Khoa Vu

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#	Date	Post	↓ Outlier	Views	Likes	Reposts	Bookmarks
1	Apr 28, '23	Pedro Pascal as academics. A 🧵: First-year PhD student.	91.7×	2.4M	11k	1.6k	882
2	Jun 2, '24	View post on X	62.8×	1.6M	27k	1.9k	864
3	May 2, '23	"You can do this in R, and R is free!" R:	45×	1.2M	7.7k	954	489
4	Jan 2, '25	Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:	42×	1.1M	26k	4.8k	2.6k
5	Oct 30, '24	Economists: We are the first to study this topic. Sociologists:	26.3×	680k	16k	1.6k	715
6	Sep 5, '25	How microeconomists think customers buy cereal	24.1×	622k	16k	1.6k	897
7	Apr 2, '21	PhD student: There's a word limit and I don't know how to cut this paper any shorte... Senior coauthor:	20.9×	0	33k	5.2k	848
8	Aug 13, '23	Statistician, Data scientist, Econometrician.	19.8×	511k	6.4k	708	235
9	Jan 3, '23	Acemoglu already has 379 citations in the first 3 days of 2023. That's definitely more citations than I will get for the whole 2023.	18.3×	472k	2.3k	117	78
10	Jan 29, '23	Which way, Western man	16.2×	419k	2.4k	199	76
11	Nov 2, '24	One with P-value < 0.05	13.3×	344k	4k	1.1k	240
12	Mar 3, '23	I'm so happy that my job market search is over! I'll join Charles River Associates, the Competition practice in Chicago, as a Senior Associate! It's a bit sad to leave academia, bu	12.7×	328k	3.4k	23	47
13	Jan 29, '23	Teaching macro this year. Can't wait to put all these memes in my slide.	12.6×	326k	3.6k	291	106
14	Oct 25, '25	PhD students spending 6 years writing a book-length dissertation that at most 3 people will ever read:	11.6×	300k	3k	234	230
15	Dec 14, '23	Unpopular opinion: I think the trend towards predoc before graduate school is really good. It opens up a lot of doors to prestigious PhD programs like MIT, Harvard, and Yale, for s	10.8×	280k	2.5k	143	162
16	Jun 20, '23	This sums up every debate between economists and medical researchers.	10.3×	267k	2.9k	124	111
17	Feb 2, '25	View post on X	10.3×	265k	5.7k	554	219
18	Feb 9, '25	Oh no	9.9×	256k	3.6k	28	156
19	Jul 6, '22	Economists writing papers on topics that other social sciences have written about be like.	9.5×	0	17k	1.5k	364
20	Apr 28, '23	4th year PhD student.	9.2×	239k	1.6k	30	4
21	Jul 13, '23	p = 0.053 p = 0.048	8.6×	222k	3.4k	298	63
22	Apr 28, '23	Tenured/Department chair.	8.5×	220k	1.7k	25	6
23	Aug 24, '22	Real footage of a grad student trying connect her research to the existing literature.	8.2×	0	13k	1.6k	522
24	Nov 5, '24	Common knowledge is that ⬆️ access to education allows workers to move from less productive ➡️ more productive sectors. But where do the jobs in the productive sectors come from? N	8.1×	208k	827	119	488
25	Feb 12, '23	Real footage of an R user getting ready to run one command:	7.9×	204k	1.8k	146	73
26	Apr 27, '23	View post on X	7.8×	201k	2.1k	134	45
27	Apr 28, '23	After submitting dissertation.	7.6×	197k	2.1k	49	18
28	Oct 15, '25	Will I get a good income out of doing a PhD? Of course not. But will I at least also find a stable job that allows me to pursue my research? Also no. But will I at least be happy d	7.4×	192k	2k	251	451
29	Oct 16, '24	Does it teach them about omitted variable bias?	7.0×	182k	4.1k	240	190
30	Jun 3, '24	Very sad that she failed the academic job market and had to take a government job.	6.7×	173k	2.2k	126	70
31	Mar 3, '25	Timely reading	6.5×	168k	1.9k	246	611
32	Aug 9, '24	Shared office for 2 PhD students	6.4×	165k	3.5k	96	54
33	Aug 7, '20	Taylor Swift as econ textbooks:	6.4×	0	8.1k	1.8k	488
34	Oct 9, '25	Indiana Jones is a fantasy about being a professor not having to submit itemized travel expenses after every adventure.	6.1×	157k	2.7k	232	99
35	Feb 28, '24	If you value your spouse, why call them by cheap names like honey and sugar? Call them by expensive names, like Stata license, PhD applications, GRE fees, or 2 years of postdoc.	5.2×	134k	2.1k	172	119
36	Jun 29, '21	Moving a table in Word be like	4.7×	0	7.9k	1.2k	65
37	Oct 6, '25	Why econ department and political science department are usually in different buildings:	4.7×	121k	4.2k	268	272
38	Oct 18, '25	P-value. P-value = 0.043 = 0.051	4.5×	116k	1.9k	183	97
39	Oct 9, '22	Academics taking on new research projects be like	4.4×	0	7k	747	355
40	Feb 10, '22	Academics as Encanto characters: Newly hired Assistant Professor, always excited, curious, but always nervous with lots of self-doubt. Protective of grad students and always try to	4.3×	0	5.7k	1k	400
41	Sep 29, '21	"I will just prepare slides on the way to the conference"	3.9×	0	6k	918	200
42	Apr 7, '21	PhD student: Can you take a look at my first draft and let me know if I should cut down anythi... Adviser:	3.7×	0	6.3k	635	141
43	Dec 3, '24	Nobody: My LaTeX compiler:	3.0×	78k	2.7k	271	46
44	Mar 27, '22	First year PhD student presenting the first time at a conference be like	2.9×	0	5.5k	345	102
45	Nov 10, '25	Econometricians: We present a new empirical method that comes with several caveats and should be use with caution... Applied microeconomists:	2.9×	74k	2.4k	241	227
46	Jul 10, '22	A movie about social scientists seeing economists writing papers on their field for the first time.	2.6×	0	4.5k	341	292
47	Nov 11, '22	Real footage of an MDPI editor accepting papers for their new special issue.	2.5×	0	4k	451	180
48	May 12, '22	Tell me you have never met a daycare teacher without telling me you have never met a daycare teacher.	2.5×	0	4.5k	365	47
49	Apr 9, '22	Coauthor in Europe: I'm giving birth in a month, so I won't be able to work on this for the next 4 months. Coauthor in the US: I'm giving birth tomorrow but let me know if you need	2.3×	0	4.3k	234	103
50	Nov 1, '22	Have you ever wondered whether higher education can be an important driver of growth in developing countries? My job market paper tries to answer this question by looking at a nati	2.3×	0	2.9k	502	465
51	Oct 21, '22	Me 10 minutes into reading an econometrics paper:	2.3×	0	4k	365	93
52	Dec 9, '22	Harry Potter characters as economists Econometrician	2.1×	0	3.4k	335	152
53	Jul 3, '22	When you wrote "Data is available upon request" in your paper and they emailed to request it.	2.0×	0	3.4k	410	118
54	Sep 24, '22	Normal economist: I spent 10 years on this paper so it can be published in a top 5 journal. Acemoglu:	2.0×	0	3.5k	283	174
55	Sep 21, '19	p=0.053 p=0.045	2.0×	0	3.2k	502	33
56	Aug 1, '22	Any rich people want to be friend, pls hit me up 😂	1.9×	0	3k	380	107
57	Apr 7, '22	"Higher R squared doesn't mean your model is better."	1.9×	0	3.3k	269	136
58	Jan 7, '22	Economist inserting a table in LaTeX be like	1.9×	0	3.3k	243	72
59	May 8, '22	Whenever I feel like life is too good and happy, I'd go on Twitter.	1.8×	0	3.5k	102	52
60	Jul 22, '22	PhD course in applied econometrics be like	1.7×	0	2.5k	287	339
61	Mar 17, '21	Academics be like	1.7×	0	2.8k	329	44
62	Feb 20, '21	Real footage of an econ seminar	1.7×	0	2.4k	400	128
63	Nov 4, '22	Excited to welcome a new RA in the Vu Lab. A bit inexperienced but hoping to contribute more in near future.	1.7×	0	3.4k	6	6
64	Jun 24, '22	Academic be like Photo on website Real life	1.7×	0	3.1k	206	29
65	Mar 4, '22	Applied microeconomist accidentally attending a macro seminar be like	1.6×	0	3k	191	50
66	Jun 17, '22	So are these "unobservables" in the room with us right now?	1.6×	0	2.8k	262	80
67	Feb 9, '21	PhD student being trained to manage a project:	1.5×	0	2.3k	410	55
68	Dec 3, '19	"We are the first study to collect retrospective self-reported data on accidental deaths."	1.5×	0	2.2k	393	23
69	May 21, '22	Nobody: Econ theorist:	1.4×	0	2.5k	201	108
70	Aug 21, '22	View post on X	1.4×	0	2.6k	188	41
71	May 7, '23	Walked with my kid for the commencement ✅	1.4×	36k	2k	0	2
72	Nov 18, '20	"I hope this email finds you well!"	1.4×	0	2.2k	332	25
73	Mar 21, '22	Planning to spend only half an hour making graph in ggplot be like	1.4×	0	2.5k	179	57
74	Jan 13, '22	View post on X	1.4×	0	2.4k	231	61
75	May 29, '21	Cancel culture is getting out of control	1.3×	0	2.2k	199	86
76	Jun 2, '21	Economics be like	1.3×	0	2.2k	251	56
77	Apr 13, '22	Real footage of an economist seeing a sociology paper on his topic.	1.3×	0	2.3k	183	73
78	Jun 29, '22	Congratulations, you invented the first order condition of a utility maximization problem.	1.3×	0	2.2k	167	114
79	May 6, '21	Trying to insert a table at the position that I want in LaTeX	1.2×	0	2.2k	209	25
80	Apr 1, '21	🚨New paper highlighting differences between the difference-in-differences estimators that have been recently developed🚨	1.2×	0	1.7k	174	230
81	Dec 13, '21	Applied micro economics papers be like	1.2×	0	2.3k	118	46
82	Jul 8, '21	PhD student presenting with a senior coauthor be like	1.2×	0	2.2k	178	25
83	Feb 17, '22	Being an econ grad student is 45% people telling you to use Stata, 45% people telling you to use R, and 10/1/2001 people telling you to use Excel.	1.2×	0	2.1k	198	28
84	Apr 26, '22	Can't believe Elon Musk spent $44 billion to pay for a social media platform, when he could have spent the same amount on sponsoring Stata licenses for 100 econ students.	1.2×	0	2.2k	150	14
85	Jul 21, '22	View post on X	1.1×	0	2.1k	126	28
86	Jan 26, '22	"I don't know why people use LaTex when Word has everything you need." Word's bulleted list:	1.1×	0	2.1k	152	26
87	Sep 20, '21	Academia is a complex system that cannot be summarized by one wor...	1.1×	0	1.8k	281	55
88	Dec 15, '21	overfull hbox, badness 10000	1.1×	0	2.1k	155	22
89	Jan 29, '22	It is nice to see so many economists got rejected at the top PhD programs like MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, and still got in really good programs like Yale, Stanford, Harvard and	1.1×	0	2.2k	70	31
90	Dec 5, '21	Public health experts' communication about the vaccine booster be like	1.1×	0	2k	148	56
91	Sep 28, '21	Regression results slide be like	1.1×	0	2.1k	99	27
92	Jul 24, '21	Real footage of a group of economists waiting for a natural experiments to write papers	1.1×	0	1.8k	200	36
93	Dec 5, '21	A normal church	1.1×	0	2.1k	93	23
94	Oct 17, '20	View post on X	1.0×	0	1.9k	180	17
95	Nov 23, '22	View post on X	1.0×	0	1.8k	135	54
96	Sep 16, '22	Economists engaging with non-econ literature on the topic that they are working on	1.0×	0	1.8k	129	79
97	Jun 18, '22	Addressing social issues only using RCT evidence be like	1.0×	0	1.7k	148	56
98	Apr 10, '22	Acemoglu submitting papers to top 5 econ journals be like	1.0×	0	1.8k	114	44
99	Aug 11, '22	Researcher looking at the first draft of her paper be like	1.0×	0	1.8k	115	54
100	Dec 7, '21	I did it. I shitposted my way to a Nobel Laureate's Twitter.	0.9×	0	1.9k	27	15

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