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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Shoutout to the 🐐GOAT🐐, respect greatness www.macfound.org/videos/2026-...

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Ellora Derenoncourt - 2026 MacArthur Fellow

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My latest hardline, oddly specific stance: There is absolutely no reason for Ginger ale to have all that sugar. Sugar-free genuinely tastes just as fine! Under an Edmonds Administration, this will be dealt with

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

You know, people don’t talk about it much, but a job market paper is a lot of work good Lord 🫨 why didn’t someone warn me??

Parody of Joker movie dialogue:

“Let me get this straight. You want to go home and sleep?”

“I do. I’m tired”

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I regret to inform that stretching after the gym does, in fact, make everything feel better. Was really hoping that was fake news all this time smh

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

For the education folks out there: so the NCES is still not taking applications for data licenses, right? Is everyone just blocked from accessing more recent SASS/NTPS data until then? The public-use files stop in 1999-2000 😭

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Once again, I’ve learned the hard way I gotta be careful talking with rideshare drivers when I go home. I’m from Virginia, and inevitably it comes up I live in CA rn. I want to commiserate, but the conversation always goes south when it becomes clear we ain’t hating on CA for the same reasons…

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

100% i think Opus 5 is dumber btw

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I’ll complain about California till the end of time, but begrudgingly, after six years here and dozens of times flying all over the world, even I have to concede SFO* might be the smoothest airport in the country

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I can't prove it, but I swear they're making Opus dumber to entice me into locking in with Fable permanently. Sorry, can't fool me that easily! You'll just have to settle for getting most of money, not all of it

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 02/06/2026

DHS's Operation Metro Surge hurt Minnesota's leisure and hospitality industry in Jan-Mar 2026, destroying: - 4,600 jobs, - 3.8 million work hours, - $71 million in wages. New analysis by me & @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social @northstarpolicy.org northstarpolicy.org/leisure-and-...

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I try not to make a habit of dunking on undergrads — they’re learning! Trying to find themselves — but it’s a kinda funny bit for your only two op-eds to be “Hey, let’s leave the billionaires alone! 🥺” and “Have you considered the Muslim students just have too much money? 🤪”

Screenshot of two op-ed titles in college student newspaper. One is “Get rid of billionaire’s (tax)” and the other is “Does the MSU need all that money?”

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

We get training on how to be good presenters, but not nearly enough on how to be good audience members. Imo, looking engaged and friendly is an important skill to develop!

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Update: made it through the talk unscathed — I live to fight another day

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

If there’s a God, may they spare me from slipping up during a job talk, inadvertently letting years of watching The Boondocks kick in, and accidentally pronouncing W.E.B. Du Bois like this man (Y’all I swear I know!)

Picture of the character Tom DuBois from The Boondocks

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

It’d be nice if more professors posted their syllabi/reading lists

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Personally I like when the insufferable dweebs who I’ve long disliked for largely petty reasons get dunked on for more substantive critiques, but maybe some just ain’t got the heart of a hater like I do

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Not to doom about automation and job destruction (I’m not even a doomer!), but leaving my apartment today and seeing the Latina custodial workers who usually clean the hallways have seemingly been replaced with a vacuum/deep cleaning robot *that speaks Spanish* feels… ominous

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Just let the record show: when I mentioned missing the days of EconTwitter, I didn’t mean also the shitty takes Alas, many such cases

Two screenshots. One of a tweet from an economics professor: “Woke extreme left and extreme right have In common an incapacity for pluralism. I never use the word fascist lightly, but I think the left in this country is becoming more like it than the right”

The other a fictionalized street sign that says “stop imaging fake scenarios and hurting your own feelings”

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Here is what I find so interesting. The excellent work of scholars like @lavaredmonds.bsky.social shows that HBCU trained teachers closed gaps, but we’d rather focus on narratives centered on Black cultural deficits such as “role model effects” and this: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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The Self-Defeating Condescension of an Anti-Racist Education

How an “ideological purity spiral” derailed some of America’s most promising classrooms.

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Has anyone written about how our fragmented television consumption environment has affected (political) advertising (in the US)? Probably, right? I imagine things have had to change dramatically from even 10 years ago, but curious what that’s looked like behind the scenes

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Casey McQuillan @caseymcquillan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining the Economics Department at Stockholm University as an Assistant Professor, following a postdoc at Brown University’s Economics Department and Watson School!

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I was gonna give macro some credit bc I recently had to dig back in my memory and use some of their tools I'd learned in my own work (it's useful stuff!), but then I just saw an embarrassing number of folks in their feelings about the "credibility revolution," so I'd say we broke even this week

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Update: A Nobel laureate said I’m a really good presenter, so that’s on the CV now

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Aah, I see the (unnecessarily) angriest on here are still the most illiterate. Good equilibrium, very healthy

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Day 1 of my cross-country voyage for archival work Austin: food has been fantastic, but on a “Terrible layout for interstate driving” scale from 1 to New Jersey, it’s registering at about a 7 — not great!

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James Feigenbaum @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I think @lavaredmonds.bsky.social is tongue in cheek here, but I honestly love this. Easiest way to screw up as a grad student or especially junior faculty is to not submit any papers.

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Sure I’m biased, but, just as grad students send a + signal with published work on their CVs, I should be able to flaunt how many times I’ve had my papers rejected. Look at all this resilience I’m building! Pretend it’s 10 years ago and look at this ~grit~. That’s gotta count for something, right?

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Today in “I think I might be part of the problem”: Look I’m not saying the sycophantic, weirdly casual voice of ChatGPT is good or not creepy, but sometimes the direct, sometimes stern tone of Claude Code makes me feel like I’m in trouble, and idk about that

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

There’s no reason for Led Zeppelin to have made music this meandering. At least real jam bands will find an interesting new riff sometime around the 6:00 mark

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Danielle Graves Williamson @daniellecgw.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Econ historians of bluesky! Submit your paper to the SEA econ history sessions, sponsored by Clio and EHA, by March 22: forms.gle/YomRiP8iAUYK... Proposals due: March 22, 2026 Authors notified of acceptance of paper: March 28, 2026 Conf dates: Nov 21-23 #econconf 1/2

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

A band I liked in college just put out a good single, after nearly a decade of straight garbage. Hopium is back on the menu, boys

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Working on campus today and, twice now, I've caught something seemingly darting quickly into the corner under the desk next to mine Maybe it was nothing, just my imagination! Conversely, the building has a mouse in it, and I will momentarily be burning this campus to the ground. Stay tuned

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Another week, another cool data product release from LEHD and Census. This week, we released new PSEO data for schools from North Carolina and BYU-Idaho, bringing our total count of institutions to 952. Check out the data here: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications...

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PSEO Explorer - Census Bureau

Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) Explorer: Earnings and employment outcomes for college and university graduates

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I had a similar thought recently, but feared I was approaching “Old man yells at cloud” territory. Glad I’m not alone (Tbf you can usually tell the stuff with non-Black etymology bc it sounds so deeply uncool)

Screenshot from Twitter: “It’s been frequently pointed out how much “gen z slang” is just cribbed from AAVE but what seems to go less noticed is that all the other gen z slang is just actual incel forum lingo”

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I came across an article with an insipid, annoyingly clickbait-y title, and immediately gave it the biggest eye roll. Then I checked the author, and saw it was written by, by far, the most annoying student I’ve encountered here (they’ve since graduated) Sorry, world: We’re not sending our best!

Picture of Shaq with the printed text “You can’t fool me. I am familiar with your game”

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Did You Know: More than 90% of hotels in the United States refused to take reservations from Black guests? The Green Book Project tells the story Black travel during Jim Crow. Share your story and contribute to the Community Map: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I can't be here right now because my words are not safe for the public. Leaving this here, going to go donate and check on my friends. www.standwithminnesota.com

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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory

Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Interesting the varying responses I’ve seen over the weekend: My Bluesky feed: eloquent thinkpieces, resource guides, inspirational rallying cries, up to the minute news updates, etc. My Twitter feed: “On a pike, up by their heels, idc idc”

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

My group chats are full of Minnesotans reacting to today’s murder by figuring out ways they can help. We need people outside of the state to do the same thing. Whatever you wish everyone else was doing right now? Do it today. Let’s make a list of things that could help.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I know some have been a little unnerved at the aggressive following and noisemaking tactics of the observers. What they don’t realize is that it’s necessitated by what ICE is doing. You have seconds and you need as many eyes on them as possible, and as many people trying to get key info as possible.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

If you see one, the most important thing to say is “WHAT’S YOUR NAME” because otherwise the person is gone for good, maybe. I witnessed one in an alley as the sole pursuit car, I was the only witness, I froze for a second and didn’t shout it in time, and the guy is just… gone now. I’ll never know.

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

You know the REAL worst part of ChatGPT? Its over-reliance on em dashes in write-ups has made some people think seeing them in writing is indicative of LLM usage No no no: I’ve been over-relying on/misusing em dashes for *decades* — my culture is not a costume

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I am weak and blackout curtains are Strong: Lessons from waking up at 2 PM for two weeks

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

[Opening my email for the first time in two weeks, seeing beginning of quarter listserv invites] You’re telling me this weekly newsletter is bi?? (Actually yea, I could see that)

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Happy New Year! Shoddy craftsmanship in an ostensibly newly renovated apartment almost locked us in here forever. Gonna not read too much into this as a sign of things to come

Door knob on outside of door completely fallen off

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

In the past hour at the gym, I’ve heard D4L, Lil Flip, JIBBS, Purple Ribbon All-Stars? Whoever is running the music tonight: show yourself. I just know we rode the bus to school together in ~2007

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Unironically writing “the true champs of safe drunk driving” is crazy work. I really hope Woke 2.0 brings back shame

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