In a new paper, we show from longitudinal UK and France data that income volatility (fluctatuations month to month) are bad for mental and general health. And it is much badder than you would expect given the lowness of the low months:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Paging @johnpfaff.bsky.social

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

My wife agrees with you, though I stan French Toast Crunch instead.

I just made the mistake of looking it up. Trust your instincts on this one.

If you score that discussion every week, you can actually get 11/10 some weeks.

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

Will be a little sad forever that we got the clearest object lesson possible that each individual's health is inextricably related to every other individual's health in a society, and we seem to have come out of it with even less collective will to reshape our society relative to this knowledge.

That ratio, in turn, is a downstream effect of decades-long defunding of higher education such that institutions cannot afford enough qualified instructors for the student populations that increased for decades as administrations attempted to replace lost funding w tuition dollars

The result is a set of mutually reinforcing trends where fewer, lower-paid instructors buckle under (until recently) a constantly expanding student population. The students themselves caught in another accelerating debt crisis to complete their educations amidst rising costs

Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.

Do you love research & writing & all things animal behavior? Well our journal, Animal Behavior, recruiting up to 5 (count em!) new Associate Editors!

Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk ([email protected]) by Oct 31!

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The teacher pay penalty continues to grow.

Public school teachers are paid only 73 cents for every dollar paid to similar college graduates

New data from Sylvia Allegretto @epi.org and @ceprdc.bsky.social

Also worth recalling bsky.app/profile/patd...

Holy shit

The first time an Alberta government invoked the notwithstanding clause, public outrage forced a reversal in less than 24 hours. I wish to God Albertans would show the same moral fury now, when school children are outed & bullied by the government that is supposed to protect them. #ableg #abpoli

After last year’s US election, people liked to point out that almost every OECD country saw the party in power during the post-covid inflation lose office in the next election. With one big exception: Mexico. There may be a reason for that. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

I soldered my first sets of pickups this year to upgrade a couple of guitars. Very proud of myself, but that feeling would vanish in an instant if anyone peeked under the pickguard.

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'

Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.

Here, he tells us his story.

Some thoughts about the Great Khan heading into Chicagoland's big Reverse Fort Sumter weekend.