Reposted by Jan MarcusBeNA @berlinlabor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026📢 1 week left! Submit your work to the BeNA Labor & Education Economics Workshop on Nov 27 at FU Berlin! PhD students: Present your research, get feedback & exchange ideas. Early-stage projects welcome! ⏰ Deadline: Oct 1 📩 workshop@labor-research.net #EconSky #BeNA 033
Reposted by Jan MarcusInstitute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Right now, a replication can exist and still be almost invisible to someone reading the original paper. That makes it harder for researchers, reviewers, students, journalists, and policymakers to know what evidence has accumulated around a finding. 111
Reposted by Jan MarcusInstitute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Episode 2 from our 1-day I4R workshop is out. @janmarcus.de, @josefinaw.bsky.social & René Bekkers ask: How can we link publications to replications, so anyone reading a paper can instantly see whether its findings have been retested? 🧵 234
Jan Marcus @janmarcus.de · 22/09/2026Peer review is a finite resource. The Diamond Reviewer Pledge asks researchers to commit to reviewing at least one article for a diamond open-access journal in the next 12 months. forrt.org/diamond-revi...forrt.orgDiamond Reviewer PledgeSignatories of the Diamond Reviewer Pledge commit to reviewing at least one article in the next 12 months for a diamond open access journal. 110
Jan Marcus @janmarcus.de · 10/09/2026Want to learn more about modern diff-in-diff estimators? Check out this forthcoming lecture series with Xavier D'Haultfoeuille. Registration still open! 020
Reposted by Jan MarcusMax Steinhardt @steinhardt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Wie haben wirtschaftliche Sorgen und Migration die Landtagswahl in Sachsen-Anhalt geprägt? Und welche Wirtschaftspolitik wäre von einer AfD-Regierung zu erwarten? Dazu ein kurzes Interview. 043
Reposted by Jan MarcusJörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026We have an excellent line-up for our Leibniz Open Science Day on Nov 17 in Berlin - including an exciting keynote by Felix Holzmeister. Come join us and catch up on the latest in meta-scientific research! www.zbw.eu/de/ueber-uns... 065
Jan Marcus @janmarcus.de · 04/09/2026📢 New paper out in the #JournalofHumanCapital with #AgataGalkiewicz and #ThomasSiedler Can starting an exam with a difficult question hurt students’ performance? We find no evidence that it does — even in incentivized assessments under time pressure. 1134
Jan Marcus @janmarcus.de · 03/08/2026🚨🚨🚨 Call for submissions for the first special issue of @jcre.bsky.social Anyone can submit replications on the topic of payments for ecosystem services. Details below 👇 053
Jan Marcus @janmarcus.de · 24/07/2026This year I joined the editorial team of @jcre.bsky.social, the Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE) as a Co-Editor. I'm especially happy that the first submission I handled from start to finish has now been published—together with a reply from the original authors. 1164
Reposted by Jan MarcusInstitute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 04/06/2026🚨 CORRIGENDUM ALERT 🚨 A decade after Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back was published in AEJ: Applied, we've just published an official corrigendum with the AEA. This is a love story. 🧵 1217
Reposted by Jan MarcusInstitute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 12/06/2026📢 Call for Papers! We are partnering with the Journal of Economic Surveys on a special issue: Reproducibility and Meta-Science in Economics. Submission deadline: 1 March 2027. Details in thread 🧵 1811
Jan Marcus @janmarcus.de · 13/07/2026Looking forward to have you at FU, Kamila @cyganrehm.bsky.social! 041
Reposted by Jan MarcusJörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Our next Leibniz Open Science Day is coming up on Nov 17 in Berlin! Submit your paper if you do research on science. We welcome submissions across all areas of meta-science. Keynote by @flxhlzmstr.bsky.social! www.zbw.eu/en/about-us/... 043
Reposted by Jan MarcusFU Berlin Economics @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social · 06/07/2026🗓️ Thursday, July 9: We are very happy to have Alfred Guender at the Reasearch Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Financial Openness: Where It Matters for CPI Inflation and Where It Does Not“. #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin #EconSky 042
Reposted by Jan MarcusFreie Universität Berlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social · 29/06/2026⚽ Deutschland gewinnt in 90 Minuten mit 60% 🙌 Das Team spielt Unentschieden mit 23%, verliert mit 16%. Am wahrscheinlichsten ist 1:0 für Deutschland, aber auch ein 2:0 hat eine ähnlich hohe Wahrscheinlichkeit. ➡️ Zur Prognose des FB Wirtschaftswissenschaft www.fu-berlin.de/wm2026 #WM2026 031
Jan Marcus @janmarcus.de · 29/06/2026Looking forward to having @jrgptrs.bsky.social in our research seminar this Thursday! Feel free to join. 12.15 Boltzmannstraße 20. 172
Reposted by Jan MarcusJörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 28/06/2026The debate about Borjas/Breznau's paper on ideological bias in migration research is out now @i4replication.bsky.social. With a comment by Katrin Auspurg & Josef Brüderl: hdl.handle.net/10419/341575 And a reply by the original authors: hdl.handle.net/10419/341576 2158
