A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration. doi.org/10.1126/scia... 🧵 Thread—>

Join us! ETH Zürich and the Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS) is seeking an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Sustainable Plant Nutrition @usyseth.bsky.social ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...

Am putting together a video / workshop on how to use LLMs / AI for research projects + coding. What are some things that you would most benefit from seeing? This would be targeted towards economists.

Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

The Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Toulouse School of Economics offers jobs for Postdoctoral Researchers with a PhD in psychology, cognitive science, anthropology, or related disciplines. Deadline for application: January 23, 2026 www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...

After reviewing nearly 200 applications from prospective grad students and postdocs over the past few months for a couple different 🧪⚒️ postings, here are some tips, at least as they apply to North American positions. I hope they help future applicants. Share with your networks. 🧵

There is a new-ish Python package, moderndid, that implements almost all of the "modern" DiD estimators: github.com/jordandekler...

The International Monetary Fund asked me to review the literature on migration economics to draw lessons for low-income countries. In a new @iza.org paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas. www.iza.org/publications... 🧵 thread—>

Two minor updates, friends: - As of 1 January 2026, I'm an Associate Professor. - As of today, the first paper I started writing on palm oil, about a decade ago, is in print in the Journal of International Economics. Read, share, cite. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

U of A prof estimates climate change cuts U.S. income by 12%.

Providing novel evidence of how short-term exposure to extreme temperatures affect macronutrient intake in China, from Xi Chen, Shuo Li, Ding Ma, and Jintao Xu www.nber.org/papers/w34609

More immigrants => better health for Americans. More deportations => worse health.

I wrote about the endless temptation successful people feel to justify and feel justified in a clearly toxic system. Happy new year. open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...

If you've missed this piece about the different modes of empiricism in computer science versus the social sciences, I can highly recommend it. doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...

polisci/IR friends, do you recommend any venezuela experts to follow? especially experts who are venezuelan?

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Another struggle in the climate crisis - forcing insurance providers to actually pay claims for damage from extreme weather.

📣 New paper! “Relevance, Belonging, and Growth Mindsets in Economics: Differences across Identities and Institution Types.” w/ West, Bellas, Lo, Cortes Mendosa,Agbenyiga, Dombroski, Her, and Moua. International Review of Economics Education www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #EconSky #TeachEcon

​(preliminary) comparison of the May-December #polisky eJobs listings for 2024 versus 2025: May-December 2024: 772 total (458 assistant TT) May-December 2025: 601 total (326 assistant TT) 22.2% overall decline; down from 59.3% to 54.2% of those jobs listed are assistant TT positions.

As grocery prices continue to rise, many college students are turning to their campus food pantry to help make ends meet. n.pr/4pkenxQ

This was probably meant to be a late-night post: I spent eight months working on a stunt blog about a $200 sandwich. Or, no, I did an end-of-year post about my mental health and the federal funding crisis. I'm not sure which. Maybe you can figure it out. www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/epi...

New year's resolution for academics? Work in a non-toxic dept where you're valued! Apply for a postdoc @ poli sci Gothenburg 🇸🇪 (for my ERC project ECONENGAGE) to kick start the resolution! Fair credit attribution+fantastic work environment+conference💰! 🌟 Deadline Jan 7th! 🌟 Happy to answer Qs!

More than 15,000 estimates of the social cost of carbon have been published 1980-2025.

Our new paper projects the costs of sea level rise from increased U.S. mortality risk among the elderly w/ and w/out adaptation: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

In the latest issue of Environmental and Resource Economics: Hamid Noghanibehambari & Jason Fletcher present intriguing evidence that emigrating to a location with a climate that differs from our native country is linked to lower life expectancy. #Econsky

"I was learning the value of working with intention rather than urgency, and of leaving room for the parts of life that can’t be scheduled." #AcademicChatter https://bit.ly/4amLGwn

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

#EconSky My university is recruiting world-leading researchers (not currently at Canadian universities) to nominate through the federal government’s recently announced Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program www.tru.ca/research/res...

