FT: The perfect away day. Elland Road is a tough place to go but we weathered the early storm and stamped our authority on the game. There was real pressure on Arsenal today but they dealt with it perfectly. Madueke impactful, goals for Gyokeres and Jesus, and our bouncers at the back very solid.

Vibe coding kills open source. Our most direct title yet. @koren.mk @julianhi.nz @aaron-lohmann.bsky.social Theory paper with numbers and policy recs. First at arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494 Comments welcome. @ceu-economics.bsky.social @kiel.institute

Presenting our paper with @nonsoobikili.com @chinemeluokafor.bsky.social and Ajuwon on Monday in the 10:15am session @assameeting.bsky.social, in case anyone wants to come listen to research on the effects of women's protests on gender gaps in political participation #ASSA2026 #Econsky

The Nigerian cement industry is a cartel operating in plain sight. Here's how to fix it open.substack.com/pub/1914read...

FG Needs Holistic Budget Reform www.thisdaylive.com/2025/12/28/f...

Cash doesn't accomplish everything, but it does help kids out of poverty, which is a pretty big thing. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Good listen

AI may finally force academic publishing to reform itself.

In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)" news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database. An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️

🆕 Rethinking food security in a risky globalised world Today on VoxDev, Tasso Adamopoulos and Fernando Leibovici show that when trade becomes riskier, some of the traditional gains of globalisation disappear: voxdev.org/topic/trade/...

1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...

Saved you a click: You need a head to live.

More details on the coup in Guinea-Bissau, mainly relying on the excellent reporting of AFP and Reuters reporters on the ground

Another coup in Guinea-Bissau (I couldn't find a complete list, but there've been several). This time, it looks like it was successful. AFP reports soldiers said they were taking "total control" of the country, suspending its electoral process and closing its borders, three days after elections

Nigeria’s problem is bigger than Trump thinks www.ft.com/content/e0f0... via @data.ft.com

Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S. n.pr/4pt2A0r

Article original: flipboard.com/@npr/morning...

🆕 How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...

Norway's wealth tax trades millionaires for equality reut.rs/4iid1BT

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There have been numerous reports about misinformation farms in many developing countries including Nigeria. Low labour costs plus cheap internet I guess.

The Twitter algorithms create these trolls. If Musk wanted to fight back on misinformation on Twitter he could do so in a moment. But he likes it. This is why we should leave Twitter: it’s designed to influence us. In a bad way. And in the future we need policy solutions— 1/

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 221 of The Continent Nigeria’s security crisis deepens: 26 girls abducted in Kebbi State, more kidnappings elsewhere, and a top general killed — symptoms of a long-running, underfunded, corruption-riddled breakdown. More inside: bit.ly/221_TC

The Continent. Always on point. @thecontinent.org bit.ly/221_TC

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

The one group who could entice me to consider myself an economist (still not one). If I'm trying to catch up on the latest research in econ, I visit this page and see, at the bottom, what working papers have come out. www.nber.org/programs-pro...

As we write in The Guardian this morning, the Commission’s plan to gut EU digital rules will hurt Europe’s startups and give U.S. tech an unassailable advantage, confirming Europe as a digital vassal. Piece by George Riekeles and I. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

CfP: What Can History Teach Us About Building Resilient Economies in the 21st Century? Deadline: 27 November 2025 Conference: 29 - 30 January 2026, Stellenbosch, South Africa econrsa.org/events/what-... #EconHist

If everyone has a virtual friend in their pocket that is always ready to take their side, this could create “personal echo chambers of validation” in which they are not challenged to think for themselves, argues an AI expert

There are huge differences in death rates from road injuries, even across high-income countries

What drove poverty changes in Latin America & the Caribbean over the last decade? documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0... Employment and earnings growth: 37 percent Public transfers: 23 percent (Data from 13 countries)

"Fixing the Earth by throwing lots of stuff into the sky is maybe not our best-ever idea, tbh" - @thecontinent.org 😂😂😂😂

ANALYSIS: Nine key factors that may influence 2025 Anambra governorship poll https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/833259-analysis-nine-key-factors-that-may-influence-2025-anambra-governorship-poll.html?utm_campaign=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

Gabriel Jesus back in full training, is it?