Reposted by Jan MarcusKatrin Auspurg @kauspurg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026There’s been a lot of buzz around the Borjas/Breznau (2026) paper (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and potential ideological bias in research. We took a closer look at the data. Could there be a "bias in bias research"? Here is what we found: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...econstor.eu 14022
Jan Marcus @janmarcus.de · 15/06/2026Es hat mir viel Spaß gemacht meine Erfahrungen mit der Co-Organisation der Berlin Replication Games 2025 im Podcast von @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social mit #DoreenSiegfried zu teilen. Replication Games zeigen, wie wertvoll gemeinsames Arbeiten an Replikationen und Reproduktionen sein kann! 082
Reposted by Jan MarcusFU Berlin Economics @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026🗓️ Thursday, June 18: We are very happy to have Jordan Norris at the Reasearch Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Bounding High Dimensional Comparative Statics“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin #EconSky 053
Reposted by Jan MarcusFU Berlin Economics @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social · 08/06/2026🗓️ Thursday, June 11: We are very happy to welcome Andreas Knabe at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Income and Well-Being“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin #EconSky 042
Reposted by Jan MarcusManuel Santos Silva @m-santos-silva.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Big thanks to all participants of the 4th FUB Internal PhD Workshop in Applied Micro. @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social. Co-organized with @danzernatalia.bsky.social, @steinhardt.bsky.social, @janmarcus.de. Lots of exciting research projects! 👏👏 152
Reposted by Jan MarcusInstitute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 29/05/20261/ Can AI help researchers check whether published social science results actually reproduce? In our new PNAS paper, we tested this directly in the AI Replication Games: 288 researchers, 103 teams, and real replication packages from quantitative social science. 36337
Reposted by Jan MarcusInstitute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 13/04/2026🚨 New AI Games round is live 🚨 Our first AI Games paper is now out at a top general interest journal (see preprint here: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... So… we’re launching the next stage 👇 11212
Reposted by Jan MarcusFU Berlin Economics @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social · 26/05/2026🗓️ Thursday, May 28: We are very happy to have Miguel Alquézar-Yus at the Reasearch Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „The Reversal of the Mission: The Influence of Religious Leaders on Sociopolitical Attitudes“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin #EconSky 051
Reposted by Jan MarcusFU Berlin Economics @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social · 18/05/2026🗓️ Thursday, May 21: We are very happy to welcome Celine Poilly at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. She will present her work on „The Variety Effect in Times of Uncertainty“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin #EconSky 081
Reposted by Jan MarcusBerlin School of Economics @bsoeberlin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026📘 Scott Cunningham joins @diw.de on June 15–16, 2026 for the Causal Inference – The Mixtape Master Class 2026 on Difference-in-Differences and Synthetic Control methods. Registration is open until June 1, 2026: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #causalinference #economics 054
Reposted by Jan MarcusFU Berlin Economics @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social · 04/05/2026🗓️ Thursday, May 7: We are very happy to have Sylvia Klosin at the Reasearch Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. She will present her work on „Dynamic Biases of Static Panel Data Estimators“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin #EconSky 0124
Reposted by Jan MarcusFU Berlin Economics @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social · 27/04/2026🗓️ Thursday, April 30: We are very happy to welcome Ruediger Bachmann (@bachmannrudi.bsky.social) at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „The Housing Channel of Labor Market Turnover“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin #EconSky 0134
Reposted by Jan MarcusFU Berlin Economics @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social · 20/04/2026With the start of the new semester, the Research Seminar in Economics returns!🎉 Every Thursday, guest speakers will share their latest research on various topics. Pieter Bakx will open the seminar by presenting his research on „Physician prescribing style and the economic cost of health shocks“ 054
Reposted by Jan MarcusMax Steinhardt @steinhardt.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Happy start to the new term! Wishing all our students and colleagues an inspiring and successful semester at the @jfki-econ.bsky.social and @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social. 061
Reposted by Jan MarcusLab² @labsquare.net · 10/04/2026📣 We’re excited to spotlight a compelling new collection of research published in nature, exploring replication, robustness, and reproducibility across the behavioral and social sciences.nature.comReliable research in the social and behavioural and sciencesSweeping new investigations probe the replication, robustness and reproducibility of results across the behavioural and social sciences. 111
