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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · Aug 18

excited to help push Noah's thesis forward into this new working paper! a Miami tradition! (send us your students who could benefit from an MA degree!)

Jim Flynn @jimflynn9.bsky.social · Aug 18

🚨🚨🚨New working paper 🚨🚨🚨

We find that sleep loss due to late-night sports watching led to a significant increase in fatal car crashes in the US during the 2002 World Cup.

A 🧵... #EconSky #EconTwitter

www.iza.org/publications...

Soccer’s Record on the Road: The Effect of Late-Night Sporting Events on Fatal Car Crashes

Sleep deprivation imposes significant public health and economic burdens. While researchers studying events like daylight saving time have quantified...

www.iza.org

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · Apr 7

“No limits” doing some worrying work here

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · Apr 2

1920s church collection boxes were not messing around

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · Mar 31

get me to god's country

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · Mar 27

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Would it dong? @woulditdong.bsky.social · Mar 27

Austin Wells vs Freddy Peralta
#RepBX

🦄 IT'S A UNICORN 🦄

Home Run (1) 💣

Exit velo: 103.7 mph
Launch angle: 23 deg
Proj. distance: 348 ft

This would have been a home run at Yankee Stadium and nowhere else.

MIL (0) @ NYY (1)
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Austin Wells of the New York Yankees homers (1) on a fly ball to right center field at Yankee Stadium. This would have been a home run in 1 MLB parks.

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · Mar 19

Ah sorry, should have included! Just need an abstract and by March 23rd (so we can tell people if we can include them before Apr 1)

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · Mar 17

I'm helping co-organize ~5 history sessions for the SEAs again!

Submit here:
forms.gle/vpYEgEaYtCtd...

Great venue, especially for earlier stage work and for grad students. Please submit!

forms.gle

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Feb 19

I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork}

www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · Feb 21

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Miami University Economics @miamiecon.bsky.social · Feb 21

Miami Econ is now part of the Bluesky world! We are excited to join! Help us spread the word!

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · Feb 19

Slashed zero (0̸), a representation of the number 0 (zero) to distinguish it from the letter O
Slashed letter 'O' (O̸), a representation of the letter O to distinguish it from the number 0 (zero)

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apoorva lal @apoorvalal.com · Feb 17

was tinkering with some OCR and decided to update an old econ history OCR example. What a difference a couple of years makes:
old: github.com/apoorvalal/h...
new: github.com/apoorvalal/h...

historical_data_extraction/DocParse.ipynb at master · apoorvalal/historical_data_extraction

minimal example of layoutparser use. Contribute to apoorvalal/historical_data_extraction development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · Feb 13

Status.duo.com

Duo Status

Welcome to Duo's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · Feb 13

Duolingo accidentally killed Duo the app as well (and my productivity this afternoon)

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · Feb 11

Accidentally made some art today

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · Jan 29

Timely paper on some of the bad things that happen when Federal grant supported work needs to pause

Bitsy Perlman @bitsyperlman.bsky.social · Jan 23

Copying a thread by @wytham88.bsky.social
weiyangtham.com/files/tcps_f...

Scientific Talent Leaks Out of Funding Gaps
by Wei Yang Tham, Joseph Staudt, Elisabeth Ruth Perlman, and
Stephanie D. Cheng
February 12, 2024
Abstract
We study how delays in NIH grant funding affect the career outcomes of research personnel. Using comprehensive earnings and tax records linked to university transaction data along with a difference-in-differences design, we find that a funding interruption of more than 30 days has a substantial effect on job placements for personnel who work in labs with a single NIH R01 research grant, including a 3 percentage point
(40%) increase in the probability of not working in the US. Incorporating information from the full 2020 Decennial Census and data on publications, we find that about half of those induced into nonemployment appear to permanently leave the US and are 90% less likely to publish in a given year, with even larger impacts for trainees (postdocs and graduate students). Among personnel who continue to work in the US, we find that interrupted personnel earn 20% less than their continuously-funded peers,
with the largest declines concentrated among trainees and other non-faculty personnel
(such as staff and undergraduates). Overall, funding delays account for about 5% of US nonemployment in our data, indicating that they have a meaningful effect on the scientific labor force at the national level.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Jan 13

Woodrow Wilson’s resegregation of the federal government didn’t just harm Black civil servants, but also their descendants across generations

Peep the Aneja and Xu (triple diff with matching using census microdata) www.nber.org/system/files...

The Costs of Employment Segregation: Evidence from the Federal Government under Woodrow
Wilson
Abhay Aneja and Guo Xu
NBER Working Paper No. 27798
September 2020, Revised August 2021
JEL No. J15,J45,M5,N4
ABSTRACT
We link newly-digitized personnel records of the U.S. government for 1907-1921 to census data to study the segregation of the civil service by race under President Woodrow Wilson. Using a difference-in-differences design around Wilson's inauguration, we find that the introduction of employment segregation increased the black-white earnings gap by 3.4-6.9 percentage points.
This increasing gap is driven by a reallocati of existing black civil servants to lower-paid positions, lowering their returns to education. [mportantly, the negative effects extend beyond Wilson's presidency. Using census data for 1900-1940, we show that segregation caused a relative decline in the home ownership rate of black civil servants. Moreover, by comparing children of black and white civil servants in adulthood, we provide evidence that descendants of black civil servants who were exposed to Wilson's presidency exhibit lower levels of education, earnings, and social mobility. Our combined results thus document significant short and long-run costs borne by minorities dur a unique episode of state-sanctioned discrimination.
Abhay Aneja
University of California at Berkeley
School of Law
225 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 9472
aneja
Guo Xu
Haas School of Business
University of California at Berkeley
2220 Piedmont Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94720 and NBER
guoxu

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · Jan 4

If you have to deal with (large) csv files a lot, you should give csvlens a shot. Think less for csvs.

github.com/YS-L/csvlens

GitHub - YS-L/csvlens: Command line csv viewer

Command line csv viewer. Contribute to YS-L/csvlens development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · Jan 5

Was deeply disappointed that Chekhov's Game 7 Tickets were not used.

I’m betting there is a script draft with game 7 as the finale and a Spike Lee cameo

Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · Jan 5

I had lots of questions about the amazing and confusing NBA finals scenes in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (secretly a great basketball film, it is nearly the frame of the movie)

Luckily @rodger.bsky.social did the deep work for me in 2020

www.theringer.com/2020/07/06/n...

The 2002 Knicks-Kings NBA Finals, According to ‘How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days’

The Knicks and Kings may not have actually met in the 2002 NBA Finals, but that won’t stop us from reliving Latrell Sprewell’s heroics, inexplicable lineups, and a rom-com that also functions as a lov...

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · Dec 31

Wonderful. I was just thinking I could write a good “Indiana Jones fills out his annual activity report” McSweeny’s so I’m glad someone had a similar idea

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · Dec 31

What do we think Indiana Jones’ teaching load was? 1930s at a selective LAC?

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · Dec 28

Just dropping a box off and making housekeeping do it seems stranger

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · Dec 28

In retrospect I’m stupid, but I thought the Gideons actually stayed in lots of hotel rooms and left bibles and it was just loosely tolerated

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · Dec 25

better than 99 percent of superbowl halftime shows