@nilsbraakmann.bsky.social , @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, and I form the program committee. More info here: applied-microecon.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/sane-worksho...

Time to submit a paper to the Fifth Annual Scotland and Northern England Conference in Applied Micro! Steve Machin (LSE) will deliver the keynote. 5-7 May, submit papers here: www.tinyurl.com/FifthSaNESub...

Now in Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (with Wednesday Croft): We consider the introduction of private security measures in supermarkets and their role in preventing shoplifting using a well-publicised change at Tesco. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #CrimSky #Econsky #WeAreNCL

🚨Jobs! Come and work with us - we’re a nice department and it’s mostly not grim up north either! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ343/l... #WeAreNCL #EconSky

In the grimness of the north birds scavenge for food #GrimUpNorth

People in London (and elsewhere with internet access as it's also online) - if you ever wanted to hear me talk about geocoded crime data and causal inference - here's your chance (June 10th at 4 at the Met). Free but ticketed: www.ticketsource.co.uk/mps-research... #WeAreNCL #CrimSky #EconSky

Always nice to see your government carefully engaging with evidence and coming up with nuanced takes that do a complex topic justice 🙄...

Good morning, Crieff! Looking forward to the second day of the Fourth SaNE conference in applied micro— the first was great. Thanks to @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social and @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social for their work on the program and @ludogazze.bsky.social for last night’s keynote.

@scoteconsociety.bsky.social conference day 2. Featuring an organised session on crime (and yours truly) at 11. #ses2025

First keynote at the @scoteconsociety.bsky.social annual conference #econsky #ses2025

Welcome to the #SES2025 annual conference! Blue skies here in Glasgow

New paper with Barbara Eberth out in Industrial Relations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #AcademicSky #EconSky #WeAreNCL We study the effects of strikes in higher education on student-and research-related outcomes using the last few years of strikes in UK HE.

Grim up north in the winter… #GrimUpNorth

Just a little over one more week to submit to the Fourth Annual SaNE conference in Scotland. The deadline is 31 January. Join us up north!

Not a specialist on automotive industries - but I’ve got a feeling that sick leave rules might not be the main reason for their current crisis…

#WeAreNCL ⬇️

School projects are surprisingly fun…

Send us your best papers! It's nice up North... #Econsky

No such disparities between the most left-wing and the most right-wing members of other disciplines

Me, an economist who wrote one of TIE papers, shaken to his core: how can I live with the fact that "going from the most left-wing authored estimate of the taxable top income elasticity to the most right-wing authored estimate decreases the optimal tax rate *checks notes* from 77% to 60%."

Today's blog in our #N8ResearchCulture series is from @newcastleuni.bsky.social and Dr Sara Zaemdar @candyrowe.bsky.social www.n8research.org.uk/a-creative-a...

New working paper: Temperature, crime and policing: Evidence from UK geocoded data Short thread below, paper available here: doi.org/10.31235/osf... #Econsky #Criminology #WeAreNCL

We're proud to announce we'll be leading the North East England Doctoral Landscape in Biosciences bringing 100 PhD studentships to the region, with funding for at least another 45 PhD students here at Newcastle 🎓 🎉 Find out more about the schemes 👇 www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl... #WeAreNCL

The fact that UCC hid a 3000-year-old mummy under the floorboards of a lecture theatre on a campus where two and a half tonnes of uranium rods were being stored in a basement nearby and DIDN'T end up with a zombie-pharaoh apocalypse is both a mystery and endlessly disappointing

Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it www.nber.org/system/files...

Available open access online #Econsky #criminology #WeAreNCL academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...

Now that I’ve figured out tagging… recently out in print. www.aeaweb.org/articles.php... #econsky #criminology #WeAreNCL

Now with tags after I remembered how Bluesky works… #econsky #WeAreNCL #criminology

#OddSocksDay #AntiBullyingWeek

PhD funding for next year ⬇️ www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...

The sort of stuff your kid randomly finds on a Sunday… paper shark assembly set…

New paper with Bahadir Dursun and Diego Zambiasi: doi.org/10.1111/jors...

Back home from a conference. Nice sunrise while on ferry.

Very happy to see this www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... out in print at AEJ: Applied

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,048,062!

Are you interested in studying for a PhD in Economics? Funded Lomas Scholarships for PhD study in Economics are available at Newcastle University: www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate... #phdeconomics #newcastleuniversity #NCLBusiness #economics #EconSky #WeAreNCL

Out for a few days now, but very happy to announce results from our Nuffield-funded project on the effects headteachers have on their schools - joint work with the Education Policy Institute. Available here: epi.org.uk/publications.... #EconSky #WeAreNCL

Another grim autumn day up north…

#Econsky 📉📈 I remember that there was a recent paper comparing TWFE and differential-timing DiD in political science papers - the one that found that sign reversal was rare. Does anyone remember the reference?

Lots of really sad-looking people from Paris today. Something must have happened…

Lots of people from Paris near the office today. Must be something going on in town 😉

One interesting change to Twitter - people seem to have aged quite a bit. Updated profile pics or the stress of switching? 😉

Hello Bluesky, we're Newcastle University 👋 We're based in the North East (ie best bit) of England. From 1834 to the current day we exist to advance education & research & to help society tackle the many challenges it faces. Follow us for updates on our research, student life & the world around us.

#GrimUpNorth

We are searching for an Associate or Full Professor of Computational Social Science (broadly defined) to join our department at LSE If you'd like any more information, please feel free to reach out to me. Polisky

1951 Alice in Wonderland in 18th century stables.

Drop something blue from your gallery (great north run edition)

Drop something blue from your gallery (oh, and it’s #grimupnorth too…)