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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 22h

if we genuinely believed this, we would start pumping up the foreign student numbers again

Politico @politico.com · 1d

“When America creates a situation of making it difficult for people with advanced degrees to stay in the United States, I think that’s an opportunity for Canada,” said Canada’s outgoing UN ambassador.

Bob Rae on Trump, tariffs and global disorder 👇

The Book that Canada’s Outgoing UN Ambassador Turns to Again and Again

Bob Rae also gets candid about Trump speeches, U.S.-Canada ties and global disorder.

www.politico.com

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 18h

If you have any curiosity about the history of "Indian" taxation in Canada, there's a new, must-read article in the latest Canadian Historical Review by @jlmcnairn.bsky.social

Upper Canada, 1810s-1850s, land, law, sovereignty, property tax.

"Questions of tax are always questions of rule."

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Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 8h

It's really weird how so many people seem to have memory-holed that there were a lot of people disrupting social and gender norms in the 70s and 80s (and probably before then too, just in ways I don't recognize). Can forgive the youngs for not knowing, but those of us alive then should know better.

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Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 8h

Barely see any these days compared with the 1980s.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 8h

Ah, first thing I can honestly say I remember from Snow Crash: Rat Thing.

20% of the way in, still not thrilled.

Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 9h

Well, cheery thoughts for 1984 discussion.

A few years ago I'd have said no quickly. Now I'm much less certain.

Retired-Librarian @retired-librarian.bsky.social · 10h

#BannedBookSkyClub discussion of 1984 by George Orwell #Read1984 #BookSky

Do you think it's possible for a government to widely control individual thought to the extent portrayed in the book 1984? Explain.

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Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 9h

A balmy 17-20°C in the water at Oakville today. Way warmer than last year. Planning the traditional Lake Huron Thanksgiving swim for Monday.

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Jennifer Robson 🇨🇦 @jrobson.bsky.social · 20h

Announcement from PM Carney moments ago and this is good news. I've been working on this issue with @saulschwartz.bsky.social and @agenestgregoire.bsky.social for years. We've documented how many Canadians don't file and miss out on or loose benefits, .. 1/3

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Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 10h

Better late than never for a rather nice birthday present!

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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 10h

Globe and Mail: Residents in Kapuskasing, the town northwest of Timmins where a pulp mill shutdown threatened thousands of jobs, before a possible government lifeline emerged this week, may reasonably want the premier to spend less time and political capital on removing bicycle lanes in downtown Toronto. Drivers who want investments to make dangerous rural highways safer may wonder at a transportation policy so laser-focused on banning urban speed cameras. And residents province-wide may question why they should pay for the spa at Ontario Place.

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Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 10h

This is in my top three favourite opening lines of a book.

From Patricia Wrightson, The Ice is Coming.

"The old south land lies across the world like an open hand, hollowed a little at the palm."

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Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 13h

Oh no there might be fewer things exported from China which is obviously a terrible thing very much opposed by Trump, who wants to stop unfair trade with China by importing fewer things from China which is totally different from China exporting fewer things to the US.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 13h

Trump proposing 100% tariffs on China

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · 20h

If I were the social planner, the next Nobel Prize in Economics would be awarded to Samuel Bowles, Glenn Loury, and John Roemer. Their work is foundational to the modern study of inequality, addressing normative and positive dimensions of inequality with profound insight.

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 21h

A guide to the upcoming job market, by the chair of the AEA’s job market committee.
#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/job-...

Job market advice for new Ph.D. economists, from John Cawley

marketdesigner.blogspot.com

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 22h

But muh Solar Covers Too Much Land.

Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 1d

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 21h

So I just want to shout out to the referee reports I received that raised issues and even though they were negative caused me to be more energised and motivated about improving my paper. This is what service to the profession is.

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Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 22h

As a labour economist I might be expected to be interested in the labour market outcomes. On the other hand as a public economist I think the ethics results are worth more attention; part of the case for publicly-sponsored religion is better social cohesion rather than private benefits.

Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Now out in Journal of Human Resources:

⛪️ Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes?
Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education

w/ @benjaminarold.bsky.social & Larissa Zierow

👉 Religious education in school affects adult lives

🔗 jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl...

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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · 1d

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:

jobs.hhs.se/en/job/stock...

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...

jobs.hhs.se

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Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 22h

Well.

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

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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Random paper from RePEc @random-repec-paper.bsky.social · 1d

The Quiet Revolution That Transformed Women's Employment, Education, and Family
by Claudia Goldin (2006)

IDEAS/RePEc link

to RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:96:y:2006:i:2:p:1-21

ideas.repec.org

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Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 1d

Did a brief intro in Chinese once but had to read it and get help with the translation. Was proud even of that, but I am sure you'll do much better! Have fun!

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 1d

Revisiting the unintended consequences of Ban the Box www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"The ACS has a larger sample size and more statistical power...using the American Community Survey there is no effect of these policies"

Revisiting the unintended consequences of Ban the Box

Ban-the-Box (BTB) policies intend to help formerly incarcerated individuals find employment by delaying when employers can ask about criminal records.…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 1d

My periodic reminder about this Harvard perfidy

Main characters: Larry Summers and Andrei Shleifer

web.archive.org/web/20160827...

How Harvard lost Russia

The best and brightest of America's premier university came to Moscow in the 1990s to teach Russians how to be capitalists. This is the inside story of how their efforts led to scandal and disgrace.

web.archive.org

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 1d

I clearly had a lot of thoughts/feelings from reading Terry's blog post, so I wrote one of my own

It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries

benharrap.com/post/2025-10...

#statssky #episky #academicsky

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Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 1d

I remember some smudgy green ink OHPs from both undergrad and PhD a decade later (green clearly decayed faster than black). But they couldn't have run much more than 20 years? - about what ppt slides projected from a computer have had?

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