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I’m thrilled to be starting up at Northwestern Economics and grateful to remain near my colleagues, coauthors and friends at Energy Policy Institute at UChicago who have taught me so much over the past few years!

Southbound lake shore drive approaching oak street beach and downtown is the most beautiful city driving experience anywhere and you can’t change my mind

A half-joking conversation during pre-research cruise quarantine somehow led to a new R package over the course of an evening: musculusColors, whale-themed color palettes for data visualization. @clarabirdferrer have we peaked or have we truly lost it?🤣 github.com/dawnbarlow/mus…

In last night’s edition of course dreams: agents compute their best response level of sleep vs labor subject to the government’s labor tax revenue requirement, or was it a sleep tax?

A peek at an ongoing conversation marine ecologist Dr. Dawn Barlow and I have about our surprisingly connected fields!

“How does an infection change your body so that you continue to feel terrible, and maybe even worse, long after the infection has gone? And why can’t scientists pin down whatever that change is?” #longcovid nytimes.com/2021/01/21/mag…

My Tuesday column: Long-Haul Covid and the Chronic Illness Debate: nytimes.com/2021/02/02/opi…

Important NYT piece by Hannah Davis and @fi_lowenstein today, about how long Covid could be the largest mass disabling event of modern times, and we’ve actually seen symptoms like this before in more than a million Americans who already have #mecfs nytimes.com/2021/03/17/opi…

We need more responses from vaccinated people who *DON'T* have #LongCOVID (whether you recovered from COVID or didn't have COVID at all!) It is a super short survey - please take it and share widely :)

🛑I wrote about what “fatigue” really means for people with long COVID and ME/CFS, and why this profoundly debilitating symptom is so often misunderstood and trivialized. (This piece also covers PEM.) 1/ theatlantic.com/health/archive…