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Guillermo Andrés @gandres.bsky.social · Aug 28

When did it go from “Let’s seize the chance to recruit talent from abroad” to “Fluency in my national language is a must”?

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Earth System Governance Project @esgproject.bsky.social · Jul 17

📣 Got an env governance dataset others should know about?

We’re building the ESG Data Directory—an open resource to make datasets more visible and usable, esp. for early-career researchers.

🔗 Submit: forms.gle/8tRFuV4Ubx7L...
🔗 Become an ESG Fellow: www.earthsystemgovernance.org/apply-to-bec...

Input to Earth System Governance Data Directory

Researchers in the environmental governance field have developed a wide range of valuable datasets and databases—but these resources are often difficult to find or not widely known. The Earth System G...

forms.gle

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NEP-INO: Innovation @repec-nep-ino.bsky.social · Aug 25

Building a Scientific Community? The WOEPS Workshop and the Evolution of the Economics of Science, 1994-2023: Daniel Souza; Aldo Geuna; Cornelia Lawson

NEP/RePEc link

to paper

d.repec.org

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Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨New in Finance & Space 🚨

Eric Helleiner delivers a tour de force analysis of international finance amid polycrisis, encompassing:

🌍 Pandemic
🚩 Geopolitical conflict
🔥 Climate crisis
💱 Geoeconomic fragmentation
💣 Impending financial crisis?

Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

International finance and the global polycrisis

It has become commonplace to suggest that we are living through a kind of ‘global polycrisis’. This article shows how the mobilisation of international finance has been at the core of political res...

www.tandfonline.com

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Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · Jun 27

Got sharp insights on the shifting financial landscape?

In addition to original research articles, we accept submissions on a rolling basis for:

📝 Short-form commentaries
📊 FinVis – innovative visualizations that bring finance to life

More info here www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfa...

Learn about Finance and Space

Learn about Finance and Space aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.

www.tandfonline.com

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Christian Zimmermann @czimm-economist.bsky.social · Jul 23

Looking for economists to follow on BlueSky, in particular in your field or geographic area? IDEAS has various lists to help you. See there as well to get listed (hint: just add your BlueSky handle in your author profile)

ideas.repec.org/i/ebluesky.h...

#RePEc #EconSky

RePEc-registered Economists on Bluesky

ideas.repec.org

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Guillermo Andrés @gandres.bsky.social · Jul 22

Buongiorno

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Journal of Political Economy @jpolecon.bsky.social · Jun 17

The JPE is happy to announce that Florian Oswald is joining the journal as data editor in July. Details on JPE's updated data policy can be found at www.journals.uchicag....
@floswald.bsky.social
#EconSky

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Paris School of Economics @pse.bsky.social · Jun 18

📅 The PSE-CEPR Policy Forum opens today at PSE!
3 days of key debates on the future of work, AI & reallocation, conditions & remote, gender inequality.
Let’s get started.
@cepr.org
#PSECEPRPolicyForum #Econ

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Departamento Fundamentos del Análisis Económico UA @departamentofae.bsky.social · Jun 12

🚀 We’ve just kicked off the Workshop on Macroeconomics and Productivity at the @ua.es !

👋 The opening has been led by Carmen Bevià ( @carmenbevia.bsky.social ‬), Head of the Department of Economic Foundations at the University of Alicante.

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · Jun 11

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:

"How to Write a Title and Abstract"

Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.

#EconSky #AcademicSky

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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · Jun 10

How it started... How it's going

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · Jun 8

Hey, #arm2025 attendees, @josh-caplan.bsky.social , @academyhealth.bsky.social , and @aaronecarroll.bsky.social , I made the #hspr strarter pack last year. Here are great people and orgs to follow. Enjoy Twin Cities. Still affected by fed travel limits. #hspr

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UNU-WIDER @unu-wider.bsky.social · Jun 8

Next, we are happy to introduce our Visiting Scholar, Gabriel Cepaluni! An Associate Professor at São Paulo State University (UNESP), Gabriel examines how gun violence affects the effectiveness of government teams investigating forced labor.

Meet our visitors: go.unu.edu/D0wIP

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Pietro Battiston 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @pietrobattiston.it · Jun 5

Internal seminar this week at Department of Economics and Management of University of Pisa: Davide FIaschi will present "Nighttime lights as a measure of local economic activity", joint work with Angela Parenti and Cristiano Ricci. See you tomorrow ec.unipi.it/eventi/david... #econsky #seminar #pisa

Davide Fiaschi (University of Pisa): Nighttime lights as a measure of local economic activity - Dipartimento di Economia e Management

Date: Friday, 6 June 2025, at 2:00 pm Venue: Seminar Room Bruguier Pacini, DEM Speaker: Davide Fiaschi (University of Pisa) Title:…Leggi tutto...

ec.unipi.it

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Zi Yang Kang @ziyangkang.bsky.social · Dec 3

1/ My co-author @mitchwatt.bsky.social is on the #EconJobMarket this year.

Mitch is an applied theorist interested in market design, IO, and public policy.

I happen to know his #JMP and its companion paper very well. 😇

🧵👇 with an overview of both papers.

#EconSky

Mitch's JMP: Optimal Redistribution Through Subsidies

Our other paper: Optimal In-Kind Redistribution

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · Jun 2

Happy to share this paper. Full thread coming soon!

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International Growth Centre @theigc.bsky.social · Jun 1

🚨 Call now open! The India Sustainable Growth Hub is inviting proposals for policy-relevant research on sustainable growth 📊

🗓 Deadline: 6 July 2025
💷 Grants up to £40k
📍 Research must be India-based

Apply now 👉 www.theigc.org/india-sustai...
#ResearchFunding #ClimateAction

India Sustainable Growth Hub (ISGH): Call for proposals 2025

Apply for the India Sustainable Growth Hub call for proposals opening on 1 June 2025

www.theigc.org

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · May 26

Stata users will get a kick out of this:

@statacorp.bsky.social v1.0 (released January 1985) only had these 44 commands.

Source: stata-journal.com/sj5-1.html

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · May 26

Did you know that the COVID-19 pandemic caused ⚡⚡⚡ lighting ⚡⚡⚡ strikes to decline a lot across the globe?

Why?

Less travel ➡️ fewer anthropogenic aerosols in the air ➡️ fewer clouds ➡️ less lightning.

So when the world paused during the pandemic, storms got notably less intense.

Cool, eh?

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Simone Conradi @sconradi.bsky.social · May 25

I love chaos.
Made with #python #numba #numpy #matplotlib

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · May 25

Scientists are increasingly hyping up their findings.

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Simone Conradi @sconradi.bsky.social · May 24

A video of my Orbits #mathart.
Made with #python #numpy #numba #matplotlib

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Alec Stapp @alecstapp.bsky.social · May 23

Not sure how many people realize that battery storage already supplies 30% of California’s electricity demand at peak.

Batteries aren’t the future — they’re here now.

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · May 23

Hear me out: I’ve been pushing for not just “Writing Retreats” but “Reading Retreats” or just… “Thinking Retreats…”

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