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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 · 18/08/2026

Ugh that sucks! 😒 more from a non-functioning administration gutting everything. Idk if my case is better or worse, but on the NCES side it looks like they flat out just aren't accepting proposals. Unless there are back channels i don't know about, we're stuck for the foreseeable future

Screenshot from the Standard Application Process website showing "The National Center for Education Statistics is not accepting new proposals or reviewing proposals."

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

Ugh i take it back. Try to compliment them and this is what i get?? Orange juice ain’t supposed to be in a can!

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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 · 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 · 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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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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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 · 24/12/2025

And yes I got my All-Star Special with the double waffle

Denzel Washington interview screenshot “I’m leaving here with something”

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Astonishing how load-bearing this tweet continues to be I’m convinced now a frightening share of the anger on this site boils down to the fact that many posters can’t read, and, worse, they don’t know they can’t read

Screenshot of tweet:

“Twitter the only place where well articulated sentences still get misinterpreted.

You can say “I like pancakes” and somebody will say “So you hate waffles?”

No bitch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf if you talkin about.”

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Here I am just trying to go about my day and I wake up to Spotify calling me a basic ass Millennial. I don’t need this negativity

Screenshot from Spotify Wrapped where they estimate my listening age to be 34

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Just came across another “Does money matter in education?” debate in the Year of Our Lord 2025. I’m tired

Screenshot of a NYT article from Paul Krugman entitled “Beware Economists Who Won’t Admit They Were Wrong”

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Another L for Twitter: no i do NOT like this

Screenshot from Twitter suggesting people "You might like" that includes Austan Goolsbee and Larry Summers as people I should follow

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Just fyi: if you happen to find yourself roaming the halls of the Hyatt Regency in Seattle around 8:30 tomorrow morning, (I know, I didn’t pick the time 😭), feel free to drop by and check out my (early-stage) project on colleges and their effects on local school districts! #APPAM2025 #2025APPAM

Screenshot of title slide from presentation. "Paradise or Parasite? College Proximity and Local Educational Inequality"

"Lavar Edmonds Stanford University"

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

On net I like Bluesky, but the shift really lost grad students (far fewer active here vs. during peak EconTwitter). With job market season, it’s been kinda nice seeing familiar faces who were in the Covid grad school trenches w me popping up again recently Like hey there! I remember you! Cool paper

Leonardo DiCaprio pointing in a couch meme

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Update: It came together! (That said, it’s 85 degrees in Cancún, and I’m in a black suit for a beach wedding, so new problems may arise soon)

Black man in suit and a red tie HE TIED HIMSELF and Latina woman in similarly red dress

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Huh. So the Penn Graduate School of Education email was hacked?

Hacked email from University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education that reads

Dear Penn community,

The University of Pennsylvania is a dogshit elitist institution full of woke retards. We have terrible security practices and are completely unmeritocratic. We hire and admit morons because we love legacies, donors, and unqualified affirmative action admits. We love breaking federal laws like FERPA (all your data will be leaked) and Supreme Court rulings like SFFA.

Please stop giving us money.

Warm regards,
The University of Pennsylvania

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Who did what now?? Don’t you put this evil on us

A screenshot from a Politico tweet saying “Black Americans and young voters helped Trump win in 2024. Now, with joblessness rising, they’re souring on his leadership.”

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

When you definitely know zero (economics) professors

One tweet says “How many centrist professors are there though? Can’t be many these days”

And another tweet responds “Zero. There are exactly zero”

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Got to sift through old stuff and pretend to be an economic historian today — very cool

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Hey just checking in from Barcelona. Got me a starter hat

Photo of Black Man and Latina woman outside restaurant during daylight under string lights

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Elon Musk is a POS who’s done irreparable damage to the country (indeed, the world), and I pray he finally gets his comeuppance, but how can I hold a grudge when his ruining Twitter has brought me gems like this?

Deranged spam Twitter DM

Account: MK8859
Password: dtg5562
Balance: $2,391,268.00 USDT
Website: 【https://vrsh.cc】
I left you a sum of money. Looking back, we were sincere to each other. Now, it's time to end this relationship. Please accept this and let the past go. In the days to come, I hope you can take good care of my little son.

Let's not contact each other anymore. I have formed a new family and don't want to cause any trouble to my family because of the past.

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Well that’s a terrifying way to wake up from a nap (I promise y’all don’t want to be here — save yourselves)

Screenshot from an NYT alert saying “The European Union has joined the U.S.” (but that’s only the first line of the headline)

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Only four hours later, but I got my cake

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Damn, Columbia. These elites have no backbone. I’m glad MY university would never throw its students and faculty under the bus like that

Black woman with mic scratching her head, shocked, not saying what she’s thinking

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Fwiw we did get some nice pictures out of it (and one even captured the only other Black guy in the room behind me!)

Black man and Latina woman holding drinks at company holiday party

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Did our first SoulCycle-type class. It was Cowboy Carter-themed, and I never have felt so much like I was in a cult. Good workout, tho

Black man and Latina woman, sweaty as hell after a cycling class

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Touch and go there for a bit, but played the recital and made it out relatively unscathed 🙏🏽

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Turns out you’re never too old for your dad to come teach you how to change a tire

A vehicle has been jacked up with the tire and rim removed in order to replace a blown tire

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

As a lefty education economist and wrestling fan since the late 90s,

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Wait, were y’all in group chats over there?

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I’m sympathetic to this, but we should also be clear about what “prevailing orthodoxy” is If you do the “I’m just asking questions” shtick that amounts to The Bell Curve lite or policies denying people’s existence/rights, you deserve to get clowned imo. Maybe let’s just not go overboard with it

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Works in progress: the effects of teachers from HBCUs on Black student outcomes; the long-run effects of school desegregation on Black college grads/teacher labor markets; the relationship btw ability tracking and wage inequality; and how colleges impact funding for their local school districts

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

It seems… cruel that all my ads on Twitter these days are for engagement rings?

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Really honored to be presenting my research tomorrow at #2023APPAM on a panel in memory of Rodney Andrews So much of what I do is inspired by his work and the path he set — “Standing on the shoulders of giants” is an understatement

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

This is a metaphor for something, I just don’t know what yet

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 22/07/2023

I also read Friedman when I can’t sleep — boring and tedious fiction puts me right out

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