iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

OTD in 1951 first deportations of Operation Osen began. 20,000 Lithuanians were forcibly deported to Siberia as USSR continued to "liberate them from fascism" 6 years after WW2 ended Imagine mass deportations happening today...

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Philip Obaji Jr. @philipobaji.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Wagner mercenaries are turning West Africa’s gold fields into killing grounds. From Sudan to the Central African Republic (CAR), Russian-backed forces loot, murder, and smuggle gold and other resources to bankroll Moscow’s war in Ukraine. united24media.com/world/how-mu...

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How Much Gold Is Russia Bleeding from Africa to Fund Its War?

Russian-backed forces are turning West Africa’s gold mines into killing grounds. They loot, murder, and smuggle gold to bankroll Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

"Ivan Gorchev, the sailor of the cargo ship Rangoon, was not even twenty-one years old when he won the Nobel Prize. To win such a major scientific award at such a poetically young age is an unprecedented feat, even if it may seem like a cosmetic flaw to some that Ivan Gorchev

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

For your consideration:

Poster: THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECOLOGY 2025
Kyrylo Budanov Vasyl Maluk
Robert Brovdi
"for reducing fossil fuel production in russia"
THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET

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Erik Mohlin @karlerikmohlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Lund University Department of Economics is hiring in Microeconomic Theory! The department combines high academic standards with a very friendly atmosphere. Lund is a lovely university town with excellent links to the rest of the world. Six year tenture track: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

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EJM - Econ Job Market

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

My favorite conversations are when people invoke market failures and it turns out that it's true, except that the failure was created by government policy.

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kapitoška @mathan.dev · 31/07/2025

@safety.bsky.app You have suspended a prominent Ukrainian account, one of the very few that is covering daily russian attacks, as a result of report bombing. Please unban Mira of Kyiv @reshetz.bsky.social

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I don't usually post but I'll make an exception for this. (Why) are economics curricula outdated? Reflecting on this... writing. www.ft.com/content/9aab...

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Angelo Romano @aromano.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

🚨New article in Proc B: "Reciprocity evolves more readily in competitive than cooperative socio-ecologies" Using agent-based evolutionary models, we show that reciprocity emerges more reliably in competitive environments with high exploitation risk. 🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Reciprocity evolves more readily in competitive than cooperative socio-ecologies | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Tracking what others did and matching other’s expected actions is seen across a range of biological systems. As reciprocal matching rewards and reinforces cooperators and punishes and discourages non-...

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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I see a higher order mistake more often — attributing to economists a straw man version of economics that is not representative of the field.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

TIL that the People's Republic of Hungary was supplying the US with drugs for decades, sparked a methaqualone epidemic that killed tens of thousands, and my granddad helped put an end to it.

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A nagy titkosszolgálati drogjátszma – amikor a magyar Chinoin látta el kábítószerrel Amerikát | Válasz Online

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

At least once a year, someone reaches to me about constructing "better" metrics to rank academics. Please stop. xkcd.com/2899

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Goodhart's Law

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Interview week of EconJobMarket be like...

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

One of the most French things that keeps happening to me is receive an email from an administrator that requires my "urgent attention", I reply in *one minute* only to receive an autoreply saying that the person is on holiday for the next two weeks.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

They did this cos a "fascist, hitlerite uprising financed by the west" broke out. Imagine using such a bullshit excuse in the 21st century. Imagine Hungary being run by a man sympathetic to us

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

OTD in 1956 several armored Soviet humanitarian divisions, with equipment bought from a shop, went on a "special military operation" to Hungary to liberate the locals from themselves.

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Peter Bayer @peterbayer.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

TSE job market candidates. Spot the game theorist.

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Write a four-word horror story: "How is this economics?"

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