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Looking back to a wonderful 4th edition of our Workshop on Field Experiments earlier this week – what an amazing crowd 😍 Thank you all for coming and making this event possible – special shoutout to our keynotes, Ulrike Malmendier & Noam Yuchtman 🙏 To a 5th edition in 2026! 🚀

Monday, Sept 8 @ 15:00 CEST WORKSHOP: APPLYING FOR ERC GRANTS 📍VIRTUAL ℹ️& register: www.eeassoc.org/news/applyin...

Today, academics and citizens meet at Petralia, Sicily, to talk about how immigration can help with the challenges rural areas are facing. Moderated by @cubel.bsky.social and with @peppeippedico.bsky.social Claudio Deiana and Elisa Cavasino as speakers.

I use data from lawmakers’ Twitter from countries across the Americas and Europe with a novel database of 410,000 academic researchers on the platform (paired with information about their academic profiles). *This is the largest study of its kind on politician-academic interactions online.

10/ If you found this paper useful, check our follow-up work with @eleala.bsky.social and @walraslaw.bsky.social, where we ask what happens to public's trust in scientists when they become political? Full thread below bsky.app/profile/pras...

1/ 🚨 Hot off the press! Our study “Political Expression of Academics on Social Media” with @trfetzer.com is now peer-reviewed & live in Nature Human Behaviour @nature.com 🎉. Thread 👇

I just finished meeting with one of our amazing international students who is graduating and was reflecting on their experience here. And then open this. What a horrible, horrendous thing to do—I hope it can be stopped quickly.

🚀 Excited to present today @cepr.org WE_ARE Seminar Series my work: "Politicized Scientists: The Credibility Cost of Political Expression on Twitter" (with @prashantgarg.bsky.social & @walraslaw.bsky.social) Thanks #WE_ARE for fostering such a vibrant platform for sharing women's work in economics!

Thank you all for a fantastic workshop! So inspired by the brilliant work, discussions, and new ideas. Here’s to many more! 🚀 Gilat Levy, @johannarickne.bsky.social, Dimitrios Xefteris, Sandro Brusco, @cubel.bsky.social, @anacweeks.bsky.social, Javier Rivas

Looking forward to a super interesting political economy workshop this Friday @uniofbath.bsky.social thank you @eleala.bsky.social for inviting me! I will talk about ongoing research on femonationalist politics w @jmfernandes86.bsky.social & Bonnie Meguid. It is unfortunately very topical.

Excited to welcome such a fantastic lineup of speakers this Friday at @econuniofbath.bsky.social for our Political Economy & Public Economics Workshop! Proud to co-organise this with Jaideep Roy—join us in 4 West 1.01 for a full day of great talks and discussions!

🚨 Join us this Friday 25th April for the Political Economy & Public Economics Workshop at @uniofbath.bsky.social! 4W 1.01 | 9:30–17:45 Great talks from Gilat Levy @johannarickne.bsky.social Dimitrios Xefteris Sandro Brusco @cubel.bsky.social @anacweeks.bsky.social Javier Rivas @eleala.bsky.social

Some thoughts on the strategic rationale behind the "Brandmauer” – the cordon sanitaire vis-à-vis the AfD – and the challenges associated with maintaining it. Seems pertinent, given that senior CDU/CSU figures regularly float the idea of ditching it and exploring avenues for closer cooperation.

-- @eleala.bsky.social, @trfetzer.com, and S. Wang - document in the case of Brexit. @beimwort.bsky.social had a nice summary of one of the paper's bottom lines: right-wing populists can thrive on conditions that they themselves can help create. These papers beimwort.substack.com/p/der-kampf-...

🚨 Call for papers! The second edition of the Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC) will be in November in London. Organized by @clpennec.bsky.social Cevat Aksoy and me. The submission deadline is July 4, 2025. Apply here (and RT!): sites.google.com/view/tpec-mo...

Excited to co-host this year’s Political Economy and Public Economics Workshop with Jaideep Roy @econuniofbath.bsky.social We’ve a fantastic lineup of talks on voting, governance, activism, media, scientists’ incentives, political discourse, and more 📍 April 25, 4W 1.01, scan the QR code to join!

Happy to attend the @cepr.org Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies workshop at St Gallen. I ll share some thoughts on this carefully curated workshop in this thread.

Second to last for the day we have @eleala.bsky.social presenting "Politicized Scientists: Credibility Cost of Political Expression on Twitter" exploring the causal effect of political signaling on the credibility of academics active on social media.

📢 Join the public lecture by Prof. Kaushik Basu! How is the rise of digital technology changing labour markets? What can we do about the rising youth unemployment in India? 4 March 2025 | 5:30-7 PM University of Bath, Chancellors’ Building, Room 2.6 Register using the QR code below!

