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Reposted by: Adam Sacarny, Stephen M. Walt, Kim L. Scheppele , and 24 more

fishkin.bsky.social
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
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Reposted by: Adam Sacarny, Caroline Krafft, Gema Zamarro , and 1 more

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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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by Adam Sacarny

asacarny.bsky.social
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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by Adam Sacarny

asacarny.bsky.social
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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by Adam Sacarny — Reposted by: Evan Roberts

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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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by Adam Sacarny

asacarny.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Adam Sacarny, Christian Odendahl, Margaret Mitchell , and 46 more

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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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Congrats Arrianna!!!
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Reposted by: Adam Sacarny, Elizabeth Saunders

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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Reposted by: Adam Sacarny, Elizabeth Saunders

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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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Yes!!!!!
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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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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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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
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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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by Adam Sacarny

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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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Just amateur horticulture
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asacarny.bsky.social
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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asacarny.bsky.social
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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Extremely bad news is right. And I worry the same forces are coming for federal health care data.
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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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by Erik Brynjolfsson — Reposted by: Adam Sacarny, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Klaus W. Zimmermann , and 20 more

aaronsojourner.org
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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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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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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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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… 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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Like for example I peeked at the paper and I was immediately surprised he could assess the “quality” of the materials. Turns out this suspicion may have been warranted, per the link you shared. So if I read the paper as an advisor I’d probably flag it. But …
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Ugh it’s tough because pretty much everything we do (advising, peer review, collaboration [!!]) rests on the assumption that people are not making things up from whole cloth. idk how these systems can work if they are supposed to detect that too
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… rather than catapulting the results to international attention.”

I see this whenever I run an RCT and I’ve watched it play out in countless other RCTs too. The data never looks THAT nice and priors are almost never TOTALLY validated
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“Learning new things about the world is hard, and generally randomized trials on such a complex topic should show much more ambiguous results. The fact that the data was so beautiful and fit such a perfect narrative should have raised alarm bells …
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This is TOMORROW!
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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · Apr 11
NYC Health Econ Day is coming May 9 @ NYU Wagner! We'll have 6 great papers + lots of time to chat. Folks in the greater NYC area are invited!

RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
More info: www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-s...

Organizers: @ambond.bsky.social, Mike Dickstein, Jessica Van Parys + me
Screenshot of NYC Health Econ day conference program, text available here https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~mjd19/conf_org/health_econ_day_program_2025.pdf
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asacarny.bsky.social
Arguing with the IRB about publishing research out of quality improvement work
Screenshot of Nathan Fielder in "The Rehearsal" speaking into a phone. The closed caption says "So there's dual goals, I guess"
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