@fabolange.bsky.social
20% is roughly the share As McGill gives out. Is Harvard feeling the pressure from the North?
Going from 50%+ A's to something closer to 20% will be a hard adjustment for students but hopefully we can market it effectively so employers and graduate schools are aware. And hopefully other schools will feel pressure to follow suit so their grades contain signals as well.
February 7, 2026 at 11:42 AM
20% is roughly the share As McGill gives out. Is Harvard feeling the pressure from the North?
Blah blah tariff blah blah greenland blah - white noise
January 18, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Blah blah tariff blah blah greenland blah - white noise
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I have been hearing recently that many people don't know about the ability to submit to AEJ-Policy (or any of the other AEJs) after submitting to AER-Insights (following the same process that existed going from the AER to the AEJs)
More details and instructions here: www.aeaweb.org/journals/pol...
More details and instructions here: www.aeaweb.org/journals/pol...
January 10, 2026 at 4:34 PM
I have been hearing recently that many people don't know about the ability to submit to AEJ-Policy (or any of the other AEJs) after submitting to AER-Insights (following the same process that existed going from the AER to the AEJs)
More details and instructions here: www.aeaweb.org/journals/pol...
More details and instructions here: www.aeaweb.org/journals/pol...
1/ McGill is searching for high profile candidates (advanced associate or Full) to apply for the Impact+ chairs funded by the Federal Government of Canada.These chairs are for candidates who are currently not residing or working in Canada.
January 8, 2026 at 2:52 PM
1/ McGill is searching for high profile candidates (advanced associate or Full) to apply for the Impact+ chairs funded by the Federal Government of Canada.These chairs are for candidates who are currently not residing or working in Canada.
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The NYTimes has clearly not chosen to follow the AP's lead.
The videos--which you should not watch unless you really have to, I assure you--gut DHS's claim, but the NYT *chooses* to *lead* with it.
The videos--which you should not watch unless you really have to, I assure you--gut DHS's claim, but the NYT *chooses* to *lead* with it.
January 7, 2026 at 9:22 PM
The NYTimes has clearly not chosen to follow the AP's lead.
The videos--which you should not watch unless you really have to, I assure you--gut DHS's claim, but the NYT *chooses* to *lead* with it.
The videos--which you should not watch unless you really have to, I assure you--gut DHS's claim, but the NYT *chooses* to *lead* with it.
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Or the “it’s my vote to do with what I want” crowd.
Or the “the two parties are basically the same” crowd.
The man doing this won the job fair and square, and everyone who actively or passively brought that about bears responsibility for that.
Or the “the two parties are basically the same” crowd.
The man doing this won the job fair and square, and everyone who actively or passively brought that about bears responsibility for that.
I don't want to hear from the people arguing "Trump isn't a fascist because he isn't expansionist" ever again.
January 3, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Or the “it’s my vote to do with what I want” crowd.
Or the “the two parties are basically the same” crowd.
The man doing this won the job fair and square, and everyone who actively or passively brought that about bears responsibility for that.
Or the “the two parties are basically the same” crowd.
The man doing this won the job fair and square, and everyone who actively or passively brought that about bears responsibility for that.
The US, from what I hear, has about 15,000 soldiers in the region. There is no way they can "run Venezuela" directly with that.
January 3, 2026 at 5:20 PM
The US, from what I hear, has about 15,000 soldiers in the region. There is no way they can "run Venezuela" directly with that.
Questions:
1. What is the reaction among Venezuela's neighbours?
2. How will they respond if Chaos breaks out in V?
3. Is the Trump admin willing or able to try to stabilize the country and prevent a vacuum?
4. If not, could China, Russia, and/or Cuba exploit a vacuum and how?
1. What is the reaction among Venezuela's neighbours?
2. How will they respond if Chaos breaks out in V?
3. Is the Trump admin willing or able to try to stabilize the country and prevent a vacuum?
4. If not, could China, Russia, and/or Cuba exploit a vacuum and how?
January 3, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Questions:
1. What is the reaction among Venezuela's neighbours?
2. How will they respond if Chaos breaks out in V?
3. Is the Trump admin willing or able to try to stabilize the country and prevent a vacuum?
4. If not, could China, Russia, and/or Cuba exploit a vacuum and how?
1. What is the reaction among Venezuela's neighbours?
2. How will they respond if Chaos breaks out in V?
3. Is the Trump admin willing or able to try to stabilize the country and prevent a vacuum?
4. If not, could China, Russia, and/or Cuba exploit a vacuum and how?
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New paper looks at Indiana Covid vaccine effects. Six month gap between 11 & 12-yr-old eligibility gives us out natural experiment. Result: Large spillover among households, but not for schools.
December 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
New paper looks at Indiana Covid vaccine effects. Six month gap between 11 & 12-yr-old eligibility gives us out natural experiment. Result: Large spillover among households, but not for schools.
Is it just me, or are if Statistics Canada getting increasingly difficult to deal with to access thwir data projwcts. Simple linkage requests are being denied with reference to 'capacity constraints. @cleforum.bsky.social
December 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Is it just me, or are if Statistics Canada getting increasingly difficult to deal with to access thwir data projwcts. Simple linkage requests are being denied with reference to 'capacity constraints. @cleforum.bsky.social
McGill is accepting applications of top international researchers for what are called Impact+ chairs. These are intended for outstanding researchers currently working and residing abroad and involve some real funding. Application deadline January 26th.
www.mcgill.ca/provost/acad...
www.mcgill.ca/provost/acad...
www.mcgill.ca
December 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
McGill is accepting applications of top international researchers for what are called Impact+ chairs. These are intended for outstanding researchers currently working and residing abroad and involve some real funding. Application deadline January 26th.
www.mcgill.ca/provost/acad...
www.mcgill.ca/provost/acad...
