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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 22h

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 22h

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Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · 1d

Back to up 255 Kelvin here in Chicago.

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 1d

From my cold, dead hands...

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 1d

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The Government Wants You to Kick Your Diet Soda Habit

New recommendations advise limiting foods and drinks with nonsugar sweeteners, but industry groups maintain the products are safe.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll take the extra time and transportation to get to a Costco over standing in line for two hours to get into the Louvre,” said Tommy Breaux, a 66-year-old retiree in Houston who counts a suburban Paris location among his foreign conquests.

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Americans Travel the World Only to Wind Up in Costco

Fans skip the Louvre and other tourist attractions to buy bulk souvenirs and find out if the hot dog is different.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 1d

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Economists Are Studying the Slowing Job Market—and Feeling It Themselves

Newly minted Ph.D.s tend to work for universities, government agencies and big white-collar companies. It’s not a great hiring time for any of them.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 1d

On the plus side the queue at our local ice cream shop will likely be relatively short.

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 1d

Join us in Milan this summer.

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 2d

🥶 One way to define extreme cold...

UW–Madison @uwmadison.bsky.social · 2d

Weather update: In response to the extreme cold, UW–Madison is canceling classes on Friday, January 23.

The cancelation applies to all class meetings, including lectures, labs and discussion sections. All other campus operations will continue as normal.

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Weather update: Friday classes canceled

In response to the extreme cold, UW–Madison is canceling classes on Friday, January 23.

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UW–Madison @uwmadison.bsky.social · 2d

Weather update: In response to the extreme cold, UW–Madison is canceling classes on Friday, January 23.

The cancelation applies to all class meetings, including lectures, labs and discussion sections. All other campus operations will continue as normal.

More info: news.wisc.edu/weather-upda...

Weather update: Friday classes canceled

In response to the extreme cold, UW–Madison is canceling classes on Friday, January 23.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 2d

Jawdropping juxtaposition

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 2d

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Inside Trump’s Head-Spinning Greenland U-Turn

The president ruled out using force to take control of Greenland and called off promised tariffs on European nations.

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AEA Information @aeainformation.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to Joseph P. Newhouse of @harvard.edu who was recognized as a 2025 Distinguished Fellow by Katharine Abraham at the #ASSA2026 Annual Meeting. #econsky aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 3d

Is a framework of a deal something like a concept of a plan?

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Greenland Live Updates: Trump Calls Off Tariffs on Europe Over Danish Territory

President Trump said he reached the “framework of a future deal” on Greenland with NATO.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 3d

Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child.
—Charles Dickens

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 4d

More on Stella Cunliffe
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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 4d

"Deaths reduced by 800%"

Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 4d

Here is the full text of Carney's speech. Very much worth reading.

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The Carney doctrine

Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech

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Martin Andersen @martin-andersen.bsky.social · 4d

There is an irony that Trump is trying to steal Greenland from Denmark while copying their vaccine system.

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 4d

Incentives Matter, Chapter 832.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 4d

“The reality is that pharmaceutical ads have become kind of themselves, generic, right?...There’s lots of people dancing in slow motion in fields or driving convertibles down the Pacific Coast Highway or whatever. You don’t know what they’re saying.”

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Novo Nordisk Aims to Set Ozempic Apart From Other GLP-1s in New Ad Campaign

Novo Nordisk’s new Ozempic ads star Justin Long and John Hodgman, the “Mac” and “PC” of an iconic Apple campaign, to promote the drug’s wider FDA approvals.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 4d

"The typewriter showed me exactly when I wasn’t present. It was humbling. Useful. It made me a better writer..."

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In a Typewriter Repair Shop, a Reporter Finds a Familiar Hum

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 5d

The reincarnation of Jimmy Chitwood.

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 5d

FERNANDO. MENDOZA.

AN UNREAL PLAY ON 4TH DOWN.

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 5d

FERNANDO. MENDOZA.

AN UNREAL PLAY ON 4TH DOWN.

John Cawley @johncawley.bsky.social · 5d

Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis" (1776):
"There are persons who see not the full extent of the evil which threatens them; they solace themselves with hopes that the enemy, if he succeed, will be merciful. It is the madness of folly to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice..."

Tim Bresnahan @timobres.bsky.social · 5d

Poetry Foundation's "poem of the day" notes that it is Martin Luther King Day. "Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall will break your heart and build your resolve. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/poem-o...

Poem of the Day

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 5d

"These cases show that investor ownership – and its consequences for patients and health care workers – need not be met with passive acceptance."

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