Social media erodes and threatens democracy worldwide, and it also gives us a venue for beautiful, amazing stuff like this:

Soon, voters in Switzerland will decide on a far-right pop initiative to cut funding for the public broadcaster. The messaging is split. In the French-speaking area, the far-right stresses cost savings&financial relief, avoiding ideology. In the Swiss German part, it’s „slashing left-leaning media“

Today, class, we will once again discuss "revealed preferences"

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Also, "underage women" isn't a thing. If they're under age, they're not women. That's what under age literally means.

Call for Papers: The 2026 Women in Empirical Microeconomics Conference will be held Oct 16–17 at UChicago’s David Rubenstein Forum. All early-career, tenure-track scholars are invited to submit works in progress across empirical micro fields. 🔗 https://ow.ly/Z00L50Y5vAH

Recently accepted by #QJE: “(Not) Thinking About the Future: Financial Information and Maternal Labor Supply,” by Costa-Ramón (@anacostaramon), Slotwinski, Schaede (@ursina), and Brenøe: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

My stock tip for everyone is that veggie is as good as chicken or beef.

📢 Call for papers 9th Economics of Media Bias Workshop Keynotes: Ruben Durante (NUS) and Pinar Yildrim (Wharton) 🗓️ May 28th-29th 2026 📍 Berlin, Germany ⏰ Deadline: January 31st 2026 Full CfP and information on how to submit: tinyurl.com/2s3f6tar Please circulate!

📢 #CallForPapers - 4th CEPR Workshop on Media, Technology, Politics, and Society In-person at EIEF in Rome on 25-26 June. Deadline: 31 January 2026 cepr.org/events/4th-c... @rafaeljjd.bsky.social @alexeymakarin.bsky.social @andreaprat.bsky.social @fsobbrio.bsky.social #EconSky

Researching this week's column, I stumbled across something that amazed me: the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time.

Summers called this female Chinese economist “peril.” “Yellow peril” was partially built on the claim that Chinese women were sexually immoral threats. That logic fueled the Page Act of 1875, which barred Chinese women by presuming they were prostitutes, even before the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.

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

You are working on competition-related topics (or want to, or are just curious)? You have a paper you'd like to present? You just want to see what's happening in the literature? Come to #Mannheim for the #MaCCI Annual Conference (March 19-20, 2026). #economics #law #policy #competition #EconSky

AI Acquihires: Competition Risks, Talent Battles and Economic Spillovers Webinar - 8 October @ 17:00 CEST 🗣️Jonathan Kanter @lugaricano.bsky.social @imarinescu.bsky.social @igorletina.bsky.social Hans Zenger Moderator: @florianederer.bsky.social Register: cepr.org/events/ai-ac... #EconSky

With a great feature in @theguardian.com! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 👩‍🎓 Workshop Disclosure, Information Sharing, and Secrecy DISS 2026 📅 February 23-24, 2026 🔬 Online (Zoom) Deadline: November 15 Submit papers on information disclosure (or non-disclosure) in econ, mgmt science, accounting, law, et al. #EconSky #EconConf @tmartens.bsky.social

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It 🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-hall...

[email protected] & IfW Kiel are jointly 🚨 recruiting a Professor of International Economics🚨 (Associate/Full). 👉 apply.interfolio.com/169770 Great opportunity to join Berlin's thriving econ community. No kings here. Deadline: Sep 30, 2025 Please share widely! #EconSky

Call for Papers: The 4th Annual Zurich Workshop in AI+Economics to be held Dec 5-6, 2025, hosted by ETH Zurich and University of Zurich. Info: eash.cc/AI-econ Submit (by Aug 15th): eash.cc/AI-econ-sub-2025

🧵New paper out: “Beyond Time: Unveiling the Invisible Burden of Mental Load” with Barigozzi, Monfardini, Montinari, @elenapisanelli.bsky.social @svevav.bsky.social 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2505.11426 /1

This is an incredibly important paper. If you're an antitrust scholar and you're getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by a dominant monopolist as expert witness in a lawsuit that's in your research area, shouldn't you disclose that work on your CV? www.nber.org/papers/w3364...

🚨 We’re hiring! The Digital Reskilling Lab at Harvard is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join our research on workforce development, labor markets and AI. Apply here 👉 academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14918 #EconJobs #Postdoc #FutureOfWork #AI #LaborEconomics #Harvard

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

Last chance to apply to this year's Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute, our AI/ML summer school for graduate students, co-organized with @sendhil.bsky.social @asheshrambachan.bsky.social @aleximas.bsky.social @lindseyraymond.bsky.social: www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen... #econsky

Back home after a fantastic Platform Analytics workshop at UC San Diego – totally worth the long trip. Huge thanks to the organizers for putting together such a great event and for including me in the program. I can highly recommend it! platformanalytics.org

Drag 'em, Rupert.

We just posted Workshop on Platform Analytics Day 1 talk videos! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlBp...

Dear academic economists! Two weeks left to apply to a position as full professor at the Econ Dept @stockholm-uni.bsky.social. in Sweden, academic - and personal - freedoms are deeply respected. And the microdata is awesome! Deadline March 31! #econsky su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

📆 1 Apr. @ 17:00 CEST - Media Plurality #Webinar Session 8 "The Political Effects of X's Recommender #Algorithm" with @phinifa.bsky.social. Followed by a discussion with Jean-Lou Fourquet @apreslabiere.fr. Moderator: Julia Cagé ✍️ cepr.org/events/polit... #EconSky

"how firms capitalize on digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, for economic growth, and the challenges faced during this transformation"

Nice experiment demonstrating monopoly power: ability to "reduce quality without losing significant business" - well done!

"no thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent" okay she cooked actually. i needed to hear that.

Reminder to please submit! Deadline is Feb 28. #econsky

thank god we banned tiktok

The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it? | Zoe Williams

Holy forking shirt balls "Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "

Applications are open for the Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute (MLESI) 2025 are open! If you're a graduate student, come learn about ML/AI and its uses throughout economics. Apply by March 28. The application and more info can be found here: www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen...

Gör som jag säger, inte som jag gör

The MPIfG is seeking a research group leader (tenure track) with a focus on the socioeconomic and political impacts of technological change to set up a new research group at the intersection of #economy, #society, and #technology. 📢Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/SULoAf

The Spring 2025 VIDE seminar schedule is coming up with the first talk in two weeks on Wednesday, February 5! Further information and mailing list sign-up at: www.digitalecon.org

CBS is considering "offer[ing] concessions to win approval" of a merger by ***paying the President off*** in a baseless lawsuit he filed. How do you lose the rule of law? Gradually, then suddenly. Not a drill.

Just a reminder for Germans abroad that you need to re-register to vote in the Federal Election, even if you didn't move houses since 2021 (yes, I'm a political scientist and had to google this). Here are the docs you need: www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/bundestagswa.... (1)

Relevant to the debate on fact-checking amidst Meta's decision, Adam Szeidl and Ferenc Szucs tell a clear and terrifying story about the power of misinformation and propaganda, and its effects on democratic accountability. drive.google.com/file/d/1M2Nx...

My recent paper update got a fair amount of attention on here and so I decided to make a thread! The paper studies recruitment at major US and European multinationals to quantify the salience of hiring discrimination in access to top jobs and identify its source…🧵 (1/N)