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/...

How much income would it take from the richest 10% of people in the world to match that of the poorest 10%? As the chart shows, it takes less than 2 cents out of every dollar. That's less than *one-fiftieth* of their income, or one week of income in a year.

Le plus grand massacre de journalistes de l’Histoire 🎥 Mediapart

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

I am horrified. If you use US material, download all old reports you use. The record will be erased. Even that might not save you: every report sourced from the US will now have to be suspected of politicised manipulation and will in the future the same credibility as Iran’s human rights reports

J Hinz, @schularick.bsky.social, @ckhead.bsky.social, I Mejean, & @emanuelornelas.bsky.social‬ argue the only effective response to Trump's #tariffs is a united one. Unified retaliation by the EU, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, & South Korea would be impossible to ignore. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Interesting — French AI company Mistral yesterday released its first estimates for emissions and water use of its LLMs: mistral.ai/news/our-con...

This is a war crime.

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

Anyone still using WeTransfer… it’s probably breaking contract terms now to use it for any client work.

ALERTE GENERALE ! Une pétition a été lancée sur le site de l'Assemblée nationale demandant que le gouvernement arrête d'utiliser X pour ses communications officielles. On signe toutes et tous pour lui donner le maximum de visibilité. C'est ici : petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

Incredible. I never thought I would see a poster session as protest. 💪

The show is as wonderful & insightful as this article suggests. It’s had its dips (avoid the eps when they go to Ireland) but I’ve long been been bemused why I’ve not seen anybody on Twitter or here talk about it despite probably being the cleverest sitcom around. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/m...

🚨 New publication alert! Excited to share our latest research (with Michele Imbruno & Jaime de Melo), soon out in the Journal of Development Economics: “Digital connectivity and firm participation in foreign markets: An exporter-based bilateral analysis” 📡🌍 #econsky 1/6

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

I was there. It was simply staggering. I can't remember feeling this moved by a political event, I am still under its spell. What's on the picture is maybe one third of the total crowd. Some people estimate that this may have been the biggest oppo (i.e., not state-orchestrated) event since 1956.

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Each time a remotely progressive candidate wins office in the US, the rich declare they're going to leave town. What do they actually do? Nothing. A 2016 study found only 0.04% of millionaires move in a given year due to tax increases. Rich people talk to feel important. Please properly tax them.

BIMBAMBOUM "The BIS thinks stablecoins fail the test of singleness. If you’re a crypto bro living in your mom’s basement, failing the test of singleness may be the dream. Among central bankers, it’s the stuff of nightmares." www.ft.com/content/f462...

📣 GÉNOCIDE - Aujourd’hui, on ne conteste plus vraiment les crimes commis à Gaza, mais leur qualification juridique. 🧵Ce thread répond - jurisprudence à l’appui - aux 10 idées reçues les plus répandues dans le paysage politique et médiatique sur la notion de « génocide ».⚖️ ⬇️

🚨(Revised) paper alert (with new findings)🚨 How has the deployment of telecommunications submarine cables shaped internet access prices around the world? In this revised version of our WB policy research paper, we address this question combining IV and staggered DID approaches.

🚨(Revised) paper alert (with new findings)🚨 How has the deployment of telecommunications submarine cables shaped internet access prices around the world? In this revised version of our WB policy research paper, we address this question combining IV and staggered DID approaches.

📣 New WP in #economics 📄 “Climate Regulation & Civil Society Activism” By M. Limardi, @jordanloper.bsky.social & @avolle.bsky.social 🏷️ Evidence from 75 countries (2010–2022) shows that public #climateregulation amplifies #activism rather than crowding it out. 👉 t.ly/c-f1d #Research #NGOs

🚨New @fondationferdi.bsky.social report alert🚨 Léa Quilici and I are pleased to share our new report "Digital identification in Africa: between the promises of inclusion and the risks of exclusion" (available in french) : ferdi.fr/publications... A thread 🧵

Fascism is a plan to radically restructure society and reassert class, race and gender roles. Deporting immigrants, forcing women out of the labor force, putting the poor and minorities back in their place, and eradicating the sick/disabled and the deviant (LGBTQ) are all part of it.

Trump looking absolutely inconsolable at his fascist-themed 79th birthday party which no one turned up to other than those who had to because he's their boss.

L’impôt plancher sur le patrimoine a été adopté par l’Assemblée nationale Il est plébiscité par les Français Sa logique économique est limpide Le Sénat, en première lecture, le rejette aujourd’hui Que fait on maintenant ? On continue ! 🧵

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social [A thread 1/8🧵]

Glaçant… a must read for anyone minimising the threat for europe posed by Russia, and the necessity to be fully committed to support financially and militarily Ukraine

Where is the global outrage? Where are the actions? On June 6th 2023, at this very time russians blew up Kakhovka HPP dam. #Ukraine #UkrainianView

Musk and Trump are a great example of why men are too emotional to lead.

Doux jesus, now this far-right influencer 🍿 the coming days and weeks might be distracting 🍿

Battle lines are being drawn.

Holy 💩 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet. h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Eldest daughters often carry the heaviest burdens – insights from #Madagascar by Claire Ricard and Francesca Marchetta on @theconversation.com. theconversation.com/eldest-daugh...

Visiting the Centre d'études et de recherches sur le développement international cerdi.bsky.social in beautiful Clermont-Ferrand this week, a leading center for development economics. Many thanks for the warm welcome and the stimulating discussions on impact evaluation and causal machine learning!

🚀 The CERDI is recruiting a postdoctoral research fellow in development economics to work with Sébastien Marchand and his team on the #ECOTERM research project 🌾 Application deadline: August 31, 2025. #economics #research #EnvironmentalEconomics cerdi.uca.fr/english-vers...

"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

📉 New study by F. Léon (researcher at @fondationferdi.bsky.social & associate member of CERDI) 💡 Support to African #banks via #development #finance led to an 8% drop in lending. Why? Program demands may divert internal resources away from other borrowers. 📄👉 t.ly/eFkAv #Africa #Research

RFK Jr. is reportedly going to forbid government scientists from publishing in the world’s most respected medical journals — the Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, etc. It’s going to take decades to repair the damage done by this administration.

🚨 #EconSky Updated WP 🚨 First empirical evidence that public environmental regulation can stimulate climate activism from civil society. This finding highlights an often-overlooked indirect effect of regulation in the fight against climate change. 📄 Paper link: drive.google.com/file/d/1TIzN...

Is it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research

@sophiehatte.bsky.social @jordanloper.bsky.social @ttaylor-econ.bsky.social use the staggered introduction of Free Basics across sub-Saharan Africa to show that access to a major social media platform (Facebook) was key in increasing female political representation. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

"With Editor" for >3 months at the top development econ journal. I find myself wondering whether things would have been handled differently if I were nber or cepr affiliate, or ivy league faculty.