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Michael Hicks

@profhicks.bsky.social

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Father of three marvels, lucky husband, parent lottery winner. Retired infantry soldier, George & Frances Ball Professor of Economics at Ball State’s Center for Business and Economic Research. https://www.bsu.edu/cber

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Michael J. Hicks is the George & Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Economics and director of the Center for Business and Economic Research and Professor of Economics at Ball State University. .. more

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 4d

We cannot forget who was complicit on January 6th.

Ted Cruz fanned the flames of insurrection.

Ken Paxton provoked the rioters before the assault.

John Cornyn refused to investigate the attack.

They have forfeited their right to represent us in our nation’s Capitol.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 4d

The number of ways this is unconstitutional lunacy
is…a lot

Reposted by John McLaren, W. Andy Knight, Michelle Williams , and 5 more John McLaren, W. Andy Knight, Michelle Williams, Michael J. Hicks, Ann Bartow, John Mecklin, Martin S. Flaherty, Harvey J. Kaye

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5d

.@PabloReports: What do you make of the White House blaming the police for what happened on January 6th?

Lieu: The White House’s statement is batshit crazy.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public.
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Pew Research Center is seeking a Data Archivist to support our commitment to open science and data transparency. This newly created role will play a key part in enhancing the accessibility, usability, and reproducibility of our research data while continuing to protect the privacy and identity of our survey participants.

As Data Archivist, you will lead efforts to create and implement best practices for preparing, documenting, and disseminating datasets. These best practices should maximize FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles while minimizing disclosure risk. You will work across teams to ensure our data is well-organized and thoroughly documented.

You will serve as an internal advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are not only accurate and comprehensive but also easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public.

This is a full-time, Pew Research Center position. The position is funded by an external grant and limited to a two-year term.

Primary Responsibilities

Develop optimization procedures to improve discoverability of our datasets on internal and external platforms

Develop and maintain standards to improve accessibility of our microdata and tab plans by changing/adding formats and/or adding documentation

Identify metadata documentation best practices and a process to implement those best practices at the Center

Work with Legal to evaluate most appropriate license to publicly share the Center's survey data, including Creative Common options

Identify and correct processing inefficiencies in our data publication process

Sit on the internal Disclosure Risk Taskforce

Document analytical decisions and code to support transparency and replicability, including the development of a RACI chart for publishing code to recreate derived variables that are used in reports but are not included in the microdata

Manage/create merged time series datasets for select Center datasets

Identify a process for internally archiving data and projects that are no longer in active use

Identify and implement a process to assign Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) to microdata

Prepare and upload public-facing datasets and restricted-use datasets for external sharing.

Train staff on FAIR principles and best practices in data archiving.

Education/Training/Experience

Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in library sciences, organizational management, or a related field.

5-7 years of experience with data archiving, database management, or survey research. This may include graduate training at the MA/PhD level or equivalent experience in an applied setting.

At least 3-5 years of experience applying FAIR and open science principles.

Background in social science research or data curation.

Experience in data management, archiving, or research support.

Familiarity with FAIR principles, Creative Common licensing, data privacy principles, and exposure risk.

Proficiency in metadata standards and documentation tools.

Experience managing research projects, including working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team.

Experience with statistical software (e.g., R, Python, Stata) and reproducible research workflows.

Knowledge, Skill and Workplace Requirements

Strong organizational and communication skills.

Detail oriented with exacting standards to maintain accuracy and impartiality in all work products.

Ability to work independently to carry out special projects from start to finish.

Ability to balance numerous tasks simultaneously.

Ability to work collaboratively and collegially with other team members, as well as with staff from other Pew Research Center teams.

Ability to balance competing priorities and identify optimal solutions

FLSA Status: Exempt

Compensation: Starting salary is commensurate with experience within the range of $100,000 - $120,000.

Hybrid Work Schedule: Pew Research Center staff are required to be present in the Center’s Washington, D.C., office three core days weekly (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday). Staff may work virtually from remote locations on other days in a typical work week.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Rosemary A. Joyce, Michael J. Hicks

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

BARTIROMO: With all due respect, I think the goal here is to stop the drug and human trafficking into America, and I don't think Saudi Arabia is sending fentanyl into America

RAND PAUL: Well, neither does Venezuela

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 5d

All that's necessary for evil to triumph is that good does nothing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?

MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO

T: So force is on the table?

M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland

Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Steve Peers, David Johnson , and 11 more Joe R. Feagin, Steve Peers, David Johnson, Maarten Vink, Melissa Johnson, Sanford F. Schram, Kathi Wilson, Michael J. Hicks, Henrik Skaug Sætra, Greg Linden, Sean P. Corcoran, Pam Jarvis, Timothy D. McBride, David Darmofal

Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 8d

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.

The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

Reposted by Diane Ravitch, Alan Richardson, Michael J. Hicks , and 1 more Diane Ravitch, Alan Richardson, Michael J. Hicks, Olivier Mannoni

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10d

In case you were wondering, Jack Smith's testimony was the *opposite* of "total exoneration."

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Daniel W. Drezner, W. Andy Knight , and 3 more Rosemary A. Joyce, Daniel W. Drezner, W. Andy Knight, Gerald Friedman, Michael J. Hicks, David Darmofal

Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 11d

Jack Smith in just-released House Committee interview … about Trump:

“The attack that happened at the Capitol … does not happen without him. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit”

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Jack Smith in House Cmte interview re: Trump: “Attack.. at the Capitol does not happen without him”

YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane Reports

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Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 19d

Navarro is nothing if not addled and inconsistent.

Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Fabián Muniesa, Michael J. Hicks

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20d

Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->

Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 20d

Nice roundup of comments on the tariff/manufacturing fiasco that is the Trump administration.

Nice to be in the company of @mtkonczal.bsky.social and @pkrugman.bsky.social in this piece.

www.commondreams.org/news/trump-t...

'An Abject Failure': Economists Trash Trump's Disastrous Job Creation Record in Year-End Reviews | Common Dreams

President Donald Trump's promise of booming manufacturing jobs through high tariffs has failed, as economists reveal a decline in key sectors.

www.commondreams.org

Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 20d

I think this is a very thoughtful assessment.

I have written ~1,000 published columns, but am not a journalist. Public opinion researcher is not the same thing as journalism.

Reposted by Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers, Michael J. Hicks , and 1 more Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers, Michael J. Hicks, Aviel Roshwald

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20d

If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism.
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
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CBS Pulled a “60 Minutes” Story Because the White House Refused to Comment — That’s a Veto on Journalism

Pulling a finished investigation because the administration refused to comment isn’t journalism. It’s submission.

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Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 23d

Wait, are you suggesting Naomi Wolf doesn’t take time to carfully scrutinize her examples?

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 23d

Americans' economic sentiment breaking records!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23d

UMich consumer sentiment (current conditions) at 50.4 is a new all-time low -- going back to data from the 1970s.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 23d

U.S MICHIGAN CONSUMER SENTIMENT (DEC) ACTUAL: 52.9 VS 53.3 PREVIOUS; EST 53.5

Reposted by Michael J. Hicks, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 23d

The Green Book Project is best understood as memorializing the small number of businesses that respected Black customers. What was the usual way Black customers were treated? Listen to my uncle describe an ice cream parlor to see 1/3 greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject
#CommunityMap #EconSky

Reposted by Aaron Sojourner, Michael J. Hicks

Karl Schamotta @karl-schamotta.bsky.social · 24d

Great chart from @ernietedeschi.bsky.social on the hellsite: goods generating all of the "excess" inflation while services converge to zero:

Reposted by Jason Mittell, Joseph A. McCartin, Sarah Roberts , and 3 more Jason Mittell, Joseph A. McCartin, Sarah Roberts, Michael J. Hicks, Ann Bartow, Greg Linden

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24d

Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."

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maninthebooth.bsky.social @maninthebooth.bsky.social · 24d

If you're unfamiliar with the writing of @profhicks.bsky.social , this one skewers current GOP economic strategies in IN, which actually have largely been GOP national strategy since Reagan. Why do we reject Marx, yet some still blindly embrace Laffer?

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Commentaries - Weekly Commentary with Michael Hicks

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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Joe R. Feagin, Els Torreele , and 1 more Richard S.J. Tol, Joe R. Feagin, Els Torreele, Michael J. Hicks

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 25d

1. A blockade is an act of war

2. The idea that Venezuela has stolen land from the United States is so laughably stupid on its face that even some of his base is like 🤨

3. It’s always about oil.

Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 26d

I know this graphic doesn't contain the robust casual evidence that say, RFK, jr's HHS demands, but it is almost like something tangible happened last April that has sent the US economy into a moribund state.

I wonder what it could've possibly been?

Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 26d

Today has me thinking of these words: “The soldier’s heart, the soldier’s spirit, the soldier’s soul, are everything.”

- George C Marshall

Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 26d

“We hold these truths to be self-evident . . . “

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Kimberly A. Prather, Joe R. Feagin , and 3 more Kim L. Scheppele, Kimberly A. Prather, Joe R. Feagin, Sanford F. Schram, Michael J. Hicks, David Darmofal

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27d

Big announcement from Gov. Newsom:

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 27d

He may not be the worst president ever but he is without question the worst person to ever serve as president.

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers , and 2 more Richard S.J. Tol, Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers, Gerald Friedman, Michael J. Hicks

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27d

Maybe this wasn’t the best idea.

Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Stefan Reis, Peter Thorne , and 7 more Joe R. Feagin, Stefan Reis, Peter Thorne, Tim Bale, David Johnson, Mary Corcoran, Michael J. Hicks, Brian Doucet, Jos Akkermans, Karen O’Leary

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29d

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...

🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍

Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders, Joe R. Feagin, Will Jennings , and 24 more Elizabeth Saunders, Joe R. Feagin, Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan, Tom Clark, Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers, Robert W. Wallace, Rosemary A. Joyce, Eric Goldman, Michelle Dion, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, Aaron Sojourner, Andrew L. Whitehead, Scott A. Imberman, Michael D. McDonald, Alfie Kohn, Mark Rice, Michael J. Hicks, Ann Bartow, Julie Novkov, Cullen S. Hendrix, Alexandra Cirone, Colin Woodard, David Darmofal, Deborah M. Kolb

John Bisognano @johnbisognano.com · Dec 12

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.

I don’t know how else to say it…

Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · Dec 12

Bad day to be an Indianan, great day to be a Hoosier.

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