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Alex Eble

@alexeble.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University Development economist, enthusiast www.alexeble.com

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/07/2026
say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please
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Lauren Bauer @laurenhlb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Millions of people are losing access to food benefits right now for literally no good reason and I wish more people were aware and talking about it. www.cbpp.org/research/foo... (As opposed to or at least in addition to the other stuff.)
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SNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Republican Megabill Is Implemented
SNAP participation nationwide fell by more than 4 million people (nearly 10 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and March 2026, based on the latest month of data.
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Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Better information, simpler applications, and clearer aid promises can move students toward higher-quality colleges. But they cannot create more high-quality seats." You can say the same about mentoring, advising, and pipeline programs. www.nber.org/papers/w35434
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Degrees of Mobility: Shifting Low-Income Students to Higher Quality Colleges
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Sista 𓅓 @sista.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The world would be significantly better if meta ceases to exist
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Meta says US states are seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties in August youth safety trial
Meta Platforms ​said in a court filing on Monday that four states were seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties over accusations the company designed its Facebook ‌and Instagram platforms to addict young us...
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 09/07/2026
It’s New Foods Day for the Minnesota State Fair and this, to me, is the promise of America www.mnstatefair.org/new/food
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.
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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The next president should drive a General Grant
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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Yes, self promotion sucks, academics, but if you don’t do it nobody will find out about your work. The point is to publish and be read, not publish and hope you are discovered by fate, lifted out of a humble and pure obscurity so that you may be both famous and retiring
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 15/06/2026
Since we're heading into academic job market season, a reminder: I've collected some advice (esp. for new grads): www.paul-bruno.com/2021/07/tips... And reach out if you'd like to set up a time to chat about the job market and how to navigate it. I'm not an expert by any means, but happy to talk.
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Some Basic Tips About the Academic Job Market – Paul Bruno
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Carolina Concha-Arriagada @conchaarriagada.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
📢 Call for submissions: Columbia Gender in the Global Economy Conference! For economists in any subfield working on the role of gender in the economy. 📍 Columbia University, NYC 🗓️ Oct 30, 2026 ⏰ Deadline: July 15, 2026 Assistant profs & postdocs especially encouraged 👇
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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Great opportunity!!
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Matthew Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The stated cost of the Iran war ($25 billion so far) now exceeds the 2024 annual budget for USAID ($22 billion). What better summary of current US foreign policy? Trump and Elon left hundreds of thousands left to die of preventable illnesses, and spent the money on a pointless war of choice.
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What $25 Billion Spent on the War in Iran Really Means (Gift Article)
It exceeds the annual budgets of numerous federal agencies, and the Pentagon’s yearly budget for munitions.
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gelbach @gelbach.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Fidelity administers University of California retirement funds. I bet those involve a lot of money.
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Daniel Mangrum @danielmangrum.com · 28/04/2026
Issues with spatial spillovers in staggered DD designs: Exhibit A
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"
screenshot of WashPo editorial board August 20 2025 "The Texas Gerrymander freakout
What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy" screenshot of April 21 Wash PO editorial board: "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss
The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Simple rule: the Senate should not confirm any appointee to any post who can’t say clearly who legitimately won the 2020 presidential election. Not just who was “installed”, but who won the vote and the electoral college.
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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 17/04/2026
We've launched In Development! It is aiming to be the New Yorker for global development. We want to promote discourse on development without dogma - stories doing deep-dives into pressing development issues, backed up by evidence, argument, and experience. Subscribe here: indevelopmentmag.com
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In Development
evidence and argument for a developing world
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Marcello Graziano 🇺🇦 @marcellograz.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Another ICE-DHS made murder
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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 07/04/2026
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 07/04/2026
Come on then, and remove him.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Rep. Ted Lieu isn't backing down.
Screenshot of a tweet by Rep. Ted Lieu stating that U.S. military law prohibits war crimes, including strikes on civilian infrastructure that cause disproportionate harm. The tweet warns that service members must disobey illegal orders and could face prosecution by a future administration if they commit war crimes.
