Jason Davis

Search committees: the 100k H1B fee now appears *not* to apply to change of status applications, so F-1s and J-1s are exempt. #psjminfo
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Looks like June-August pretty comparable btwn Tallahasee and Columbia, so you trade off somewhat cooler May/Sept against a Dec-Feb period in Columbia that's a touch too cold for my tastes. I think I agree that Columbia has Good Weather for my tastes.

Though I will say that it only takes me about four weeks in Canada in December to say "enough with that". The constant darkness might even have more impact on that than the air temperature. Whatever you think of hot vs. cold, 3000 annual hours of sunshine>2000 hours of sunshine.

So I think this is somewhat plausible, and I have discussed this very thing with Rebecca, who is even more pro-hot-weather than I am. I wonder if the fact that I've never experienced a full Florida summer has prevented my brain from coding heat as a bad thing to be avoided.

How about Florida Fall/Winter/early Spring + Canada late spring to August + about a month in Canada from December until early January, to propose a random alternative ;)

I am willing to accept that some of this comes down to personal preference/preferred activities; it is much easier to eat a nice dinner on the patio in Florida in August than in Canada in January, but I imagine this might be flipped if your preferred activity was, to use a random example, running...

As a former Mainer, I give you more credence in making this claim than most! And I accept that my summers in Canada lose me some credibility on this particular point... however, when we're back in Florida in August I find the experience much less unpleasant than Canadian winters!

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When I compare living in Florida to my years living in Toronto (which I love!!!) I often think of this scene from Parks and Recreation.
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There is also some observational data on this question that largely comports with what in retrospect seems obvious: being warm is nice!
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I had precisely this experience in reverse; after years of extolling the virtues of four seasons weather ("autumn is my favourite season!"), I moved to San Diego and discovered that I had been being gaslit my entire life.

On a personal note, having grown up in Canada, I shared your beliefs for a long time, and spent years saying things like "autumn is my favourite season!", and then I lived in San Diego for a year and discovered that it was just better all of the time and the feeling didn't decay at all.

I have seen one observational study on this claim, and it found that while there is some slight advantage on happiness in the spring in cold climates, it is vastly outstripped by the increase in happiness in the winter and even autumn in warm climates.
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And yes, transshipment is endogenous, so 120% tariffs will possibly lead to more. How much more though? It's not costless or risk-free to transship, and any countries that participate at large scale know they are risking becoming the next US target.

I keep hearing about Chinese transshipment of goods in discussions about the tariffs, which given the estimates we have so far of its magnitude [1], and the already existing restrictions on transshipment initiated by the Biden administration, just makes me think of this:

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This is outrageous; there are no Champagne businesses in the U.S.

🧵 Proud to share our new paper in @apsrjournal.bsky.social (open access)!

We used a field experiment to test how contact with citizens shapes POLICE OFFICER attitudes then developed inductive theory about when it works v. backfires.

Paper w/ @matthewjnanes.bsky.social & @nicoravanilla.bsky.social

Tariffs & exchange rates. A short explainer of the simple case of 10% across-the-board tariffs. Let's start with no retaliation.

Brief version: Tariffs will strengthen the U.S. dollar which will reduce impact on consumers but exacerbate it for exporters.

Three cases:

Thanks for your efforts! Please add me to the second pack :)

Fun to flame the orange twist for this, even if it very likely does absolutely nothing to the flavour of the cocktail.

"Selected for you"

I make sandwiches with pork shoulder and rapini with this braise and pouring the sauce on top of the meat, with the rapini roasted with garlic and some sliced lemon. I enjoy it!

Changing lives out here:

Mila does some pretty good frozen xlb as well and you can order them online from costco!

This is such a well-understood problem that almost every school goes out of their way to avoidI! Super weird.

Evaluations have been closed since Friday!

I had a moment here where I didn't convert the pace to the metric system and felt good about myself; now I feel bad at running AND measurement.

I've pitched Halt and Catch Fire to like a dozen different people in person (and several entire classes) with no known take up rate so far. Such a good show!

Polisky we @enblasingame.bsky.social, @theclboyd.bsky.social @robertocarlos.bsky.social @joeornstein.bsky.social are eager to share 'How the Trump Administration’s Quota Policy Transformed Immigration Judging' @APSR FirstView. The findings & implications are important. 1/10 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Bird people asking some very presumptive questions