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And these aren't kids! They're adults ranging from mid 20s to their forties.

basic research on wacky things like Gila monster venom are what gave us GLP-1 drugs that are treating diabetes, obesity, & addiction in new ways

this piece from @whyy.org is great

an analogy: navigation apps are great but don't tell you how to climb Mt. Everest & survive

whyy.org/segments/oze...

Me checking my email while on the academic job market

Far more important imo

Do they do like, major specific stuff? We have some of that (e.g., business).

It is!

Lol I love this!

I know some people think "it is what it is" is a thought-terminating cliche or whatever, but it's getting me through job market season day by day 🤷‍♀️

My husband's grandpa is from Ririe, and my in-laws actually named my husband's older brother Ririe! Ririe lives in Declo though.

Lol this is funny

I've been banging this drum for the past four months or so: DOGE and Russ Vought broke the appropriations process. What's the point of going through the arduous process of crafting 12 spending bills, clearing them through committee and getting them through two chambers if Trump does rescissions?

bring back the santa robes

We hoe potatoes.

Henceforth the red robes will only be worn as an away kit when the Canadian Supreme Court is playing the US one.

Oh boy, do I have the perfect state for you!

My husband did NOT believe me when I showed him this picture. He thought it was a joke.

Very interesting. Why do you think this shift is occurring now?

Open enrollment begins on November 1, Mike.

stand by my choices for my daughter's cultural doll school project. Happy LDS General Conference weekend! 🤍 #lds #ldsconf

(Her kindergarten teacher is also LDS & is gonna lol)

It's a hit ✨🧡💚🤍🧡💚🤍✨

A great day of sorrow for our faith after our President dies and a church building full of our brothers and sisters in Michigan was attacked by a gunman/arsonist. Please keep the victims and families in your thoughts and prayers at this time.

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social

Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are?

@simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions

Thread 🧵1/10

Will do!

Happy to announce that my sweet daughter Matisse is playing Molly in the Palo Alto Players production of Annie! ⭐️🗽🎭

If you're in the Bay Area in November (or wanna visit), come and see her!
paplayers.org/event/annie/

Her show dates🗓️: 11/7, 11/14, 11/15 evening, 11/22 matinee, 11/23

I'm glad to hear 40-ish is a reasonable number maybe? The job market is tough, but fortunately my subfield is doing ok relative to others. Fingers crossed!

17 academic job applications down, now just 21 more to go! 😅

to put an even finer point on it: the percentage of U.S. adults who say they “strongly disapprove” of Trump‘s job as president (about 46-50% of adults) is significantly higher than the percent of adults who voted for him (about 32% of adults)

This is very on brand for them

This is absolute nonsense. First of all, VCs don't do survey-based statistical sampling on this scale, where the error is somewhat inherent. Second, modeling errors on a much larger scale are a common and accepted risk in VC.