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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things

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The Economic Journal @theeconjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In 2005-9 eight big tech firms (incl. Apple, Google, Intel, eBay) secretly agreed not to compete for each other's workers. This “no poaching” scheme reduced salaries by about 5.6%. In total workers lost at least $3.1bn, while the tech firms settled litigation for just $435mn.

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The Economic Journal @theeconjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In the current issue: ‘Employer Market Power in Silicon Valley’ by Matthew D Gibson doi.org/10.1093/ej/u... @resmedia.bsky.social @williamseconomics.bsky.social @upjohninstitute.bsky.social #EconSky

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's a rare policy that would be welcomed by both business and trade unions - and at the same time would *improve* the UK's fiscal position. Dropping these proposals - for which there is no economic, moral or political case - would be one. www.ft.com/content/8a00...

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Unions demand softening of UK immigration reforms

Proposals will ‘punish’ low-paid migrants doing essential work in public services and create a new staffing crisis in social care, says motion passed at TUC

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 06/09/2026

'[T]he publisher “crossed a fundamental red line in the good faith agreement between the Editorial Board and the publisher” by not consulting with the editorial board regarding future editorial appointments.' Academics really need to learn that this "good faith agreement" simply does not exist.

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Editors Mass Resign from Elsevier Journal After Editor-in-Chief Let Go | The Scientist

Six editors and 58 out of 62 advisory editors at an economics journal gave up their positions after the publisher did not renew the editor-in-chief’s contract.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

Meanwhile back in two tier policing

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Will making it harder/impossible for care workers/middle skill migrants on work visas to settle improve integration cohesion? No. But will it save money/be good for the economy? Absolutely not, quite the opposite. But at least it's popular? .......... inews.co.uk/news/politic...

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Exempt care workers from hardline immigration reforms, voters say

Shabana Mahmood plans to double the waiting period for immigrants to qualify for indefinite leave to remain

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ulez has delivered remarkable public health gains in a short period. Sadiq deserves more credit than he’s had for defying Labour pressure to U-turn after Uxbridge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19/08/2026

This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible.

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Queen Mary University of London @qmul.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Air pollution stunts children’s lung growth. New Queen Mary research found that improvements in air quality after the introduction of London’s ULEZ are associated with accelerated lung growth in children. Read more: shorturl.at/Jx86o

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 17/08/2026

Helpful reminder from Elsevier that they have the "legal power" to do what they want with your journals. You have the collective power to take your editorial work elsewhere.

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Stephanie Wang @sweiwang.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

🚨Elsevier forces out Games and Economic Behavior (GEB) Editor, entire editorial board has resigned, current board only handling new submissions until Nov. 14 #econsky

Dear Advisory Editor of GEB
We are very sorry to be the bearers of bad news for GEB.
I learned from Elsevier on Wednesday July 28 that, contrary to my expressed willingness to continue, my 3-year contract will not be renewed.
"Moving towards a closer alignment with Elsevier strategic priorities and publishing policies" was offered as the motive for this decision. Requests for explanations, first by me, then in a collective letter by the other six Editors, were dismissed by Elsevier which simply reaffirmed its legal power to make such decisions.
Elsevier then started precipitously its own search for new Editors without input of the Editorial Board.
By Friday August 14 all seven Editors have sent their resignation, requiring a 3-month advance notice.
Therefore, we will continue to manage as before the papers currently under review and the new submissions until Saturday November 14. After this date we will only complete the evaluation of papers still waiting an editorial decision.

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 12/08/2026

"FT has found evidence of controlled detonations and demolitions by Israeli forces and civilian contractors in dozens of border communities." Most of the destruction happened *after* the April ceasefire when territory was already under Israeli control (dark red dots). www.ft.com/content/25bc...

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How Israel is making southern Lebanon ‘unliveable’
Israeli forces have systematically destroyed homes, roads, farmland and forests despite ceasefire with Hizbollah

Patterns of destruction before and after the first ceasefire

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 10/08/2026

After US federal agencies began screening research for a list of flagged words, economists at universities most dependent on federal funding reduced politically sensitive content - even in research without direct federal funding. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Academic freedom has been declining over the past decade across the world. This column analyses over 25,000 economics working papers to show that, beyond direct intervention by authorities, political pressure also breeds self-censorship. After US federal agencies began screening research for a list of flagged words in early 2025, economists at universities most dependent on federal funding reduced politically sensitive content – even in research without any direct federal funding.

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Daniele Girardi @dgirardi.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🚨New version (1.0.3) of *lpdid* STATA command, which implements Local Projections Difference-in-Differences🚨 ssc install lpdid, replace The update fixes 2 bugs that could arise when using pmd() option in datasets with missing values or repeated oneoff treatments. No change outside those settings.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026

Reading articles on the amounts HE has spent in APCs over the last 5-10 years, and slowly watching my blood pressure rise. Millions upon millions, on something WE CAN ABSOLUTELY DO OURSELVES FOR A FRACTION OF THE COST - what universities couldn't do with that kind of money now... 😠 And breathe...

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This politician in Canada used ChatGPT to write his speech and then just directly read out loud the AI prompt without realising it, announcing to legislators “Here's a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather than a series of short points." Glorious!

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Daniele Girardi @dgirardi.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Another mass resignation from an academic journal- Review of Social Economy- over the clash between scholarly values and the commercial logic of for-profit publishers. Sad to see a valuable journal like RoSE go, but the editors made a principled choice. leiterreports.com/2026/07/20/a...

