Ed Carr

Amazing! Congrats!

Former dean take: this is disqualifying for anyone who wants a university-wide research leadership position. Just totally wrong. Perhaps some fields want/demand this, but imposing it on all fields is destructive.

Central Region! Elmina! Go there from Cape - just a 10 minute drive. If you can go to a beach, go to Brenu Achim!

I will be there in 2 weeks!

Well, that was terrible

Look, Miller is terrible and needs to face consequences. But let’s not elevate him to “architect.”

Maybe “toddler placing with racist Lincoln Logs.” Which would still make him the brightest bulb on that very dim tree.

A little hope in Davos

Back from an interesting and exhausting few days in Davos for the WEF meetings. I am still processing my first trip to this event, but in the meantime I did get some good media work in, such as this interview with We Don't Have Time: buff.ly/KYnSTi2

(no, I did not change my name to Eric)

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@ipbes.net

Trump retreat on climate change creates major global funding shortfall, expert warns ⁠Cuts to US climate commitments begin to ripple through UN agencies and research bodies - Anadolu Ajansı

Every so often we need to look up from the daily outrage cycle and look at the larger patterns. Deleting climate datasets and degrading global assessments are not one-off actions.

They are a program stripping evidence from policy and politics. We must resist this.

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So long and thanks for all the fish

Give us a week, we’ll perforate your colon

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Yep.

Pith helmets for all my friends!

Much better…but my only complaint is that I cannot alternate between an alcoholic beer and a n/a beer. The n/a tastes sweet by comparison and it throws me off.

(Me griping about the sweetness of n/a IPAs is the definition of progress)

The more I think about it, the more I realize Texas Tech - Oregon was a “pox on both your houses” kind of game

Yeah, yeah, Oregon is in fact purchasing playoff wins.

Well, Nike is purchasing playoff wins, anyway.

I’m enjoying today’s football changing of the guard. Alabama getting wrecked by Indiana, Ohio State getting beaten by Miami. Turns out Texas Tech can’t actually purchase a playoff win.

DeBoer is getting fired. Day is probably back on a hot seat a year after a title.

Good times!

They predicted the highly-wealthy would leave MA when it passed a millionaire’s tax (an additional 4% surcharge on income over $1 million.

They did not leave. Economy did just great. We have revenue to fix stuff.

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Pretty sure a 14% decline in approval is outside the margin of error.

Way outside.

The fact there are any empty seats at the ACC title game, let alone A LOT of seats, speaks to the cultural difference between the conference and the SEC/BIG10.

#gohoos

And I am not even getting into having folks work out how much they would save each month if they did not have to pay insurance premiums…

Basically, if looked at as a percentage of income, $500 to the former is the equivalent of $75 to the latter. Or turn it around: $500 to a $30k income is $3333 to a $200k income.

You have to control for this in the sample and responses or the answers are trash.

This seems like a really, really bad survey question. Unless it was sent only to people with about the same income, you were asking participants very different questions. $500 means very different things if you are making $200k or $30k.

Josh. No. Leave us alone.

Remember when FSU was trying to extort the ACC for more TV revenue…two years ago?

I am still enjoying the schadenfreude.

I said it was the differences in boards that shape different outcomes for universities that are being pressured by the administration.

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