Jan Marcus @janmarcus.de · 10/04/2026Looking forward to teaching this @gesistraining.bsky.social course next year on Feb 16-17. (Registration) details below 👇 072
Reposted by Jan MarcusThomas Rieger @thorieger.bsky.social · 01/04/2026BeNA is an invaluable network providing free events to the applied micro community, thanks to our sponsors at the Berlin econ research institutes. Super happy to help shape its future as a new board member in the coming years! Huge thanks to the outgoing board 🙏 021
Jan Marcus @janmarcus.de · 02/04/2026It was great fun participating in this important mega-reproduction initiative led by @i4replication.bsky.social! 050
Reposted by Jan MarcusMax Steinhardt @steinhardt.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Interview zum Thema Wohnen in Deutschland in der @taz.de. Entstanden im Kontext eines von der @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social geförderten Projekts zum Thema Wohnraummangel, gemeinsam mit @sebastiankohl.bsky.social, @lucastella.bsky.social & @simonvoss.bsky.social. 0159
Reposted by Jan MarcusJess Rohmann @jlrohmann.bsky.social · 15/02/2026CAUSAL GRAPHS ➡️ HAPPINESS. 😍 Agree? & Work in/around Berlin? 🐻 Sign up for the 2026 Applied Causal Graphs Workshop! 🌟 Deadline Feb 28th ⬇️ applied-causal-graphs.de This 3rd edition is hosted by the great folks at Uni Potsdam 💡 13112
Reposted by Jan MarcusFU Berlin Economics @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social · 09/02/2026🗓️ Thursday, February 12: We are very happy to welcome Maik T. Schneider at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Can Democracy Cope with Extreme Views“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin 073
Reposted by Jan MarcusFU Berlin Economics @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social · 02/02/2026We are very happy to have Hans-Peter Grüner at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Locally Optimal Transfer Free Mechanisms for Border Dispute Settlement“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin 044
Reposted by Jan MarcusFU Berlin Economics @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social · 19/01/2026🗓️ Thursday, January 22: We are very happy to welcome Jana Mareckova at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. She will present her work on „A Causal Machine Learning Analysis of Swiss Active Labor Market Policies“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin 093
Reposted by Jan MarcusManuel Santos Silva @m-santos-silva.bsky.social · 14/01/2026📢 2nd Junior Workshop Economics of Latin America - Call for Papers! Aimed at PhD students & post-docs working on development economics with a regional focus on Latin America. 9-10 July 2026 in Berlin. Submission deadline: Feb 28. (details below) #EconConf #EconSky 01010
Reposted by Jan MarcusFU Berlin Economics @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social · 12/01/2026🗓️ Thursday, January 15: We are very happy to have Teresa Freitas Monteiro at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. She will present her work on „Harsh Rhetoric and Cultural Identity: Backlash Effects of Denmark‘s Ghetto List“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin 0106
Reposted by Jan MarcusAltmetric @altmetric.com · 08/01/2026Since Jan 1 2025, which feels like four trillion years ago, research has been shared on here 5 million whole-ass times. Bluesky recently passed 2 billion posts IN TOTAL. So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research. That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why. 9299111
Reposted by Jan MarcusAnja Prummer @anjaprummer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Inaugural Workshop of the Standing Committee for Political Economy of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik e.V.), @vfsecon.bsky.social Call for Papers below! Maik T. Schneider, @steinhardt.bsky.social @theocharisgr.bsky.social and I hope to see you in Berlin, March 26-27! 11611
Reposted by Jan MarcusJörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Special issue on meta-science in Journal of Economic Psychology! Topics covered among others: expert-informed approaches, normative biases and crowd-science. Submitted papers evaluated & published on rolling basis. @i4replication.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... 0118
Reposted by Jan MarcusInstitute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 08/12/2025🚨New blog post: Replicators, rejoice! Episode 1 of the new series is out: “A New README.” A practical guide to transforming messy project folders into clear, well-structured documentation that strengthens transparency and reproducibility. See more at i4replication.org/dont-panic-a...i4replication.orgDon’t Panic: A Researcher’s Guide to Replication PackagesEpisode 1: A New README Who Needs a README? Imagine coming across a really cool paper in a top journal. The kind of paper you wish you wrote yourself; the… 0137
Reposted by Jan MarcusPhilipp Bach @philippbach.bsky.social · 08/12/2025📣 Announcing the First DoubleML User Survey! 📊 We’re excited to launch the first DoubleML User Survey! We’d love to hear from all prospective, new, or experienced users of DoubleML in Python or R. 🔗Please take part here: forms.gle/HjZsWgrF5UEF... #EconSky #CausalSky #dataSkyence #Python #R 122