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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I have 999 problems, and each of them is one of 999 simulations.

Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Assuming that the US is the technological frontier may be plausible... until you look for/at kitchen appliances. I am looking for one single machine that can whip eggs and chop onions. I thought we had globally learnt how to build those. Also, btw, explain why gas ovens are not extinct. 😭

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

US paperwork is always "yeah it doesn't matter, it's just a formality" and then they ask you to review the thing 10 times until you do *precisely* and *exactly* what you had to do... which they didn't explain you in advance because "it doesn't really matter" Either it does matter or it doesn't 😵‍💫

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Buon 25 Aprile Buona Festa della Liberazione Happy Liberation Day 🇮🇹 youtu.be/EEcA22Qm1n0?...

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Liberazione, Sassoli: "Ora e sempre Resistenza"

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

It's ame Emilia. TSA agent asked where I was going and followed up with the question "back home or..." when I answered Oakland. Then I ordered a bagel and went back to being Emilia instead of Miriam because of my accent 🙈😂 1 a 1 palla al centro

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Call it by its name: Trumpcession

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Live footage of academia right now

Weary Ben Affleck standing, holding a cigarette

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I am kind of new to this country... Is it common to have testimonials in this type of speech? It's basically a tv ad with the disclaimer "real life customers paid for their testimonial"

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

5 things that I did last week: - Looked up datetime helpfile for Stata - Formatted datetime incorrectly - Looked up datetime helpfile for Stata - Formatted datetime incorrectly - Gave up.

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Teaching a course in political economy is pretending to be an expert in 20 different subfields you barely knew anything about before preparing the slides.

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USI Institute of Economics (IdEP) @usiidep.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Today we launched our Junior Seminars with Luca Bagnato (University of Milan). He presented a joint work with @venturinimiri.bsky.social (@ucriverside.bsky.social) and Yu Pan (UZH) on the long-term impact of rice weeders' historical presence on female political-economic empowerment in Italy #USIEcon

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

How do you suggest gently to students that if they want to cruise through college using AI for their assignments they might at least first move to a country with lower tuition fees? Why are they even paying some 40 to 70k? For what?

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

First exam as a professor and I am more nervous than if I had to take the exam myself 🙈

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Londyn Robinson, MD @londyloo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I have a confession . . . I was an “overhead cost”. I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it. Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician. Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u.

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

It's particularly striking to be teaching the importance of institutions for economic development, while watching the government dismantle them piece by piece 😅

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

What happens when women are denied a wanted abortion? ... ... ... In the short run, their risk of death rises. In the long run, they have... -more health issues, -lower education/labor-force participation, and -higher rates of single motherhood, poverty, and reliance on government assistance

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Dear USA, having tv ads for prescription drugs is weird. Just fyi.

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

When OpenAI complains about intellectual property theft

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I feel my English is excruciatingly bad when I teach in the evening. I went back to the recording to remember what was the last slide I covered and Renzi was teaching the class on my behalf basically.

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a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a flag and says fst riaccion sciocco .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a flag and says fst riaccion sciocco .

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Dressing for work today.

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

My math teacher during the first two years of high school was a computer science major. He tried to teach us some Python and I did not pick it up at all. It's wild that I will probably be teaching some Python next term.

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

So, I am running out of options... Does anyone know of any private driving instructors near Riverside, CA, or LA? I want to practice with my own car since that's what I will use for the test, and driving schools don't allow that.

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Next week I have to tell my students that in democracies with a 2-term limit for the executive, international conflict is more likely in the second term (Caselli, Morelli and Rohner, 2015)

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elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of fire .

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

And here I am again deciding to teach causal methods in a class where statistics is not a pre-requisite 🙈 Maybe I'll learn to stay in my lane at some point.

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I was looking for an RDD paper for my Econ History students👌

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I like investigative/crime TV shows and I can tell you that I saw multiple episodes set in LA and involving fictional "ecoterrorists", but none featuring the very real wildfires that are super common in California 🤔

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Trying to watch US news on TV about the LA wildfires (CBS News for now) and I still didn't hear the word "climate change" 🤔🙄

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

SoCal friends: Many animal shelters are overwhelmed from people dropping off beloved pets they can't take with them as they flee. Please consider donating and fostering. Pasadena Humane is one such org. Contact your local animal orgs to see if they need help. pasadenahumane.org/eaton-canyon...

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

FYI, I studied there during my undergrad 😁

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

First two lectures as a Professor today. Send positive vibes 🙈

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Mariana Z @mariana057.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Brains are funny. I can remember every word to a song I haven't heard in 20 years but I've got no clue what my email password is.

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Frequent rejection, ghosting, uncertain future prospects Dating 🤝 Academia

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Probably, the fact that I decided to explain externalities in the second lecture makes all jokes useless

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Non-econ researchers: We control for all possible confounding factors to rule out spurious correlation. Economists:

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Imagine flying to ASSA without a sword to defend yourself during Q&A session.

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

"You will be visited by the three spirits." The three spirits:

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Trying to entertain my students at least in the first lecture. #EconBlueSky Jokes on political economy/ists, go!

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

This is NOT what I was looking for 😶🤦‍♀️

Civil Conflict was the name given by former UConn Huskies football head coach Bob Diaco to Connecticut's annual matchup against the UCF Knights football team of the University of Central Florida

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

My favourite part of my relaxing break was missing 11 deadlines

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Pedro Sant’Anna @pedrosantanna.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I've decided to collect my DiD materials in a single place. psantanna.com/did-resources There, you will find - 14 lectures of my comprehensive DiD course - Shorter lectures/talks I have given on DiD - My DiD R/Stata/Python packages - Some DiD checklists - DiD materials from my friends Enjoy!

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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

#EconBlueSky do you have any recommendations for resources/readings on political economy for undergraduate students? I am trying to limit assigning actual research papers (many are probably too complex). Thanks 🙏

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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

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Dina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Fund this public good!

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