this is the cyberpunk dystopia i signed up for

Few people are aware of how much progress has been made against cancers. Leukemia is probably the most striking example. Before the 1970s, most children affected by leukemia would soon die from it. Now, most children in rich countries survive. ourworldindata.org/childhood-le...

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LMAO THERE COULD BE NO CLEARER INDICATOR THAT BLUESKY IS FOR OLD PEOPLE Remember to take your blood pressure meds today, peepaws and meemaws

Pfizer has ended its large Phase III Trial of an updated COVID19 vaccine. They were not able to enroll enough people to meet their goal. A major problem is the FDA’s wholly unreasonable demand that people with chronic conditions, who benefit most from the vaccine, not be allowed to participate.

Seattle Seasonal Update

Det er visst funny tweet-tid. Her er noen jeg har lagret.

New at Can We Still Govern?: @unlawfulentries.bsky.social puts yesterday's oral arguments about birthright citizenship into historical perspective, noting how the Fourteenth Amendment took aim at internal migration laws that restricted movement. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rememberin...

Trump: "We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of daycare.... Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things.... You can’t do it on a federal [level]. We have to take care of one thing: military protection." www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admits...

Mary Wollstonecraft warned you that women who are only objects of pity and love, due to their “fascinating graces,” their “soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, [and] delicacy of sentiment” — in a word, due to their weakness (and not strength) — “will soon become objects of contempt.”

relatedly, “come join our university and spend all your time arguing with us that the job we hired you for and that we demand you train grad students to do should even exist, ha ha, you can’t and we won’t believe you anyway” is not hard-headed practicality, it’s inane incoherence

Nonbinary gender economics! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 (Also TIL my phone doesn’t have pride flags except trans and this kind of sad rainbow! 🤬)

Palantir has student data, including immigration status, from the ed tech discussion platform Piazza. Palantir paid Piazza $916,000 for access to this data. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg... I blew the whistle on this in 2016 and the CEO contacted my employer.

I'll never get to inbox zero, but my new goal might be to keep it at 12345.

Immigration is good for the economy

Food policing poor families isn't a win for nutrition--it's a loss for dignity and joy. As Brea Perry and I find in our research (see reply), low-income parents buy food treats for their kids because they want their kids to feel happy and normal--and they can't afford to do so in bigger ways.

I definitely need to figure out how to use this and the Claudia Goldin/WNBA articles in a first week assignment for my principles of micro class this quarter!

Come study economics... bsky.app/profile/clan...

About 25 years ago, Al Roth began to give lectures on kindney exchange. Audiences were amazed about what careful scholarship can do.

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

Did a series of videos with Markus Brunnermeier on Claude Code (more to come) Video 1: Getting Started with CC open.substack.com/pub/paulgp/p...

The Cinderella story of 2026: TWFE building a comeback! arxiv.org/abs/2603.19480 #EconSky

Logging on to my first Teams call of the day at 9am:

Today I learned about a new cute animal from the random stuffy section at the grocery store. Can you guess what this is supposed to be? (Yes the soda can is part of the toy.)

Check out the view from my office!

Imperial Valley residents protesting the development of a data center just chanted the developer out of the County Board of Supervisors meeting.

Interesting and depressing finding from @danielmangrum.com and colleague, but not surprising at all.

Aerial photo of the Cherry blossoms at the Quad, University of Washington 📸Timothy Anderson

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

"Using event study techniques, I found that differential tuition modestly increased the number of engineering degrees awarded and that white students tended to benefit more than other racial/ethnic groups from differential tuition across all three fields of study." Great paper

The “everything is about profit” take of exploitative capitalist systems is how and why economic historians continue to miss the boat on racial capitalism. It’s simply beyond their profit-maximization framework, but it’s an essential element of historical economic organization and development.

Restarting some work on emotional AI and education and found an inexplicably highly-read "Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" from just 3 months ago that appears from its Altmetrics to have been boosted by the most transparently AI-generated academic text I've yet seen scienmag.com/transforming...

🚨Replication alert🚨 I'm pleased to announce that my replication of Moretti (2021) is now accepted as a comment at AER. I find ten issues in the paper. My comment focuses on two major problems; in the appendix, I document eight (relatively) minor problems. 1/

New @nber.org WP out from Bocar Ba today. I edited several rounds on this paper and remain so impressed that while lots of economists have frozen or relabeled their research agendas related to racial equity, Bocar has held steady. He's brave and I'm proud to be his editor www.nber.org/papers/w34933

Seattle trees are so confused this winter. (Context: both of these are blooming way earlier than usual and are now coated in snow.)

First snow of the winter in Seattle today! No snow day yet, but it’s still snowing.

This demography thread is such a wealth of interesting and useful data.

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

#WALeg House budget proposal would cut coverage for physical, occupational, and speech therapies for all adults enrolled in Apple Health (Medicaid). The final budget isn't yet decided, but session ends March 12. NoHLA teamed up with partners to sound the alarm. Read more: tinyurl.com/save-therapies

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy. We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

"the assumption is that survey responses, experimental data, & admin. records are already anonymized & therefore safe to process through AI platforms. But anonymization at...collection does not guarantee anonymization at the point of AI processing." fulyafelicityturkmen.substack.com/p/the-securi...

I talk to people outside.

This is legitimately incredibly helpful

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“Our primary hope is that environmental risk factors will be treated as core components of cardiovascular prevention, rather than as optional or secondary considerations…” #biorisks #unsafeair #blackcarbon #extremeweatherevents

I’m going to submit so many papers to this journal 😍.

Super not chill that my online mom chat is all about the possibility of our sons being drafted right now.

I think I’m old enough for my childhood to qualify as one generation ago, and both of my parents worked (my mom was the breadwinner) and I think all of my friends’ moms worked, even if they were in part time jobs. Also, our vacations were driving in the car to stay in a hotel for three days.

LOL and WTF? Maybe our need to say any dumbass thing we possibly can to get attention on the internet is what is destroying society, and not *ordering off of a menu* 😡.