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Lauren Hersch Nicholas

@lhnicholas.bsky.social
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health economist, climber, biker, looking for my #econtwitter, #econsky, #surgtweets, #healthpolicyvalentines communities

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Yvette d’Entremont @dentremy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta's new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions The advice to people concerned about this very thing was once "Well, if you don't like it, don't use it," writes Amber Neely. "But that doesn't protect you anymore. Muse can get access to your information via people who do use it."
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Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New dementia and finances podcast
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Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A completely predictable consequence of current immigration policies. | Senior Living Facility in Distress as Immigrant Caregivers Are Forced Out. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
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How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Hurting Elder Care
Retirement communities already grappling with labor shortages are being forced to terminate caregivers at a time when more Americans are living longer.
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Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
useful but disheartening info about the grants process:
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 17/06/2026
The Battle over the Constitution Has Spread to American Science. I'm out in the @theatlantic.com today about the new OMB proposed rule. It's just the longtime agenda of the the Supreme Court. US science and cancer cures now all depend on us picking up a fight with the Roberts Court.
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The Unitary Executive Takes Over New Territory
The Trump administration’s theory of how the federal government should work is a threat to American science.
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Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
what could possibly go wrong?
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Alison Preston @aliprestonphd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
One thing I wish we talked about more explicitly with #earlycareer faculty is how gradually the pool of people who'll write their tenure letters develops. Impressions form slowly over the pre-tenure years, which makes visibility much easier to build over time than to manufacture later.
nfographic titled "Building Visibility in the Pre-Tenure Years." Four rows, each pairing an observation on the left with a corresponding action on the right.
Row one. Observation: the tenure-letter pool forms gradually. The pool of people who may eventually write tenure letters is not formed in year five, it develops gradually across the pre-tenure years. Action: build visibility early. By the time a tenure case is assembled, many scholars have already formed impressions through talks, preprints, grants, and conversations. Pull quote: "Start in year one, not when tenure is approaching."
Row two. Observation: visibility is not just networking. The goal is not to collect contacts. The goal is for the right people to understand your questions, your trajectory, and your contributions. Action: make the work legible. Help others understand what problems you are trying to solve and how your work is changing the conversation. Pull quote: "Who should understand your work, and why?"
Row three. Observation: impressions build through substantive engagement. Conference talks, seminars, preprints, workshops, panels, and study sections all help others see how you think. Action: share ideas consistently. Visibility grows through repeated, substantive forms of engagement. Strong work matters, but it also has to be visible and legible to the field. Pull quote: "Share ideas early and often."
Row four. Observation: sponsorship carries real weight. Senior faculty can help make visibility possible by opening doors to the conversations where reputations are formed. Action: turn mentorship into sponsorship. Nominate early-career colleagues for talks and panels. Introduce them to people who should know their work. Pull quote: "Small acts of sponsorship can carry real weight.
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Here's what the US National Science Board wanted to say about competing with China before its members were fired www.science.org/content/arti...
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In unreleased document, fired U.S. science board issues stark warning about keeping pace with China
The National Science Board urges robust response to China’s rise in cover letter to its biennial report on the global research enterprise
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Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
great talking with @wailinwong.bsky.social about early dementia-linked financial problems. Hoping that our work can help prevent situations like Sanda's in the future
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 08/04/2026
#FundSocSci www.nber.org/calls-papers...
Grants to Support Data for Economic Measurement Projects
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To support the launch of research projects on economic measurement, the Economic Measurement Research Institute (EMRI) at NBER, with the support of the National Science Foundation, invites proposals from early-career faculty members and dissertation-writing doctoral students for small data acquisition grants. Economic measurement can include price measurement, national or regional income and product measures, employment and wage statistics, technology indicators, and a range of other economic measurement topics. 

Examples of the types of data purchases that are envisioned include, but are not limited to:

Data sets from payroll service providers that specialize in small employers to measure their employment and wage trends.
Extracts of government administrative data to better capture output and employment for sectors that are not captured with existing official surveys.
Subscriptions to or acquisitions of proprietary data sources to measure quality-adjusted prices for emerging technologies.
Location data sold by aggregators to measure economic activity for small businesses based on traffic patterns.
Grants generally will be between $2,500 and $7,500 and may only be used to cover costs associated with data purchases, including subscriptions to data providers. Grants may not be used to hire research assistants, to cover the salaries of project investigators, or to support the acquisition of data for projects that are not focused on economic measurement and the creation of new or improved economic statistics. The NBER will not cover any indirect costs associated with data purchases or make sub-awards to other institutions. Invoices for data purchases may be paid directly by the NBER, or project investigators can be reimbursed for data purchase expenses.
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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
CMS makes it official: no plans to cancel physical Medicare and Medicaid data access, forcing everyone to use the VRDC enclave. Instead, some more paperwork to make and extend DUAs – which is way better than what they were proposing!
Screenshot of e-mail from CMS saying "CMS has decided to delay the requirement to transition all research studies into the CCW VRDC indefinitely."
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Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
listen to CRR and read our paper on dementia's impact on household finances: www.nber.org/papers/w34659
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Dementia and Long-run Trajectories in Household Finances
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
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Alex Everhart @aoeverhart.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
One week from today!
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Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
important information about NIH advisory panels
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Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
More on dementia & finances: similar to credit outcomes, we see declines on asset side start about 6 years before dementia onset, patterns are consistent with mistakes driving declines, not healthcare spending or spenddown
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Larry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
If you want to focus on insurance company overhead and profit, Medicare Advantage is the market that stands out as an outlier. www.kff.org/medicare/hea...
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Ali Robison, MD @breadandberries.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Please get a flu vaccine. It’s not too late in the season. Your arm will be sore for a few days, which is infinitely better than being intubated in the ICU.
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Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
great article about AI vending machine failure, except for when it introduces "a revolution in snack economics"
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scary possibility
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Multiple large natural experiments have documented Shingles vaccine is linked with ~20-25% reduced risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A new report today adds to that and extends the to slowing the progression of dementia @cellcellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
To quote Joe Biden, this is a big fucking deal. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...
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Statement from the American Economic Association
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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 20/11/2025
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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Anne Fitzpatrick @annefitz13.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🚨Attention! AshEcon call for papers! 🚨 www.ashecon.org/2026-minneap... Due date for abstracts: December 10, 2025 I'm the Program Chair for Health and Development, so would like to encourage global health scholars in particular Some tips for prospective authors in thread below
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2026 Call for Abstracts – ASHEcon
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CSWEP @aeacswep.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.
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Elizabeth (Beth) Dhuey @bdhuey.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I know that the job market is rough this year for Econ PhDs. @utoronto.ca has expanded its postdoc funding. If you are on the market and work on school finance or early childhood education and are interested in a PostDoc, let me know! #econsky #educsky postdoc.sgs.utoronto.ca/current-post...
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Postdoctoral Talent Initiative – School of Graduate Studies Postdoctoral Fellows
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 11/11/2025
PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown
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Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Yes to all of these! And don‘t crowd tables with meaningless extra digits just because they are software defaults!
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Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
My research team has published research showing that malnutrition and hunger in childhood are long-term risk factors for dementia decades later in life. Makes me think about the long-term health consequences of withholding SNAP benefits from families.
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Erzo F.P. Luttmer @erzoluttmer.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Some authors have contacted AEA editors about an unexpected loss of data access that affects their ability to respond to an R&R. If this affects you, please explain the circumstances in your cover letter. Or reach out to the coeditor if you need guidance before resubmitting. @aeajournals.bsky.social
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Jordan Matsudaira @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
A bellwether of the wreckage that will be caused by the catastrophic assault on science in the U.S.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Just here to remind everyone that while the federal government is shutdown, all study sections at the NIH are currently on hold. Another blow to science and to early career scientists like myself with young labs and research groups. Very hard to remain positive about this career path.
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/10/2025
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The acting CDC director has now approved ACIP recs allowing anyone 6 months+ to receive an updated Covid-19 shot after discussing w/ their provider. If you are on the fence about getting an updated shot, read my in-depth take on the evidence we've accumulated on these vaccines. #publichealth
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Do additional COVID vaccines really help?
We've accumulated a lot of scientific evidence in the last few years.
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John A. List @johnlist.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The econ PhD market will be difficult this year. The exact same thing happened when I went on the market years ago: I sent out 150 applications...and got 1 interview! Then I wrote a paper about it! ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura... Both sides of the market responded. Is this happening now too?
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/10/2025
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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
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Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
new results finds MA patients more likely to be stuck in hospital when they need SNF care, we found similar areas of concern with very sick patients being more likely to be sent home with no home care (along with less SNF) in MA vs TM jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Medicare-Covered Services Near the End of Life in Medicare Advantage vs Traditional Medicare
This cross-sectional study compares potentially burdensome hospital treatments and hospitalizations and postdischarge care for Medicare decedents in Medicare advantage vs traditional Medicare at the e...
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SPOOKY Martlet_Fan_64 🐈‍⬛🐦🩵🐁🧡🌊 @zenithmartlet.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Hey Firefox users.
Screenshot from a Tumblr post by ralfmaximus: Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out
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Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Who wants to plan a field trip if we can’t get them at work?
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
They important thing about #TaylorSwift getting engaged is that millions of dollars in grants funding for research projects on how to cure cancer,reverse alzheimer's dz and discover vaccines for serious infections, are being canceled daily and we really should care about how devastating that is.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 23/08/2025
no phds at harris, jesus
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Good. I agree with the American College of Ob-Gyns. I was horrified when RFK Jr, Jay Bhattacharya, & Marty Makary announced, in a video on X, that they were advising against vaccination in pregnancy—a closed-door decision that flies in the face of science & evidence www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/h...
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Another major medical association breaks from CDC as ob/gyn group recommends Covid-19 vaccines during pregnancy | CNN
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists on Friday reaffirmed support for Covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy, becoming the second major professional medical association to break from...
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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Really simple instructions for how to turn off the auto AI on your web browser. I use Firefox and it does indeed work and only took a second! 🔥
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How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default
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Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Instead of making numbers into unwanted dates, now excel wants to make up AI “data” too 🙄
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Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
great news for everyone who hates these texts, also protective for dementia patients (i.e. www.cnn.com/interactive/...)
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How elderly dementia patients are unwittingly fueling political campaigns
A CNN investigation reveals how deceptive political fundraising has misled hundreds of elderly Americans.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
American Academy of Pediatrics has released our annual update to our immunization recommendations to best help children and adolescents build immunity and stay healthy. Read our full policy statement to learn about AAP's updated immunization schedule. www.aap.org/en/news-room...
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Sandy Black @econsandy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Society of Labor Economists (SoLE) Annual Conference will be May 1-2, 2026 in Denver, Colorado. Submission portal is now open! Deadline for submissions is October 31--don't forget to submit! It will be a great conference! (organized by me and @jrothst.bsky.social) mailchi.mp/sole-jole/so...
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SOLE 2026 Submissions Open
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Mike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Are you looking for a PhD position and want to spend your summers in the Rocky Mountains? My lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social is looking for 1 PhD student to work on a NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts in Colorado! 🧪🌍🐙 Apply by Nov 1! Details here docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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2025 - Hypoxia PhD job ad
The Moore lab at the University of Colorado Denver is searching for 1 Ph.D. student to study the elevational limits of dragonflies in Colorado (http://moore-evo-eco.weebly.com). This position is fully...
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