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Isaac Baumann

@ibaumann.bsky.social
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📈 and 🐈 | Econ PhD candidate at UIC Formerly: data stuff at UW-Madison and the media industry; SDSU and Mizzou alum

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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Strong contender for paper title of the year
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My dad took me on a tour of the school he teaches at today and there was a room labelled “PODCAST ROOM” and I have some Questions
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
One of my favorite college football moments was going to a rain-soaked Yale-Howard game. At halftime the six-person Yale band put on an out-of-tune show followed promptly by the full-strength Howard band with a Super Bowl-grade performance, in front of a crowd of no more than 1,000 people.
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Related: students who give you a thank-you gift near the end of the course and it’s a brand new pack of whiteboard markers
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I think I’m going to slowly move all of my day-to-day LaTeX writing over to Typst but I’ll admit I’m not particularly excited about the fixed costs of converting my custom TeX templates
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Rolling this one out again while the job market cycle is ramping up
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I am declaring it fall and will not be looking at a calendar to see how premature that is!
A weather.gov screenshot showing it’s 54°F
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Periodically checking The List to ctrl+f “econ” and make little mental notes
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Was just on a Metro bus that hit a cyclist while merging lanes on University Ave. I don’t know if the driver just wasn’t checking his mirrors or what, but it was a pretty loud thump followed by someone saying we hit someone
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Mary Ryan Baumann @drstatsncats.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Yeah no JSM prep is going great why do you ask
Old dril tweet meme template about budgeting. Tweet has been edited to read:
“Overview: 1
Background/motivation: 46
Methods: 3
Results: 4
Conclusion: 1
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my presentation is dying.”

Below is a reply that’s been modified to say “@dril spend less on the motivation.” 

dril replies “no”
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
My favorite scene in The Odyssey is when Matt Damon kicked his helmet and screamed in frustration because what most people don’t know is he actually broke his toe in that shot
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Today’s “trying to work but your brain randomly remembers a thing from a long time ago to distract you” moment is brought to you by the time my hometown newspaper negged me as hard as it possibly could
News Tribune

Isaac Bauman may run cross country, but just because he’s an athlete doesn’t mean he’s not intelligent, too. 

Last year, Baumann was invited to try the Jefferson City High School Scholar Bowl Team.
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Celebrating Fourth of July weekend by donating platelets yesterday and now doubleheader softball with fireworks
An American Red Cross t shirt with looney tunes charactersA softball game
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Finally finished developing, scanning, and editing the first roll of film I shot in Newfoundland a few weeks ago so here are some frames #filmphotography #35mm
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The degree so nice I got it twice
An MA in economics diploma
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Sioux Falls is nice
A series of waterfalls on a river, floodlit, under a blue late evening sky.
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Wisconet @wisconet.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Nice views as the storm moved across campus. 1 hour time lapse as the storm approached (looking west). www.aos.wisc.edu/weather/wx_o...
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Really excited to see this project in its published form. Another great example of the kind of awesome research that @uwdsi.bsky.social supports
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Managed to hit the trifecta of Atlantic Canadian tourism this week: a whale, puffins, and an iceberg. And it’s not even Friday.
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Next semester I’ll write even smaller
Please provide constructive comments on specific aspects of the teaching assistant that need improvement

