Every time I tell a normal human that economists gather for work on the first weekend in January every year, and they are FLABBERGASTED, I am reminded that this is an odd choice we’ve made as a profession

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

The Sadie Collective announces the theme for #SACE2026, our annual economics and related fields conference! Rooted in Resilience: Shaping Policy and Building Hopeful Futures 📅 Feb 26–27, 2026 🎟️ Tickets coming soon More details to follow.

I know that the job market is rough this year for Econ PhDs. @utoronto.ca has expanded its postdoc funding. If you are on the market and work on school finance or early childhood education and are interested in a PostDoc, let me know! #econsky #educsky postdoc.sgs.utoronto.ca/current-post...

A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

We love you @lkatz42.bsky.social!

Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process. There's still time to sign! And please share. #EconSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

You guys. The Lisa Cook story isn’t about her mortgages. Please please please stop being so credulous.

POTUS and the AG abusing their public powers to try to gain more public power. The Fed has 7 governors. Trump appointed 2 last term. One is vacant. One more vacant seat will yield a majority. Dr. Cook fills the seat with the longest term (to 2038) & is the only Black woman on the board.

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)? Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...

TFW your FOIA request from 9 months ago arrives in your mailbox…

It’s been such a privilege to learn from the amazing folks at @quattronecenter.org this year

ICE is nabbing far more noncriminals off the streets than people with criminal convictions: four times more. cato.org/blog/ice-arr...

New data show that ICE is pulling record numbers of people off the streets who have no criminal convictions of any kind. This is not just a change from the Biden admin. This is a radical tactical shift compared to Trump 1.0. These arrests are up over 1,000% from 2017. www.cato.org/blog/ice-arr...

@harvard.edu what are you doing to protect and support your grad students whose NSF GRFP grants were terminated today?

Call for papers: NBER meeting on The Economics of Firearm Markets, Crime, and Gun Violence - October 10 in Cambridge, MA Deadline: June 4 www.nber.org/calls-papers...

Controversies have prompted at least a half-dozen cities to cancel their contracts or end their relationships with “The First 48.” Here’s why Dallas, Memphis and Mobile have stopped working with the long-running cop reality show.

This investigation echoes the findings of QC Research Fellow @emmarackstraw.bsky.social, whose paper on "copaganda" found that arrests for low-level, victimless crimes increase by 20% while departments film with reality television shows. Her 2023 paper is here:

🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net

Econ of crime folks, what are your favorite books you’ve read on the criminal justice system? Not written by an economist, but something one could read through an economist’s lens. (I’m looking for book report project ideas for undergrads!)

JOE is still open for posting jobs! It's one of the things we, the AEA committee on the job market, would like to officially encourage especially given the current environment @johncawley.bsky.social @aeainformation.bsky.social

There are so many reasons I feel so privileged to work in education, but ordering instructor copies of books I’m thinking of assigning is up there. No one talks about the free book loophole!!!!! We are among the luckiest people alive!!

Very excited to have this paper with @franciscaantman.bsky.social Bruce Weinberg, and Sgeng Qu out on the (positive!) long run effects of the @aeainformation.bsky.social Mentoring program. www.nber.org/papers/w33689

The inevitable result of the ways reality TV cameras supercharge the desire to make an arrest — ANY arrest.

A second new position at @capolicylab.bsky.social - this one for a research manager for our criminal justice work.

In honor of long COVID awareness day, I wanted to speak about what my experience is like, 25 months in. I am much better but still only leave the house a couple times a week. 1/

Harvard just fired me and all of my colleagues. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

a great opportunity for grad students, postdocs, APs working on research in Econ of Crime field! 👇

📣 Submit your crime paper by Feb 14. 🔸 4th Workshop on the Economics of Crime for Junior Scholars 🔸 29-30 May, 2025 🔸 Quattrone Center, UPenn 🔸 Keynote: @amandayagan.bsky.social 🔹 Send your paper to: [email protected] @emmarackstraw.bsky.social

Hope to see folks at this great #ASSA2025 session now that the strike is over!

#AEA2025 participants please sign to encourage the AEA/ASSA to be reasonable and ethical approaching the hotel strikes

Please sign a petition, which I was proud to sign, asking the AEA to make reasonable adjustments to its plans to enable people to make their own decisions about how to handle the picket line. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#AEA2025 attendees: If you also fell really icky about that obtuse email we just got from ASSA/AEA and you do not cross picket lines, read this asap!

Got AEA & ASSA emails this morning abt hotel workers striking in SF? Want to figure out what it means & what your options are? See this analysis @shirkandsteal.bsky.social @jennifercohen.bsky.social & me, & our call to support 3 small ASSA policy changes #EconSky aaronsojourner.org/hotel-worker...

Fun fact: If someone quotes a post of yours in a way that is unwelcome (as is commonplace on Twitter/X) there is a tool to combat the unwanted attention. Simply click the three dot menu on the quote post & click "Detach quote". This removes your post from their quote post. Useful to know, do share!

Please do this--my (Democratic) congressman's office has not been getting calls on this, so your call can make a difference. This currently bipartisan bill, which is being fast-tracked, would hand Trump a loaded weapon to destroy any nonprofit whose mission he dislikes.

Does anyone know what happened to Heather Ross, who came up with the negative income tax field experiment as a PhD student at MIT in 1960s? She is not often mentioned in the history of field trials in economics but this was an important milestone.

So well-deserved!!!! @econsandy.bsky.social is the most incredible researcher, mentor, and all-around kind human. An absolute star whose orbit I feel lucky to have briefly coincided with 🥰🤩

(1/many) #EconSky My job market paper investigates what police propaganda and its effects can teach us about the institution of policing. t.co/5bzHCTdmR2

Hi all! I’m a PhD candidate 📣on the market 📣this year. I study the criminal justice system and labor market in the US. Beyond research, I enjoy singing, cats, glassblowing, reading, and bad TV (you’ll see in my JMP thread how this last hobby became a research question!). #EconSky 📈📉#DidIDoThisRight