Development, labor, and nerdy measurement stuff | Sr. Lecturer, @UQ_News | @iza_bonn | @jpal | insulin addict | dad of an awesome girl | previous @kdi_school

Brisbane, Queensland
Joined June 2009
Come join us! Great school in a great university in a great city. I moved here 18 months ago and am happy to answer any questions!
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In Australia and the Uk 3 is the norm. 4th year is for “honours”
The College-in-3 trend is accelerating. Early movers experimenting with a 3 year bachelor’s degree were less selective schools like Merrimack or Weber State. Then states like OH, OK, and KS told their flagship universities to pilot the 90 credit degree. Now even NYU is doing it.
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Josh Merfeld retweeted
Five years ago, @econmentoring started with 32 mentees and 22 mentors. This year: 72 mentees, 42 mentors, from 55 institutions across 16 countries. As we start year six, we’re asking for your help to keep growing: give.northeastern.edu/boston… 5 year report: dropbox.com/scl/fi/p3qszhu8o…
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Maybe someone should propose data centers with pickleball courts on the roof?
Someone made a site that tracks what people are talking about at public city council meetings across the US. The only thing discussed more than data centers? Pickleball courts.
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JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"
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China has as many climates as the US! This is stupid!
Remade this map with real data. This is fun.
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ABBOTT: Gina Hinojosa supports Sharia Law
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Blaming others for his own stupid decision. How Christian of him.
NEW: Archbishop Jeffrey Grob of Milwaukee apologized on Sunday for praying over President Trump in the Oval Office last week, and he accused the White House of posting video of the prayer without the bishops’ consent. Writing to Catholics from the Dominican Republic, he said the administration had manipulated “something so sacred” into a political photo opportunity twelve days before the midterms. thelettersfromleo.com/p/arch…
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“First line of the answer” but it’s a single letter…
Only developers is allowed to get free WiFi. What's the password?
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This happens a lot…
This is like the craziest thing I’ve ever seen Everyone turned out to vote for Abbott but they left it blank for Paxton or voted for Talarico? That is not how most voting humans operate
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“it's efficiency-improving to make the guest the residual claimant on garbage” is definitely a brand new sentence
I think having AirBnB guests clean up their own garbage does solve a moral hazard problem. The cost of reducing garbage is plausibly much lower than the cost of cleaning up garbage, so it's efficiency-improving to make the guest the residual claimant on garbage
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If this were free money a bunch of people would buy the other side and send the odds back towards even. And yet…
This is literally free money btw. No shot Talarico wins. The reason the odds are like this is because Democrat megadonors manipulate Kalshi odds as a voter suppression tool. Then the night before they dump huge amounts of money on the Republican to offset their losses. Something that should be regulated.
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He clearly just wants to dress in drag and do a cold plunge. Power to you mate.
If Ohio goes Blue for the Gov and Senator race I’m dressing in drag and doing a cold plunge! Bookmark this!
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Based pope
In January, a senior Pentagon official summoned Pope Leo XIV’s ambassador and lectured him on American military power. Then someone in the room invoked the Avignon Papacy, when the French Crown used force to bend a pope to its will. Vatican officials read it as a threat. The pope has not given an inch since. thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-…
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How on earth does one have the balls to say “southeast US is like China.” Do you have any idea how big China is? It’s the same as the US! India has part of the Himalayas ffs
A map of which country’s weather is most similar to where you live in America.
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We really are in the dumbest timeline.
99.9% of the U.S. would consider The Cheesecake Factory to be high class dining. Only an elitist like Barack Obama would invoke the Factory— home of delicious cuisine— to ridicule someone.
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Josh Merfeld retweeted
I looked them up and they appear to be at the Pima Animal Care Center (PACC) in Tucson, Arizona. If you adopt both of these dogs together — or any animal from this center — I will pay for a month's worth of pet food and help you find a good pair of pants. 24petconnect.com/PimaAdoptab…
Saw something very cute at the shelter today
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Why is robinhood up on the screen behind them??
In Fort Myers, FL with Oz & the Boss to announce U.S. harvested seafood labeling and $260 million in nursing scholarships.
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I’d like to discuss European geography for a second
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