Wei Yang Tham @wytham88.bsky.social · 29/08/2025experimenting with Typst recently. any recommendations for templates? cc @paulgp.com 241
Wei Yang Tham @wytham88.bsky.social · 18/07/2025If you're at Summer Institute and see a lightweight, dark green sweater lying around pls lmk! 100
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamMichael Baym @baym.lol · 24/05/2025I appreciate the offers from other scientists to help Harvard (students, labs, etc) through this attack, but what would be most helpful is for you to use your position to contact your elected representatives and make it clear this fight isn't just Harvard, it will affect you, and their districts too 8489185
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 09/05/2025Rümeysa Öztürk has been freed!!nbcboston.comTufts student detained by ICE in viral video is released, thanks supportersTufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk was released from ICE detention on Friday, offering brief words of thanks to supporters gathered outside the Louisiana facility. 52111152664
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamHelen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025The #NIH will no longer allow researchers working on its grants have sub-awards in other countries, a common practice that allows US scientists to investigate questions that cannot be studied in this country. @mmolteni.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2025/05/01/n...statnews.comNIH halts funding for new projects with foreign collaborators, citing national security concernsNIH announced it will no longer allow subawards to foreign institutions, as part of a national security-minded overhaul to how it manages research funding 48559
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/04/2025NEWS: After canceling thousands of foreign students' immigration records — threatening their ability to study and live in the US — the Trump administration has reversed course and restored them all. It follows intense pushback from courts across the country. Details TK 11950251410
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 15/04/2025I just contacted all of my representatives in the US Congress. I demanded immediate and drastic action to defend our Constitutional order. If you are American, please stop what you are doing and take 15 minutes to do the same. ▸ www.senate.gov/senators/sen... ▸ www.house.gov/representati... 03413
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/04/2025"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (April 8, 2025) 491359947761
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamDaniel P. Gross @danielpgross.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Looks like the cat is out of the bag. Good post by @stuartbuck.bsky.social on indirect cost recovery citing new joint work with @sampat.bsky.social and @pierre-azoulay.bsky.social. Find it here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g8792...dropbox.com 083
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamBitsy Perlman @bitsyperlman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025The building was built to have that level of telework. People built their lives around not having an office. This is a much bigger deal than "commuting sucks" (thought it does) and "figuring out childcare is hard" (thought it is). It's am I going to move my family for an uncertain job? 171
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamHansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 24/03/2025JUST IN: The Census Bureau is ending its telework and remote-work agreements for unionized federal workers and requiring a full return to office for telework employees by April 21 and a return for remote employees within 60 days, according to emails shared with @npr.org 03616
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamHansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 15/03/2025NEW: The Census Bureau hasn't been recruiting and retaining enough interviewers for three key surveys, including the source of the monthly job report, and lacks a plan for building up a field representative staff, the bureau's internal watchdog, Commerce OIG, finds www.oig.doc.gov/wp-content/O... 114968
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamKatherine J. Wu @katherinejwu.com · 07/03/2025if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12 3491381
Wei Yang Tham @wytham88.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Niche life advice: if you attend a dance class/social as part of a couple, don't stick together the whole time. Dancing with other ppl helps you learn faster, is more fun, and contributes to the public good of building a community 030
Wei Yang Tham @wytham88.bsky.social · 25/02/2025chicken burger (sandwich! not combo!) from A&W costs $10 CADmedia.tenor.comSurprised Pikachu GIFALT: Surprised Pikachu GIF 020
Wei Yang Tham @wytham88.bsky.social · 21/02/2025"The agency didn’t have to fire its experts but decided to in the interest of fairness, a top NSF official told staffers" huh??? 122
Wei Yang Tham @wytham88.bsky.social · 21/02/2025"We didn’t know that studying Gila monster venom would lead to the invention of GLP-1...horseshoe crab blood would prove crucial to vaccine development, or...bacteria in geysers would lead to the development of PCR...on which much of modern molecular biology...rests." 010
Wei Yang Tham @wytham88.bsky.social · 21/02/2025I watched the Kim's Convenience play and enjoyed it very much, but it also made me mourn what the TV show could've been opposabletham.substack.com/p/kims-conve...opposabletham.substack.comKim's Convenience (the play)The play laid bare what the sitcom could have been 000
Wei Yang Tham @wytham88.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Besides being practically stupid, this seems politically unpopular? 000
Wei Yang Tham @wytham88.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Living on the > 30th floor is mostly cool except when the fire alarm goes off and u have to take the stairs down 120
Wei Yang Tham @wytham88.bsky.social · 15/02/2025TIL Prince Edward Island is not a subset of Prince Edward County 010
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamMargaret Echelbarger @bskybymidge.bsky.social · 13/02/2025How does econ work for PhD programs? Let’s say a student gets into a top program but is really wanting to go to a program they haven’t heard from yet. How might you navigate that? I know what to do for other disciplines, but not econ! #EconSky 332
