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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

7 months

[1/2] Cannot think of a more deserving person. Claudia is one of the most curious, thoughtful, and brilliant people. She is a great advisor, pushing others to think more deeply and go after big questions.

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 months

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.” #NobelPrize

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@saskatchewin

4 months

lots of advice for JMCs on here! advice for departments? 1. don't be a jerk to JMCs 2. don't be a jerk to JMCs 3. don't tell women/students of colour that they are so lucky bc it's so easy for them to get jobs these days 4. don't be a jerk to JMCs

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@saskatchewin

7 months

woman wins Nobel prize, man uses it to promote his own work

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@saskatchewin

1 year

My take is that EJMR is what happens when people don't go to therapy and instead bully others to temporarily make themselves feel superior/satisfy their egos

Jonathan Libgober (same handle on other places)

@JlibDoesEcon

1 year

My take is that EJMR is what happens when decentralized markets do not by themselves have enough means to facilitate information aggregation in the face of substantial frictions (say, caused by sticky social normals and emphasis on perception of quality over quality).

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@saskatchewin

1 year

"I like this approach to economics. It does not feel like economics" teaching reviews, 2023

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

10 months

UBC econ is such an incredibly nice and functional department, it is making it annoyingly difficult to pretend that I'm not a dysfunctional jackass

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@saskatchewin

5 months

Human men, do NOT watch this video and think it is ok to do this in the workplace, this IS harassment, despite what you may infer from bird laws

Science girl

@gunsnrosesgirl3

5 months

This male Victoria rifle bird trying to impress a female with a mating dance 📹travelandwildlifephotography

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@saskatchewin

5 months

if an R&R is what you want most for christmas then you haven't received a proper holiday gift/diversified your interests enough. give me your address and I'll send you something actually good that I stole from my parents' house.

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@saskatchewin

6 months

every time I talk to a guy in private sector about a potential collaboration, the convo has to start with 5 mins of him explaining to me how the gender gap is calculated and why it's wrong.

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@saskatchewin

7 months

whenever economists are like "intuitively, blah", blah is never my intuition.

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@saskatchewin

1 year

"I could not tell when the professor was joking and she would wait for us to laugh at her jokes" teaching reviews, 2023

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

10 months

One year ago I decided to run all the streets of Vancouver and today I am saddened to see that I still have 146% of it left.

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

1 year

Once I lived in a windowless room in a London apartment where Jack the Ripper killed someone. 3 nights a week, a tour group would come look into the kitchen window and take photos. One day we put a tip jar outside and earned 280 pounds over the course of a year. #Economics

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@saskatchewin

6 months

my 1st research statement (1st bc got rejected everywhere 1st time I applied) was stream-of-consciousness essay about why I thought questions were interesting that led into do academics really do anything useful that led into yeah I dunno about this. I think it's my best work yet

Chris Blattman

@cblatts

1 year

5/ Then use MOST OF THE STATEMENT to develop 1 (max 2) of these ideas as specifically as possible The idea is not to say “this is what I will do for my dissertation” because no applicant knows that Show that you know how to ask and answer an original & interesting question

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@saskatchewin

5 months

once when I was really mad at my older brother I put tuna in his pillow and when my parents got mad at me I said "how do you know the cat isn't hiding tuna there?!" and the next day there was tuna in my fave shoes with a note that said "had to find a new hiding spot -- the cat"

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@saskatchewin

4 months

EOY UPDATE. We made some good progress but a busted toe and running along the ocean distracted me from running every street in Vancouver. 2024 will be dedicated solely to this regardless of the personal & professional consequences. Best to have no goals except useless ones.

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@saskatchewin

4 months

What are good debate topics for an undergraduate labour economics course?

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

6 months

how did these karl marx photos get into my slide deck specifically for a talk at uchicago

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

10 months

sometimes I want to move back to my hometown, pop. 300, where people have to talk to rather than yell past each other for life to work. so quirks & flaws are accepted but you're also told to cool it when you aren't being cool. then again, everyone who lives there is real weird.

