📣 We’re excited to spotlight a compelling new collection of research published in nature, exploring replication, robustness, and reproducibility across the behavioral and social sciences.

Looking forward to teaching this @gesistraining.bsky.social course next year on Feb 16-17. (Registration) details below 👇

BeNA is an invaluable network providing free events to the applied micro community, thanks to our sponsors at the Berlin econ research institutes. Super happy to help shape its future as a new board member in the coming years!

Huge thanks to the outgoing board 🙏

It was great fun participating in this important mega-reproduction initiative led by @i4replication.bsky.social!

Interview zum Thema Wohnen in Deutschland in der @taz.de.

Entstanden im Kontext eines von der @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social geförderten Projekts zum Thema Wohnraummangel, gemeinsam mit @sebastiankohl.bsky.social, @lucastella.bsky.social & @simonvoss.bsky.social.

CAUSAL GRAPHS ➡️ HAPPINESS. 😍 Agree?
& Work in/around Berlin? 🐻
Sign up for the 2026 Applied Causal Graphs Workshop! 🌟
Deadline Feb 28th ⬇️
applied-causal-graphs.de
This 3rd edition is hosted by the great folks at Uni Potsdam 💡

🗓️ Thursday, February 12:
We are very happy to welcome Maik T. Schneider at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Can Democracy Cope with Extreme Views“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

We are very happy to have Hans-Peter Grüner at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Locally Optimal Transfer Free Mechanisms for Border Dispute Settlement“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

🗓️ Thursday, January 22:
We are very happy to welcome Jana Mareckova at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. She will present her work on „A Causal Machine Learning Analysis of Swiss Active Labor Market Policies“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

📢 2nd Junior Workshop Economics of Latin America - Call for Papers!

Aimed at PhD students & post-docs working on development economics with a regional focus on Latin America.

9-10 July 2026 in Berlin.

Submission deadline: Feb 28. (details below)

#EconConf #EconSky

🗓️ Thursday, January 15:
We are very happy to have Teresa Freitas Monteiro at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. She will present her work on „Harsh Rhetoric and Cultural Identity: Backlash Effects of Denmark‘s Ghetto List“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

Altmetric Explorer screenshot: Showing 5,011,088 mentions (from 4,918,333 individual posts) of research outputs from the results of your search query.

Since Jan 1 2025, which feels like four trillion years ago, research has been shared on here 5 million whole-ass times. Bluesky recently passed 2 billion posts IN TOTAL.

So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research.

That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why.

Inaugural Workshop of the Standing Committee for Political Economy of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik e.V.), @vfsecon.bsky.social
Call for Papers below! Maik T. Schneider, @steinhardt.bsky.social @theocharisgr.bsky.social
and I hope to see you in Berlin, March 26-27!

Congratulations, Henning! Very well deserved!

Special issue on meta-science in Journal of Economic Psychology! Topics covered among others: expert-informed approaches, normative biases and crowd-science. Submitted papers evaluated & published on rolling basis. @i4replication.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Don’t Panic: A Researcher’s Guide to Replication Packages Episode 1: A New README Who Needs a README? Imagine coming across a really cool paper in a top journal. The kind of paper you wish you wrote yourself; the…

🚨New blog post: Replicators, rejoice! Episode 1 of the new series is out: “A New README.” A practical guide to transforming messy project folders into clear, well-structured documentation that strengthens transparency and reproducibility.

See more at
i4replication.org/dont-panic-a...

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📣 Announcing the First DoubleML User Survey! 📊

We’re excited to launch the first DoubleML User Survey! We’d love to hear from all prospective, new, or experienced users of DoubleML in Python or R.

🔗Please take part here: forms.gle/HjZsWgrF5UEF...

#EconSky #CausalSky #dataSkyence #Python #R

CfP 📢 Join us & our fantastic keynote speaker @rginja.bsky.social for the 15th Dresden Workshop on Labor Economics and Social Policy (May 21-22, 2026). Looking forward! Deadline for submissions: Feb 15, 2026👇
www.ifo.de/veranstaltun... @tudresden.bsky.social @cesifo.org

Looking forward to hosting @ariannaornaghi.bsky.social from @hertieschool.bsky.social at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social this week. #EconSky

🗓️ Thursday, November 27:
We are very happy to have Efrem Castelnuovo at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „The Inflation-Uncertainty Amplifier“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

Ausschreibung

www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb... Unser Fachbereich hat eine unbefristete Stelle E13 in der VWL-Lehre zu besetzen. Gerne retweeten und bis 30.11. bewerben.

Happy to share that our research brief on housing space inequality in Germany will soon be published by the Progressive Politics Research Network!
This work, a collaboration with @sebastiankohl.bsky.social and @simonvoss.bsky.social , digs into who has access to space and how policy can address it.

Looking forward to your talk, @gregor-pfeifer.bsky.social !

GESIS Workshop Foundations and Advances in Difference-in-Differences 03 to 04 February 2026 | Online Jan Marcus (Freie Universität Berlin)

If Difference-in-Differences has been on your “to-learn” list, now is your chance to dig in. Our #GESISworkshop with @janmarcus.de takes you from DiD basics to advanced topics like triple differences, synthetic control, and modern estimators — all in R and Stata.

➡️ t1p.de/dif_in_dif_26

Looking forward to teaching this training course on diff-in-diff.

Registration still possible!

🗓️ Thursday, November 6:
We are very happy to have Matthias Doepke at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . He will present his work on „Preparing Kids for Capitalism: The Effect of German Reunification“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

🗓️ Thursday, October 30:
We are very happy to welcome Vasyl Golosnoy at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . He will present his work on „Combining portfolio rules to improve prediction of global minimum variance portfolio“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

📢 Call for Applications: 2026 PhD Program

Opportunities across four different PhD tracks:

🔹 PhD in Economics
🔹 PhD in Accounting
🔹 PhD in Finance
🔹 PhD in Management

❗ Application Deadline: January 15, 2026

More information👇
berlinschoolofeconomics.de/phd-program/...

#phdcallforapplications

Our Leibniz Open Science Day, 'Better Science for Better Policies', is taking place tomorrow in Berlin, with an exciting programme of interesting papers - check them out. The meta-scientific community is really taking off! www.zbw.eu/de/ueber-uns...

@fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social @steinhardt.bsky.social @danzernatalia.bsky.social @pncmohr.bsky.social @gehrkeb.bsky.social @anjaprummer.bsky.social @m-santos-silva.bsky.social