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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Interested in a PhD in historical demography/population studies at @camunicampop.bsky.social, @camunigeography.bsky.social, Cambridge University? We have 3 suggested topics (see thread): contact me to discuss, or to suggest your own idea. Apply by early December for funded places.

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Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kicking off the Quantitative and Computational History Seminar at my dept. with Lars H. Andersen who explores the link between the spread of Germanic culture and differences in democratic attitudes across Europe.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I have listened to and read lots and lots of What AI will Mean for College and the one big thing that gets skips all the time is TEACHING. Information provided is not teaching. 8/

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Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A few days to submit your proposal to this workshop on the information that names convey from a historical perspective (Trondheim, October 12-13). More info here: fjbeltrantapia.github.io/allthenames/...

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conferences – ALL THE NAMES

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

❗Call for Papers: 5th Norwegian 🇳🇴 Winter Games in Economic History ☃️ ❄️ Host: @oslomet.bsky.social 28 January 2027 📄 CfP Deadline: 23 October 2026 Obligatorisk skitur til Bislingflaka på fredag 29. kommer i tillegg

Call for papers for the 5th Norwegian Winter Games in Economic History. The full call is available at: https://www.okonomiskhistorie.no/?p=1676

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Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

CfP: Workshop “What was in a name? Culture, naming practices and individual outcomes in the past" (Trondheim, October 12-13). More info here: fjbeltrantapia.github.io/allthenames/...

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Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

CfP: Workshop “What was in a name? Culture, naming practices and individual outcomes in the past" (Trondheim, October 12-13). More info here: fjbeltrantapia.github.io/allthenames/...

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Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Crecí creyendo que nunca ganaríamos un mundial, como cantaba la @lahabitacionroja.bsky.social Bueno, pues ya van dos!! ⚽️⚽️⭐️⭐️

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Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/07/2026

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Cansado de las secciones de historia de España en muchas librerias: o el imperio español o la guerra civil 😬😬

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Christian Vedel @christianvedel.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Machine Learning is causing massive leaps everywhere. Also in Economic History. There is a conversation we need to have. What ought to be the new scientific standards? Together with two coauthors . Our argument: We should maybe care a bit less about accuracy 📝🧵

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 26/06/2026

🗣️ Published today in @aeajournals.bsky.social. Ethan Lewis and I use a visa lottery, as a nationwide randomized experiment, to test the effects of foreign labor on US firms and workers. doi.org/10.1257/app.... A concise summary from @nber.org —> www.nber.org/digest/20221...

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US firms hiring foreign workers in low-skill nonfarm jobs face a binding quota on the "H-2B" visa, allocated in part through a randomized lottery. We evaluate the quota's marginal impact using the lottery, a novel firm survey, and a pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously employing more H-2B workers in low-skill jobs increase production (elasticity 0.20–0.22), investment (1.5–2.1), and profits (0.15). The elasticity of substitution between H-2B and US workers is very low (0.8–2.2). Thus, the effect on US employment is zero or positive overall, and positive in rural areas. Forensic analysis suggests similarly low substitutability of black-market labor.

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Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Quite timely I created my first tile plots on name prevalence in a small region in North-western Spain over more than 4 centuries. 😊

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Santiago Sanchez-Pages @sanpages.eurosky.social · 11/06/2026

Por si os interesa, mi libro sobre "Capital y Trabajo: 50 peliculas esenciales sobre economia" ya esta en acceso abierto para que lo disfruteis, leais y useis (incluye un apendice con ciclos de cine como material docente). hdl.handle.net/10609/154317

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Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

My first tile plot 😊 Ongoing work with Fran Marco-Gracia. The popularity of male names in a small region in North-western Spain between 1600 and today. Continuity and change over more than 4 centuries.

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Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Preparing for the next iteration of the MA/PhD course on "Quantitative methods for historians" fjbeltrantapia.github.io/quantitative... at NTNU. It will take place intensely during one week in September (7-11) in case students from other universities want to join us in Trondheim.

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Quantitative Methods for Historians - HIKU8863

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Santiago Sanchez-Pages @sanpages.eurosky.social · 01/06/2026

In June 15-16, the 1st SPEIN Workshop will bring to @kcl-spe.bsky.social economists, economic historians, and political scientists studying the political economy of Spain. If you work in or are interested in the field and would like to learn more, get in touch! www.tonirodon.cat/spein-confer...

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

All you ever wanted to know about bread production, prices, markets, and political economy in early modern Spain, now on Early View! "The Bread of Toledo", Joint with David González Agudo at @uv.es. Open access: doi.org/10.1111/ehr....

