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Nicola Lacetera

@nicolacetera.bsky.social
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Professor at the Università di Bologna and the University of Toronto (on leave). Dad of 2 girls, husband of 1. sites.google.com/site/nicolacetera

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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
" #Economics is too important to be left to economists. Everyone should engage. Many #policies go unchallenged simply because people are not invited into the economic conversation. I am very keen that economics is not discussed only among economists." Abhijit #Banerjee www.msn.com/en-in/news/w...
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Mauro Biani @maurobiani.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
#ragazzi #violenza #ascolto #educazione #mondo #adulti #leggedelpiùforte Di cosa ci meravigliamo? Oggi per @mm-repubblica-bot.bsky.social
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Dear @ezraklein.bsky.social: Charlie Kirk advocated for forcing 12-year olds to watch the public execution of Trump's governmental opponents, maybe by guillotine www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
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Arianna Ciccone @ariannaciccone.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
‘You need solidarity and consistency’: Pedro Sánchez on the EU, Trump and fighting the far right
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‘You need solidarity and consistency’: Pedro Sánchez on the EU, Trump and fighting the far right
Spanish PM insists ‘migration is an opportunity’ and is not afraid to discuss what he considers Europe’s recent failures
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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Not my style to show off my donations. But this is worth an exception. Consider donating too. Global Sumud Flotilla - Global chuffed.org/project/1388...
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Global Sumud Flotilla - Global
As the genocide in Gaza gets worse by the day and the governments and institutions fail the Palestinian people, the free people of the world are trying their best to maintain solidarity and to create ...
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
"anybody who thinks LLMs are a direct route to the sort of AGI that could fundamentally transform society for the good is kidding themselves" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it's time to rethink the hype | Gary Marcus
The tech world is reeling from a paper that shows the powers of a new generation of AI have been wildly oversold, says cognitive scientist Gary Marcus
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dr. gianluca grimalda @ggrimalda.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Qui la locandina dell'evento: 2/2
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dr. gianluca grimalda @ggrimalda.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Oggi 10/6 prima presentazione del mio libro "A Fuoco" per @feltrinellied e mi sento come al primo giorno di scuola. 🙏@ElaGiampaoli di spiegare il perchè del viaggio lento raccontato nel libro. Ne parlo con @emacampiglio & @MariaBigoni1 h18:00 @Unibo. bologna.repubblica.i... 1/2
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Ricercatore licenziato perché non voleva volare: la storia di Gianluca Grimalda in un libro
Lo studioso del cambiamento climatico tornò a casa da Papua Nuova Guinea senza prendere aerei impiegando due mesi. Troppo per i suoi datori di lavoro che lo ca…
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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Un tentativo di spiegare l'erraticità di Trump, fra psicogeriatria e teaoria dei giochi. E soprattutto il desiderio di un'Europa (e un mondo) con una visione diametralmente opposta alla sua. www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
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Redirecting...
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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
"A.I. is a parasite. [..] its most compelling use case is starving the host — fewer teachers, fewer degrees, fewer workers, fewer healthy information environments."
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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Parasite in chief. The Tesla Secret That Exposes Elon Musk’s Whole Game newrepublic.com/article/1929... via @newrepublic.com
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The Tesla Secret That Exposes Elon Musk’s Whole Game
The car company’s big business in regulatory credits shows Musk’s mantra has always been “Government handouts for me, not for thee.”
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David A. Jaeger (econ) @davidajaeger.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
To reiterate: We are hiring the following: 1) Prof (Chair) in Applied Micro, 2) Reader/Senior Lecture (Assoc Professor) in Applied Econ, 3) 4 Lecturers (Asst Professors), any field. Ads: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMK740/p... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMK745/s... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM015/l... #EconSky
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Professor in Economics (Chair) - AC2432LS at University of St Andrews
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Professor in Economics (Chair) - AC2432LS at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Open secrets www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/w...
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Key Takeaways From America’s Secret Military Partnership With Ukraine
An investigation by The New York Times has revealed that America was woven into the war far more than previously known.
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Andrew Sabl @andysabl.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I’m actually quite radical on this. Most middle-class people have no idea what it’s like not to be able to get dental care, but it absolutely ruins people’s lives (and leads to other diseases). Of course policy details can be disputed, but: basic dental coverage should absolutely be covered.
