Reposted by Thomas DurfeeMPR News @mprnews.org · 07/10/2026Minnesota State Community and Technical College says it’s moving forward with plans to close its campus in Detroit Lakes as soon as summer 2028.mprnews.orgMinnesota State Community and Technical College set to close Detroit Lakes campusTentatively set to occur in the summer of 2028 or later, the closure would leave M State with campuses in Moorhead, Fergus Falls and Wadena. “This was not an easy decision,” the school’s president sai... 021
Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026When they sent the wrong promotional Magic the Gathering cards to a youtuber a few years ago, Wizards sent the actual factual Pinkertons to threaten the guy to get it back. This is going to be an uphill unionizing campaign. 010
Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026...Not unless we put on the best darn talent show this college has ever seen! 010
Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Touch graphs. I see this a lot in GMM models. I was already worried about lagged outcomes as an instrument, now this. The other issue I see is people thinking they can only test animus with experimental data, and observational can only identify statistical since it has variation. 110
Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026static.klipy.comMan Chuckles Reading Sensible Chuckle MagazineAlt: Man Chuckles Reading Sensible Chuckle Magazine 000
Reposted by Thomas DurfeeNic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Don't put any scholarly work into an LLM that you wouldn't want to be used to scoop you 1134
Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Discrimination will keep hiding in your residual because the act of discrimination is a bad faith, endogenous moving target. I see a lot of economists "control for race because it's as good as randomly assigned" and I feel like they are trying to argue towards first principles rather that from them 110
Reposted by Thomas DurfeeTrevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This advice is a case where stratification economics would be quite useful to economists speaking about politics. It would show the fallacy of the base assumption. Economists view politics as about policy, but it’s much more about identity and intranational competition over resources and power. 1286
Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm not like those other despots. I'm built different.static.klipy.comAmy Poehler: I'm a Cool Mom!Alt: Amy Poehler: I'm not a regular mom, I'm a Cool Mom! 010
Reposted by Thomas DurfeeTrevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT! The 2027 Meeting of the Race and Stratification in the Economy Working Group at @nber.org will be held on April 2, 2027! The deadline for submissions is December 10,2026. Please Share!! More details are here: www.asc.ohio-state.edu/logan.155/pd...asc.ohio-state.edu 11418
Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My sister's history teacher gave extra credit if you took a photo with the textbook on vacation, so one time when we were going down to Florida she brought it along. Not in her bags, mind you. She snuck a 1000 page textbook into my bags so she didn't have to carry it around the airport. Siblings 020
Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The unit of analysis is not cancer at the patient level, but the log of cases by counties for a group. But county borders are not random, nor are the controls. If people select into location based on edu, income, and if nuclear plants are placed strategically, controls respond to treatment. 010
Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Tl;Dr The original paper's unit is the county of residence, stratified by age-sex Treatment is a score from the sum of the inverse of distance to nuclear plants Controls for county's edu, income, race shares, % renting, and some population health metrics ID: Gen. estimating equation Poisson 110
Reposted by Thomas DurfeeElizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My Minnesota friends have already seen this, but I keep thinking about it and want more people outside our state to, too. 5470194
Reposted by Thomas DurfeeAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026Anybody know of any papers looking at Black leaders and their impact on hiring in *any* capacity? I know there's stuff in education, but also asking political science, sociology, etc. 22316
Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Benson and Lepage, Learning to discriminate on the job. Might be WP. I think it was a study of retail hiring and the probability that a manager (any race) discriminates in a way that's sensitive to their past hiring. I don't remember if they break out their estimates by race of manager. 020
Reposted by Thomas DurfeeTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources 7943343
Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If you see this, post a vampire that isn't draculastatic.klipy.comDio Jojo: It Was Me, Dio!Alt: Dio Jojo: It Was Me, Dio! 000
Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You heard of difference in difference, now try synthetic synthetic control. 030
Reposted by Thomas DurfeeMarc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Behavioural Science in 2026. 2279
Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Amy Klobuchar stopping a line of bad faith inquiry by correcting their midwest college sports knowledge is just... 011