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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 07/04/2026
Great day to make some calls to your elected representatives. Got through to actual people on 2 of my 3 calls. 5calls.org/issue/stop-i...
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No War With Iran (UPDATED 4/7) ⭑ 5 Calls
Updates April 7, 2026: Trump has openly threatened to obliterate “a whole civilization” if Iran does not agree to a deal. Given these repeated, …
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"Israel" doesn't start with a J.
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Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Tomorrow, at the @aefpweb.bsky.social conference in Chicago! #AEFP2026 #econsky #edusky
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Check out Virginia’s language that restricts teaching Jan 6 as a day of peace and love
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Jesse Anttila-Hughes @jessexjesse.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusi...
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Tim Steller @timsteller.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports. tucson.com/news/local/b...
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Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says
An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.
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Nathan Converse @nathanecon.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
In case you wondered how trustworthy even “respectable” UK right-leaning media might be….
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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 01/03/2026
This is a graph of the death of US science.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 27/02/2026
This is crowdsourced data on reports of ICE activity. Note further that California has 6.7X people as MN. www.startribune.com/is-ice-reall...
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
“She is an international student w/a visa…She appeared to have been taken from her Columbia-owned apartment on West 121st Street…Ms. Aghayeva posted a one-second video on her popular Instagram account showing her in the back of a vehicle with the caption: ‘Dhs illegally arrested me. Please help.’”
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Alex Eble @alexeble.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Worst. Confidence Interval. Ever.
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Eddy Conroy @econroy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
For comparison, folks I know who worked at the Department of Ed, used their own money pay into a water club, to have 5-gallon water dispensers, because the water in the building is undrinkable.
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Clint Harris @clintent-to-treat.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Overleaf just suggested to me that "exogeneity" should be corrected to "endogeneity". Probably pretty good advice for most cases!
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Lady Froldmagen (she/her) @zinelib.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"This past month, I’ve had flashbacks to the ICE abductions at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. I cannot help but think that 👉🏻if this university did not normalize the kidnappings of their own students👈🏻, that things would be different today." laylasaliba.substack.com/p/a-differen... 🎓 🧊
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A Different World Newsletter #14: Meeting this moment + jobs
Mixer for Mutual Aid, ICE Watch trainings, Political Director posting for DRUM, NYC's Summer Youth Employment Program, taking action for Leqaa Kordia, and MORE!
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11/02/2026
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I and millions of Americans believe exactly the same thing Kasparov does. Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision. We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore. This is something significantly bigger and scarier.
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Some good news abcnews.com/Business/wir...
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With $48M in philanthropic backing, a division of USAID relaunches as nonprofit
A division of the U.S. Agency for International Development eliminated by Trump administration cuts last year was reborn Thursday as an independent nonprofit
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The last time he started talking like this, his allies minimized the risks and we ended up with January 6. This time we must take him literally and seriously. These comments are a five-alarm fire for democracy. In a functioning republic, he would be impeached and removed from office today.
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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 16/01/2026
Well, I suppose that finally settles the question of which one isn't a "real" Nobel Prize.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/01/2026
we're going to need to see Dem leaders in the streets "please stop" is not working and they see it as weakness you want to help, governor? go on an ICE patrol in Stancil's Honda Fit
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Bravest motherfuckers you've ever seen. They just saw a neighbor get murdered and still out there. Maybe let's see some local officials with the power to arrest show as much backbone as these voters PAYING YOUR FUCKING SALARY
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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
"ICE" beating man during arrest in Santa Ana California.
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Alex Eble @alexeble.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Happening now here at @barnardcollege.bsky.social: the second incarnation of the Gender in the Global Economy Conference. Program attached - more updates to come!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
what kind of a country even is this
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Marco Rubio's State Dept. to ban foreigners for 'making light' of Charlie Kirk's death
The State Department, under the leadership of Secretary Marco Rubio, announced that it would ban all foreigners who downplayed the death of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk."In light of yesterday's horrif...
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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
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