Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 21/09/2026Herzliche Einladung: "Unter Druck: (Rechts-)Extremismus als Bedrohung für die Freiheit von Forschung und Lehre" Dienstag, 29.9. um 14 Uhr in Düsseldorf Neben den beiden Panels freue ich mich besonders auf die gemeinsame Herausarbeitung konkreter Lösungsansätze! www.awk.nrw/news/jk/nach... 083
Reposted by Lisa SpantigStephanie Wang @sweiwang.bsky.social · 16/08/2026🚨Elsevier forces out Games and Economic Behavior (GEB) Editor, entire editorial board has resigned, current board only handling new submissions until Nov. 14 #econsky 49065
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 12/08/2026Eclipse experience in Scotland: It's getting darker! Is this the eclipse or just the rain? It was the eclipse - the (light) rain followed about 1.5 hours later... 130
Reposted by Lisa SpantigHeike Kleffner @heikekleffner.bsky.social · 15/06/2026#fyi ür alle, die in Wissenschaft/Hochschulen etc. arbeiten und/oder Betroffene von rechten Angriffen unterstützen wollen. hilfreiche Übersicht von @komrex-unijena.bsky.social. Es braucht mehr Solidarität mit Christina Brüning und anderen Angegriffenen. www.komrex.uni-jena.de/5830/resilie...komrex.uni-jena.deResiliente WissenschaftSchutzmaßnahmen, Ressourcen und Anlaufstellen zum Umgang mit wissenschaftsfeindlichen Angriffen. 13928
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 07/07/2026Vorher: "(We omit Section 5.1.3, Instrumentation, and Modules 5.2–5.8, as they do not apply.)" Rückmeldung: "Bitte entfernen Sie keine Formatierung/Überschriften/Punkte. Wir sind angehalten streng nach diesen Vorgaben zu prüfen." Der überarbeitete Antrag: 040
Reposted by Lisa SpantigInternational Development Economics Association @ideadevecon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026What is IDEA? 11914
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 23/06/2026Autoland Deutschland: Für eine Arbeitsaufgabe: Es soll so geplant werden, dass "eine*r aus dem Team ein Auto zur Verfügung hat". Es wird als völlig normal angesehen, ohne Teil der Einstellungsvoraussetzungen zu sein. Dienstwagen / Carsharing vom Arbeitgebenden gibt's natürlich nicht. 120
Reposted by Lisa SpantigAmrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Ihr seid auch bestürzt über angekündigte #DLFReform? Dann mailt dem Hörfunkrat, & zwar HEUTE! Er tagt morgen & Programmreform steht auf der Tagesordnung. Hab eben angerufen, Mailadresse erfragt & hingeschrieben. Macht Ihr mit? Adresse lautet gremienbuero@deutschlandradio.de! Was ich geschrieben hab: 28450265
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 09/06/2026Diese Woche direkt zweimal damit konfrontiert: Warum gibt es eigentlich als Essens"auswahl" bei größeren Veranstaltungen 1x Fleisch, 1x Fisch und 1x Vegetarisch? Warum kann man nicht aus mehreren klima- und tierfreundlichen Optionen (inkl. vegan) auswählen? 161
Reposted by Lisa SpantigHenning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 29/04/2026REMINDER: Less than three weeks left to submit for our Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, featuring keynotes by @peterbergman.bsky.social and Esther Duflo 👏 💪 🚀 Please send your best papers! 🙏 All infos 👇 #AcademicConference #CallForPapers #ResearchCommunity #EconResearch 1107
Reposted by Lisa SpantigJennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · 12/04/2026I'm putting together the summer schedule for the ViCE seminar (link below). Have a working paper related to crime or criminal justice policy that you'd like to present? Send it to me! (Papers measuring causal effects are the best fit.) 146
Reposted by Lisa SpantigNiklas Höhne @niklashoehne.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Governments should think twice before they reduce energy costs in this current crisis. Here our OLD @climateactiontracker.org report from 2022. Plenty of options good at reducing energy prices and greenhouse gas emissions! Full report of 2022: climateactiontracker.org/publications... 02513
Reposted by Lisa SpantigJens Temmen @jenstemmen.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Von der Position aus sind es nur ein paar kleine Schritte zu „kritische Wissenschaft verhindert Fortschritt und Wohlstand“ 111428
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 07/02/2026Being back in the Philippines: I'm happy to announce that over the last 10 years, the median guess of my age has only increased by 5 years! It is now 10 years below my true age. 070
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 07/02/2026German phone "service" provider while I travel abroad: 1. telling me to book a data package by sending a free SMS 2. I send an SMS 3. SMS cannot be delivered 4. It needs a call to get the data 5. SMS is billed 120
Reposted by Lisa SpantigMerle Meyerdierks @merledieperle.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Threema kostenlos Heute zum Welt-Datenschutz-Tag verschenke ich letztmalig Android Lizenzen für #Threema & #ThreemaLibre Schreib mich jetzt einfach direkt auf Bluesky an - DN sind offen! Nur so lange der Vorrat reicht! 😉 #WhatsApp #Messenger #Signal #Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #Gratis #Kostenlos 23931
Reposted by Lisa SpantigHenning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 28/01/2026📣 Thrilled to announce our 5th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 7-8 Sept 2026, @tum.de, Campus Heilbronn. Keynotes: @peterbergman.bsky.social (University of Texas at Austin) & Esther Duflo (@mit.edu, University of Zurich) 🫶🏻 Submission deadline May 15, 2026 🚨 #EconSky 13519
Reposted by Lisa SpantigToman Barsbai @tomanbarsbai.com · 26/01/2026BÆM💥5 days left to submit to the Bristol Applied Economics Meetings! 🌍Development (5-6 May) w/ Mobarak, Orkin, Rasul, Rossi 👥Migration (6-7 May) w/ Abramitzky, Monras, Theoharides ⚖️Fairness (8 May) w/ Fehr, Bénabou, Almås 👉 baem.info 024
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 20/01/2026Mal was Schönes und Unterstützenswertes: Der Kreativwettbewerb "Frauen in MINT" für 5.-9. Klassen in NRW läuft! ▶️ Sichtbarkeit von Vorbildern erhöhen, Interesse wecken, die Bedeutung wissenschaftlicher Innovationen hervorheben. Bitte an Lehrkräfte weiterleiten! kreativwettbewerbnrw2025.weebly.com 010
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 14/01/2026As an EU citizen, am I allowed to buy this? And if yes, should I? 161
Reposted by Lisa SpantigNadia Zaboura @nadiazaboura.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Einordnung und Kernfragen zur journalistischen Berichterstatung über den US-amerikanischen Angriff auf Venezuela. Ein Thread. Gerne Repost. 1/6 5328169
Reposted by Lisa SpantigShayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 03/01/2026THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI. 10060143465
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 30/12/2025Mein 2025 Highlight: die technische Uni führt eine Beihilfe-App ein. Vorher: jede Rechnung sortiert nach Datum in ein Word-Dokument eintragen, mit Betrag, Art der Rechnung,... Dann noch alle Rechnungen in Kopie beilegen und schon kann's per Post verschickt werden. Erstattung ca 3-6 Monate später. 081
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 27/11/2025"28 more effective than cash transfers in a baseline scenario and 3732 (!!!) times in an optimistic scenario" It's early in the evaluation process, but still: Malengo is such a cool program! 0174
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 12/11/2025Academic job markets are weird: You are sad and disappointed when you don't get the job you interviewed for, but you are also happy for the person who got it (as you usually know them quite well). 050
Reposted by Lisa SpantigRick Hornbeck @rickhornbeck.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!cmfdata.orgHistorical Census of Manufactures Microdata - Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata 110360
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 06/11/2025"Da hast du jetzt eher uns rekrutiert als umgekehrt." Evtl habe ich gerade den beiden Fundraiserinnen, die an unserer Tür geklingelt haben, so eindrücklich von Effektiv Spenden erzählt, dass sie von dem Konzept ganz angetan waren. effektiv-spenden.orgeffektiv-spenden.orgEffektiv Spenden | Besser spenden mit ExpertenAuf Basis wissenschaftlicher Studien und Analysen unabhängiger Experten empfehlen wir die weltweit wirksamsten Hilfsorganisationen. 041
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 06/11/2025Wenn man heute mit einem Adventskalender anfängt, schafft man zwei bis Weihnachten! 190
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 05/11/2025Just to be clear: I expect a contrast in the polishedness of the papers, simply because: have you ever written a more polished paper than your job market one? For the talks: I will still need to put mine together, so that's another thing to find out tomorrow. Either way, it will be interesting! 030
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 05/11/2025How strong are contrast effects? Join us at the U Penn seminar and find out: After @vasilisawerner.bsky.social presents her super-polished (former JM) paper, "Destructive Communication", I will present "Individual Preferences for Truth-Telling". Tomorrow, 7 pm CET. Registration: shorturl.at/mD1qe 061
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 05/11/2025If the email of the company your employer hired to teach you about phishing looks so suspicious that you delete it immediately... ...and your employer first notifies you about this upcoming training more than an hour later... ...it will surely be a very successful training! 010
Reposted by Lisa SpantigJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Evidence that academics have been complaining about service roles for about 3000 years... 213040
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 31/10/2025Mein Bruder beschwert sich, dass das Bewerbungsverfahren für seinen neuen Job lange gedauert hat. "Ich hab mich Anfang August beworben und erst Ende September Rückmeldung erhalten!" Ich: "August 2025?" Die Länge der deutschen Berufungsverfahren hat mich abgestumpft. #IchBinHanna 2646
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 26/10/2025"A castle!" "This is a large church." "Who lives in the church?" "Nobody." "Why does nobody live there? It is a house. And a big one." My niece (4) is visiting the city and asking good questions. 1121
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 12/09/2025This is one of my favorite conferences! Relatively small, great discussions and a variety of topics studied with the same methodology - field experiments. Thank you so much for organizing it, @henninghermes.com @lergetporer.bsky.social @fpeter.bsky.social @simonwiederhold.bsky.social! 🙏🏼 040
Reposted by Lisa SpantigOliver Hanney @olihanney.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Back to teaching or studying economics at university this September? @voxdev.bsky.social has tons of useful resources for university economics courses - I have included some examples in this thread. 1/n 23013
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 29/08/2025Excited to share that during my most recent conference trip, I realized my French is not sufficient to discuss the digital euro. With a cab driver. After midnight. 060
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 24/08/2025Why LLMs are not a substitute for humans in research on human behavior: Human participants were responsive to semantic nuances that LLMs didn't pick up. Example: Cut their beard to shame someone vs cut their beard to shave someone. #Econsky 0112
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 05/08/2025I present to you the ultimate filing cabinet for old and resting (let's be honest: abandoned) projects, well hidden under a staircase in the back entrance of a local government office. 181
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 05/08/2025Important read for everyone who collects their own data on online platforms #econsky 141
Reposted by Lisa SpantigSayahnika Basu @sayahnika.bsky.social · 17/07/2025#Econsky 🚀 Call for Presenters for our 2025–26 Seminar Series at the 21st Century India Center, UCSD. Nominate yourself 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comUC San Diego 21st Century India Center Seminar Series on the Indian Economy - Self-Nomination FormThe goal of the UC San Diego 21st Century India Center Seminar Series is to provide a platform for junior scholars to share their research on the Indian economy, engage with our community of scholars,... 022
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 17/07/2025Bad: being on leave the week before the exam. Even worse: being on leave the week before going to the field for data collection (at the same time that the exam takes place). Booking vacation half a year in advance may not be ideal. 030
Reposted by Lisa SpantigJennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Have a research idea related to philanthropy, particularly measuring the impact of our work? Get in touch! Perhaps we could partner to implement it at Arnold Ventures. You know I love a good causal study. 2174
Reposted by Lisa SpantigBrett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.bsky.social · 11/07/2025🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share. Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*. I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind. github.com/bretthollenb... 112643
Reposted by Lisa SpantigPhilipp Lergetporer @lergetporer.bsky.social · 07/06/2025We're hiring! I'm looking for a PhD student in Economics (75%, E13) to join my team at TUM Campus Heilbronn starting Oct 2025. Work on field & survey experiments in applied micro, behavioral econ & econ of education. Deadline: June 30. Please share! Call for applications: tinyurl.com/msdsrhv6 158
Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · 02/06/2025Surprises from other disciplines: Someone emails their new publication in which they cite one of my publications. Undecided how to feel about this: a nice gesture, but I also appreciate the +300 other author teams citing this publication and not sending one email each. Thanks to all, I guess?! 030