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· Economist @univlorraine.bsky.social, en français and in English · I use computers, network theory, and data to study how humans behave at work, in organizations and communities #Rstats · He/Him 🏳️‍🌈 🌐 https://o.simardcasanova.net 📍 Nancy, Lorraine, France 🇪🇺

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 20d

Despite having completed 90% of the manuscript, I was never able to defend my PhD

It's definitely unexpected, but I'm thrilled to announce that I have restarted working on a PhD

You can read about what happened and my plans on my newsletter: o.simardcasanova.net/p/8e29c3...

#EconSky

A second shot at a PhD

I have an unexpected and exciting professional news to share

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 7m

It's happening

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 18m

Once again, the evil forces of communism were successfully repelled from America

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 2h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 2h

As an economist, I endorse this message

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 2h

For the record, this post is *not* an endorsement of Australia

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 3d

To this day, I still remain baffled that they invented Australia

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David Schindler @david-schindler.de · 4h

Imagine how successful Australia could be if the whole purpose of its wildlife wasn't to constantly kill all human beings!

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 14h

Allowing all of us to post on the internet was a mistake

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 15h

Fascinating

Why @why.bsky.team · 17h

Running the following feed is like half of our production workload, its kinda silly how much work it is to do that

bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 1d

a great way to break up bsky appview implementation work would be implementing "Following" as a regular feedgen.

one of the harder pieces in general high-req-rate full-network scale, but a bunch of ez optimizations: only recent posts, limit following count, only subset of network, etc

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 18h

Poking @josephpolitano.bsky.social, just in case

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 18h

The data is from April but holy moly

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 18h

@viet.bsky.social what have you done

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 18h

Here lies my productivity

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 20h

“I have very strong opinions about social media and yet, I only have a very superficial understanding of how social media actually works”

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dame @dame.is · 3d

what should the next bluesky discourse/drama be about? i think we should put it to a formal vote and schedule it on the calendar so we can all be better prepared

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

Red Badoit is the best

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

It’s also increasingly common to have multitudes of sparkling water in France, which I read as a clear signal that society is heading in the right direction

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

The whole of France is also asking this very question

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

You won’t believe who the new French PM is

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

😑

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

the double-event is upon us already

A meme showing a man at a chalkboard from "Pacific Rim". He says "in the beginning the [new French PMs] were spaced apart 24 weeks. Then 12. Then 6. Then every 2 weeks. In four days we could be seeing a PM every 8 hours until they are coming every 4 minutes. We should witness a double event within seven days

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

Une thèse impressionnante conclue par une soutenance émouvante

Laboratoire CEREFIGE (Université de Lorraine) @cerefige.bsky.social · 1d

Toutes nos félicitations à notre nouvelle Dr Wafaa Azira pour sa thèse soutenue aujourd'hui, intitulée « L’évaluation des investissements en RSE : une analyse fondée sur le concept des options réelles »
Pour en savoir plus : cerefige.univ-lorraine.fr/soutenance-d...

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at://work @atwork.place · 2d

🎉 New: Web Monetization support on at://work!

Enable it in Settings to receive micropayments from visitors. Stored as ATProto records in your PDS.

atwork.place/help/profiles

#ATProtocol #WebMonetization

at://work - ATProto Job Board

Your Career. Your Data. Your Place. A decentralized job board powered by the ATProtocol

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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · 2d

Come work with me!

Stockholm Sch of Econ (@handels_sse ) is hiring Assistant Professors this year, both in Economics (my dept) and in Finance.

By revealed preference, I think it’s a great place to work + a lovely city to live in.

Econ advert below:

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Tenure Track, Assistant Professor Position at The Department of Economics

Description and QualificationThe Department of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) seeks candidates for one tenure-track assistant professor po...

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

It would be a lot better with this design!

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

elmo from sesame street is surrounded by flames and the word chaos is above him

ALT: elmo from sesame street is surrounded by flames and the word chaos is above him

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

Excellent development for European research!

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 2d

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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