- Write bigger on graded problem sets please!
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Fun fact: you can request the Florida voter data file and every month they’ll send you a CD with the most incredible graphic design you’ve ever seen
A white CD with a label white background  that says “Florida Department of State” in red text between two blue stripes. There are red and blue outlines of stars between the stripes. It’s giving extreme Microsoft Word 2005 word art energy.
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Jonathan Erdman @wxjerdman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
There was one report of softball size (4" diameter) #hail near Maple Bluff, WI Tuesday. (NE Madison metro) Per NOAA's database, the only other occurrence of 4" hail in Dane County dating to 1950 was on July 2, 1960. One of most damaging hail events in Madison history? (📸: Kyle Obremski)
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
FYI for those in Madison: you’re about to get hit with storms again
A radar image showing a large storm front with tornado warnings approaching Madison, WI from the west
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
One of the cool parts about being a regular blood donor and using the health charts on the Red Cross blood donor app is you can look at your blood pressure time series and see exactly when you started grad school
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PBS Wisconsin @pbswisconsin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The @apnews.com reports that Chris Taylor will be the winner of the 2026 Wisconsin Supreme Court election.
pbswisconsin.org
Wisconsin Vote: Candidates, Races & Voting Information - PBS Wisconsin
Wisconsin Vote provides voters with information about candidates and races, election results, and election resources. Wisconsin Vote is a service of PBS Wisconsin.
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
𝐹𝓇𝒾𝒹𝒶 𝒦𝒶𝒽𝓁𝒾𝒸𝑜
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I lived in New Haven for a couple years and genuinely loved it. I’m always a little confused when I meet other people who lived there who dislike it. This is based on one weekend trip many years ago so take it with a grain of salt, but I think Omaha is also underrated.
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
*Vince McMahon meme* The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. 35 mm. At the Music Box. With Bob Odenkirk introducing the screening.
The Music Box theater sign
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AEA Information @aeainformation.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Applications for mentees and mentors are being accepted until April 12 for the 2026 Mentoring Conference for LGBTQ+ Economics PhD Students and Early Career Economists on July 6-8, 2026, in Chicago, IL. The AEA covers travel costs for PhD student mentees. www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...
aeaweb.org
2026 AEA CSQIEP Economics PhD Student and Early Career Economist Mentoring Conference
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
It’s a really nice day in Madison for a casual walk to the state capitol
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Few things are as self-gaslighting as grading a dozen problem sets in a row that all interpret confidence intervals incorrectly in exactly the same way
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Currently remembering how important it is to just take a day off every once in a while to read whatever it is you want to
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
NEW: When a Wisconsin mayor ended his city's contract with Flock (the AI surveillance company), he was stunned to see Flock refused to remove cameras. So he covered them with plastic bags. Now local activists are taking their fight to Madison & the Dane County sheriff, wanting more cameras gone.
boltsmag.org
This Wisconsin City Ditched AI Surveillance Cameras. Now Activists Want to Keep Going. - Bolts
Last November, the city of Verona, Wisconsin, voted to pull out of the sprawling surveillance network run by tech company Flock Safety in hopes of protecting residents’ privacy and preventing... Read ...
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
They should simply nominate only my favorite movies for the Oscars every year
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The Holy Mountain (1973), dir. Alejandro Jodorowski
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
O Brother, There Art Thou
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Me in high school journalism class: why would I ever need to develop the skill of writing about a topic I know nothing about and have no opinion on? Me in grad school writing class referee reports on papers that are way outside of my wheelhouse: *cracks knuckles* I was born for this
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Really happy that my brain waited until I’d already worked past midnight to remember that daylight savings time starts tonight 🙃
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The 2026 Bach Around the Clock event just kicked off. One of my favorite Madison events since moving here. Excitingly, a very harpsichord-heavy program this year.
A man playing harpsichord in a church
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The thing they don’t tell you about your 30s is that it’s when all your untreated high school cross country injuries randomly come back to haunt you
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Unsure if this is useful for any UIC folks re: new document accessibility requirements for theses but sharing just in case it is
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UW–Madison Data Science Institute @uwdsi.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Calling all data enthusiasts! The Data Science Research Bazaar @uwmadison.bsky.social is set for 3/19, with more events throughout the spring. Students, faculty, staff and community members all are welcome! Register by 3/12 to secure your spot. bazaar.datascience.wisc.edu #UWResearchBazaar
Data Science Research Bazaar. Meaning in the Metrics: Communicating Research Insights. March and April, Discovery Building, UW–Madison.
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I should probably do something about my WBD 401(k) shouldn’t I
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
When I was at D+ people would occasionally email Bob Chapek to ask why old shows/movies weren’t on the platform. He (or his team) would actually read them and reach out to the scheduling department, who’d basically have to drop anything they were working on to find out why.
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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This is my flux capacitor
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Bilbo holding the ring, asking why he shouldn’t eat lunch at 10:30 AM
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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 16/02/2026
Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
View of Navy Pier in Chicago from William E. Dever Crib in Lake Michigan east of North Avenue. // Image captured at: 2026-02-16 00:00:01 UTC (about 7 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: glerl.noaa.gov/metdata/chi/ // Current Temp in Chicago: 49.01 F | 9.45 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: N at 5.279 mph | 8.49 kph // Humidity: 65%
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Isaac Baumann @ibaumann.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
It’s finally warm enough for a decent hike - the Ice Age Trail outside of Cross Plains
A beige field descending into a treeline under a blue sky A snowy trail in a wooded area. Some green grasses are peeking out from underneath the snow.
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