can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

New @nber.org working paper from our graduate student, Emily Davis, "Can Online Activity Be Regulated? Evidence from Adult Websites," joint with @ndecon.bsky.social Matt Brown and Devin Pope. Check it out: www.nber.org/papers/w35322

Brief rant: Yes it's cool that Brunson took less money so the Knicks could build a champion under the salary cap. But he shouldn't have *had* to. Salary caps are just tools billionaires use to suppress wages, and no one gets upset because the labor (pro athletes) make so much money. 1/5

Live your life so that thousands of people don't wait long into the night to watch your name come off a building.

This will go down as a major stain on FIFA and its World Cup before a ball has even been kicked. Infantino has been banging on about the most inclusive World Cup and Africa’s top referee can’t even get into the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/w...

This article on a different (!) threat to funding for science has a link for making a public comment on the issue. It's not enough to just post or re-skeet about it--take action!

Excellent article in The Atlantic about what's going on at NSF. Share with people in your circle--too many aren't aware!

Look at this amazing blanket @hwilbert.bsky.social crocheted for me! The colors of the stripes represent each of my advisees and their first placements 🥹

My PhD student Haley Wilbert had a BIG cheering section at her graduation this weekend! Was such a pleasure to meet them all. Congrats Dr. Wilbert! @hwilbert.bsky.social

Go Kathryn! Proud to know you. @kedseconomist.com

🔊Important paper: Using a natural experiment design, these authors show that narrowly missing tenure sets back women's careers more than men's. But when a woman earns tenure, it increases the number of women faculty and students in her department in the future. docs.iza.org/dp18477.pdf @iza.org

What does it mean when you know way more of the people being promoted to emerita/emeritus at your university than people being promoted to tenure?

Very honored and humbled by this. It's given me a great opportunity to recall the many wonderful grad students I've had the pleasure of knowing over the years.

Nominations are invited for the @aeacswep.bsky.social Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. Learn more at www.aeaweb.org/news/call-fo.... #econsky

Just heard that @mguldi.bsky.social has been promoted to full! A well-deserved promotion for one of my favorite people to work with.

We had a great time hosting Abbie Wozniak last night for a lecture, "The Future(s) of Economics." Here are some pictures.

Happening tonight! The "Future(s) of Economics" with Dr. Abigail Wozniak from the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute (@oiginstitute.bsky.social) at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Hey, #EconSky! The administration is trying to cut NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate. Click below to contact your representatives and urge them to save it. Tell your friends. Our research matters and is worth funding! www.congressweb.com/COSSA/58?fra...

Love seeing this great paper out in the world! 👇

We are very excited to host our former colleague, Abbie Wozniak, of the @oiginstitute.bsky.social, for a lecture, "The Future(s) of Economics," this Thursday at 6:00 pm. All are welcome!

📣 AEA Co-Impact Call for Proposals: up to $20,000 for projects to improve climate and inclusion in economics. Deadline: April 27, 2026. Visit link below for more details: www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

🔥‼️🔥‼️🔥 The '27 NSF budget request says "In FY 2027, NSF will close-out the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences." This website lists action items you can take to fight it, especially if your school is in an area represented by someone on the relevant subcommittee (see list).

It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.

go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect two hundred million dollars

The Smell of Death, by Edvard Munch, 1895

We do! The nomination window for the AEA's Distinguished Service Award will re-open in April! Brought to you by @aeacpc.bsky.social www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...

🔊 If you have research addressing data issues related to the study of aging, apply to the CHABLIS Institute meetings in Sept. 2026:

Congratulations to Dr. Haley Wilbert--soon to be Prof. Wilbert at Texas Christian University! @ndecon.bsky.social

Congrats to Dr. Grace Ortuzar on her dissertation defense--headed to a fantastic post-doc at NYU! @ndecon.bsky.social

C-A-T-S Cats! Cats! Cats! 🏀 (Now don’t blow it in OT)

Had a wonderful visit to the UCSB Broom Center for Demography last week, including a great chat with this group of grad students

“The government has offered no evidence whatsoever that Powell committed any crime other than displeasing the president,” the judge in the Fed case, James Boasberg, wrote.

today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason

A pox on every professor who gives an undergraduate assignment that involves INTERVIEWING ANOTHER PROFESSOR.

Our graduate students celebrating some placement success!

Happy to have contributed to this along w/ @karenguzzo.bsky.social @marthajbailey.bsky.social & Melissa Kearney. My favorite from Karen: “We spent decades shaming women 4 having kids under the wrong circumstances, 4 not having their ducks in a row. Now they are holding up their end of the bargain.”

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

The move of every single textbook and assignment to a digital version is absolutely the worst trend I’ve observed in my own kids’ education

hockey should always be 3-on-3

Brilliant to put a real wedding in the middle of the halftime show being boycotted by the “family values” ppl

A few of our colleagues checking out the now-famous St. Olaf's Ice Chapel on on North Quad. @notredame.bsky.social @kaseybuckles.bsky.social

@aeacpc.bsky.social & @aeacswep.bsky.social invite AEA members to submit proposals—funded by a Co-Impact grant—to advance inclusion and measurable institutional change in the economics profession. Grants up to $20K. Deadline: Feb 27, 2026. For details, www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”

We invaded France and no one will sell us a croissant. It’s very hard on the men.

If you're approaching low birth rates from a "how do we incentivize people to have children?" perspective instead of "how do we build a society where people feel good about their lives and futures?", you're destined to fail. 3/3

Told my teen that the PM of Canada gave a speech today “kind of like the one Hugh Grant gives in Love Actually”

Great lineup at the MEAs this year--and proud to see that @ndecon.bsky.social is a sponsor

Just explained the business model of Tupperware, Avon, (Longaberger anyone?) etc. to my teens and they could not process it. Who else went to a Tupperware party with their grandma in the 80s???

I had the opportunity to comment on Spears and Geruso's book After the Spike at an event at @ccpratucla.bsky.social last night, thanks to @marthajbailey.bsky.social. My remarks transcribed: