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@marthaf.bsky.social

PhD student at UCSD Econ. Tax, Labor, and Law. From Berlin and California. Previously: Harvard, Yale, UC Berkeley, SciencesPo

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see, this is what i missed

21.02.2026 06:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ifo-Studie: Aufstiegschancen in Deutschland nehmen ab Deutschland galt lange als Land, in dem fast jeder den sozialen Aufstieg schaffen konnte. Eine aktuelle Studie des Mรผnchner ifo-Instituts zeigt nun, dass das immer schwieriger wird.

Aufstiegschancen in Deutschland nehmen ab

Deutschland galt lange als Land, in dem fast jeder den sozialen Aufstieg schaffen konnte. Eine aktuelle Studie des Mรผnchner ifo Instituts zeigt nun, dass das immer schwieriger wird.

www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/v...

21.11.2025 21:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The letter is ready, thanks to all those who helped out! Starting to gather signature now, please consider signing (link at top of letter) & spread the word.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

27.08.2025 16:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 124    ๐Ÿ” 85    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 28

This is where Columbia, Brown, Penn have gotten us. If this isn't stopped, it's just one institution after another paying tributes to the crown. Either it stops or we're done for and the "we" isn't just higher ed, it's everybody.

08.08.2025 18:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 114    ๐Ÿ” 49    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Do you have a syllabus you'd be willing to share?

21.07.2025 23:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Universities tend to have strict branding guidelines, including with respect to colors. I suspect that Columbia Blue would have been the appropriate color to use for official communications.

10.07.2025 03:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
10.07.2025 00:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7037    ๐Ÿ” 1895    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 21

well I prefer unpolished over ChatGPT 100% of the time :)

20.06.2025 03:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I once read a piece of writing advice saying to avoid multiple directional changes in the same sentence. Had to read โ€œincreased lower elevationโ€ like 3 times.

20.06.2025 02:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We should've made a bigger national crisis of someone breaking into Nancy Pelosi's home & trying to kill her husband. But then, we should've made a bigger national crisis about hundreds of someones breaking into the Capitol & trying to steal an election. But then, we should've done lots of things.

14.06.2025 16:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10860    ๐Ÿ” 2510    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 162    ๐Ÿ“Œ 84

Super real. I've always liked em dashes (counted 39 in my master's thesis from 3 years) and now idk if I can keep using them.

13.06.2025 23:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Depends on what exactly the "update" is about. Did she have a surgery or are you just checking in?

I'd listen at 2x speed (I do this anyway for most voice memos)

09.06.2025 20:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m Californian lol

09.06.2025 14:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"bloviating." learned a new word today.

might also do good to enunciate "horror" a bit less ambiguously lol

09.06.2025 03:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For some perspective, the federal government funds *over half* of all scientific research and development conducted by the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social -- and UC is collectively responsible, in turn, for over 8% of all academic research conducted in the United States.

06.06.2025 23:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 646    ๐Ÿ” 286    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16

The Republican Party has fully embraced fascism and destroyed American democracy. But some Democrats still say Latinx. I have never felt more politically homeless.

07.06.2025 01:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3844    ๐Ÿ” 463    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 39    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

Econ (because we are such naughty imperialists) spans such a broad range. Some research is also closer to eg computer science

31.05.2025 18:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

well, itโ€™s a social science. Not a natural science. In German, we make this distinction more clearly whereas in the US, we usually use โ€œscienceโ€ to mean โ€œnatural science.โ€

31.05.2025 18:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In German it's also a blue eye. I think the color changes throughout different periods of healing. Sometimes it's also green-ish

30.05.2025 21:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

haha well, my initial instinct was responding with something sassy like "why don't you leave some food in the fridge for a bit and find out?" or point out that my composting worms also eat fungus that I can't eat.

But as an officer in the UCSD Mycology Club, I was curious and googled.

29.05.2025 00:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It appears so

28.05.2025 18:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I guess the Eighth Amendment protects against cruel and unusual punishment, not universal punishment

28.05.2025 04:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m not sure that these are immediately incompatible positions. iirc thereโ€™s good evidence that speed cameras reduce racial bias in policing, for instance.

28.05.2025 04:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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fun fact that might explain the different pronounciations!

28.05.2025 02:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

tag yourself, i'm dark red

27.05.2025 00:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No doubt, I never said otherwise! ICEโ€™s actions are abhorrent one way or the other

25.05.2025 19:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congratulations! Thatโ€™s awesome

24.05.2025 14:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Beside the point, but Real IDs are indeed not proof of citizenship. They *are* proof of legal residence, but you can be a non-citizen and get them (I have one as a green card holder, for instance).

24.05.2025 14:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

you might enjoy the guidebook "secret stairs of the east bay"

24.05.2025 01:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Redistribution or govt spending donโ€™t make equality, unionization does

15.05.2025 05:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 52    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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