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Jimena González-Ramírez

@jimena-econ.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Economics at Manhattan University Environmental Economist ⚽🥏🚴‍♀️ Personal website: jimegon.github.io ENRE equity and justice resource website: just-enviro-econ.github.io

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 02/10/2026
"The University of Cambridge refused to sign plagiarism detection software Turnitin’s new licence agreement, which could have allowed students’ work to be used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models."
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Uni opposes Turnitin AI training plans
The University is now exploring alternatives to the plagiarism detection service, according to the SU
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Jimena González-Ramírez @jimena-econ.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New paper w/ Kevin Meyer & Kenny Liao in J. of Agricultural & Resource Economics What's the value of a golf course near NYC worth? 🥏We used a travel cost model (revealed + stated preference + UDisc data) on FDR & Heckscher State Parks. Result: ~$68/trip, ~$6M/year 🗽 #economics #discgolf #udisc
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/08/2026
A new study shows an alarming rate of CTE among former NFL players: At least 1 in 4 who died from 2016 to 2021 had the degenerative brain disease. And the rate might be even higher. Read more: nyti.ms/4ggtNSx
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
No. Someone did a TINY trial on 47 overweight people, 26 of whom had restricted eating hours. They presented their non peer reviewed findings at a conference. Science journalists who should know better bigged up the press release. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Restricted eating hours may reduce cognitive decline in older age, researchers find
Preliminary study shows older people who avoided food four hours before bed did better in problem solving tests
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/07/2026
Meta has launched a new AI image generator that allows anyone to create AI images with your Instagram photos. And if you have a public Instagram account, Meta automatically opted you in. Here’s how to opt out: wapo.st/4pjtc5w
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...
members of the Norway men’s national football team on a rocky shore, styled as a fierce group of ancient Vikings. They are dressed in elaborate historical costumes, including fur-trimmed capes, leather tunics, chainmail, and armor pieces, while holding traditional gear like circular wooden shields, spears, axes, swords, and blowing horns. In the background, longships rest on a calm body of water that cuts through a vast, dramatic fjord. The rugged landscape is framed by massive, steep green mountains, with a thin waterfall cascading down a cliff face on the left, all under a cloudy, overcast sky.
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Jimena González-Ramírez @jimena-econ.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Happy to share our published paper: 🥏Paying to Play: How Seasonal Fees Affect Disc Golf Course Choice🥏, co-authored with Kenny Liao, Kevin Meyer, & Tori Adams. doi.org/10.1177/1527... We r grateful for the data from @udiscapp.bsky.social! #discgolf #econsky #sportseconomics #sports #economics
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Vox 🇺🇲 @voxrox.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
#WonderfulBirdWednesday Right in the middle of rain, the photo was captured the split second a droplet of water landed on the #Robins head like a crown! 👑 04/2026 #Birds #Nature #FlawlessTiming 🌟 #FMSPAD #SomethingThatFlies #Birdsky #Wildlife #Photography #BirdPhotography #Macrophotography
A color, macrophoto of a Robin perched on a branch in Virginia, during late April, 2026. The capture was taken during rain and the photographer snapped the photo at the split second a raindrop fell on the top of the bird's head, making it appear like a "natural" crown.
📸 Dawn Denise Boyer of Gloucester, Virginia
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ArXiv Paperboy (Stat.ME+Econ.EM) @paperposterbot.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
arXiv📈🤖 fixest: A fast and feature-rich framework for econometric estimations in R By Berg\'e, Butts, McDermott
fixest is an R package for fast and flexible econometric estimation. It provides a unified framework for applied research, with comprehensive support for a diverse class of models: ordinary least squares, instrumental variables, generalized linear models, maximum likelihood, and difference-in-differences. The package particularly excels at fixed-effects estimation, supported by a novel fixed-point acceleration algorithm implemented in C++. This algorithm achieves rapid convergence across a variety of data contexts and enables efficient estimation of complex models, including those with varying slopes. An expressive formula interface facilitates multiple estimations, stepwise regressions, and variable interpolation in a single call. Users can adjust inference strategies on the fly, choosing from an array of built-in robust standard errors. The package also provides methods for publication-ready regression tables and coefficient plots. Benchmarks demonstrate that fixest offers best-in-class performance against leading alternatives in R, PYTHON, and JULIA.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.
