Excited for our #ASHEcon panel TUESDAY 10:15am on natural experiments in acute care. Papers on decisionmaking in surgeon-anesthesiologist dyads, emergency attending peer dyads, and clustering of patient acuities. ashecon.confex.com/ashecon/2026...
This week we released the #maps module in #ggplot2 uncharted — and we cover a loooooot of maps in the 4 lessons and 19 exercises!
... and this collection doesn't even feature each 👀
As usual, the first lesson is available for everyone 🤙
www.ggplot2-uncharted.com/module5/spat...
#rstats #tidyverse
Reminder, if you’re going to @ashecon.bsky.social 2026, come to our Wednesday session of creative uses of recession discontinuity with some of the best in the business, including @aschwartz.bsky.social, @vinisingh.bsky.social, @dzeltzer.bsky.social, and @mlbarnett.bsky.social!
The Sloan Foundation is searching for a new Director of its Economics Program. At a critical time when federal research funding is limited, this is a critical position. Please circulate this opportunity to shape and support economics and economists widely! sloan.org/about/careers
Not to be confused with an amazing panel on natural experiments in healthcare on WEDNESDAY, also at 10:15am!
It makes me really sad.
Used to be, if someone wrote about a super-niche topic, it would because they cared—a lot. Their personal viewpoint would be interesting even if not entirely accurate. Now so much of it is meaningless digital effluent.
Doing to fountain pens is just a twist of the knife.
(The abstract is from @paulgp.com's paper here: bsky.app/profile/paul...)