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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they also have the nicest journal website. it's a shame the links to published papers take you to a typical hard-to-use publisher site

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

welcome to the historical handwriting recognition frontier, claude. opencensus.us/check/standi...

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We're hiring two folks at Miami Econ this year! One health One "applied micro" Dynamic fun department in small town with big town (Cincinnati) nearby! Tell your friends and apply! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....,

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American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2026 - January 31, 2027

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

At the Economic History Association meetings this weekend in St Louis if anyone wants to chat about this! (or anything really)

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

yes! 1940 and 1950 first -- going backwards will take more time because we need high quality scans first.

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

conceptually, though they have fixed lots of errors and we add some fields that have never been transcribed (e.g., 1940 industry string) down the line we hope they can use our data!

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

aside: it's interesting that Google has basically the whole frontier for handwriting transcription in our application

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

PS -- this is not a replacement for IPUMS! Their data is amazing, cleaned up, and available for all years. We are focusing on a pipeline to create open data that can be used by everyone to improve and expand existing datasets

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thanks also to our all-star list of contributors and advisors. We are trying to make this the broadest possible team If you want to help, let us know! opencensus.us/get-involved

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Fair warning: many errors remain We built a checking interface here: opencensus.us/check You can help adjudicate tricky cells where models disagree and help inform our next run

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Here's how the models are doing so far relative to their cost, both on the overall sample and in "hard" fields where context is key

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Along the way, we will open source both our output and code. One result will be what we think is the largest open handwriting training dataset ever!

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So, we are starting a platform to create open-source transcriptions of the censuses. This will not be fast. Models are imperfect and even humans have a hard time reading some of these scans.

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Until now! LLMs and local machine learning models are good at handwriting recognition and getting better every day

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Censuses are in the public domain after 72 years. But the scale of the data and computer limitations have made automatic transcription difficult

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The US censuses are among the richest datasets we have They allow generations of researchers to study pivotal moments in US history

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🚨 Announcing OpenCensus, a new project with @ezrakarger.bsky.social : We are transcribing the historical US censuses and releasing them as open data 2.6 million people so far in 1940, browse here: opencensus.us

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Please show this graph to anyone who is a pangram skeptic. Not sure how long it will work, but that pre-ChatGPT zero is amazing.

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

probably impossible because of FERPA/IRB, but I would love to see this same graph for job market letters of recommendation

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Danielle Graves Williamson @daniellecgw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@ppcreanza.bsky.social, @joaotampellini.bsky.social and I are excited to announce the first iteration of the Junior Economic History Conference, an outlet for early-career researchers to get in-depth feedback on projects: jreconhist.org/flyer/

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Junior Economic History Conference 2027

Junior Economic History Conference

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Hans Henrik Sievertsen @hhsievertsen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hey #EconSky, join the #EconFPL. Win the fantastic mug ⤵️, and most importantly join this list of past winners 20/21 Vigyan D Ratnoo 21/22 @proflivingston.bsky.social 22/23 @conornomics.bsky.social 23/24 @danielepaserman.bsky.social 24/25 @proflivingston.bsky.social 24/25Vigyan D Ratnoo

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Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🔊The Census Tree team is hosting our first-ever conference in February of 2027! If you have a paper that uses the Census Tree, please consider submitting it for the program. More details and the call for papers available here:

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

super cool. Trying to do something similar with some handwritten documents and so far have found closed models (Gemini family in particular) are dominating, though I haven’t tried these. Similar story here or are the open models the frontier?

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's 2032. your AI bot just sent the editor bot a 20th round revise and resubmit response. halfway there!

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I think people just don't know that Pangram exists? Or they just don't care? It's definitely not perfect but its **pretty good** at confirming AI slop in referee reports, papers, etc etc

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

made this webapp (works best on mobile) for my numbers-obsessed 4-year old! Take it for a spin! www.peternencka.com/blockmath/

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Another incredible thesis title (and thesis) from our MA program. Excited to follow Addie’s career at Vandy!

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Just discovered I’m a Canadian citizen under their new laws and I’m celebrating by restarting my français lessons on Duolingo

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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It’s been a pleasure to get to know Luke the past 2 years, where he’s been a rockstar RA for me, @loismiller.bsky.social, @camilantmorales.bsky.social, @julia-turner.bsky.social, and Kalena Cortes. Look for him to apply to your PhD programs after a few years as a predoc with the West Point crew!

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

We will miss you!!! People were eager to contribute to the book!

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

crazy how fast one goes from "wow these claude presentations are beautiful" to "please never show me a claude presentation again in my life"

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

good week for parental leave for me

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The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) @reveconstudies.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

New paper by Tuttle: www.restud.com/racial-dispa... #REStud #EconSky

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Miami University Economics @miamiecon.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

We had a great time celebrating our senior award winners last night - congratulations to all, and thank you to our advisory board for sponsoring the reception! (And no, we didn't ask people to coordinate colors! The invisible hand at work.)

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Bryan Stuart @bryanstuart.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

We are still interviewing for research assistants at the Philly Fed for this cycle. It’s a great opportunity for students who want to get more experience with research and there are lots of development opportunities rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FRS/jo...

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Research Assistant/Sr. Research Assistant

Company Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Job Description Summary Research assistants (RAs) at the Philadelphia Fed play a key role in the Economic Research Department. Whether they are helping eco...

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Miriam Wüst @miriamwuest.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

📢Publication alert: Our paper "Universal Investments in Toddler Health. Learning from a Large Government Trial" has found a terrific home and is accepted at @theeconjournal.bsky.social 1/N

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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Looking forward to watching my coauthors Emily & Paola share our work on political polarization and college choices at the @nber.org econ of ed meeting today! If you’re not in Chicago, you can tune in to it on YouTube at 1:20pm CT 👇 www.nber.org/conferences/...

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Economics of Education Program Meeting, Spring 2026

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

That’s right I think? I was trolling around Reddit to see if I missed it as a first timer but I don’t think so

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

a fun thesis to advise! Carving out a niche as the sports econ and econ history MA thesis advisor. perhaps sports econ history next

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Miami University Economics @miamiecon.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Congratulations to Drake Peavy on his MA defense, "How NIL and the Transfer Portal Changed Competitive Balance in College Basketball." After graduation, he'll be going to EY in Chicago as a Transfer Pricing Consultant.

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Trying to build this without building a full-fledged secondary password manager. New Claude thinks it is impossible, but it just baffles me. Has to be possible, right?

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

refine is cool too but it's fun to be able to tune things!

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

i.e., I wanted a review model to focus on writing or line editing instead of "big picture" comments -- easy to tune that on your own. perhaps I'll fork this and try to make a web version that just does grammar/typos! cool that I could now!

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This is cool and a great use of @openrouter.bsky.social Since this is open source, I'd encourage folks to look under the hood at how these prompts are run, e.g., github.com/Davidvandijc... The multi-agent logic can help you do all sorts of bespoke things on your own!

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coarse/src/coarse at dev · Davidvandijcke/coarse

Contribute to Davidvandijcke/coarse development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

But this thread is already too long! Thanks for reading and let us know if you have any questions or comments www.peternencka.com/assets/high_...

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