Very cool project: “The Roman Empire’s road system was critical for structuring the movement of people, goods & ideas [yet] remains incompletely mapped… We present Itiner-e, the most detailed and comprehensive open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The University Library Freiburg has acquired a medieval chronicle that survived the 1944 air raid In 1596, the ‘Dasselische und Einbeckische Chronik’ was printed. Now, Canadian Frank Antonsen has donated the work, which bears the marks of the bombing of Freiburg. uni-freiburg.de/en/the-unive...

🎯 #EvaluaciónDeImpacto de una política activa de empleo local en la provincia de Barcelona a través de colaboraciones público-privadas Apoyo personalizado e inserción en industria a las personas participantes 🛠️ #Matching + #DiD ⬆️ +3,4 pp en la probabilidad de encontrar empleo

📢 Nuevo artículo de KSNET! 💡 Activación focalizada: #Evaluación de una política público-privada de empleo en Barcelona 🖋️ @stephanmaurer.bsky.social, @mariasanchezvidal.bsky.social, @pereataberner.bsky.social y #PabloTucat en Gestión y Análisis de Políticas Públicas 👉 doi.org/10.24965/gap...

Brilliant chart from paper being presented at IMF 13th Statistical Forum by Robert Zymek (IMF Research Department), "Bilateral Trade in Services: Insights from a New Database," showing how the trade networks differ between goods and services according to the new data. www.imf.org/en/news/semi...

A die made from animal bones, found in Burgstein Castle, dating 11th century. Just like today, opposite sides of a die always add up to 7. Dice were quite popular among all social classes during the Middle Ages. In the early 10th century, for instance, the scholar Ekkhardt IV of....🧵 1/2 📷 me 🏺

📢 5 more days to apply to our AP position in Microeconomics!

Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...

More evidence on the Great Gatsby Curve, this time in its over-time form, and for Germany!

We're hiring a Full Prof in Economics (open-field) at the Econ dept in King's Business School. Come join us in central London - apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/12... #Econsky 1/2

Is your child texting about econometrics? BRB = Biased Regression, Bro LMAO = Linear Models Are Ok SMH = Structural Model Hypothesis YOLO = You Obviously Lack Observations IMHO = Instrumental Methods Help OLS LOL = Lots of Lags GOAT = GLS Occasionally Addresses This WTF = Wald Test Failed

The evidence keeps accumulating that Brexit was an astonishing self-inflicted economic policy disaster. The fact that it is a slow-moving one bodes ill for those who think that populist economic mismanagement will translate into voters punishing populists. www.nber.org/system/files...

A spicier opinion is that academia taking back publishing is not necessarily a path to innovation and efficiency. Do you associate universities with efficiency? The problem with for-profit publishing is not the profit, it's the oligopoly power of major publishers. Anti-trust in our lifetime?

FYI, first edition of JPEval, a new Spain-based journal focussing on the evaluation and monitoring of public policies: @ksnet.bsky.social @elenacostas.bsky.social polipapers.upv.es/index.php/jp...

🎙️ La nostra sòcia #MariaSánchez col·labora al programa d'avui de #SERConversa a @sercatalunya.bsky.social sobre el lideratge industrial de Catalunya 💡 Reflexions sobre reindustrialització, descarbonització i innovació tecnològica 🔴 A les 12:15h a l'estudi Toresky de Ràdio Barcelona

Don’t forget you have one week (in the UK) before LinkedIn starts quietly using ALL of your visible content to train AI. It's unsurprisingly an Opt Out system so most users will be blithely unaware. The relevant toggle is in Settings - privacy and data. You know what to do.

Zentrum für Burgenforschung an der Universität Tübingen eröffnet: Die Universität Tübingen hat am Donnerstag feierlich ein Zentrum für Burgenforschung eröffnet, das bisher ungeklärten Fragen zu den mittelalterlichen Bauten auf den Grund gehen wird: Wie viele Burgen gab es in… #archäologie

I like this paper by Gillingham, Kotchen, Levinsohn, and Nalebuff: www.nber.org/papers/w34413 Two main points. 1. Musk's shenanigans hurt Tesla, but increased demand for other EVs, which is a good thing in the long term. 2. It has material implications for Net Zero policies in the short term.

This fantastic map by Francis Galton shows travel time from London to the rest of the world in 1881.

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

The impressive Trier Gold Hoard is the largest #Roman gold hoard ever discovered. It comprises more than 2650 aurei (gold coins) with a total weight of about 18.5 kilogram. The aurei were hidden in 196 AD during the revolt of Clodius Albinus against...🧵1/2 📷 me #archaeology 🏺

Attention IO job market candidates: Sometimes speakers in the CMA's external economics seminar series have to cancel at relatively short notice. We would love for these slots to go to JMCs to present their job market paper. Drop me a message if you are interested or share with those who might be.

