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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 14/09/2026

There's A LOT of ways the Trump admin is currently attacking & decimating American science. Here's a breakdown of what they are doing, and what you can do about it. 🧵

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

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Adrian Haws @adrianhaws.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The first Census Tree conference is accepting submissions! This is a great opportunity to: * receive feedback * meet researchers using the Census Tree * learn about the data methodology + efforts to expand it Travel funds available to presenters! populationanalytics.nd.edu/news-and-eve...

The Census Tree Conference will be held on February 25 and 26, 2027 at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana.

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Adrian Haws @adrianhaws.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Another great lineup at the Virtual Economic History Workshop this fall! If you're an early-career researcher interested in economic history, you can join the mailing list here: tinyurl.com/2cnazsn4

Virtual Economic History Workshop -- Fall 2026 schedule

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Matt Hall @fertmortmig.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

📣📣📣Cornell Population Center is hiring for its next Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow The fellowship is competitive and provides ample time for pursuing independent and collaborative research. Welcome applications from all scholars interested in population research. Please share widely!

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Cornell University, Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy

Job #AJO32452, WDR-00060532 Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

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Adrian Haws @adrianhaws.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

📢CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS | Virtual Economic History Workshop for early-career researchers 📈 Empirical econ + historical context + creative data and methods 🗺️ Junior scholars from any location invited Sign up to present: forms.gle/K2eQYTmHpmWJ... Join the mailing list: forms.gle/tVWH2TPYaRuD...

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Adrian Haws @adrianhaws.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Professional update: I've moved to Bergen for a postdoc at the FAIR Centre in the NHH Norwegian School of Economics! Excited for 3 years of lutefisk, brown cheese, and breathtaking views. I'm immensely grateful for those who helped me on my Ph.D. journey, and I feel lucky to join the NHH faculty

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Adrian Haws @adrianhaws.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Mizzou library collection of price and wage data is a treasure trove for economic historians. I needed to find wages for particular years, states, and occupations. Problem solved! I just donated in gratitude, and I hope you do too. libraryguides.missouri.edu/pricesandwag...

Introduction page to "Prices and wages by decade" at the University of Missouri Libraries website. "This guide points to prices and wages found in primary sources for each decade back to the 1700s. Our preference is government sources though we also use commercial catalogs, travel guides, newspapers, etc. We point only to publications that are freely available online, making extensive use of the HathiTrust Digital Library, the FRASER digital library, and the Internet Archive.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/07/2026

OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵

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New Report on Extorted Compliance Charges “Massive Extortion Racket” Against Higher Ed

A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 01/05/2026

Love employment research and policy? We do too! @upjohninstitute.bsky.social is hiring a full-time research analyst. Our current RAs' degrees range from BA to PhD, so give the opening a look. #econ_ra #EconSky #sociology #policysky

JOB POSTING – RESEARCH ANALYST
POSTING DATE: May 1, 2026
The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research is seeking a talented Research Analyst to support
social science PhD researchers with statistical programming, analysis of data, and other analytical
tasks for research projects. The ideal candidate for this position will have demonstrated programming,
data management, analytical, writing, and communication skills through a bachelor’s or graduate
degree in quantitative social sciences or a related program. The position offers the opportunity for
career growth with promotions based on performance and experience, and initial placement is
commensurate with experience.
Research Analysts work closely with PhD researchers on empirical projects related to the labor market
and the economy. Their work largely involves statistical programming; assembling, structuring, and
managing databases; analysis of data; and preparation of empirical results for presentation in reports,
working papers, and articles. Tasks also may include writing documents that describe how data were
processed, designing and maintaining databases, conducting literature reviews, proofreading final
written documents, and contributing to the development of software programs to implement frontier
statistical analysis.
Hybrid work arrangements (both in-office and remote work) may be available depending on the nature
of assigned research projects, but the position is not fully remote. Projects involving confidential data
may require the incumbent to undergo fingerprinting and a background check.
A bachelor’s degree with experience in statistics, econometrics, and computer programming is
required. Demonstrated research experience—e.g., working with a faculty member on a research
project or independent research through a graduate program—is desirable.
Knowledge of basic statistical and econometric methods; experience with at least one statistical
programming language, p…

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Hey, #EconSky! The administration is trying to cut NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate. Click below to contact your representatives and urge them to save it. Tell your friends. Our research matters and is worth funding! www.congressweb.com/COSSA/58?fra...

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Tell Congress to Save NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate!

On April 3, the Trump Administration released its budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2027. In it, the Administration states its intent to dismantle the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Social, Beh...

