Julien Senn
@sennjulien.bsky.social
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Economist @ University of Zurich. site:
https://sites.google.com/site/juliensenn
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A few days ago I was very excited to share a new paper on "The Fundamental Properties, Stability and Predictive Power of Distributional Preferences" but didn't realize I can write a thread on bsky. So here is the thread !
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1/11
almost 2 years ago
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First week of teaching in Paris Sorbonne. Of course, my first lecture is postponed because today is strike day and getting to the Uni might be nearly impossible for staff & students. The experience wouldn't be french otherwise. 😅
about 1 month ago
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I am very happy to share that I am joining the Sorbonne University as an Econ Prof. I am extremely grateful to everyone that made this possible, above all my parents.
4 months ago
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🚨 Incredibly excited about this 🚨 Thread below
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4 months ago
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Journal of Public Economics
4 months ago
Just published in
@jpube.bsky.social
: "Beliefs about inequality and the nature of support for redistribution" By
@aljoshahenkel.bsky.social
, Ernst Fehr,
@sennjulien.bsky.social
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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M.J. Crockett
4 months ago
🚨PSA for anyone using GPT in human subjects research🚨 A judge has ruled that OpenAI must retain ChatGPT and API data indefinitely, with few exceptions. This might have implications for your IRB compliance and the security of your participants' data. 1/
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I have a paper that has been sitting for so long at a journal that even the link to track the submission is now broken.
#academiclife
#delayshurt
4 months ago
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🚨Publication alert🚨 What motivates citizens to support redistributive policy proposals? Find out in our new paper just accepted in the
@jpube.bsky.social
(joint with
@aljoshahenkel.bsky.social
, T.Epper, E. Fehr). Paper:
tinyurl.com/9u45tcep
A thread🧵
5 months ago
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Paul Hünermund
5 months ago
I noticed this too that universities and PIs are increasingly trying to exploit their market power, and no one seems to stop them. In other countries non-fulltime PhD and postdoctoral positions are very uncommon, as far as I know.
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I don't think this is only a german problem. The fact that juniors have to so extremely rely on advisor(s) for all the important steps in their career is in my view one of the biggest issues in academia.
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5 months ago
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Academic journals time bipolarity: Before acceptance, every interaction takes months. After acceptance, they need everything from you within 48hours.
6 months ago
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Eric Lipton NYT
6 months ago
The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US
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Aaron Sojourner
6 months ago
Tenure was created for moments like this. It's there to give you more security & courage to speak out truthfully. Use it or lose it.
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Elect stupid people, suffer from stupid policies.
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7 months ago
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What a time to be a young (european) scientist in the last 5 years: covid, budget cuts, hiring freezes, and now a potential wave of US-based scientists searching for a new home.
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7 months ago
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Waking up to a paper acceptance on a sunny Sunday morning makes the coffee taste substantially better. ☕️🎉☀️
7 months ago
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Another great cartoon by
@chappatte.bsky.social
in
@letemps.bsky.social
7 months ago
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When you think you've hit the bottom, Trump, Vance and co. show you can go lower. 🤮
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8 months ago
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Jaakko Meriläinen
8 months ago
🧵 Who enters politics? Are politicians different from the general population? In our
@jeeanews.bsky.social
paper (M. Jokela,
@jannetukiainen.bsky.social
, Å. von Schoultz), we study Finnish politicians’ cognitive and personality traits using military conscription test data. 📊
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Personality Traits and Cognitive Ability in Political Selection
Abstract. A vast scholarship questions whether voters are sufficiently informed to act in their best interest at the polling booth, which may also have imp
https://academic.oup.com/jeea/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jeea/jvaf010/8029910
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As other places,
@ethzurich.bsky.social
now also focuses on net academic age (years +PhD) when evaluating candidates. This trend penalizes people who graduated from places with short PhDs. Some places make you graduate in 3-4years, while others give you 6-7. Huge difference!
ethz.ch/staffnet/en/...
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New guidelines for assistant professorships
These guidelines came into force on 1 January 2025. Following a complete overhaul, they are now consistent with the current framework conditions once again. Assistant professors can choose whether the...
https://ethz.ch/staffnet/en/news-and-events/internal-news/archive/2025/02/new-guidelines-for-assistant-professorships.html
8 months ago
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Auschwitz Memorial
9 months ago
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
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The fastest female to sail around the globe without assistance is 🇨🇭. Justine Mettraux made it in 76 days--beating the former record by 11 days. Amazing achievement!!
