I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Rocking our odd socks! #WorldDownSyndromDay

Oh well

For all our liberal sensibilities, race and gender disparities in econ academia have not changed in 15 years. What moral high ground do we have to promote policy elsewhere?

Great opportunity for UK based and Mexico based ECRs to work together on climate action projects. Winning projects will receive seed corn funding! Please spread the word through your networks #climateaction #ECRs #Adaptation #Mitigation

The King must be asking himself if the monarchy is really worth all this pain! www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...

Just finished “In Ascension” and I don’t get the hype or the very positive reviews. It reads well but it is far from being “mesmerising”, “monumental” or “magnificent”.

New short piece in The Conversation. With my colleague A. Delis we argue that we are definitely leaving the shore of free trade and entering an era of unfettered mercantilism. 👇 With Trump back in the White House, the age of free trade could be coming to an end theconversation.com/with-trump-b...

The Appointment Terms and Research Support page contains more details on the Ad Astra Fellowships: www.ucd.ie/adastrafello... Salary range: €62,855–€99,533 Application deadline: 21 February @ucdpolitics.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

The strange liberal nonchalance about Trump’s return

What a photograph.

#EconSky #History

Today marks 17yrs since my brave & beautiful mum died, her final weeks were distressing & she didn’t get to meet George born 4 weeks later or see me enter politics. As I vote in favour of assisted dying on Friday I will be thinking of her & how we could have given her more dignity & help others

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l... very thoughtful discussion of assisted dying. It’s important to have safeguards, but terminally ill people deserve to have a say and a choice.

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

A few days left to apply for our postdoc in computational social science 👇. Please get in touch if you have any questions. Please apply if you do quantitative text analysis & want to expand this during the next years.

To Quit Their Jobs, Sugar Workers Risk Kidnapping, Assault and Murder: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/w...

Many modeling studies depend on direct air capture (DAC) in their 1.5°C stabilization scenarios, but they rely on overly optimistic assumptions regarding the cost and scaling of DAC systems. This leads to highly misleading results that impact the ability to reach climate stabilization goals.

University of Birmingham new Chancellor Sandie Okoro OBE 8th Chancellor, 1st Female Chancellor!

Snowy Old Joe

Extraordinary that the main BBC feeds aren't on here. Many of their journalists are. The institution could show a bit of leadership [and how costly would it be for their digital departments? not very] rather than waiting until the last possible moment.

Paris’ new 2024-2030 Climate Plan drop speed limits, repurpose traffic lanes, remove 60,000 parking spots and create urban “oases” to combat extreme heat…

I'm happy to share this call for papers for a workshop on "The Geopoliticization of #Trade Policy", organized within my ERC-funded project GEOTRADE (geotrade.sbg.ac.at). You can find a pdf version of the call here: lnkd.in/gfpgWXYi. Deadline: 24 November. #Polisky

We are hiring! You will work on a series of exciting papers with me, @emilynix100.bsky.social, Kristiina H, Ning Zhang & Martti Kaila while developing your own research agenda. Please reach out with any questions! Job ad: econjobmarket.org/positions/11218 #EconSky #EconJM

When horrible people say horrible things with the obvious purpose of horrifying people, you don't have to screenshot it and spread it. You aren't informing anyone. We already know these people are awful. You're just farming clicks. We've been doing this for well over a decade now. Wise up.

“I'M A COLLAPSING ECONOMY, SHE'S A DYING ENVIRONMENT, AND HE'S A DEEPLY DIVIDED NATION. BOO!” by @jimbenton.bsky.social

Please note:

Our World in Data now has an account on Bluesky! Follow us here: @ourworldindata.bsky.social

#EconSky Labor colleagues, IZA is here, but not getting much engagement for their one post 11 mos. ago. Please follow or like the one post -- with some engagement, I can lobby them to post much more here. bsky.app/profile/iza....

My 8 ys old this morning: “why are there so many wars at the moment?” , “what did the others do to the ones who are doing the war?” “Why can’t they sit down and talk instead of destroying buildings and killing people?” 😞 All valid questions but I I had no answers

Looking forward to giving the inaugural Marshall Paley Lecture | Inequalities: Reflections on the IFS Deaton Review | 7pm, Thursday 3 October 2024 | The Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol | Festival of Economics 2024 www.economicsobservatory.com/inequalities...

Call for papers. Third spatial/intl conference at NYU Abu Dhabi ☀️. Keynotes: Beata Javorcik and me. Flights/hotel funding provided. Deadline Nov 1st. Submission link: cepr.org/events/third... #econsky @cepr.org

“what is sung by the prophets is but the same song sung across time, the coming of the sword, the world devoured by fire, the sun gone down into the earth at noon and the world cast in darkness, the fury of some god incarnate in the mouth of the prophet raging at the wickedness that will ….

If you are in the UK/Birmingham come and join us for this exciting event at BISCA (Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action)

“It seems clear to me that some of the choices made by the FAO in their methodology were just there to uphold the status quo of increasing meat production and consumption" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Curious about Sustainable Finance? Join us at the SFIC Conference, hosted by the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action -25th October -Register now: lnkd.in/ek56diRr The conference will discuss recent research on sustainable finance, innovation, ESG & disclosure standards.

New Climate Updates Starter Pack - please share! Accounts posting about: - Climate data - Ecology & environment - Energy - Farming - Transportation To be added/removed message Climate News.

Turns out I am an elder!

NEW: How extremist settlers in the West Bank became the law For decades, Palestinian villagers say violent settlers have attacked locals and damaged property. Now some of these same settlers have been given the powers of the state. ig.ft.com/west-bank/

Just opened this account and calling out to all the Black/African economists/scholars who have accounts there. Where are you all/what are your accounts? Please share so I can follow.And also share if anyone already has a Black scholars starter pack- will try to curate one as well if not

United Nations talks on how to make the global green transition fair provoked frustration last week among developing countries as rich nations did not attend in person and refused to discuss thorny issues. www.climatechangenews.com/2024/09/17/d...

Join us later today! I will talk about "Love in the time of climate (mis)information."

#EconSky #jobs UC-Davis Ag-Econ seeking assistant professor in econometrics: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06720

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 2

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 1