Pretty cool year in review by @cloudflare.social radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-revi... Some interesting facts: - Snapchat and LinkedIn now outperforming X - Perplexity saw more traffic than Gemini in 2025 ...

Übrigens kann man hier auch den Stellenwert des EU Parlaments in der Bevölkerung ablesen. Eigentlich ist das EU Parlament an vielen Stellen wesentlich wirkmächtiger, aber der große diskursive Aufschrei, wie er erfolgte als Merz im Bundestag mit der AfD paktierte, bleibt hier weitgehend aus.

When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.

Much of the decline of #manufacturing employment at the industry level in #Germany reflects a shift of manufacturing tasks into service sector firms rather than a disappearance of manufacturing work. Dominik Boddin & Thilo Kroeger cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Gesundheit, Kriminalität & Bildung - in diesen und vielen anderen Bereichen fehlen in Deutschland Forschungsdaten. @hannesullrich.com, @annabindler.bsky.social & @jaschadraeger.bsky.social berichten, wie sie von ausländischer Forschungsdateninfrastruktur profitiert haben. www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Kate Ho, the John L. Weinberg Professor at Princeton and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. Kate was a brilliant IO economist and scholar whose impact on the profession will resonate for many years to come www.econometricsociety.org/publications...

My second post about researchers’ rights to scrape data under DSA Article 40.12 is up! This is dense with legal arguments for researchers to use if they get sued. Or to show their lawyers before that. www.techpolicy.press/how-the-mean... verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fine-x-r...

So happy this paper is now accepted!

📣Europeans are speaking loud and clear! EU citizens see strong benefits from EU membership, and call for a stronger and more assertive EU with reinforced economic independence and a common defence and security policy. Read more ↓ link.europa.eu/D8krNJ

Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Very sad news. I have been a big fan of her work and remember meeting her as truly kind and interested in others' work.

Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

re-sharing my EU Starter pack in case EU institutions finally decide to quit Elon's hell hole for good. go.bsky.app/sy6gCf

Yes. for a while I kept being on X bc many people are still there and bluesky did not really pick up. But I closed X account now. IMHO 1 People should leave X for good. Not salvageable 2 Bluesky should be bought and scaled up to properly compete. 3 Now we still have LinkedIn #EconSky #EconTwitter

We have opened an investigation into potential anti-competitive conduct by Google. The investigation will assess whether Google has breached EU competition rules by using web publishers’ content for artificial intelligence purposes. Read more ↓ link.europa.eu/RpvRRH

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

Brexit should have been a lesson. It's a misunderstanding of sovereignty. Individual countries that are not China or the US have to follow the rules set by major powers as they have no bargaining power. Only together European countries are strong.

🚨 Coming up at #VIDEseminar: Jeff Prince (Kelley School, Indiana University) “How Have Smartphones Changed the Structure of Online Content Consumption?” 🔜 Wed, December 3, 11am New York, 5pm Berlin. Open to anyone! Further information: www.digitalecon.org/seminar

Late addition to the market: We are hiring a 2-year postdoctoral researcher in Behavioral, Experimental, or Applied Microeconomics for our Berlin campus to work with our incoming Professor Kai Barron. #Econjobmarket econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

Exciting news! The paper submission portal is now open! Join us April 10-12 in Boston for the 24th annual IIOC. We have lots of great things already lined up. www.indorgsociety.org/news/iioc-20...

www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb... Unser Fachbereich hat eine unbefristete Stelle E13 in der VWL-Lehre zu besetzen. Gerne retweeten und bis 30.11. bewerben.

Meet Clara Schäper - a talented job market candidate at @diw.de and the @bsoeberlin.bsky.social. Clara is an applied microeconomist working on topics at the intersection of the economics of crime, labor, gender, and family economics. @schaeper-clara.bsky.social #econjobmarket #EconJMP #DIWBerlin

Wer Kriminalität verstehen will, muss tiefer blicken – so wie DIW-Forscherin @annabindler.bsky.social und ihr Team. Im Interview erklärt die Ökonomin, wie ihre Forschung dazu beiträgt, den Fokus auf systematische Zusammenhänge zu richten & neue Perspektiven zu öffnen. www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

🚨'The worst environmental setback in Brazil's history.' Just a week after COP30 ends, it looks almost certain that Brazil's agribusiness dominated Congress will strip almost all oversight of damaging projects. My report from Brasília. www.politico.eu/article/braz...

