My Game Christmas Tree. What's on yours?

If you are on the market and it feels tough, know this. You are amazing. You have come this far, be proud of yourself. Rejection hurts, but you are not your rejection. Know your worth, shine your light.

This tip will be helpful for anyone who uses Beamer-made slides (or any PDF slides in fact) with a dual-screen setup, where the slides are projected on a big screen from a laptop in extended display mode. And who cares about their neck. aalexee.com/post/2025-11...

🦆 Last weekend, Regensburg hosted a duck race. 6,000 rubber ducks drifting through a canal. Each duck corresponds to a lottery ticket. The first 100 ducks to finish win prizes. We bought 3 tickets. What are our odds of winning? ➡️ Read more: aalexee.com/post/2025-10...

Thrilled to see my paper "The (Statistical) Power of Incentives" out at the Journal of the Economic Science Association. 🥳 Read it here (open access) 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/esa.... #Econsky

How to participate in an ESA meeting Step 1. Attend plenary talks Step 2. Attend sessions Step 3. Attend social events Step 4. Meet new people and catch up with old friends Step 5. Oh no, the conference is over Step 6. Lie down Step 7. Try not to cry Step 8. Cry a lot @ecscienceassoc.bsky.social

Big thanks to @fialalenka.bsky.social and @i4replication.bsky.social for the replication games in Brno. It was fun. We loved the songs! 🤘

👏 Huge thanks to @milosfisar.bsky.social and the team at @econmuni.bsky.social for a fantastic @ecscienceassoc.bsky.social meeting in Brno #econsky

iOS autocorrects “tex” as “Tex” It autocorrects “xetex” as “XeTeX” It does not autocorrect “latex” Can you guess what it autocorrects as “listed”? 🤔

🎉 Excited to share that my paper "The (Statistical) Power of Incentives" has been accepted at the Journal of the Economic Science Association! @ecscienceassoc.bsky.social Thanks to everyone who helped me on this journey. ssrn.com/abstract=408... #EconSky

I have written up a few tips for making writing in TeX a bit more enjoyable. You can read the full post at medium.com/@alexander.g... The main points are below ✍️ #LaTeX #WritingTips

🚨 New WP! 📄 “A Taxonomy of AI Experiments” — Aleksandr Alekseev & Christina Strobel (2025) ssrn.com/abstract=529... We introduce a taxonomy to help researchers make sense of existing AI experiments and better design their own. 🧵 Here's a brief overview of our approach:

I wonder if anyone at JPE cares about its readers' eyesight. The text in some graphs is virtually unreadable. It's like 2pt. And yet the font size for panels is always HUGE.

My new favorite quote: "The 95% confidence intervals of the means are omitted owing to their insignificant width, given the sample size (n = 35.2 million)" doi.org/10.1038/s415... #Econsky

It's pretty rare to see a paper on the history of econ thought in Top-5, but Magness, P. W., & Makovi, M. (2023) made it. A fascinating read. doi.org/10.1086/722933

Garcı́a, J. L., Heckman, J. J., & Ronda, V. (2023) use a pretty neat way to visualize ATEs: using stacked bar graphs with the differences between the treatment and control on the top. Seems to be a good solution when you have a bunch of effects to show. doi.org/10.1086/722936

POV: You don't really know a person until you ask them to review a paper

I'm excited to release the 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 for #RStats ! Convert R dataframes to beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, PDF, Quarto, Markdown, etc. Easy to learn; minimalist interface; concise syntax; ultra-customizable tables; and zero dependency. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

Stoked to announce a new release of `plot2`, the powerful and lightweight (0-dep) extension for #rstats base plotting! github.com/grantmcdermo... What's new? A bunch of things, including area plots and facets. Draw plots like the below with simple function calls.

Started reading "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis and it opens with a really cool quote from Tolstoy that I, to my shame, did not know

I've been receiving so much spam from the Journal of This or the Journal of That and the like lately that I am starting to think why don't they just combine their efforts and do the "Journal of Everything Everywhere All at Once"

My new favorite quote: "We show that, generically, a mechanism is informationally simple if and only if it satisfies a separability condition that rules out most economically meaningful mechanisms." www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

TIL that there is an Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

Are lab experiments in economics RCTs? I noticed that people tend to refer to RCTs if these are field experiments, but not lab. What do you think? #econsky

What is the single most useful thing (model, empirical method, general academic stuff) that you learned *after* your PhD?

Excellent point. I feel like in some cases people are just trying to cover their ignorance or unwillingness to do a proper search.

Hello Bluesky, thanks to @paolocrosetto.bsky.social I am finally here, after an apparently failed Mastodon migration. Looking forward to finding and adding everyone from Twitter!