Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

I'm on an H-1B visa. I'm a professor. Perhaps it's worth mentioning that my employer hired me after spending months trying identifying all relevant job candidates and determined that I was the best fit for the role, despite all the extra costs and bureaucracy involved in hiring a foreigner.

Successfully relocated to Kansas, on to exploring my new surroundings.

Thank you @johnconz.bsky.social, Sierra Arnold, @capilgram.bsky.social, and Lauren Schechter for visiting us @miamiecon.bsky.social this summer! ☀️ I love that our department supports this series & would encourage more departments to bring folks in over the summer. Here’s why 👇

Fun with healthcare in 2025: Come back to the US, test positive for Covid, use my insurer's telehealth in hopes of securing some paxlovid - only to be connected with an antivax doctor who calls the vax & antivirals "that Pfizer scam" and blames the vax for my symptoms. Am I tripping? Am I screwed?

all great cuisines have a double carb moment. in italy, thinly-sliced potato with rosemary and garlic on pizza. in japan, cubed potato in a curry served with rice. in england, chip butty.

Got a new phone, forgot to install Twitter/X on it, and almost a week later I'm not even sure I'm missing out on anything?

Turns out, this was a little premature! Happy to announce that starting in August, I will be an Assistant Professor at Kansas State University's Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional & Community Planning in the College of Architecture, Planning & Design. Little Apple, here I come!

Call me a dinosaur, but I just held what is probably my last ever Skype call. It's an ancient platform, but it's what allowed this international student to video chat with his parents for 14 years - and I'm not sure its replacements are better? I'll miss hearing that Skype ringtone. Farewell :')

Gans made so many contributions to how we understand cities, and was an early voice of how suburban life was interesting and worthy of study and respect.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

In tomorrow's session of my real estate finance class, I am supposed to go over risks and how to account for them in financial planning - such as business risks (e.g. unanticipated vacancies/changes in demand), inflation risk, or legislative risk. I did not anticipate my syllabus being this timely.

Am I imagining things, or did Trader Joe's (and, presumably, a bunch of other stores) just substantially hike a whole lot of prices to account for tariffs? So much "winning" for the consumer...

@frame.work - I really like your mission of making consumer electronics repairable, but this really only works if parts are actually available. Do you have any indication how much longer batteries for the FW13 will be out of stock?

I love my @frame.work 13 AMD laptop dearly after a year and a half of daily driving it, but ... why oh why do batteries (of all kinds!) have to be out of stock right as its stock battery is turning into a spicy pillow? Any ways to procure a battery (even a 55Wh!) in the US, quickly?

Polling the wisdom of the crowd: what's a good Skype alternative, now that it's shutting down? Features I'm looking for are 1) reliable video calling, 2) a reliable indicator of whether somebody is online, 3) a simple UI that won't scare the elderly, and 4) is light enough to run in the background.

Normal people when they see "kidney donor needed" signs: "I hope they find someone compatible!" Road cyclists: "By how much would donating a kidney increase my Watts/kg?"

The worst thing about LLM's is that they've made the teaching part of my job so tedious. An LLM can generate an essay that technically fulfills any set of criteria so why doesn't that essay deserve a perfect score? They create a world where smart kids feel like suckers for caring.

Time to join the chorus of academic job market outcome posts! I'll be spending less money on moving this year, as I'll remain a postdoc at the University of Cincinnati's Lindner College of Business Real Estate Center. Better luck next year, if universities are still hiring?

This is Winston Churchill visiting Washington DC to request assistance in the war against Germany. Notice he is wearing a "zip suit" and not a traditional suit. This was to honor the British troops--the same reason Zelensky dresses the way he does.

Paying Delta airfare with your United-branded credit card feels one step short of flirting with the waitress in front of your wife

Warm weather at last in Cincinnati! No better way to enjoy a warm evening by crossing over to Kentucky for a glimpse of the skyline 🚲🚲🚲

Again, for 🇺🇸 observers looking for lessons/Narratives™️ in 🇩🇪, the story is "80% of voters rejected the fascists, the main surprise is young voters flocked to the left this year, & unlike 🇺🇸 the country held an election where votes were quickly counted & all parties accepted the results immediately"

Seeing a lot of coverage of the AfD, but - to me as a German - the more consequential stories of this election are 1) how the SPD under Scholz lost as many voters as they did, 2) the (2nd!) utter failure of Christian Lindner not to run the FDP against a brick wall, and 3) Merz's political comeback.

