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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 9h

For me, the most powerful argument against ebooks is about parenting: I don’t want my daughter to see me staring at a screen when I’m reading

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Frazz @mrs-frazzled.bsky.social · 13h

MIT is the first school to formally reject Trump’s “Compact.”

(Of course a Massachusetts school is the first to say no! Y’all have always been a leader in education!)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 15h

No conclusions about Duflo and Banerjee’s move until a proper RCT is implemented

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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 21h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 21h

Samuel L. Jackson gunpointing someone (sorry: my movie culture is really low) in Pulp Fiction. Below, text reading "Where's my Nobel Peace Prize"?

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Sam Jones @swajones.bsky.social · 23h

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned ...

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

www.theguardian.com

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Cadena SER @cadenaser.com · 1d

László Krasznahorkai, un Premio Nobel 'satánico', apocalíptico y lleno de humor negro

El escritor húngaro, que acaba de recibir el máximo galardón de las letras, tiene una obra llena de misterio que cuenta la evolución de la Europa actual, que ha sido adaptada al cine y a la ópera

dozz.es

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Dan Garrett @danggarret.bsky.social · 1d

I have been thinking this year will be a particularly rough year for economists seeking employment, and this new data tool from the AEA definitely shows that is the case with 1/3 less listings than the same time last year, basically matching COVID lows.

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Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com · 1d

Coming soon to a bookstore near you :-)

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 1d

Amén, Zerocalcare. A ver si de una vez borramos de la faz de la tierra la preguntita “¿Y para cuándo el bebé?”

Sarah, personaje de las historias de Zerocalcare, diciendo en “Será todo para mí”:

“Y, SOBRE TODO, RECUERDA LA SAGRADA LEY DE LAS CONNERSACIONES SOBRE LA PROCREACIÓN AJENA.
QUE REGULA LA CONVIVENCIA
CIVILIZADA CON QUIEN NO TIENE HIJOS.
POR LO GENERAL, HAY DOS POSIBILIDADES.

O LOS QUERÍA Y NO HA PODIDO TENERLOS. Y ENTONCES NO TIENES QUE AMARGARLE LA VIDA.
O NO LOS QUERÍA.
Y ENTONCES NO TIENES QUE AMARGARLE LA VIDA”

Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 1d

Take just nine minutes to enjoy this jewel www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irsq...

Yann Tiersen - ARTE Concert's Piano Day

YouTube video by ARTE Concert

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 1d

*every single time I enter Google Drive*

a man in a suit is carrying three boxes of pizza into a doorway .

Alt: a man in a suit is carrying three boxes of pizza into a doorway smiling only to discover that the apartment is in flames and there's chaos everywhere.

media.tenor.com

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 2d

🤷🏽‍♂️ 🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️

Big jump in googke trends for “insurrection” in the last days

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 2d

Escuchados todos los episodios. Mola.

Fernando Fernández @mrnandonandez.bsky.social · 3d

pues está muy interesante el podcast de numeritos @08181.es
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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 3d

Barça Femení is absurdly fun

Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 3d

It fits my personal experience: my wife sacrificed a lot of her professional career (and earnings) when she moved with me after my PhD.

Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 3d

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 3d

(1) banger
(2) i wish non-economists would realise just how much time each economics paper takes to write (because of our norms about how thorough each paper has to be)

Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 3d

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 3d

Funny sequence of skeets on my timeline 🙃

Thread about the abuse of “excellence” in academia followed by Defector’s skeet “Jack Grealish has rediscovered his excellence”

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 3d

Doing politics right

Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 3d

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 3d

Why are people getting excited about the “Nobels”? Everyone knows that the only REAL one is the Sveriges @riksbank.se Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The others are just self-aggrandising PR set up by Nobel himself.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 3d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

In Spain, what once seemed impossible is now widespread: the young are turning to the far right | María Ramírez

Migration is barely mentioned – instead, failed policies on housing, wages and employment are driving young voters into the arms of Vox, says María Ramírez, deputy managing editor of elDiario.es

www.theguardian.com

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 3d

This morning is sponsored by "Frictions of having half the team coding in R and half the team coding in Stata."
Have a nice day.

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 4d

El Imperio caerá, pero fiel a su estilo: dando tremendo show

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