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Shelly Lundberg

@shellyjlundberg.bsky.social
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Professor of Economics and Demography at University of California Santa Barbara. Book coming from UC Press in Aug/26. How Economics Discovered Women. www.ucpress.edu/books/how-economics… sjlundberg.weebly.com

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16h
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today is my birthday. My birthday wish is for everyone to check their registration and vote in the midterms. Also donate to your local animal shelter. 🩷 Thank you.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you're in these 3 states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Alaska Rhode Island South Carolina Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check everything is in order. Do it now. And there's a lot to vote for across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@adamtooze.bsky.social: Avoid easy comparisons of the AI boom to the Manhattan Project. Back then, the central actors were scientists, soldiers and civil servants. "Today’s world-threatening technologies are fuelled by trillionaire greed, junk bonds and jerry-rigged financial engineering."
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No, AI is not similar to the Manhattan Project
What is singular and novel about the current threat is that it was born out of the private sector
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International Development Economics Association @ideadevecon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thinking about a PhD in economics? Hear directly from faculty how admissions committees read and weigh applications. Bring your questions for the open Q&A, and share with students who are considering applying! Register at idea.devecon.org/career-skill... 🔗 🌐
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Abolish the death penalty.
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John Cawley @johncawley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
From our AEA cttee on the job market, here's the first update on the status of the job mkt for PhD economists of the 2026-27 cycle. A thread with graphs follows... #EconJobMarket #EconSky @aeainformation.bsky.social @aeacswep.bsky.social @joelistings.bsky.social 1/9
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Administrative Burdens are political tools--and those in power, and those who already have enormous resources--control how they're deployed--or not!
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Shoutout to the 🐐GOAT🐐, respect greatness www.macfound.org/videos/2026-...
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Ellora Derenoncourt - 2026 MacArthur Fellow
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Tammy Schirle 🇨🇦 @tammyschirle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Got my sabbatical book of the month! (I read slowly @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social , it might take me a while, but I'm happy to finally get started.)
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It was my department chair who spotted it, so even better!
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Encyclopaedia of the Herring sounds interesting.
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Book spotted on Marylebone High Street, London.
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
University of California Press has some suggestions for possible reviewers and says that getting at least 3 changes the algorithm. www.ucpress.edu/resources/bo...
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Amazon
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Shameless self-promotion and a request. My publisher is asking me to encourage Amazon reviews, so.... If you bought How Economics Discovered Women on Amazon and like it, it would help me out if you post a short review. news.ucsb.edu/2026/022818/...
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Economist Shelly Lundberg wins prestigious Mincer Award, releases book on gender economics
Lundberg's Mincer Award for lifetime achievement in economics scholarship comes as her newest book, “How Economics Discovered Women” hits the shelves.
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Jake Schwitzer @jakeschwitzer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Great thread here to follow along on today’s conference.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 07/09/2026
Registration is open, free, limited, & required. Great set of research presentations lined up on education, health, economy, mutual aid & more. Learn about the frontier evidence and connect with those working to generate it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Carl Schmertmann @cschmert.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This may sound like beaucratic paper shuffling but it's actually a five-alarm fire. When allocating the nation's resources among competing research projects, replacing scientific experts with political apparatchiks is a recipe for waste, abuse, and slower progress. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's so easy even I can do it. Start out on flat terrain with groomed tracks, shuffle into position, and start walking with a gliding motion. It's nice to have someone explain how to use the poles effectively and how to get yourself off the ground if you fall, but a short Youtube video can do that.
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Page 99 Test applied to my new book--How Economics Discovered Women: Bringing Gender Economics into the 21st Century. A very brief discussion of economists' non-judgmental approach to preferences, generational oppression of women, and domestic violence. page99test.blogspot.com/2026/09/shel...
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Shelly Lundberg's "How Economics Discovered Women"
Shelly Lundberg is Distinguished Professor of Economics and Leonard Broom Professor of Demography at the University of California, Santa Ba...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 14/09/2026
A federal judge just enjoined one of the US Administration’s sharpest attacks on international students. The ruling references research by me & my stellar co-authors six times. Facts matter. Facts are necessary for democracy, accountability, and the rule of law. Research delivers them.