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🎉🏫New paper! 🏫🎉 "High Schools and the Uneven Rise in American Opportunity" by myself, Alison Doxey, and Ezra Karger (@ezrakarger.bsky.social) www.peternencka.com/assets/high_... www.nber.org/papers/w35068

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Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Happy to have contributed to this along w/ @karenguzzo.bsky.social @marthajbailey.bsky.social & Melissa Kearney. My favorite from Karen: “We spent decades shaming women 4 having kids under the wrong circumstances, 4 not having their ducks in a row. Now they are holding up their end of the bargain.”

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The Birthrate Is Plunging. Why Some Say That’s a Good Thing.

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Adrian Haws @adrianhaws.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Fantastic lineup of speakers at the Virtual Economic History Workshop this Spring! Join the mailing list here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Virtual Economic History Workshop – Spring 2026 schedule
Organized by Adrian Haws (Cornell University)
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February 5
Jon Denton-Schneider (Clark University)
“Crimes Against Nature: The Colonial Roots of Homophobia in Sub-Saharan Africa”
March 5
Adrian Haws (Cornell University)
“Can Immigrants Transfer their Skills? Evidence from International Census Data”
April 2
Anne Schaller (Saint Louis University)
“A Fresh Look at the Origins and Impetus for Antitrust”
May 7
Harrison Chang (University of Toronto)
“Economic Depression and Labor Union Formation: Evidence From the Panic of 1873”
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The Virtual Economic History Workshop is a venue for early-career researchers to present their in-progress research in economic history. The workshop focuses on rigorous empirical research that is grounded in historical context and builds on methods for digitizing and linking rich historical data. Anyone interested in attending can join the mailing list.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

New at Can We Still Govern? "I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government." Please read, share, help. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...

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Dispatch from the occupation

What life is like in Minneapolis now

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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 08/01/2026

Turn your anger into action. Call your rep tonight and leave a voicemail demanding impeachment and removal of Noem and her criminal.boss, Trump. ☎️(202) 224-3121 Then email your rep the same message. Make them encounter full email and voicemail inboxes tomorrow.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 08/01/2026

In the light of ICE's unjustifiable murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, AAUP President Todd Wolfson has released a statement urging that ICE should suspend all operation in American cities. Read full statement at link below 👇 and at the graphic in this thread 🧵 #AbolishICE #AcademicSky

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AAUP President Todd Wolfson: ICE Should Suspend All Operation in American Cities

The AAUP stands in solidarity with the family of Renee Nicole Good and all communities that have suffered under ICE occupation.

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Yale Economic Growth Center @yaleegc.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Missed Leah Boustan's AEA Distinguished Lecture at the conference? Watch it here: www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/202... Her new findings on recent immigrant assimilation patterns across Europe show some similarities, but also some critical differences compared to the US.

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Adrian Haws @adrianhaws.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

📢CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS | Virtual Economic History Workshop for early-career researchers The workshop turns 3 in January! 🎉🎉🎉 Presenters have come from 15 universities in 3 countries (list below) Sign up to present: forms.gle/vt21XRe4KA4J... Join the mailing list: forms.gle/tVWH2TPYaRuD... 1/

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Adrian Haws @adrianhaws.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Excited to present at #ASSA2026 tomorrow! Come to the Marriott a few minutes before the AEA Distinguished Lecture, and I'll explore how imperfect skill transferability (think: taxi-driving doctors) might explain some of the patterns shown by Leah Boustan and her colleagues

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Notre Dame Economics @ndecon.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Haley Wilbert @hwilbert.bsky.social is an applied microeconomist with interests in demography, health, history, and labor. Her JMP is "After the Cut: Cesarean Delivery and Subsequent Fertility." She also has a publication in Explorations in Economic History. sites.google.com/view/haleywi...

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Haley Wilbert

Email: hwilbert@nd.edu

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 15/11/2025

One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.

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Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics

The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/11/2025

The Friends of BLS are currently seeking organizational and individual support for our FY26 BLS Endorsement Letter and hope you will join us by signing on as an organization or individual. #EconSky #NumbersDay

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Cornell AAUP @cornellaaup.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. At best, we can say that this deal could have been worse. Read our full statement here:

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Statement on Cornell’s agreement with federal government

The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. We ar…

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Adrian Haws @adrianhaws.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Disappointed in Cornell's announcement today. Despite finding no violations of the law, Cornell will make a direct $30 million direct payment "as a condition for ending pending claims."