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14 2-yr Postdoc positions at 3 unis, any field (that is under pressure in US), deadline Jan 9
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
December 20, 2025 at 5:16 AM
14 2-yr Postdoc positions at 3 unis, any field (that is under pressure in US), deadline Jan 9
Very much agree. This will end my travelling to the US for the time the rule is in effect - even though I have family in the US and regularly attend professional meetings.
International economic associations, include the Society of Labor Economics should stop organizing conferences in the US.
International economic associations, include the Society of Labor Economics should stop organizing conferences in the US.
If this proposal goes through, I doubt I'll be attending conferences in the U.S. next year. It would come at a major professional cost, but I'm already concerned about random repercussions from border agents, and this would cross a red line. www.dw.com/en/us-demand...
US demands access to tourists' social media histories – DW – 12/10/2025
The Trump administration wants to force foreign visitors to give border agents access to their social media accounts before they are allowed into the country. The proposal applies to all visa-free tra...
www.dw.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Very much agree. This will end my travelling to the US for the time the rule is in effect - even though I have family in the US and regularly attend professional meetings.
International economic associations, include the Society of Labor Economics should stop organizing conferences in the US.
International economic associations, include the Society of Labor Economics should stop organizing conferences in the US.
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Hey #econsky! I'm organizing a workshop at Brown this Spring in partnership with Eric Nielsen and Viviana Rodriguez.
The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work.
And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!
The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work.
And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!
December 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Hey #econsky! I'm organizing a workshop at Brown this Spring in partnership with Eric Nielsen and Viviana Rodriguez.
The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work.
And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!
The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work.
And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!
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Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
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This is right up there with Abu Ghraib
December 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This is right up there with Abu Ghraib
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Other eras got This Guy as Aristotle or Sir Thomas Hobbes. The Nazis had Carl Schmitt, already an enormous downgrade from the first two.
And I suppose, as punishment for our hubris, we get Curtis Yarvin, the dumbest philosopher-of-power-worship that I am aware of.
And I suppose, as punishment for our hubris, we get Curtis Yarvin, the dumbest philosopher-of-power-worship that I am aware of.
December 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Other eras got This Guy as Aristotle or Sir Thomas Hobbes. The Nazis had Carl Schmitt, already an enormous downgrade from the first two.
And I suppose, as punishment for our hubris, we get Curtis Yarvin, the dumbest philosopher-of-power-worship that I am aware of.
And I suppose, as punishment for our hubris, we get Curtis Yarvin, the dumbest philosopher-of-power-worship that I am aware of.
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Happy Sept #JobsDay!
At 8:30 am ET, BLS delivers what’s usually one of the most-important signals abt how economy is changing. This one for Sept is 7 weeks late due to govt shutdown
Forecasts’ center:
+50K jobs
Unemployment rate (UR) steady at 4.3%
Also last week's UI claims released then too?
At 8:30 am ET, BLS delivers what’s usually one of the most-important signals abt how economy is changing. This one for Sept is 7 weeks late due to govt shutdown
Forecasts’ center:
+50K jobs
Unemployment rate (UR) steady at 4.3%
Also last week's UI claims released then too?
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Happy Sept #JobsDay!
At 8:30 am ET, BLS delivers what’s usually one of the most-important signals abt how economy is changing. This one for Sept is 7 weeks late due to govt shutdown
Forecasts’ center:
+50K jobs
Unemployment rate (UR) steady at 4.3%
Also last week's UI claims released then too?
At 8:30 am ET, BLS delivers what’s usually one of the most-important signals abt how economy is changing. This one for Sept is 7 weeks late due to govt shutdown
Forecasts’ center:
+50K jobs
Unemployment rate (UR) steady at 4.3%
Also last week's UI claims released then too?
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🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
Rui Castro, @fabolange.bsky.social & Markus Poschke review labor force transitions using Canadian data. They map flows across employment statuses, shedding light on individual labor-market dynamics. 🔗: www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...
Rui Castro, @fabolange.bsky.social & Markus Poschke review labor force transitions using Canadian data. They map flows across employment statuses, shedding light on individual labor-market dynamics. 🔗: www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...
November 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
Rui Castro, @fabolange.bsky.social & Markus Poschke review labor force transitions using Canadian data. They map flows across employment statuses, shedding light on individual labor-market dynamics. 🔗: www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...
Rui Castro, @fabolange.bsky.social & Markus Poschke review labor force transitions using Canadian data. They map flows across employment statuses, shedding light on individual labor-market dynamics. 🔗: www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...
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Breaking news: The SEPTEMBER JOBS REPORT comes out on THURSDAY., Nov. 20.
BLS will announce revised news release dates on this page as they become available.
#econsky @aaronsojourner.org
www.bls.gov/bls/2025-lap...
BLS will announce revised news release dates on this page as they become available.
#econsky @aaronsojourner.org
www.bls.gov/bls/2025-lap...
Revised news release dates following the 2025 lapse in appropriations
Revised news release dates following the 2025 lapse in appropriations
www.bls.gov
November 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Breaking news: The SEPTEMBER JOBS REPORT comes out on THURSDAY., Nov. 20.
BLS will announce revised news release dates on this page as they become available.
#econsky @aaronsojourner.org
www.bls.gov/bls/2025-lap...
BLS will announce revised news release dates on this page as they become available.
#econsky @aaronsojourner.org
www.bls.gov/bls/2025-lap...
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Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
Here's the planned BLS data release schedule for Nov 2025.
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever