fbrady
@fbrady.bsky.social
https://franciscothebrady.github.io/
i like to code and skim econ papers.
🥳 public 🎉 goods🥳 amplifier
Howard U. Econ %>%
Fed Reserve RA %>%
UChicago IEL %>%
UMich MPP %>%
Analyst at Poverty Solutions
i like to code and skim econ papers.
🥳 public 🎉 goods🥳 amplifier
Howard U. Econ %>%
Fed Reserve RA %>%
UChicago IEL %>%
UMich MPP %>%
Analyst at Poverty Solutions
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Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)
RTs appreciated.
RTs appreciated.
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)
RTs appreciated.
RTs appreciated.
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only $5 short of raising $100 so that a self-employed labor reporter can enjoy a paid holiday on Thanksgiving
Donate to help us take some time off.
paydayreport.com/help-a-broke...
Donate to help us take some time off.
paydayreport.com/help-a-broke...
Help a Broke Labor Reporter Take Off Thanksgiving
I’d love to take some time off for the holidays, but these past few weeks, Payday Report has been in a fundraising drought.
paydayreport.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
only $5 short of raising $100 so that a self-employed labor reporter can enjoy a paid holiday on Thanksgiving
Donate to help us take some time off.
paydayreport.com/help-a-broke...
Donate to help us take some time off.
paydayreport.com/help-a-broke...
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We, especially in Michigan, have built our communities to require cars for our basic needs. Many people wouldn’t be able to reach even a grocery store without a car. Even for people who are able to drive and afford access to a vehicle, we all have to pretend we’ll never grow too old to drive.
The intersection of health and driving ability is a tricky one, especially for older adults.
Our new poll looks at this issue in people over 65, both nationally and in Michigan.
Read what we found: ihpi.umich.edu/news-events/...
Our new poll looks at this issue in people over 65, both nationally and in Michigan.
Read what we found: ihpi.umich.edu/news-events/...
Most older drivers aren’t thinking about the road ahead, poll suggests
More than 80% of people over 65 drive at least weekly, but less than half have a plan for a time when they can’t or shouldn’t drive; few have talked to a health professional about it
ihpi.umich.edu
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
We, especially in Michigan, have built our communities to require cars for our basic needs. Many people wouldn’t be able to reach even a grocery store without a car. Even for people who are able to drive and afford access to a vehicle, we all have to pretend we’ll never grow too old to drive.
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signal boosting
Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
signal boosting
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On Dec. 3rd, I will be releasing a @higheredlabor.<a href="https://bsky.social/Jain" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">bsky.social/Jain Family Institute paper co-written w/Andrew Elrod:
Rebuilding American Higher Education: from an Engine of Inequality to a Pillar of the Public Interest
In-person panel discussion in NYC:
jainfamilyinstitute.org/event-on-dec...
Rebuilding American Higher Education: from an Engine of Inequality to a Pillar of the Public Interest
In-person panel discussion in NYC:
jainfamilyinstitute.org/event-on-dec...
Event on Dec 3: Why American Higher Education Needs An Overhaul - Jain Family Institute
In-person at the Century Foundation in Manhattan at 6pm.
jainfamilyinstitute.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
On Dec. 3rd, I will be releasing a @higheredlabor.<a href="https://bsky.social/Jain" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">bsky.social/Jain Family Institute paper co-written w/Andrew Elrod:
Rebuilding American Higher Education: from an Engine of Inequality to a Pillar of the Public Interest
In-person panel discussion in NYC:
jainfamilyinstitute.org/event-on-dec...
Rebuilding American Higher Education: from an Engine of Inequality to a Pillar of the Public Interest
In-person panel discussion in NYC:
jainfamilyinstitute.org/event-on-dec...
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🚨 New working paper!
How well do people predict the results of studies?
@sdellavi.bsky.social and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... 🧵👇
How well do people predict the results of studies?
@sdellavi.bsky.social and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... 🧵👇
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🚨 New working paper!
How well do people predict the results of studies?
@sdellavi.bsky.social and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... 🧵👇
How well do people predict the results of studies?
@sdellavi.bsky.social and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... 🧵👇
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I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
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Anyway the District of Columbia is an incredible city and I love it so much and I’m so glad I get to live here.
November 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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A U.S. postal worker on Long Island is accused of trying to help a man escape from ICE custody earlier this month, according to a federal criminal complaint: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/YNagDp
US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island
Police arrested the worker and the man she tried to free.
gothamist.visitlink.me
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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“Claudia Sahm, a former Fed economist who blasted Summers and others for sexism in a widely shared and highly critical 2020 blog post, sounded vindicated. “Okay, so maybe I wasn’t too mean to him…” she said on social media after the emails were made public last week.” www.wsj.com/us-news/larr...
