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If you work in, study at, or an alumnus of a U.S. university, it is a good time to contact your school's leadership to insist on taking a stand against government overreach.

This is important. More than 700 Harvard faculty, with diverse views, have now signed a letter urging the university administration to "publicly condemn attacks on universities," "legally contest and refuse to comply with unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom" and +

Noteworthy that the protest organizers give info about the # of people who pledged to participate - in advance. It's a good way to communicate that there will be saftey in numbers.

Submissions for our 2025 ESA European Meeting are now open! Send your abstract by May 5 and join us in September in Brno @econmuni.bsky.social More info:👇 esa2025.econ.muni.cz #econtwitter #econsky

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

"Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say it. That’s why I resigned." Mathematics Professor Kit Yates quits as associate editor of the Royal Society’s journal Open Science www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just heard that Trump is putting an end to atmospheric monitoring site NY67 that is run out of my lab. This is one of the oldest NADP sites in the US, continually measuring acid rain and other pollutants since 1977. Closing it down is tragic.

This is extremely concerning.

Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

"We can heal the sick and save children’s lives, all inexpensively... We properly honor a firefighter who saves a single child, but three cheers for us as taxpayers for rescuing millions of children around the world from AIDS, starvation and disease. That is, until January." -- Nick Kristof

Manifesto di Ventotene, 1941. "The dividing line between progressive and reactionary parties no longer follows the formal line of greater or lesser democracy, or of more or less socialism to be instituted; ...

INRAE, my employer, a French public research centre, **officially** takes position in defense of Science in the USA and Stand Up for Science with a direct message from our CEO. INRAE also works to put in place positions for colleagues leaving the US. I am so very proud of this. Scientists Unite!

Can Europe become a safe haven for researchers, much as the United States once was for scholars fleeing totalitarian regimes in the 20th century? www.lefigaro.fr/marseille/fa...

Support for Ukraine at "Your contribution squared" is up and up ↗️: 100 people who each give at least 100€. The bang for the buck, ↗️ even more: only a single step (e.g., to 101) moves the total by more than 200€. An opportunity to be effective. Please pass it on. yourcontributionsquared.eu

ex-US Ambassador to Denmark “Americans are going to learn really quickly what it’s like to be politically isolated. We are burning bridges with our best friends. And let’s be clear: Russia and Saudi Arabia will never be our real friends. These are transactional relationships at best.”

Democracy dies in deference

Why Dean Karlan, Chief Economist of USAID resigned yesterday: "I was ready to rebuild from wherever we ended up to identify the most effective programs, figure out how to get them back in place, and to recommend new awards. But I received no response. Zero engagement." www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Today we published this page in @larepubblica.bsky.social and @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social saying no to ethnic cleansing in Gaza and in the West Bank. Jews in Italy count only 30.000 community members, plus an imprecise number who "identify as"...

Humbled to be joining the great keynote lineup at ESA European Meeting. Huge thanks to @milosfisar.bsky.social and all the organizers. Excited to learn, share, and grow together—hope to see you there!

Submissions for the UNIBO Young economists workshop on social economy now open! Full info here: x.com/DSE_Unibo/st...

Grazie Nicola. Hai espresso benissimo quale sia l'urgenza ora, e io non posso che ripetere le tue parole: "Allontanarsi almeno un po’ da un approccio tecnicistico al sapere e all’interpretazione, chiuso dentro paradigmi e cauto nell’esporsi al di fuori...

Jewish People Say No to Ethnic Cleansing (Yesterday’s New York Times) Our Director, Rabbi Nate DeGroot, was honored to sign this, alongside public figures and many other Jewish clergy, including many Shalom Center Board and Advisory Council members. Coverage from The Guardian and more info below

"Given the current political reality and the expansion of attacks on science, it is time for scientists to be more effective, forceful, and vociferous as their own political advocates," writes Augustine Fuentes (Princeton University) in this Science editorial. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We are suddenly in a moment where it feels like simple idealism - in the sense of caring about others and not just about oneself - has never been rarer and more necessary at the same time.

TikTok boosted Republican messaging during the 2024 U.S. Presidential Race. Republican-seeded accounts received 11.8% more party-aligned recommendations. Democratic-seeded accounts were exposed to 7.5% more opposite-party recommendations. arxiv.org/pdf/2501.17831

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

An argument why it is essential for welfare economics to adequately express the richness and variety of actual human preferences over social states, from Charles F. Manski https://www.nber.org/papers/w33376

A brief reflection on one of the more intriguing (and troubling) papers I have recently read. @lionelpage.bsky.social @ulrichschimmack.bsky.social @lakens.bsky.social a-ortmann.medium.com/shifts-in-ll...

🚨 #PhD Applications 🚨 We are accepting expressions of interest for our Econ PhD @DSE_Unibo phd.unibo.it/economics/en/a… 📆 Deadline: Feb 14, 2025 🎓 Scholarships: 5 for any Econ, 1 in Law and Econ 📑 Requirements: CV, transcripts, SoP, English & references

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Meta is in the dangerous addiction business paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-plot-t...

🚨new paper out on experimental macro🚨 I'm very happy to see this paper finally in print: it has been a very long journey, and I've learnt a lot in the process. Many thanks to my coauthors Gabriele and Marco!