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Tim Martens

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Assistant Professor in Accounting. Innovation and Disclosure Research. www.diss-conference.com www.timmartens.de @Unibocconi Following, RTs and links ≠ endorsement.

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Tim Martens @tmartens.bsky.social · Dec 17

References or it didn't happen.

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Tim Martens @tmartens.bsky.social · 1d

Well, I only know that the IP profs conduct some super interesting research!

Tim Martens @tmartens.bsky.social · 1d

If you rebrand post-docs as AP non-tt, you have to highlight this no?

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 6d

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out

As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

open.substack.com

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 7d

in Canada, the Liberals were historically unpopular, then Trump started talking about the 51st state stuff, the Liberal leader did a lot of talk about resisting him, and the polls looked like this:

Graph from The Economist. The conservatives pull ahead for most of 2024 until a very wide gap, then at the very end of the graph the liberal line goes nearly vertical and the conservative line plummets.

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Tim Martens @tmartens.bsky.social · 8d

Hahah SOURacha amazing! Please keep is updated.

Tim Martens @tmartens.bsky.social · 10d

Yes, sounds like a very cool example.

Tim Martens @tmartens.bsky.social · 10d

So none if the students has noted the proposal is cheap talk and there is a verification phase post proposal ;)

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Tim Martens @tmartens.bsky.social · 11d

I bet this has nothing to do with a golf documentary on Netflix.

Tim Martens @tmartens.bsky.social · 14d

Fuck yea! Science!

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14d

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.com

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Aug 4

Research active faculty teach classes that are significantly closer to the knowledge frontier.

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Tim Martens @tmartens.bsky.social · 16d

Agree.

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16d

Good news for China, India and Canada:

"firms respond to restrictions on H-1B immigration by increasing foreign affiliate employment... particularly in China, India, and Canada. The most impacted jobs were R&D- intensive."

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Tim Martens @tmartens.bsky.social · 17d

Just arrived.

Tim Martens @tmartens.bsky.social · 18d

Let's be serious, I do not have the feeling that anyone really has a strategy to attract the people. Top unis will attract them anyway and the rest will stay put.

Tim Martens @tmartens.bsky.social · 18d

You would think that.

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Tim Martens @tmartens.bsky.social · 18d

Chinese AI labs must celebrate the 100k visa EO.

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 22d

"Cutting the VAT rate on restaurant meals, for example, was not one of the most pressing priorities coming out of the Munich Security Conference."

Well put, Deutsche Bank. (On the disappointment with Germany's infrastructure fund helping to finance giveaways.)

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The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) @reveconstudies.bsky.social · 22d

"New study finds salary benchmarking cuts pay gaps by 25%. Pay dispersion partly arises from firms’ uncertainty about market rates, with key implications for pay transparency policy."

New paper from Perez-Truglia, Li & Cullen

www.restud.com/whats-my-emp...:

#econsky
#REStud

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Tim Martens @tmartens.bsky.social · 24d

Best news I read all day.

Tim Martens @tmartens.bsky.social · 27d

I have to admit: this is legit funny and could actually work.

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 28d

Hate speech fuels stochastic terrorism risk.

"Stochastic terrorism has been defined as the incitement of a violent act through public demonization of a group or individual.”

Amman and Malloy (2021)

www.jstor.org/stable/27073...

Stochastic Terrorism: A Linguistic and Psychological Analysis A Linguistic and Psychological Analysis on JSTOR

Molly Amman, J. Reid Meloy, Stochastic Terrorism, Perspectives on Terrorism, Vol. 15, No. 5 (October 2021), pp. 2-13

www.jstor.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29d

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 29d

Texas A&M University System orders audit of all courses after gender identity lesson goes viral

Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ

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Tim Martens @tmartens.bsky.social · Sep 6

Fascinating read.

Elizabeth Austin @elizabethaustin.bsky.social · Aug 24

www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...

The Cold Case of a University of Chicago Professor's Murder

Remembering — and forgetting — the unsolved killing of Ioan Culianu.

www.chicagomag.com

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · Sep 5

"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds"

Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds

Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle age

www.theguardian.com

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Karandeep Singh @kdpsingh.bsky.social · Sep 5

Tired: Adjusting for covariates

Wired: “Building a digital twin”

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