The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Very excited we have five funded PhD fellowships, open to all fields of political science and economics, so please do spread the word to prospective political theory students! www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

I'm looking for people who would like to co-create a resource helping EDI organisations in academia to be more trans and non-binary inclusive. Ideas include:

Featured on INOMICS: Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Economic Development & Quantitative Economics #Econsky

#Démographie | En l’espace de 8 ans, l’espérance de vie des personnes dont le niveau de vie est compris entre 800 et 1 300 euros diminue. 👉 www.insee.fr/fr/statistiq...

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

[1/8] Pierre Breteau montre pourquoi le train reste structurellement + cher que l’avion. L’article compare coûts, fiscalité et infrastructures. Il explique que l’aérien bénéficie de prix artificiellement bas grâce à des exonérations fiscales qui faussent la concurrence. #geography #transport #train

Happy to say our paper (w/ Lisa Marzano) evaluating a suicide prevention campaign in Barnet (London) is now published in BMC Public Health and featured on BBC Radio London www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... at 1h20'

‪ With @jeromevalette.bsky.social & Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, we are happy to announce the CfPapers for the 4th edition of the Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration on May 26-27, 2026 @uc3meconomics.bsky.social, Spain. Submit until February 1, 2026 on economig2026.sciencesconf.org

Monty Python understood p-hacking

Non, mais c'est sans doute qu'on ne les a pas baissé assez. Justement au budget 2026...

🧬Exciting new genetic data release! Polygenic scores for more than 30,000 people across four CLS cohort studies are now available, making cross-cohort analyses using derived genetic measures possible. Find out more about the accessible data on the CLS website👉 buff.ly/iI8iq9n

NEW DATA! Harmonised fertility histories of four British cohorts – born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989-90 – are now available for the scientific community to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr

L’exécution provisoire est une réalité quotidienne de la justice. Comme pour Le Pen, des politiques critiquent l’application immédiate des sanctions pour Sarkozy. Ils se pensent au-dessus des règles qui s’appliquent à tous les autres justiciables. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

We’re hiring @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk for a postdoc in geopolitics of AI www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

VCs don’t run universities. We do. After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot. Ballot opens October. Vote YES. #WeAreTheUniversity

🔊 We’re looking for researchers working on migration at universities, research institutes, and think-tanks in Africa and Europe. 👉 We’re conducting a study to understand how researchers think about the drivers of international migration. 📋 Take the survey here: mpcsurveys.limesurvey.net/acd

NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system. 🧵 [1/8]

Atrocities in Gaza should not make us forget about the dire living conditions in the West Bank confronted to waves of agressive illegal settlements www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Economists across fields are standing up for central bank independence. Sign here by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... | Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

@ec.europa.eu STOP ALL COLLABORATIONS WITH LIBYAN COASTGUARDS!

Very happy that this paper has now been accepted for publication in BMC Public Health!

📣 We're hiring! 📣 Do you have an interest in the economic and social policy of the UK and an eye for detail? Find out more about joining our team as a Researcher ⤵️ buff.ly/EmREN1c

There are several recent papers which could fall under the heading ‘Economic History of the Scientific Revolution’ but this network analysis tracing how scientific ideas diffused amongst scholars in the period 1084-1793 is a real milestone, an ‘epidemiological’ model of how ideas spread like disease

Pre-modern universities promoted the spread of ideas. This is why you should oppose post-modernism at universities btw

Hostility toward homosexuality remains common in many of the world’s largest countries— This chart shows the share of people who say homosexuality cannot be justified across five of the world’s most populous countries. Together, these countries are home to nearly half of the global population.

For the @thedetectorists.bsky.social's fans out there :-)

This is quite interesting, suggesting that less (gender) equal nations have higher rates of cross gender friendships

🚨 New post-doc opportunity at TCRU! @susiebowerbrown.bsky.social is recruiting a Quantitative Research Fellow (0.5 FTE, 15 months) for the ESRC-funded Family Beyond the Binary project, exploring non-binary families in the UK. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Apply by 21 Aug 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... @sriucl.bsky.social

#PlasticsTreaty Plastics "recycling" is largely bullshit & has been for >50 years NO "last chance" for human, climate, biodiversity & ocean-harming plastics—REGULATE plastic production

📣 Call for Papers 📣 🌐 15th Annual International Conference on #Immigration in OECD Countries - Dec. 11- 12. 🗣️ With Keynotes from ‪‪‬@christinafelfe.bsky.social & @profdaviddorn.bsky.social ⏳ Submit by September 15th 🔗 immigoecd15.sciencesconf.org #EconSky #EconConf #Migration

It's hard to fathom that every 6-8 years UK universities spend years and hundreds of millions doing something that can be done in an afternoon by one person with access to impact-factor weighted citation counts.

Super interesting blogpost on population growth in England over the past few centuries!

He's all for "peace" www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

“Descended from Immigrants and Revolutionists”: How Family History Shapes Immigration Policy Making doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

What does it say of your university’s financial situation when they charge you for a glass of Prosecco at the graduation ceremony? 🧐😖 #UKHE #Brexit

State sponsored racism is again official policy in the United States and FIFA wants to make sure they don’t offend the host by pointing that fact out.

Merci @lemonde.fr pour cet éditorial qui pose sereinement les termes du débat "L'équité fiscale passe par la taxation des ultrariches" 👇👇👇 www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

TFW your favourite Nobel prize winner cites your paper :-)

The people who illegally obliterated our foreign aid agency—over the protests of noble public servants who tried to stop them—are responsible for this.

Must watch www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Great take on the current HE crisis in the UK... The HE market does need to be regulated to work smoothly. www.ft.com/content/7514...

The feeling when you discover reviewer 2 and 3 agree with you this is a great paper 😮‍💨😊

I'm honored to present the April 2025 issue of the JEEA - featuring 10 outstanding papers. @jeeanews.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/2...

@bastiencf.bsky.social you're part of the open day...

Hey mom, look, I’m in the paper! 🙈🙉🙊

Hi folks! Will we see you in Copenhagen this September? Call for ASREC conference is out! Preceded by grad student workshop. Relevant for all scholars interested in culture and religion. Calls and submission (closes June 1): asrec.org