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John Mullahy

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UW-Madison, Univ. of Galway, NBER C.V.: https://uwmadison.box.com/s/kkaquhtv5b2og4yo6md5p34f7q7gx1ju Banner image: Free Clinic (detail), Jacob Lawrence, 1937

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 2h

Evidence-chaste health policy

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d

What exactly is a “Democrat program”?

Medicare? Medicaid? Health insurance? 🤔

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We'll be making cuts that will be permanent. And we're only going to cut Democrat programs. I hate to tell you."

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 4h

"that which would strengthen and enlarge men's minds, free and daring speculation on the highest subjects, is abandoned"

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 5h

Virginia Senate leaders say UVa should cease considering the “compact”:

“The conditions outlined … are fundamentally incompatible with the mission and values of a premier public research university.”

www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Virginia Senate leaders express “unequivocal opposition” to Compact

The letter calls upon the University to immediately cease consideration of the Compact, and if not, the state will work to negatively impact the University’s funding.

www.cavalierdaily.com

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 7h

"afflicted with the malady of thought"

This excerpt from J.S. Mill's On Liberty is a bit long but so timely.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 13h

Duflo-Banerjee posts outnumbering Machado posts by about 4 to 1 on my timeline. 🤔

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Bart Bingenheimer @bartbing.bsky.social · 14h

Trump can still win the Nobel Peace Prize if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 15h

Not only is Trump denied the honor, the award appears to serve—beyond honoring Machado's accomplishments—as a colossal refutation of his policies.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 15h

Bravissima

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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 18h

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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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d

What exactly is a “Democrat program”?

Medicare? Medicaid? Health insurance? 🤔

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We'll be making cuts that will be permanent. And we're only going to cut Democrat programs. I hate to tell you."

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 1d

"Nobel prizes in the sciences are the result of intellectual capital built over decades of hard work and research. The U.S. will get fewer in the future if the Trump Administration won’t welcome legal immigrants and refugees."

www.wsj.com/opinion/nobe...

Opinion | Immigrants and American Nobel Prizes

Three of the six U.S. science winners this year are foreign-born.

www.wsj.com

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 1d

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility…

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 1d

Peace

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Seamus Heaney HomePlace @shhomeplace.bsky.social · 1d

Happy release day! 📖✨

The Poems of Seamus Heaney is out now - a landmark publication edited by Rosie Lavan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Matthew Hollis, featuring all Heaney’s published poems, posthumous works and family-selected unpublished pieces.

Available today from our Gift Shop!

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 2d

The endowment effect in the 1880s. (The Rifleman, S3/E18)

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Catie Haunted Haus-man 👻👻👻 @catiehausman.bsky.social · 2d

Job posting!

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Assistant or Associate Professor of Global Environmental Policy

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor: School for Environment and Sustainability

Come be a Wolverine! In Tree Town! In the Mitten!

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 2d

It's that time of year: pumpkin spice Stata

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 2d

Most Americans, Oct. 2025

www.thefarside.com/2025/10/08/4

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John Cawley @johncawley.bsky.social · 3d

Many thanks to Jim Flynn @jimflynn9.bsky.social for interviewing me for the ASHEcon Newsletter @ashecon.bsky.social. It was fun to chat about risky health behaviors, priorities for ASHEcon, the #EconJobMarket, and even favorite movie/book/teams. #EconSky

www.ashecon.org/activities/n...

John Cawley Interview – ASHEcon

www.ashecon.org

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 3d

Have to start by identifying domains. I'll take a first crack at it: A: extrinsic factors: 1) weather; 2) company; 3) environmental aesthetics; 4) money/reputation on the line; B: intrinsic factors: 1) direction; 2) curvature; 3) impact sound; 4) divot depth; 5) injuries.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 3d

Not carrying through on serious development of this idea is one of my life's greatest regrets. Perhaps it's not too late.

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Genevieve Kanter @profgenkanter.bsky.social · 3d

Consolidation in the EHR market -- where there are 2 dominant vendors -- is creating a big risk of a catastrophic cybersecurity event.

@ajh.bsky.social, @natea.bsky.social, and I ponder the possibility of a "single-point-of-failure" risk in the EHR market in this Health Affairs Scholar commentary

Electronic health record market consolidation and implications for cybersecurity

Abstract. Over the past decade, the electronic health record (EHR) market has become increasingly consolidated, with the majority of care delivery organiza

academic.oup.com

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 3d

Will Joy-Adjusted Life Years (JALYs) become widely adopted health-outcome measures? *

* I seem to recall @davidmcutler.bsky.social years ago making reference to jogging-adjusted life years, so the JALY acronym may already be claimed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/w...

Is ‘Joyspan’ the Key to Aging Well?

www.nytimes.com

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PBS Wisconsin @pbswisconsin.bsky.social · 4d

The Wisconsin Department of Justice is asking a Waukesha County judge to immediately put on hold an order that would require elections officials to verify the citizenship of all 3.6 million registered Wisconsin voters before the statewide election in February 2026, reports @apnews.com.