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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 5h

Time to get the 💉!
#vaccineswork

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 5h

Oh look, vaccines work.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 6h

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 2d

#VOTE 🇺🇸

Alt National Archives @altnatarchives.altgov.info · 2d

This Election Day may seem unimportant because there are no “big” offices on the ballot but many states hold their nonpartisan municipal elections in off years. Races for city council, school boards, county judgeships are VITALLY important to the day to day functions of your community! Participate!

Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 2d

Woah! 🤒

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

If ACA healthcare subsidies are not extended, a 60-year-old earning $65k in Key West, Fla. could see premiums go from $460 a month with the subsidies to $2,400 a month without.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Maps show how expected increases in monthly premiums vary by age and geography.

Reposted by Prof. Caroline Fohlin

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 2d

Thank you Dr. Houry for calling a spade a spade. RFK Jr. is leading a hostile takeover of the CDC. ~80% of experienced leaders gone, science sidelined. The health of all Americans is on the line. #FireRFKJ #SaveTheCDC
@drdebhoury.bsky.social

Full interview:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A ‘hostile takeover’: ousted CDC official raises alarm over RFK Jr approach to infectious disease

Debra Houry speaks after testifying on eight months under Kennedy, who critics say shuns science and spreads falsehoods

www.theguardian.com

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 2d

📌

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2d

The new term of Court starts today. Here’s what I am paying attention to. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Week Ahead

October 5, 2025

open.substack.com

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 3d

More 💔.
🇺🇦

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3d

Anastasiia Hrytsiv and her family were killed by the Russian strike on Lviv region last night.

Anastasiia's school wrote about her death.

She had her life ahead of her, but Russia's damned war against Ukraine took the lives of the whole family.

Deepest condolences...

Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 3d

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

@billybragg.bsky.social will send you stickers.

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 4d

Hopefully back to normal soon. 🤞🏻

Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 4d

It's cooler in Atlanta, apparently. 59⁰ this morning. High today was 77⁰.

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 4d

Crony capitalism ==> graft
#econsky

ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d

Now that Tom Homan is border czar, his former business associate Charles Sowell is continuing to work with companies actively seeking to land a chunk of the $45 billion Congress approved to spend on immigration detention.

➡️ Read the full story: https://propub.li/3IusbGP

Article excerpt: After Trump won and formally announced Homan would be returning with him to the White House, Sowell kept Homan on his payroll until the end of the year. Once named as the border czar, Homan said he would recuse himself from contracting, saying he would have no “involvement, discussion, input, or decision of any future government contracts.”

But several industry executives who spoke with ProPublica said at least half a dozen companies vying for a slice of the $45 billion Congress has allocated for immigration detention work had hired Sowell because he had led them to believe his connections to Homan would help their chances of winning government work.

Homan's business relationships are under greater scrutiny after MSNBC reported an FBI sting that allegedly caught him on tape accepting $50,000 in cash from undercover agents posing as would-be government contractors before he took the border czar post.

His relationship with Sowell raises fresh questions about the integrity of the billion-dollar contracting process for immigration enforcement, ethics experts say.

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Chicago Booth Review @chicagoboothreview.bsky.social · 5d

"I always share about the fact that when I started writing the book, it was about 25 million refugees in late 2018. Now it's already at 36 million, so a huge amount of growth."

www.chicagobooth.edu/review/podca... #econsky

The Economics of the Refugee Crisis

Chicago Booth’s Andrew Leon Hanna discusses how policymakers should respond to the global proliferation of displaced people.

www.chicagobooth.edu

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AAUP @aaup.org · 5d

Say NO to Trump’s loyalty oaths and extortion of our universities!

We will NOT throw our students, faculty, and staff under the bus to comply with undemocratic and partisan ideological agendas.

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 7d

#Releasethefiles
#Epstein

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 7d

What? A shutdown does nothing of the sort.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

Reposted by Prof. Caroline Fohlin

CNN @cnn.com · 8d

A federal judge delivered an extraordinary 161-page rebuke of President Trump, ruling that the administration impermissibly chilled the protected political speech of university professors and students by targeting non-citizens on college campuses who have spoken out in support of Palestine.

‘Full-throated assault on the First Amendment’: Judge rips into Trump over attempts to deport pro-Palestinian academics | CNN Politics

A federal judge on Tuesday delivered an extraordinary 161-page rebuke of President Donald Trump, ruling that the administration impermissibly chilled the protected political speech of university profe...

www.cnn.com

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 7d

Should I worry that my teenage son immediately knew that image is Gigachad?

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 7d

For those like me with questions about the picture knowyourmeme.com/memes/gigachad

GigaChad | Know Your Meme

GigaChad is a nickname associated with the art project berlin.1969 / Ernest Khalimov, which is a series of photoshopped versions of several models created

knowyourmeme.com

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

Our national podcasting contest for college students is now open for entries. Submit your story for a chance to win our $5,000 grand prize, and hear your podcast on NPR.

Students, listen up! NPR's College Podcast Challenge is back for 2025

Our national podcasting contest for college students is now open for entries. Submit your story for a chance to win our $5,000 grand prize, and hear your podcast on NPR.

n.pr

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 7d

🤔 let's see the #Epsteinfiles!
#Epstein

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7d

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 7d

This is why I'm not putting much stock in the ADP estimate of employment growth.

Historically it has not been a very informative indicator of month-to-month changes.

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, she was.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 7d

There are a few people that are inspirations to almost all scientists that I know, and Jane Goodall was one of them. RIP. 😢

Jane Goodall, the celebrated primatologist and conservationist, has died

Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.

apnews.com

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 7d

📌

#econsky #finsky

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 7d

Next week, on October 8th at 12:15 pm EDT, please join Princeton University's Griswold Center in welcoming @danawrey.bsky.social for a discussion of his book, Beyond Banks: Technology, Regulation, and the Future of Money.

Learn more about this in-person and virtual event here: buff.ly/opvnNPz.

Beyond Banks: Technology, Regulation, and the Future of Money by Dan Awrey

Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 7d

Do not be desensitized
Do not think we'll just fix this in the 2026 midterms or 2028.
We may not get to have 2026 midterms.
We may not get to have 2028 elections.
Not free and fair ones.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8d

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 8d

This is pretty terrifying.

David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 8d

The greatest threat the US faces stood on stage in front of the collected leadership of our military and forced them to salute. He then made it very clear why he himself is the enemy within. And then the government shut down. Happy Trump Tuesday, everybody. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-gener...

Trump’s Generals Speech Proved to Be Dumb, Deluded... and Dangerous

President Trump and Pentagon Pete seem determined to declare war on America itself.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Paolo Falco @paolofalco.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 Hiring Tenure-Track Assistant Professors in Econ at the University of Copenhagen! 🚨

Join a great group in an exciting (and friendly) city 😀! Details will follow.

Pls repost and get in touch to hear more. All fields, and I’m esp. interested in hearing from DEV candidates 😀!

#EconSky

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 9d

💪🏻

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 9d

Girlboss reign in Moldova continues

Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 9d

WHY CAN'T WE HAVE NICE THINGS LIKE THIS??

Pardon the shouting, but gasoline leaf blowers run relentlessly in #Atlanta in leafy neighborhoods, even w/ no leaves! And in leaf season, you'll witness groups of 2-4 people blowing leaves as a team on one small lawn, kicking up tons of particulate!! 🤯😷

Petar Marjanović @piit.ch · 10d

Democracy in a nutshell:

Zurich just voted to ban gas-powered leaf blowers. Only electric ones allowed – and only from Oct to Dec.

✅ 75,248 yes (61.7%)
❌ 46,717 no
📊 Turnout: 52.9%

Not a single district voted majority against.

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