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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
disappointing that many reposts doesn't = many messages in my inbox! i know it's a tough ask. i'm trying to reach a relatively small group of ppl who feel v. vulnerable rn, might be nervous talking to a journo they don't know...anyway, share widely elsewhere if u think it might reach the right ppl!
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CSWEP @aeacswep.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Call for Papers: Fourth Women in Central Banking Workshop invites submissions from female PhD and postdoctoral students. Mexico City | November 6–7, 2026 Deadline: July 3, 2026 Submit to: wicb2026@banxico.org.mx Travel and accommodation for presenters will be covered, subject to a cap.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I quote-tweeted this without even noticing that one of the authors was a doctoral advisee from UMich Econ Congrats, Josh!
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Jimena González-Ramírez @jimena-econ.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Another unfair story about discrimination #Deezer link.deezer.com/s/32HeUYQ9U0...
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
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First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says
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John Whitehead @johnwhitehead81.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/c...
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Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 27/02/2026
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The IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential information to ICE 42,695 times, judge says
A federal judge said that the IRS broke the law by illegally sharing thousands of taxpayers’ addresses with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%). But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)
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Richard Tol @richardtol.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
until recently, you could tell cheaters apart because they used the open internet rather than the closed intranet
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 20/02/2026
“In the criminal justice system, some offences are considered especially heinous" chaser.com.au/world/man-li...
Man linked to international sex trafficking ring finally arrested for improper email forwarding
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 19/02/2026
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
NSF Update Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit. Now by Directorate... 1/11
A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 across NSF. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.
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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I started making this R package 6 years ago. I finally have it in a state I'm happy with, thanks to Claude Code #Rstats github.com/MattCowgill/...
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Now posted ahead of print: "Conceptualizing Academic Freedom," forthcoming, Annual Review of Political Science. (Uncorrected proofs, so a few minor edits different from the version that will be published in June.) doi.org/10.1146/annu...
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Academic freedom is an unusual and complex set of norms and practices. It arises out of the combination of the corporate self-governance of medieval universities and the spirit of disciplinary scientific inquiry in modern research universities. It combines a principle of antiorthodoxy as to conclusions with the robust associational self-governance of scholarly communities whose members evaluate one another as participants in that shared enterprise. It has never been easily or wholly embraced by wider societies; today it is under wholesale attack. This article combines conceptual, normative, and historical analyses of academic freedom as a general norm with attention to conflicts over it in the mid-to-late 2010s and early 2020s. Some genuinely hard cases and questions tested the meaning of academic freedom and university values well before the current crisis.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
So the same reason the rest of us write NSF proposals?
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Professors in the Epstein files say they hoped friendship would lead to research funding
A new trove of documents released by the Justice Department reveals that Epstein’s reach into academia was wider than previously known.
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The Economic Misfit @theeconomicmisfit.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
2026 Pre-Doctoral Economics Conference – Yale University Bringing together pre-doctoral fellows worldwide to present research, get feedback, and network. Submission deadline: April 6, 2026 (abstracts or paper drafts) Read more here: theeconomicmisfit.com/2026/02/14/2...
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2026 Pre-Doctoral Economics Conference hosted by Yale University | The Economic Misfit
Event Date: June 5th, 2026Locations:87 Trumbull Street, Room B12028 Hillhouse Avenue, Room A106Organizers: Goksu Zeybek, Nicolas Fajardo, and Owen RaskDescription: The second annual Pre-Doctor
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It's not an exaggeration to say this will result in genocidal-scale death. And I don't mean in the distant, speculative future. Just the tens of thousands of pollution deaths in the relative near-term (Free link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
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Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Suleiman Baraka in Gaza says this about his work: “I decided to fight the killing of the children by educating the children.... astronomy “is also a window for breathing freedom that we were denied for our whole life". I think this is the reason the world needs it. All of us need his example.
