Mot Juste

Wait, you need a make-up exam for the make-up exam? Hmmmm...

@MeganTStevenson @JeffDenning @imbernomics @john_voorheis Agreed. A lack of "risky" candidates could affect the research portfolio and have damaging effects on knowledge creation and dissemination.

@Rodprime @JeffDenning @imbernomics @john_voorheis Not to mention a chilling effect on the hiring process as departments seek “safe” candidates

@JeffDenning @imbernomics @john_voorheis The threat of tenure loss, even if actual tenure removal is employed infrequently, could have a chilling effect and deter scholars from underrepresented groups or scholars that teach or research topics that are deemed undesirable.

@imbernomics @john_voorheis I agree it seems worse. I am more optimistic that this will end up being a cosmetic change than a substantive one. I hope I'm right!

@bomani_jones @KoJeazy @bomani_jones It is all good sir. Ga Tech doesn't give away grades even if you run a 4.2 second forty.

@KoJeazy i don't know how i got that backwards. my bad on that. it ain't a slight, to be clear.

@bomani_jones I need you to know that @Rodprime was a 4.0 in chemistry BEFORE switching to Econ and graduated with highest honors. That dude is built different smart.

@KerwinKCharles Congratulations Kerwin!

If you are an URM Economic PhD student that is close to finishing or know of such students, then please consider presenting in @AEACSMGEP dissertation session at #ASSA2024. Send nominations or self-nominations to me.

@TrevonDLogan Bye.

BIG NEWS: Excited to announce that as of July 1, 2023 I will be the Nevir A. Winner Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Economics, and Sociology at the University of Michigan!

This tendency to "Privatize Profits and Socialize Losses" is systemic. Financial institutions surely incorporate this into their "risk assessment strategy".

@BenHanowell Spot on.

Sincere apologies never begin with "I would like to apologize."

@MarcDCase Can Chipper Jones get some consideration?

Eddie Murray, of course.

@ProfessaJay Everyone she talks to? Talk about nonrepresentative sampling. Everyone she talks to thinks like her.

@MarcDCase His two-seam fastball had so much movement. It looks like a lefty's slider.

Incredible.

@imcfarlin @jenniferdoleac Daniel Silverman

@jenniferdoleac They all work at Amazon.

Who do I know who has left a tenured academic position for the private sector?

Economics: A discipline that states that there are systemic barriers to entry while continuing to construct and reinforce systemic barriers to entry.

@bakerdphd They will do nothing. Everything is transactional.

@TrevonDLogan Removing African-American history from an African-American history course to make the course more palatable is so American.

The AP African American Studies program would not in any way be comparable to a college-level course. It will be taught by untrained high school teachers and leave students with a false sense of mastery. It was always a terrible idea, with or without Florida’s foolishness.

I get angry when "woke" is used as a pejorative.

@MarcDCase @vexedinthecity You know they're going to be seasoned and fall off the bone tender.

@vexedinthecity Man…

I don't even eat pork and I'd trust Pat Mahomes Sr.'s ribs.