The 2025 academic econ job market is trending better than the first COVID market year but worse than the rest of 2019-present www.davidvandijcke.com/joe_tracker/

If you're on #LinkedIn, this is the link for declining their use of your data for training their AI models: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

“The top 10% of U.S. households now account for nearly half of all consumer spending, a record high since data collection on this metric began in 1989.” @weisenthal.bsky.social @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

TODAY, I AM OFFICIALLY AN AUTHOR!!! A CHILDHOOD DREAM COME TRUE!!!!! #TheDoubleTax is the first book I've ever written and it’s OUT EVERYWHERE TODAY. Four years. 100s of stories. Countless drafts. I woke up today as a FIRST TIME author. WOW. Get your copy TODAY: annagifty.com #booksky #blacksky

The Committee on Professional Climate (@aeacpc.bsky.social) has completed the final report from the second member survey, which can be found at www.aeaweb.org/resources/me....

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

🚨 New mentoring programme for mid-career #WomeninEcon! RES Women’s Committee & @isweconomics.bsky.social launch a pilot to support women aiming for Professor roles. 📅 Apply by 15 Sept 2025 🔗 bit.ly/40w08fV #Mentoring #EconSky #MidCareer

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...

Our latest episode of The Hidden Curriculum dives in with Dr. Sandile Hlatshwayo @femmeeconomics.bsky.social on pulling the curtain on what is like to be an economist at the International Monetary Fund and a former Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisors.

As a graduate of Spelman and UC Berkeley Econ, I've known Dr. Lisa Cook for as long as I have known about the discipline of economics. I count myself as lucky to have her as a role model, and today I am feeling grateful for what she's contributed and will continue to contribute for decades to come.

📊 Learn how to access & apply U.S. labor & economic data! Join us Sept 30 at 5PM EST for a seminar w/ BLS Economist Yaa Opoku-Agyeman on using BLS data for research, analysis & decision-making. 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/sadiexbls #Econsky

Wholesale prices came in hot in today’s PPI report, but veggies stole the show 🥦📈 Vegetable prices at the wholesale level surged nearly 39% in July. @willmasters.bsky.social & I unpack what’s behind this spike in today's @marketplace.org 🎙️ www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

DOGE cuts have led to federal job losses in every state, but they haven't been spread evenly throughout the country—Maryland, Virginia, and Montana have each lost more than 5% of their federal employees, while Vermont, Nebraska, Texas, & Alaska have lost less than 1%

US wholesale inflation accelerated in July by the most in three years, suggesting companies are passing along higher import costs related to tariffs: Here’s your Evening Briefing.

History making! Acclaimed Vinnie Bagwell will create the Dr. Sadie T.M. Alexander statue, first African American with an economics PhD; namesake of The Sadie Collective. Her Thomas Paine Plaza statue will be among Philadelphia’s first honoring historic African American women. 📷: City of Philadelphia

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

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

Call for Papers: 20th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development www.isid.ac.in/~acegd/acegd... It's a great conference, I'm on the program committee and hoping to attend this year

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

Erika McEntarfer is brilliant and among the best examples of a deeply committed and consistently objective public servant. She’s earned the respect and trust of everyone who’s had the honor to work with her, including me. #EconSky

For those without access, here is a gift link to the NYTimes article on the sad state of the economics job market www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/b...

I've been wanting to tell my widowhood story publicly for years, but I know I don't have the kind of grief story people want to hear. No community rallied, no family healed, no strength discovered. I wrote about the gap between grief narratives and reality. www.dataandpolitics.net/why-i-find-i...

The Sadie Collective’s 2025 conference was truly epic. 🌟 Thanks so much to @hatethegamebook.com, @davidmwessel.bsky.social, @itsafronomics.bsky.social, @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, J-PAL and so many others for making it such a success! #NewVoices #ThankYouSadie

Gita Gopinath set to step down from IMF https://on.ft.com/40RSWLl

WNBA players wear "Pay Us What You Owe Us" shirts ahead of the All-Star Game. 🏀💰 #WNBA

When you successfully turn one of your favorite internet friends into an IRL friend! Was so fun hanging out, @josephpolitano.bsky.social! #Econsky

Don't touch my emotional support stylized fact

Solar power is now California's largest source of electricity. ☀️🔌💡

The CEP/LSE/Warwick Junior Trade Workshop is back on Sept 22! Accepts papers from PhD students and postdocs on the job market in Jan 2026. Submit by July 27 at [email protected]. It's an excellent chance to get feedback towards the market and it's funded! cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/...

I love—em-dashes.

'Wild Poppies' by Colleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #womensart

Yes actually now is a great time to share good news Now is a great time to celebrate the good news of strangers To be the kind of people who are happy for other people to have good things happen to them Yes indeed

Tis the season for receiving out-of-office emails from Europeans with a return date five weeks away. Love this for my besties

well this is delightful

Another weak month for US tech job growth, which has basically been stuck at zero for a year now

Trade data and employment data both released at 8:30am tomorrow, they’re calling it the Super Bowl for nerds.

When I met Ryan Coogler several years ago, we were standing in a group of people chatting, when a woman with visible hearing aids walked up, and he casually began to sign the whole conversation so she could participate. She mouthed “thank you”. He nodded and just kept doing his thing.

Good article (based on their forthcoming book!) by my former CEA colleague @mikegeruso.bsky.social The Population Bust Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...

Black coffee | Viktor Svinarev

(WSJ) - Nearly two million student loan borrowers are at risk of having their wages garnished this summer. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

We are pleased to announce our growing recruiter lineup for #SACE2025!🥳 Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with representatives from leading organizations and learn more about opportunities! 📍July 17, 2025 | Urban Institute | Washington, D.C. 🎟️ Tickets are available now. #SACE2025

Upcoming Event: WiE Inspire - #Development #Economics In Bonn (DE) & virtual #EconSky #DevEcon #WomenInEconomics

This is who runs this account.

30 Day Countdown!! BRING YOUR BESTIE to our July 17th ‘New Voices, Sustainable Solutions’ symposium and get 1 ticket free for a limited time! Grab yours now and see you Washington, D.C. - sace2025.eventbrite.com! #EconSky #ThankYouSadie

Here’s some good information on the 3.5% rule and protests from Erica Chenoweth, whose research originated it:

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called: "How to Write a Title and Abstract" Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles. #EconSky #AcademicSky

You met the names, now get to know the brilliance behind the research.💡 Meet the 2025 SACE Research Scholars and learn more about the powerful work they will be sharing at this year’s symposium! 📊 📍Join us July 17th at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. 🎟️ Secure your ticket at link in bio!

New updated slides deck about Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD) LP-DiD is a fast and simple to implement regression-based framework for estimating DiD, which can reproduce popular recent estimators as specific instances. danielegirardi.github.io/posts/docume...

We are gearing up for the July 17th SACE2025 Symposium in Washington, D.C. at the Urban Institute! 📌 Here are the research scholars that will be presenting their fascinating work.📝 Tickets are selling fast and start at just $10 (link in bio)! Bring a bestie! 🫂 #SadieCollective #NewVoicesinEcon

💥Research Assistant Positions💥 1. Ingvild Almås, Timo Boppart, Thor Berger, Hannes Malmberg, and I are looking for a research assistant to work on a project which investigates Sweden's spectacular economic growth during the late 19th century using establishment-level data.