Isaac Baumann

It’s not one of those cool stickers elementary school kids are designing in other states, but still pretty happy about this one. Shout out to all the super-helpful poll workers out there, too.

My review of You Can See Everything is that, afterward, my wife asked if we could watch Kiki’s Delivery Service to come down from watching You Can See Everything

`install.packages(‘sf’)’ on Ubuntu -> time to go take a walk for a half hour

Strong contender for paper title of the year

My dad took me on a tour of the school he teaches at today and there was a room labelled “PODCAST ROOM” and I have some Questions

One of my favorite college football moments was going to a rain-soaked Yale-Howard game. At halftime the six-person Yale band put on an out-of-tune show followed promptly by the full-strength Howard band with a Super Bowl-grade performance, in front of a crowd of no more than 1,000 people.

Related: students who give you a thank-you gift near the end of the course and it’s a brand new pack of whiteboard markers

Rolling this one out again while the job market cycle is ramping up

I am declaring it fall and will not be looking at a calendar to see how premature that is!

My favorite scene in The Odyssey is when Matt Damon kicked his helmet and screamed in frustration because what most people don’t know is he actually broke his toe in that shot

Today’s “trying to work but your brain randomly remembers a thing from a long time ago to distract you” moment is brought to you by the time my hometown newspaper negged me as hard as it possibly could

Celebrating Fourth of July weekend by donating platelets yesterday and now doubleheader softball with fireworks

Finally finished developing, scanning, and editing the first roll of film I shot in Newfoundland a few weeks ago so here are some frames #filmphotography #35mm

The degree so nice I got it twice

Nice views as the storm moved across campus. 1 hour time lapse as the storm approached (looking west). www.aos.wisc.edu/weather/wx_o...

Really excited to see this project in its published form. Another great example of the kind of awesome research that @uwdsi.bsky.social supports

Next semester I’ll write even smaller

Fun fact: you can request the Florida voter data file and every month they’ll send you a CD with the most incredible graphic design you’ve ever seen

There was one report of softball size (4" diameter) #hail near Maple Bluff, WI Tuesday. (NE Madison metro) Per NOAA's database, the only other occurrence of 4" hail in Dane County dating to 1950 was on July 2, 1960. One of most damaging hail events in Madison history? (📸: Kyle Obremski)

One of the cool parts about being a regular blood donor and using the health charts on the Red Cross blood donor app is you can look at your blood pressure time series and see exactly when you started grad school

The @apnews.com reports that Chris Taylor will be the winner of the 2026 Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

𝐹𝓇𝒾𝒹𝒶 𝒦𝒶𝒽𝓁𝒾𝒸𝑜

*Vince McMahon meme* The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. 35 mm. At the Music Box. With Bob Odenkirk introducing the screening.

Applications for mentees and mentors are being accepted until April 12 for the 2026 Mentoring Conference for LGBTQ+ Economics PhD Students and Early Career Economists on July 6-8, 2026, in Chicago, IL. The AEA covers travel costs for PhD student mentees. www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

It’s a really nice day in Madison for a casual walk to the state capitol

Few things are as self-gaslighting as grading a dozen problem sets in a row that all interpret confidence intervals incorrectly in exactly the same way

NEW: When a Wisconsin mayor ended his city's contract with Flock (the AI surveillance company), he was stunned to see Flock refused to remove cameras. So he covered them with plastic bags. Now local activists are taking their fight to Madison & the Dane County sheriff, wanting more cameras gone.