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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Nov 25

Everything I do as a researcher is driven by this picture. I was in the 5% of low-inc kids born in 60s who got a BA.

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Sarah Birnbaum ❌👑 @sarahvb.bsky.social · 12h

"Come on down, I got a Subway sandwich for ya" made me laugh out loud for the first time in what seems like years.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 12h

I've done this to this crowd with great effects. If you get into a camera shot wearing something obscene it ruins some turd's chance at lying through their teeth on the six o'clock news

RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 13h

This is why we need more costumed protesters

Hard to cosplay as a badass when a giant frog or a dino or a big pink pig is waving its arms and thrusting its pelvis at you

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 12h

This is where I get my books

They have an ebook shop

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 17h

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 17h

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 13h

Nah, I don’t wanna jinx them

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 18h

After decades I have identified a set of life habits that, if I stick to them, make me healthy, happy, and productive

Teen self says:

JESUS HOW BORING IS THAT

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 1d

📢 Call for papers:

🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩

30-31 March 2026, Munich

Keynote: Michela Carlana (Harvard)

PhD students & early postdocs, please apply!

www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...

Deadline: 11 Jan 2026

@caterinapavese.bsky.social @mtotarelli.bsky.social

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 2d

They took down the Klan.

FBI cuts ties with Southern Poverty Law Center after MAGA push

The SPLC is the second civil rights group to lose its affiliation with the agency this week.

www.politico.com

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d

Book group picked The Sun Also Rises for

10% through and I don’t like any of the characters

which does not bode well for me getting through the remaining 90%

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d

I have been using dukkah I purchased at a spice store. Next step is to make my own.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 4d

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease.

There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."

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