Lavar Edmonds
@lavaredmonds.bsky.social
Anything I ever do is to avoid doing something else
Stanford Economics PhD Student
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Stanford Economics PhD Student
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My latest hardline, oddly specific stance: There is absolutely no reason for Ginger ale to have all that sugar. Sugar-free genuinely tastes just as fine!
Under an Edmonds Administration, this will be dealt with
Under an Edmonds Administration, this will be dealt with
September 20, 2026 at 12:00 PM
My latest hardline, oddly specific stance: There is absolutely no reason for Ginger ale to have all that sugar. Sugar-free genuinely tastes just as fine!
Under an Edmonds Administration, this will be dealt with
Under an Edmonds Administration, this will be dealt with
You know, people don’t talk about it much, but a job market paper is a lot of work good Lord 🫨 why didn’t someone warn me??
September 7, 2026 at 8:00 PM
You know, people don’t talk about it much, but a job market paper is a lot of work good Lord 🫨 why didn’t someone warn me??
I regret to inform that stretching after the gym does, in fact, make everything feel better. Was really hoping that was fake news all this time smh
August 23, 2026 at 2:35 AM
I regret to inform that stretching after the gym does, in fact, make everything feel better. Was really hoping that was fake news all this time smh
For the education folks out there: so the NCES is still not taking applications for data licenses, right? Is everyone just blocked from accessing more recent SASS/NTPS data until then? The public-use files stop in 1999-2000 😭
August 18, 2026 at 7:15 PM
For the education folks out there: so the NCES is still not taking applications for data licenses, right? Is everyone just blocked from accessing more recent SASS/NTPS data until then? The public-use files stop in 1999-2000 😭
Once again, I’ve learned the hard way I gotta be careful talking with rideshare drivers when I go home. I’m from Virginia, and inevitably it comes up I live in CA rn. I want to commiserate, but the conversation always goes south when it becomes clear we ain’t hating on CA for the same reasons…
July 30, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Once again, I’ve learned the hard way I gotta be careful talking with rideshare drivers when I go home. I’m from Virginia, and inevitably it comes up I live in CA rn. I want to commiserate, but the conversation always goes south when it becomes clear we ain’t hating on CA for the same reasons…
100% i think Opus 5 is dumber btw
I can't prove it, but I swear they're making Opus dumber to entice me into locking in with Fable permanently. Sorry, can't fool me that easily! You'll just have to settle for getting most of money, not all of it
July 30, 2026 at 1:15 AM
100% i think Opus 5 is dumber btw
I’ll complain about California till the end of time, but begrudgingly, after six years here and dozens of times flying all over the world, even I have to concede SFO* might be the smoothest airport in the country
July 27, 2026 at 4:50 PM
I’ll complain about California till the end of time, but begrudgingly, after six years here and dozens of times flying all over the world, even I have to concede SFO* might be the smoothest airport in the country
I can't prove it, but I swear they're making Opus dumber to entice me into locking in with Fable permanently. Sorry, can't fool me that easily! You'll just have to settle for getting most of money, not all of it
July 10, 2026 at 3:30 PM
I can't prove it, but I swear they're making Opus dumber to entice me into locking in with Fable permanently. Sorry, can't fool me that easily! You'll just have to settle for getting most of money, not all of it
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DHS's Operation Metro Surge hurt Minnesota's leisure and hospitality industry in Jan-Mar 2026, destroying:
- 4,600 jobs,
- 3.8 million work hours,
- $71 million in wages.
New analysis by me & @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social @northstarpolicy.org
northstarpolicy.org/leisure-and-...
- 4,600 jobs,
- 3.8 million work hours,
- $71 million in wages.
New analysis by me & @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social @northstarpolicy.org
northstarpolicy.org/leisure-and-...
June 2, 2026 at 11:50 AM
DHS's Operation Metro Surge hurt Minnesota's leisure and hospitality industry in Jan-Mar 2026, destroying:
- 4,600 jobs,
- 3.8 million work hours,
- $71 million in wages.
New analysis by me & @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social @northstarpolicy.org
northstarpolicy.org/leisure-and-...
- 4,600 jobs,
- 3.8 million work hours,
- $71 million in wages.
New analysis by me & @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social @northstarpolicy.org
northstarpolicy.org/leisure-and-...
I try not to make a habit of dunking on undergrads — they’re learning! Trying to find themselves — but it’s a kinda funny bit for your only two op-eds to be “Hey, let’s leave the billionaires alone! 🥺” and “Have you considered the Muslim students just have too much money? 🤪”
June 1, 2026 at 2:55 PM
I try not to make a habit of dunking on undergrads — they’re learning! Trying to find themselves — but it’s a kinda funny bit for your only two op-eds to be “Hey, let’s leave the billionaires alone! 🥺” and “Have you considered the Muslim students just have too much money? 🤪”
We get training on how to be good presenters, but not nearly enough on how to be good audience members. Imo, looking engaged and friendly is an important skill to develop!
May 28, 2026 at 8:10 PM
We get training on how to be good presenters, but not nearly enough on how to be good audience members. Imo, looking engaged and friendly is an important skill to develop!