Yann LeCun is leaving Meta He says he’s disillusioned with LLMs as a path to AGI and he’s starting a company focused on world models For as obnoxious as Yann can be, I’m honestly rooting for him. I’d love to see what his JEPA can do, unconstrained by Meta gizmodo.com/yann-lecun-w...

📢 Submissions to the IJIO Special issue in Memory of Dr. Patrick Bajari close on November 30 ℹ️https://earie.org/ijio-special-issue-in-memory-of-dr-patrick-bajari/

New NBER research finds that in NYC alone, Uber and Lyft collect $300M annually by making it hard to comparison shop before booking a ride. www.nber.org/papers/w34441

🚨Very Strong Job Market Candidates #EconSky The Berlin School of Economics is a unique cooperation of 9 institutions - together we do research and train PhDs/Postdocs. This year: fantastic people in applied micro, behavioral/experimental, and macro. 👇🏻 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/job-market/j...

On net I like Bluesky, but the shift really lost grad students (far fewer active here vs. during peak EconTwitter). With job market season, it’s been kinda nice seeing familiar faces who were in the Covid grad school trenches w me popping up again recently Like hey there! I remember you! Cool paper

“One of the first public displays of the double helix, at the Royal Society Conversazione in June 1953, was signed by the authors of all three Nature papers1–3,21. In this, the discovery of the structure of DNA was not seen as a race won by Watson and Crick, but as the outcome of a joint effort.”

Folks, this is a hot deal. Try out refine.ink and you (and I) get a free review if you use the referral code refine.ink?ref=am9zaHVh... I'm telling you, it is worth it. You'll save at minimum one round of journal submissions.

Ohne Reallabore läuft die KI an Hochschule ins Leere Nicht Technik entscheidet über den Lernerfolg, sondern die Art, wie sie erforscht, erprobt und verantwortungsvoll eingeführt wird. Ein Gastbeitrag von Marcus Specht und Stefan Stürmer im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/11...

Die SZ sagt, was ist. Die EU hat am Morgen ihr Klimaziel verwässert und ihre Klimaschutzarchitektur geschwächt www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/eu-k...

Der @erc.europa.eu fördert Projekte, die besondere Innovationen versprechen. Die DIW-Forscher @hannesullrich.com und @pmlersch.bsky.social haben uns erzählt, wie ihre Forschung davon profitiert hat. Das komplette Interview gibt's auf unserer Jubiläumsseite: www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

#VIDEseminar is coming up tomorrow! 👇

Der Vorsitzende der Monopolkommission @tomasoduso.bsky.social fordert strukturelle Massnahmen im Energiesektor: Im Strommarkt müssten Preise nach Netzknoten oder Zonen gereget werden. Bei der Ladeinfrastruktur für E-Mobilität drohe ein Monopol durch die Autobahnstandorte. www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

Applications for MCSA are up 64%! 50% now come from outside the EU. Trump effect? The European Research market just got a hell of a lot more crowded. EU should turn on the tap marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...

Rheinmetall & Rüstungsmilliarden: Die @faznet.bsky.social weist heut nochmal auf die Warnungen der #Monopolkommission hin: wir müssen die Chance für Innovationen nutzen und dürfen uns nicht von einzelnen Unternehmen abhängig machen. #Wettbewerb #KI #defence www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...

This is good on how fundamental research can lead to unanticipated applications. I especially like the study of root vegetables leading to flat screen TVs (through the discovery of liquid crystals) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

"go to TikTok. See for yourself."

A long way to go for 🇪🇺 in academia - but worth it. Informative PBS clip on the situation in the US👇🏼

🚨 Coming up at #VIDEseminar: Julie Holland Mortimer (Wash U) “The Effect of Ad-Supported Plans on Content Offerings of Streaming Platforms” 🔜 Wed, November 5, 11am New York, 5pm Berlin. Open to anyone! Further information: www.digitalecon.org/seminar

It's that time of year again... #EconSky

I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world. If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.

In discussions of AI and jobs, we put too much emphasis on the technology and not enough on the corporate leaders who are actually making decisions about what they want to do with AI & its implications. It is a time where CEO vision matters a lot, and you can see a contrast in Amazon and Walmart

The recent announcement by @BillGates to re-evaluate climate policies should be interpreted in a geopolitical light. Our AIPNET production network highlights the challenge that the US is facing vis-a-vis China. Let me walk you through what I think is happening in this domain...

Have finally deactivated our Twitter account. It was great whilst it lasted & good for promoting our podcast but at the end of the day, we can't justify being there anymore. Hopefully enough folk can see our work via BlueSky, Insta & other platforms. 🤞#EconSky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...