The real rite of passage for becoming a college educator: Your first academic misconduct proceeding.

The current situation is definitely a challenge to postdocs and other non TT folks, but is the first thing I need to know about it & about my institution's response really the suicide hotline???

The grammatical errors (I count at least two!) say everything one needs to know about the status of German culture and respect for foreign languages in the US, even in the most "German" enclaves Every time I walk past this in Cincy airport I want to take matters into my own hand to fix it...

How was this contract awarded??!

People should really be more embarrassed to smell like a dispensary on public transit. I know westerners make fun of Japanese train rules like smelling good and not blabbering on your phone but it seems more appealing to me every day.

Relatedly, one of the most noticeable things whenever I get off a flight from the US to Germany is how quiet public spaces such as airport terminals or trains are. Cultural norms (+ a healthy dose of social enforcement) can go a long way

This is just so bad. I looked up some grants, just for fun, and this one about mild traumatic brain injury was flagged because it likely controls for socioeconomic status (what an awful word is that).

Fundamentally, I don't understand how deleting reports developed with taxpayer money is anything *other* than waste, fraud, and abuse.

Regular reminder that this entirely comes down to retirements. I think it's good that old people are able to stop working, and that we have payroll-tax-paying-aged people coming here from around the world to keep things going

The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, a great org, asks individuals & orgs to sign their letter requesting Congress act to restore data that has been removed & ensure a similar purge does not reoccur. #EconSky #PolicySky #sociology #PoliSky docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Census Bureau's TIGER shapefiles are down. So much for making progress on my papers today... Guess even the outlines of counties, shapes of rivers and lakes, etc are now considered "woke"?

My first glimpse of the Gulf of America. Flown this route many times, I think I prefer the Gulf of Mexico.

The NSF and NIH stuff is the kind of lower-salience thing where it is probably more useful to contact your representative and let them know people are pissed about this, people who vote.

I realize now that I have a “trade deficit” with the store across the street. I walked over and bought a jug of milk. The store is abusing me and I’m tired of subsidizing it by buying something at a fair price that I want. I’m going to apply a tariff that will raise the future price of milk for me.

Nothing like an evening walk through the neighborhood to learn about new NIMBY fearmonger campaigns. (Guess who's now about to show up to the neighborhood council and planning meetings in support of more apartments)

Of course Overleaf would be down when I'm hoping to prepare slides for an upcoming job talk....

Is it just me, or has there recently been a proliferation of weird, misinformation-filled cryptocurrency themed scam group chats on platforms like Skype, WhatsApp etc, usually chock full of fearmongering? I'm legit curious about the business model behind these.

I'm as depressed as anybody about what just happened, but giving myself exactly one day to mourn. Tomorrow, we start fighting back tooth and nail - starting with fighting the NIMBY cancer to make housing possible in places that still respect human rights.

Academics: What's the conventional wisdom on refereeing for fee-for-publishing journals by publishers sometimes described as predatory? I have the time and the article I was invited to review is within my field, but only want to referee if my recommendation is actually followed.

Transportation scholars! I know this might be a long shot, but does anybody happen to have a saved copy of the Census Bureau's 1980 UTPP (Urban Transportation Planning Package) or 1990 CTPP data at hand? The census bureau appears to have deleted them off their own servers.

City/county open data websites are goofy. I can easily look up how much LAX airport spends on toilet paper every year, but god forbid I want a list of home sales with addresses and prices (for which I have to pay the assessor $50 to receive a physical DVD).

@zyudhishthu.bsky.social and my coauthor Sarah West wrote an excellent opinion piece on how land uses surrounding stations - and their demoralizing effect on would-be riders - are holding transit back: www.startribune.com/counterpoint...

Academics: Would it be weird to use two papers (rather than just one) as part of a job talk, and to focus on common threads between them?