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.

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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

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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

I’m using data from a server that shuts down internet access to write my dissertation and have been enjoying programming SO MUCH more without access to ChatGPT

Check it out! Lots of other cool analyses in the paper. For example, what are the intended majors of people most demographically and academically similar to those intending to teach?

Some choice sections from the letter

I appreciate the preregistration here.

Working on some slides for a brown bag lunch 🤗

It’s nice to look back on a paper after a few months and think: this actually doesn’t suck

The interim president of UVA sent out an email asking for input on this “compact”. I’d strongly encourage anyone at UVA to read this op ed before responding and firmly oppose any response to the “offer”

Reminiscing on when I was an undergrad and cold emailed Alberto Abadie to tell him I was using synthetic controls in my thesis lol

This is a pretty remarkable paper and seems to suggest "grit" is not necessarily the driving force behind student achievement: www.nber.org/papers/w3427...

🚨New Working Paper🚨 Check out our new working paper "Trajectories into Teaching of Arkansas Educator Preparation Programs Enrollees", together with @taylornwilson.bsky.social @andrewmcamp.com, and @jbmcgee.bsky.social. Taylor is in the job market this year. Keep her in mind as you build your team

"for-profit-trained teachers have higher turnover and lower value-added...But the policy significantly increased the supply of certified teachers...lower licensing requirements improved access to teaching and reduced training costs without harming students" evanriehl.github.io/papers/dr_fo...

Many interventions “work” in small trials but fail at scale Also, EdTech often promises much, but delivers little In a new paper (bit.ly/3JKLgVn) @karthik-econ.bsky.social & I show how personalized adaptive learning (PAL) software can sharply improve learning outcomes at scale🧵1/16

If you know of a student who is looking for a education post doc (now, odd timing I know), I may have an opportunity for them. They would be working Texas admin data so experience with that would be a big plus.

🚨 New working paper! I examine how universities and students use federal TEACH Grants, how these grants change recipients’ financial aid packages and out-of-pocket costs, and their relationship to students’ decisions to pursue teaching degrees. Read it here: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1278

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