Canada and Europe don't seem to be scooping up junior Economists, even with fewer job options in the US. At least not on the US job market, and only slight uptick on the European job market. 😔 #EconSky📉📈

Join us! @iwh-halle.bsky.social and @uni-magdeburg.de are hiring an AP in Labor Economics! Focus: Effects of AI and new technologies on workers & firms. No German required. Enjoy an outstanding research environment in Magdeburg & Halle – come see for yourself! 🔗 Full ad: tinyurl.com/28ko5wty

Press release: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo... #NobelPrize

That's like four economics awards in a row with a substantial economic-history component, right? That strikes me as a remarkable shift. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists...

This will make the academic job market basically non-existent for non-US citizens. And job ads in Europe are down too. This will be a tough year to be on the market for many people. I encourage everyone to keep their eyes open for jobs posted in non-traditional channels.

Occasionally you come across the odd screenshot from LinkedIn and realize where ChatGPT got its cringe

So today's Substack about the impact of tariffs concluded: "in many ways the level of the tariffs is less important than the huge uncertainty Trump’s policies have created. And that uncertainty hasn’t abated at all." Ya don't say. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/leprechaun...

Doomscrolling break! I imagine every historian has a list of Most Neglected Aspect of History. I welcome them in the replies. Here's a thread on my candidate: The California steamship lines from 1849–1869, during the gold rush until the first transcontinental railroad's completion. My case: 🧵 1/15

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

Not too shabby as far as conference venues go...

Have we passed peak social media? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com here www.ft.com/content/a072...

Post von @mikezaccardi.bsky.social Top 10 companies by decade: None from 1995 are in today's Big 10

🌍 Haben oder Nichthaben: Chancengleichheit und sozialer Aufstieg 🔎 Eine aktuelle OECD-Studie wirft einen Blick auf die Frage, inwieweit wirtschaftliche Ungleichheit von Startbedingungen beeinflusst wird, die die Menschen nicht kontrollieren können. (1/3)

I was today years old when I learned that Johnny Cash covered Springsteen's Highway Patrolman www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FZl...

🚨New preprint🚨 osf.io/preprints/ps... In a sample of ~2 billion comments, social media discourse becomes more negative over time Archival and experimental findings suggest this is a byproduct of people trying to differentiate themselves Led by @hongkai1.bsky.social in his 1st year (!) of his PhD

"Political Representation Gaps and Populism", by Laurenz Guenther, is definitely one of my favourite (descriptive) papers of this year! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The updated version of our paper on the historical dynamics of the Great Gatsby Curve is now available as a @excinequality.bsky.social Working Paper: kops.uni-konstanz.de/entities/pub... #EconSky

Extra funding to attract US faculty and postdoctoral researchers to Heidelberg and other universities in Germany‘s southwestern state Baden-Württemberg (less cool than Berlin but prettier and, uh, richer).

Worth noting though this only covers the $83b planned thru Dec 26 — so excludes US orders already placed (F-35s) or rumored for the more distant future (P-8s, more F-35s). So maybe not as big a paradigm shift in procurement as implied by the Politico article. www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Time for this classic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BCX...

Until the 18th century, navigation across the open seas was perilous. Sailors could travel long distances but faced an impossible task determining their position.🧭 Martina Miotto offers a new perspective for #Advantage on the way an advanced clock transformed global trade. 📰 buff.ly/ghuvypN

As part of the “America First” program, Pentagon has classified certain weapons types, including Patriot, as “in short supply” and is beginning to block requests for these systems from European partners.

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

Today's a busy day in Civil War history: #otd in 1862, Union forces were victorious at the Battle of Iuka, MS; in 1863, the Battle of Chickamauga (depicted here in an Alfred Waud sketch) opened; and in 1864, Phil Sheridan defeated Jubal Early's Confederates at Third Winchester.

🏠 El mercado de la vivienda de segunda mano marca cifras récord Una de las socias de KSNET, @elenacostas.bsky.social lo analiza en @eldiario.es solo 1 de cada 10 ventas es de obra nueva, la demanda extranjera crece y los precios superan niveles históricos. 👉 www.eldiario.es/economia/fal...

Unpopular opinion: 1)What is happening in America is hugely concerning. 2) It is in both Britain‘s and Europe's interest to work closely together. 3) Neither Brits nor Europeans can afford to openly break with the US right now. 4) Making the most of that impossible situation is very hard.