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Prof Dynarski
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Economist & Prof at Harvard | 1st-gen college grad | Education, inequality | Shitposts are in a Boston accent | Former union organizer | Native Somervillen NYT Columns https://bit.ly/3TbaxXV https://linktr.ee/susan.dynarski www.susandynarski.com
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Nov 25
Everything I do as a researcher is driven by this picture. I was in the 5% of low-inc kids born in 60s who got a BA.
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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 2d
We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.
Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 9h
My periodic reminder about this Harvard perfidy

Main characters: Larry Summers and Andrei Shleifer

web.archive.org/web/20160827...
How Harvard lost Russia
The best and brightest of America's premier university came to Moscow in the 1990s to teach Russians how to be capitalists. This is the inside story of how their efforts led to scandal and disgrace.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 1d
My sister's a (now retired) high school teacher

When I told her my teaching schedule her jaw dropped to the floor
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 1d
Yep. Work is not done for the week, but teaching is
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 1d
Another week of teaching in the books
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Sarah Birnbaum ❌👑 @sarahvb.bsky.social · 2d
"Come on down, I got a Subway sandwich for ya" made me laugh out loud for the first time in what seems like years.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 2d
I've done this to this crowd with great effects. If you get into a camera shot wearing something obscene it ruins some turd's chance at lying through their teeth on the six o'clock news
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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 2d
This is why we need more costumed protesters

Hard to cosplay as a badass when a giant frog or a dino or a big pink pig is waving its arms and thrusting its pelvis at you
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d
This is where I get my books

They have an ebook shop
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d
$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d
$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d
Nah, I don’t wanna jinx them
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d
After decades I have identified a set of life habits that, if I stick to them, make me healthy, happy, and productive

Teen self says:

JESUS HOW BORING IS THAT
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 3d
📢 Call for papers:

🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩

30-31 March 2026, Munich

Keynote: Michela Carlana (Harvard)

PhD students & early postdocs, please apply!

www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...

Deadline: 11 Jan 2026

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 4d
They took down the Klan.
FBI cuts ties with Southern Poverty Law Center after MAGA push
The SPLC is the second civil rights group to lose its affiliation with the agency this week.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 4d
Book group picked The Sun Also Rises for

10% through and I don’t like any of the characters

which does not bode well for me getting through the remaining 90%
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 4d
I have been using dukkah I purchased at a spice store. Next step is to make my own.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 4d
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 6d
As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease.

There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 4d
It's fantastic
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 4d
Homemade sourdough, chocolate tahini, and dukkah
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 5d
Yes!
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 5d
Middle Eastern grocery
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 5d
Mine was a fancy PB&J to be honest
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 5d
Resolution of the University of Virginia Faculty Senate (thus not institutional policy and entirely non-binding, but still inspirational): Resolution Opposing the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" WHEREAS the United States Secretary of Education has requested that the University of Virginia enter into a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education", and WHEREAS the Compact contains provisions antithetical to the mission and traditions of the University, and WHEREAS the Compact contains provisions which endanger the independence and integrity of the University, and WHEREAS the compact likely violates state and federal law, and infringes upon the constitutional rights of members of the University community, and WHEREAS the University of Virginia exemplifies American academic values of the highest standard, including universal right to free speech and the cultivation of academic freedom; therefore BE IT RESOLVED that the Faculty Senate of the University of Virginia firmly opposes this Compact as written and calls upon Interim President Mahoney and the Board of Visitors to also reject this Compact outright as well as any similar proposal compromising the mission, values, and independence of the University. Feature Date: Friday, October 3, 2025
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 5d
The homemade modifier applies only to the bread
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