voilà comment commence l'avant coupe du monde aux USA tout est dit en une image.

How many authors of development economics papers are women? Around 30% #econtwitter #econsky. Updated calc using my trusty new database of recently published (2021-2025) economics papers, and using the functions gender_guesser and Namsor to infer gender.

Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work. We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...

New in JDE: @rnovella.bsky.social , @richardfreund.bsky.social & Rosas-Shady run an RCT in Peru of an online digital-skills bootcamp (N=1,766). The average effect on formal employment and income is null, but there is occupational upgrading. More below.

Friends, you need to pay attention to this. And submit comments.🖋🖊🖌🖍

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams? A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...

Les faits de corruption atteignent un niveau record en France. Entre autres constats, celui de la progression alarmante de la corruption en lien avec les élus : +88% entre les périodes 2016-2020 et 2021-2025. 👉 https://www.altereco.media/U9l

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

The moment of one of today’s Russian strikes on #Kyiv. I can see that fewer and fewer people are reading news from Ukraine. I understand that on a Sunday morning, people don’t want to read about war. They want to sleep a little longer, drink good coffee, and sit in the sun. I understand that.

Insane

Maybe the school phone ban worked in Brazil? (though the matching seems to be doing a lot of work here)

The White House is preparing to take $1.8 BILLION by force from American taxpayers and simply transfer it to the people who attacked our Capitol and assaulted our Capitol Police. It is a good moment to rewatch the video of exactly who those people are, and what they did.

In case you need any more motivation to hold the most corrupt "president" in U.S. history accountable. #Register&VOTE 🌊

Still one of the spiciest causal identification strategies I've seen in recent years. 😅 doi.org/10.1016/j.jp... @mhalla.bsky.social

Tant et tant d'affaires judiciaires pour Le Pen et Bardella... On comprend mieux l'admiration que leur voue Sarkozy. Un jour, un quartier de la prison de la Santé s'appellera "L'union des droites". www.franceinfo.fr/politique/fr...

Breakikng News! Code UFB!!! There is now close to an 80% chance of a very strong El Nino by late summer. Courtesy of @hausfath.bsky.social and the Global Temperature Dashboard at: dashboard.theclimatebrink.com#enso

Same energy:

"X a plongé dans le chaos ces dernières années". Suivant une décision coordonnée, les trois partis de la gauche allemande, le SPD, les Verts et Die Linke, annonçent leur départ de X. L'ensemble de leurs députés au Bundestag suivent le mouvement.

This is frightening. 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

🚨Plus que quelques jours pour soumettre votre papier ! Le compte à rebours est lancé pour répondre à l’appel à papiers du Forum sur les Transformations Numériques en Afrique de l’Ouest. 👉 Toutes les informations ici : wadtforum-day2.sciencesconf.org?lang=fr

⏰ Date limite : 3 mai!

BREAKING: Viktor Orbán quits Hungary's parliament after 36 years – confirming my earlier scoop that he's planning a longer US trip this summer, where heads of the Orbán business empire – his daughter and son-in-law – already live, and where he could possibly seek refuge from prosecution.

1/ Rester sur X n'a AUCUNE justification, même en laissant de côté l'aspect idéologique (réseau d'un néonazi organisé pour promouvoir son idéologie, etc.). #Thread D'abord "l'audience" : le ratio internautes réels & intéressants Vs Bots et faux comptes de fermes à trolls est délirant.

#ESR "Recherche publique : la France est en train de décrocher" 500 directrices et directeurs d'unités de recherche alertent sur la politique d'austérité menée depuis la Loi de Programmation de la Recherche. c3n-cn.fr/2026/04/10/b...

Passage through the Strait of Hormuz isn't just commercial- it is also needed for the US Navy to access the Fifth Fleet HQ in Bahrain. This brings the possibility that the US will have to pay Iran for USN ships to be able to access their own base - or that Iran won't permit USN access at all.

