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Dave Vanness

@djvanness.bsky.social

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Economist; professor; health policy and decision science. Advocate for high quality, affordable #HigherEd. Georgetown and UW-Madison alum. Personal views only. #AcademicSky #EconSky #Bayesian https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9790-2988

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 19m

Glad to see this place from my childhood is still doing great (DiStefano's on Forest Home) - 4.8 stars on Google:

www.distefanospizza.com

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 2h

This is showing up as a past event - and no registration link. I'd like to attend via Zoom - can you send me a link?

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Social Science Research Institute at Penn State @ssripennstate.bsky.social · 3h

Penn State's Prevention Research Center will host the Elevate PA, CSUA & other Substance Use-related work at Penn State seminar featuring SSRI Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction director, Joel Segel, on Wed. Oct. 8 from 12pm-1pm in 312BBH & via Zoom. Register ➡️

PRC Seminar: "Elevate PA, CSUA & other Substance Use-related work at Penn State" - Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center

Wednesday, October 8, 2025 Noon-1 p.m. (ET) If you can, join us for lunch and conversation at 11:30 a.m.

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 2h

I grew up in Milwaukee. First time I visited Buffalo, NY, I was shocked at how much it felt like home. So, I'd say they nailed that one.

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 3h

A kinda related story: My grandfather played the lotto every week and the morning after a draw he and his buds would go to the convenience store where they bought tickets and check their numbers together over coffee. Then word came that someone had bought the winning ticket from that store. 1/

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 6h

If you have an inkling you might win a Nobel prize, do you feel some urge to ensure you’re in a really noteworthy inaccessible place when it’s announced so you’ve got a good story about getting the news. ‘So, it was as our submersible rose from the Mariana Trench when my phone started pinging…’

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 3h

That's really impressive. We have an Ioniq 6 here in PA - our cost is about 4.7 cents per mile.

Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 14h

I'm pulling for Chuck Manski.

Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, this is pretty much the definition of a Constitutional crisis.

Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 14h

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you, ACLS

www.acls.org/news/acls-st...

ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...

www.acls.org

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 16h

"The most recent data show that NPs comprise 47% of all US primary care clinicians and, together with physician assistants/associates (PAs) and certified nurse midwives (CNMs), comprise 52% of primary care clinicians working in community health centers." www.milbank.org/publications...

Investing in Primary Care: The Nurse Practitioner Will See You Now | Milbank Memorial Fund

Decades of research confirms the safety, quality, and effectiveness of care provided by NPs, including care for complex patients, and their acceptance and approval by patients. Yet challenges remain i...

www.milbank.org

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 22h

Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️

Joseph Barranco posted on social media: Go Bears! Nobel Prize in Physics goes to 3 physicists studying mesoscopic quantum phenomena... Work was done in the 1980s in UC Berkeley Professor John Clarke's lab with his graduate student John Martinis and postdoctoral fellow Michel Devoret... all 3 share the Nobel Prize. Must also point out that both Clarke and Devoret are immigrants from the UK and France, respectively. All 3 are pioneers in the race to build the most powerful quantum supercomputers. California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen.

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 1d

There's so much wrong here, but this is just a bad faith argument. She completely ignores the whole right wing assault on higher ed that has been going on since at least Reagan (probably before).

And *expert failure* in the pandemic? That's what she takes away from the pandemic?

The legitimacy and authority of higher education have been eroding for decades — because of high tuition, rising student debt, increasingly opaque admissions processes, and ever-greater ideological skewing. Then it collapsed under the weight of expert failures during the pandemic.

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 23h

Yup. That's the one.

Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 1d

Oh geez, that op-ed in today's Chronicle...

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 1d

See also: people who say we must "restore trust in higher ed"

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

I keep waiting for the powers that be in media to grasp the concept of bad faith, realize how often "restore trust in news" and similar statements mean "stop doing journalism, lie more in ways I like," come from people ideologically committed to destroying trust in news, and can never be satisfied.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

I too am keen to "restore trust in news" by turning a major broadcast network into a 24/7 slurry of right wing culture war propaganda and engagement trolling

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 1d

I'm kind of old school!

Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 1d

Yup.

Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 1d

Have to start by identifying domains. I'll take a first crack at it: A: extrinsic factors: 1) weather; 2) company; 3) environmental aesthetics; 4) money/reputation on the line; B: intrinsic factors: 1) direction; 2) curvature; 3) impact sound; 4) divot depth; 5) injuries.

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 1d

I think there hasn't been anything since February in re: the 15% indirect cap for NIH grants...

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 1d

OPINION: "Signing on to the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education offered by the Trump administration would end the school's ability to determine its own future." — The Inquirer Editorial Board

Federal funding is not worth Penn’s independence | Editorial

Signing on to the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education offered by the Trump administration would end the school's ability to determine its own future.

www.inquirer.com

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 1d

Still waiting to develop the QADY (quality-adjusted driving yardage) instrument. And, yes, QADYs can be negative.

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 1d

Let the apples be apples. Good call.

Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, for god's sake. Those look ridiculously good.

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