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Memorandum & Order – #50 in Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration v. United States Department of Homeland Security (D. Mass., 1:26-cv-13799) – CourtListener.com
District Judge F. Dennis Saylor, IV: MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION. Plaintiffs' motion for APA § 705 relief, a preliminary injunction, or, in the alternative, summary judgm...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
@FTC
 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Back at the hotel, lady in the lobby bar says—“Those people dressed in black? They’re all back here tonight but the yellow and green people aren’t.”
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
True enough. I was there with my longtime Boks fan daughter though, and it was a great game (All Blacks backs had some great moments) so I’m happy. Record crowd for US rugby—68k.
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Baltimore.
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Texas is delaying its typical September 1 release of maternal mortality data until December 1, conveniently timed to be after the midterm election. Recent reports have shown a sharp rise in ectopic pregnancy deaths after the abortion ban went into effect. www.austinchronicle.com/news/texas-p...
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Texas’ Pregnancy Death Report Set to Release After Midterms • The Austin Chronicle
Texas’ Pregnancy Death Report Set to Release After Midterms
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Blueshift @blueshift29.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Former Canadian PM Jean Chretien remembers 9/11. Well worth a listen to the end. youtube.com/watch?v=sw-C...
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Former PM Jean Chrétien's speech at 9/11 commemoration ceremony in Gander, N.L. – September 11, 2026
YouTube video by cpac
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 11/09/2026
A tribute thousands of miles from New York that gave me CHILLS. New Zealand firefighters performed a haka honoring the 343 FDNY firefighters lost on 9/11. ♥️ #SheShed
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rulpeterson.bsky.social @rulpeterson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Worthwhile thread.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
Ruby Bridges, age 6Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her schoolNorman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine. Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In NYC, Mayor Mamdani has launched the Office of Worker Power, designed to connect workers who want to unionize with education and resources. Former US Labor Sec Julie Su is overseeing the effort & the executive director comes from the UAW. "When workers can organize, everything changes," said Su.
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Mamdani Opens Office of Worker Power - The American Prospect
The new city agency intends to connect workers who want to unionize with resources and organizing contacts, and use worker stories of exploitation to inform policy.
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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For development econ job market candidates: We are hiring for 2 postdocs at Princeton starting in summer 2027. Come join us!
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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Re-sharing this starter pack of scholars who study the economics of gender.
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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 03/09/2026
#EconSky if you know of anyone awesome who does experimental work on gender who was on the job market in the last couple years and underplaced or needs to change, we're looking at creating a fellowship in this area that would be a great reset--please have them email me corlow@wharton.upenn.edu.
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’ve always assumed, I should add, that the supervisor’s decision to deliver those pesky bags was against regulations, but don’t care. The institution was benign, if dumb, rather than complicit.
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Believe me, things will never be how they were.
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thinking, for some reason, of the courtroom scene in Miracle on 34th Street, when the Postal Service delivers bags of mail that prove Kris Kringle, on trial for commital to an insane asylum, is the true Santa Claus. So many traditions bulldozed, but the corruption of the USPS has a special sadness.
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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 02/09/2026
Most of the 56 MILLION workers who want a union can't get one, partly due to "right-to-work" laws. What exactly are right-to-work (RTW) laws? The latest from @jensherer.bsky.social, @ninamast.bsky.social, @elisegould.bsky.social, and Emma Cohn took your RTW questions and delivered the answers.
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Everything you need to know about anti-union “right-to-work” laws
Worker interest in unions is at historic highs, and nearly 70% of the public approves of unions. Yet most of the 56 million workers who say they want a union contract can’t get one because of weak fed...
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
OMG is that place still open?!
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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I encourage that 16% to move south to Montana, or El Salvador, whatever ICE decides.
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
So is Cathedral Grove. Now I’m going to have to vote.
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is so good.
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Good morning! Bobcats and coyotes hanging around the yard this week.
Young bobcat sitting on top of a boulder next to a house.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.
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West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & Mobility @ucstonecenter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Who studies inequality, and does it matter? Historian of economics Béatrice Cherrier (@undercoverhist.bsky.social) takes on this question with her research, examining whether the imbalances and hierarchies within the field shape how economists understand inequality. Listen here → bit.ly/4xmKDVJ
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thanks!
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thanks, David.
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thank you, Anne.
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thank you!
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