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9 months ago
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40 years later, we surely can't say that Zappa was wrong.
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9 months ago
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty"
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9 months ago
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Using years after PhD as academic age becomes useless: Some people now do longer undergrad, predocs and stretch their PhDs to 6+ years, but others don't. E.g., why should someone with a 2014 MSc + 2019 PhD be considered “3 years older" than a 2014 MSc who does 2 years predoc & 6 years Phd?
9 months ago
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The jackpot of a lottery is 2.6 milions. Probability of winning is 1 in a million. Lottery costs 2. Should you play? Maybe not.. unless you can buy enough tickets! This is exactly what happened this week in 🇨🇭
www.bluewin.ch/en/news/swit...
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Gang tries to hit lottery jackpot with combination trick
A group of players have tried to manipulate Loterie Romande's Joker game by playing all possible number combinations. Loterie Romande temporarily blocked the game.
https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/switzerland/gang-tries-to-hit-lottery-jackpot-with-combination-trick-2521012.html
9 months ago
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Florian Ederer
9 months ago
Tinder’s introduction + sharply & persistently increased sexual activity with no impact on relationship formation + increased inequality in dating outcomes among male but not female students + increased sexual assaults & STDs + improved female students' mental health
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Florian Ederer
9 months ago
Today is AEA P&P submission deadline day ... ... or, as I like to call it, "economist resume padding day"! Economists with more P&Ps are more likely to list them in a way that is difficult to distinguish from refereed ones (i.e., real AER articles).
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Je confirme.
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9 months ago
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Stephanie Wang
10 months ago
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peers are randomly assigned or assigned to maximize expected productivity or endogenously chosen by workers. Comparing to high-productivity peer can induce stress in addition to usual motivation and some workers choose to avoid comparisons.
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Nicholas A. Christakis
10 months ago
As universities devote their resources to administrators and bureaucracies, they spend less on research (like most labs, my lab gets no money from my institution's endowment). This is having the untoward effect of driving some terrific scientists away.
www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harv...
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Harvard Professors Leaving for Private Sector Research | Harvard Magazine
Three distinguished scientists on leaving academia to advance biomedical research
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harvard-academia-to-biomedical-research
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Every senior coauthor right now: "Well...see...at least my Microsoft Word is not down."
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11 months ago
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23 out of 46 alive. Come on, we should be able to find one more to tip the balance in the right direction !
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12 months ago
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Who are the
#Econsky
people to follow? I heard this website is becoming the new place to discuss academic research. Please reach out =)
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12 months ago
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So who's on
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?
about 1 year ago
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🚨New paper in
#PsychologicalScience🚨
Can vaccine nationalism be explained by a belief among policymakers that citizens will mistrust leaders who prioritize global needs over domestic protection. Short answer: Yes. Find out more here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
almost 2 years ago
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Short
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Thread. Movies can differ a lot between the US & EUR. I just rewatched Le Grand Bleu (The Big Blue) by Luc Besson, and it's a great example. The movie is about the friendship and rivalry between 2 free divers: Jacques Mayor and Enzo Maiorca.
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Le Grand bleu Trailer
No copyrights infringement intended.My trailer for Le Grand bleu from 1988 with Jean-Marc Barr, Rosanna Arquette, Paul Shenar, Sergio Castellitto, Jean Bouis...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt1WuYD0Jjs
almost 2 years ago
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Was thinking about this the other day. I paid upfront for about $10k of professional expenses (experiments, travels, etc..) and am waiting for reimbursement since several months. Quite insane that stuff like this happens.
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almost 2 years ago
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Do you really find engagement better on
#Econsky
than on
#EconTwitter
? I don't see many discussions going here
almost 2 years ago
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A few days ago I was very excited to share a new paper on "The Fundamental Properties, Stability and Predictive Power of Distributional Preferences" but didn't realize I can write a thread on bsky. So here is the thread !
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🚨New working paper🚨 *The Fundamental Properties, Stability and Predictive Power of Distributional Preferences* (Authors: Ernst Fehr ® Thomas Epper ® Julien Senn)
www.econ.uzh.ch/en/research/...
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almost 2 years ago
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