Seth Morgan

Really loving @liberalcurrents.com these days. Always challenges my brain and adds to my reading list. Good stuff by @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com , @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com , @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com and others.

With my latest project I switched from stargazer to modelsummary for generating tables. Really great R package! Thanks to @vincentab.bsky.social. modelsummary.com

Is there a field biologist in the Portland, Oregon, area who wouldn't mind being in a bear suit for an hour in the woods on August 4. For science. DM me.

My practical tips for designing and analyzing powerful experiments

My practical tips for designing, implementing, and analyzing powerful experiments. In today's blog I summarize a new paper I've written for a special issue on power calculations. A key message is that it does not make sense to talk of “the” power of an experiment. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

🦐 Shrimp farms in Indonesia yield more when surrounded by mangroves.

Restoring mangroves = better shrimp + stronger climate resilience. Let’s farm smarter, not harder.

Learn more about this work here link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Looking for economists to follow on BlueSky, in particular in your field or geographic area? IDEAS has various lists to help you. See there as well to get listed (hint: just add your BlueSky handle in your author profile)

ideas.repec.org/i/ebluesky.h...

#RePEc #EconSky

The first commit for the #rstats {tigris} package was 10 (!) years ago, and the package is still going strong.

tigris gets geographic data from the US Census Bureau into R for you -- often in a single line of code.

As tigris turns 10, let's review what it can do:

Adrian Tchaikovsky is terrific! Really loved Children of Time. Maybe favorite sci-fi and up there with Iain Banks for being full of ideas.

How should we measure household wealth in our surveys?

Nice resource on measuring wealth in surveys: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

I am pleased to share the most significant study that I have so far contributed to. We find overwhelming evidence that mechanical thinning and prescribed fire reduce subsequent wildfire severity across seasonally dry forests in the western USA. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My words exactly 😂

Bildungscomics: An Internet Coming of Age Clicking "Random" again

I wrote a love letter to my favorite webcomics. Thanks @badmachinery.com , @meredithgran.com and @katebeaton.bsky.social for being there for me in my adulting years! open.substack.com/pub/theenthu...

Not introductory, but a great resource nonetheless: An #RStats, #PyData & #JuliaLanf companion for "Introductory Econometrics" by @jmwooldridge.bsky.social made by Florian Heiss & Daniel Brunner
#EconSky

www.urfie.net

Nice. And the list of topics just keeps getting longer! 😂

‘In his company you could not be lazy’: remembering my friend Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o A giant of African literature whose best works existed between the political and the personal, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was warm, funny and friendly – and liked to bet on my pool games

Just saw today that Ngugi wa Thiong'o passed away last week. Farewell to a great writer! If you haven't read Wizard of the Crow, do yourself a favor and pick it up. It's a wild and furious ride. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

How much mobility is there? Mobility Rates Out of Low-Wage Work in the U.S.

Some economic sociology for #econsky to ponder from @rollingdownhill.com "How much mobility is there?" - More than you'd think but less than you'd hope. And Michael does a good job at pulling texture and detail out of the data: www.rollingdownhill.com/p/how-much-m...

Annual Report for Science Come learn about what the science team at TNC was up to in 2024.

What happens when 1,000+ scientists come together to tackle some of the world’s biggest nature and climate challenges in over 80 countries around the world? Innovation, impact, and hope--that's what!

If you're looking for encouraging news, check out our 2024 @nature_org Science Impact Report ⬇️

Try Saying "Earth" Masala greeted me by pissing into his own mouth

I wrote about Wendell Berry and Wiesław Myśliwski‘s wonderful novel Stone Upon Stone. Also a goat. open.substack.com/pub/theenthu...

Signed, Sealed, Delivered by Stevie Wonder

@reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz @theverge.com Brendan Carr is a…

It’s been great seeing people publish their Surf feeds to Bluesky today. Thanks for giving it a whirl. 🌊

Here are some cool feeds to check out this weekend. 🧵...

Bluesky accounts here include @mattsitman.bsky.social of Know Your Enemy, @moiradonegan.bsky.social and @adriandaub.bsky.social of In Bed With the Right, @lioneltrolling.bsky.social and @jamellebouie.net of @unclearpod.bsky.social.

Everyone here is united by their inter-related podcast universe and their good-faith readings of their opponents. A real education!

I made a feed using @surf.social consisting of folks I heard about via the podcasts “Know Your Enemy” and “You’re Wrong About” — among others. I think of them as…
The “Do the Reading” Left
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🚨Development Economists!🚨Do you use Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS Program) data, which had been supported by USAID? IPUMS ( @ipums.bsky.social ) and the UN Statistics Division have a survey for you. I just filled it out. You can too. #econsky

Beyond vital political stakes, it also looks like admin misread the narrative, too. They tried to pitch “MS-13 illegal” and assumed story would end there.

Instead it’s become a daily, episodic, human-interest and court drama about a wrongfully deported loving husband, union-member and caregiver.

Just a reminder how classic what we're seeing is:
1. redefine a group as a threat to civilization
2. reduce legal protections that they enjoy
3. abuse, threaten, harm, and/or relocate them
4. dismiss/ignore concerns about abuses and harms from the process
5. repeat steps 2-4, escalating each time

It shouldn’t have to be said but we have to say it: Nicaraguans are not gang members, Palestinians are not terrorists.

The playbook is clear: demonize a minority group until their identity is associated with bad things. Then imprison them or worse, acting as if their identity is sufficient evidence of a crime.

What is “Indigenous Knowledge” And Why Does It Matter? Integrating Ancestral Wisdom and Approaches into Federal Decision-Making | OSTP | The White House By  Raychelle Aluaq Daniel, Deputy Director for the Arctic Executive Steering Committee and Policy Advisor for Indigenous Knowledge  T. ‘Aulani Wilhelm, Assistant Director for Ocean Conservation, Clim...

"What is Indigenous Knowledge?" Sourced this from the Wayback Machine to cite it in a paper. Remember when the White House cared about knowledge? web.archive.org/web/20250116...