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In Gaza, Scanning the Sky for Stars, Not Drones
A Palestinian scientist's effort to bring astronomy to Gaza has begun to bear fruit, but steep hurdles remain.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance featured a sugar cane field, a wedding, a pan-American parade and more. The show placed his beloved Puerto Rico at the center of a communal celebration. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/a...
A headline reads: "Bad Bunny Delivers a Love Letter to Puerto Rico At Super Bowl Halftime." Bad Bunny stands on top of a  truck, dancing with one arm raised and legs spread wide. In the foreground, dancers surround the vehicle. A large crowd is seen in the background. Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times.
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Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Just had a Super Bowl halftime where the singer: 1) boasts about the poor place he’s from; 2) boosts the value of agriculture; 3) celebrates small town life; 4) highlights the joy of inter-generational celebrations; and 5) promotes marriage. And tomorrow, the MAGA movement will attack it.
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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Holding us accountable for the shameful failure to restore power to PR
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🤟🏾Ferd_Turgeson🧀 @ferdturgeson.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Happy perfect grid February to all those who celebrate
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MisterMPLS @mistermpls.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The group bike ride for Alex Pretti is about to depart in Minneapolis, stopping at his memorial, then Renee Good’s, and finishing at the VFW. If you can join, hop on anywhere. It’s a warm 17° & sunny! I’ve never seen this many cyclists for a group ride. ⚡️✊🏽⚡️🚲⚡️✊🏽⚡️ #RIPPretti
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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Please consider citing if you are a fixest user!
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 31/01/2026
We ran a massive, uncontrolled social experiment on kids with social media. Outcomes: anxiety, comparison, fractured attention. Jon Haidt called the direction of travel. We’re doing it again with AI, outsourcing thinking and social skills, to act surprised later. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...
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Opinion | Students Are Skipping the Hardest Part of Growing Up
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
the things to understand here -Benfica needed to win by 2 to qualify for the knockouts -up until this last moment they were wasting time and acting like they had no idea a one-goal win did nothing while their fans screamed their heads off at them cinema
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026
ICE in minneapolis are causing international incidents because agents don’t understand what a consulate is and tried entering ecuador’s the country has put out a statement in spanish
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/01/2026
Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the man fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday, was a U.S. citizen with no criminal record, an official said. He was a registered nurse who worked in the intensive-care unit at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis. nyti.ms/4t3ekJW
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Alex Jeffrey Pretti Knew He Wanted to Help Others
Shot and killed by immigration agents on a Minneapolis street, he wanted to be a ‘force of good in the world.’
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I wish I hadn't watched that video. I never watched the killing of Renee Good and hope I never have to. I don't need to see it to fight it. Today at least four federal agents were beating a man and then one of them (I think) shot him point blank while he was on the ground. More agents present.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/01/2026
Federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident on Saturday, the city’s police chief said. The shooting prompted clashes between law enforcement and protesters, as Minnesota officials renewed demands that the Trump administration end its immigration crackdown. trib.al/u8ESi4Q
An agent pointing a weapon to camera. A person is visible between his legs, face down on the ground, being handcuffed. The air is hazy and other agents are in tactical gear nearby. Photo by David Guttenfelder/The New York Times.
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Becky Gallagher Swadner @beckysrn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I was one of Alex's nursing faculty at MCTC. This is simply devastating. He was a good student and I knew he'd be a good nurse. Im so sorry for you and his VA family. May his memory be a blessing and an example of what a nurse is.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Don't watch the video unless you want to feel sick. But be very very angry because they executed a man who was just directing traffic.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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