Upcoming presentation 🎓 @steinhardt.bsky.social presents Environmental Shocks and Female Employment: Evidence from the Dust Bowl (with @freya-rubel.bsky.social & @yue-louise-hu.bsky.social) at the Economic History Seminar of the @uc3m.es. Hosted locally by @juliazimmermann.bsky.social 📅 Feb 19

Uuuh- field trip to parallel discipline: the SPANDE Development Econ workshop! Very excited! 🤩 As Econ Historian, I will call it “methodical cross-training” rather than “productive eavesdropping” - 😎

Having a looooong lunch break :) 🤗

“Home [Baltic Sea] is where I want to be But I guess I'm already there I come home, she lifted up her wings I guess that this must be the place” …🎶🎵

🚨Survey for university students🚨 I'm currently carrying out a project for DfE examining student mobility in higher education with Anne Devlin & Maureen O'Reilly Please share this short survey with any students in UK/ROI, every response helps! forms.office.com/e/80XqbE5DJG

Also came across: “a vocabulary teacher at the Institute for Noble Maidens.” Not sure if he led uprisings... but if anyone was silently plotting revolution with a thesaurus, it was him. 🕯️📚🧾 - so rich data

Been coding 19th-c anti-Tsarist activists (with a bit of LLM help 🤖). Some were terrorists, many were accountants 🧾💥 Honestly, I like to imagine they all looked like Ben Affleck in The Accountant 2—brooding, revolutionary, and not just good with ledgers… deadly with double-entry bookkeeping 🕶️📉✊

Uuuh… thrilled (and slightly confused) to share I’m now a 2x Marathon Finisher!! 🏃‍♀️🏁 Only took me seven years to come back for round two. Turns out 42.2 km still hurts just as much. Endurance, stubbornness, and questionable life choices? Oh absolutely: ✅✅✅

Reading list for the upcoming weeks 🤗

It should be clear by now that Trump is blackmailing Zelensky to remove him from office. He is pursuing his own policy of regime change. Whether it just coincides, is coordinated or even directed by, Russia, I don’t know. But if he gets his way, www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...

🚨 please share! We will be running our annual workshop on the political economy of development in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social in June. This is a really fun workshop doing deep reads of a small number of new papers. Call for papers / participants below! ⬇️ www.wzb.eu/en/events/mo...

Ein Blick auf den Stadt-Land-Gegensatz. Abgebildet für jede Partei ihr nach Bevölkerungsdichte mittlerer Wahlkreis: 50% ihrer Stimmen sind urbaner, 50% ländlicher. AfD im Westen stärker und damit etwas urbaner, BSW ähnlich wie Union (weil Ostdeutsch), Grüne bleiben stark urban, Linke urban wie nie.

🚨🚨Final Call! 🚨🚨 Send us your best HPE work by tomorrow

This Friday, @amaliaab.bsky.social dives into "The Enforcement of Political Norms" in the Permanent Seminar Series of @ic3jm.bsky.social . A must-attend also for economic historians digging into authoritarianism, institutions, and coercion 👀 - looking forward to it!

Will we get to the point where Washington wakes up one day and finds that it no longer has leverage in the West, since there are no benefits left for it to withdraw?

📢 #CallForPapers @bseberlin.bsky.social Political Economy Workshop aimed at connecting researchers working on related topics in the Berlin area 🗓️ April 11 📍 @diw.de Submit by Feb 15 For any questions, reach out to Max Deter, @felixkersting.bsky.social, @mlubczyk.bsky.social, or me 👋

📣 Buckle up, number-crunching time travelers!! The Economic History Seminar at @uc3m.es is back - co-organized by @artolam.bsky.social Jordi Domenech, and me. Expect cutting-edge research, dangerously data-driven insights, and enough historical stats to make Clio do a happy dance. Full program 👇

📢 Submit your work to the Junior Workshop on HPE organized by @tinepaulsen.bsky.social, @franvillamil.bsky.social & myself. 📍 UC3M Madrid 🗓️ June 25, 2025 (just before EPSA) 📝 Deadline: Feb 21, 2025 🔗 Apply: forms.gle/F5zPJRWn6gr4... ℹ️ More info: www.pauvallprat.com/hpe-workshop #HPE #EPSA2025

Fantastic Scoping Workshop on the Historical Political Economy in Europe! Who knew PoliSci and EconHist do not wear such different hats? Huge thanks to @lhaffert.bsky.social @cathrinmohr.bsky.social @beckerbastian.bsky.social for an inspiring deep dive. Learned a lot!

So hopeful!!

BREAKING: Wow, es bewegt sich etwas. Der Osten steht gerade als erstes auf und läuft #SturmgegenMerz. Proteste in Leipzig (Video hier), Dresden, in Berlin wurde sogar gerade eine CDU-Parteizentrale besetzt! Die demokratische Gesellschaft will nicht tatenlos zusehen bei ihrer Beerdigung. 💪

Aaaah -my Christmas read arrived! 🤩🤗

“I’m creatively drained but I’ll turn it around in early 2025” Early 2025:

The wonderful Anna Arkhina on promotion conditions of Russian and British herbals in the 19th century! What a cool comparison and data source! At the WEast 224 Dublin Workshop!

Happening now TCD School of Social Sciences & Philosophy in the TRiSS seminar room- Sascha O. Becker in his keynote on “Religion and Development - Past, Present and Future”, fascinating work and a great culmination of the first day of our WEast 2024 Dublin Workshop „Hidden Connections“!

Packed TRiSS seminar room! Last session for today with the wonderful Steve Nafziger (joint with Viktor Malein and Timur Nathkov) on schooling in late Russian Empire 🤩🥳😎

Uuuuh, Leo Kukic of Carlos III Madrid on the persistence of ethnic conflict in Yugoslavia. Happening now at the WEast 2024 Dublin workshop 😎 with @cephie.bsky.social and Marvin Suesse and Vitaliia Yaremko

Jessy Wellmer 🔥🔥🔥 Wünsche mir mehr Journalist_innen, die in solchen Momenten einfach mal sagen: „Nee, komm!“

🚀 At @cephie.bsky.social we look forward to the WEast 2024 Dublin Workshop: 'Hidden Connections: Eastern Europe through a Comparative Lens'! 🌟 ✨ What’s it all about? - Eastern Europe’s historical ties - Flow of people, goods, ideas, and institutions - New research using archival data, and AI