Neues Format - die Talk-Gäste werden mit einem Datensatz und einer Stata-Lizenz ins Big Brother Haus gesperrt und erst wieder raus gelassen, wenn es ein Paper gibt

love bluesky because the replies to this post immediately descend into people fighting about whether the minions would have worked for stalin

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

"The damages [...] are small relative to potential productivity gains"

Is that the right measure to use?

black and white drawing of an underwater scene. a large bird sticking it's head into the water, surrounded by shocked fish

WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS

A fantastic giveaway from a must-read author!

I have several of Tom’s books and they are treasures. Lyrical treasures that dip you hidden worlds that intersect and wind around the familiar to reveal the secrets underneath.

And the linoprint bookmarks that Jo makes are beautiful - I framed mine!

Audience seated in a large lecture theatre at the Scottish Economic Society Conference 2026 in Glasgow, watching Jeffrey Wooldridge deliver the President’s Invited Lecture, with his presentation slide projected on a large screen at the front.

President’s Invited Lecture at #SES2026 🎓
@scoteconsociety.bsky.social

We’re delighted to welcome Jeffrey Wooldridge to deliver the Scottish Economic Society President’s Invited Lecture 2026.

"Simple, Flexible Strategies for Estimating Causal Effects with Staggered Interventions"

#EconSky

Fair, but usually you can submit proposals in slightly altered form to other funders, whereas as far as I am aware there are few other funders for ERC StG etc.

Can early public childcare reduce child penalties? Evidence from Germany This paper studies the effects of public childcare expansion for children under age three in Germany on mothers’ child penalties. Exploiting county-le…

I’m very happy to share that my first paper has been accepted for publication 🎉

Together with my great co-author Nayeon Lim we look at early public childcare in Germany.

More details and the paper link below 👇

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

And yet ERC is the only funder that I am aware of that considers it necessary to ban unsuccessful applicants from re-applying

me when I think i've been clever getting a deal in a brick lane curry house but then can't eat it all

I know people whose proposal was rated A and selected for an interview (but then not funded), just to then be rated B the next year.

Banning applicants seems frankly a rather stupid way to manage the workload of panels and reviewers.

Do questions in titles attract more attention? Evidence from you

Times like this call for sustaining a serious intellectual culture in your imagination, not imagining a serious intellectual culture

Chères·chers collègues enseignant·es en français, pour un cours de 1ère année portant sur les systèmes politiques, je suis à la recherche d’un manuel en français. Est-ce que quelqu’un aurait la gentillesse de partager une suggestion ? Merci bcp ! @iguinaudeau.bsky.social @fredericmerand.bsky.social

The media will probably assume that his candidature implies a pinky promise that, if elected, he will divest himself of his outside interest. After the election, his response of "But I don't want to" will be met with a shrug

Does being pope (and thus a foreign head of state) violate the emoluments clause? Discuss!

a man in a suit and tie is dancing ALT: a man in a suit and tie is dancing

Thoughts and prayers to our fellow academics in Germany. Seeing lots of posts today about the new term, while I only have some grading and student presentations left

Not a Claude user, but I see lots of discussion on reddit that at the moment Claude burns through usage limits pretty fast

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If the Pope is weak on crime, then why does the Vatican City have the single largest police force in the world, on a per capita basis?

Pop of Vatican City: ~900
Police: ~150.

That's ~17,000 per 100,000.

US? ~750,000 cops for ~325M ppl.
That's ~230 per 100,000.

Trump can't even DREAM of those #s.

Finally, Bluesky discourse on our research agenda @georghenning.bsky.social

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

ORBÁN CONCEDED

Orban has conceded

Uh...one of my PhD examiners noted that he doesn't understand why we made a certain assumption in a paper, and I had to agree with him.

This is me when I mention one of my papers in class and students ask a follow-up question

a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face Alt: a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread:

Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

Not autistic, just German german.millermanschool.com

I am surprised the margin isn't closer.