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Vaasavi @vaasavi.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

an Italian-American breakfast is a bagel and a cappuccino. i will not be taking questions

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i am definitely not speaking from personal experience

a monkey sitting on a pillar, eating a garland of jasmine

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skeet like no one is watching

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i am brave bc i send skeets that none of my followers can relate to

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Vaasavi @vaasavi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

new conspiracy theory that malaysian airlines PURPOSEFULLY books diabolically long layovers so people go hang out in kuala lumpur

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genuinely concerned that Google suggested i do this in kyoto

Vaasavi @vaasavi.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

now that I have more followers I feel compelled to share what's lived in my head rent-free for a year

Petra Moser @pmoser.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

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Please help me spread the word about this amazing two-year pre-doc opportunity. Research with faculty is optional. Get paid to take classes that prepare you for PhD. Deadline 11/15: stern.nyu.edu/programs-adm...

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Vaasavi @vaasavi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline (also so I can find and follow photogs 🙂‍↕️)

Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

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I’ve made a Women in Econ starter pack (s/o @vinisingh.bsky.social for sparking the idea!). Share, follow, and comment below if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/LqBPkQZ

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phil @nobighair.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

the entire city of Columbus Ohio is going to get hit by a car

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Anyway, just a few thoughts :) back to sending bad tweets every 3 months~

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I understand why people vote the way they do. I do wish turnout was better, but I can't blame individuals who are distrustful of broad statements of economic recovery, given the grocery hauls they have.

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(as an aside, try telling PhD students that their raises for stipends mean anything in real terms, given inflation. it hasn't moved anyone I know in the linguistics department)

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I don't blame the Dems here. If I'm running an incumbent, I can't say the economy is a failure. But someone else can, and they can implicitly & explicitly promise to keep wages high.

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I don't think things are as confusing as we think they are. If my wages haven't risen, can I still keep believing in the promises of liberalism? What if my wages are my only, unstable income?

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People pan-ethnically mobilize when they have stable employment -- yet, when they are at risk of losing a job, they are in competition with other ethnic groups in their job class. This seems to be partially confirmed by Autor et al 2020, which relates globalization & pol polarization.

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in competition w consumption. I don't think that's the full story. Institutional capture means that identity also distorts prices. Of course, when everyone's winning, that's not a huge deal. But Matsuoka shows a strong relationship between intergroup competition & expected wages.

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Sure, there are psychological components of identity too, but communities offer economic protections. Okamoto writes about the emergence of biological essentialism as a way to justify slavery & the pittance paid to asian laborers. Much of our own field treats identity as a good people must choose

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(a bit). Social identity theory is a major way of describing why people subscribe to in-group/out-group discrimination. Tajfel & Turner are the OGs: they show that even sorting people into arbitrary groups results in them distorting resource allocations in favor of their own group.

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There are a lot of great authors doing awesome work in econ, poli sci, anthro, and psych. Much of it contends with the relationship between identity, economics, and populism. In our field, the main question is "Why do people vote against their economic interests?" Tbh, I think the premise is wrong--

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Vaasavi @vaasavi.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

With my mass following (& getting some hi's back!) I thought I'd break my infrequent joke posting. I study the relationship between politics & the macroeconomy (not normal #EconSky material ik). My most current research is on populism & its macro implications--trying to answer "Why did he win?" 1/n

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getting a PhD is like going grocery shopping when you forgot to get the basket at the front of the store

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

I went to OSU for undergrad, and what's wild to me is that while I was there, an anti-abortion protest set up shop, blocked a large walking path, and littered the area with graphic photos of fetal remains and not once did the school give a shit about it

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Vaasavi @vaasavi.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

MTV cribs walked so that AD home tours could run