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E. Aster
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⚙️ PhD in Economics (in progress) — studying the world from the inside.
Finance & management controlling.
Quietly obsessed with international cooperation and schizophrenia — both systemic and human.
If entropy feels familiar, you’re home.
Pinned
There comes a moment when success stops making sense and the search for meaning begins.

This space was born there — in the curve between what I was and what I’m trying to build.

#Phdinprogress
#EconomicsAndMeaning
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Happy New Year! 🎉 Whose 2026 is all about lifelong learning? 🙋‍♀️📚
January 1, 2026 at 8:01 AM
This is where it started. I came from LatAm and began working in Europe for a listed North American company. Global standards, learning to operate between worlds. Committed to the craft of economics and to building a social business that serves the real economy. Stepping into 2026✨🌎
#GlobalFinance26
December 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
If economics assumes humans are money-making robots, the model is broken from the start. Humans are multidimensional beings: wellbeing, dignity and purpose shape economic outcomes. A distorted view of behaviour leads to distorted economics.
#OxfordPath #BeyondHomoEconomicus
December 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Your #existential PSA for the day, courtesy of #HermannHesse:
December 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
December 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
On my path toward the PhD, there are moments of sacrifice, frustration, and excitement — and also adventure: discovering places filled with knowledge, history,and quiet inspiration. These are the spaces where research meets reflection, and where learning turns into wisdom.
#PhdJourney #ThroughMyLens
November 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Curious — anyone here doing a PhD at Oxford?

#PhD #OxfordUniversity #ResearchCommunity
November 4, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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This week on “Money Talks” Mike Bird, Alice Fulwood and Ethan Wu speak to Sophie Pedder about France’s politically challenging budget problems
Budget balancing act: an interview with France’s finance minister
Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, how to pass a budget that keeps bringing down the French government
econ.st
November 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
💬 We talk about freedom, but go silent when it comes to money.
It’s not modesty — it’s conditioning.

A system that teaches us how to pray, love, and compete —

yet never how to understand real value.

Money isn’t just a taboo.

It’s the secret language of power. 💸

#HumanSystems #Finance
November 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
💬 Hablamos de libertad, pero callamos cuando se trata de dinero.

No es pudor: es programación.
Un sistema que enseña a rezar, amar y competir —
pero nunca a entender el valor real de las cosas.

Por eso el dinero no es solo un tabú.
Es el idioma secreto del poder. 💸

#TabúEconómico #Finanzas
November 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Funny how my husband and a stranger described me the same way. 💭

“You make people smile because you tell uncomfortable truths with elegance.”

Strange how recognition can feel both intimate and distant at once. 🪩

#EleganceInTruth #QuietIrony
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ALT: a cartoon llama covering its face with its hand and the words that 's funny below it
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Es la primera vez que, dentro de mi investigación, me resuena la teología —
la de Nouwen, la de la liberación…
Y entiendo que hay lecturas para las que aún no estás preparada.

Como dice Nouwen:

“Discernir no cambia el mundo,
cambia la manera en que lo vemos,
y eso lo cambia todo.”

🎓 #HenriNouwen
November 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
No puedo conservar tu amistad sin conservar mi propia independencia.
November 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
🚆 Most of my studying happens on trains —not because they help me focus, but because life won’t stop.

The noise, the motion, the in-between hours —sometimes they’re all I have.

Maybe it’s not about learning more,
but about not giving up on the way there. ⚙️

#InTransit #PhDJourney #EAster
November 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
There comes a moment when success stops making sense and the search for meaning begins.

This space was born there — in the curve between what I was and what I’m trying to build.

#Phdinprogress
#EconomicsAndMeaning
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Doing the same over here 🙄 — escaping Meta one post at a time.👾
First attempt at posting here on Bluesky. I’m trying to move away from Instagram and will only be keeping anything Meta to follow greyhound and galgo rescues. Wish me luck on my writing session at my nearby coffee shop. #phdinprogress #igneouspetrologist #womeninstem
November 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
¿Y si la inteligencia, humana o no, es una manifestación del universo buscando conocerse a sí mismo?
October 31, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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PhD studentship for interested chinese nationals funded by the China Scholarship Council!

Come work with us to investigate how innate immunity works in an important agricultural pest, and disentangle how the immune system evolves. 🇬🇧🇨🇳

For more info, see: bit.ly/4ntrsEe
#Drosophila #Aphid #Immunity
October 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Hay un momento en que el éxito deja de tener sentido y empieza la búsqueda de significado.

Este espacio nace ahí: en la curva entre lo que era y lo que quiero construir.
October 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Truth is just coherence under stress.
October 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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October 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM