@akilbello.bsky.social currently the entire analytic team at CEPR is in a pre-doctoral role. Do your homework.

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars?

These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.

So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

Is this an attempt to cosy up to a dictator? Why would you post this?

@developers.google.com

There is no way to add text when you report a video on iPhone. You can’t get rid of keyboard and return key just goes to next line.

Hosted @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in Washington today!

The color coordination wasn’t planned. 😂🌹💫

An article for the peopl… oh wait. Paywall.

I could star in this, as people who know me can attest to

I want Disney to make a Chewbacca origin story with as few interactions with non-Wookies as possible. There should be no subtitles either. Just 90 minutes of high drama as expressed by Wookies. Hrrraaaaawwwwwwwwrrrrrr.

No thanks

Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner

President Trump pardoned a man sentenced for tax crimes after his mother went to a $1 million-per-plate dinner at Mar-a-Lago. His pardon application cited his mother’s support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.

MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student’s AI Research Paper The university said it has no confidence in a widely circulated paper by an economics graduate student.

AYFKM

There is special circle of hell for those who fabricate data

Immeasurable harm to all of us who break our backs to collect real data, to brilliant students who deserved that position, to other students who won’t get trust they deserve — just obscene

god

Rubio's various positions

Taking her class in the fall!

Corruption out in the open

If these were white people it would be set to country music with happy fanfare. No charges would be filed, obviously

Harder to go after the wealthier Jews so let’s go after low income Jews! @mbta.com

@mayorwu.boston.gov closed down the 86 stop on south street.. right before Passover… this stop is almost exclusively used by 6 year old Jewish children going to school…. #antisemitism

Characters from the Star Wars television show Andor. One says "they're building a weapon called the death star" the second says "how do you know this?" The first answers "Krennic added me to the groupchat"

They've breached the "I don't talk politics with family" containment, my brother just sent me this.

Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.

I’m not an economist but there seems to be a ton of charts out the last few weeks that all look something like this

“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.”

- Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.”

The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.

Chyron: Is it time for less Elon Musk?

notable that this a topic on Newsmax

One of the things I appreciate this is him shutting down the attempt at sane-washing (that we've come to see so often in modern media): "Insanity is not a strategy"

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression WASHINGTON—Warning that Americans should brace themselves for an economic “period of transition,” President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that a recession would be an unfortunate but necessary st...

theonion.com/trump-says-r...

French Senator Claude Malhuret:

"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

you were like a brother to me. i loved you!

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.