@troytassier
Public health, health equity, economic inequality, complex systems, social networks Economist at Fordham Author: The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks (JHU Press) Book webpage: troytassier.com
“small numbers of elite students will have access to… largely tech-free liberal arts education, everyone else has a “degraded, soulless form of vocational training administered by AI instructors”, said Zhang.” 2/2
Nice overview except is doesn’t describe well or give examples of what it means to “embrace AI” and what that will yield.
Good prediction for where I think this will go however,
“a widening divide in US higher education…” 1/2
😮 I’d like to see him feed his family on $8-10/person per day. Then I’ll listen to his lecture about navigating the real world.
😮 I’d like to see him feed his family on $8-10/person per day. Then I’ll listen to his lecture about navigating the real world.
"[T]he Center for Health Economics & Policy Studies at San Diego State University. They put the number of cases connected to Sturgis in the range of 115,000-260,000, or 10 to 20 percent of all cases in the US at the time. This was just one month after the rally occurred & it was still spreading..."
Agree.
Hope and change; forward. It was all so positive in seeking a better day for everyone. Contrast that to today’s backward looking rhetoric and bitterness. It is hard to fathom a more negative turn.
Agree.
Hope and change; forward. It was all so positive in seeking a better day for everyone. Contrast that to today’s backward looking rhetoric and bitterness. It is hard to fathom a more negative turn.
This disgusting shit doesn’t belong in American society.
And Republicans who support it don’t belong in Congress.
While some may applaud while thinking that this opens up more spots for US students, you have to recognize that many (if not most) international students pay full tuition without academic scholarships or other aid. The loss of those $ will make college more expensive for US students.
🚨JACOB KIPLIMO RECLAIMS THE WORLD RECORD 🚨
🇺🇬 Jacob Kiplimo returned to the EDP Lisbon Half Marathon (the same course where he first made history in 2021) and broke the half marathon world record AGAIN with 57:20 victory.
He took 10 seconds off the previous record held by Yomif Kejelcha (57:30).
Have you heard about the mathematician who published her first paper in Nature at the age of 10?
Three years ago we set out to visualize and quantitatively examine the movement of SARS-CoV-2 leading up to the first two major COVID-19 waves in the US. Today all that hard work "hit the shelves" at PLOSCompBio. 🛟 Watch the spread (we have movies) and read more here: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
It’s a great paper!
I put $50 in my gas tank this morning at $3.59/ gallon and then I see the job loss report. Seems there’s no doubt that those consumer sentiment numbers that journalists claimed were “at odds w/ Econ data” represented something more than “feelings.” They represented real economic hardship.
Yowza! At a time when we need journalists the most, we’re looking at this.
a graph of the year-on-year % change in Newspaper jobs
Total newspaper employment growth rates fell to the lowest levels since early COVID in data released this morning—and this data does not cover the February layoffs at the Washington Post.
Fewer than 80k people now work at newspapers in the United States.
When people say "The economy is doing great!" The correct response is always "for whom?"
a graph of year-on-year change in US manufacturing employment
The US continues to lose manufacturing jobs—payrolls are down 100k over the last year, & another 12k jobs were lost in February
Transportation (especially auto manufacturing), chemicals, & wood are the biggest losers, but few subsectors are doing well
Anyone want to remind us abt the stock market again? Even when you look at the overall macro variables in the labor mkt things don’t look too bad. But when you start breaking out core sectors like this you see why people are dissatisfied and frustrated. It isn’t “feelings,” it’s people’s lives.
That had to be eerie. I remember the first time I drove home to Michigan from NY in summer 2021. We hit western PA and Ohio and it felt like I was in the twilight zone. Rest stops, gas stations with not a mask in sight. Have to imagine Sturgis was a millions times worse.
So @troytassier.bsky.social has written up the results from my @yalesph.bsky.social colleague @rafalpx.bsky.social's brand new paper in PLoS Comp Bio. Read it. With a guest appearance by #KristiNoem. troytassier.substack.com/p/screw-covi...
Cool acct. thanks!
I don’t think I’d put this all on her, but like now, she was on the wrong side of history.
👇A comment on our recently published work in @plos.org Computational Biology!
I’ll have to read up on it. I know abt the biogen event in Boston and the Albany Georgia funerals in late February but I have heard about the book fair.
Didn’t know about the book fair. Thx. 🙏
Agree.
"Screw Covid, I'm going to Sturgis!" The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, held in August 2020, was the epitome of the individual choice mindset. Of course it spread cases outward and caused infections, illness, and death. A new research paper allows us to watch the Sturgis Covid wave spread across the US.
I think Peter Baker is off here. While his explanation may be a portion of it, I think there is much more simple explanation - "follow the money." Removing Iran's leadership and making it more US and Israel friendly makes Gaza more safe and lucrative for Jared.
