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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 3d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17d

The 2025 academic econ job market is trending better than the first COVID market year but worse than the rest of 2019-present

www.davidvandijcke.com/joe_tracker/

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · 25d

I think at Mailman at least there is an opportunity to request an extension, it isn't automatic. Just based on an email I saw from earlier this year. I'm not sure how hard it is to actually get the extension

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · 26d

The bus I've been taking this week makes local stops then runs on the highway. Like the bus in the movie Speed. It's all I can think about on my way in.

Screenshot from the movie Speed of the bus making a high-speed turn surrounded by police vehicles

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · 27d

Out today in @jamapsychiatry.com: we find that inpatient psychiatric bed supply increasingly comes from freestanding psychiatric hospitals in large for-profit chains.
Authors: Karen Shen @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social Mark Olfson @columbiapsych.bsky.social + me
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

National Trends in Inpatient Psychiatric Bed Supply, 2011 to 2023

This cross-sectional study discusses trends in inpatient psychiatric bed supplies.

jamanetwork.com

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · Sep 5

Yesterday I had the privilege of visiting the Broad Street pump! Sadly, I saw that the pump handle had been removed. I worked to reinstall the pump handle so local residents would not be deprived of this vital resource. So glad to bring some of the latest American public health ingenuity to London!

Selfie of me smiling in front of the Broad Street pump

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Aug 2

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing

As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements

This is a big deal

August 1, 2025
AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
Committee on Economic Statistics and Committee on Government Relations

Statement from the American Economic Association on the
Dismissal of the BLS Commissioner

Leaders of the American Economic Association express their grave concern over the dismissal of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) earlier today.
The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions. Undermining the independence or credibility of these agencies threatens the integrity of the information that markets, institutions, and the public rely on every day.
Measuring the vast and dynamic U.S. economy in real time is inherently challenging. It is standard practice for statistical estimates to be revised as more complete and higher-quality data become available. These revisions reflect the commitment of statistical agencies to accuracy, transparency, and methodological rigor-not failure or bias.
The BLS has long had a well-deserved reputation for professional excellence and nonpartisan integrity.
Safeguarding this tradition is vital for the continued health of the U.S. economy and public trust in our institutions.
We call upon elected officials to respect and preserve the independence of the nation's statistical infrastructure.

Lawrence Katz
President, American Economic Association
Katharine Abraham
President-Elect, American Economic Association
Karen Dynan
Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Economic Statistics
Kenneth Troske
Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Government Relations

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · Jul 31

Congrats Arrianna!!!

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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · Jul 24

News reports say Columbia paid a "fine" of $200 million, which is grossly excessive, given the lack of any government authority to impose such a fine. On the blog, I parse the agreement and the stakes to explain what the dollar figure really reflects and its ominous implications. 👇

How Bad is the Columbia Settlement Agreement?

Reporting (e.g., in the NY Times ) on the settlement agreement between Columbia University and the United States government describes the $...

www.dorfonlaw.org

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · Jul 24

Characteristically clear-eyed thinking on the dangers of "regulation by deal" from my colleague David Pozen. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...

Balkinization: Regulation by Deal Comes to Higher Ed

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · Jul 14

Yes!!!!!

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · Jul 7

Great rejoinder to a WSJ letter that (IMO quite incorrectly) interpreted the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment as showing that Medicaid doesn't improve health.

www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/o...

Defenders of Medicaid cuts are misunderstanding a study I worked on

Defenders of Medicaid cuts point to the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment to argue that the cuts won’t harm people’s health. But they misunderstand the results, writes one of the study’s authors.

www.statnews.com

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · Jun 30

If you end up using it please let me know how it goes! It seems like the RxNorm data is good for this application but would love confirmation...

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · Jun 30

Trying to identify opioids and other drugs in pharmacy data (claims, PDMP, etc.)? Use my code to quickly build a list of national drug codes (NDCs) using the free public database RxNorm.

I wrote this code to replace the CDC's now-discontinued opioid NDC dataset.

github.com/asacarny/dru...

GitHub - asacarny/drug-ndc-rxnorm: Code to create a list of NDCs (National Drug Codes) for opioids, benzodiazepines, and other related drugs using RxNorm

Code to create a list of NDCs (National Drug Codes) for opioids, benzodiazepines, and other related drugs using RxNorm - asacarny/drug-ndc-rxnorm

github.com

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · Jun 27

My HCRIS hospital cost report code + data is updated through 2024! I threw the switch and moved everything to R. The new code lets you pull variables from the alphanumeric file, like hospital names and IDs.
NB: I'm using this data now but pls think of it like beta testing.
github.com/asacarny/hos...

GitHub - asacarny/hospital-cost-reports: Code to process the CMS hospital cost reports (HCRIS)

Code to process the CMS hospital cost reports (HCRIS) - asacarny/hospital-cost-reports

github.com

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · Jun 26

A lot of you have been asking how my 10 million beneficial nematodes are doing. Well the answer is that me and my 10 million microscopic sons are doing great! Thanks so much

Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · Jun 16

I know a lot is happening right now, so I want to pass along some happier news: I just purchased 10 million beneficial nematodes.

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · Jun 23

Currently in an ASHEcon session where my collaborator will be presenting our paper so I’m covering my name tag and whispering to people in the audience that I heard the last paper is really good with a very solid identification strategy

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · Jun 16

Just amateur horticulture

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · Jun 16

I know a lot is happening right now, so I want to pass along some happier news: I just purchased 10 million beneficial nematodes.

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · Jun 6

In a symptomatic coincidence, I literally just pulled up the wikipedia page on the Niemoller poem because it seemed relevant to ANOTHER issue

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · Jun 6

Extremely bad news is right. And I worry the same forces are coming for federal health care data.

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Jun 6

EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn.

BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS.
#EconSky

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · May 17

The other thing that comes to mind: I seem to recall the IRB being one of many smoking guns in the LaCour scandal too

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · May 17

Still, the proper channel is going to involve seeking a no human subjects research determination from the IRB which would typically involve a faculty PI. I'm guessing this did not happen lol

And it took me years to understand that this is the *correct* way to do QI work... many wasted hours on IRB🤦

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · May 17

I don't want to enable any criminal masterminds here, and I doubt the grift was this advanced, but there are ways to evade review that look like "I'm helping this organization do quality improvement and the data sits with the org"

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · May 17

… my concern would have been “you didn’t do a great job assessing quality so you need to either improve the method or caveat your findings more” and not “your data is fake lol”

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