Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

let them eat toilets.

Things are not looking great. How on earth is this possible?

And so it begins, Musk's Grokipedia is scraping Wikipedia and re-writing things in Musk's image. The entry for climate change? Let's just say the Wikipedia entry has neither an "Economic and Policy Critiques" section, nor one on the "Role of Media and Advocacy" that accuses both of bias.

The @python.org foundation is fundamental in maintaining python. Y'all are waiting for the huge benefits of AI to materialize? Good luck without a working python ecosystem. Trump has cut funding, because they are here for everyone ("diverse and international"). You can chip in, 25$/year. #econsky

Look, I dont care about about your accent or limited vocabulary in English. But the Spanish Erasmus student standing in front of me, punching Spanish sentences into her phone, so that she can “talk” to me is one step too far. You must speak basic English. It’s embarrassing.

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Trump doesn’t like climate change, so he just stops funding climate research. Great explainer by FT what this means. Obviously not smart to fly without any data through the haze in general, but even short term outcomes (weather forecasts, insurance premia etc) are under threat. on.ft.com/4nZI1II

been failing to create a virtualenv for 20 mins now because I wrote matplolib instead of matlplotlib how's your day going?

Talked in beautiful Rimini about Tourism and Urban Economics to a room full of freshmen corsi.unibo.it/1cycle/clet/... Slides here floswald.github.io/Tourism-Rimi... with shoutouts to @vlavetyan.bsky.social and @stefanpauly.bsky.social and @milena-almagro.bsky.social and others too

Cities surrounded by expensive farmland are denser and agricultural productivity growth has lowered urban density over time in France. Our multi-region structural change framework can explain it. New paper by Coeurdacier, Teignier & @floswald.bsky.social www.restud.com/structural-c... #econsky

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7

quite the post by Noah. Troubled times. www.noahpinion.blog/p/civil-war-...

If I find someone cheating, it's a straight fail. AI cheats all the time. Exhibit 1: @claudeai.bsky.social

that can be good or bad news

And we are live! #econsky @jpolecon.bsky.social jpedataeditor.github.io

The @jpolecon.bsky.social is the latest addition to the list of top Econ journals adhering to datacodestandard.org . Our data policy implements DCAS (www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/jpe...)

📣 We're excited to welcome Damian Clarke as the new Data Editor for The Economic Journal & The Econometrics Journal starting 1 July! Huge thanks to @floswald.bsky.social for his outstanding work. 🔍 More info: shorturl.at/igXCz #RESJournals #EJ #EctJ #EconSky

The JPE is happy to announce that Florian Oswald is joining the journal as data editor in July. Details on JPE's updated data policy can be found at www.journals.uchicag.... @floswald.bsky.social #EconSky

@resmedia.bsky.social Data Editor beating the #reproducibility drum 🥁 again today at Collegio Carlo Alberto www.carloalberto.org/event/reprod...

The week of September 29th, Paris will become the epicenter of #opensource scientific computing, with a great series of events. This rare alignment creates the perfect opportunity to visit and join a vibrant community of developers, maintainers, and users! Check this out (links in thread) ⬇️

Had a great day out @eui-eu.bsky.social yesterday giving the macro seminar. What a place to do research!

Got invited as @resmedia.bsky.social data editor to talk about Reproducibility at the Irish Economic Association conference in Belfast. It was fun! Slides: res-reproducibility.github.io/IEA2025/, Code: github.com/floswald/Rep... #EconSky

Big news reported by @allyversprille.bsky.social of @bloomberg.com: For 90 seconds last Monday, air traffic controllers at Newark “temporarily lost radar and communications with the aircraft under their control, unable to see, hear, or talk to them.” Several staffers took trauma leave afterward

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interview with @nuvolos.bsky.social for @resmedia.bsky.social Data editor computations www.linkedin.com/posts/nuvolo...

Someone make this, but for #julialang. filiph.github.io/unsure/

great writeup on spatial data in R, python and #julialang - which is catching up fast. Oh, "fast"? 👉 github.com/rafaqz/Raste...

#julialang github.com/JuliaFolds2/... is so nice to test multithreaded code. just remove the `t` from a function name to go back to the base (serial) equivalent:3

“has evinced no shame when it has been pointed out that its reverse-engineered formula to get tariff rates out of trade deficits is a piece of junk or looks plucked from a cheap artificial intelligence chatbot” Strong sandbu on.ft.com/42o8feB @martinsandbu.ft.com

I’m counting to see a positive impact in the overseas moving industry quite soon.

#econsky is anyone keeping track of chatGPT citations? in good company of @ralphluet.bsky.social :-) A student just shared this with me. it refers to this: floswald.github.io/NumericalMet... here a updated version: floswald.github.io/CompEcon/lec...

Here is the entire signal chat. I’m concerned that the people currently running the US are a bunch of incompetents who write military secrets and stuff like WE ARE GO in a group chat. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Xavier transitioned and became Vivian Jenna Wilson. She is alive and well and lives in Japan. No loving parent would ever write such a disgusting thing as this, and it speaks volumes.

I want to say this is The Onion but...

One strong message to unite any trump opposition has to be: corruption. It’s happening in plain sight (easy to document as below), it’s unfair (ask US business) and you can’t blame immigrants. I would go for that. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/u...

Thanks for a great day @psae.bsky.social (@inrae-france.bsky.social) - really cool seminar, great group there. Brand new buildings, very nice. Look at the new metro line 18 that will be arriving soon! (well…10 years to go, but still). Impressive transport investments around Paris.

Big one www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Swamp headquarters is at Mar-a-Lago ↘️

"An intellectual tradition that stretched back, to Burke, Acton, the Austrian School, Buckley, Rand, etc, has evolved into a movement whose sole purpose is to massage Donald Trump’s ego." phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/did-you-kn...

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

on.ft.com/4i9k5ze The US is now the enemy of the west

Great news! That’s money well spent.

OTD in 2022 i denied any invasion would happen. So you can believe my promises about peace now.

“Before considering the implications for Europe of what Vance said, we should pause to note its deep hypocrisy. Trump attempted to overthrow the 2020 US presidential election. And his vice-president presumes to lecture Europeans about respect for democracy?” on.ft.com/4b2uPNM

So, European Politicians, can we talk about something please. It's been 3 weeks of Trump and it's been brutal. This the key moment where Europe rises to the historic occasion and finally takes its destiny into it's own hands. We fail this time, we fail big. I'm waiting. #Zeitenwende ?

The Make America Healthy Again policy is out. More vitamins, fewer vaccines (they cause autism this guy wakefield said), and obese people brought it onto themselves. Drink more raw milk as well! 🤡

We are proud to announce that Prof. Giovanni Mastrobuoni is the new director of the PhD program in Economics of the University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto www.phdpareto.carloalberto.org

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...