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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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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

"unlikely to ever get it given how slowly stata develops its IDE" The AI said it.

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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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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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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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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Had a great day out @eui-eu.bsky.social yesterday giving the macro seminar. What a place to do research!

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

great writeup on spatial data in R, python and #julialang - which is catching up fast. Oh, "fast"? 👉 github.com/rafaqz/Raste...

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

#julialang github.com/JuliaFolds2/... is so nice to test multithreaded code. just remove the `t` from a function name to go back to the base (serial) equivalent:3

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

#econsky is anyone keeping track of chatGPT citations? in good company of @ralphluet.bsky.social :-) A student just shared this with me. it refers to this: floswald.github.io/NumericalMet... here a updated version: floswald.github.io/CompEcon/lec...

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Thanks for a great day @psae.bsky.social (@inrae-france.bsky.social) - really cool seminar, great group there. Brand new buildings, very nice. Look at the new metro line 18 that will be arriving soon! (well…10 years to go, but still). Impressive transport investments around Paris.

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

@alanbeattie.bsky.social has an impersonator. Pretty poor job tbh, they wanted to share their recent success in crypto trading with me. Can't be the real one right?

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Taught my final class at @ScPoEcon yesterday. Thanks to all my amazing colleagues, this has been an incredible ride. Looking forward now to a new adventure at @unito and @CollegioCA!

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

gist.github.com/floswald/8de...

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Good time for reading this one again. I’ll make sure to have a few examples in my econometrics courses next year. #econsky @carlbergstrom.com

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

“Drinking is not as much fun as it used to be”. Here is why: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

I'm glad you asked 🤗. There are two components, i post both as pictures. First each collaborator is instructed to set an environment variable pointing to the local dropbox root (via an instructive error). Once you have that, the `paths` function will give you whatever you need inside the data.

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,211,560!

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

as genuine as it gets! www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/pr...

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Teaching in the Boutros Boutros-Ghali room at sciencespo today. He was a student here in 1949

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