I’m here to start a war. Puglia has the best food in the world.

Matt Yglesias has been a morally bankrupt hack since he was a cheerleader for the invasion of Iraq as a college student. The fact that I still have to hear about his opinions more than two decades later is as a damning indictment of our information environment as I can imagine.

NYC Council passes law that would require landlords to provide cooling systems capable of maintaining 78°F "in rooms in which tenants sleep, upon the request of the tenant." Cooling season would run from June 15 - September 15. Bill is currently on Mayor's desk waiting to be signed. (1/2)

If this is true, we need to be checking our google scholar pages all the time for fake articles being listed there. Soon the metrics used to evaluate us by universities will be tarnished, not that I was thrilled about their use before.

A vacancy for a professorship in economic sociology at the @eui-eu.bsky.social’s School of Transnational Governance. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

Another great postdoc opportunity at Notre Dame! We’re seeking a scholar of American racial & ethnic politics to join our fantastic and growing postdoc cohort Major upside: the opportunity to interview with our poli sci dept for conversion to a tenure-track line apply.interfolio.com/179415

This. Thank you @ellecordova.bsky.social www.youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w...

Pierre-Louis Vezina, Cevat Giray Aksoy, and Piotr Lewandowski show that, far from displacing local businesses, Ukrainian refugees in Poland sparked an entrepreneurial boom as they inspired Polish entrepreneurs and created new supply chain opportunities. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

📷New blog post: Where Papers Go Before (and After) rejection at a top field journal? This blog post explore this and more. One key finding is that desk- and referee-rejected manuscripts end up getting published at roughly the same rate elsewhere. i4replication.org/where-papers...

My IR department at the CEU in Vienna, Austria is hiring a security scholar. I am happy to answer questions. careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...

Here is the percentage of white males age 30-39 working in professional, technical, and managerial jobs between 1850 and 2024. The current generation has not been squeezed out of such jobs. If there is any lost generation here, I would say it is boomers who were 30-39 in 1990. (@ipums.bsky.social)

I'm still in disbelief, but I have some doubly good news: I got tenure, and in January I'm starting as an Associate Professor at @notredame.bsky.social's Keough School of Global Affairs. I'm excited to keep working on making immigration policy better in theory and practice.

Last night we watched the new Knives Out movie. My take: I like the hot priest. Where have I seen him? Oh that steamy tennis movie. My husband: This movie is not accurate of the Catholic Church. Priests don’t give homilies from the podium since Vatican II.

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

The Economics Department at @Princeton is saddened to share the news of Professor Kate Ho's passing. Professor Ho was an exemplary teacher, researcher, adviser, colleague, and friend. She will be dearly missed. https://bit.ly/497s4Lw

We're looking for a Professor of Public Policy to join our senior leadership team. They'll play a leading role in teaching on the School's postgraduate courses, & make a significant contribution to its research & research leadership. Apply by 9 February 2026: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/profess...

They had such bright futures ahead. May their memories be a blessing. 💔 Oh, and gun legislation NOW.

Terrible flooding hit western WA communities last week + more rain is on the way. My household is not impacted but many folks around us are. If you have the capacity to donate time (locally) or money (from anywhere), please check out the ways to help people in two of the impacted counties below!

University of Florida is hiring: Assistant Professor of International Relations

first agu in person since 2022 and first sans kids since 2019!!! so excited to be in NOLA presenting work from Social Pixel Lab along with Seth Bryant and Brooke Cox on flood mapping- and the latest from @floodbase.bsky.social too! see where to catch us below!

Feel free to boost this if you'd like. I lived through the mass shooting at UVA three years ago and am more than happy to talk to anyone at Brown who wants to talk to someone that understands what y'all are going through tonight.

This is an insane proposal, which has to be taken serious anyway, as that is the time and place we live in. Expect similar plans to be discussed in GOP-controlled states soon (in my state higher teaching loads have been pushed by some Republicans for a while).