Mark Chin
@mememedianmode.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Education Policy & Inequality, Vanderbilt University.
Post mainly about old doggos & being a new dad. NBA & ultimate frisbee fan.
https://www.markjchin.com/
Post mainly about old doggos & being a new dad. NBA & ultimate frisbee fan.
https://www.markjchin.com/
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Fifteen Years
https://xkcd.com/3172/
"Want to feel old?" "Yes."
Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3172
https://xkcd.com/3172/
"Want to feel old?" "Yes."
Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3172
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Fifteen Years
https://xkcd.com/3172/
"Want to feel old?" "Yes."
Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3172
https://xkcd.com/3172/
"Want to feel old?" "Yes."
Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3172
Sid actually looks like mad Tim Robinson in a sketch whenever he gets mad
November 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Sid actually looks like mad Tim Robinson in a sketch whenever he gets mad
We are so cooked
Ruining great art with the nano banana pro command “Make this much more cheerful with as few changes as possible”
November 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
We are so cooked
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new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
Attended some awesome panels at APPAM this year in Seattle but I was as excited to revisit the Pop Culture museum after a decade, still one of the coolest museums I’ve ever been to. And now Sid has too! Here we are in the making music exhibit
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Attended some awesome panels at APPAM this year in Seattle but I was as excited to revisit the Pop Culture museum after a decade, still one of the coolest museums I’ve ever been to. And now Sid has too! Here we are in the making music exhibit
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Happening this afternoon at 3:30pm in the Grand Hyatt Princess 2! #2025APPAM
In particular, I’m super excited for this panel on Friday afternoon, organized by grad student @micahybaum.bsky.social, on political polarization & higher ed.
Come watch me, Micah, @mememedianmode.bsky.social, & Mayan Kolerman share our latest work on this pressing topic!
Come watch me, Micah, @mememedianmode.bsky.social, & Mayan Kolerman share our latest work on this pressing topic!
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Happening this afternoon at 3:30pm in the Grand Hyatt Princess 2! #2025APPAM
Hi #APPAM2025 #2025APPAM folks - live today, our department at Vanderbilt is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor higher education scholar this cycle! Find the posting here: apply.interfolio.com/177753
Let me know if you're in Seattle and want to chat at all about the position/department.
Let me know if you're in Seattle and want to chat at all about the position/department.
Apply - Interfolio
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November 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Hi #APPAM2025 #2025APPAM folks - live today, our department at Vanderbilt is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor higher education scholar this cycle! Find the posting here: apply.interfolio.com/177753
Let me know if you're in Seattle and want to chat at all about the position/department.
Let me know if you're in Seattle and want to chat at all about the position/department.
TLDR APPAM Ed Policy folks informal happy hour tonight starting at 6, at Seattle Beer Co. #2025Appam #Appam2025
All welcome, hope to see you there!
All welcome, hope to see you there!
Hi folks attending #2025APPAM #APPAM2025! Excited to see many of you in Seattle this week.
As usual, I am organizing a very informal happy hour for education policy folks at the conference to get together: Fri 11/14 starting at 6pm at Seattle Beer Co on Western Ave (~15 min walk from conference).
As usual, I am organizing a very informal happy hour for education policy folks at the conference to get together: Fri 11/14 starting at 6pm at Seattle Beer Co on Western Ave (~15 min walk from conference).
November 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
TLDR APPAM Ed Policy folks informal happy hour tonight starting at 6, at Seattle Beer Co. #2025Appam #Appam2025
All welcome, hope to see you there!
All welcome, hope to see you there!
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The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University invites applications for postdoctoral research positions.
www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...
#PAJobMarket
www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...
#PAJobMarket
Postdoctoral Research Associate - SPI 298 - HigherEdJobs
Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.
www.higheredjobs.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University invites applications for postdoctoral research positions.
www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...
#PAJobMarket
www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...
#PAJobMarket
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Graduate Students: The Roe L. Johns Grants provide $500 monetary awards to help offset travel costs associated with attending. The application will open on December 5, after program decisions are shared. Learn more here: aefpweb.org/student-...
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Graduate Students: The Roe L. Johns Grants provide $500 monetary awards to help offset travel costs associated with attending. The application will open on December 5, after program decisions are shared. Learn more here: aefpweb.org/student-...
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👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
Hi folks attending #2025APPAM #APPAM2025! Excited to see many of you in Seattle this week.
As usual, I am organizing a very informal happy hour for education policy folks at the conference to get together: Fri 11/14 starting at 6pm at Seattle Beer Co on Western Ave (~15 min walk from conference).
As usual, I am organizing a very informal happy hour for education policy folks at the conference to get together: Fri 11/14 starting at 6pm at Seattle Beer Co on Western Ave (~15 min walk from conference).
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Hi folks attending #2025APPAM #APPAM2025! Excited to see many of you in Seattle this week.
As usual, I am organizing a very informal happy hour for education policy folks at the conference to get together: Fri 11/14 starting at 6pm at Seattle Beer Co on Western Ave (~15 min walk from conference).
As usual, I am organizing a very informal happy hour for education policy folks at the conference to get together: Fri 11/14 starting at 6pm at Seattle Beer Co on Western Ave (~15 min walk from conference).
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In particular, I’m super excited for this panel on Friday afternoon, organized by grad student @micahybaum.bsky.social, on political polarization & higher ed.
Come watch me, Micah, @mememedianmode.bsky.social, & Mayan Kolerman share our latest work on this pressing topic!
Come watch me, Micah, @mememedianmode.bsky.social, & Mayan Kolerman share our latest work on this pressing topic!
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
In particular, I’m super excited for this panel on Friday afternoon, organized by grad student @micahybaum.bsky.social, on political polarization & higher ed.
Come watch me, Micah, @mememedianmode.bsky.social, & Mayan Kolerman share our latest work on this pressing topic!
Come watch me, Micah, @mememedianmode.bsky.social, & Mayan Kolerman share our latest work on this pressing topic!
(My wife’s) view from the couch as a sick parent on a monday
November 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
(My wife’s) view from the couch as a sick parent on a monday
Ms Frizzle and Liz
November 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Ms Frizzle and Liz
Happy Halloween 👻!
October 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Happy Halloween 👻!
this week 4yo Sid asked to buy chocolate while getting groceries to gift to his best friend. I thought it was a kind gesture so I said yes. His BF gifted him back Twizzlers. Yesterday I heard them discuss trading candy again. I am starting to feel like I’m getting played preschool organized crime
October 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
this week 4yo Sid asked to buy chocolate while getting groceries to gift to his best friend. I thought it was a kind gesture so I said yes. His BF gifted him back Twizzlers. Yesterday I heard them discuss trading candy again. I am starting to feel like I’m getting played preschool organized crime
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Econ of Ed (and other) friends: what are the best studies linking in-college interventions to labor market outcomes? Especially interested in those that improve outcomes via different mechanism than completion. E.g. if a college wants to improve earnings of grads, what should they do?
October 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Econ of Ed (and other) friends: what are the best studies linking in-college interventions to labor market outcomes? Especially interested in those that improve outcomes via different mechanism than completion. E.g. if a college wants to improve earnings of grads, what should they do?
Sid the 4yo is showing us his art from school today and picked up a sheet he drew and just said totally deadpan “what the heck is this”
October 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Sid the 4yo is showing us his art from school today and picked up a sheet he drew and just said totally deadpan “what the heck is this”
Random Monday question for diff-in-diff enthusiasts - have you ever drawn up a directed acyclic graph (DAG) or seen a DAG that captures the diff-in-diff model and the parallel trends assumption? (If so please share)
October 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Random Monday question for diff-in-diff enthusiasts - have you ever drawn up a directed acyclic graph (DAG) or seen a DAG that captures the diff-in-diff model and the parallel trends assumption? (If so please share)
The 4 institutions I've ever been employed by have college football team records that add up to 21-1, with the 1 loss to Alabama (Harvard, Indiana, Swarthmore, and Vandy)
October 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The 4 institutions I've ever been employed by have college football team records that add up to 21-1, with the 1 loss to Alabama (Harvard, Indiana, Swarthmore, and Vandy)
dope academic position alert:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05162
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Assistant Professor - Diversity and Democracy - Goldman School of Public Policy and the Othering & Belonging Institute
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
October 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
dope academic position alert:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05162
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05162
What a time to be in higher ed and doing research on education, politics, and inequality. Feeling thankful in particular this past fall break week for the chance to engage with smart, thoughtful, kind scholars at the 1st MidSouth Ed Policy workshop, and then to see Lucius again (after a decade!)
October 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
What a time to be in higher ed and doing research on education, politics, and inequality. Feeling thankful in particular this past fall break week for the chance to engage with smart, thoughtful, kind scholars at the 1st MidSouth Ed Policy workshop, and then to see Lucius again (after a decade!)
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Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes,” by Barwick, Chen, Fu, and Li: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes*
Abstract. Concerns about excessive mobile phone use among youth are mounting. We present estimates of both behavioral and contextual peer effects, along wi
doi.org
October 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.
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Had a great time at the inaugural MidSouth Ed Policy Conference, organized by @rajdarolia.bsky.social, @mikekofoed.bsky.social, and @riacton.bsky.social and truly pulled off by the amazing Emily Wilcox Walls, in my beautiful hometown, Lexington.
October 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Had a great time at the inaugural MidSouth Ed Policy Conference, organized by @rajdarolia.bsky.social, @mikekofoed.bsky.social, and @riacton.bsky.social and truly pulled off by the amazing Emily Wilcox Walls, in my beautiful hometown, Lexington.