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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Good news: Found the data I need. Bad news: It's text in a space-delimited wide format. BARF.

Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Not sure if your dissertation work could fall under one of Arnold Ventures' current grant RFPs (e.g. assets.arnoldventures.org/uploads/AV_R...) but Jennifer Doleac mentioned that AV could potentially provide some bridge funding for affected researchers!

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I feel like sometimes people end up “too far left to function” (or accomplish any of their goals because they ignore political realities and aren’t willing to build a coalition with anyone who doesn’t share all of their beliefs) and so anybody who isn’t that seems more centrist by comparison.

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

"Classified information is available upon reasonable request."

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Nick Huntington-Klein @nickchk.com · 05/04/2025

If you are an author on the Many-Economists project but have not received any emails from me in the past month it means that we have outdated contact info for you. Please contact me immediately.

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Reviewers: "We want to see X, Y, Z, M, N, P, Q and W additional analyses and robustness tests. Also, fit it under the page limit."

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Keep cancelling. Invite and make space to bring top academics to your insititutions if they feel they have to leave US (especially post docs, PhD candidates, and pre-tenure non citizens).

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

FWIW, I saw people (appropriately) fired for accidentally leaving small amounts of, realistically, "barely sensitive" classified information on military bases in Afghanistan. And nobody was surprised--they screwed up and everybody knew it.

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This is such a cool project--I'm thrilled that I got to be a part of it. The big takeaway for me is that we need to do *less* research with *more* people on the team and try to do real code review and parallel analysis of our data.

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I was supposed to launch the final experiment of my diss/JMP that day. We unanimously agreed to postpone (ultimately for ~2 mos) because “who can even think about anything else right now.” And yeah, same. If I get tenure, cool. If the country devolves into chaos, I guess I’ll be doing that instead.

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Woah even that seems like a lot!

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

What is your limit on reviewing papers, if you don’t mind my asking?

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

INBOX ZERO. Don't any of you jerks email me. Oh, and happy new year.

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Things got busy again and I didn't have time to do the puzzles the last few days, but I'm back! #AdventOfCode #RStats

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Kids craft kits from like KiwiCo should be required to include no fewer than 10 pictures of the thing made by a child the target age advised by a parent who’s never seen it before. Don’t show me the perfect product made by an adult given 5 attempts…

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Coming from a not-computer-sciency background, the Advent of Code is a fun challenge. I don't ever have time to complete the whole thing, but I'm keeping up with 2024 so far. And since most of my work is in #RStats so is my Advent of Code :-) #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Back of the envelope math, I was spending ~4 hours per year at gas stations. Just the time savings from home charging frees up time and certainly less stressful.

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

If you're planning Spring classes and Technical Debt would be relevant, my case on the Southwest Airlines meltdown is now available from Harvard Business Publishing. hbsp.harvard.edu/product/W365...

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Maria Meier @mariame.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Reminder that the probably easiest way to import the citation for an #Rstats package to @zotero.bsky.social is probably to 1. run citation("package_name") in R 2. copy the BibTeX entry 3. go to #Zotero File > Import from clipboard 💡

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Distracting myself by fiddling with something neat...using Expected Parrot's edsl library in-stream in an R data analysis to pass data to ChatGPT (in this case for classification) and then merging the answers back into R (w/ the reticulate package in RStudio). @johnjhorton.bsky.social

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

I spent a while trying to decide whether to hold class on Wed and decided yes. 1) University is open. 2) Students paid for that day. 3) I am paid to teach that day. I uphold my agreements. But. 1) I might forget to take attendance. 2) Heyyyy a pre-rec video of my lecture is already on the LMS.

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

I’m dealing with a reviewer right now who wants post-hoc explanations for the weights in the synth did. Like “what do they mean” explanations. Anything I say will be sensemaking and storytelling. It’s a real obstacle.

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

For a second, I thought you were going to be proposing a quadruple differences estimator (DiDiDiD).

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

I'll be talking about my paper "Covid-19 is (Probably) Not an Exogenous Shock or Valid Instrument" at Oslo Met's Pandemics and Society Seminar today via Zoom at 1600 CET/1100 US Eastern/1000 US Central. Minimal math, I'll make my argument with vibes. uni.oslomet.no/pansoc/2024/... #EconSky

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Okay, how on earth did we miss the opportunity to call the field of studying healthcare IT "infirmation systems"? @ajh.bsky.social

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Here's one, published in a decent journal published in late 2023...Covid-19 policies as an instrument for disruption of schooling...to assess impact on youth mental health. Come. On. #EconSky

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Looking for examples of bad IVs for a seminar discussion. Just found a paper looking to assess the impact of socioeconomic factors on Covid-19. The paper uses WINDSPEED and AVERAGE RAINFALL 3 and 4 weeks ago to instrument for the NUMBER OF DOCTORS. It is WILD out there.

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

I get that a small number of high-stakes assessments has problems, and so we don't want grades based on that. But I'm getting tons of pushback now on grades being based on a large number of little, more formative exercises (from students who just won't do them). Can't win.

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

many-to-many is the best cookie relationship

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

So…I just bought a Tesla. The price was honestly unbelievable for the quality and features (seriously price out a Model Y vs a Toyota Rav4) but the kicker was their in-house financing at 1.9%. It does seem like they are charging way less than other EV mfrs (Polestar, Rivian).

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

The amount of time I spent coming up with a fake company and scenario for my midterm was totally appropriate, yes a very good and reasonable use of time. Pretty dope (AI generated) logo though.

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Laura K Gee @laurakgee.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Pls re-skeet for reach: CALL FOR PAPERS for a special issue of EER in honor of Nora Szech editors: S. Huck, N. Schweizer, M. Serra-Garcia #econsky 📉📈 www.sciencedirect.com/journal/euro...

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Don't make me tap the sign... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Remy Levin @remylevin.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

I am thrilled to announce that Bluesky is starting to feel like old science Twitter.

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

Pretty pumped to have seen a very convincing, very exogenous natural experiment. Now I just need to wait ~2 years to write it up so that I have sufficient data on the Post-Treatment period.

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Pretty jazzed that I (along with lots of other contributors) got an email about this reproducibility study being accepted at Management Science…a great holiday present! osf.io/mydzv/

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

The other site has become convinced that I am a horse aficionado which is a) a totally fine thing to be but b) not me. The quantity of horse-themed ads in my feed is entertaining. Also, their algorithm is so borked at this point.

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

Pretty jazzed about this graph, both for the story it tells and the aesthetics.

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

A friend of mine would periodically "declare email bankruptcy," delete everything, set up an auto-reply for a week or so explaining what they had done, and beg forgiveness.

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Finally got my PhD completion gift to myself. Pretty jazzed about it.

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Higher standards for code review and reproducibility would be good for social sciences but if we want that to be the standard then we need the resources to do it and the incentives need to be aligned. 1-3 author pubs and lots of them can't be the standard for tenure.

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Working on a revision and this is legitimately going to be a case of the reviewer pushing us toward a better paper. Pretty jazzed about the experiment we're adding... Doing it right, as Daft Punk would say. Even writing all my initial analysis code (on dummy data) to submit with the prereg.

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

There should be a feature to retroactively restart a REPLY-ALL. It'd be like the nuclear option so you only get like...one a year. Tops. Maybe biannually. But oh wow I'd love to have the option. And if you pooled enough credits from friends, you could initiate a Reply to All storm on a bcc'd email.

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

I also think today's smashing pumpkins are pretty sorry. The Mellon Collie -> Adore -> Machina era will never be topped.

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Jeff Clement @jeffclement.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

EXACTLY. Is there a published citation or should I roll the dice on being the first to cite BlueSky to justify my metrics LOL

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