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Stephanie 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

Dear Advisory Editor of GEB
We are very sorry to be the bearers of bad news for GEB.
I learned from Elsevier on Wednesday July 28 that, contrary to my expressed willingness to continue, my 3-year contract will not be renewed.
"Moving towards a closer alignment with Elsevier strategic priorities and publishing policies" was offered as the motive for this decision. Requests for explanations, first by me, then in a collective letter by the other six Editors, were dismissed by Elsevier which simply reaffirmed its legal power to make such decisions.
Elsevier then started precipitously its own search for new Editors without input of the Editorial Board.
By Friday August 14 all seven Editors have sent their resignation, requiring a 3-month advance notice.
Therefore, we will continue to manage as before the papers currently under review and the new submissions until Saturday November 14. After this date we will only complete the evaluation of papers still waiting an editorial decision.

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Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Just so it’s clear, the government wanted to oversee hiring and employment at a *private* institution in order to implement a purity test. When the institution refused, they took away money for life saving research (cancer etc). That’s some fascist shit.

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Monika Schnitzer @monika-schnitzer.com · 29/03/2025

75% of US scientists who answered @nature.com poll consider leaving. More than 1,600 readers answered their poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

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Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

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Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel

One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

Banning #smartphones in over 400 schools led to: -decreased psychological symptoms among girls by 29% -decreased bullying by boys and girls by 43% -increased GPA among girls by .08 SDs Effects were larger for girls from low SES families openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/bi...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Social media is a collective trap: Users feel compelled to stay engaged, even if they hate it. The majority would prefer to live in a world without Tik Tok or Instagram (which currently have 3.5 billion users). I wrote about this problem and a solution: www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/why-we-sho...

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Why we should keep phones out of schools: Solving a collective trap

Issue 115: Why people hate social media, but can't stop using it.

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

So 2023 was a miraculous year for the economy: high growth with inflation falling all the way back to the Fed's target, rising real wages. And here, according to YouGov, is how Republicans saw it

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Antonia Kurz @antoniakurz.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

There is a Climate Change Econ Summer School with my @vuamsterdam.bsky.social colleagues and 2 profs from UvA coming up! 🌳 You can find out more about the Tinbergen Institute's Summer Schools here: tinbergen.nl/summer-school/

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Tinbergen Institute Summer School 2024

An academically rigorous program and a highly interactive learning environment.

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

The stages of Republican economic grief: The economy is lousy The numbers may look good, but people aren’t feeling it People are feeling better, but won’t credit Biden Trump will give everyone a pony

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Menusch Khadjavi @menuschkhadjavi.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

New publication with @kkhadjavi.bsky.social and Rainer Thiele: We show that the introduction of large-scale farms in #Zambia has positive spillovers, including more #gender #equality for current and #future #generations. Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...

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Kiel Institut @kiel.institute · 18/12/2023

📢 The Advanced Studies Program ASP is raising its ambitions to become a 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹-𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗱, 𝟱-𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿, 𝘁𝗼𝗽-𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 w/ a clear focus on international economics ❗ 👉 Apply now until January 15 / March 1 for the first cohort starting in September 2024 Full details 👇

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Advanced Studies Program

Europe’s newest doctoral program in International Economics

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

There is massive grade inflation at top universities—and it’s getting worse. Grade inflation is occurring at most colleges, spiked during the pandemic, and is lower in the sciences. When the average GPA is 3.7 the grades essentially become meaningless. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/n...

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Nearly Everyone Gets A’s at Yale. Does That Cheapen the Grade?

A report found that close to 80 percent of grades were in the A range last academic year. A pandemic-era bump has stuck.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

This is 100% real. A prof. has every incentive just to hand out A's because doing otherwise makes your life miserable for no reason. The only reason I don't is b/c 1. I'm teaching a required course and want to select for better students and 2. it kills the spark in the 10-15% with actual promise.

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

SZ reports that Armin Falk will not take over as IZA director.

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Bastian Brinkmann @basbrinkmann.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Armin Falk zieht sich zurück „Wir danken unserem internationalen Forschungsnetzwerk ausdrücklich dafür, dass es uns mit seinem kritischen Engagement die Essenz des IZA noch einmal deutlich vor Augen geführt hat.“ www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/o...

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Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit: Armin Falk zieht sich zurück

700 Forscher wollten Armin Falkan der Spitze des IZA verhindern - und haben nun Erfolg. Doch die Frage ist: Wie soll es nun weitergehen?

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

Here is the call for papers for the special issue of the EER in memory of Nora: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/euro...

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Andreas Peichl @apeichl.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

The open letter from 400+ IZA fellows to the Deutsche Post Foundation in response to the new leadership announcement at IZA is online: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Letter Deutsche Post Foundation

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Menusch Khadjavi @menuschkhadjavi.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

... as if the world doesn't have enough problems already... 😑🤮 I studied in Delaware and like Joe, but that the democrats couldn't establish a younger, charismatic candidate to sweep away that criminal autocrat Trump might cost the United States it's democracy. 😕 www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/u...

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Trump Leads in 5 Critical States as Voters Blast Biden, Times/Siena Poll Finds

Voters in battleground states said they trusted Donald J. Trump over President Biden on the economy, foreign policy and immigration, as Mr. Biden’s multiracial base shows signs of fraying.

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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

A lot of criticism has recently been levelled at behavioural scientists, ranging from p-hacking to outright fraud. My impression is that the problem is not in behavioural economics per se, but some other areas clearly seem to have a problem. #Behecon openmkt.org/research/rep...

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Ben Greiner @bgreiner.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

📢 New working paper alert! With the help of more than 700 volunteer reviewers, we (@milosfisar.bsky.social, @chrhuber.bsky.social, Elena Katok, @ozkesali.bsky.social and myself) assessed the reproducibility of ~500 articles published in Management Science. Some results. 📊🔍 #Reproducibility

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Menusch Khadjavi @menuschkhadjavi.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

In terms of extreme parties, antisemitism and racism against people of color, Germany is on it's way back to 1933. And the CDU makes the same historical mistake of slowing legitimizing the right-extreme AfD. Will there be political refugees from Germany again? www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...

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‘Pervasive and relentless’ racism on the rise in Europe, survey finds

Poll of 6,752 people of African descent in 13 countries finds almost half have experienced discrimination

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

The war on inflation is over. We won, at very little cost

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Carsten De Dreu @dedreu.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Call: Special Issue of Journal of Economic Psychology - ISSN 0167-4870 (elsevier.com) on Social Institutions and Cooperation Failures. Public good provision, social dilemmas, intergroup conflict. Theory and experiments. Reposting appreciated!  Submission Deadline is December 25, 2023

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Johannes Haushofer @johanneshaushofer.com · 07/10/2023

We started @malengo.org in 2021 to support Ugandan students on their journey to a Bachelor's degree in Germany. We admitted 10 students in 2021; 30 in 2022; and 120 in 2023. Our next goal: FOUR HUNDRED! We urgently need both investors and donors — please read and spread widely! 1/n

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