MS Word gendered economics. cc @aurelien-goutsmedt.com

Nouvel épisode de podcast en ligne : 431. Histoire du suprémacisme sudiste aux EU. En compagnie de @nmartinbreteau.bsky.social on replace la récente décision de la Cour suprême dans la longue durée du racisme & déni démocratique au sud post guerre civile. parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/20...

Fun interface to adjust the assumptions about population growth. You can drag the values directly on the charts and see the results on the others. 📊 @ourworldindata.org ourworldindata.org/population-s...

US producer price inflation rose to its highest level since 2022 in April amid rising energy & transportation costs • Producer price index rose by 6% year on year in April • With mid-terms less than six months away, data highlight impact of war in Iran on US economy www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We’re excited to launch the Posit Open Source website! 🚀 We’ve unified 15+ years of tools, 900+ blogs, and 1,600+ videos in one place. Explore it here: opensource.posit.co Huge thanks to the team: @cwick.co.nz Greg Swinehart @hadley.nz @ivelasq3.bsky.social @jeroenjanssens.com

Smartphones can do a lot, but apparently they cannot keep you from analysing your data in an incredibly wacky manner to feed a certain narrative about smartphones.

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Pénuries : qui contrôle la pharmacie du monde ? Les pénuries de médicaments se multiplient en Europe, liées à de multiples facteurs. En dépit des discours européens sur la souveraineté sanitaire, les réponses politiques restent limitées. 🎧 @franceculture.fr urls.fr/rL4OVs

I don't want to wade too much into this, but the chart going around from that FT birth rates article raised my "making causal claims from time series data" alarm. Compare the figure in the article with the raw TFR data from 1960 onward.

C'est si facile de dénoncer les agissements de l'ICE aux USA sans accepter de reconnaître que certains existent depuis des années, voire des décennies en France. Et que tout est prêt dans les esprits pour que nous vivions la même chose si l'extrême-droite arrive au pouvoir dans un an.

The fabulous folks at @ourworldindata.org have created an simulation model where you can plug in different fertility, mortality, and migration rates to see how population size and composition will change in the future at different levels. ourworldindata.org/population-s...

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Looking to connect with Posit folks on Bluesky? 🌐 We've updated our Posit Starter Pack! If you haven't looked at it lately (or are seeing it for the first time), discover and add some incredible data scientists, developers, and team members to your feed. bsky.app/starter-pack...

The majority of countries in the world has seen a drop in the share of adolescents since 1970. This does not apply to many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and a few in Asia where the share has increased by up to 5 %-points. #30DayChartChallenge | Day 18 - Data Day: Unicef #dataviz

Pour notre 1ʳᵉ analyse multi-RS avec @visibrain.com, zoom sur comment internet réagit à l'Hantavirus. Portrait sombre dressé par les médias, Réactions des complotistes sur Facebook et Twitter/X, Utilisation de l’humour pour exprimer ces opinions… www.linkedin.com/posts/la-cri...

C'est sortie ! Assez épuisant, mais intéressant de tester une nouvelle méthode (loin d'être parfaite, mais aucune analyse de 6 réseaux sociaux faites en deux jours ne peut être parfait). Quelques infos des coulisses en plus de l'analyse :

Article: The First Generation of African American PhDs in Economics: 1921–1943, by Malcolm Rutherford doi.org/10.1017/S105...

🚨 Quelles mesures les Français sont-ils prêts à accepter pour réduire le déficit public ? J'analyse les résultats d'une enquête inédite menée en 2026 sur un échantillon représentatif de 1 000 Français. 🧵Voici les 5 résultats qui m'ont le plus surpris :

I hope everyone who agrees that "preprint servers... have revolutionized the scientific process" -- but also thinks very racist papers should not be on them -- is planning to join the selfless volunteers who actually make these nonprofit platforms work, to improve their policies and help moderate.

New in Nature: LLMs give "the party line" in the languages of authoritarian regimes. This works when they control the media, which feeds pretraining data. We show more state control over the media means less critical LLMs. 6 studies spanning 38 languages & 13 models. Details ↓

“…hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition…” 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

"SSRN, a preprint server for social sciences research, had the highest rate of hallucinated citations at nearly 2%, almost five times higher than any other major repository." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

SSRN, the social-sciences preprint site, has five times higher hallucinated/fake citations than arXiv, bioRxiv etc, according to a new study (not yet peer-reviewed). By @stokel.bsky.social | @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A quick animated history of the United States.

