Join us for the second part of our new online series "Science under Pressure". 📅 Monday, September 29, 1 p.m. "When the State Threatens Science – Examples of the USA and Eastern Europe". Online-Discussion with @dziblatt.bsky.social and Kriszta Kovács. www.wzb.eu/en/events/wh...

One of the privileges of being Chair of the Public Policy & Management Dept at @priceschool.usc.edu is learning more about the rich & vibrant field of public admin (PA). If I was a social scientist looking to pivot or expand job prospects, I’d do everything I could to genuinely join PA.

There are really great faculty and staff in lots of programs. And then there are the forces to be reckoned with that are the @priceschool.usc.edu Masters of Public Administration Online Program faculty and staff.

“Drawing lines around protected speech can be tricky. But in this case, there’s a clear standard any honest Republican could accept: Nobody should be pursued or punished by the government for saying the kinds of things Kirk himself said. Here’s a list.” www.thebulwark.com/p/charlie-ki...

1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC. If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.

The @priceschool.usc.edu is looking forward to hosting Bill Kristol in a conversation with Professor Jeff Jenkins about the state of American democracy. Kristol is former Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the US and founding editor of the Weekly Standard. calendar.usc.edu/event/price-...

“Is Economics Self-Correcting?” The authors say no. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

And we are delighted to announce that @valentimvicente.bsky.social will be honored with the A.SK Bright Mind Award for his work on how social norms influence behavior. 🎉Congratulations!

Congratulations! 🏆 Penny Goldberg receives the A.SK Social Science Award 2025. The WZB honors the economist @yalejackson.bsky.social for her research on global trade linkages and inequality. www.wzb.eu/en/press-rel... 📅This year's award ceremony will take place on Wednesday, November 5, 2025.

“Uh-oh, overflow, population ‘common food, but it’ll do’, save yourself, serve yourself, world serves its own needs—listen to your heart bleed, dummy with the raptured and the revered and the right, right” And let it be said I’m of the lets eat grandma school of punctuation, so

Being in a labor union increases wealth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Compelling research by Alec Rhodes!

This seems unlikely to me. It just isn't that easy to add lots of undergrads - even if you aren't going to offer more classes and just want to cram more students in, you need classroom space, dorms, etc. Maybe some public elites have spare capacity, but I'd be surprised.

One of the intellectually richest seminar series I’ve attended is the Political Institutions and Political Economy (PIPE) Collaborative organized by my colleague Jeff Jenkins @priceschool.usc.edu. The first event of the year is TODAY at noon in VPD 302. Join us!

My colleague Antonio Bento @priceschool.usc.edu is launching an exciting new initiative: The Transatlantic Seminar on Environmental and Energy Economics (TSEE)! 👉 Learn more here and check the list of inaugural speakers: lnkd.in/gjhcDdMN 👉 To register, email: [email protected]

Right here we see exactly how the California housing crisis has happened. Good for @jonlovett.bsky.social for making it crystal clear.

The case against worrying about pre-transfer poverty

BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357 Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

New JAMA study: Conflicts of interest on CDC vaccine panel were at historic lows prior to RFK Jr dismissal ▪️although ACIP COI levels were high in 2000 (~40%), they have ⬇️ since then ▪️since 2016, ACIP COIs have been 6% t.co/HKH6z1LC6F @schaeffer.usc.edu @priceschool.usc.edu

Now & then I dream of studying something different that is frankly much cooler than what I do. Today’s version: demographic consequences of climate change: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @clarklgray.bsky.social @brianthiede.bsky.social @heatherrandell.bsky.social

This seems pretty accurate. As I always say, the 91 right near me (OC & Riverside) is as bad as the worst, which everyone knows are the 405 & 10. These are the worst freeways in Southern California: L.A. Times rankings www.latimes.com/california/s...

Wow, Citizen Scholar has been selected for author-meets-critics at ASA next year. I don't get to pick critics but I can nominate them. If you would like to discuss it, are willing to do 2 hours work for a print copy, or just need a program appearance, let me know! cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen...

A WIRED review of a now deleted Twitter account that used the screen name “Dr. Erwin J. Antoni III” shows it posted conspiratorial content about the 2020 election, Covid-19, and Jeffrey Epstein www.wired.com/story/twitte...

Problem with this study is that they’re comparing positive and negative signed coefficients that are both not significantly different than zero. An honest study would’ve treated insignificant coefficients as zero. I told authors this and they didn’t care as they wanted the headline.

CITY OF LA RESIDENTS:🥺🙏 "PLEASE FIX our sidewalks, roads, street lights, city facilities, & animal shelters!" "PLEASE FUND youth development, senior & disability services, childcare centers, neighborhood empowerment, & economic development!" ___ CITY OF LA GOVERNMENT: 🏛️✂️💩

One particularly problematic element of this case is that univ admins punished the professor based on an anonymous complaint without any genuine investigation. Considering the many false “factual” claims students often make in teaching evaluations, such complaints need to be carefully scrutinized.

Arellano: Can homegrown teens replace immigrant farm labor? In 1965, the U.S. tried

Jay Bhattacharya tried to explain why he is destroying Nobel Prize winning research by appealing to a lack of trust. It didn’t go well for him. 2500 commenters agree he’s a naked emperor, not worthy of their trust. My latest. sciencebasedmedicine.org/nobodytrusts...

If there is one group Trump is actually helping it is bad university administrators. The Trump crises provide perfect cover for many unrelated and long term terrible decisions.

Wow: “The University of Chicago has now borrowed $6.3 billion, more than 70 percent of the value of its endowment. The cost of servicing its debt is now 85 percent of the value of all undergraduate tuition.”

Just an honest labor statistician collecting the data, crunching the numbers, and reporting them fairly, and definitely not an extremist ideologue with an axe to grind, unshackled from respect for the law or political norms.

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has finalized our participation estimates for No Kings Day on 6/14. Here are five key takeaways🧵:

Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH Director, thinks that if science isn’t popular it should be abandoned. “No matter how elegant the science, a platform that lacks credibility among the people it seeks to protect cannot fulfill its public health mission”. He is unfit for his job in every imaginable way.

There is something strangely fascinating about the fact that right-wing mental model of major US cities has not changed in a half century despite the fact that those cities have basically the opposite set of problems from those they had back then.

Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this California man’s plane. But why? www.latimes.com/california/s...

we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice www.tiktok.com/@jessewelles...

This makes the idea of a "dog whistle" seem absolutely quaint

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in @pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n

Am I the only one that finds it extremely time-consuming and cumbersome to go through the copy-editing as paper/chapter goes to press?

Why don’t more scientists support Republicans? We may never know

We’re doomed…

New data from the FBI: Murder fell 15% in 2024, the fastest drop ever recorded & violent/property crime rates fell to levels not seen since the 1960s. Murder returned to pre-COVID levels in 2024 & is may be the lowest level ever recorded in 2025. jasher.substack.com/p/murder-off...

If there is one thing I do think “both sides do X” critiques are fair it is the use of heart breaking stories as substitute for arguments. Huge share of poverty writing does the same problematic thing @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social critiques here. open.substack.com/pub/paulbloo...

Coding interviews from people who left government earlier this year, and this is a fantastic quote in response to a question about what DOGE tech folk don't understand.

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

1/Kevin Hassett had long ago discredited himself as a scholar by parroting claims about the economy he knew to be false. Even so, parroting the lie about rigged statistics, is a new low. The academy should ostracize him the same way a fabricator of research should be ostracized.

“In too many cases, the antitrust-housing argument is an assertion, referencing an assertion, backed up by yet another assertion. It’s vibes all the way down.” open.substack.com/pub/derektho...