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

10 months

airport security swabbed my hands and it was all "bleep beep" and these guys came and said "you have a chemical explosive on your hands!" and I said yikes and then they asked me about my medical history for 20 mins and told me to leave, and I have no idea if I'm still explosive.

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

1 year

my keys fell down the elevator shaft so I took a flashlight to see if I could see them on the basement level but my glasses fell off my face and I stepped on them and broke them and now I live in the park I guess.

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

7 months

my quiet love

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

4 months

Canada's greatest strength is other countries' incompetencies.

Vote Labour 2024 🇬🇧

@LabourWarRoom

4 months

@RishiSunak Students will start looking elsewhere – to America or Europe. The UK, seemingly closed for business and foreign students, is on a slow decline and losing its relevance.

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@saskatchewin

4 months

just when my dad was starting to believe in global warming, it had to go and be -55

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

9 months

Unless you’re my dad whose advice was to go all in on one stock bc the company needs to know u believe in them

Ashley Craig 🇺🇦

@ash_craig

9 months

Another thing economics isn’t about. The most likely answers you’ll get from economists to “which stock should I pick” are: (1) It doesn’t matter. (2) The cheapest diversified index fund you can find.

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@saskatchewin

1 year

This paper by @EmilyNix100 @abicadams & CAs is incredible. What is striking in studies on abuse is the repeat offender finding. Improving reporting is first order but not easy. When a colleague and I tried to run a study to improve reporting methods, nobody wanted to take up.

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@saskatchewin

1 year

after many years of joking about getting fired, a friend pointed out that I am no longer listed as faculty at my institution. this is the power of visualization.

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

1 year

Been struggling with insomnia for a few months and the best thing I discovered is the BBC shipping forecast. Thanks BBC 🙏

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

2 months

personally I would like twitter to turn into the old Facebook where we had personal conversations on each other's "walls" for all to see

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

1 year

"Strengths of the class: Not intellectually dishonest" teaching reviews, 2023

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

7 months

my nephew started drawing cartoons of our family and in my scene I sit in a chair and then a shark bites me

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

11 months

does anyone actually know what their comparative advantage is

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

4 months

It's ok not to like a job market paper, but talking shit about people will inevitably get back to them and make their entire experience pretty miserable. We already have a weird market that unnecessarily stresses people out. 🤷‍♀️

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

7 months

another dope paper from these researchers

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@saskatchewin

7 months

Carolina is right! Always impressed by APs who put in massive amounts of time and effort to create these kinds of public goods that benefit other researchers (and policy-makers)

Carolina Arteaga

@caroartc

7 months

It can’t be overstated how impressive the work of @Econ_mike is with @UM_CJARS for our understanding of the criminal justice system in the US

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@saskatchewin

1 month

I wish we would decide to either abide by ethics board decisions, or that we aren't accepting *any* audit studies. I see some papers get rejected bc a reviewer decides it's unethical and then another sails through. I don't love audits, but we live in audit acceptance chaos.

Alice Evans

@_alice_evans

1 month

“thousands of randomly generated fictitious resumes were submitted” I see that another new study, circulating on Twitter, gets zero pushback Academics seem very comfortable with imposing a time cost to other working people, as if others’ time is unimportant and our work trumps.

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

8 months

my comparative advantage is having a perfectly monotone voice but nobody will hire me to announce metro stops :(

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@saskatchewin

10 months

@economeager @josh_t_dean who is Raj Chetty

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

7 months

[2/2] And she will 100% stay herself even after winning: Claudia is Claudia is Claudia, in the best possible way!

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

5 months

let us all be aware that we are affected by social norms, and try not to be triggered by research that suggests we are 🙏

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

1 year

@paulnovosad I dunno. I liken my JMP to an annoying 27 year old whom I keep sending off into the world and it keeps coming back to live in my basement. Eventually I give up and give it the house and move elsewhere. That's how I wound up at UBC.

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@saskatchewin

1 year

When I was 11 I wrote a letter to myself to read as an adult. It outlined my dreams of what I would become. It reads: Buy 5 boxes of Kraft Dinner, make one box of noodles, but use all 5 cheese packets.

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@saskatchewin

1 year

realizing the quote tweet was a jerk move when @JlibDoesEcon is imo one of the most thoughtful and nicest people in econ! also we dress the same. sorry bff

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

2 months

can someone in economics be interested in the latest track and field drama so that I can have a friend

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

3 months

can't believe there's another season of Super Bowl that show was never good

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

6 months

it's that time of year when I start playing the muppet christmas carol soundtrack on repeat and my downstairs neighbours cry inexplicably and my office neighbours stop coming in to work 🎄

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

6 months

Vancouver has a street named after every province except for Saskatchewan and Newfoundland which are arguably the good provinces

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

1 year

@TaliaGillis will be close by!

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

4 months

@DinaPomeranz Also this: showing women penalized more for misconduct. Regardless of one's views on what happened, there shouldn't be a different bar.

When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct | Journal of Political Economy:...

We examine gender differences in misconduct punishment in the financial advisory industry. There is a “gender punishment gap”: following an incident of misconduct, female advisers are 20% more likely...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

4 months

If anyone has my wallet, I need that

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

2 months

can't believe people are more interested in dude's retirement than the latest track and field drama, continued disappointment

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

10 months

I just think my British accent is really good

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

10 months

Yes, Silas is really big in the middle of the photo

Wolf Conservation Center 🐺

@nywolforg

10 months

We spy Silas! Do you? Tune into his live webcam via #Twitch and let us know➡️

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

4 months

🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

Kenneth Chan

@iamkennethchan

4 months

BREAKING... Vancouver City Council has unanimously approved the Indigenous-owned Jericho Lands project. 13,000 homes, 750,000 sf of office, hotel, retail, restaurant, and cultural uses, and more. Anchored by the future UBC #SkyTrain . #TOD #vanpoli #vanre

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@saskatchewin

3 months

Heather v February

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@saskatchewin

9 months

not my circus, not my monkeys

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

1 year

used to think orangutan was pronounced "orange-u-tan" and an "orang-a-tang" was a diff animal. HS classmate referenced the orang-a-tang in life of pie and I said "no orang-a-tang in the book, just an orange-u-tan" and my English teacher took out a bottle of whiskey from her desk

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

11 months

oh no one of my papers has officially been alive and unpublished for 20% of my life, maybe I'm really young

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

4 months

nobody likes raccoons in their ceiling and why are there always raccoons in my ceiling

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

4 months

I just think Vancouver needs to get a snowplow

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

2 months

We watched Silas grow from little pupperoni to adult wolf. May he participate equally in childcare and stand up for women who say the other wolves are being creeps.

Wolf Conservation Center 🐺

@nywolforg

2 months

Silas is getting pretty good at taking selfies! 🤣 Photo credit: Silas

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@saskatchewin

11 months

Elite schools should admit way more students. Some say we should just "diversify" admissions. Instead, why don't we try to make value-added more similar across universities. (A: bc not politically feasible, bloop)

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@saskatchewin

10 months

also they send out notices for town meetings that have the following: The meeting will be held at 10am. In the event of rain at 10am: The meeting will be held at 1pm. In the event of rain again at 1pm: The meeting will be held at 2:30pm In the event of rain at 2:30pm ...

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

11 months

The best coast was never a coast and was always in fact the landlocked part of Canada excluding Alberta

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@saskatchewin

10 months

@economeager @itsafronomics Next up: people start asking if you have children, then comment on how much money you must have saved and how much sleep you get.

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

1 year

Interesting paper looking at tradeoff bw privacy and health outcomes. "the use of electronic medical records can prevent AIDS deaths by enabling patient tracing [...] patients who initially state a preference for privacy in fact benefit most from improved tracing practices. "

Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE)

@SITEStockholm

1 year

On 16 May, 2023, @lauraderksen , researcher from @UofT , will be presenting her working paper on the use of electronic medical records and how it can prevent AIDS deaths by enabling patient tracing. 💡Learn more and how to join the SITE brown bag seminar:

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

1 year

Paper, which would not fit on previous tweet:

The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships | Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute

www.minneapolisfed.org

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

1 year

Dad, using his computer: I am trying to find my desktop Me: here is the desktop (pointing to computer screen) Dad: No, that’s not the one I lost

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

8 months

@economeager narrator: it never happened.

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

11 months

@paulgp I understand the concerns here (I don't respond to student emails I dont know) but can't help but notice that people did not raise the same concerns over the massive Kline et al. audit that published in QJE:

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

7 months

ed the hyena wolf

Wolf Conservation Center 🐺

@nywolforg

7 months

Let's get CRAZY - it's FRIDAY! 😜

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@saskatchewin

6 months

no context needed

early modern boy-actress (they/them)

@economeager

6 months

@ryancbriggs We need a pause on all Sams until we figure out what the hell is going on

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

5 months

There is one thing that I will never forget as long as I live. The Sleep Country Canada advert song.

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@saskatchewin

10 months

@economeager @raulpacheco I got u Rachael. Will send a list of things I think you need to improve on.

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

11 months

Not that we get a vote, but other countries also have to be ok with losing option to use the US education system (like me, going there for grad school)

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

3 months

@GallenYana Yeah that paper was solicited at the NBER SI, don’t think it was shut down that quick

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

4 months

@JlibDoesEcon I'm sorry

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

7 months

@momin_rayhan definitely think it's fine to say your work is inspired by Goldin's, as many were!

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@saskatchewin

5 months

@josh_t_dean I do like that 2/3 of the "female" things are useful activities and the 3 "male" things are just large objects :)

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

6 months

@ethanbdm @ShengwuLi I could see economists starting a faculty meeting with a 30 minute discussion of why they think dentists don't have the norms needed to really get at the truth behind tooth decay

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

7 months

@R_Thaler you really need to watch more curling on Canadian channels

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

1 year

Look, I captured America in a single video

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

10 months

@economeager @itsafronomics Also if you say you are tired. Best to just slowly back away.

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4 months

@JlibDoesEcon why am I here

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

10 months

@arindube because the number one rainy day activity is sitting inside and watching the rain. you have to reschedule the meeting to accommodate rain-watching.

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

2 months

"ya lunch" wolves

Wolf Conservation Center 🐺

@nywolforg

2 months

Ok, Tuesday - bring it. #SquadUp

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@saskatchewin

4 months

@CaltechEconThry I can only assume you stole my wallet so you could make this joke

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

4 months

@economeager oh, samesies

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

7 months

jól nyomod kati

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

4 months

And to those who don’t… how dare you

Soumaya Keynes

@SoumayaKeynes

4 months

My son’s nursery informs me that today is national whipped cream day - many happy returns to all who celebrate

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

1 year

@claudferraz @ubcVSE Do I hear $5? $3? Going once...

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

7 months

@_alice_evans counterpoint: men hate talking about periods and they would be too embarrassed and awkward to be resentful.

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

11 months

I live in a decrepit attic, so checks out

For the sake of their financial future, young people should leave Toronto and Vancouver

They may be great places to live, if you can afford it. If not, living in Vancouver and Toronto can be harmful to your financial health

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Heather Sarsons

@saskatchewin

8 months

garden wolf

Wolf Conservation Center 🐺

@nywolforg

8 months

Wolves are a critical keystone species in a healthy ecosystem. As top-level predators, they are influential in shaping + maintaining the structure of their natural communities. Wolves have a trickle-down effect on different populations, a phenomenon known as a "trophic cascade".