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

pluto.land

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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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 · 04/02/2026

Killed my phone. I was looking into downgrading but it’s such a pain

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

i see-i imagined that. I was just like "vscode + R console" that sounds a lot like positron. I mean the new REPL of arf sounds amazing.

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I’m quite happy with positron actually

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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

ideas.repec.org

RePEc-registered Economists on Bluesky

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

so i was trying to understand whether the GLM idea would work with this compression strategy. with the exception of logistic regression (i.e. a linear model) that does not work right? Seems as soon as you need an iterative solver this breaks. also: high-dim FEs are tricky? interested.

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

No. You have a URL and a hash here github.com/floswald/Lan...

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

yes, that's what renv is here for-if those versions are still retrievable, which is the case for CRAN packages in general. you will probably have to rebuild them from source because the binaries are no longer available. you need R 4.3.x for that (rig works well for that)

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Me too I'm a bit disappointed that LinkedIn seems to have taken the lead in Econ. It's so...corporate and boring. Feel like I'm in a board room and can't use expletives kind of. never seen a post about a new R package. what's the point of SM without that?!

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

i had no idea about that compression strategy. very cool!

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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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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

what kind of papers are you looking for?

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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 · 16/01/2026

100% for anything like gcc. There is just sooo much things I can’t handle in /opt/local/lib or whatever it’s called. No way without brew

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

To me "Please joins us in thanking" is neither exhorting, weird, or gross. 🤷

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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/

floswald.github.io

(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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