Another great session at #AERA25: Organizational theory SIG symposium at 9:50 am on Saturday 4/26. Looking forward to this one! @maxyurkofsky.bsky.social @sarahlou6.bsky.social @mayakaul.bsky.social Susan Bush-Mecenas, Julie Marsh, Josh Glazer, & Britney Jones

who wants to start a newsletter of “here is what happened in executive order land that’s relevant to the class you’re teaching tomorrow morning”

Smoking in restaurants used to be ubiquitous — despite it degrading the experience for everyone else. It was the way things had always been done — it's tradition! Smokers are essential for business! Then we banned it in 2005. Now no one wants to go back. This is a post about cars in Pike Place.

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This is freedom. Infrastructure safe enough for kids and teenagers to ride to school & almost anywhere. Netherlands

Justin Timberlake got to experience the #BikeBus Magic in Portland!!

this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)

Look how few cars there are (and how they are zipping along) compared to American school drop off mayhem

This paper is a great example of solid evidence of systemic discrimination: "Black taxpayers are audited at 2.9 to 4.7 times the rate of non-Black taxpayers." This reflects a series of choices built into the IRS audit algorithm: focus on the EITC, and overclaiming of credits.

Once you've seen noticed the "Gormless Gap" you see it everywhere Pedestrian space stolen so that careless motorists don't scratch their cars What unintended consequences might emerge from building a world where people are systematically protected from any consequences when they drive carelessly?

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For more than 40 years, migrating birds have been crashing into McCormick Place Lakeside Center. But this fall, when bird collision monitors performed their usual daily searches of the building’s grounds, they found something remarkable: just 18 dead birds.

Republicans worked the ref relentlessly - bad faith accusations of censorship, congressional hearings, Trump threatening to imprison Zuckerberg - and it worked because Republicans also have power to act on their threats. This is what you get when politicians who attack liberal values are empowered.

Some 🐔s coming home to roost here. I have long warned about the dangers of putting so much power over speech in the hands of one billionaire. That goes both ways - when Meta intervenes too much (e.g., the Hunter Biden laptop) and when it pulls back from reasonable content moderation (possibly here).

"The most recent data indicates that abortion bans come at the cost of more than 36,000 residents per quarter...more for single-person households...also suggestive evidence of impacts for states that were hostile towards abortion in ways other than having total bans." www.nber.org/papers/w3332...

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A pile of research shows that huge SUVs/pickups are a menace to public health. Oversized cars pulverize smaller ones in a crash, while their height enlarges blind spots and leads to pedestrians being struck in their head or torso rather than their legs. (US ped deaths recently hit a 40-year high.)

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Tesla Cybertruck sales are disastrous - despite 1 million pre-orders, demand has evaporated - Tesla delivered only about 10,000 cybertrucks in the 4th quarter - this issue isn't production, it's demand electrek.co/2025/01/02/t...

Cycle lane for 8-80 yr olds alongside a main road between two villages 👌

if you're on the fence about buying and riding a bike, this website was made for you if you're thinking of replacing your car with a bike, this is for you if you are thinking of getting a used bike, this is for you shouldibuyabike.com

End stroads!!!!

Anyone sitting in a warm car honking at the guy slinging heavy garbage cans into a trash truck on a freezing day gets assigned to trash truck duty in their next life

The AEA is having a panel for the *first time* on socoieconomic diversity in economics! w/ @johnlist.bsky.social @luciegschmidt.bsky.social @ronjarmin.bsky.social Chris Campos Jason Faberman & me & lots of time for audience discussion Please join us Saturday at (gulp) 8am

A special thank you to our AERA Open editorial board!!! Unfortunately, I couldn't list them all here but you can find them at this post: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Or on our webpage: journals.sagepub.com/editorial-bo...

This is as maddening an illustration of the baseline problem as you’re likely to see. “Effectively enhanced”—measured against what? A post-Dobbs baseline. Why is *that* the baseline? Because rights gains/losses are measured with reference to what the court last said. Why? Because—huh.

'the market will solve our affordable housing shortage' the market:

RIP President Carter. people.com/jimmy-carter...

May his memory be a blessing

The evidence for more solid, controlling car infrastructure design details are everywhere if you just look for them. There is no PSA or sign that will do the enforcement work of solid design.

A core memory for me is finding my first fossil in a sandbox at the Nebraska State Museum and learning about sea urchins. Museum educators: sometimes the 3-4 year-old really does keep their free fossil forever and advances beyond junior paleontologist. Thanks for all you do. #fossilfriday

As the car-centric suburban experiment intensified, more and more parents became convinced that it was unsafe for their kids to walk or bike to school. So parents increasingly drove their kids, paradoxically adding even more traffic, making streets even less safe.

K12 teachers never underestimate your positive impact both small and large on your students. If they remember you and speak to you as adults when in public, you've done good. 😊

Here is your regular reminder that there is no such thing as unskilled labor. There is only unvalued labor.

It’s hard to dunk on cyber truck owners any worse than what they regularly do to themselves

'please limit apartments to the dangerous roads' if the city continues to prioritize the demands of privileged homeowners at the expense of everyone else, our housing crisis will only get worse.

warming ticks above 1.5°C globally, right as many of our governments are pulling back on even the middling action they were taking to cut emissions

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The physics of a spinning dreidel is quite a bit different in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station, as demonstrated by astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli. 🧪

Is there a bigger endorsement of the relevance and importance of sociology?

Remember, when Barcelona eliminated 3 lanes of vehicle traffic & converted this street into a 4.7km green pedestrian corridor in the heart of the Eixample grid, businesses sued. They actually won. But by decision-time, the businesses had decided they actually like it. citylabbcn.org/the-legal-at...

Dreaming of the day when our buildings have electric cargo bike garages instead of parkades.

die hard is a hanukkah film (foreigners looting a temple, miracles involving fire)

Beyoncé is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon. Period. Her concepts, production and execution are always impeccably presented. She’s really THAT damn good. And it’s not by accident. She’s been working for decades at this. Salute!!

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