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<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library

We study the market for common white bread in the city of Toledo through a new 266-year-long series of bread prices, obtained from the cash purchases and wholesale bread-for-wheat contracts of large ...

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Regular reminder that there are alternatives to Google Search and Google Chrome. Some European alternatives are listed here: european-alternatives.eu/alternative-... (where you can also find alternatives for other tech products should you be looking for them)

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European alternatives to Google Search | European Alternatives

Google is the biggest search engine in the world, from the USA-based company Alphabet.

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Eric Schneider @ericbschneider.com · 12/05/2026

Really pleased to see our global stunting data up on our world in data. We hope it helps people contextualise child stunting in a much longer historical lens. Thanks to Hannah and Tuna for visualising and explaining the data so well! The link to the original paper is here: doi.org/10.1136/bmjg...

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Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Summer season is apparently on in Trondheim 😍😍🎾🎾

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Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Preparing a presentation about quantitative history for 4th graders (aged 9-10). 😅😅 Wish me luck! 🤣🤣

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Jon Lawrence @jonhistorian61.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

If you use digital newspaper collections this new OA paper is for you - it’s full of great insights into how to understand what’s in them and the many hidden perils of digital search (like the systemically poorer OCR for cheaper and more left-leaning newspapers - who knew?). Please share

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Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Anne-Sofie Schjøtner Skaar (NTNU) defending her thesis today on witchcraft trials in 18th-c. Norway. First, the public lecture, whose topic is promising!!

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Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The Nazis stopped Jewish doctors from practising, so thousands of them left the country (my great grandfather was one of them). So many left that this was a good natural experiment for estimating the causal effect of losing doctors on infant mortality (& thousands died)

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Eric Schneider @ericbschneider.com · 23/02/2026

What is child stunting — and how has it changed over the last 200 years? Stunting means being too short for one’s age due to chronic undernutrition and disease in early life. It’s one of the clearest markers of cumulative deprivation in childhood. 1)

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Daniel Oto-Peralías @otoperalias.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Why are there so many of us still posting on X? I get the network effect argument, but what about the ethics of supporting a platform run by a supremacist/fascist? Seeing so many people and institutions remain there is demoralizing ...

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Ruth Ahnert @ruthahnert.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

@kmcdono.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social and I have a new OA article out: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... It’s about the fragmented landscape of historical data, and what we can do about it to improve discoverability, sustainability and reuse.

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Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core

Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources

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Juliana Jaramillo Echeverri @julianajaramilloe.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Many thanks to @voxdev.bsky.social for featuring our work on education and inequality in Colombia. We explore how historical hierarchies persist through school sorting, reinforcing both educational and social advantages across generations. Please read and comment!

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Jørgen Modalsli @modals.li · 18/12/2025

Fully funded Ph.D. position in economics open - please apply and/or inform your promising students! Application deadline 28 February. www.oslomet.no/en/work/job-... This is an open-topic fellowship, with research proposals aligned with the economics group's research interests being given priority.

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PhD Fellowship position in Economics at Oslo Business School, OsloMet

Oslo Metropolitan University is Norway's third largest university with 23,000 students and over 2,600 employees. We have campuses in central Oslo and at Romerike. OsloMet educates students and conduct...

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

My two favorite figures from yesterday courtesy of @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social: the growth of Norwegian names during rising nationalism in the 19th century, and the spike in «Håkon» and «Olav» after the accession of King Håkon VII in 1905

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Jørgen Modalsli @modals.li · 28/01/2026

Looking forward to the 2026 Norwegian Winter Games in Economic History at NTNU tomorrow, hosted by @benmschneider.bsky.social , @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social et al. Image: view from today's workplace (Oslo-Trondheim train)

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Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Teaching an intensive 2-day MA/PhD course on digital mapping in two weeks. Still time to enroll. Non-NTNU students are also welcome! fjbeltrantapia.github.io/digital-mapp...

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Digital mapping for the humanities and the social sciences - HIST8872

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Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke @kevinhorourke.eurosky.social · 17/01/2026

If NATO cannot deter the US from invading the Kingdom of Denmark then do we think it will be able to deter Putin from invading the Baltic? If the answer is no then NATO (and the EU) simply has to deter the US from invading the territory of one of its member states.

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Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

#CFA: We are hiring 2 Postdocs and 1 PhD to study how first names convey information about parental values and beliefs in historical Europe (c.1750-1950). Join us in Trondheim! 2 Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... 1 PhD: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... (deadline for applying: March 15)

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Senior researchers in History (291971) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Job title: Senior researchers in History (291971), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, March 15, 2026

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Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

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Senior researchers in History (291971) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Job title: Senior researchers in History (291971), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, March 15, 2026

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