I trusted clover to cook thanksgiving dinner for me. They are great.

omfg this is incredible news go eat at them if you don't/haven't, they're the best and we're lucky to have them!

Huh, I wonder what kind of legal and social changes were happening in the US between the 1940s and 1970s that might help explain why MA towns and cities effectively banned construction of new lower cost housing during that time. Oh well, no way to know.

More for @elizabethginexi.bsky.social on the proposed OMB rule, addressing the far reaching consequences of the rule including and beyond science: open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

This whole story illustrates my thesis that LLMs are not a democratizing technology; they are an anti-egalitarian technology. As inboxes fill with these kind of scams, authors are forced to ignore cold emails and genuine good faith messages from the community get ignored.

For all the folks who find themselves having made this switch over time

No Strait This Month, Happy Pride

"A coalition of ~40 organizations representing hard-science disciplines...recently told Congress...that losing the SBE division could lead to 'long-lasting, potentially permanent' damage to national research... The stickiest barriers to progress in... AI, biotechnology—are 'fundamentally human'"

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ The Town of Brookline - including our public schools and libraries - formally recognizes June as “LGBTQIA+ Pride Month” thanks to last fall’s WA 25 resolution. The library has some great Pride month programming planned: www.brooklinelibrary.org/2026/05/20/c...

I really can’t think of many things more dangerous for the future health and wellbeing of this country than putting Russ Vought in charge of our scientific output.

"Newton, a small city bordering Boston with excellent public schools, is typical. It adopted many of its current lot-size minimums in 1953, preventing it from adding sufficient housing as the economy has grown."

New, from me: The self-proclaimed "Most Transparent Administration in History" wants to compel all federal employees to sign Non Disclosure Agreements. The purpose is to vastly expand the culture of secrecy in government, undermining accountability. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-want...

>> NEW with @merylkornfield.bsky.social: The Trump administration is proposing NDAs for all federal workers. The rule, aimed at cracking down on leaks to media organizations, would expand nondisclosure agreements instituted at the Pentagon and other agencies.

Here’s one little-h hypothesis: even for folks doing reasonably well in this strange economy, they can see the worst people in the world just raking in money in the ugliest of ways; they know they’ll never be able to compete with that & that whatever they have will be worth less & less over time.

“Units of the NIH are privately directing grantees to request permission in advance for any co-authorship with a scholar affiliated with a foreign institution, even if all the work was done in the United States.” Grantees also told to remove papers with foreign authors from progress reports.

My public research university literally has a cattle ranch

"Progressives don't want landlords and Conservatives don't want renters" is a very trenchant and troubling observation.

This is so cool. This atlas has Lexis plots on how various things have changed over time in different age groups – mortality rates, fertility rates, number of parents and siblings. And you can reach out to Jonas to add your own plots too. I'd like to see Lexis plots for absolutely everything.

I talk to a lot of people who think government data is collected via cold calls, but this is what initiation into the main US labor force survey actually looks like - a formal letter from Census describing the survey, how the data is used, and the importance of your response for the nation.

A winding tale about Brookline's municipal governance and separation of powers that I've spent a few months on.

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

To be very clear, I'm not trying to use the AI — I'm just trying to read the court documents. It's clear that the AI is programmed to replace offensive language. But what does that mean when it's being used to summarize historical documents? What happens when people rely on the summary?

i trust my coauthors not to use LLMs without checking the output, and if i am stupid enough to misjudge this, I deserve to be banned

The story of the AMA killing universal health care (and almost killing Medicare)...in the QJE????????? So important I'm not even upset that it doesn't cite the sociologists who studied this like Jill Quadagno :)

Bad news for capricorns: they earn less than other zodiac signs Good news for capricorns: it's not due to their zodiac sign

Highlighting super-interesting academic research and trying to make it understandable and useful for a wider audience — without sacrificing nuance and integrity! — is just about my favorite thing I do on my channel

NEW: The Census Bureau stopped plans to use an updated question about race and ethnicity in the 2027 American Community Survey after a White House agency delayed the deadline for agency plans for complying with revised government standards on racial and ethnic data www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PR...

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

Sign of the times: a university press release that's just a Q&A with a faculty member talking about the termination of the National Science Board.

Along with some very surprising Town Meeting results, huge gains for progressives and pro-housing candidates in tonight's Brookline election. More reporting to come on that later this week

I learned a lot reporting this story about how financial red flags can pop up SIX YEARS before a dementia diagnosis. Thanks to @lhnicholas.bsky.social for sharing her research and to Sanda, a woman who told us about discovering her dad's cognitive and financial decline. www.npr.org/2026/05/05/n...

It's a very odd feeling to read that the cost of your firing was $20 billion to the US economy. Studies like this are so important. It's hard to put a value on a public service. Trustworthy economic data is vital to so much economic activity in a $29 trillion economy. Worth your time to read.

I didnt know there were such dreams to live as a child!

Just as an intellectual matter it's interesting that planning has come to adopt a literary/legal/historical approach to evidence, not a social science inferential one. Because of the legalism of American life this is worse in the US, but you see the same approach to evidence in Can/NZ/Aus

IPUMS USA Student Award goes to Laura Caron for "The Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Expanding Public Education for Disabled Students" (arxiv.org/abs/2604.25767).

Important to know how much the Voting Rights Act affects things like the number of black & brown people in Congress and state legislatures But I want to reemphasize the (more important to me) point that Black political power produced Black economic power.

Random trivia that Minnesotans need to know: you can attend college (including grad school!) in Manitoba and pay in-province tuition. You’re welcome. ohe.mn.gov/tuition-reci... Please ignore that they called it a providence, or take it as a sign, whatever floats your boat.

I think one thing we must grapple with going forward is that the Biden administration delivered an extraordinary set of economic polices. Many of them were things neoliberal pundits did not want to do. The legislative victories are remarkable given the climate. 1/N

So... I wonder what the founders would think about the fact that our constitutional institutions have deteriorated so far that Congress is now getting lectures about checks and balances from the King of England.

Our story about the NSB terminations is now updated with comment from the White House and Brian Babin, the Republican chair of the House Science Committee.

"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

A minor thing but also yet another damn thing: easily 90% of the articles I’ve seen about the National Science Board purge are illustrated with stock images of the building that NSF was forced to vacate so the HUD Secretary could have a better office gym www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/n...

My story on the NSB terminations:

I resigned from the National Science Board in May when meaningful oversight became untenable. I respect colleagues who stayed to serve the NSB's mission. Today's news clarifies that was an erosion of oversight and function has become open elimination of the Board itself. 🧵 time.com/7285045/resi...

My former job market paper has been published in the Journal of Economic History! This paper follows women in the US South as they migrated from the farm to the city in the early twentieth century. 🧵 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

New Census data on AI adoption released today, finding: - only 5% of AI-adopting firms report headcount impacts, with equal numbers increasing and decreasing staff - but...