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Ted Loch-Temzelides
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Mitchell Professor in Sustainable Development, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University. Game theory & mathematical modeling in economics, ecology, and epidemiology. Science-based policy. Erdős #4
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24d
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

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Ted Loch-Temzelides @tedloch.bsky.social · 25d
You must lead a United Europe strong stance. Appeasing and negotiating will just further empower the bullying. European leaders need to wake up. Any EU country alone is perceived as weak.

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Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University @princetonchw.bsky.social · 29d
What do financial markets, pandemics, and ecosystems management have in common? They're all complex systems that can be described by mathematical principles, as demonstrated in the research of CHW affiliate Simon A. Levin.

Read his interview with American Scientist: tinyurl.com/4c575keh
Simon Levin

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · Jan 12
The NSF has played a key role in American science, and risks being collateral damage in the war against science.
#econsky #academicsky #NSF #science
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/01/hist...
History of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Severin Borenstein @severinborenstein.bsky.social · Jan 8
The Energy Institute at Haas is looking for a new Associate Director to fill unfillable shoes when Karen Notsund retires in June. The AD manages financial and research admin, participates in policy outreach, and helps build the EI community. Info at haas.berkeley.edu/energy-insti...
Announcements - UC Berkeley Haas
Seeking Applicants for Associate Director position at the Energy Institute at Haas January 5, 2026 The Energy Institute at Haas has started the process to hire a new Associate Director. Our current As...
haas.berkeley.edu

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Stephanie Wang @sweiwang.bsky.social · Jan 7
Pitt three-year postdoc: primary responsibilities will be managing PEEL lab; postdoc will be an integral member of Econ dept. and join a large team of behavioral/experimental economists, attending/presenting in seminars, and pushing forward own research agenda #econsky
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · Jan 5
The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jan 5
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service
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Ted Loch-Temzelides @tedloch.bsky.social · Jan 2
Amazing…
The Ridiculous Engineering Of The World's Most Important Machine
YouTube video by Veritasium
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Ted Loch-Temzelides @tedloch.bsky.social · Dec 27
We use a coordination game to study repeated emergence and abandonment of mutualistic interactions. The game reflects that mutualisms must be widespread to generate robust benefits. Mutualisms can collapse even in the absence of cheating and even if they would result in higher fitness. rdcu.be/eWnIc
Symbiosis emergence and abandonment in nature: a coordination game approach
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Severin Borenstein @severinborenstein.bsky.social · Dec 18
John List has a disturbing LinkedIn post on the job market for economists. Between trump's attack on university/research and his destruction of the government infrastructure for managing and evaluating policy, big hit on economics hiring.
www.linkedin.com/posts/johnal...
AEA job market update. The numbers don't lie: this is the toughest market for PhD economists in recent memory. JOE listings are down 20% from last year. Worse: they are 19% below COVID levels. L...
AEA job market update. The numbers don't lie: this is the toughest market for PhD economists in recent memory. JOE listings are down 20% from last year. Worse: they are 19% below COVID levels. Let t...
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Ted Loch-Temzelides @tedloch.bsky.social · Dec 11
Covid Vaccines Reduced Children’s Likelihood of E.R. and Urgent Care Visits, the C.D.C. Reported www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/h...
Covid Vaccines Reduced Children’s Likelihood of E.R. and Urgent Care Visits, the C.D.C. Reported
www.nytimes.com

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · Nov 20
Final plenary talk at the #NaturalPhilosophy Symposium was by Michael Tomasello, on What Makes Humans Human? Commentary by Claudia Passos Ferreira.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH-t...

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · Nov 19
Next talk at the #NaturalPhilosophy Symposium was by Simon Levin, on The Mathematics of Consilience. Commentary by David Haig.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc0e...

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Sen Pei @senpei.bsky.social · Nov 14
A super interesting study on how ants alter their nest networks to prevent epidemics! Network topology metrics were used to measure the effect on disease transmission.

www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · Nov 10
New @nberpubs: "The Economic Impact of Brexit" www.nber.org/papers/w34459
"by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time." 😲

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · Nov 3
David Gale’s work was diverse and impactful in math and econ
#econsky
David Gale (1921-2008) remembered, with a (belated) 100th birthday volume
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Ted Loch-Temzelides @tedloch.bsky.social · Nov 1
US leadership in science and technology under a self-inflicted threat.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
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Forrest Fleischman @forrestf.bsky.social · Oct 31
Humphrey School at Minnesota is hiring an associate professor in "water resources, sustainable agriculture, or the nexus of food-energy-water issues." Come join me in the frozen north!
hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...
Careers
We seek applications for a tenured faculty position at the associate professor level in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP). The faculty member will join a vibrant community of interdisciplinary scholars at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, maintain a research affiliation with the Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (CSTEP), and support graduate students in the M.S. in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (MS-STEP) professional degree program, the Ph.D. in Public Affairs program, and the certificate program in Sustainable Environmental, Social and Governance Leadership.
hr.myu.umn.edu

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Wei Wen @wwenneuro.bsky.social · Oct 31
After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.

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Yale Environment 360 @yalee360.bsky.social · Oct 22
The five biggest meat and dairy producers are generating more methane than the largest oil and gas firms, according to a new report.
Biggest Meat Producers Unleashing More Methane Than Biggest Oil Firms
e360.yale.edu

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · Oct 20
Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · Oct 15
More measles in South Carolina as US nears 1,600 confirmed cases

South Carolina officials said all new case-patients were in quarantine before they contracted the disease.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...

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Andy Dobson @andy2dobson.bsky.social · Oct 10
Paper for next weeks Biodiversity COP in AbuDhabi. Special issue of IUCN Parks. We need a UN Global Convention on Freshwater for humanity and biodiversity.
Parksjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/5.-DOBSON.PDF
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Oct 8
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · Sep 23
CIDRAP is hiring a Deputy Director, who, in addition to other duties, will serve as a liaison between CIDRAP and other areas of UMN, so must either live in the Twin Cities area or have the ability to relocate upon accepting the position. Apply today!

hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/...

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · Sep 13
Kidney exchange has given rise to work not only in medicine but in economics, computer science and operations research.
#econsky #operations
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Kidney exchange in Operations Research (and elsewhere)
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Volker Rudolf @volkerrudolf.bsky.social · Sep 12
Awesome faculty position alert! Tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a focus on organismal responses to environmental change.

Please help spread the word!
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Sen Pei @senpei.bsky.social · Sep 12
🚨 JOB ALERT! Our group is recruiting a postdoc to develop novel methodologies for early outbreak detection and inference using AI/ML, modeling, and data science. This is a multi-year position providing stable research support. Welcome to apply and share with others!

👉 apply.interfolio.com/173722

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 7
RFK Jr. went on Fox News today to claim that HHS has had “no successes” in the past 40 years.

I beg to differ.

Figure from Lei et al., NEJM 2020. Link below.
Screenshot of graphic showing that the HPV vaccine has reduced cervical cancer incidence by 90%.