@evanrobertsnz
Social, demographic, & economic history @UMNews HMED & Population Studies. Coffee, photos, Dylan, urban & transit fan, road & trail runner. Constructive, loving critic of where I live (Minneapolis) and where I'm from (Wellington) @evanrobertsnz most places
Excited to share a new paper with @jfischman, just accepted at JEL.
We argue that empirical research tends to be biased and overconfident due to a weakness in the dominant econometric framework: insufficient attention paid to humans “in the loop” with the research process. 1/
Manhattan man admits he is ignorant of Long Island Sound
Cook, Dardenelles, Taiwan, Florida
What they don’t know is Shaffer was actually Peter Principled in order to make way for Garcia. People think she was promoted but really she was neutralized and now hamstrung in the council minority while Garcia helped shape a new park board mandate for park green space and against auto parking.
This is a brilliant midterms play. As someone with a PhD in Political Science, one thing studies show again and again is that before making up their minds, voters go to congress.gov and search bill histories to see which party introduced legislation affecting the prices of common consumer goods.
I was originally going to dunk on this suburban Chicago letter to the editor opposing Illinois' state-level zoning reforms, but this must surely be parody, right? www.dailyherald.com/20260309/let...
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Electrical panel, vegetable panel ... luckily this is just batting around home maintenance ideas for a condo.
Some Minnesota state lawmakers and advocates say changing building requirements could help fix the state's housing shortage.
Star Tribune reporter Greta Kaul spoke to guest host Emily Reese on All Things Considered about the initiative.
old school DSLR!
Nikon?
great photo! Assuming this is real glass and camera, not a phone
New job:
Postdoctoral Fellowship - JHU Dept of History of Medicine & Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69869
I believe they lease the building (always their excuse for not shoveling the sidewalk)
! Like the one I posted, striking how the removal of a tree changed how the street looked.
Google Streetview shows this addition goes back to 2007 or earlier (there’s not streetview without it), but the change in the tree cover on the street makes a huge difference to this block. Trees, they are very good
maps.app.goo.gl/zFgrDJZK7NBz...
An addition to a mid century house
Changing the neighborhood character, single family home edition.
A headline reading “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”
Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.
Outrageous, I thought International Women's Day was a celebration of *my* workout, and now some other dude comes along and steals my title 🙄
Six years ago, as a member of the opposition party, Bishop (then 36; he’s 42) held together the right flank of the tripartisan alliance (Labour, Green, & Bishop’s Nationals) that re-legalized six-story apartments near transit & 3-story townhomes on most urban lots. Also ended urban parking mandates.
Cool opportunity to work at the intersections of climate/environmental history and history of medicine!
History and Medicine – Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure – McMaster University
Apply by March 31st
niche-canada.org/2026/03/05/h...
#envhist #histmed #climhist #cdnhist
Never fall in love with any specific social media platform. They will all betray you or fizzle out (and most likely both).
Have some fun. Make some friends. Share some ideas. Do some good.
But never forget that they're all impermanent.
It seems like vaccine hesitancy surprised many governments. So focused on how vaccines allowed a way out they forgot the baseline level of vaccine hesitancy out there, and almost naive to the possibility of cultivated anti-vaccine sentiment.
Excellent TLDR of part 2 of NZ's Covid-19 Inquiry by @marcdaalder.bsky.social
1. Vaccine safety & approvals process successful
2. Some mandates lasted too long or went too far
3. The need for a changed testing strategy could have been foreseen
4. Lockdown decisions were ‘reasonable & evidence-based’
The United States is a country which once regulated time zones locally, and still has not really learned from the debacle that was.
I go back and forth on whether I should be surprised 😄
Sly joke
The Iowa legislation contains important guardrails against the most common ways cities and counties try to stop ADUs that were legalized by state law
legiscan.com/IA/text/SF59...
By contrast in Iowa (noted retirement destination) the 2025 legislative session saw a pretty comprehensive statewide legalization of ADUs
www.msa-ps.com/navigating-l...
ADU policies in the Twin Cities metro
From our [ongoing] work on the Minnesota Zoning Atlas the Twin Cities metro area is pretty restrictive about ADUs.
Figures from @zoningatlas.bsky.social metro area snapshots
www.zoningatlas.org/snapshots/?c...
