I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

over their lifetime is not positive. This is irrelevant and should never be a factor in deciding whether to support their education and wellbeing. Every child has the right to feel valued and included. Their wellbeing and mental health is not a financial decision.

While it’s important to highlight the economic benefits of investing in the education of children with special needs, it is critical to recognise that this is a question of fundamental rights. Some children have significant difficulties that mean that over the « return on investment »

Rocking our odd socks! #WorldDownSyndromDay

Oh well

For all our liberal sensibilities, race and gender disparities in econ academia have not changed in 15 years. What moral high ground do we have to promote policy elsewhere?

Great opportunity for UK based and Mexico based ECRs to work together on climate action projects. Winning projects will receive seed corn funding! Please spread the word through your networks #climateaction #ECRs #Adaptation #Mitigation

The King must be asking himself if the monarchy is really worth all this pain! www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...

Perhaps because I read it just after reading “Orbital” which was very beautiful and poignant.

Just finished “In Ascension” and I don’t get the hype or the very positive reviews. It reads well but it is far from being “mesmerising”, “monumental” or “magnificent”.

New short piece in The Conversation. With my colleague A. Delis we argue that we are definitely leaving the shore of free trade and entering an era of unfettered mercantilism.
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With Trump back in the White House, the age of free trade could be coming to an end theconversation.com/with-trump-b...

The Appointment Terms and Research Support page contains more details on the Ad Astra Fellowships: www.ucd.ie/adastrafello...

Salary range: €62,855–€99,533
Application deadline: 21 February

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The strange liberal nonchalance about Trump’s return

What a photograph.

#EconSky #History

Yup 👍 but sorcery can be good sometimes 😀

They work just fine. No regrets here for switching

Today marks 17yrs since my brave & beautiful mum died, her final weeks were distressing & she didn’t get to meet George born 4 weeks later or see me enter politics.
As I vote in favour of assisted dying on Friday I will be thinking of her & how we could have given her more dignity & help others

I do hope the bill will pass

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l... very thoughtful discussion of assisted dying. It’s important to have safeguards, but terminally ill people deserve to have a say and a choice.

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.

**Tell Everyone**

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A few days left to apply for our postdoc in computational social science 👇. Please get in touch if you have any questions. Please apply if you do quantitative text analysis & want to expand this during the next years.

To Quit Their Jobs, Sugar Workers Risk Kidnapping, Assault and Murder: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/w...