How Larry Summers’s Power Delayed the Reckoning Over His Epstein Ties
The former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president’s enormous network and clout kept him immune from past Jeffrey Epstein revelations. But this time was just too much.
www.wsj.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 AM
“Claudia Sahm, a former Fed economist who blasted Summers and others for sexism in a widely shared and highly critical 2020 blog post, sounded vindicated. “Okay, so maybe I wasn’t too mean to him…” she said on social media after the emails were made public last week.” www.wsj.com/us-news/larr...
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Washington DC’s Opportunity Scholarship Program (Vouchers for Low-Income Students to Attend Private School): high-quality RCT of students entering grades 2-12 in 2004-2005 found no discernible long-term impact on college enrollment rates. nospin.evidencebasedpolicy.org/articles/was...
Washington DC’s Opportunity Scholarship Program (Vouchers for Low-Income Students to Attend Private School) | No-Spin Evidence Review
nospin.evidencebasedpolicy.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Washington DC’s Opportunity Scholarship Program (Vouchers for Low-Income Students to Attend Private School): high-quality RCT of students entering grades 2-12 in 2004-2005 found no discernible long-term impact on college enrollment rates. nospin.evidencebasedpolicy.org/articles/was...
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As it turns out solving the first order problem is usually pretty efficacious and straightforward
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
As it turns out solving the first order problem is usually pretty efficacious and straightforward
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I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids.
In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.
In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids.
In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.
In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Philosophers: On World Philosophy Day, hit me with your #1 favorite work of philosophy (article or book).
November 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Philosophers: On World Philosophy Day, hit me with your #1 favorite work of philosophy (article or book).
this is unhinged
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
this is unhinged
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Our py-econometrics org has a new package: `maketables` is now installable from PyPi! You can create regression tables for PyFixest, statsmodels, linearmodels, and save them as html, latex, or word.
github: github.com/py-econometr...
docs: py-econometrics.github.io/maketables/
github: github.com/py-econometr...
docs: py-econometrics.github.io/maketables/
November 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Our py-econometrics org has a new package: `maketables` is now installable from PyPi! You can create regression tables for PyFixest, statsmodels, linearmodels, and save them as html, latex, or word.
github: github.com/py-econometr...
docs: py-econometrics.github.io/maketables/
github: github.com/py-econometr...
docs: py-econometrics.github.io/maketables/
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BLS staff statement from Sept: "The numbers will remain accurate and nonpartisan. And if that ever changes, the professionals will tell you."
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
BLS staff statement from Sept: "The numbers will remain accurate and nonpartisan. And if that ever changes, the professionals will tell you."
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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A reminder that @charlesgaba.com is a national fucking treasure.
A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:
acasignups.net/cdc-website
acasignups.net/cdc-website
CDC.Gov Archive Index
With the Musk/Trump Administration bulldozing their way through seemingly every federal government website, teams of data analysts and archivers have been attempting to download and archive as much fe...
acasignups.net
November 20, 2025 at 5:34 AM
A reminder that @charlesgaba.com is a national fucking treasure.
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aggghhhhh
We’re hearing helicopters and word is spreading of massive ICE raids tomorrow and Friday particularly in Gwinnett. These excessive raids put all of us in danger. Spread the word, look out for each other, and remember your rights.
November 20, 2025 at 5:54 AM
aggghhhhh
“the general ratio of cool new features to egregious bullshit is low” 😹
Screw it, I’m installing Linux
Screw it, I’m installing Linux
It’s the year of Linux on my desktop.
buff.ly
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
“the general ratio of cool new features to egregious bullshit is low” 😹
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The absolute first step was removing him from teaching and his center role (as I mentioned previously, these were easy to do since he had co-teachers). Now, the discussions about tenure can be had.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The absolute first step was removing him from teaching and his center role (as I mentioned previously, these were easy to do since he had co-teachers). Now, the discussions about tenure can be had.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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NEW — An investigation by a group of Chicago-area newsrooms and independent journalists found that federal agents used chemical weapons on protesters at least 49 times across 18 incidents across Chicago and the suburbs since October 1.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/feds...
thetriibe.com/2025/11/feds...
Feds used chemical agents dozens of times in Chicago • The TRiiBE
An investigation by reporters from six newsrooms found that agents used chemical irritants nearly 50 times during Operation Midway Blitz.
thetriibe.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
NEW — An investigation by a group of Chicago-area newsrooms and independent journalists found that federal agents used chemical weapons on protesters at least 49 times across 18 incidents across Chicago and the suburbs since October 1.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/feds...
thetriibe.com/2025/11/feds...
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Hi! I’m Mary and I’m on the #EconJobMarket this year.
Extreme heat doesn’t just affect students, it affects the people teaching them.
JMP 🧵:
Extreme heat doesn’t just affect students, it affects the people teaching them.
JMP 🧵:
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Hi! I’m Mary and I’m on the #EconJobMarket this year.
Extreme heat doesn’t just affect students, it affects the people teaching them.
JMP 🧵:
Extreme heat doesn’t just affect students, it affects the people teaching them.
JMP 🧵: