Mike Shor
@mikeshor.com
Best Mike Shor winner, 2012. Immigrant; sorry if I took your job. Professing behavioral econ, game theory & antitrust at
UConn (via UVA → RutgersU → Vanderbilt)
UConn (via UVA → RutgersU → Vanderbilt)
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Mike Shor
@mikeshor.com
· Dec 6
Here's an exhaustive list of things that you can run "like a business":
1. A business
1. A business
It’s insane that a major university like UConn in 2025 still doesn’t offer paid family leave.
But the fact that grad students and admins have it but faculty don’t is a testament to just how spectacularly inept the UConn chapter of AAUP union is.
But the fact that grad students and admins have it but faculty don’t is a testament to just how spectacularly inept the UConn chapter of AAUP union is.
UConn professors get ZERO days of guaranteed paid family leave 🤯
UConn AAUP is negotiating for paid family leave as well as better safeguards for academic freedom and more robust protections for faculty working on contracts.
Read more about their contract demands here👇
@uconnaaup.bsky.social
UConn AAUP is negotiating for paid family leave as well as better safeguards for academic freedom and more robust protections for faculty working on contracts.
Read more about their contract demands here👇
@uconnaaup.bsky.social
LTTE: Support UConn Faculty’s Reasonable Contract Demands
For months now, the UConn-AAUP negotiating team has made minimal progress at the bargaining table across from the UConn administration’s negotiators.
dailycampus.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It’s insane that a major university like UConn in 2025 still doesn’t offer paid family leave.
But the fact that grad students and admins have it but faculty don’t is a testament to just how spectacularly inept the UConn chapter of AAUP union is.
But the fact that grad students and admins have it but faculty don’t is a testament to just how spectacularly inept the UConn chapter of AAUP union is.
Why is MAGA pushing its gender ideology?
September 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Why is MAGA pushing its gender ideology?
The number of baseball caps worn to class increases markedly on exam days
September 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The number of baseball caps worn to class increases markedly on exam days
Vaccines are some of the top achievements of human civilization—up there with clean water and antibiotics. Gutting CDC expertise and dismantling vaccine policy isn’t “health,” it’s medieval nonsense that will kill people.
August 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Vaccines are some of the top achievements of human civilization—up there with clean water and antibiotics. Gutting CDC expertise and dismantling vaccine policy isn’t “health,” it’s medieval nonsense that will kill people.
Warning: Binary 101 is not an intro class
August 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Warning: Binary 101 is not an intro class
There is so much daily cruelty from this admin that I completely missed news of this
popular.info/p/fcc-blocks...
popular.info/p/fcc-blocks...
FCC blocks ban on prison phone price gouging, benefiting top Trump donors
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will no longer enforce a rule capping the price of prison phone calls, according to an announcement made Monday by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.
popular.info
July 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
There is so much daily cruelty from this admin that I completely missed news of this
popular.info/p/fcc-blocks...
popular.info/p/fcc-blocks...
My bird feeder app requires two-factor authentication.
Threat-modeling is now a creative writing class.
Threat-modeling is now a creative writing class.
July 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
My bird feeder app requires two-factor authentication.
Threat-modeling is now a creative writing class.
Threat-modeling is now a creative writing class.
Does anyone else write "Great! Thanks for your help!" to ChatGPT following a particularly good answer?
Seems rude not to, and yet I question everything
Seems rude not to, and yet I question everything
June 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Does anyone else write "Great! Thanks for your help!" to ChatGPT following a particularly good answer?
Seems rude not to, and yet I question everything
Seems rude not to, and yet I question everything
Remember that cottage industry detailing "the habits of very successful people"? Getting up at 5 am, focusing on what's important, not wasting time, avoiding conflict, etc.?
Now think of Trump and Musk
Now think of Trump and Musk
June 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Remember that cottage industry detailing "the habits of very successful people"? Getting up at 5 am, focusing on what's important, not wasting time, avoiding conflict, etc.?
Now think of Trump and Musk
Now think of Trump and Musk
My first time in The Stacks of the library in a decade and I find myself in the Chomsky section. What’s the world telling me?
April 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
My first time in The Stacks of the library in a decade and I find myself in the Chomsky section. What’s the world telling me?
Greenland must be thinking they could take over the US right about now
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about strikes in Yemen to a second unclassified Signal group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said. nyti.ms/4jBQ1wV
April 21, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Greenland must be thinking they could take over the US right about now
🎓It’s a rare privilege to mentor someone like Ana—brilliant, curious, and kind. Ana’s research asks tough questions about gender, work, and family. Congrats, Dr. Karaban! 👏 #PhDone #EconSky @akaraban.bsky.social @remylevin.bsky.social @deliafurtado.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🎓It’s a rare privilege to mentor someone like Ana—brilliant, curious, and kind. Ana’s research asks tough questions about gender, work, and family. Congrats, Dr. Karaban! 👏 #PhDone #EconSky @akaraban.bsky.social @remylevin.bsky.social @deliafurtado.bsky.social
Rubio holding dear to one of America's greatest values -- immigrants and refugees trying to shut the door behind them.
Once a champion for Venezuelans, Rubio endorses Trump decision to end Venezuela TPS
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Once a champion for Venezuelans, Rubio endorses Trump decision to end Venezuela TPS
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, once a stalwart champion of Venezuelan immigrants, supports President Donald Trump’s decision to end the deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of people alr...
www.miamiherald.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Rubio holding dear to one of America's greatest values -- immigrants and refugees trying to shut the door behind them.
Reposted by Mike Shor
Someone quickly tell Trump that Chinese fentanyl shippers don’t pay tariffs
April 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Someone quickly tell Trump that Chinese fentanyl shippers don’t pay tariffs
How much lost productivity will result from the many meetings across institutions dealing with Trump’s avalanche of executive orders?
April 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
How much lost productivity will result from the many meetings across institutions dealing with Trump’s avalanche of executive orders?
“Susie Wiles will be a great Chief of Staff and regulate access to Trump”
NSA director fired after Trump’s meeting with right-wing influencer Laura Loomer
NSA director fired after Trump’s meeting with right-wing influencer Laura Loomer
Democrats slammed Haugh’s removal.
buff.ly
April 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
“Susie Wiles will be a great Chief of Staff and regulate access to Trump”
Make America Great (depression) Again
April 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Make America Great (depression) Again
Reposted by Mike Shor
Liberation Day has become so commercialized.
I happen to think Liberation Day should be spent enjoying tariffs with friends and family.
I happen to think Liberation Day should be spent enjoying tariffs with friends and family.
April 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Liberation Day has become so commercialized.
I happen to think Liberation Day should be spent enjoying tariffs with friends and family.
I happen to think Liberation Day should be spent enjoying tariffs with friends and family.
April 1st seems like the perfect day to re-up this excellent article on how not to fall for scams
tinyurl.com/fraud-10-tips
tinyurl.com/fraud-10-tips
April 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
April 1st seems like the perfect day to re-up this excellent article on how not to fall for scams
tinyurl.com/fraud-10-tips
tinyurl.com/fraud-10-tips
1. Short sellers
2. Owners of puts
3. Most humans
2. Owners of puts
3. Most humans
Musk: I mean, have you Tim Walz, who is a huge jerk, running on stage with the Tesla stock price.. What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. Like who derives joy from that?
March 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
1. Short sellers
2. Owners of puts
3. Most humans
2. Owners of puts
3. Most humans
CIA Director Ratcliffe just testified how China is leveraging “soft power” in the Americas through direct foreign aid, education funding, and other methods.
They’re *so close* to understanding
They’re *so close* to understanding
March 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
CIA Director Ratcliffe just testified how China is leveraging “soft power” in the Americas through direct foreign aid, education funding, and other methods.
They’re *so close* to understanding
They’re *so close* to understanding
Confusing the Golden Rule with Hammurabi's Code is a sign that you're probably doing your religion wrong
Dave Brat, a Senior VP at Liberty University, said today on a local news interview that the tariffs are following “reciprocity,” which he said is the Golden Rule: “whatever you do to us, we’re gonna do to you.”
March 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Confusing the Golden Rule with Hammurabi's Code is a sign that you're probably doing your religion wrong