NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute
Adam D Roberts
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PhD Candidate, Political Science | University of Rochester | Studying elections, voting, and accountability in Latin America | On the 2026–2027 job market | https://adamdnroberts.github.io
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
It turns out that the one thing Americans are not polarized on is disliking Mormons, and I think that's beautiful ❤️
Probably just a verbal slip but kind of funny that he says "I have every doubt" at 22s
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago"September 11th was 25 years ago" -- Ted Cruz defends Trump lying about his response to 9/11 but suggesting he might not remember because it was so long ago
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If you're looking for something to do Thursday 10am at #APSA2026, come see me and @mattgrossmann.bsky.social, @saengler.bsky.social, @dweisstanner.bsky.social & @rfrbrghs.bsky.social @ Marriott (Dartmouth). I'll present my job market paper on how benchmarks change voters' evaluation of incumbents 👋
Rochester is hiring a methodologist! If you want to know what it's like living in Rochester, let's talk! apply.interfolio.com/192333 #polisky
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Right. But that's because people compartmentalize them separately. Your salary and rent are seen by most people as the background noise to your finances that you work around, but your discretionary purchases are "real", when the reality is almost entirely reversed
The funny thing is the budget has $12,600 dollars for leisure (vacation + entertainment), not including the weekly date night in the food budget
brasidas@brasidas.bsky.social · 2mo agoIncome - Taxes - Expenditures - Savings = 0 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
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Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
I'm so sick of the "millionaires are fleeing new york" narrative that keeps popping up in WSJ ads www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
The Red-Blue Economic Divide
Mamdani is teaching the whole country a lesson, as his city empties of people.
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Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha has been honored by having a newly discovered species of marine mollusk named after him by Spanish researcher Jesus Ortea. 🌊
Cape Verde’s Vozinha honoured by newly discovered species name after World Cup performances (Gift Article)
A new species of marine mollusk discovered in the Caribbean has been named after the 40-year-old goalkeeper.
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I made a University of Rochester color theme for the Gemini beamerposter theme! Use it in your posters! github.com/anishathalye...
GitHub - anishathalye/gemini: Gemini is a modern LaTex beamerposter theme 🖼
Gemini is a modern LaTex beamerposter theme 🖼. Contribute to anishathalye/gemini development by creating an account on GitHub.
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higher than chicago, miami, and nashville wow
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 3mo ago248k to live comfortably in Buffalo is kind of hilarious
Okay, I have referenced this a few times in replies, but: some people are confused about why the SSPX would play this game of chicken and expect the Pope would blink. It's not JUST the precedent from the last time! It's also the entire recent history of the Catholic Church in China.
rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 3mo agoALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE LAITY THIS IS INCREDIBLE
Very cool paper! www.nber.org/papers/w28748
Science as a Public Good: Public Use and Funding of Science
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Untitled, by Alma Thomas, 1968 (slightly rotated), 📸 by Justin Setterfield
It is good to know that even in wartime, the Department of War has time to address theological issues 🤡🤡🤡
Very excited about this!
Hadley Wickham@hadley.nz · 5mo agoI'm bringing my substack back to life to talk about AI and data science: open.substack.com/pub/tidydesi.... I have conflicted feelings about both AI and writing about AI but I want to try and work through them in the open, and I hope you'll join me on this journey.
Any candidate that runs on proportional representation as a single issue will have my vote locked
🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃@darinself.com · 5mo agoWithout anyone in the major parties calling for proportional representation we'll just be stuck in this doom loop
Read a paper (ape.socialcatalystlab.org/papers/apep_...) from Social Catalyst Lab's Project "automate policy evaluation" which seemed like a good grad school paper for a class (e.g., limited data, requires strong assumptions but a step in the right direction for a broader research project)
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Fellas is it feminine to be employed www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...
Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?
Over the past year, the vast majority of new jobs have gone to women. One economist says to help men find work, we need to embrace ways to "make girly jobs appeal to manly men."
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"experts should simply change their mind if enough people disagree" is quite the stance to become so popular among the innumerate