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An agreement to restore Cornell’s federal research funding | University Statements | Cornell University

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Rick Hornbeck @rickhornbeck.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

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Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata - Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 30/10/2025

Also check out #EconJMP. I will repost job market candidates' threads there. bsky.app/profile/aaro...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

🧵 This thread is a summary of what’s happened in the Chicago area in recent weeks as the Trump regime uses masked, armed immigration agents to terrorize Chicagoans. 🧵 / A federal agent shot a Presbyterian minister in the head with a pepper ball at an ICE facility in a Chicago suburb.

Photo of federal agents and protesters enveloped in tear gas.

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Adrian Haws @adrianhaws.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

There's a job posting for a Grok "AI tutor" on the American Economics Association website. No salary, benefits, or job security. It's gig work for PhDs. Are we really doing this? @aeainformation.bsky.social #EconJobMarket #EconSky

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Census State Data Centers @censussdc.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

We're RT'ing the BEST #CensusData and #govtstats insights, news, etc. Recent tweets from SDCs, affiliates in: CA, CO, CT, DC, GA, IN, MA, MD, MN, NC, NY, OR, PR, TN, TX and UT. Follow us on 🟦@censussdc.bsky.social – also 🐘sciences.social/@censusSDC

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IPUMS @ipums.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Did you hear the USDA plans to cease data collection for the CPS Food Security supplement? We have a blog post to give you more information. If you want to sign a letter asking for data collection to continue, see the threaded opportunities below. blog.popdata.org/food-securit...

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Measuring Food Security with U.S. Federal Data – Use It for Good

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 07/10/2025

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk. American citizens are being detained & brutalized. This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

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Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Adrian Haws @adrianhaws.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

We should be horrified that a live news broadcaster is calling for murdering homeless people. But this is just another blip in the barrage of violence and dehumanization against many groups including... 1/

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Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

🎂🎉 Lucky 13 is William Cockriel's fascinating paper on the introduction of the McKay stitcher, which dramatically changed shoe production in the late 19th century. Using the Census Tree, he shows that the most exposed shoemakers and their children lost 2.2 and 1.9 years of wages, respectively.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 10/09/2025

Universities must be bastions of open inquiry, not battlegrounds for partisan intimidation. Please sign & share.

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Adrian Haws @adrianhaws.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Likely several violations of constitutional and international human rights. And it’s happening every day now. Masks, secrecy, and lightning speed are the actions of a group that knows its own illegitimacy. www.archives.gov/founding-doc... www.law.cornell.edu/wex/crime_ag...

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Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

We're back at it with Day 12 🎂🎉: In his job market paper, Dongkyu Yang uses the Census Tree to create the shift-share IVs for his investigation into the role of labor scarcity in facilitating capital-augmenting technical change in the American South during the Second Great Migration (1940-1970).

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Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Census Tree Bday Celebration 🎂🎉Day 11: Ager & Malein use the Census Tree to show that early 20th century charity nurseries w/kindergarten instruction significantly improved children’s educational attainment & long-run economic outcomes, especially for disadvantaged immigrant children.

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The long-term effects of charity nurseries: Evidence from early 20th century New York

EconStor is a publication server for scholarly economic literature, provided as a non-commercial public service by the ZBW.

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Adrian Haws @adrianhaws.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Thanks for the shoutout! Without the Census Tree, we could not have studied how a parental wealth shock affects daughters‘ education, labor market, and marriage outcomes

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Matt Hall @fertmortmig.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

🚨 The Cornell Population Center is recruiting our next CPC Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow (start: Aug 2026). We welcome outstanding early-career scholars in all disciplines engaging population research. Apply + share widely: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30347

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Cornell University, Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy

Job #AJO30347, WDR-00054856 Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell Population Center (CPC): Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellowships, Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University, Itha...

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Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Census Tree birthday party Day 9 🎂🎉: @withrowjenny.bsky.social uses the Census Tree to explore the roles of race & gender in migrant selection & sorting during the exodus of single young people from U.S. Southern farms from 1900-1940. Female migration rates ⬆️ in response to ⬇️ male marriageability.

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Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

We took Labor Day off, but we're back with Day 8 of the Census Tree's bday celebration!🎂🎉 Bazzi et al. find that frontier exposure entrenched inegalitarian conservative gender norms in the U.S., leading to long-run decreases in female labor force & political participation & higher fertility rates.

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Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

It’s Day 7! 🎂🎉 @jacobvanecon.bsky.social‬ uses the Census Tree to show that individuals exposed to the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 were less geographically mobile, had shorter lifespans, and were less likely to be literate, with some of these effects persisting across generations.

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The long-run and intergenerational effects of natural disaster exposure: Evidence from the Galveston Hurricane of 1900

I exploit a natural experiment to examine the long-run and intergenerational effects of a major negative shock, exploring how where we live can have long-lastin

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