Sending these vibes to all the PhD students out there (plus anyone who appreciates a good Dholuo bop)

If you want to pretend to have a Very Serious Conference in the Knesset about "Gaza, The Day After", maybe don't make the stub for the registration URL "emigration1" tickchak.co.il/Hagira1

Storming a university and firing live ammunition. 5 students reportedly shot. Academia everywhere should be outraged. www.haaretz.com/2026-01-06/t...

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

Noise pollution from electric passenger rail harms babies' health. "I estimate that the annual cost of noise pollution due to harms to health at birth is $9.8 billion." Black, Hispanic, and the poorest Americans disproportionately bear these costs. This is such a cool paper!

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

TROP c'est TROP

Straight from the horse's mouth www.instagram.com/reels/DOv9G5...

Whether it’s Trump illegally deporting immigrants to Uganda or Zohran Mamdani being born in Uganda, the East African nation is having a moment across the political spectrum.

Important speech by Tel Aviv University economics professor Ro'ee Levy at the Israel Economic Association meeting, in which he links together insights from economics research, personal experience and information about the devastating situation in Gaza: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"Liberal Jews like myself need to overcome our shame, which pushes some of us to avoid or deny the reality of Gaza. Instead we must grapple with guilt; not in the sense of personal culpability but in our collective responsibility toward and solidarity with our Israeli kin and Palestinian neighbors."

You help us mobilize thousands of Jews and Israelis, train community and student leaders, and disrupt business as usual across our country – because there cannot be normalcy while our government continues starving and killing Palestinians across Gaza. Give today:

Literally joined this platform (finally) to share this AEDE blog. If you are not heartbroken at the scale of child suffering in Gaza, you are not paying attention. Call your federal rep — at the very least. u.osu.edu/aede/2025/07...

As a new Israeli, I cannot be silent about Gaza. How can the pictures of skeletal, starving children not shock one into action? Yet so many Israelis do not see these pictures in the media, can't fathom that we're actually responsible for them, or simply do not see these bodies as human kids. (1/4)

This piece is very moving, and reflects how I am feeling about the Israel/Gaza calamity. Silence in the Face of Gaza's Starvation is Absolute Betrayal of Holocaust Victims By Orit Kamir Originally published in Haaretz substack.com/home/post/p-... Thanks to @deanbaker13.bsky.social for posting it.

While our government starves Gaza, Standing Together is a grassroots organization of Jews and Palestinians fighting to change this abhorrent reality. I am proud to be an ambassador for their annual fundraiser. Please consider donating to amplify this important voice causematch.com/standing_tog...

Not enough people are talking about Zohran Mamdani AKA Young Cardamom's Luganda rap youtu.be/5upeWPTzFgc?...

I am proud to have been a part of yesterday's demonstration mentioned here www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I look forward to the very causal and robust study led by Ariely, Gino and Islam

Exact MAGA hat algebra

די. מספיק. חלאס. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Trying again since the thread didn't appear correctly: today's cool young researcher #econsky is @pbiscaye.bsky.social at CERDI who works on topics related to development, labor + agriculture

Look Ma, I did a thing!

Elon Musk isn't destroying American democracy, Big Balls is.

Happy "foil the evil plot of the wicked power-hungry advisor to the buffoon king" holiday to all who celebrate!

The Trump administration instrumentalizing the term "antisemitism" to further their crusaid against research and academia follows an old trope: Using Jews as a scapegoat for their policies. This, in turn, creates more real antisemitism, as people will blame "the Jews."

Accounting Identity Politics

DOGE giving real EJMR vibes right now

Can we start referring to them as techbrocrats?

"The humanitarian solution: resettlement now for all Gazans" Sick on so many levels

Something has indeed gone horribly wrong.

It's not that surprising that Trump would condemn millions of people to death to score some cheap points with his base. But I'm genuinely shocked I haven't seen more outrage from parts of his base (e.g. Evangelicals who donate to World Vision or go on missions to Africa) even in my liberal bubble.

PEPFAR is *currently providing* lifesaving HIV treatment for 20.6 million people, including 566,000 children, as of Sept. 30, 2024. That treatment is now in serious jeopardy. I'm sure people in the administration don't want half a million kids on their conscience. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

For Jews, defining oneself vis-a-vis Zionism means two things. Firstly, how you feel about the history of the Zionist project. Secondly, how you feel about the Zionist mainstream, in the diaspora or in Israel (very different contexts). It *does not* translate to well defined political platform. 1/

Incomprehensible levels of cynicism

Why is our government still using Stata???

A broken clock is right twice a day www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/u...

"But look at those pretrends!" - RFK, if he were an economist

Hello #econsky. I am building a grad-level course for next semester on Macro Development with a focus on agriculture and the environment. Please share and shamelessly (self-)promote any JMPs, WPs, and underrated bangers that you think would be worth including in the syllabus.

The only people in my starter pack are Mas-Collel, Whinston, and Green

Farm households in developing countries face many different market failures. But how do they each matter for aggregate productivity? And what should policymakers do about them? My JMP provides a new way to answer these questions using data from rural Thailand. 1/

Check out my fellow ARE job candidates and me over on the other place and stay tuned for a JMP 🧵. twitter.com/AreBerkeley/...