This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year. Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

Congratulations to Prof @davideromelli.bsky.social on his appointment as Co-Editor of the European Journal of Political Economy! 👏 This is well-deserved recognition for Prof Romelli's impactful research! @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social @trisstcd.bsky.social #econsky

🎓 CEPS Job Market 2025-2026 🔎 Meet Valentina Alvarez-Saavedra (CEPS — ENS Paris-Saclay & @bsebordeaux.bsky.social) ➡️ Her #EconJMP shows climate shocks in Chile hurt the poorest and enrich the richest. ➡️ www.ceps-paris-saclay.fr/study/job-ma... #JobMarket

Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving. A "step in the right direction" according to the PM. Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Let's... talk more abt this? Make the govt talk more about this? Why do I need to read multiple national news articles about ridiculous plans to take wedding rings from refugees and zero (0) on how UK schools getting state funding to successfully install clean energy are cutting operational costs?

📢CALL FOR PAPERS📢 AFÉPOP 2026 CONFERENCE 🗓️ May 6-7, 2026 📍 Strasbourg BETA ✨Keynote: Marianne Simonsen (Aarhus Uni, @cesifo.org, @iza.org) Apply👇 afepop2026.sciencesconf.org Topics: Population econ (gender, family, education, labor, health, demography, inequalities, etc.) Deadline: Feb 6⏱️

TOMORROW (5 Nov): AYEW Cultural/Economic History Workshop! Join us at 10am GMT/9pm AEDT to listen to @atizz.bsky.social (@eui-eu.bsky.social), Orlando (@gvagrad.bsky.social), Malik (West Virginia Uni), @eoin2319.bsky.social (@lseechist.bsky.social) Sign up for Zoom link: monash.edu/business/imp...

Summarizing the state of knowledge on the economic impacts of climate change, highlighting methodological and conceptual challenges, from Derek Lemoine, @catiehausman.bsky.social, and Jeffrey G. Shrader www.nber.org/papers/w34348

Does anyone have recommendations on sources concerning South Atlantic ocean currents and navigational routes in the 16th century? I see a lot of maps showing how Europeans got to Brazil, but not the return voyage. #earlymodern #histsci #skystorians

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving." Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Who's doing rigorous analysis on the effects of data centers on economic, health, energy, and climate outcomes? #econsky #energysky #climatesky

🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨 Hiring Tenure-Track Assistant Professors in Econ at the University of Copenhagen! 🚨 Join a great group in an exciting (and friendly) city 😀! Details will follow. Pls repost and get in touch to hear more. All fields, and I’m esp. interested in hearing from DEV candidates 😀! #EconSky

As the Irish Minister for Agriculture vows to fight for the right to keep filling rivers with levels of agri-pollutants illegal in the rest of the EU, results show a massive leap of 16% in a single year. Whoever told them it was okay to turn OUR rivers into open sewers? share.google/k7hbDw2O4shX...

🆕 Macroeconomics and climate change 📢 Today on VoxDevTalks, @adrienbilal.bsky.social (@stanford.edu) discusses the research on macroeconomics and climate change – highlighting evidence gaps in mitigation, adaptation, and labour transitions: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...

Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it: rdcu.be/eEcIt

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

How we made it: how extreme weather is driving food prices https://on.ft.com/45spApg

Soybean yield prediction in Argentina using climate data: Emiliano Basco; Diego Elías; Maximiliano Gómez Aguirre; Luciana Pastore

Breaking News: Israeli military officials say they have no proof Hamas routinely steals UN aid, undercutting a claim Israel has used to limit food for Gaza.

Trumpism HSBC becomes first UK bank to quit industry’s net zero alliance. Banks take bailouts, subsidies, sell dodgy financial products, launder money and abuse taxes, but never accept social responsibility. Voluntarism is a fig leaf. Change law. Impose public duties.

NEW: Big study of low-traffic neighbourhoods in London suggest they cut road injuries and deaths by more than a third within their boundaries with no apparent negative safety effect on nearby roads. This feels a *major* boost for proponents of such schemes. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Tebbit was one of the architects of Section 28 which sought to prohibit ‘the promotion of homosexuality.’ This law emboldened bigots and silenced many librarians and teachers, including some of mine. As a gay kid I was left without official support from my school. It was terrifying and cruel.

People always ask me : “Cristi, how do you manage parenting a baby while going up for tenure?” It’s easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents: Sleep when the baby sleeps Cry when the baby cries Publish when the baby publishes

🚨 New paper alert: Economists in 🇫🇷 France, 🇨🇦Canada, and 🇬🇧the U.K. just released what looks like a tour-de-force on the economics of artwork. It's big. Here’s what they did. 🎨📉📈

We have a new DP. It's actually more a tool than a paper. The Robustness Dashboard provides an at-a-glance visual summary of robustness analysis, distinguishing between confirmatory and negative robustness tests. @i4replication.bsky.social 1/3 www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

Fear of immigration is a scam

Sicily is so hot that the region has just issued an ordinance to suspend various types of agricultural and construction activities on hot days to avoid accidents at work. Essentially these activities will be off at 12:30-16:00pm until 31/8. But let’s talk again how expensive climate mitigation is..

lol the trad wife movement is a scam. A thread/

It is remarkable that the west is committing to spending 5% of GDP on defence, and almost no one has made the case that the most pressing threat to our security this century is climate change and we should be spending more on tackling that.

The Tate Modern art museum in London has also been lit up. #ShowYourStripes And, the warming stripes are currently on display in the Museum of Modern Art in New York: www.moma.org/magazine/art...

turns out climate change will cost dramatically more than economists predicted, and the cost of addressing it is actually negative. oops! prospect.org/environment/...

A true pleasure visiting the @camunicampop.bsky.social group to discuss my research on the effect of first nature Geography on Economic Development. (1/3)

🚨Global public action (climate!) is most effective when countries do it together yet we're in a period of IO backlash rooted in left-behind places Does it mean all left-behind regions hate IOs the same? @patrickbayer.bsky.social & I have a paper accepted @bjpols.bsky.social abt this🧵 osf.io/rtymv

I will take this as an excuse to plug that excellent careful work on the economics of fertility patterns in sub Saharan Africa has been done by researchers like (my past PhD student) Celine Zipfel, paper here www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3v897...

I think it would be good to get some women in charge of the countries that have nuclear weapons. Women talk to each other. Women can be reasonable. Enough with the macho men and swinging dicks.

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called: "How to Write a Title and Abstract" Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles. #EconSky #AcademicSky

📢 Out now 📢 in the May 2025 issue of JAERE: "The Effect of Temperature on Energy Demand and the Role of Adaptation" by Edward Manderson and Timothy Considine Read for free here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #EconSky 📉 📈

Climate morning at the PE of finance summer school with two outstanding experts: @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social on financing of sunrise sectors and financial implications for sunset sectors; @madisoncondon.bsky.social on climate-related risk insurance and climate modelling. Fascinating but grim.

New website alert! Thanks to @kunalt.bsky.social's help! #academia #devecon #websitealert

Paper testing “the climate matching hypothesis”. Venezuelan refugees moved to places similar to climate features they are used to. #EconSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Community health programs in Uganda enhance health resilience. Infant mortality consequences from climate variability decline. #EconSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today is World Environment Day. Learn more about environmental history using the online reading list produced by the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) and Brepols

Commitment to climate action hard to find in Government

📢 Join us for the next Kiel-CEPR research seminar: @treballen.bsky.social (Dartmouth) will present his research on the economic structure of US slavery on the eve of the Civil War, which quantifies the welfare gains from emancipation. Register here 👉 ifw-kiel.de/institute/ev... @cepr.org