Oh man this is cool

After all the rain we have had over the last few days it's not surprising that the River Ouse in York has flooded (a little bit). A similar soggy outcome happened nearly 10 years ago but with a far more serious outcome for the Hall. Join us as we tell you about the 2015 Boxing Day floods.

Restricting H1-Bs and tariffing solar panels are, in particular, so comically stupid that when you hear them you should find an economist to give a hug.

Good morning. Immigration is good. Trade is good. There are nuances but they are narrow enough that free and open movement of people and goods should be the default.

Has anyone liked or disliked any particular training resources for machine learning in Stata? Courses, videos... If not in Stata, then in Python or R but pitched towards people trained in econometrics?

I wrote about the most frightening and dangerous trend in Britain www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...

Wise words. If you are not excited about your papers, why are you writing them?

We're hiring a Full Professor of Economics - below you can now see the ad on our website! @univdauphine.bsky.social leda.dauphine.fr/fr/recruteme...

We're hiring a Full Professor of Economics - below you can now see the ad on our website! @univdauphine.bsky.social leda.dauphine.fr/fr/recruteme...

I will post the link to the econjobmarket ad once it is up, in the meantime you can see the ad on my LinkedIn!

I tried to make a turducken joke here but ended up arguing with chatgpt instead.

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.” That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

Werte Politikerinnen, werte Politiker, warum sind Sie noch auf X? Diese Frage stelle ich in meiner aktuellen Kolumne in @derstandard.at - und erkläre, wie radikal Elon Musk derzeit auftritt und welch problematische Kampagnen auf der Plattform ablaufen (zB zu @dunjahayali.de)

🔍 #EconJob Research Assistant in Political Economy You'll work w/ M. Montenegro @hlarreguy.bsky.social, J. Merilainen & N. Garviras 💡France-based—Toulouse ideal; remote OK; part/full-time 🧠 Advanced Stata skills + knowledge of Spanish preferred Application: mateo.montenegro[at]tse-fr.eu

We (the Department of Economics at @univdauphine.bsky.social) will be hiring one Full Professor of Economics this year! The ad will be up shortly, but in the meantime please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions or would like to discuss!

"Foreign-born UK residents are much more likely to be of working age than the UK-born — and thus less of a fiscal burden. They tend to be healthier than the UK-born, and are much more likely to have a university degree. 75% have lived in the UK for more than 5 years and 90% speak good English."

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration on.ft.com/46p3BPl

Hello 👋 We're the official #UniMelb account! Follow us for news, updates and information about UniMelb. For now, enjoy the blue skies over our Parkville campus 💙

Who is the Sam Allardyce of Labour?

🌍 Urgence climatique, attentes sociales, compétitivité : jamais les entreprises n’ont été autant poussées à se réinventer. Actionnaires, société, travailleurs : à qui doivent-elles rendre des comptes ? Découvrez le nouveau dossier #DauphineÉclairages ⬇️ dauphine.psl.eu/eclairages/d...

In terms of city or department, doesn't get much better than this

I recently read a BA thesis on the prevalence of "anti-gender" ideology in #farright party manifestos. It was quite good overall, but when it came to choosing a graph style and colour palette, the student did the funniest thing👇

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

@genus.bsky.social Just to let you know that my institution deletes all e-mails from you guys because of a link shortener that is used as part of the standard text for your decision e-mails (not certain about review invitations). I don't even receive a notification about this.

Crisis at England universities created by successive govts. Freeze on student fees Real cuts in govt grants Harder to enrol foreign students Home student numbers falling £267bn student debt Real wage cuts 40% of universities in trouble. Local economies decline with university decline

It his me hard in the emergency doctor feels as well. I’d never seen so many healthy 30 something’s struggling to breathe since the pre-vaccine pandemic.

this might be a bit of a long shot, but is anyone here willing to share documents of an ERC (starting) grant? or any insights into the process, things you wished you knew before…? i would be very thankful as i think it is quite different from programs i am familiar with so far. ☀️

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Timeline cleanse

This graph of the percentage of people in despair by age group is of the USA but the U.K. Household Longitudinal Study showed similar findings. Happiness used to be highest in young adults then sinks to middle age before rising again. That is changing with despair rising in the young

Check out the alt text on these - well worth your time

Today is still a great day to delete your Twitter account

Ich hab auf Jens Jessens These in der ZEIT geantwortet, die Linken seien Schuld am Aufstieg der Rechten. (Geschenklink) www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

David Cutler popping off, my goodness jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening

@univrennes2.bsky.social – Licence AES Nous recherchons un·e vacataire pour assurer des TD d’économie politique (L1 AES) sur le campus Villejean. Détails : 2 groupes à pourvoir 9 séances × 2h (~40€/h) Plaquettes de TD déjà prêtes Intéressé·e ? Contactez-moi vite à [email protected]

I’m not a fan of the watching people gaming genre but I’d pay to watch Stephen watch HP on a large screen.

Going to become PM just so I can add "if Stephen Bush hasn't posted about the Harry Potter HBO series in 24 hours, assume the UK has fallen" to my letters to nuclear sub commanders.

24 August 1933 | A Polish Jewish boy, Baruch Braunfeld, was born in Jordanów. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Bochnia ghetto and murdered in a gas chamber on 31 August 1943 with his sister Mila.

To be uncharacteristically immodest: in 2009 I proposed a reform of council tax while at a now-disappeared think tank, CentreForum: 1% on property values above £500k. My pamphlet, "A Balancing Act", won a Prospect Magazine award! And the idea re-emerged as The Mansion Tax...Fast forward 16 years 1/

unfair that i dont get to see the Estonian romeo and Juliet where construction equipment sword fights and two cars kiss each each other

can't stand the cover art on these new Pink Floyd reissues

Call it contrarianism, edgelordism, reactionary centrism or what you will: The refusal to exercise judgment about which non-mainstream ideas are worth discussing & taking seriously is an essential element of our current situation. *Just because* an idea is reviled is not a reason to platform it.