Melissa Thomasson

Building with new sign that says Cleveland Clinic Health Sciences and Wellness surrounded by balloons.

Celebrated our new partnership with the Cleveland Clinic yesterday with a naming ceremony. 18 months in the making, it includes Miami’s BS in quantum computing- one of the first in the world. Very cool to see it!

Congratulations!

Mmmm. Bundt cake.

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China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. Now, It’s $0.

It’s always great to see that the world supply of soy (or virtually any other commodity) is indeed perfectly elastic. Gotta say that this tariff brought in a heap of revenue. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

Great write-up of new research by @riacton.bsky.social !

Whoops I responded to my own comment. It suffers from typoglycemia

I think I have heard it called “typoglycemia”

Whoa- unrelated- is the second half of the article all gibberish for everyone else?

Racial Residential Segregation in the United States (September 2025) - Residential segregation is a central factor in explaining socioeconomic gaps across race and ethnicity in the United States. Place of residence directly impacts access to schools, j...

Very happy to see my review of the racial residential segregation literature with John Parman in the latest issue of Journal of Economic Literature @aeajournals.bsky.social www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

A primer on the Federal Reserve's independence : Planet Money President Donald Trump has been loudly critical of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for years now. Since January, the President has accused him of playing politics by keeping interest rates high. T...

Now’s a good time to share one of several recent @planetmoney.bsky.social episodes about the importance of Federal Reserve independence from partisan electoral politics.
www.npr.org/2025/04/23/1...

I just gave! Alums, employers and friends: please consider donating - every dollar counts these days and helps give our students amazing experiences and top skills!

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Black car seat made gray with animal hair

When the uber home (hard to find) comes late and the seat looks like this:

Ground hog sitting on a retaining wall

It really is Ground Hog Day. My garden is… a little less big than it was yesterday…

This is sad. We had many thoughtful conversations on health econ and health insurance- a great thinker.

This week we ‪(with @ajhollingsworth.bsky.social talk with @talgross.bsky.social on The Hidden Curriculum on productivity and how to improve our teaching and some ideas for new exercises for your class!

A monarch today!

Such a great project! Congrats to this amazing team and to MU alum Margaret Layding for helping us develop it!

Injury update for Bills rookie cornerback Maxwell Hairston reveals good news Latest update on Bills CB Maxwell Hairston and his injury he recently sustained.

Seems like it is an LCL sprain and not a bone fracture: sports.yahoo.com/article/inju...

Smoke colored Maine Coon sitting on a living room chair with front legs hanging over the armrest

TGIC! Grimmy on his fave chair

Wow fellow Ohioans- this will have a major impact.

Maine coin laying on a glass coffee table

Caturday on the coffee table. Just missing the coffee.

I am totally requesting this awesomeness for my next birthday dinner!

When my kids were younger, they asked why we call it “rolling up the windows” in the car….

Cat resting in the sun

Happy Caturday!

I think you could, at this point, just say “the next big thing” and the sentence works just as well. :)

As Trump slashed weather agency, his appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing forecasts Companies poised to step into the void have ties to those tapped by President Donald Trump to run agencies that collect weather data and publish forecasts.

The recent disaster and loss of lives in Texas is so sad. But I’m reading that the cuts to weather personnel are related to a “decades-long effort to privatize weather information.” But I’m thinking that weather information is almost a quintessential public good? www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

Red Rocks 😍

The children of those people are grateful (having been one without a need for a giant welder myself)