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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 34m

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Trending Stocks @trending-stocks.bsky.social · 2h

Timed Bitcoin short nets $192M. #econsky

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.

30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.

The market dumped.

The trader made +$192 million in two hours.

Unusual.

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 20h

That's legit. For me, lox and scallion cream cheese on sesame, untoasted.

Also, everything bagels are kind of bad.

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 1d

Remember this like it was yesterday. Also, I am old.

Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 1d

Milwaukee, 43 years ago today

$By Paul G. Hayes of The Journal Staff Milwaukee burst with unrestrained joy Sunday night because its baseball team had brought home the American League pennant. It was a party unmatched in the memories. that large fraction of people 25 years old and younger who attended. For happiness, its nearest rival was 25 years ago, a party for the world champion Milwaukee Braves. For public affection, you had to go back to the end of World War II. For drinking, it might have surpassed Milwaukee's celebration of the end of Prohibition.$

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

ER doc here! There is no such thing as “an ER model” hospital. An ER w/o a hospital is like a bandaid on a bullet hole. What if you need surgery? Cardiac cath? Specialist care? Increased distance means delays, which mean real harms & even deaths. But, also, when hospitals close their ERs close, too…

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 1d

Content collinearity.

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 1d

A student wrote me to ask whether it's okay that he'd always miss part of my confirmatory factor analysis class due to an overlap with another course, and I told him it's probably okay, given that the other course is linear algebra I for math students.

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 1d

That's a hell of an instrumental variable, folks. Not a good one, but a hell of a one.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 2d

What percentage of the health research funding pot do you think goes on methods and meta science?

Around 2% (if you add together all mention of research design and methodologies across all areas from research.hscni.net/sites/defaul...)

Just 2% spent on the part that underpins EVERYTHING we do.

Dr Will Ball @wpball.com · 2d

Reading some interest stats about health research funding in the UK in recent years.

- Only 7% goes to Mental Health research
- Only 5% of that MH funding goes to studies related to prevention

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Absolute banger of a blog post from Dallas Fed economist Anton Cheremukhin who estimates breakeven payrolls have fallen to *30k* thanks to rapid declines in population growth.
www.dallasfed.org/research/eco...

Chart showing estimates of US population growth at monthly frequencies from 2017-2025 from BLS, BEA/Census, CBO, and author's calculations

Estimated monthly contributions to monthly breakeven payroll growth across population, changes in institutionalization/civilian status, and labor force participation 2017 - 2025

Estimated monthly breakeven payrolls rate from 2022-2025

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 2d

New Berlin

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Marcella Alsan @marcellaalsan.bsky.social · 2d

PhD slots in health econ at Hamburg Center for Health Economics, University of Hamburg Germany

Just came back from a visit and it's a vibrant city and Center.
www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

Job advertisement

www.uni-hamburg.de

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 2d

We used to sometimes get Maria's too - if they had a better coupon deal! Great pizza. Classic Milwaukee style.

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 3d

Glad to see this place from my childhood is still doing great (DiStefano's on Forest Home) - 4.8 stars on Google:

www.distefanospizza.com

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 3d

This is showing up as a past event - and no registration link. I'd like to attend via Zoom - can you send me a link?

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Social Science Research Institute at Penn State @ssripennstate.bsky.social · 3d

Penn State's Prevention Research Center will host the Elevate PA, CSUA & other Substance Use-related work at Penn State seminar featuring SSRI Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction director, Joel Segel, on Wed. Oct. 8 from 12pm-1pm in 312BBH & via Zoom. Register ➡️

PRC Seminar: "Elevate PA, CSUA & other Substance Use-related work at Penn State" - Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center

Wednesday, October 8, 2025 Noon-1 p.m. (ET) If you can, join us for lunch and conversation at 11:30 a.m.

buff.ly

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 3d

I grew up in Milwaukee. First time I visited Buffalo, NY, I was shocked at how much it felt like home. So, I'd say they nailed that one.

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 3d

A kinda related story: My grandfather played the lotto every week and the morning after a draw he and his buds would go to the convenience store where they bought tickets and check their numbers together over coffee. Then word came that someone had bought the winning ticket from that store. 1/

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 3d

If you have an inkling you might win a Nobel prize, do you feel some urge to ensure you’re in a really noteworthy inaccessible place when it’s announced so you’ve got a good story about getting the news. ‘So, it was as our submersible rose from the Mariana Trench when my phone started pinging…’

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 3d

That's really impressive. We have an Ioniq 6 here in PA - our cost is about 4.7 cents per mile.

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 3d

I'm pulling for Chuck Manski.

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, this is pretty much the definition of a Constitutional crisis.

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 3d

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you, ACLS

www.acls.org/news/acls-st...

ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...

www.acls.org

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 3d

"The most recent data show that NPs comprise 47% of all US primary care clinicians and, together with physician assistants/associates (PAs) and certified nurse midwives (CNMs), comprise 52% of primary care clinicians working in community health centers." www.milbank.org/publications...

Investing in Primary Care: The Nurse Practitioner Will See You Now | Milbank Memorial Fund

Decades of research confirms the safety, quality, and effectiveness of care provided by NPs, including care for complex patients, and their acceptance and approval by patients. Yet challenges remain i...

www.milbank.org

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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