They told me rejection would happen in academia, but I didn’t realize they meant to ME!

Really interesting piece. While a fair number of ed policy folks have tossed around the idea of bringing back ed reform, I don’t see the political will for a project like this at the moment. Something - perhaps not unlike A Nation at Risk - will need to happen first

God Virginia rocks

These results are robust to coding errors I made the first time around

Had been waiting for evidence from a network of public universities on the High School GPA versus SAT scores debate. Credit to the authors Joyce, Khosroshahi, Truelsch, Gentsch, and Du. www.nber.org/system/files...

what if, rather than approximate answers to the right questions, we got exact answers to the wrong question, made ever more precise, more quickly?

Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.

The worst part of AEFP is not being able to see all the great work (and great people) that's presented there. Looking forward to next year!

🚨 Hey You! 🚨 Still at #AEFP tomorrow? Come check out my presentation at 11:45 AM in Vevey 2, where I’ll present some extremely hot off the press work on a statewide teacher compensation policy in Texas

I’ve decided I’m running the unofficial #AEFP 2026 Free Pen Competition. Please provide any thoughts below—although I have appointed myself the ultimate arbitrator

The way a lot of the "stop asking schools to fix broader social problems" crowd has backed themselves into "districts should build housing and become landlords" is kind of bananas.

New paper on skill formation, with evidence from Zambia's foundational skills program (Teaching at the Right Level / Catch Up) Targeting Foundational Skills at Scale: Skill Specificity and Transfer w/ T. Lubozha Preprint & brief de-barros.com/publication/... Also @cesifo.org @cega-uc.bsky.social

One usually needs to wait years for academia drama this good

My fiancée bought a Piaggio Sì for $75… doesn’t start, but this is the new mechanical project 😎🛵

I’m at the part of graduate school where you buy a blow torch to get a rusty bolt off your car to save a few $’s

Hate that measurement is important

For those interested in an IES-funded PhD alumni network the LinkedIn group below is active: www.linkedin.com/groups/8540416 Thanks to @drconstance.bsky.social and @lizalbro.bsky.social!

I’m not scared to admit it… I read Lankford and Wyckoff (1997) like once a week www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Apparently there is an IES alumni group on LinkedIn ! www.linkedin.com/groups/8540416

Is there an alumni group for IES-funded PhD’s? IES supposedly funded over 1000 PhDs, of which I am apparently one of the last. With the training grants dying, it’d be great to have a formal alumni network where we could share jobs, grant opportunities, etc.

“Anonymous” citations in an article make it an even more fun game of Guess the Author

I love that LLMs got clowned for writing too many em dashes, so now they just use a crazy amount of colons

@andrewmcamp.com with the public good!

I feel like folks at the *very top* of the academy will feel no effect from tools like Claude Code since they already have an army of RAs

DID of review quality pre/post comparing journals that allow/don’t allow AI in reviews? Accepting pre-registered guesses. 👀

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

Liberal technocrats (myself often included) need to do some real soul searching. This sort of means-tested policy tinkering is a political wasteland seems to create more bloat than social benefit

Holy crap. This is the most damning video yet. It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face. Murder.

🗣️🗣️🗣️

Nothing like working on a paper revision to the point where you think you made it worse

Spanberger’s husband dressed like a Tim Robinson character for her inauguration

Beardsley has got to go too. The vast majority of folks on grounds know it. And UVA needs to find a way to insulate itself from these sorts of theatrics in the future

Spanberger should just fire them all In 8 days and start over

The new “president” and whole BOV need to get scrapped

Addressing these questions requires a team effort. To that end, we're hiring a postdoc to start summer 2026. Please submit your materials by the end of the month and/or share the posting: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

I’d swear my oath on a copy of Mostly Harmless Econometrics

UVA hoops shot 27% from the field in the first half in protest of an illegitimate president ✊

Absolutely embarrassing for everyone involved at UVA. Just, on the most basic level, does he not have friends?

OpenAI should have to give Wikipedia a billion dollars so they can stop asking me for $2.75

Statalist is so funny because you’ll be annoyed about something like why inlist() can only accept 10 string arguments and then Nick Cox will somehow convince you it’s a good idea

I just watched Stand By Me and read this piece by Steven King. What a sad time… www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

PAY HIM

When the Elvis Christmas show comes to town YOU GO

This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history

Just putting eststo: in front of a command and hoping that saves 🤞

If we’re gonna destroy ED can we at least get linked data from K-12 -> postsecondary -> employment nationwide? www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

Resolution calling for resignations of Rector & Vice Rector passes, 41 – 17 – 2.

Again, as much as I want to hate Stata, it just rocks