iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Christoph Scheuch @christophscheuch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

New paper with @floswald.bsky.social @lars.vilhuber.com and collaborators on reproducibility with LLMs, including what researchers should document to make LLM-assisted work transparent ✌️ arxiv.org/abs/2607.24372

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Royal Economic Society @resmedia.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

At #RES2026, Wednesday delegates will hear from past & present data editors of @theeconjournal.bsky.social on replication practices, procedures & checks across economics. We look forward to welcoming @floswald.bsky.social & Joan Llull. Chaired by Damian Clarke. More: bit.ly/4s1RxMM #EconSky

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

when I run out of my daily claude allowance I feel like super mario as soon as the magic star effect wanes. slow running!

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Did you know that if in Italy there is an election on Sunday and Monday, schools close Friday 14:00 and reopen Wednesday morning? Now you know!

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

#julialang homework for our floswald.github.io/CompEcon/ course: reverse engineering the #esselunga presto spesa handheld supermarket scanner system. custom types, simulation, optimization. pluto.land/n/yt8hux1c

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pluto.land – easily share Pluto notebooks, the reactive Julia platform.

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

“AI is a bubble. Too many GPUs for too little business case” exhibit 1:

Screenshot of ChatGPT notification prompting user to upload a foto of themselves to transform into a figure skater at Winter Olympic Games.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Latest substack on Iran by @snellarthur.bsky.social is a must read substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I was 33, exhausted, chronically ill, very smart, no degree, only ever used Excel, & feared math 😢 (so frustratingly common) Do I regret learning #Rstats, #SAS, #Python, & SPSS ALL AT ONCE? 🫠 No! It gave me the empathy to teach people new tools w/out degrading them about their other tools. #databs

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hans-koster.bsky.social @hans-koster.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

We are hiring! VU Amsterdam (Dept of Spatial Economics) seeks AP in Urban and Real Estate Economics. Research fit: (spatial) general equilibrium + reduced-form work on land/housing, commuting, amenities, local public goods. RT. #UrbanEconomics #AcademicJobs workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/va...

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Vacancy — Vacancy for Assistant Professor 'Urban and Real Estate Economics'

Are you an ambitious economist with a special interest in urban economics and real estate? Join the Department of Spatial Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam!

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Healthcare in Greenland is publicly funded, free at the point of use, and despite geographical challenges considered very good. Healthcare costs in the USA are extortionate and responsible for 60% of all US bankruptcies. So maybe Denmark should be sending hospital ships the other way.

Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff
Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to
Greenland to take care of the many people who are
sick, and not being taken care of there. It's on the way!!!
President DJT

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

before diving into agentic AI coding, learn git. Version control becomes even more critical when you need to undo what the AI did. (And no, letting the AI manage versioning is not the answer.)

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

"Third, Europe actually can defend itself and resorting to scare figures such as Rutte’s 10% of GDP, is nonsense. Russia, the most obvious security threat to European states, has a GDP that is less than 10% of just the EU’s. If you add the UK and Norway to the mix, Russia shrinks in comparison."

open.substack.com

The Worst Argument Possible

Of course Europe can defend itself, indeed it should.

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Christian Zimmermann @czimm-economist.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Where can you find economists on BlueSky? RePEc has a list https;//ideas.repec.org/i/ebluesky.h... #RePEc #EconSky

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RePEc-registered Economists on Bluesky

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Time to call things by their name. A thug is a thug. And the boss is the boss.

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

interesting paper: Vibe Coding Kills Open Source Software.

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

#EconSky #DataEditorTips Your results should replicate each time you submit your paper, not only *after* it was accepted. Having your package replicable all the times is going to buy you a lot of time and-more importantly-peace of mind. What if you cannot replicate a result in the accepted version?

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I forgot how painful MS word and rich text format are. Please, funding agencies, give us templates in formats suitable for scientific writing. just wanted to insert a 2x2 grid of equally sized figures with referenced captions. Totally impossibly hard to achieve. Not to talk about citations. d'oh...

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Yagan Hazard @hazardyagan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

📣 Call for Papers: AI and Society Conference 🗓️ 11–12 June 2026 at Bocconi University Submit full papers: bocconi.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Keynote by the one and only Sendhil Mullainathan @sendhil.bsky.social Please share w/ your colleagues and students, we look forward to your submission

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

It’s just delirious. None of this makes any sense.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

When Elon changed the name of Twitter to X everyone was like "what the fuck, that sounds like the name of a website for extremely illegal pornography made by and for nazis" And behold what it became. Nominative determinism go ew

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𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚍𝚣𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊 @nerdzilla.ai · 16/01/2026

Yeah, I was right in the middle of it. And yeah, the whole “dark fiber” thing was a wonder to behold. Now we have “dark GPUs” that will be obsolete by the time the data centers are built, which are waiting for the power and water infra. Yeah lots of companies are going to die.

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

How to deal with 17GB dataset on a 16GB RAM laptop? my updated version of Grant's @gmcd.bsky.social big data workshop from 2 years ago. That's where I first saw @duckdb.org and never looked back. interfaces in #rstats #julialang #python floswald.github.io/duckdb-polars/

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(Pretty) big data wrangling with DuckDB and Polars – (Clone of) DuckDB + Polars

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

[…] in his conversation with the Times, Trump said, “I don’t need international law.” When asked if there were any limits on his powers on the world stage, Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind.”

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

from @gaborbekes.bsky.social 's linkedin page. a rare show of unity amongst world experts on good governance 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

on.ft.com/445lKl9 Trump’s world view: cynical, self-interested and money-grabbing

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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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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

let them eat toilets.

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Things are not looking great. How on earth is this possible?

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The @python.org foundation is fundamental in maintaining python. Y'all are waiting for the huge benefits of AI to materialize? Good luck without a working python ecosystem. Trump has cut funding, because they are here for everyone ("diverse and international"). You can chip in, 25$/year. #econsky

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Look, I dont care about about your accent or limited vocabulary in English. But the Spanish Erasmus student standing in front of me, punching Spanish sentences into her phone, so that she can “talk” to me is one step too far. You must speak basic English. It’s embarrassing.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Trump doesn’t like climate change, so he just stops funding climate research. Great explainer by FT what this means. Obviously not smart to fly without any data through the haze in general, but even short term outcomes (weather forecasts, insurance premia etc) are under threat. on.ft.com/4nZI1II

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

been failing to create a virtualenv for 20 mins now because I wrote matplolib instead of matlplotlib how's your day going?

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Talked in beautiful Rimini about Tourism and Urban Economics to a room full of freshmen corsi.unibo.it/1cycle/clet/... Slides here floswald.github.io/Tourism-Rimi... with shoutouts to @vlavetyan.bsky.social and @stefanpauly.bsky.social and @milena-almagro.bsky.social and others too

Castellano housing the Fellini Museum. Fellini was from Rimini!

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The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) @reveconstudies.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Cities surrounded by expensive farmland are denser and agricultural productivity growth has lowered urban density over time in France. Our multi-region structural change framework can explain it. New paper by Coeurdacier, Teignier & @floswald.bsky.social www.restud.com/structural-c... #econsky

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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

If I find someone cheating, it's a straight fail. AI cheats all the time. Exhibit 1: @claudeai.bsky.social

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The @jpolecon.bsky.social is the latest addition to the list of top Econ journals adhering to datacodestandard.org . Our data policy implements DCAS (www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/jpe...)

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