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The more I study and visit so-called Global South countries, the more I learn about their problems related to the carbon economy and climate disasters, the more I am convinced that they represent the future, not the past, of the Global North.
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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This is important. More than 700 Harvard faculty, with diverse views, have now signed a letter urging the university administration to "publicly condemn attacks on universities," "legally contest and refuse to comply with unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom" and +
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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Technocracy is coming to the USA. www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...
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Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas"
The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...
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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Each time I see the word abundance used, I know the theses are going to be between naive and ... boringly centrist. This book is no exeption.
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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it's already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human. It is happening to me, personally." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
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Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing
The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.
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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Well then it's over. Shit happens.
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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 14/03/2025
OpenAI urges Trump: Either settle AI copyright debate or lose AI race to China
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OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use
National security hinges on unfettered access to AI training data, OpenAI says.
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Arianna Ciccone @ariannaciccone.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A Columbia University student left the country after having a student visa cancelled and a second student was arrested for overstaying an expired visa, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Both students had participated in pro-Palestine protests.
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One Columbia student leaves country, another arrested as DHS targets protesters
The State Department is exercising a seldom-used power to remove legal immigrants connected to protests.
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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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Helena Janeczek @helenajaneczek.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Today we published this page in @larepubblica.bsky.social and @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social saying no to ethnic cleansing in Gaza and in the West Bank. Jews in Italy count only 30.000 community members, plus an imprecise number who "identify as"...
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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Vale sempre la pena di pensare a qualcosa di nuovo e migliore. Senza questo desiderio, si rischia di non essere nemmeno capaci di considerare la possibilità del peggio, e di scorgerne i segni. www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
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Valigia Blu @valigiablu.it · 05/02/2025
🧵 Trump-Musk, il caos coordinato e pianificato: i prodromi di un colpo di Stato | @marcoarvati.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/trump-musk-c... via @valigiablu.it
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Trump-Musk, il caos coordinato e pianificato: i prodromi di un colpo di Stato - Valigia Blu
Le prime mosse della nuova amministrazione Trump evidenziano un attacco sistematico alla burocrazia federale e alle istituzioni democratiche. Trump sta cercando di centralizzare il potere attraverso o...
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Simone Vannuccini @svannuccini.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience
Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion
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Francesco Saraceno @fsaraceno.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Ottimi Maurizio Franzini e Michele Raitano, che spiegano come l'età pensionabile in un sistema contributivo sia un non problema. E che altri sono i nodi da sciogliere per avere più equità www.editorialedomani.it/economia/pen...
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Alzare l’età pensionabile è un bluff: così lo Stato vuole fare cassa su di noi
Il dibattito sull’età pensionabile è poco utile e controproducente. Serve a far quadrare i conti nell’immediato, ma potrebbe essere un boomerang sul lungo periodo. Ci sono questioni più impellenti, tr...
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Francesco Saraceno @fsaraceno.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The same point made more forcefully by @acoyne.bsky.social. For liberal democracies, the US is not part of the solution anymore. It is now part of the problem www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: The democratic world will have to get along without America. It may even have to defend itself from it
The U.S. is now on the side of the dictatorships
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
È insopportabile, oltre che ipocrita, questo frame per cui scopriamo ora — con grande sgomento e costernazione! — quanto è concreto l’autoritarismo di Trump e co. Sta andando al contrario tutto secondo i piani — gli stessi che i sostenitori di quel frame ci dicevano, deridendoci, di ignorare.
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Fabio Sabatini @fabiosabatini.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
An essential read by Steven Levitsky (Harvard) and Lucan Way (University of Toronto) on how Musk and Trump are laying the groundwork for American authoritarianism. Particularly insightful for Europeans, who must now fear its contagion. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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An Unpopular Proposal: shut down X and Meta's platforms in Europe
X and the others have been transformed into global-scale warfare weapons, privately owned by oligarchs who support a far-right agenda with the explicit goal of undermining Western democracies
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Fabio Sabatini @fabiosabatini.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
PS: per chi è interessato, un pensiero più articolato sulla regolamentazione dei social si trova qui 👇 open.substack.com/pub/fabiosab...
