Jeremy Foltz
@zhelemi.bsky.social
Applied economics professor at UW-Madison. Development, Africa, technology adoption. Aspiring imperfectionist.
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The BU Pardee School of Global Studies is hiring for three positions this year, one senior and two junior:
* Senior hire for the Director of the Pardee Center
* International and/or Human Development
* Latin American Studies
Pardee is a collegial, interdisciplinary college with a great community.
* Senior hire for the Director of the Pardee Center
* International and/or Human Development
* Latin American Studies
Pardee is a collegial, interdisciplinary college with a great community.
December 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The BU Pardee School of Global Studies is hiring for three positions this year, one senior and two junior:
* Senior hire for the Director of the Pardee Center
* International and/or Human Development
* Latin American Studies
Pardee is a collegial, interdisciplinary college with a great community.
* Senior hire for the Director of the Pardee Center
* International and/or Human Development
* Latin American Studies
Pardee is a collegial, interdisciplinary college with a great community.
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Update on JOE postings -- things are worse: paulgp.com/2025/12/10/q...
Economics Job Market Update: December 2025 - Still Very Bad
paulgp.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Update on JOE postings -- things are worse: paulgp.com/2025/12/10/q...
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Hey #econsky! I'm organizing a workshop at Brown this Spring in partnership with Eric Nielsen and Viviana Rodriguez.
The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work.
And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!
The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work.
And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!
December 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Hey #econsky! I'm organizing a workshop at Brown this Spring in partnership with Eric Nielsen and Viviana Rodriguez.
The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work.
And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!
The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work.
And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!
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Funding cuts -> high prices -> customer model -> de-professionalization of faculty -> transactional higher ed -> dissatisfaction -> funding cuts...
December 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Funding cuts -> high prices -> customer model -> de-professionalization of faculty -> transactional higher ed -> dissatisfaction -> funding cuts...
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The customer model, like 95% of the problems in US higher ed, is downstream of high prices and the insufficient state-level funding that produces them
Also 👇🎯💯.
Kevin's written before: if we're applying the customer model to higher ed, the <employers> are the customers, & the students are the <product>.
But let's simply not do this & instead educate students. Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education is greater than ever.
Kevin's written before: if we're applying the customer model to higher ed, the <employers> are the customers, & the students are the <product>.
But let's simply not do this & instead educate students. Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education is greater than ever.
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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I argue in this piece that the nonprofit sector should be thinking more about the counterfactual when assessing fundraising success: winning a $2M competitive bid over capable peers advances the cause less than convincing someone to donate $1M they'd have spent on a yacht.
The Case for Counterfactual Thinking in Nonprofit Fundraising
When a nonprofit wins a major government contract or foundation grant, it’s cause for celebration. These wins reflect hard work and organizational strength. Yet beneath the success lies a subtle, ofte...
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December 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I argue in this piece that the nonprofit sector should be thinking more about the counterfactual when assessing fundraising success: winning a $2M competitive bid over capable peers advances the cause less than convincing someone to donate $1M they'd have spent on a yacht.
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
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Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
Nicole Foy
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
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"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."
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It was only a matter of time…
December 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
It was only a matter of time…
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On the Day the Nazi Died
by Chumbawamba 1998
by Chumbawamba 1998
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
On the Day the Nazi Died
by Chumbawamba 1998
by Chumbawamba 1998
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The Federal Trade Commission is hiring PhD Economists (very late, because shutdown)!
Please repost/quote so JMCs can see.
- no experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851497400
- some experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851497300
- much experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851496000
#Economics #EconSky
Please repost/quote so JMCs can see.
- no experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851497400
- some experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851497300
- much experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851496000
#Economics #EconSky
December 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The Federal Trade Commission is hiring PhD Economists (very late, because shutdown)!
Please repost/quote so JMCs can see.
- no experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851497400
- some experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851497300
- much experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851496000
#Economics #EconSky
Please repost/quote so JMCs can see.
- no experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851497400
- some experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851497300
- much experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851496000
#Economics #EconSky
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Thinking of my New School friends whose programs have been closed (~30 of them), whose PhD programs have been indefinitely halted, and who are now receiving invitations to resign + accept severance payments — with the threat of 🪓 if not enough folks take the offer. A ✨-if-imperfect place ruined 😥
December 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Thinking of my New School friends whose programs have been closed (~30 of them), whose PhD programs have been indefinitely halted, and who are now receiving invitations to resign + accept severance payments — with the threat of 🪓 if not enough folks take the offer. A ✨-if-imperfect place ruined 😥
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December 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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How many lives would be saved if Africa had other regions’ child mortality rates?
One of the starkest expressions of global inequality is a child’s chance of survival.
One of the starkest expressions of global inequality is a child’s chance of survival.
December 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
How many lives would be saved if Africa had other regions’ child mortality rates?
One of the starkest expressions of global inequality is a child’s chance of survival.
One of the starkest expressions of global inequality is a child’s chance of survival.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Who’s keeping track of where all this ‘protection money’ Universities are paying is going? Who’s keeping track of where the money from the tariffs is going? Because services are gutted, Universities are squeezed like scrawny kids on the school yard, yet the deficit keeps growing. Who’s getting rich?
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Who’s keeping track of where all this ‘protection money’ Universities are paying is going? Who’s keeping track of where the money from the tariffs is going? Because services are gutted, Universities are squeezed like scrawny kids on the school yard, yet the deficit keeps growing. Who’s getting rich?
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I’m so excited to find out which underfunded state university is gonna pay Lane Kiffin $100mil, a majority of which will likely be dispensed after he’s fired and while the school’s faculty continue to face budget cuts.
November 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I’m so excited to find out which underfunded state university is gonna pay Lane Kiffin $100mil, a majority of which will likely be dispensed after he’s fired and while the school’s faculty continue to face budget cuts.
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Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
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If what Miller says is true, why does research consistently show that immigrants (including the undocumented) commit fewer crimes than U.S.-born citizens?
November 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
If what Miller says is true, why does research consistently show that immigrants (including the undocumented) commit fewer crimes than U.S.-born citizens?
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This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
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This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history
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1/ Collective punishment of tens of thousands of vetted Afghan partners won’t prevent radicalization. But it will guarantee fewer allies, more enemies, and higher risks for U.S. troops the next time we deploy.
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Opinion | The Ambush on the National Guard
The alleged shooting by an Afghan ‘partner’ shouldn’t condemn all who assisted the U.S. and now live here.
www.wsj.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
1/ Collective punishment of tens of thousands of vetted Afghan partners won’t prevent radicalization. But it will guarantee fewer allies, more enemies, and higher risks for U.S. troops the next time we deploy.
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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So campus speech. Much viewpoint diversity. Very marketplace of ideas.
My friend Jake (that’s Dr. Beck to you!) on the crisis in Texas universities.
www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
Professor: Texas used to have universities
Former Texas Tech professor takes issue with the actions of Texas universities to restrict what topics can be discussed. Doing so makes them something other...
www.dallasnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
So campus speech. Much viewpoint diversity. Very marketplace of ideas.