- Aux étudiant·e·s en science politique : "non mais il faut être concentré·e·s en cours, la politique et les politiques publiques ce sont des métiers complexes !" - Les métiers de la politique en 2026 :

„The world is no longer heading toward the worst-case outcome of 4C to 6C warming by 2100. Current policies put us on a best-estimate of around 2.6C warming. At the same time, a world of 2.6C by 2100 is still a giant mess to leave to the future.“ www.theclimatebrink.com/p/emissions-...

The local elections in one chart. Labour has been squeezed between the Greens in young wards and Reform in older working-class wards www.economist.com/britain/2026...

If you have this weird gut feeling that the rich pay little tax in the US, your gut is spot on... Source: buff.ly/47aFkTG

Following @dandekadt.bsky.social's comment about disease being worse than the symptom, the Mathew effect on fake citations is funny but not a huge problem -- they won't show up in most citation stats. But of course this means the real citations (which LLMs also produce/find) likely also skew male

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

US, China, Germany and Japan account for roughly two-thirds of global imbalances • US transitioned from surplus to deficit in 1970s, while Germany and Japan moved into surplus • Robust consumption (= low savings) and investment underpin US current account deficit www.ft.com/content/72ab...

This is a really cool view to see how global trade routes have been changed since the Strait of Hormuz went offline. Blue means traffic flows declined while orange indicates trade routes with increased traffic.

Economic geographer? Come work with us. @lsegeography.bsky.social is hiring a Fellow in Economic #Geography: 2-year post, starts Sept 2026. Recent or soon-to-be PhDs in econ geography, #economics or related fields. £43,277–£55,497 inc. London allowance. Closes 31 May. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRM347/l...

The program for the 1st joint conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought and the History of Economics Society is now online. I wouldn’t say putting it together was a walk in the park... From May 26 to 29, more than 400 researchers. eshet-conference.net/joint-eshet-...

What are the key drivers of Spain’s economic growth in recent years? What changes have taken place in economic policy? @jorgeuxo.bsky.social and I address these questions in this new paper for Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. journals.akwien.at/index.php/wu...

With Spain outperforming the Euro area economy and accounting for almost 1 in 3 jobs created in the last 4 years, a closer look at the country's performance and economic policies is warranted. This article is a great place to start. Spoiler: it is not just about immigration/population growth.

Iran war-fuelled rise in oil prices is not translating in financial bonanza for Kremlin • Oil revenues have risen, but they remain far below peaks from recent years • On annual basis, Russia’s oil revenues declined by 28% in April amid high subsidies to refineries www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New publication! 🥳

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Quarto 1.9 brings Typst even closer to LaTeX parity with 📖 Typst Books, ✍️ margins for figures, tables, and citations via the Marginalia package, and 🛜 new typst-gather tool for reliable, offline rendering. Details here: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

Article: A history of Dobb’s Wages Open Access, by François Allisson & Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche doi.org/10.1093/cje/...

China's oil imports fell almost 30% in April, to the lowest level in a decade, a dramatic drop well highlighted by @javierblas.bsky.social. He tries to find a "big" explanation and comes up short - likely because there isn't one: there drop is rather a result of multiple adjustments.

Internet Archive a 30 ans : pourquoi ce pilier du web est aujourd’hui menacé

Where is it warming faster than the global mean (since 1970)?

La magnifique carte politique que voici ! (députés et couleurs politiques d'après les législatives de 1910) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...

Dans le 🚅 pour Bordeaux dans le but de parler de #Bertopic et #ActiveTigger (avec @axlmrin.bsky.social) sur la double invitation de @leomignot.bsky.social et Claire Kersuzan ! #sciencessocialescomputationnelles #chocdesvisuels #vivelesencodeurs #bertmodels

"La préfecture de police avance que le mot d’ordre de la mobilisation antifasciste «Pas de nazis à Paris» entraîne «un risque important» de «propos appelant à la haine et à la discrimination». Contre qui ? Les nazis et autres néofascistes qui peuplent le cortège du C9M ? ...

Oui. Il est urgent d’arrêter de faire référence à ce graphique salaires des enseignants / smic qui est trompeur, et dont la conclusion logique est qu’il faudrait baisser le smic pour revaloriser le métier d’enseignant.

. @florianlouis.bsky.social propose quotidiennement une revue des livres à paraître indispensable. Il est temps d’annoncer que le 20 août nous publions ensemble avec une soixantaine de collègues cet opus de 1400 pages aux PUF !

Très heureux d'y signer un chapitre sur l'économie politique des impérialismes: une (périlleuse?) tentative de synthèse historiographique sur la place de l'économie dans l'histoire des empires, formels comme informels 🤓