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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...

The Girl With The Cat Earring, featuring my mum and dad's cat Bridget.

Bridget hangs out with Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Hunters In The Snow

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

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Joanna Venator @joannavenator.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

So excited to get an R&R for my JMP on dual earner migration decisions! It has been a very long path for this paper (and the path will continue to be long as I work on the revisions...)

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Joanna Venator @joannavenator.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Calling all econ grad students #EconSky: the call for papers for Boston College's 2nd PhD Conference in Economics is now live here: bcecongradconference.github.io The conference is on April 24th and the deadline for submission is March 7th

Image about conference that states: "Boston College 2nd PhD Conference in Economics - April 24, 2026 - Students from all fields and programs are invited to apply - Full drafts and extended abstracts accepted - Deadline for submission March 7, 2026 - Notification of acceptance March 21, 2026 - Instructions for submission and more information in BCEconGradConference.github.io

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Carly Urban @carlyurban.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

New research alert! Are smartphones changing knowledge measures on surveys? tl;dr YES! This is work with my awesome coauthors Olivia Valdes and Jeremy Burke--probably one of the most fun papers I've been a part of.

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Dani Sandler @dismalscientist86.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Increased women’s college attendance delivers wage and job-quality gains that grow over the life cycle, alongside improvements in children’s early-life health.

We study the causal effect of women's education on their wages, non-wage job amenities, and spillovers to children. Using a regression discontinuity at the school entry birthdate cutoff, we find that women born just before the cutoff are more likely to complete some college, and experience multi-dimensional career gains that grow over the life cycle: greater employment and earnings, as well as more professional and higher-status jobs, more socially meaningful work, and better working conditions. Children’s early-life health and prenatal inputs improve in tandem with career improvements, consistent with professional advances spurring—not hindering— infant investments. Career gains are concentrated in jobs that require exactly some college, the same schooling margin shifted by the cutoff, which indicates that increased post-secondary education is the primary channel for these effects. Together, the results show that women's college attendance generates large career returns—from both wages and amenities—that strengthen over time and produce meaningful benefits for children.

Notes: This figure presents average earnings (panel A) and employment rates (panel B) for women born around the school entry cutoff. Outcomes are residualized with (recentered) year of birth fixed efects. Average outcomes (shown on the y-axis) are reported for 10 equally-sized bins of birth dates on each side of the cutofh. The sample includes women ages 16–40, born between 1977–1987, who satisfy other sample requirements. Source: Linked IRS–Census administrative earnings records. See text for details.

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Matt Rutledge @rutledgematt.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Hey #econsky: are you a researcher who secretly prefers your side teaching gig? Or is tenure looking like a reach because you “teach too much”? Or a liberal arts prof who’d prefer a big city with a larger pool of impressive, thoughtful students? Come be a Boston College PoP! 1/x

View of Boston College's Gasson Hall and Lower Campus facing toward Boston's skyline

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

We should probably be placing incarcerated people in prisons closest to their homes. Why? Assigning individuals to prisons closer to their home reduces recidivism. Really? Yep. Being placed close to one's home increases social contacts that appear to reduce reoffending.

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Lilly Springer @springerecon.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! I work on questions about women’s health, family, & labor. In my #JMP I study how changes in abortion access affect infant and maternal health, finding that reductions in access harm health at birth. Read the full manuscript here: lillyspringer.com

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Kate Musen @khmusen.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids. In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.

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Abigail Dow @abigaildow.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

👋 I'm a health and labour economist on the #EconJobMarket! My JMP explores a factor that often comes up when talking to people about having children - childcare costs 🗣️ “It’s frustrating to read articles asking why people aren’t having kids - have they looked at the cost of childcare?” 🧵…

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Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

Screenshot of working paper: The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct

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Danielle Graves Williamson @daniellecgw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year! Let's start with a student describing her segregated school: "The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education" The twist? The student is white, and her school is private. A JMP 🧵 -->

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Jessum @jemma2485.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Folks in Boston, please share! Boston area folks in need, there is a free farmer’s market in JP with produce from Allandale Farm and Iggy’s Bread 💛

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Lois Miller @loismiller.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Haven't been on Bluesky in awhile, but popping in to say I wrote a policy piece based on my transfer paper for @brookings.edu Chalkboard! Many thanks to @econsarahreber.bsky.social, @katharinemeyer.bsky.social, & Michael Hansen for the opportunity and the editing. www.brookings.edu/articles/com...

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Community college students don’t always benefit from transferring to a 4-year college | Brookings

Lois Miller examines community college transfer, finding it boosts degree completion but can reduce earnings afterward.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I am here for all your marching band content

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

If you think the attack on the Fed's Lisa Cook has nothing to do with you, you're wrong — any one of us may be next paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

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We Are All Lisa Cook

Nobody is safe from weaponized government

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

UPDATE: Lisa Cook says she's not going anywhere and Trump's bid to fire her is baseless. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

New, from me: A Trump official is concocting mortgage fraud claims to target opposition. It's a classic authoritarian trick. Now they are doing it to Lisa Cook, the first Black female member of the Federal Reserve to push her to resign. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-uses...