Wei Yang Tham @wytham88.bsky.social · 12/02/2025on one hand, would be nice for the world to stop burning, but I'll take the tiny win of having our work covered in the news statnews.com/2025/02/12/t... @bitsyperlman.bsky.socialstatnews.comTrump policies spark fears of brain drain, threatening to undermine U.S. dominance in biomedicineA torrent of Trump administration policies is alarming scientists who fear the current climate is weakening researchers’ resolve to stick with careers in academic science. 061
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamDave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Penn State also pausing new NIH submissions and pausing acceptance of new awards. #academicsky 816579
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamStuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 08/02/2025New essay on NIH and indirect costs: goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...goodscience.substack.comIndirect Costs at NIH . . .I wasn’t planning on spending part of a Saturday writing about cost accounting principles and the like, but NIH-world was hit with a doozy of a policy announcement on Friday night: 09358
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamJeff Qiu @jeffqiu.bsky.social · 08/02/2025My RAND paper showed a temporary funding cut would have long-lasting effects on overall research output through its adverse impact on investment in young PIs. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...onlinelibrary.wiley.comThe Matthew effect, research productivity, and the dynamic allocation of NIH grantsFunding is important for research. However, research funding may suffer from the Matthew effect: the more researchers already have, the more they will be given. I develop an empirical framework to st... 03010
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamLibrary Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 06/02/2025We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.lil.law.harvard.eduAnnouncing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation LabToday we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet... 4219011000
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamProf Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Your reminder: Hesgeth does not women in the military www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...nbcnews.comTrump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours noticeTrump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday. 33514
Wei Yang Tham @wytham88.bsky.social · 05/02/2025popped into the old workplace slack to see that they're still dealing with the dirty dishes in a communal space problem (there are custodians but they don't do dishes). always makes me think of that Matt Yglesias story from his time at Vox 010
Wei Yang Tham @wytham88.bsky.social · 04/02/2025I believe this is what is known in the journo business as a "nothingburger" 000
Wei Yang Tham @wytham88.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Additional details on what's been going on inside the NSF. Absolute bananas (P.S. I make a small appearance at the end of the article) 032
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamBitsy Perlman @bitsyperlman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025A good summary of what's gone on with NSF funding, and some interesting new tidbits. I'm really pleased they chose to end with @wytham88.bsky.social and a link to our paper: “Grants don’t just generate knowledge or output now, they’ve become a way that we support the training of future scientists.” 13115
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamBen Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I’m watching closely for anything happening inside BLS, Census and the other federal statistical agencies. Know something? Reach out — anonymity guaranteed. Signal: bencasselman.96 13535177
Wei Yang Tham @wytham88.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Some thoughts on funding delays opposabletham.substack.com/p/on-funding...opposabletham.substack.comOn funding delaysWith the suspension of NIH and NSF grant review panels, followed by the freeze on federal grants, it appears that my research on funding delays (here and here) has become very pertinent to current eve... 1124
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamNeale Mahoney @nealemahoney.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Guidance from Stanford leadership on the OMB memo. 1019158
Wei Yang Tham @wytham88.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Yup going to the Asian grocery store on lunar new year weekend may have been a mistake 161
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamApril Burrage, Ph.D. @aprilburrage.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Timely paper about the impact of funding gaps in science. #econsky 0144
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamBitsy Perlman @bitsyperlman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025It's such a weird thing to hear the news and think "that's bad, but also I have a paper about (an aspect) of that" Funding delays are really not great for people who work in science. Funding delays of > 30 days lead to: - 40% increase in scientists exiting US labor force - 20% decrease in wages 7276114
Wei Yang Tham @wytham88.bsky.social · 22/01/2025What is it with Toronto bus drivers? - never wait for passengers trying to catch up to the bus - closing doors on passengers disembarking (have gotten body checked by a bus door twice since moving here vs never in my life) - zooming straight past stops when stop requested 000
Wei Yang Tham @wytham88.bsky.social · 19/01/2025One unexpected downside of living in a high rise is that I can't look outside at people's footwear to decide whether I should wear sneakers or boots in the winter 210
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamImke Reimers @imkereimers.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Looking for things to do in late May? Submit your work on digitization, innovation, and IP to the www.munich-summer-institute.org by Feb 15. Join us for great food, city walks, urban surfing (if you like), and two exciting keynote speakers (@proffionasm.bsky.social and @michelag.bsky.social) 0104
Reposted by Wei Yang ThamRyan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 06/01/2025Has anyone taught with ModernDive v2 (moderndive.com/v2)? It has more statistical theory than v1 and I worry that for my purposes they've maybe ruined it, but I'm open to being wrong. I'd otherwise like to switch as it has the base R pipe and some nice new or updated examples.moderndive.comModernDive V2An open-source and fully-reproducible electronic textbook for teaching statistical inference using tidyverse data science tools. 131
