We saw “Good luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” the other day, and I need to recommend it to everyone. Insanely fun (though dark), very appropriate for the times, and how can you not love Sam Rockwell? The best I’ve seen this year so far.

Some random person at an event today “recognized” me and said “you used to tweet a lot, no?” Yes. Yes, I did. 😭 #RIPTwitter

"when Trump announced the idea of tariffs to address the trade deficit... every economist around the country said: That's a very bad idea, that won't work.... If you look at 2025 as a whole, we have basically the same trade deficit... So I'm going to score this one for the economist, mate."

Dat me! In the middle of the Economics Research Mesa (?)

Reposting this from the other site just because it’s too good not to share.

Watched the half-time show with a bunch of Chilean friends. Everyone was a little touched. That was absolutely wonderful 🔥

Bad Bunny renewing my faith in humanity 🥲

#rstats In very non-Superbowl news, here's an experimental 📦 for nice graphics display and UX in VS Code (and other potential front-ends). github.com/grantmcdermo...

Excited to officially announce our free "Cytometry in R" mini-course, aimed at coding beginners, will be starting up the first week of February! 🥳 It will be offered both online and in-person at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. 1500 people have signed up!!! #flowcytometry #rstats #quarto 1/7

I feel this is a common sentiment (from my experience with my highly-selected friend group), but how many now can’t stand Chalamet? (For me it happened during the press tours for “A Complete Unknown”, but he has gotten worse, no? He’s going into Austin Butler territory for me.. with better acting).

It was a great season and Williams is just starting. See you in September. #DaBears💔

We’re playing with house money.. but oh my it would be sweet to win today 🐻

Caleb Williams is a national treasure.

THAT WAS INSANE. WE’RE ALIVE!!! #DaBears 🐻

There’s a paradox around remote work. Jamie Dimon says it will kill productivity, while startups are hiring for remote roles. Who is right? With Abhinav Gupta and Elena Simintzi we try to resolve this dispute Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Substack: arpitrage.substack.com/p/remote-wor...

THE BEARS!!! 🐻

BobDylan is still very excited!! 😱😱😱

We’re all ready in this household for Da Bears! #GoBears🐻

We started 2026 with a nasty cold and a newly sewn quilted tote bag. #ProcrastiCrafting

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, peeps 🌟

I was going to make a joke about the Times New Roman/Calibri situation, but then I remembered that I, too, take fonts extremely seriously.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Offenders from different socio-demographic groups receive different sentences. This appears to violate the principle of equality under law. However, this may be explained by differences in the nature and circumstances of the crimes performed. I.e the different sentences may be 'warranted'. 🧵 2/10

Wow. The AEA has issued a life time ban against Larry Summers. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...

I'm excited to announce that I am on the 2025-26 economics job market! I’m an applied microeconomist working on education, gender, and inequality—with a focus on how teachers and institutions shape student outcomes. A 🧵on my #JMP and other projects: #EconSky (1/n)

Trying to debug in Qualtrics like… (At least you have to appreciate the honesty)

This is a weird place to be. I don’t recognize it. #DaBears🐻 #1stPlace

Paul here doing getting things done 👏🏽

Today was a good day 🥳

I was on a crafting kick today, and ended up sewing some sun glasses cases. #procrasticrafting (?) I need to somehow get rid of the stash of fabric I keep accumulating without sufficient output.

Being a Bears fan is not for the faint of heart #GoBears🐻

BobDylan got a ball pit all to himself! #HappyBirthday 🎂

It’s BobDylan’s birthday today. 5 marvelous years of this tiny pup being the best boy. (Do not confuse him with the other Bob Dylan, the second coolest one. His birthday is in May).

I'm writing a blog post on making high-quality reports with Quarto and Typst like the ones we recently made for the Johns Hopkins University International Vaccine Access Center. Anything in particular you want to know about how we make reports like these? #rstats

Q for Python users that miss R: Is there something like `tinytable` for Python? Plotnine solved 90% of the problems of not having `ggplot`, but I need someone to get cracking on building `tinytable` for Python. Pretty please? 😑

I’m just here to say that I haven’t used R in like 4 months (just Python), and my heart aches a little bit 💔

This package is absolutely fantastic. 100% recommend for all your table needs.

Had the absolute pleasure of watching “One Battle After Another” last night. What a masterful piece. The story, the cinematography, the performances, the score. Very current for the times. PTA at his best. Go see it in theaters is you can. Almost 3hrs of perfection.

Clearly not the most important news coming out of Oregon tonight, but I just added a recession bars example to the tinyplot “Tips & tricks” vignette. grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vig... #rstats

I’m just going to log off for a bit and binge watch The Great British Baking Show, as one must do in periods of high anxiety and distress.

The new ggplot2 4.0.0 now supports absolute plot dimensions 🤩 #rstats #dataviz #phd

The new {marginaleffects} release for #RStats (0.30.0) comes with two new vignettes: 1. Speed up computation with automatic differentiation (often 10x gains) marginaleffects.com/bonus/perfor... 2. Power analyses with {marginaleffects} and {DeclareDesign}. marginaleffects.com/bonus/power....

ggplot news is the best kind of news 😍

Birthday weekend is on fire 🔥

➡️ Deadline approaching—only one month left to send in your papers and presentation proposals for #CDSM2025! 🚨 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 🚨 📅 𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 (𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹) 📥 Submission Deadline: 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

🚨Interested in a PhD focusing on quant methods and education & social policy? I'm recruiting this year at @bclynchschool in the Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment program www.bc.edu/bc-web/schoo...

Nice post by @jamesbrandecon.bsky.social on the scaling benefits that come from offloading your big regression jobs to a database. jamesbrandecon.github.io/blog/posts_h... (Showcasing some new-ish 📦 s that he, @apoorvalal.com & myself have been working on, but haven't really advertised yet.)