I managed to get a bloody papercut from a Canadian Blood Services fundraising letter, how's you're day going?

Sad to report that inbound spam Teams calls seem to be unencumbered by the Cloudflare outage

🚨🚨1st Annual University of Toronto Asset Pricing and Investments Workshop 🚨🚨 📅 Submission Deadline: December 28, 2025 📢 Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2026 🏛️ Conference Date: May 9, 2026 📈 Keynote Speaker: Kent Daniel, Columbia University Details: www.rotman.utoronto.ca/faculty-and-...

Whatever you do, DO NOT invite Miss Manners out for sushi. “Use your chopsticks to pull out the insides and eat them separately. Then … squish the remaining rice and seaweed together and eat it in two bites or use the side of the chopstick to cut it in half.” www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2025/...

I accidentally clicked on a bra ad on Facebook and now my entire feed is bras

I know that the job market is rough this year for Econ PhDs. @utoronto.ca has expanded its postdoc funding. If you are on the market and work on school finance or early childhood education and are interested in a PostDoc, let me know! #econsky #educsky postdoc.sgs.utoronto.ca/current-post...

The NBER Race and Stratification Working Group will have its annual meeting on Friday, March 27, 2026. Francisca Antman, Bocar Ba, Robynn Cox and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper by the December 11, 2025 deadline! @nber.org #EconSky www.nber.org/conferences/...

How does gender identity relate to pension plans? 0.33% of the Canadian population aged 15+ identified as transgender or non-binary in 2021. This article discusses implications for actuarial considerations like life expectancy and commuted value in pensions. www.benefitscanada.com/archives_/be...

Toronto right now

My brain these days. I ordered some lovely boots but they’re too small. I meant to go up half a size from men’s 6 / women’s 8, I accidentally ordered (men’s) 8.5, which is women’s 10.5. (Even more confusing, that’s size 7.5 to Australians.) Happily, the huge boots actually fit.

This is delightful!

“You are just paying $2 for a one-dollar bill.”

Today I walked farther than I have since I first started getting sick in June. It has been nearly 6 weeks since my kidney surgery and I’m getting stronger every day.

Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that

On a walkabout in Toronto. Stopped by the stadium where the World Series wrapped up a few days ago. #BlueJays

A touching tribute at Queen’s Park today in memory of those who lost their lives in service to their country. Each person in the photo represents an individual who didn’t make it home from war. The fellow in the foreground represents 17-year-old Private Arnold Andrew Boswell Kirkup.

Creepy. “There is a tiny notice located next to the billboard alerting anyone in the general vicinity of the ad that their image may be captured ... Once the camera has taken your photo, there’s no way to opt out of the service ...” toronto.citynews.ca/2025/11/06/u...

I’m still not over the time an Associate Dean told me the reason their school’s salary offers to women professors were well below salary offers to men professors was because that’s what other schools offered. 🤷‍♀️

I just came across an academic association that erroneously lists me on their website as having delivered a keynote at a past conference of theirs. Did not happen! Makes me wonder if they are trying to boost the ratio of women among their past keynote speakers. Rude whatever the case.

Not a word about the most effective way to avoid contracting airborne infections, wearing a mask Gift link if you still want to read the article: www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...

Had to look up the colour “Kelly green” and learned there are more shades of green than I realized. Missing from the Wikipedia list is peridot, my favorite green, perhaps because it isn’t considered a shade of green but rather a gemstone. Pictured: a Hawaiian beach with more than a few peridots

Informative thread on this year’s economics job market. Includes info broken down by US versus international, type of employer, and type of job category ⬇️

Join me Nov. 11/25 at noon EST as I moderate a webinar by Meera Paleja, Head of Investor Research and Behavioural Insights at the Ontario Securities Commission Topic: Enhancing the Investor Experience: A Behavioural Science Perspective Registration link: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c1c7f2...

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The parliamentary committee seeks “the disaggregated data of all submitted [research] applications, whether funded or not, for all [graduate] student and faculty funding programs … between 2020 and 2025” including identity of evaluation committees, scores, comments, and applicants’ demographic info.

“The average person gives up roughly $100,000 in lifetime income by claiming [their Canadian pension benefit] at 60 instead of 70 … Why would anyone walk away from such a huge win? The answer isn’t math – it’s psychology.” Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/a4b426f...

It's Getting Colder Ted Harrison 1987

“Those are the rare occasions when sports becomes something greater than itself — a narrative so transcendent that cannot be ignored, that forces its viewers to laugh in amazement at what has just transpired.” 🧢⚾️

No regrets that I watched all seven games, with their seemingly never-ending innings. Two great teams gave it their all.

me nine innings ago / me now

Blue Jays fans right now

I think the official MLB rule is we fall back and get 9 extra innings

Blue Jays fans right now

Even I could lip read that exchange

I got a shoutout in my community newsletter for raising awareness about bees. How did this happen, you may ask. Someone was inserting their cigarette butts in the nesting tunnels in the bee hotel outside our building, and I put up a sign telling them to knock it off. It takes a village, y’all.

Enjoyed another lovely sunset, fall colours and a Halloween vibe. Now about to watch the bottom of the ninth, Blue Jays down but not out.

Predictive AI is either hallucinating or really impressive with a crystal ball … Perplexity AI: Which team won the 2025 world series www.perplexity.ai/search/which...

Happy Halloween / Let’s go Blue Jays!

Sassy library app estimates I may need 65 years to finish reading a book. I mean, it’s not wrong.

TBH I'm grateful to have a night off baseball #WorldSeries #BlueJays #Dodgers

A fun article about the creative way local Toronto bars have been paying tribute to the #BlueJays without violating copyright. My favorite: Torrano Beisbol Birds www.thestar.com/business/let...

Dodgers fans are so quiet at this point in the game all you can hear is the Canadian in the stands yelling “Let’s go Blue Jays”

A number of viral infections, including flu, Covid-19 and shingles, are linked to an increased risk of heart disease and stroke, a new study affirmed.

Something weird is happening in this previously not-into-sports household. Late night texts to relatives: “What did you think of the game?!” Calls with non-sports-fan siblings, discussing baseball at length Queries from another room when the TV erupts in excitement: “What’s the score now?!”

Mary Hart! These never ending #WorldSeries games seem to be giving us a chance to identify nearly all the fans in the stands.

It has been a month since I underwent robotic pyeloplasty surgery to correct a blocked kidney. A stent was left behind to promote healing, and yesterday it was finally removed. It’s nearly a foot long! No wonder I was feeling so crummy. I’m glad to be a step further along on my path to recovery.

I want to go to sleep as soon as possible

The sun came up this morning #Toronto