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Cannon "like boom" Cloud

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Development econ PhD Student at Goethe Universität Frankfurt and WZB. Doing research at the corner of development, transport and remote sensing. https://cannoncloud.github.io/ You can find me knitting silly hats or riding funny bikes.

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Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · May 7

I created a shiny web tool to play around with OL/TWFE so you can teach how this stuff can get so screwy. You can mess with temporal and cohort heterogeneity, treatment timing, whether you have any controls, etc. Share your worst plots! #econsky cannoncloud.shinyapps.io/TWFE_OLS_Pla...

TWFE Event_study plot showing sign reversal

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 1d

Thought about scientific consensus recently? We have a new DP @i4replication.bsky.social that probes into the famous replication debate between Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson (AJR) and Albouy - and how experts assess this debate. We find that they disagree. 1/8 www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2d

Worth a friendly reminder that the next set of nation-wide No Kings protests are set for October 18th.

There's probably one in your area.

I am not generally a crowds or protests sort of person, but there's one in my town and I'll be at it on the 18th.

www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · 2d

Gonna raise prices for oil products, so seems to check with their donors.

Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · 3d

Room for argument here, but this has got serious ostrich with head in sand energy

Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · 8d

Which is why it's applicable in this case and why even RCTs rely on assumptions, which is what the thread is about 😉

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Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · 8d

SUTVA ain't no little assumption

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Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · 16d

Maybe im just a bit dense if grad school hasn't helped me with it.

Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · 16d

Economist here to say I have no idea what you mean both times you use the word economics.

Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · 17d

I just dont agree with your version of reality. Woke was never this, and in so far as identity politics was a thing it was to avoid upsetting democratic party corporate and rich donors with any policies that would cost them money. So we can agree on the fact that there is not enough of a safety net.

Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · 17d

Also how are we letting 6 liberal art students be the cornerstone of democratic policies? Seems unbelievable.

Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · 17d

Im not saying you are saying it is bad. But the platforms and speeches all avoid words like woke and white privilege and its Fox news that launder those terms. They focus on things like racial equality and dismantling systemic inequalities.

Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · 17d

But who made Woke the platform of the democrats? Fox news and lins of TikTok or actual democratic policy? Not that Im an expert on this but you seem to be aiding and abetting this mis-classification of party platforms. Or do you see it differently?

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Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · 24d

You are getting out of hand. Saying the werewolves were Saruman's and not Sauron the literal Lord of Werewolves from the first age...

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Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · 24d

I think Saruman has the slight edge, but this is due to network and geographic correlation. Morgoth getting no respect in this post. Who created the Balrog, Smaug (started this mess), and presumably the watcher in the water, and twisted Sauron in the first place.

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Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · 25d

When do people have time for podcasts? I listen to my audiobook for two hours once every 4 months if I'm lucky.

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Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE @richardtol.bsky.social · 27d

All is not well at Elsevier richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...

Fraud and cover-up

richardtol.substack.com

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Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · 27d

I've not had it in a long time, but it does hit when you are 8 years old.

Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · Sep 12

One way to address the "its not always sunny or windy" oil and gas disinfo

Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · Sep 12

Clean energy developers are in the early stages of trying to link North America with Europe via a 6GW 4,000km cable

The UK could wake up w electricity from Canada’s hydropower, and send power back when it’s windy at midnight in North Sea and New Yorkers are making dinner

www.ft.com/content/db0a...

Growth of renewable energy heralds the rise of supercables

Projects are under way to connect regions and countries creating a new era of energy ties between economies

www.ft.com

Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · Sep 12

Congrats! We should get a coffee when youre here. I'm a PhD at goethe doing environmental econ with remote sensing so it would be nice to connect.

Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · Sep 12

This is entirely too kind

Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · Sep 11

"The left calls us Nazis, only we can do that!"

Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · Sep 11

This seems bad. People unironically calling this their Reichstag Fire moment. 🚩

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Sep 11

These are calls for mass political violence, against all Democrats. They openly call for the bombing of "Democrat" cities and for the jailing or killing of Democratic politicians. They are from some of the most influential voices in right-wing politics. Will anyone say anything?

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Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · Sep 10

Not that bizarre if you think about what the WP has become.

Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · Sep 10

New fear unlocked

Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · Sep 10

I don't know man, good to be a bit open minded, but 8k watches still seem sus given the whole climate crises and all. Now if it was a tandem bicycle for two or even three people, that would be a good investment. Or a recumbent tandem, or another kind of silly bicycle/s.