Looking for a Research Assistant for 3 months. Project on Carbon Colonialism with Guy Pincus and Orlando Roman (@gvagrad.bsky.social). If you’re interested, more details here: etiennelerossignol.wordpress.com/home/open-po...

Office of the day was in lovely Bern ! Very thankful for the valuable feedback I received at the Brown Bag Seminar of the @wti.bsky.social ! I presented a (very) preliminary version of a project on trade and humanitarian aid in South Sudan.

Currently in Lusaka with @theigc.bsky.social Zambia Evidence Lab, studying how firms adapted to having only a few hours of electricity per day since 2024. Some effects I hadn't imagined : unironed suits in clothing shops, betting machines stopping mid-game, and restaurants reduced to serving drinks.

#rstats has pipes (|>), but maybe we need other plumbing functionality, like:

-A 'tap' (🚰) operator that allows us to turn code blocks on and off;
-A u-bend function that automatically removes extreme outliers; and
-A drainage function that deletes temporary objects and unloads unused packages

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Look, obviously my emotional reaction to that press conference is to punch a wall so hard either it or my knuckles break.

But let put that on hold for a moment and ask, very dispassionately and calmly:

What American national interest objective or foreign policy goal was served by that shit-show?

here's @gvagrad.bsky.social stater pack! Just follow all

The Geneva Grad community is growing !

10 key insights from development economics research on @voxdev.bsky.social in 2024.

Today I wrote about the standout takeaways from the broad range of research I have read this year. You can read the full blog on VoxDev: voxdev.org/topic/ten-ke...

Here they are in a thread 🧵 1/11

Hey ! This is my new BlueSky account. I'll share here bits of my life as PhD student (researcher?) in Economics, and of my side-gig as a football referee.

But most importantly, I look forward to connecting with you !