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 NICEP Conference What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics 📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd 📍 Nottingham, UK Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh... #EconSky

Excellent coverage by ZaidJilani on our paper "Politicized Scientists: Credibility Cost of Political Expression on Twitter" with @prashantgarg.bsky.social and @walraslaw.bsky.social Link to the article: www.theamericansaga.com/p/scientists...

“The UK has a generally high level of trust in science, ranking above many European countries... Trust... is higher among women, older individuals, & those with more education." @eleala.bsky.social worked on this global study on trust in science @uniofbath.bsky.social @uniofbathnews.bsky.social

Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

Thank you to Thomas Rieger and Charlotte Bartels for inviting me to @diw.de's SOEP Brown Bag seminar to present joint work with @eleala.bsky.social, @trfetzer.com, and Shizhuo Wang on the economic and political cost of Brexit. Slides below. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1kd5a...

How do academics navigate the risks of political engagement on social media? This @uniofbathipr.bsky.social blog by Dr @eleala.bsky.social explores the balance between advocacy, professionalism & online pitfalls. 🔗Read more: blogs.bath.ac.uk/iprblog/2024... #SocialMedia #PoliticalEngagement

Per dare delle risposte, Eleonora Alabrese (@eleala.bsky.social), Francesco Capozza (@walraslaw.bsky.social) e Prashant Garg (@prashantgarg.bsky.social) hanno condotto una serie di esperimenti online. I risultati? 2/12 warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹 Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state? We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out shorturl.at/zQ8bJ

US academics are not backward in coming forward to share their political views on social media—on Twitter 6 x more than a random sample—significantly influencing perceptions of their credibility, and not in a good way, research by @eleala.bsky.social et al suggests: https://buff.ly/4fdAukq

"The more extreme their political posts, the less credible they and their research are perceived, and the lower the public’s willingness to engage with their content—particularly among respondents with opposing political views."

Tweeting about politics undermines scientists’ credibility in the eyes of the public — gotta leave the takes to trained professionals. warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

Here is a speculative UKICE post, in which we -- @eleala.bsky.social, @trfetzer.com, Shizuo Wang, and myself -- sketch a "theory" of how austerity helped pave the way for anti-immigration narratives to take hold nationally (in the UK). ukandeu.ac.uk/from-local-t...

Public trust in science is more important than ever. But what happens when scientists openly share their political opinions on social media? Our updated paper with @eleala.bsky.social & @walraslaw.bsky.social shows how academics’ political expression affects their credibility

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Follow up work with @eleala.bsky.social and @walraslaw.bsky.social looks at credibility cost of political expression. There is a monotonic penalty for scientists displaying political affiliations. Politically neutral scientists are viewed as the most credible. Paper link: www.cesifo.org/node/82585.

Tried to put together a list of pol econ people (both theory and empirics) on bsky: go.bsky.app/UhWxdmh Probably missing a lot of names: let me know who I should add!

🚨 Call for Papers! The 2025 EAYE Annual Meeting is at King’s College London @KingsCollegeLon from May 27-29, 2025! Submit your extended abstracts or full papers and join top junior economists from around the world! 🗓️Deadline: December 1, 2024

"The growth of support for UKIP was not directly correlated with high migration at the regional level, but was significantly influenced by austerity" @eleala.bsky.social @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social @trfetzer.com & Shizhuo Wang on austerity, immigration & UKIP support. ukandeu.ac.uk/from-local-t...

"By misattributing economic struggles to immigration, the real impact of austerity was obscured, leading to a rise in support for right-wing populist parties." @trfetzer.com @eleala.bsky.social @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social & Shizhuo Wang on austerity, immigration. ukandeu.ac.uk/from-local-t...

Check out the interactive website for our Brexit cost paper (and follow the great @eleala.bsky.social if you don’t already).

📉 "Brexit may...have contributed to the levelling up of the UK by levelling down more relatively economically prosperous regions" 🚨 NEW: @eleala.bsky.social, @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social, @trfetzer.com, and Shizhuo Wang on the local economic impacts of Brexit. ukandeu.ac.uk/levelling-up...

Please RT: Our fundraising at @malengo has been slow! We want to support as many students as possible on their journey from Uganda to a Bachelor's degree in Germany. Please support us! Donations are tax deductible in the US and Germany. Details at malengo.org/donate. Thanks!

🚨 Conference alert! 🚨 Applications for the 2024 edition of the Warwick Econ PhD conference are now open. Apply by 15th Jan with your 3 pages abstract. More information, the CfP and the application form here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

📢Exciting News Alert!  Calling all female researchers in Political Economics! Join our network of Women in Political Economics 🖥️ Website: sites.google.com/view/women-i...

Colada[115] shows the prevalence of pre-registrations in papers published in 2022, with lessons to improve in 2023+ datacolada.org/115