Buon 25 Aprile Buona Festa della Liberazione Happy Liberation Day 🇮🇹 youtu.be/EEcA22Qm1n0?...

It's ame Emilia. TSA agent asked where I was going and followed up with the question "back home or..." when I answered Oakland. Then I ordered a bagel and went back to being Emilia instead of Miriam because of my accent 🙈😂 1 a 1 palla al centro

Call it by its name: Trumpcession

Live footage of academia right now

I have a lecture scheduled tomorrow on "selection of politicians" in my political economy class.

I am kind of new to this country... Is it common to have testimonials in this type of speech? It's basically a tv ad with the disclaimer "real life customers paid for their testimonial"

5 things that I did last week: - Looked up datetime helpfile for Stata - Formatted datetime incorrectly - Looked up datetime helpfile for Stata - Formatted datetime incorrectly - Gave up.

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

Teaching a course in political economy is pretending to be an expert in 20 different subfields you barely knew anything about before preparing the slides.

Today we launched our Junior Seminars with Luca Bagnato (University of Milan). He presented a joint work with @venturinimiri.bsky.social (@ucriverside.bsky.social) and Yu Pan (UZH) on the long-term impact of rice weeders' historical presence on female political-economic empowerment in Italy #USIEcon

How do you suggest gently to students that if they want to cruise through college using AI for their assignments they might at least first move to a country with lower tuition fees? Why are they even paying some 40 to 70k? For what?

First exam as a professor and I am more nervous than if I had to take the exam myself 🙈

I have a confession . . . I was an “overhead cost”. I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it. Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician. Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u.

It's particularly striking to be teaching the importance of institutions for economic development, while watching the government dismantle them piece by piece 😅

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What happens when women are denied a wanted abortion? ... ... ... In the short run, their risk of death rises. In the long run, they have... -more health issues, -lower education/labor-force participation, and -higher rates of single motherhood, poverty, and reliance on government assistance

Dear USA, having tv ads for prescription drugs is weird. Just fyi.

When OpenAI complains about intellectual property theft

I feel my English is excruciatingly bad when I teach in the evening. I went back to the recording to remember what was the last slide I covered and Renzi was teaching the class on my behalf basically.

Dressing for work today.

My math teacher during the first two years of high school was a computer science major. He tried to teach us some Python and I did not pick it up at all. It's wild that I will probably be teaching some Python next term.

So, I am running out of options... Does anyone know of any private driving instructors near Riverside, CA, or LA? I want to practice with my own car since that's what I will use for the test, and driving schools don't allow that.

Next week I have to tell my students that in democracies with a 2-term limit for the executive, international conflict is more likely in the second term (Caselli, Morelli and Rohner, 2015)

And here I am again deciding to teach causal methods in a class where statistics is not a pre-requisite 🙈 Maybe I'll learn to stay in my lane at some point.

I was looking for an RDD paper for my Econ History students👌

I like investigative/crime TV shows and I can tell you that I saw multiple episodes set in LA and involving fictional "ecoterrorists", but none featuring the very real wildfires that are super common in California 🤔

Trying to watch US news on TV about the LA wildfires (CBS News for now) and I still didn't hear the word "climate change" 🤔🙄

SoCal friends: Many animal shelters are overwhelmed from people dropping off beloved pets they can't take with them as they flee. Please consider donating and fostering. Pasadena Humane is one such org. Contact your local animal orgs to see if they need help. pasadenahumane.org/eaton-canyon...

FYI, I studied there during my undergrad 😁

First two lectures as a Professor today. Send positive vibes 🙈

Brains are funny. I can remember every word to a song I haven't heard in 20 years but I've got no clue what my email password is.

Frequent rejection, ghosting, uncertain future prospects Dating 🤝 Academia

Probably, the fact that I decided to explain externalities in the second lecture makes all jokes useless

Non-econ researchers: We control for all possible confounding factors to rule out spurious correlation. Economists:

Imagine flying to ASSA without a sword to defend yourself during Q&A session.

"You will be visited by the three spirits." The three spirits:

Trying to entertain my students at least in the first lecture. #EconBlueSky Jokes on political economy/ists, go!

This is NOT what I was looking for 😶🤦‍♀️

My favourite part of my relaxing break was missing 11 deadlines

I've decided to collect my DiD materials in a single place. psantanna.com/did-resources There, you will find - 14 lectures of my comprehensive DiD course - Shorter lectures/talks I have given on DiD - My DiD R/Stata/Python packages - Some DiD checklists - DiD materials from my friends Enjoy!

#EconBlueSky do you have any recommendations for resources/readings on political economy for undergraduate students? I am trying to limit assigning actual research papers (many are probably too complex). Thanks 🙏

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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

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Preparing teaching material is fun sometimes This is a masterpiece 😂 youtu.be/eiffOVbYvNc?...

Both levels and trends of homicide rates vary widely across countries. But overall worldwide, the homicide rate has fallen by around 20% since the year 2000. #GoodNewsMakeNoHeadlines ourworldindata.org/grapher/homi...

Microeconomics is the study of two agents interacting, while macroeconomics is the study of one agent interacting.