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Trump Uses Legal Threats to Push Federal Reserve Member To Resign

Trump administration's weaponization of the DOJ part of an authoritarian pattern

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 01/08/2025

What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)? Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...

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Joanna Venator @joannavenator.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Can public workforce training programs grow employment and reduce skill barriers for hiring in large, well-paying firms? Yes! See my new working paper with Nora Dillon, Lisa Kahn, and Mike Dalton:

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority strikes down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/06/2025

“You would never know, as The New York Times churns out its usual policy-option thumb-suckers, that the United States is well down the road to dictatorship at home. That is the context in which a war with Iran will occur.”

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American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran

The United States is well down the road to dictatorship. Imagine what Trump would do with a state of war.

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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12/06/2025

I'm on my way to the Senate floor to talk about the assault on my colleague, Senator Alex Padilla. This is a horrifying moment in our nation’s history.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 31/05/2025

not a data take but this is fucked up. cutting food benefits to poor moms, infants, and toddlers is pointlessly cruel. not a partisan issue, just straightforwardly fucked. the cruelty is the point. call your congressperson

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

A set of eight rectangular cookies arranged on a square white plate against a dark wooden background. Each cookie is inspired by a wallpaper design by Morris & Co. The patterns represented feature different floral and leaf shapes in shades of baby blue, soft pink, leafy green, mustard yellow, cream, and dark grey.

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Let me say this again: If a president can illegally deport someone, conspire with that country’s leader to abandon them to human rights abuses, and face no consequences, we are in a hellish authoritarian moment. What a fucking evil, illiberal government this is.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This Tufts student was grabbed off the street, cuffed and taken out of state solely because she co-wrote a completely respectful oped in the student paper. And Rubio’s State Dept now admits they have nothing more damning than that. Gift link wapo.st/4j8d5Uh

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No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found

An internal memo, prepared before Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.

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Alison Gemmill @alisongemmill.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Our two papers on abortion bans and fertility/infant mortality are now out. In 14 states w/ abortion bans, fertility increased 1.7% and infant mortality increased 6%. Key takeaway is that these impacts were disproportionately felt among those w/ greatest structural disadvantages. Links below.

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Joanna Venator @joannavenator.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

My university has been pretty silent on all the government grant freezes until today with the NIH cap. I've now received four identical emails in the last three hours telling us about the court injunction and that all grant applications should use our original overhead rate.

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 10/02/2025

How much student learning do you think a school district could gain just by better assigning its teachers to schools? Consider a quite politically-feasible change. Do not let district make any assigned teacher worse off, nor change teacher hiring, nor compensation, nor the students. New evidence!

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Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The NIH cuts are being spun as a way to eliminate bloated university bureaucracy. And looking at the sheer numbers, I get it. But in fact the story is the exact opposite. The federal research grants system is highly efficient. And it super charges American innovation. 🧵 1/

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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. @estebanjq.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

What can you do about the assault on USAID? Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Joanna Venator @joannavenator.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

From an US gov. anti-fascist film from 1947, a line right after this scene: "They used prejudice as a practical weapon to cripple the nation... Remember that when you hear this kind of talk. Somebody is going to get something out of it and it isn't going to be you." www.youtube.com/watch?v=42X_...

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"Don't Be a Sucker" (1947) Reel America Preview

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Eva Vivalt @evavivalt.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This thread contains info on how to access Census data sets.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Thinking about historical parallels. People talk about coups and autogolpes, the fascist seizure of power in the 1930s, and there are resemblances. But there are other models we could think about.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/01/2025

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I’ve now posted the national data, 2015-2023, in Stata format here. I will add state and district data when I’m able. www.datalumos.org/datalumos/pr...

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CDC National Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2015-2023

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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991. Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens. As of this morning, it’s gone.

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Bitsy Perlman @bitsyperlman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

It's such a weird thing to hear the news and think "that's bad, but also I have a paper about (an aspect) of that" Funding delays are really not great for people who work in science. Funding delays of > 30 days lead to: - 40% increase in scientists exiting US labor force - 20% decrease in wages

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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Happy to have this paper (coauthored with an amazing team: Kalena Cortes, @loismiller.bsky.social, & @camilantmorales.bsky.social!) out on NBER this morning! Take a look 👇

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Joanna Venator @joannavenator.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Every year, I have to submit a report to BC listing out all my professional activities, including all journal reviews. Every year, I search my calendar for all last year's review due dates to enter them. Should I have entered them when I originally did the review? Yes. Will I next year? No.

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