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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Irony is when a journal takes *many* months to review your manuscript, but after it gets accepted, the journal expects you to turn around proofs within 24h.

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Paper acceptance day!! 🥳🥳

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

First week of teaching in Paris Sorbonne. Of course, my first lecture is postponed because today is strike day and getting to the Uni might be nearly impossible for staff & students. The experience wouldn't be french otherwise. 😅

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I am very happy to share that I am joining the Sorbonne University as an Econ Prof. I am extremely grateful to everyone that made this possible, above all my parents.

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🚨 Incredibly excited about this 🚨 Thread below

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Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Beliefs about inequality and the nature of support for redistribution" By @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social, Ernst Fehr, @sennjulien.bsky.social, & Thomas Epper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

🚨PSA for anyone using GPT in human subjects research🚨 A judge has ruled that OpenAI must retain ChatGPT and API data indefinitely, with few exceptions. This might have implications for your IRB compliance and the security of your participants' data. 1/

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🚨Publication alert🚨 What motivates citizens to support redistributive policy proposals? Find out in our new paper just accepted in the @jpube.bsky.social (joint with @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social, T.Epper, E. Fehr). Paper: tinyurl.com/9u45tcep A thread🧵

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 12/05/2025

I noticed this too that universities and PIs are increasingly trying to exploit their market power, and no one seems to stop them. In other countries non-fulltime PhD and postdoctoral positions are very uncommon, as far as I know.

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I don't think this is only a german problem. The fact that juniors have to so extremely rely on advisor(s) for all the important steps in their career is in my view one of the biggest issues in academia.

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Academic journals time bipolarity: Before acceptance, every interaction takes months. After acceptance, they need everything from you within 48hours.

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 10/04/2025

The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 11/04/2025

Tenure was created for moments like this. It's there to give you more security & courage to speak out truthfully. Use it or lose it.

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Elect stupid people, suffer from stupid policies.

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

What a time to be a young (european) scientist in the last 5 years: covid, budget cuts, hiring freezes, and now a potential wave of US-based scientists searching for a new home.

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Waking up to a paper acceptance on a sunny Sunday morning makes the coffee taste substantially better. ☕️🎉☀️

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

When you think you've hit the bottom, Trump, Vance and co. show you can go lower. 🤮

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Jaakko Meriläinen @jmerilainen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

🧵 Who enters politics? Are politicians different from the general population? In our @jeeanews.bsky.social paper (M. Jokela, @jannetukiainen.bsky.social, Å. von Schoultz), we study Finnish politicians’ cognitive and personality traits using military conscription test data. 📊

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Personality Traits and Cognitive Ability in Political Selection

Abstract. A vast scholarship questions whether voters are sufficiently informed to act in their best interest at the polling booth, which may also have imp

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

As other places, @ethzurich.bsky.social now also focuses on net academic age (years +PhD) when evaluating candidates. This trend penalizes people who graduated from places with short PhDs. Some places make you graduate in 3-4years, while others give you 6-7. Huge difference! ethz.ch/staffnet/en/...

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New guidelines for assistant professorships

These guidelines came into force on 1 January 2025. Following a complete overhaul, they are now consistent with the current framework conditions once again. Assistant professors can choose whether the...

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The fastest female to sail around the globe without assistance is 🇨🇭. Justine Mettraux made it in 76 days--beating the former record by 11 days. Amazing achievement!!

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

40 years later, we surely can't say that Zappa was wrong.

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty"

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Using years after PhD as academic age becomes useless: Some people now do longer undergrad, predocs and stretch their PhDs to 6+ years, but others don't. E.g., why should someone with a 2014 MSc + 2019 PhD be considered “3 years older" than a 2014 MSc who does 2 years predoc & 6 years Phd?

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The jackpot of a lottery is 2.6 milions. Probability of winning is 1 in a million. Lottery costs 2. Should you play? Maybe not.. unless you can buy enough tickets! This is exactly what happened this week in 🇨🇭 www.bluewin.ch/en/news/swit...

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Gang tries to hit lottery jackpot with combination trick

A group of players have tried to manipulate Loterie Romande's Joker game by playing all possible number combinations. Loterie Romande temporarily blocked the game.

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Tinder’s introduction + sharply & persistently increased sexual activity with no impact on relationship formation + increased inequality in dating outcomes among male but not female students + increased sexual assaults & STDs + improved female students' mental health papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Today is AEA P&P submission deadline day ... ... or, as I like to call it, "economist resume padding day"! Economists with more P&Ps are more likely to list them in a way that is difficult to distinguish from refereed ones (i.e., real AER articles). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Stephanie Wang @sweiwang.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

@sennjulien.bsky.social peers are randomly assigned or assigned to maximize expected productivity or endogenously chosen by workers. Comparing to high-productivity peer can induce stress in addition to usual motivation and some workers choose to avoid comparisons. drive.google.com/file/d/1pn2M...

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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

As universities devote their resources to administrators and bureaucracies, they spend less on research (like most labs, my lab gets no money from my institution's endowment). This is having the untoward effect of driving some terrific scientists away. www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harv...

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Harvard Professors Leaving for Private Sector Research | Harvard Magazine

Three distinguished scientists on leaving academia to advance biomedical research

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

23 out of 46 alive. Come on, we should be able to find one more to tip the balance in the right direction !

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Who are the #Econsky people to follow? I heard this website is becoming the new place to discuss academic research. Please reach out =)

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

🚨New paper in #PsychologicalScience🚨 Can vaccine nationalism be explained by a belief among policymakers that citizens will mistrust leaders who prioritize global needs over domestic protection. Short answer: Yes. Find out more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Short #Cinema Thread. Movies can differ a lot between the US & EUR. I just rewatched Le Grand Bleu (The Big Blue) by Luc Besson, and it's a great example. The movie is about the friendship and rivalry between 2 free divers: Jacques Mayor and Enzo Maiorca. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt1W...

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Le Grand bleu Trailer

No copyrights infringement intended.My trailer for Le Grand bleu from 1988 with Jean-Marc Barr, Rosanna Arquette, Paul Shenar, Sergio Castellitto, Jean Bouis...

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Was thinking about this the other day. I paid upfront for about $10k of professional expenses (experiments, travels, etc..) and am waiting for reimbursement since several months. Quite insane that stuff like this happens.

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Do you really find engagement better on #Econsky than on #EconTwitter? I don't see many discussions going here

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

A few days ago I was very excited to share a new paper on "The Fundamental Properties, Stability and Predictive Power of Distributional Preferences" but didn't realize I can write a thread on bsky. So here is the thread ! #Econsky 1/11

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Julien Senn @sennjulien.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

🚨New working paper🚨 *The Fundamental Properties, Stability and Predictive Power of Distributional Preferences* (Authors: Ernst Fehr ® Thomas Epper ® Julien Senn) www.econ.uzh.ch/en/research/... #Econsky

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