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Yann de Mey @yanndemey.bsky.social · 14h

Exiting moment for any economist: when your kids learn about money in school 😁 #econsky

Yann de Mey @yanndemey.bsky.social · 2d

Had the privilege to catch Refused on their goodbye tour yesterday. What a blast! It’s rare to see a band with such energy, style blending, and political and audience engagement 11/10 #RefusedAreReallyFckingDead

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C. Jänicke @cjaenicke.bsky.social · 3d

Just published 🌱:
We dug into 16 million+ field records across Central Europe to find out what drives farmers’ crop rotation choices.
Turns out past cropping, agronomic advice, and legume prices matter a lot and legumes are likely to play a much bigger role in the future👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

Redirecting

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Yann de Mey @yanndemey.bsky.social · 5d

The only kind of gang activity we get to see around #Wegeningen

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Yann de Mey @yanndemey.bsky.social · 7d

Works like a charm on anything you throw at it! But of course always double check manually and make final edits if needed

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Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE @richardtol.bsky.social · 24d

All is not well at Elsevier richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...

Fraud and cover-up

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Yann de Mey @yanndemey.bsky.social · 28d

Great use case of ClaudeAI or ChatGPT: to transfer equations from a textbook to PowerPoint slides I just take a picture and ask for Latex code that can be plugged into the equation editor and converted into a perfect vector-based equation!

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Sep 8

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚

Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!

Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

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Yann de Mey @yanndemey.bsky.social · Sep 9

Greatly looking forward to the next AgEconMeet session with Marc Bellemare in two weeks

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · Sep 8

Today's ChatGPT use case: give it Stata code and have it draft a methodology section based on it. A straightforward yet somewhat time-consuming task to do manually.

Bonus: if the writeup doesn't match what you THINK you did, it may be due to an error in your code that you didn't catch.

#EconSky

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Yann de Mey @yanndemey.bsky.social · Sep 8

Just received a physical copy of the dissertation of one of my own PhD students via the internal mail system … from the other side of the building 🤣 (one elevator ride away). Gotta love bureaucracy 👏

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Yann de Mey @yanndemey.bsky.social · Sep 5

In Stata it is a bit more intuitive: # specifies an interaction term between two variables and ## specifies a full factorial, including the main effects of each variable and their interaction term

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