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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

To be clear, I’m not even anti-sugar necessarily. Ultimately I’m Southern, so I like my lemonade and my tea how I like it. But Ginger ale is different! We don’t have to live this way

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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

(Everyone said it. Literally everyone)

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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

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 · 18/08/2026

Every day I wake up to new forms of suffering 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

Spoiler: “the Land of the Libtards” was casually thrown around

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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

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 · 27/07/2026

*Inexplicably I’ve been ride or die with United since 2021, so i can only really speak to Terminal 3 here. I tend to prefer smaller airports, but for an airport its size, it might be unmatched 😒

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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

Put differently: do you have “resting bitch face” while sitting in seminars? The answer may surprise you! And maybe consider if that’s the energy you want to put out! You’ll be on the other side at some point, so empathy and whatnot

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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

Now I’ll just need to work on making my history discussions less meandering (But it’s interesting history! I dare anyone else to try not to ramble)

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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

✊🏽 I appreciate the solidarity! It’s what our profession needs more of tbh

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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 full-on mask off, huh. Are you not embarrassed?

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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

Motivating case: watching on Hulu, with its tailored ads, we almost exclusively see pro and anti Tom Steyer ads (for governor of CA). It was only once I saw generic cable television on at the gym that I started seeing pro/anti ads for other candidates. I had no idea!

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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

Tbf he also said I talk too fast. I put that on there, too, to keep me humble

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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 · 30/03/2026

Curious what you chose! The short answer is, in my admittedly biased (but informed!) opinion, there’s very little around campus that’s notably worth eating. Usually gorgeous to walk around, tho!

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Made a mental note of all the weird little men in the Georgia Archives at 9 AM on a Saturday, until I remembered I’m here with them. These are my people; apparently I am weird little men

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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

(Please don’t be mean to your RAs)

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

Like Claude, YOU’RE the RA here! Why are you talking to me like that

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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

(If you’re over 45 and reading this: Search your feelings, you know it to be true)

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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

forms.gle

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