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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tennis is so funny because you’ll wait all week to play just to double-fault 15 times

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Matthew A Kraft @matthewakraft.com · 10/09/2026

I’m starting a new substack. My focus will be, as always, on K12 education, but I'll also explore how the education system interacts with our economic system and our earth system. Please help me spread the word. It will always be free. matthewakraft.substack.com/p/introducin...

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

That’s easy to do in Stata, you just need to access an invisible, cryptically-named matrix that requires learning a different programming language to view

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Anyone else not a fan of Overleaf's new editor tab system?

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

That's right

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/06/2026

If I get an excuse to post them I will

An excellent circle graph showing occupations of Black and white people in Georgia

A great bar graph showing the religion of Black people in the United States post-slavery

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Section 223 beats put most dissertation fellowships

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/06/2026

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I actually can’t believe the Knicks are in the finals 🥲

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Getting emails like these keeps me going

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

“I wish” is apparently the incorrect answer to the custom’s agent asking “do you have a sandwich?”

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Sometimes working on an RCT outside the U.S. feels too far afield from my work with state longitudinal datasets, but it also comes with some perks!

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

They told me rejection would happen in academia, but I didn’t realize they meant to ME!

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Really interesting piece. While a fair number of ed policy folks have tossed around the idea of bringing back ed reform, I don’t see the political will for a project like this at the moment. Something - perhaps not unlike A Nation at Risk - will need to happen first

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

These results are robust to coding errors I made the first time around

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Had been waiting for evidence from a network of public universities on the High School GPA versus SAT scores debate. Credit to the authors Joyce, Khosroshahi, Truelsch, Gentsch, and Du. www.nber.org/system/files...

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

what if, rather than approximate answers to the right questions, we got exact answers to the wrong question, made ever more precise, more quickly?

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.

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Andrew Camp @andrewmcamp.com · 21/03/2026

The worst part of AEFP is not being able to see all the great work (and great people) that's presented there. Looking forward to next year!

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

🚨 Hey You! 🚨 Still at #AEFP tomorrow? Come check out my presentation at 11:45 AM in Vevey 2, where I’ll present some extremely hot off the press work on a statewide teacher compensation policy in Texas

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I’ve decided I’m running the unofficial #AEFP 2026 Free Pen Competition. Please provide any thoughts below—although I have appointed myself the ultimate arbitrator

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 18/03/2026

The way a lot of the "stop asking schools to fix broader social problems" crowd has backed themselves into "districts should build housing and become landlords" is kind of bananas.

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Andy de Barros @andydebarros.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

New paper on skill formation, with evidence from Zambia's foundational skills program (Teaching at the Right Level / Catch Up) Targeting Foundational Skills at Scale: Skill Specificity and Transfer w/ T. Lubozha Preprint & brief de-barros.com/publication/... Also @cesifo.org @cega-uc.bsky.social

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

One usually needs to wait years for academia drama this good

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

My fiancée bought a Piaggio Sì for $75… doesn’t start, but this is the new mechanical project 😎🛵

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I’m at the part of graduate school where you buy a blow torch to get a rusty bolt off your car to save a few $’s

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Hate that measurement is important

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Is there an alumni group for IES-funded PhD’s? IES supposedly funded over 1000 PhDs, of which I am apparently one of the last. With the training grants dying, it’d be great to have a formal alumni network where we could share jobs, grant opportunities, etc.

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

“Anonymous” citations in an article make it an even more fun game of Guess the Author

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I love that LLMs got clowned for writing too many em dashes, so now they just use a crazy amount of colons

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I feel like folks at the *very top* of the academy will feel no effect from tools like Claude Code since they already have an army of RAs

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

DID of review quality pre/post comparing journals that allow/don’t allow AI in reviews? Accepting pre-registered guesses. 👀

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

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Andrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Liberal technocrats (myself often included) need to do some real soul searching. This sort of means-tested policy tinkering is a political wasteland seems to create more bloat than social benefit

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 24/01/2026

Holy crap. This is the most damning video yet. It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face. Murder.

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