Rafael Marcondes
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Rafael Marcondes
@rafamarcondes.bsky.social
Lecturer at Barnard College. College teaching, birds, evolution, life in NYC, and pics of my cat, Rosalind Franklin. 🇧🇷

(The R in Rafael is pronounced like the h in "hat")
YES!
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
How do you know that about a llama? 😱
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I guess that's true too, but it's not what I'm lecturing about today
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Office hours. Meeting with senior thesis students to give them feedback on their first draft.
November 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
People everywhere always assess leftist (to the extent that Starmer even is a leftist) governments much more rigorously than rightist ones
November 19, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I've been wondering why it hasn't been taken down yet. Maybe it's not even a legit govt account?
November 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
@mangrovepitta.bsky.social shame on you for having never posted about this
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
So dumb
November 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
There's this idea floating around (maybe more in Brazil than here) that your paper is gonna be more broadly appealing and more impactful if you bury the sp name as deeply as possible, but I don't know a single person that likes that as a reader
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Big L for econ, big W for bio
November 16, 2025 at 1:41 AM
My specific words to Ana after her talk were “você é MUITO FODA” #iykyk
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Sent!
November 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
...a few nights for me at the campus hotel. But for the duration of my living there I don't think I ever got rid of all the dust from said jackhammering
November 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Once I Louisiana my kitchen sink started backing up and spitting out gross grey water from the drain. Turns out the piping underneath the apt had basically rusted to disintegration. Solution was to jackhammer a trench tru my living room. Landlord thankfully discounted rent equal to...
November 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM