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Our #Econ5k group ran the shape of the Liberty Bell in downtown Philly as part of #ASSA2026. So much fun! Thanks @inaganguli.bsky.social @danielepaserman.bsky.social @owenozier.bsky.social Cynthia Bansak and Aurelia Lambert for joining!
Don’t forget to upload your #Econ5K results!
sites.google.com/view/econ5k/...
Got my @econ5k.bsky.social T-shirt, #EconSky, and you should too if you're an econ runner! I hope to see you in Philly in January #ASSA2026 sites.google.com/view/econ5k/...
Modeling the 2026 #ECON5k gear. For more information go to sites.google.com/view/econ5k/home
Cc @econ5k.bsky.social
@inaganguli.bsky.social
@sandrahgoff.bsky.social
@yanarodgers.bsky.social
Congrats!
Half of this year’s #NobelPrize winners in the U.S. were immigrants. Now, the Trump administration may be threatening the country’s Nobel future—and its top rank among global science powerhouses. nautil.us/will-trumps-...
Very cool to have my colleague @inaganguli.bsky.social quoted in this @sciam.bsky.social article www.scientificamerican.com/article/immi...
Thank you, Anna!
Falling responses, budgets & staff are biting. #BLS will cut 350 #ProducerPriceIndex #inflation sub-indexes.
It'll be harder to gauge effects of #supplychain disruptions, #tariffs, #monetary, #fiscal & #regulatory #policy and more.
www.bls.gov/ppi/notices/...
#econsky #PPI @aaronsojourner.org
Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
Weird how "making America great again" consists of dismantling all America's soft power and also future source of hard power
tfidf cosine is a well precedented method for patent novelty measurement but not unproblematic
conference.nber.org/confer/2022/...
and paper @inaganguli.bsky.social et al 2024 www.nber.org/system/files...
“In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rapid response bridge grant opportunity for impacted scholars”
Truly an idiotic self-own to drive away US-trained talent.
Sorry, what now?!
www.statnews.com/2025/05/02/n...
Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts for US science in next fiscal year
NASA cut by 24%
NIH cut by 40%
EPA cut by 55%
NSF cut by 56%
Analysis from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com team
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
💯. Why does almost no one in the public know this though?
If you think about it, the government’s creation of the internet is probably one of the greatest policy achievements and worst communication failures of all time.
Just got mine.
Totally expected, but it still sucks.
Probably the most for all the work that so many of us put in on behalf of US taxpayers that is now wasted and will never come to fruition.
Important thread explaining how proposed changes to federal employment policy threatens the federal statistical infrastructure. Comment period is open for those who rely on these data to convey their views to the Administration….
I was devastated to learn about the unexpected passing of gifted historian and my former committee member Laura Lovett. Dr. Lovett was not only a renowned expert in women's history, but also an incredible mentor. I will miss her greatly. www.history.pitt.edu/news/memoriam
NOT an email glitch!
Yes, there is an @nber.org working paper on this! They also use the timing of submission and an email glitch though I think: www.nber.org/papers/w29153
How global scientific mobility drives innovation—and what’s at stake when migration is restricted by war, politics, or policy.
Great insights from @inaganguli.bsky.social for @ineteconomics.bsky.social
www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...
Folding 27 NIH institutes and centers down into *8*, which is even worse than the rumored plan for 15, is catastrophic for American biomedical research. Completely insane.
I'm reporting on what's happening at NSF for @cenmag.bsky.social!
If you're a researcher who had an NSF grant that was previously approved for funding but is now in limbo because of what's happening at the agency, my signal is kvasquez.12.
Always open to discussing options for anonymity.
This is how you do it.
The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact".
The moral imperative may be to fight...
but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone:
www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...
Been seeing some speculation about the NSF freeze being due to the "broader impacts" criterion.
There's not a lot of hard facts out there yet, so here's a few facts below (but still inconclusive).
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