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@xuyiqing Thanks, Yiqing! Congrats to you too! 😃

Congrats, Shaoda 🎇 So well deserved!

@DanielYiXu Thanks, Daniel! 😃

Congrats to my amazing coauthor @verda_dao for his tenure and for his bottle of Moutai (the Chinese counterpart of Hennessy XO)!

@Rick__Hornbeck Sorry for your loss, Rick!

Mourning my Mom, who passed away last night from cancer. She was a labor lawyer with the government (NLRB) and union (NTEU), and she taught me to write. If you've ever thought something I did was well written, it's because of her.

@cblatts Sorry for your loss, Chris.

We lost my dad Jim to heart and lung disease this week, at 73. Young, but he was a model of how to live life. I've spent my career city to city every few years. He and my mom did the same, until 1984 when they finally settled in Ottawa with their three boys. They built a community here, and touched so many people it's hard to count. We're not sure we'll find a large enough place to fit them all. Dad grew up in Montreal. He finished secondary school early—I think it was 16—and started college younger than everyone else. He always kept the details suspiciously hazy (it sounds like there was a lot of poker playing involved) but whatever transpired, he decided to drop out his first year. Dad always loved cars and mechanics and driving, and so he ran off to become the crew chief for a race car driver, traveling around North America on the Formula Atlantic circuit. But dad had a girlfriend at home, a nurse in training. They'd met working as bank tellers. One day her father got on the phone and told my dad to come home and marry her or get lost. So he quit racing, came back to the Royal Bank of Canada and to Montreal. He and my mom Rita spent the next 51 years together. They bounced around from little bank branch to branch in small towns ands cities across eastern Ontario until they finally landed in Ottawa. That became home. Over the next 20 years he built one of the most successful technology banking practices in Canada—to his surprise most of all. It all started when he met a handful of guys starting telecom companies. One tiny little startup was called Newbridge, another Mitel, and later another called Corel. They ended up becoming some of the largest telecom and tech companies in the world. But despite his success, dad was never really a career man. I cannot remember a time he wasn't home by 5pm to be with his family. And even if the business he built was important, the most legendary thing he and my mom built was a community. He and my mom touched so many people it is overwhelming. My brothers and I have spent half the week figuring out how to manage the sheer number of people that want to stop by, come to a service, and send a note. It's humbling and inspiring. Even though he died too soon, he had a great run. He retired at 55 and he and my mom traveled, golfed, and spent time with their grandkids. A lifetime musician, he started a rock band with his friends and played gigs around Ottawa. He even returned to car racing, in a way, by teaching high-performance driving at a race track nearby. And he drank a lot of red wine. He will be missed by friends and family, but also by the vintners of California. We love you pops.

@guoxu_econ @BerkeleyHaas @UCBerkeley @SloanFoundation Congrats!!

I'm thrilled and honored to be named #SloanFellow - proud to bring one home for political economy + economic history + dev & @BerkeleyHaas @UCBerkeley - congratulations to all other 2023 fellows! What a great company to be in...! @SloanFoundation

@YeliangXia @wenyunchao 何必造谣？我是北大经院10级本科生，那一年你在经院教必修课的经济学原理。因为讲得太差，学生都跑去听胡老师教的选修班，你恼羞成怒只能在课上突然点名，你不记得了吗？你在经院开的劳动经济学，限选50人，就算给分很水每年选课也不超过5人，你不记得了吗？经院让你混了那么久才开除，确实太失职。

@verda_dao @wenyunchao 你黨媽派你來散佈謠言領狗糧？北大奉旨對我進行污名化的謠言你也信，不是腦殘/弱智就是邪惡！若年年評比倒數就淘汰，試問北大經濟學院這20年已經累積淘汰多少名講課差的教師？我在北大任教13年，若如謠言所說那樣，那北大也對我也太特殊照顧了⋯⋯我在北大開設的公選課名額有多少人托關係爭取一席難求

可略总结一下即便像曾经被称为中国教授的夏业良为何会倒退反智到这般程度。除了他人曾分析过的中国泛自由派的保守主义底色及寄希望于川普反共的投机因素，更根本的原因在于这些人缺乏基本的认知和学习能力，更受限于自我封闭的信息环境，或是微信或是保守媒体。接下...

@MarkBuntaine Hope you have a good recovery, Mark!

Shoulder successfully reattached to body (cycling crash). Feeling good to be on the mend. Wear your helmets people! Saved my head.

@seema_econ @abgaduh @rglenner @claudferraz @dianamoreira_sb @JonathanWeigel Thanks a lot, Seema!

Congrats to the new NBER Development Econ members: Baafra Abeberese, Arya Gaduh (@abgaduh), Rachel Glennerster (@rglenner), Shaoda Wang (@verda_dao) + @claudferraz, Emanuele Colonnelli, Ernest Liu, @dianamoreira_sb, and @JonathanWeigel. Welcome! nber.org/news/nber-appo…

@YuhuaWang5 Congratulations, Yuhua!!

Relieved to know that I’ve gotten tenure. Being junior isn’t easy, and the journey has been extra long for me. I couldn’t do this without the support from family, mentors, colleagues, students, and friends. There is no better way to celebrate than sharing the joy with my students

@samori8 Thanks, Sam!

@ThisIsWenhao What I get form a 1-min search: cj.sina.com.cn/articles/view/… baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=172571887… fashion.ifeng.com/c/8DvGWGMQh6M dy.163.com/article/H12GET… international.caixin.com/m/2022-02-25/1…

Quickly went through what some of China’s biggest news outlets (The Paper, The Beijing News, Caijing) have posted on Ukraine. What stood out to me the most was that there’s no coverage on the thousands of anti-war protesters that came out onto the streets across Russia yesterday.

@AreBerkeley So sad. Leo was such a phenomenal teacher, he gave me some of my most fond memories during my 1st yr. I remember he used to wear this pedometer during class, and every time he was walking barefoot talking about hemicontinuity, that thing would suddenly start beeping nonstop...

We are very sad that our esteemed colleague Leo K. Simon passed away last night. Leo was great person and an outstanding scholar who will be sorely missed.

@jorge_guajardo @Kate_OKeeffe Who the hell is "Li Zhufu"?? You can't even spell a person's name correctly when bragging about having met him, yet you are confident that not speaking any Chinese does not affect your ability to understand China. Says everything that is wrong about "China watchers" in the US.

@Kate_OKeeffe I do not speak Chinese, lived in Beijing for six years, traveled to every single province, met with most Chinese businessman now in the news (Jack Ma, Li Zhufu, et al) never felt I was missing out on anything.

Interesting how many people seem to think that reporting on U.S.-China national security & tech issues from Washington D.C. requires a person to speak & read Mandarin. Either that or they havent read my bio or any of my stories yet still feel qualified to tell me how to do my job

@CarlZha What about 西门豹治邺? He threw some witches into the river, maybe that could be considered the Chinese version of witch hunting..

“Traditional Chinese culture” on Tawain: Saw a 2019 Taiwan news abt Chinese netizens put Taiwan/HK independence supporting business on blacklist. What jumped at me: WFT is 獵巫? Obvious translation of witch-hunt frm English. There’s no concept of witch in traditional China!

@DanielDumbrill Daniel, the wording is a bit inaccurate: PPP is a price index, not an income measure. What being illustrated here is not ppp, but GDP (ppp adjusted) from 1990 to 2018.

China's Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) from 1990 to 2018 visualized. blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/track…

@manaswini_rao Thanks a lot Manaswini!

Congrats @verda_dao !! Great to see this in print.

@amb396 @QJEHarvard @nju_zhangbing Thanks a lot Antonio!

Worth reading - amazing new environmental paper @QJEHarvard by @verda_dao @nju_zhangbing and He.

@EHWpolisci congrats!

Thank you!!!

@Dali_Yang China uses a different AQI standard than the US. This is like comparing kilometers to miles..

LOL: why should get a Xiaomi phone?: you get many more steps for the same effort and a lower AQI for the same air.