Alex Eble

The Columbia deal is incredibly disappointing. For those of us here--faculty and students--trying every day to do good work, it's a huge blow. But "the discourse" is also demoralizing for two reasons: it assumes the choice was simple and it seems to blame all at Columbia. 1/6

How does unreliable urban transport disproportionately limit women’s access to higher education—and can infrastructure fixes close the gap? @falbav.bsky.social , @wakeforest.bsky.social , discusses: faculti.net/transport-ba...
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I've seen editors of journals say this before but being on the other side can confirm: the easiest zero-cost way to speed up the review process is to quickly turn down requests to review that you can't do.

Good to know! Are you using the free version or one of the upgraded ones?

A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper

Trivia for your next pub quiz — or perhaps trade negotiation: The United States already has a free trade agreement with Canada. It's called USMCA, and was negotiated by President Trump.

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.

If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

nyt op-ed: we cannot normalize the left’s brazen attempt to win voters by talking to them

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Nice to be back with @jacobsfoundation.bsky.social among fellow fellows! @alexeble.bsky.social @marome1.bsky.social @boldinsights.bsky.social
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Evergreen skeet

Do you live in Missouri?
Ann Wagner and Mark Alford are on the fence about the bill that would gut PEPFAR and endanger millions of lives.
PLEASE reach out to them and tell them to save PEPFAR. act.pih.org/global-healt...

Happening tomorrow! plz reskeet

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

"Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers," says Trump, who four months ago pardoned people who beat police officers with pipes, flagpoles, baseball bats and 2-by-4s at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and blue jeans . Alt: a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and blue jeans giving yo wtf side eye.

Economics professors, National Security professionals, NASA, historians with expertise in failing strongman nations, reading twitter right now

So glad, and honored, to be a part of the great work you all do!

So cool! 👏👏👏

Our work now published showing how better AI can improve both accuracy and diversity in hiring relative to supervised learning tools and status-quo human hiring.

King of the Hill Meme withJohn Redcorn being asked "Hey do your people even celebrate Thanksgiving?" and him responding "We did. Once."

Rest in peace Jonathan Joss

Never has any leader had so many people wanting to make the argument that “not wearing any clothes actually makes the emperor better dressed if you think about it.”

Trump administration: We’ll beat China by destroying everything that makes us competitive with China.

Throwing 6,800 young people's lives into chaos is a shameful and un-American way to make whatever point they think they're making. Even if quickly blocked, international students will feel more precarious than ever.

This is the stuff of authoritarian regimes. There isn't even the pretense that this is anything but persecution, unbound by law.

Now if they could get him to make a personal website, my head might actually explode...

A+

Will I, an economist, learn from past experience to inform future behavior?

Absolutely not.

George McJunkin, cowboy born to slaves in Midway Texas, was the first to find and recognize the significance of Folsom points, which pushed back the arrival of humans to the Americas to at least 10,000 BC (at the time the consensus view was that the Americas were uninhabited until 1,000 BC or so)

Overleaf went down as I was editing my slides the morning of my seminar. AMA!