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Another journal implodes: Review of Social Economy

Roberto Veneziano, a former co-editor of the journal (which publishes a lot of philosophically-minded economics), writes: On Saturday, the 4th of July all four co-editors of the Review of Social Ec…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Determined to extract as much money as they can before Thames Water eventually gets nationalised

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Econometrica @ecmaeditors.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Why do workers dislike inflation? Because wages catching up to prices means costly conflict: tough pay talks, job search, bargaining. Survey + model show conflict more than doubles inflation costs. Joao Guerreiro, Jonathon Hazell, Chen Lian & Christina Patterson. buff.ly/S1GJdlV

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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Ed Miliband is, as far as I can think, the only cabinet minister in this government (except possibly Rayner) to have both clearly been largely successful in policy delivery and not have vacillated like a weathervane under pressure. These are both key attributes for a Chancellor!

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Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The social media ban doesn’t have to stop every under 16 from using social media - if it stops most of them using it, and causes those who still do to use it less, that's a big win. 10 responses to common objections to the ban. www.edrith.co.uk/p/social-med...

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Social Media Ban: Responses to 10 common objections

And six ways in which we could tackle broader social media harms.

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I have worked in the Belgian colonial archives & what's already available to researchers is horrifying, I can only imagine how bad the rest is. We must bring the truth to light. Transparency is the only way to recovery, reparations, & eventual healing.

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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The subhead: When 30 States Raised Minimum Wages, What Happened to Pay and Jobs? The minimum wage job-loss apocalypse that never arrived. At work here we see monopsony, not mayhem. Assessing Card, Krueger, Dube, and the end of the textbook minimum wage story: **CROSSPOST: ARINDRAJIT DUBE... 1/

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 10/06/2026

The richest person in human history is pouring his time, energy, and resources into inciting racist violence in Belfast and beyond. The United States Congress should terminate all US subsidies to, and contracts with, the firms that funnel money to his sickening skinhead project.

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

At moments of crisis, leaders have a responsibility to speak to, and for, their country. The PM should be on the airwaves, telling the stories of the children, teenagers and families who have been burned out of their homes; naming those responsible; and leading a national fightback against them.

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Daniele Girardi @dgirardi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I wonder how much of this disconnect is because decisions on economic (and especially fiscal) policy in the Blair governments were taken by Gordon Brown without too much participation from Blair.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

"You were correctly outraged by how Ben-Gvir treated your nationals. Please think of how he treats ours.”

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NPR @npr.org · 21/05/2026

Amin Abdullah, Nadir Awad and Mansour Kaziha distracted and delayed two gunmen at the Islamic Center of San Diego. Their actions saved the many children and staff inside the mosque and cost them their lives. n.pr/4uRJkwk

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The San Diego mosque shooting victims remembered as 'heroes' for protecting children

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Labour lost almost four times as many voters to the Greens as they did to Reform UK in the local elections, according to new YouGov polling

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It cannot be stressed enough: something like this would be impossible in a country like Brazil, certainly not with this brazenness. US institutions have turned out to be remarkably weak. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

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Trump Administration Live Updates: $1.8 Billion Fund Could Funnel Money to Trump Allies

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Labour's processes for changing leader are hopelessly, catastrophically unsuited to government. More than half of all prime ministers since 1945 have taken over between general elections. This is not an unusual procedure. So it really matters when parties screw this system up... 🧵

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This, from Nicholas Kristof, is extraordinary, harrowing, morally urgent journalism. Notably not in the NYT’s news pages, which are an exemplar of that silence. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

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Opinion | The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

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Daniele Girardi @dgirardi.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

After the mass resignation from Journal of Economic Surveys over bad publisher terms, I could not imagine in a couple of years we would have **Reviews of Economic Literature** Non-profit. True OA. With @stanfordpress.bsky.social; 2 articles already up this year rel.journals.sup.org/index.php/rel

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Heather D Hill @hdhill.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Novel solution to problems inherent to for profit academic publishing: Nonprofit publishing!

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

New working paper on the California Fast-Food minimum wage (will come out as NBER WP soon but posting now). Big increase in wages. Big drop in separations. Little change in jobs. (Bonus: sheds light on QWI vs QCEW measurement of jobs.)

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 27/04/2026

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Interesting how no-one around him either in office or assisting him feels able to intervene privately and explain to save him from himself. In fact the incentives are so extreme that the way to respond is to draw attention to the error and invent an entirely new arithmetic to justify it.

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NPR @npr.org · 23/04/2026

The executive director of World Press Photo said this image shows the inconsolable grief of children losing their father in a place built for justice. It is a stark and necessary record of family separation following the U.S. reform policies. n.pr/4d0E5EA

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World Press Photo announces Photo of the Year 2026

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Marshall Steinbaum @econmarshall.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

🚨🚨Revised paper 🚨🚨 The Balance of Power in Franchising w/@ulrichatz.org, Blake Eliason, @mikelipsitz.bsky.social, @pnorlander.bsky.social, & @stpinto.bsky.social. We built the 1st comprehensive panel dataset of franchise contract terms: 46,000 documents, 4,500 chains, 20+ provisions, 2009-2024. /1

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Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

In our paper, we use @arindube.bsky.social @dgirardi.bsky.social et al. (2025) LP-DiD method. Example: The horizontal 0 line = “control” group; blue bars = “treated” group. Treatment: outsourcing (strange medicine). Before (left): earnings evolved similarly. After 0 (right): 12% drop.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It's the 7th month of the US bombing random ships in Latin American waters they claim are drug smugglers (reminder that two survivors who were rescued were repatriated, not charged), and the death toll is 150+, and it barely gets discussed.

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