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Stephan Maurer

@stephanmaurer.bsky.social
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Economist by day, historian by night. UPF-BSM and CEP. Author of "Die Schlacht von Gettysburg": amzn.eu/d/epEJdVz Personal webpage: sites.google.com/site/stephanernstm…

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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 34m
The 1877 Flight of the Nez Perce route from the Wallowa Valley of NE Oregon to the final battlefield just south of the Canadian border.
Map of the 1877 Flight of the Nez Perce, showing their route from the Wallowa Valley in Oregon to the final battlefield just south of the Canadian border.
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 34m
OTD in 1877, Hinmatóowyalahtq̓it, or Hinmaton Yalaktit (“Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain"), also known as #ChiefJoseph, or Joseph the Younger, surrendered to General Nelson Miles on the windswept Northern Plains. #BearPawBattlefield — The Flight of the #NezPerce comes to an end.
Historical marker on the Bear Paw Battlefield outside of Chinook, Montana, indicating where Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce surrendered some of the surviving non-treaty people who had been relentlessly pursued and attacked by the United States Army. 

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October 5, 1887 11:00 a.m.
With the fighting at a standoff, Hinmatóowyalahtq̓it (Chief Joseph) met with Colonel Miles near this site. Surrender was a survival strategy, to keep the Nez Perce people alive and together. One witness reported that Chief Joseph spoke these words:

Tell General Howard I know his heart. What he told me before I have in my heart. I an tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Tukulxućúut is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who leads the young men is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death.

My people some of them have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are, perhaps freezing to death. I want to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me my chiefs, I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Back of the envelope calculations: 3600 years of research time went into the collective application process. The research will fund 3200 years of research. We are 400 research years poorer as a result of this. 1/2
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Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/spee... Absolute banger of a speech by Carney.
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Prime Minister Carney delivers an address to the European Parliament
Thank you for granting me the honour of addressing you all at the beginning of this decisive session.
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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A higher ed email truism: the more innocuous the subject line (e.g., "Message to the campus community"), the more devastating the content.
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Stefan Bach @sbachtax.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Erneut gehen die Spritpreise durch die Decke. Der Volkszorn schwillt an, die Politik gerät wieder unter Druck. Was tun? Die Optionen & deren Vor- & Nachteile wurden schon im Frühjahr diskutiert. Ein Thread🧵(1/6) ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/sbac... www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 12/09/2026
Jean-Luc Mélenchon quand un prix Nobel d’économie critique son programme : « Ça suffit le coup du soit-disant prix Nobel d’économie ». Jean-Luc Mélenchon quand une prix Nobel d’économie soutient son programme : « Même une prix Nobel d’économie le soutient ! ». L’hypocrisie est stratosphérique.
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VRAI OU FAUX. Le "Nobel" d'économie est-il un "soi-disant" prix Nobel, comme le juge Jean-Luc Mélenchon ?
Après les critiques de Philippe Aghion contre la proposition d'annuler une partie de la dette française, le candidat insoumis à la présidentielle a minimisé la récompense reçue par l'économiste en 202...
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
1/ While drones have become an iconic feature of the Ukraine war, Russian warbloggers argue that the more important story is the re-emergence of the stormtrooper: "Until an infantryman's balls are hanging over an area, its control cannot be considered complete." ⬇️
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Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
www.markkoyama.com/p/more-on-de...
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More on Degrowth
I was recently asked to write about Degrowth for Cato’s Human Progress Substack.
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Corporal Frisk @corporalfrisk.com · 10/09/2026
The Dutch setup sounds suspiciously much like what Finland hinted at. Procurement of a single GlobalEye aircraft, close cooperation with the Swedish fleet, including coordinated usage, joint training, and cooperating on future developments.
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Sverige och Nederländerna överens om GlobalEye-affär
Sverige och Nederländerna har undertecknat en avsiktsförklaring avseende långsiktigt samarbete avseende flygburen övervaknings- och ledningsförmåga,
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hartpunkt @hartpunkt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Die Niederlande haben mit Schweden eine Absichtserklärung über den Kauf eines von Saab hergestellten Flugzeugs für Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) des Typs GlobalEye sowie einer gemeinsamen Nutzung solcher Systeme unterschrieben. www.hartpunkt.de/globaleye-ni...
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GlobalEye – Niederlande und Schweden wollen luftgestützte Aufklärungsfähigkeit gemeinsam betreiben
Die Niederlande haben mit Schweden eine Absichtserklärung über den Kauf eines von Saab hergestellten Flugzeugs für Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) des Typs GlobalEye sowie einer gemeinsamen N...
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Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
People talk about Antietam, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg as decisive points of the Civil War, but imho the roughly 75 days between Longstreet going west and Missionary Ridge were equally, if not even more influential in determining the war's outcome.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 08/09/2026
2) England is a rare exception. During the 2010s many other countries (including the other 3 UK nations) changed tack, experimenting with ideas like transferrable skills instead of focusing on tried-and-tested disciplines and methods. It looks like those experiments have failed.
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Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If you have friends that are education economists, tomorrow is their highest holiday- so if you see them, don't forget to wish them a happy PISA day!
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Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In my spare time, I like to read and study two very disparate aspects of history: The American Civil War, and the region of my German home region. Sometimes I manage to combine them!
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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 04/09/2026
FT headline reads: "UK fails to capitalise on Brexit." Yeah, there was nothing to capitalize on.
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Abby HALLOWWWEEEEEEN @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Marbury v. Madison
Obama awards himself meme
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Honestly, I think the public perception of 'leisured' professors has to do with 1) students don't realize their professors also do research and 2) when they come by office hours we seem 'not busy' and they assume it's like that all of the time, rather than office hours are there for that purpose.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 27/08/2026
Today's @xkcd.com
It's a stickman holding a hammer, lifting up his leg, and saying:

"Listen up, leg. I've been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off!"

It is captioned: tariffs
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hartpunkt @hartpunkt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Der Mangelzustand der heutigen Raketenabwehr überrascht westliche Politiker, weil sie offenbar fälschlicherweise geglaubt haben, dass die ballistische Raketenabwehr eine tragfähige langfristige Lösung sei – was sie jedoch nie war, kommentiert @frhoffmann.bsky.social. www.hartpunkt.de/stillstand-t...
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Stillstand trotzt Laufschritt: Die westliche Raketenabwehrstrategie versagt weiterhin
Gemessen an der Fülle jüngster Kommentare hat sich der weltweite Mangel an Abfangraketen für die Abwehr ballistische Raketen zu einem regelrechten Aufruhr entwickelt.
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Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
www.politico.eu/article/germ...
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Germany plans a €12B missile program to deter Putin
Internal defense ministry documents say the plan for a new long-range strike arsenal ranges from cheap cruise missiles to Tomahawks and future hypersonic weapons.
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NBER @nber.org · 19/08/2026
Using new data on 1.2 million students at 60 coeducational US colleges (1915–1943) to study how colleges shape who marries whom and the next generation's education, from Ran Abramitzky, Santiago Pérez, and Joseph Price www.nber.org/papers/w35602
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Stephanie Wang @sweiwang.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
🚨Elsevier forces out Games and Economic Behavior (GEB) Editor, entire editorial board has resigned, current board only handling new submissions until Nov. 14 #econsky
    Dear Advisory Editor of GEB
    We are very sorry to be the bearers of bad news for GEB.
I learned from Elsevier on Wednesday July 28 that, contrary to my expressed willingness to continue, my 3-year contract will not be renewed.
    "Moving towards a closer alignment with Elsevier strategic priorities and publishing policies" was offered as the motive for this decision. Requests for explanations, first by me, then in a collective letter by the other six Editors, were dismissed by Elsevier which simply reaffirmed its legal power to make such decisions.
    Elsevier then started precipitously its own search for new Editors without input of the Editorial Board.
    By Friday August 14 all seven Editors have sent their resignation, requiring a 3-month advance notice.
    Therefore, we will continue to manage as before the papers currently under review and the new submissions until Saturday November 14. After this date we will only complete the evaluation of papers still waiting an editorial decision.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This ca. 5,000-year-old Neolithic polished flint axe with its original ash wood handle is remarkable well preserved. During the Neolithic period in Denmark, as agriculture began to expand, farmers had to clear the forests, which involved felling trees and burning away brushwood in...🧵1/2 📷 me
A stone axe with a light-colored, roughly shaped stone blade mounted horizontally on a wooden handle made of several jointed segments, displayed upright against a dark background.
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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The median college student enrolls at an institution 17 miles from home
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A fort of a different kind for #HillfortsWednesday 🛖 Castell y Gwynt - or Castle of the Wind - is a great outcrop of vertical rock columns on the Glyderau range of Eryri/Snowdonia appearing like a monumental, ancient building 😮 It may have been held as a special place in prehistory 📷 Yesterday
A mountain landscape of rugged rock outcrops
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Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Out of office ;)
Cover of the book "The Camden Expedition of 1864" by Michael J. Forsyth, with the Mediterranean in the background
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Rafael Mentges @mentges.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
If any students are following me, some advice. Take the difficult courses, the ones teach you methods, statistics, econometrics, models. If you are motivated you will read and learn the other stuff anyway but most people won't sit down and read about methods.
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Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
For @promarket.bsky.social, we summarized our recent working paper on the political power of former slave owners after 1865: www.promarket.org/2026/08/06/a...
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American Slaveholders Lost Their Wealth but Kept Their Political Power - ProMarket
In new research, Luna Bellani, Anselm Hager, and Stephan Maurer examine how the abolition of slavery after the American Civil War affected the political influence of former slaveholders. Despite the b...
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Exceptionally low water levels on the Danube have exposed parts of the foundations of the ancient ​Constantine Bridge, giving archaeologists a rare opportunity ‌to document what they describe as one of the Roman Empire's most impressive engineering achievements. www.reuters.com/business/env...
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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Most Pompeiians lived in multi-story dwellings without kitchens and got their food at thermopolia, essentially taverns with ready-made food and wine. There is a fine fresco and colored plaster lararium - shrine - above the counter at the thermopolium of Lucius Vetutius Placidus.🏺 1/ 📸 me
This beautifully painted lararium - household shrine - is found in the thermopolium of Lucius Vetutius Placidus. Since most Pompeiians lived in multi-story dwellings without kitchens, these hot food and drink establishments were critical, where citizens could purchase sustenance and consume it there, or take it home. This lararium depicts two Lares - protective spirits of the home (and business, it seems) - pouring wine from rhytons; a veiled Genius (protector of the home) in the middle, sacrificing to the gods and holding a cornucopia, symbol of abundance; the god of trade, Mercury, on the left, holding his caduceus and a bag of coins, which would bring success and abundance to the business; and finally the god Dionysus on the right, also a symbol of abundance in this establishment which served wine. 

Notably, stucco is used to create the small shrine, which is in the shape of a temple, including two Corinthian columns and a pediment. Stucco acanthus vines and volutes appear above the temple, and two painted agatha daemons (which appear as crested snakes) are facing a large egg on an altar, below. 

A 3 kg (6.6 lb) hoard of coins was found in one of the terracotta jars set into the counter, probably the last daily profits of the establishment. 

House and thermopolium of Vetutius Placidus, Pompeii (I, 8.8)
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Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Country Roads, take me hooooooome to the place I belooooooooong
A bike leaned against a bench, with a road and the Black Forest in the background
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Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
www.uefa.com/news-media/n...
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Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 national associations
UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions.
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Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke @kevinhorourke.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026
53 days for the associations to save the sport. Just because there's always been corruption doesn't mean you agree to a much greater level of corruption that's simply intolerable. Fans need to pressure their national associations to do the right thing @faiofficial.bsky.social @shamrockrovers.ie
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Rafael Mentges @mentges.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🚀🚀Job Alert🚀🚀 In meinem Team ist eine Stelle frei. Ich würde mich über eine weitere Volkswirtin bzw. einen Volkswirt freuen, aber auch andere Profile sind angesprochen. Unfortunately, German language seems to be mandatory (not my choice).
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Kampf mit Kette @kampfmitkette.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
In fast jeder Zeitung wird aktuell über Rüstung geredet und dabei beschäftigt man sich nur mit was beschafft werden soll. Selbst bei den relevanten Abgeordneten bleibt es auf dieser Ebene. Wir reden null über die großen gesetzlichen Rahmenbediengungen. 🧵
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Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknot... I prefer the people idea, but I the bird/building designs tend to look better tbh. Lots of the people ones are too artsy for my taste.
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Future banknotes
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Wayne Rooney speaks for everyone.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Gabby: What was your highlight of the half time show? Wayne Rooney: When it finished. I thought it was crap. 10/10 punditry. No notes.
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Alex Luck @alxluck.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Saab has signed a contract worth €787 Mln to provide the 9LV CMS, Sea Giraffe 4A & 1X radars and composite superstructure elements (integrated mast) for the new German F128 frigates, four of which are on order for delivery from 2029 to 2032. www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
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Saab receives order to equip the German Navy's new F128 frigates - Naval News
Saab has signed a contract with the German naval defence company TKMS and received an order to deliver and integrate combat systems, composite structures and sensors onto four of the German Navy’s new...
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Forthcoming in the AER: "Inequality and Racial Backlash: Evidence from the Reconstruction Era and the Freedmen’s Bureau" by Eric Chyn, Kareem Haggag, and Bryan A. Stuart.
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Inequality and Racial Backlash: Evidence from the Reconstruction Era and the Freedmen’s Bureau
(Forthcoming Article) - How do majority groups respond to narrowing inequality in racially polarized environments? We study this by examining the Freedmen’s Bureau, an agency created after the US Civil War to aid former slaves and launch institutional reform in the South. Using new historical records and an event-study approach, we estimate the Bureau’s impact on political, social, and economic outcomes. Vote shares for Democrats, the party that previously championed slavery and opposed Black civil rights, initially eroded in Bureau counties, but these impacts faded as federal oversight weakened. Racial backlash emerged rapidly and persisted, suggesting White majorities sought to offset Black progress.
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Wirtschaftsdienst @wirtschaftsdienst.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
#Finanzielle #Bildung wird im digitalen Zeitalter wichtiger. Aber schlauer werden die Deutschen nicht. Was ist der Stand der wissenschaftlichen Forschung zum Thema finanzielle Bildung in Deutschland? – Drei Ökonominnen des @zew.de haben ihn aufgeschrieben 👇 www.wirtschaftsdienst.eu/inhalt/jahr/...
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Finanzwissen in der Bevölkerung: Heraus­forderungen für die Altersvorsorgeplanung
Finanzwissen gewinnt angesichts komplexer werdender Finanzprodukte, digitalisierter Finanzmärkte und wachsender Eigenverantwortung bei Altersvorsorge …
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The Civil War Monitor @cwmonitor.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Nathan Bedford Forrest launched a poorly coordinated frontal assault against pursuing Union soldiers outside Tupelo, MS, #otd in 1864. Forrest's force suffered heavy losses in the Union victory, which secured the safety of W.T. Sherman's supply lines during the Atlanta Campaign.
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American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Fascinating: 1,214 years of data. Cherry trees are blossoming earlier due to warmer spring temperatures. Date of peak cherry tree (Prunus jamasakura) blossom in Kyoto, Japan, since the year 812.
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Stephanie Wang @sweiwang.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
this story about @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social and @steffenhuck.bsky.social is irresistible so i had to break the no LinkedIn rule. try out the game dedicated to Georg by Steffen: steffenhuck.github.io/kicktext/
In the mid-1990s, I spent many long nights with Georg Weizsäcker playing a football manager game. We became mildly obsessed.

Eventually we won everything: the league, the cup, and the European Cup.

The program crashed.

Apparently, the developers hadn’t anticipated that someone might actually complete the full set. That was the end of our managerial careers.

I still have very fond memories of those nights.

So, thirty years later, I decided to build a tiny football manager game of my own. It’s called Kicktext, and it’s dedicated to Georg.

It’s much simpler than today’s management games, and even simpler than the one we played back then. But building a successful club is still quite tricky. At least that’s what I found.

If you do play it, let me know whether you manage to break this one, too.
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Thomas Kurer @thmskrr.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🚨We are hiring a two-year postdoctoral researcher (80%) at the University of Zurich within the new Horizon Europe project WELFAIR on the political implications of technological change, demographic ageing and rising inequality. The full job ad is here: tinyurl.com/3b6ddm25 Apply by August 9, 2026.
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Matt Blackwell @mattblackwell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The other difficulty is that we still don’t know what skills are going to be fundamental when the dust settles and what will be automated away. From My pov in industry, I think understanding code is still important even if the % of code you type by hand is going down.
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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I hate tests, and so do many students. But for the first time, I’m going to give a midterm and final in my statistics class. If students are using AI for their assignments, in-class exams seem like the only way forward, learning-wise. And ultimately, our job as professors is to facilitate learning.
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Hans Tino Hansen @hanstino.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🇩🇰Denmark and 🇩🇪Germany has signed an agreement about training, maintenance and coordinated operations of the combined Danish-German Boeing P-8A Poseidon fleet which will total 10 planes (including initially two Danish planes) operating from Nordholz Naval Air Base in Germany.
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