Update: made it through the talk unscathed — I live to fight another day
If there’s a God, may they spare me from slipping up during a job talk, inadvertently letting years of watching The Boondocks kick in, and accidentally pronouncing W.E.B. Du Bois like this man
(Y’all I swear I know!)
(Y’all I swear I know!)
May 21, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Update: made it through the talk unscathed — I live to fight another day
If there’s a God, may they spare me from slipping up during a job talk, inadvertently letting years of watching The Boondocks kick in, and accidentally pronouncing W.E.B. Du Bois like this man
(Y’all I swear I know!)
(Y’all I swear I know!)
May 21, 2026 at 3:00 AM
If there’s a God, may they spare me from slipping up during a job talk, inadvertently letting years of watching The Boondocks kick in, and accidentally pronouncing W.E.B. Du Bois like this man
(Y’all I swear I know!)
(Y’all I swear I know!)
It’d be nice if more professors posted their syllabi/reading lists
May 15, 2026 at 10:15 PM
It’d be nice if more professors posted their syllabi/reading lists
Personally I like when the insufferable dweebs who I’ve long disliked for largely petty reasons get dunked on for more substantive critiques, but maybe some just ain’t got the heart of a hater like I do
May 15, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Personally I like when the insufferable dweebs who I’ve long disliked for largely petty reasons get dunked on for more substantive critiques, but maybe some just ain’t got the heart of a hater like I do
Not to doom about automation and job destruction (I’m not even a doomer!), but leaving my apartment today and seeing the Latina custodial workers who usually clean the hallways have seemingly been replaced with a vacuum/deep cleaning robot *that speaks Spanish* feels… ominous
May 11, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Not to doom about automation and job destruction (I’m not even a doomer!), but leaving my apartment today and seeing the Latina custodial workers who usually clean the hallways have seemingly been replaced with a vacuum/deep cleaning robot *that speaks Spanish* feels… ominous
Just let the record show: when I mentioned missing the days of EconTwitter, I didn’t mean also the shitty takes
Alas, many such cases
Alas, many such cases
May 8, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Just let the record show: when I mentioned missing the days of EconTwitter, I didn’t mean also the shitty takes
Alas, many such cases
Alas, many such cases
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FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more.
I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”
I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”
May 6, 2026 at 12:42 PM
FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more.
I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”
I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”
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Here is what I find so interesting. The excellent work of scholars like @lavaredmonds.bsky.social shows that HBCU trained teachers closed gaps, but we’d rather focus on narratives centered on Black cultural deficits such as “role model effects” and this: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Self-Defeating Condescension of an Anti-Racist Education
How an “ideological purity spiral” derailed some of America’s most promising classrooms.
www.theatlantic.com
April 24, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Here is what I find so interesting. The excellent work of scholars like @lavaredmonds.bsky.social shows that HBCU trained teachers closed gaps, but we’d rather focus on narratives centered on Black cultural deficits such as “role model effects” and this: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Has anyone written about how our fragmented television consumption environment has affected (political) advertising (in the US)? Probably, right? I imagine things have had to change dramatically from even 10 years ago, but curious what that’s looked like behind the scenes
April 30, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Has anyone written about how our fragmented television consumption environment has affected (political) advertising (in the US)? Probably, right? I imagine things have had to change dramatically from even 10 years ago, but curious what that’s looked like behind the scenes
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I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining the Economics Department at Stockholm University as an Assistant Professor, following a postdoc at Brown University’s Economics Department and Watson School!
April 22, 2026 at 2:54 PM
I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining the Economics Department at Stockholm University as an Assistant Professor, following a postdoc at Brown University’s Economics Department and Watson School!
I was gonna give macro some credit bc I recently had to dig back in my memory and use some of their tools I'd learned in my own work (it's useful stuff!), but then I just saw an embarrassing number of folks in their feelings about the "credibility revolution," so I'd say we broke even this week
April 17, 2026 at 4:16 PM
I was gonna give macro some credit bc I recently had to dig back in my memory and use some of their tools I'd learned in my own work (it's useful stuff!), but then I just saw an embarrassing number of folks in their feelings about the "credibility revolution," so I'd say we broke even this week
Update: A Nobel laureate said I’m a really good presenter, so that’s on the CV now
Sure I’m biased, but, just as grad students send a + signal with published work on their CVs, I should be able to flaunt how many times I’ve had my papers rejected. Look at all this resilience I’m building! Pretend it’s 10 years ago and look at this ~grit~. That’s gotta count for something, right?
April 12, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Update: A Nobel laureate said I’m a really good presenter, so that’s on the CV now
Aah, I see the (unnecessarily) angriest on here are still the most illiterate. Good equilibrium, very healthy
Astonishing how load-bearing this tweet continues to be
I’m convinced now a frightening share of the anger on this site boils down to the fact that many posters can’t read, and, worse, they don’t know they can’t read
I’m convinced now a frightening share of the anger on this site boils down to the fact that many posters can’t read, and, worse, they don’t know they can’t read
April 1, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Aah, I see the (unnecessarily) angriest on here are still the most illiterate. Good equilibrium, very healthy