Racial minorities in France face substantial earnings penalties, with Middle Eastern/North African and Sub-Saharan African individuals most affected. This is one of the key findings of a new study by @yajnagovind.bsky.social @paolosantini.bsky.social & E. Derenoncourt. ▶️ wid.world/news-article...

Call for abstracts for interdisciplinary conference on "Popular Support for Autocratic Regimes in Historical Perspective," May 26-27 in Toulouse @tse-fr.eu Deadline: Nov 15. Travel/accommodation will be covered. Please apply! Co-organized with Jan Stuckatz, Selina Hofstetter, and Mikkel Dack.

Christian missions in colonial Congo weakened kin and ethnic ties, eroded communal values, and durably redirected loyalties toward religious affiliation, from @abergeron.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w34262

Claudia Sheinbaum se convierte en la primera mujer en protagonizar el Grito de la Independencia de México. www.rtve.es/noticias/

📢ReCIPE’s first call for Big Research Grants is opening soon! Deadline: 27 October. We’re looking for research proposals exploring the links between conflict and economic growth within ReCIPE research themes and in ReCIPE focus countries. recipe.cepr.org/funding/big-... #EconSky

MY GOD, I HAVE A NEW HERO. SHE HAD THEM SO HOOKED AND THEN BAM, SHE ATE THEM, BONES AND ALL.

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨 Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️ In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

🚨🚨 Pre-doc Hiring! 🚨🚨 We are hiring pre-docs to start in Princeton in Summer 2026, supporting Pascaline Dupas, @thomasfujiwara.bsky.social @seema.bsky.social and Mica Sviatschi. This is a great opportunity to gain experience in development economics research before applying to PhD programs. Link 👇

Before-and-after satellite imagery shows multiple large burn scars from the recent major wildfires in Portugal and Spain.

NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵

#Grenoble 1925, zoos humains & fascination coloniale. L'exposition de la Houille blanche s'est déroulée de mai à oct. 1925, il y a 100 ans, avec un zoo humain Jusqu'à fin septembre, exposition "Zoos humains, l'invention du sauvage" du groupe de recherche ACHAC

9ème jour - La végétation Europe de l'O est complètement desséchée et jaunit. Ce n'est pas que les prairies cette fois-ci. Les tâches brunes autour du Massif Central correspondent aux forêts tandis qu'une épaisse fumée des feux de forêts d'Espagne et Portugal s'étale au dessus de nous. Ambiance. 1/4

Happy to share this great news! For a summary of the paper, read @pgmeon.bsky.social great thread here 👇🏻

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a "fraud crisis" because of how artificial intelligence could enable bad actors to impersonate other people. Read more: cnn.it/3GVwPg7

In February, the US gov shut down the Demographic & Health Surveys. It was the only data source on maternal & child health, births, household structure in many countries – making it crucial for research. In a new article I explain why it should be rescued. ourworldindata.org/demographic-...

New article out at the American Journal of Political Science: "The Troubles and Beyond: The impact of a museum exhibit on a post‐conflict society." With Dr. Elsa Voytas. Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Have never traveled to a country outside their own India 95% Indonesia 92% Nigeria 90% Brazil 87% Mexico 79% S Africa 77% Japan 34% Poland 32% US 23% S Korea 21% Greece 21% Spain 15% Italy 14% Australia 10% France 10% UK 4% Germany 3% www.pewresearch.org/global/2023/...

ReCIPE’s First Call for PhD Research Grants now open! Apply before 11 August. We’re looking for research proposals from PhD students exploring the links b/w conflict & economic growth within ReCIPE research themes & in ReCIPE focus countries. More info here: recipe.cepr.org/phd-research... #EconSky

✨Did markets make Americans more cooperative❓🔍 ✅YES‼️ Between 1850 and 1920, the US became the largest and most integrated economy in the world 📶🌎 We show that this shift didn’t just move goods and affect prices—it fundamentally changed culture and behavior 🧵 👇 1/17

[25 cartes pour comprendre le nouveau désordre mondial] La Chine et la Russie gagnent du terrain dans les échanges commerciaux avec le continent africain, au détriment de l’Union européenne.

Happy to share our new paper introducing the Animal Culture Database in Scientific Data: We’re putting together a resource consolidating primary research on cultural behaviors in wild animal populations and how they’re affected by human activity (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Researchers have been sneaking secret messages into their papers in an effort to trick AI tools into giving them a positive peer-review report Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

[25 cartes pour comprendre le nouveau désordre mondial] Seule une minorité de la population mondiale vit dans un pays où les libertés politiques et civiles fondamentales sont respectées.

“Such good English, where did you learn to speak so beautifully?” Trump asks the president of Liberia, whose official language is English

Le site Agrometeorologie continue dans l'innovation : l'évapotranspiration — perte en eau des écosystèmes — est désormais cartographiée pour toute l’Europe, J+10 et près de 70 cultures. [1/4]

Moissons d’une précocité record, prairies grillées et improductives : la sécheresse s’installe durablement en France. Depuis l’espace, le jaunissement du pays est frappant. Et les faibles pluies attendues ne suffiront pas à préparer la vague de chaleur dès jeudi. [1/2]

Derrière le "deal" à la Trump entre la #RDCongo et le #Rwanda "l’exportation de minerais à l’état brut rappelle le pacte colonial d’autrefois, lorsque le cuivre et l’uranium étaient extraits du Katanga pour être traités en Belgique" écrit Colette Braeckman dans l'edito de notre lettre hebdomadaire⤵️

Shoutout to Skype for reminding me my credit will expire soon… ON A SERVICE THAT NO LONGER EXISTS! When you close the door, don’t forget to give back the change! With ~30 million daily users, how much money is that? @microsoft.com

TOUT VA BIEN! #canicule Il est 10h du matin et il fait 34°C à Perpignan, ressenti de 38°C, et 34°C à Montpellier, ressenti de 39°C. Revenir sur les politiques environnementales est suicidaire. Imaginer lucidement l'adaptation revient a choisir dès ajd ce que l'on va garder & ce qu'on va abandonner.

Final call! Join me and Guy Michaels in exploring the impact of ethnic integration in schools. The application deadline is fast approaching! cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/about/w...

🆕What happens when humanitarian aid is cut or delayed? A 20% aid cut in one of the world's largest refugee camp didn’t just reduce what and how much refugees eat; it also triggered a cascade of effects across households and markets. voxdev.org/topic/instit... with Vittorio Bruni and @wfp.org

How common is religious switching around the world? A new Pew Research Center post provides insights based on surveys conducted in 117 countries and territories. Some key findings: - Globally, 1 in 10 adults under 55 have switched religions since childhood. More here: pewrsr.ch/46dKGbF

Rüdiger subit des insultes racistes de la part d'un joueur du club mexicain de Pachuca. Le Real Madrid porte plainte. Commentaire d'un attaquant de Pachuca : "oh, ce sont des choses qui arrivent dans le football, les frictions sont fréquentes".

'Forever chemicals' are seeping into waterways across Europe. A vanishingly small, man-made molecule resists all attempts of removal. How will the EU eradicate the pollution? www.ft.com/content/a36c...

Cuisson lente…

The Effect of World War I on Naming Patterns: A Systematic Exploration www.cambridge.org/core/journal... …We present here a method to systematically study variations in name popularity during an event of interest and quantify its “total” effect on naming patterns… (With a shiny companion website)

🚀 New dataset & working paper out! I’m thrilled to share “The Extended Ethnographic Atlas” --> an open, massively expanded version of Murdock’s classic Ethnographic Atlas (EA). What’s new?

#Rwanda backed #M23 armed group summarily executed at least 21 civilians and most likely many more in Goma, eastern #DRCongo, on February 22-23, 2025. New @hrw.org report: www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

Finally!

Aerial view westward over the Blatten deposit and the newly formed lake upstream! 🧊🌊 📷Via Christian Petit/Linkedin

Hey @overleaf.com could you please fix that? Thanks!

Join us for the next CSAE Lunchtime Seminar 'Private Colonialism in Africa' with Elias Papaioannou #LondonBusinessSchool. 📆Wed 14 May, 12:30, Seminar Room G, Manor Road Building, Oxford ℹ️https://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/events

📢 The #AFÉPOP2025 program is out!📢 📅 May 15–16, 2025 📍 At the Aix-Marseille School of Economics @amse-aixmarseille.fr ☀️ 🗣Keynote: Nicoletti Cheti (University of York) Public policy panel in French 📑 Full schedule & info: afepop2025.sciencesconf.org

Join the Lewis Lab as a predoc for 2 years! 👇🏼 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

April 30, only four months into the year, it's ##OvershootDay for Aotearoa. If everyone lived like we do here, Earth's ecological services and resources would be exhausted now

🚨 New CERGIC Working Paper 🚨 “Dear Brothers and Sisters: Pope's Speeches and the Dynamics of Conflict in Africa” By Mathieu Couttenier, @sophiehatte.bsky.social, Lucile Laugerette & Tommaso Sonno Explore more: hal.science/CERGIC-WP/ha...

Are you doing a masters in economics, data science, computer science, or related fields? If you are looking for a summer internship and to participate in an interdisciplinary project, check this out 👇 . Apply at the soonest!

The CSAE Lunchtime Seminars are back! Starting on 07 May, we've got a fantastic line-up for you: 🔸Sandra Sequeira, @lseid.bsky.social 🔸Elias Papaioannou, London Business School 🔸 @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social ,Yale 🔸Edward Miguel, UC, Berkeley 🔸Rohini Pande,Yale www.csae.ox.ac.uk/events

And best article to read this weekend www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/w...