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An Unpopular Proposal: shut down X and Meta's platforms in Europe
X and the others have been transformed into global-scale warfare weapons, privately owned by oligarchs who support a far-right agenda with the explicit goal of undermining Western democracies
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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Europe/EU = Multilateralism, rules (yes, rules), openness, fairness (read: higher taxes for the rich). "The absence of the US does not make the agreement irrelevant".
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Nicola Lacetera @nicolacetera.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
"AfriForum has called apartheid a “so-called” historical injustice. Its chief executive, Kallie Kriel, also said that apartheid was not a crime against humanity because not enough people were killed during the more than four decades of white minority rule." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘White supremacists in suits and ties’: the rightwing Afrikaner group in Trump’s ear
Trump’s asylum offer to South Africa’s white minority follows years of AfriForum lobbying on Elon Musk’s behalf
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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 12/02/2025
Newly published report with a collection of insights from the @pse.bsky.social -CEPR Policy Forum 2024. Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo & @gabrielzucman.bsky.social explore: international taxation, climate change compensation & global poverty. Download: cepr.org/publications... #EconSky
A promotional graphic for the Report PSE-CEPR Policy Forum (June 5-7, 2024) highlights keynote lectures by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Gabriel Zucman on redistribution, climate inequality, and taxing the super-rich.
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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
DOGE came for the research and statistics arm of the U.S. Department of Education today, declared "fraud" and "waste" and abruptly terminated about $900M in contracts. A lot of what we know about America's schools comes from the data this agency collects. New reporting with @jodiscohen.bsky.social
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Elon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Department Arm That Tracks National School Performance
The Trump administration canceled $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, which partners with scientists and education companies to compile and make public data abou...
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
There is a measles outbreak in Texas, in a county where 18% of incoming kindergartners in the 2023-24 school year did not get the measles, mumps, & rubella vaccine: www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/h... Exemption rates for vaccines are rising. Like COVID-19, measles is a highly infectious airborne disease.
Screenshot of a graph from the CDC website showing the national percentage of kindergartners with an exemption for one and more vaccines by school year to sharply increase after 2021
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Francesco Nicoli 🇪🇺 🎓 @francesconicoli.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Note that private citizens could try to enforce this too, bringing up a legal case in these countries. Boosting nazi symbols on the Web is certainly illegal in both Italy and Germany. But it shouldn't be up to privates. We have public prosecutors for a reason. Do your damn job.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
For now
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Now… the second most powerful person on earth, and pushing for first
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
💯 transparency on energy use water requirements is critical
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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This is right. DEI is a code word and an organizing tool in a long line of such code words and organizing tools used by the right to dismantle gains from the civil rights movement. The political valence of anti-DEI cannot be measured by actual HR practices.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Their response to "he's violating the Constitution" is really "but bro is so sick at coding." US rule of law in shambles. Tech ideology is really that kind of caricature of itself.
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Fabio Sabatini @fabiosabatini.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
PS: per gli accademici, ritengo valido il messaggio di Augustine Fuentes (Princeton) su Science Mag: "It is time for scientists to be more effective, forceful, and vociferous as their own political advocates". www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Scientists as political advocates
Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...
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Fabio Sabatini @fabiosabatini.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Rafforzare l'unione al di là degli aspetti monetari e fiscali sarebbe prioritario, ma non è certo nell'agenda dei governi europei. Per noi cittadini, è difficile immaginare modi per contrastare quest'onda, ma riconoscerla e prepararsi è già qualcosa. 19/19
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Helena Janeczek @helenajaneczek.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
You can find the same 🧵 in English. Thanks @fabiosabatini.bsky.social.
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
New piece out! We explain why Fully Autonomous Agents Should Not be Developed, breaking “AI Agent” down into its components & examining through ethical values. With @evijit.io, @giadapistilli.com and @sashamtl.bsky.social huggingface.co/papers/2502....
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Paper page - Fully Autonomous AI Agents Should Not be Developed
Join the discussion on this paper page
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
“Silicon Valley and authoritarians share the same goal: to crush dissent by keeping their would-be opponents spinning on an endless hamster wheel of reactive anger. And just like in the classic 1983 thriller WarGames, the only winning move is not to play” Must read
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