Amy W. Ando

Fellow econ instructors: I'm giving a brief webinar tomorrow (Feb 18), "AI Won’t Replace Econ Professors—But It Will Change How We Teach."

Short version: I'm trying to stay on top AI-meets-teaching stuff, so you don't have to. #TeachEcon

Sign up here: macmillanlearning.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Friends, I have created a Starter Pack of economics journals (and working paper series) active on Bluesky. Hope this is useful for academic, policy, and industry economists alike. #Econsky Please let me know if there are any that I missed!

Federal judge orders Trump admin to restore slavery exhibits to the President’s House The order does not give the federal government a deadline for restoring the President's House site.

BREAKING: federal judge orders the Trump admin to restore slavery exhibits to the President’s House.

The opinion opens with “As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed…”

With @fallonroth.bsky.social

We are all in this together.

Actually, I’m going to take voting day off work to help people get to the polls.

I have never been more motivated to vote.

And my 93 yo parents will crawl across glass to vote this November. I’ll be there to help them.

YES

Sharing to remember. This novel is EPIC - would love an adaptation that does it justice

What does “Dow 50,000” actually tell you—anything about the economy, or just that a number got bigger? Dow 50,000 is a milestone, not a measurement. The level of the Dow is basically arbitrary: it’s… "Dow 50,000" Sound Nice. Until Justin Wolfers Shows You That U.S. Markets Are Coming 21st Out of 23.

The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000.

So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000.

Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...

Propaganda during WWI and WWII in fact

18 Days, 20 Lives: New Yorkers Who Didn’t Survive the Cold Freezing days and nights claimed the lives of a grandmother, a dancer, a dispatcher and a man who lived among a colony of feral cats.

Read it all. These were humans who deserved dignity.

Then watch the latest episode of The Pitt.

18 Days, 20 Lives: New Yorkers Who Didn’t Survive the Cold www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

My old pal @mortenmorland.bsky.social celebrating my 15th anniversary in Downing Street in style

From Harry Bernstein’s 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship biography: “I have proven with all this that age need not be a barrier to a useful and creative life. I hope to be able to reach one hundred. I hope to write more books. But with all of this I will never lose the memory of the one thing that gave me the strength and inspiration to accomplish what I have done thus far, my wife Ruby. Memories are supposed to dim with the passing of years. But my memory of her grows richer and deeper each year. I can still see her as vividly as I always did, her lovely, oval face with the smile always on it, her soft, dark eyes looking up at me with such love in them. Her presence will always be there with me until I too am no longer here.” https://www.gf.org/fellows/harry-bernstein/

Ahead of Valentine’s Day, I’m thinking about this 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship bio from Harry Bernstein, who published his first novel at age 96, which was written shortly after the death of his wife of almost 70 years.

I’m crying, you’re crying, we’re all crying.

A white cat with grey splotches on her head is lying like a loaf with her face down on the bed, eyes covered by her paws.

The news this week at the federal, state, and local level has me like...

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This Ilia Malinin graphic bit might be the greatest thing NBC has ever done

This is so so so sad

AI is not magic

gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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How Are Health Care Costs Affecting You?

From NYT Health:

"We want to hear from readers who are trying to manage their medical bills and their health insurance costs."

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...

What a gift! Thanks for helping us folks who are not from Puerto Rico to see the richness showcased in last night’s show

When he gave the Grammy to that young boy who made everyone think of Liam…even if that wasn’t actually Liam, it was just the perfect way of cutting through all the bullshit.

Every kid impacted by this administration’s cruelty is another Liam.

Only one who got the ball into the end zone was Bad Bunny

Bad Bunny ends his Super Bowl halftime show in front of a sign reading "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE"

what can be accomplished with a functioning power grid bsky.app/profile/matt...

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

THIS. This is why Bad Bunny evoked power distribution in the show. Tremendous racism against PR during 45

Ugh ugh ugh

The respect! I had literally just said Ricky danced so Bad Bunny could run and look who is here!

Just awful.

Now that Bad Bunny is done, we are signing off. The game is weak and the commercials are all terrible

I don’t think he code switched once, for real. Respect. 🫡