What if parental leave policies shape kids’ career paths? 👩‍👦 @sofianasinani.bsky.social's award-winning project shows boys with longer maternal care apply less to “female” university fields. 📚 A fresh look at gender norms+policy. 🏆 RES 2025 Best Poster Prize 🔗 [https://blog.cerge-ei.cz/?p=4824]

People always ask me : “Cristi, how do you manage parenting a baby while going up for tenure?” It’s easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents: Sleep when the baby sleeps Cry when the baby cries Publish when the baby publishes

Nikkei found academics had written "give a positive review only" and "do not highlight any negatives" in white text or tiny font on 17 preprints to combat AI peer reviews. asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

We will close this post next Wednesday! @amenzelecon.bsky.social

Come work with me, Paolo Falco, @amenzelecon.bsky.social and Lisa Ho in Jordan! Looking for a full-time RA. povertyactionlab.org/careers/rese... Please repost!

I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.

this, at least, is clear: "Trump is genuinely bored of the war. He doesn’t understand it. He doesn’t know why it started. He doesn’t know how to stop it. He wants to change the channel and watch something else." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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What can you do about the assault on USAID? Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Can't install reghdfe on new computer. Is it because it is on a federal server??

Me 29 yo econ grad student: capital income taxes are efficient and fair, makes sense. Me 38 old academic: Lets make up for lost years paid into pension system with some ETFs Me 39 old academic: WTH, capital income taxes are highway robbery, worse!!

Excellent post from @global-developments.org (with a moving personal story). No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960 www.global-developments.org/p/no-south-k...

I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up: