccine system.

Denmark has been a steadfast ally of the United States for years. On a per Capita basis more Danish soldiers died in Afghanistan than any other member of the coalition including the United States. Trump and the GOP are turning their back on a great friend.

Scenes from Denmark today as thousands flood the streets in Copenhagen, Aalborg, Aarhus, and Odense to stand with Greenland against Trump’s threats. This is the destruction of American global leadership: our closest allies marching to push back against Trump’s coercion.

Do you care about the future of the US NSF and science in general? The agency is seeking feedback on the draft Strategic Plan. www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...

Wow. Huge vote of confidence in my teaching of sports economics. My in-laws cracked up when I told them I was teaching it this spring.

Old legos never die. I've played with my grandfather's Lego from the 1940s and they work just fine and they would work with a smart brick too. @edzitron.com