Reposted by Thomas DurfeeDani Sandler @dismalscientist86.bsky.social · 29/09/2026New Census Working Paper: "Gender Differences in the Returns to Double Majoring: A Case of Signaling?" by Andrew Smith, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, and Maria Zhu www.census.gov/library/work...census.govGender Differences in the Returns to Double Majoring: A Case of Signaling?Women earn about 5% more for double majoring in college, while men see no return, consistent with double majors serving as a signal in the labor market. 174
Reposted by Thomas DurfeeNic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The purpose of distributive requirements in college (humanities or otherwise) cannot be an educated citizenry, because the majority of Americans do not finish a four-year degree. Arguing over how to do this in college means giving up on a complete education for the median American. 131
Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I also wonder how double majors play into it. Do we get more double majors as a way to pursue interests at the cost of fewer freshmen? I could only get econ/philo in 4 years because I passed out of many. Does that serve a liberal arts education? Soc Sci/Philo, I lean yes. Business/Finance, no. 010
Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I don't have an answer for what should be reinforced even after AP credit. AP calc led to more calc My AP Lit was harder than Brit Lit No AP Art History, I loved Buddhist Art Hist. They also cut the major anyway 🙃 UST required 3 theology classes (no AP). As a non Catholic, it made class tense. 010
Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026And placement. Grad/law/medical programs do not seem to care. As long as entry is conditioned on your ranking in the pool, a department asking students to take more outside their wheelhouse puts their application at a disadvantage. I like the lib arts model, I don't feel like I have a good answer. 120
Reposted by Thomas DurfeeIrwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026#EconSky #MITeconomics Peter Diamond and Eric Maskin co-taught the economics of uncertainty at MIT in the Fall of 1978. Their five page course reading list has been transcribed and posted. www.irwincollier.com/m-i-t-readin... 0278
Reposted by Thomas DurfeeMatt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026University of Minnesota announces $225 million in budget cuts across all campusesstartribune.comUniversity of Minnesota announces $225 million in budget cuts across all campusesIt comes after the U approved a budget in June raising students’ tuition by 3.8%, the sixth consecutive year of increases for the U. 1611
Reposted by Thomas DurfeeTrevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The rule of law is not just an abstract idea but something that sits at the heart of a lot of what we do. We take it for granted but we should not. I fear that the long term effects of this open defiance of the court will have longstanding implications that will erode our ability to do basic justice 0101
Reposted by Thomas DurfeeRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 24/09/2026tech ceos are openly salivating about the idea of kids losing basic literacy and numeracy. this tells you pretty much all you need to know 8930267
Reposted by Thomas DurfeeTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/09/20268/14/2026 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Is Ocasio-Cortez Ready for the Glass Cliff? (Gift Article)She will run as a woman but unlike how every woman before her was forced to run. 411820
Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026But does it still have the Niacin my body needs? 010
Reposted by Thomas DurfeeErin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Yeah, that's a problem www.chronicle.com/article/high... #academicsky #edusky 34725
Reposted by Thomas Durfeearic @aghastronaut.com · 21/09/2026Ruining the planet by typing "Jabba the Hutt saying bazinga" into the plagerism machine 0101
Reposted by Thomas Durfeeit's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Basketball player detained by ICE #Kentucky www.thestate.com/sports/colle...thestate.comICE detained-HBCU basketball player reportedly needs treatmentAn HBCU basketball player at Kentucky State University has spent more than a month in immigration custody after being detained by ICE while traveling with her team. 50794486
Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We study the effect of college education on earnings, using an indicator if their majors had a Greek root as an instrument for ability. 020
Reposted by Thomas DurfeeJason Carl @vampiresnvino.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The raw milk drinkers are afraid of halal cheese 2639
Reposted by Thomas DurfeeRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"one of the world's leading thinkers" is the most shameful descriptor imaginable. one should simply call oneself a poster. 1152
Reposted by Thomas DurfeeAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026One of the stupidest policies I've ever seen in my life. Genuinely. 46111
Reposted by Thomas DurfeeRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 12/09/2026well hold on now bsky.app/profile/bloo... 2232
Reposted by Thomas DurfeeJohn Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026🎶 You got to be good at poker Have skills at poker Win at the poker games Be a poker champ 🎶 1644
Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026So, one of the approximately two things we all agree on. 021
Reposted by Thomas DurfeeEmily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026For no real reason, I was looking up something about the ancestry of causal DAGs in path diagrams and came across this picture. I got to see it so you do to. HT to Sewall Wright who both set the course for a very useful analytical tool but also took the time to include cute drawings of guinea pigs 818043