Our blog on unpaid care work and employment is out! We discuss how the time spent on unpaid care leads to time poverty, especially for rural women, and costs them opportunities in education and employment. globaldev.blog/invisible-jo... #unpaidcare #carework @joelcariolle.bsky.social

📑 Nouvelle publication Ferdi : “Digital Disasters: The Macroeconomic Costs of Submarine Cable Breaks”, @joelcariolle.bsky.social 🌐 𝗟𝗮 𝘃𝘂𝗹𝗻𝗲́𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲́ 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗲́𝗿𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗲 | 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝘂𝗹𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 👉 𝗟𝗶𝗿𝗲 / 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 : ferdi.fr/publications...

Regardons les USA avec le fascisme à l'œuvre avec les horreurs de ICE entre déportations et meurtres. Noublions pas qu'en France le rapport d’autopsie confirme qu’El Hacen Diarra a été aussi assassiné par la police le 14 janvier dernier.

STATEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION (NBPA) AND ITS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON THE FATAL SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS BY ICE

On the weakness of state terror: once ppl internalize the regime's lawless brutality, that they are no safer in their homes than in the streets (& vice versa), and that their unwavering defiance is what confounds & disempowers the regime, they also realize they have nothing to lose but their fear.

📑 New publication available! (EN and FR) "Rural Youth Employment in the WAEMU", a report by Joël Cariolle and Andrea Dsouza. 👉 𝗧𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿: lnkd.in/d6Emhr_r

Donald Trump is headed to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to brag about wrecking the American economy. That's why I've also flown to Davos — with an extra suitcase of kneepads for those caving to Trump's insanity — to vigorously defend California as an alternative to Trump's world disorder.

Excited to share the publication of our recent work on Rural Youth Employment in the WAEMU, co-authored with @joelcariolle.bsky.social, and carried out in partnership with the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) Commission.

Ils vont finir par trouver qu'Hitler est un communiste woke, à ce stade.

Vous pouvez condamner le génocide perpétré par l’État israélien sans faire vos équivalences historiques foireuses avec des événements dont fondamentalement vous savez keud.

#Damascus 💚

"Si vous n'abandonnez pas l'Ukraine, je vous attaque" #traduisonsle C'est assez clair maintenant ? (non évidemment)

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

France, Elabe poll: Scenario: Glucksmann (PS/PP-S&D), Philippe (HOR-RE), Retailleau (LR-EPP), Bardella (RN-PfE), and Zemmour (REC-ESN) run Presidential election Bardella (RN-PfE): 35% (+4) ... +/- vs. 02-04 April 2025 Fieldwork: 30-31 October 2025 Sample size: 1,501 ➤ europeelects.eu/france

Il faut cependant continuer à dire qu'ils mentent et que tout ce qu'ils racontent est faux : ne serait-ce que pour notre santé mentale personnelle et collective.

If you continue to hold on to your X account.. If you continue to drive a Tesla... If you continue using Starlink... Remember who and what you’re supporting. Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson’s legal costs. Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Good Night World

German far-right MP’s ex aide jailed for spying for China

🚨 New version of our WP 🚨 (w/ Michela Limardi & @avolle.bsky.social). 🔎 Climate regulation doesn’t crowd out NGOs—it mobilizes them. Activism rises & persists, esp. in weaker enforcement contexts. Grateful to @cerdi.bsky.social colleagues for seminar feedback 🙏 🔗 hal.science/hal-05047276v4

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Most students are using AI to write, but not necessarily to cheat. They’re brainstorming, revising and thinking critically with tools like ChatGPT. A writing professor says this isn’t a threat – it’s an opportunity, rather than a loss.

Look at academia giving me a little hope

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

🆕 Bridging the digital divide in global trade Today on VoxDev, @joelcariolle.bsky.social (FERDI), Jaime de Melo (University of Geneva) & Michele Imbruno (Sapienza University of Rome) discuss the impact of digital connectivity on export participation: voxdev.org/topic/trade/...