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Victoria Baranov

@vicbar.bsky.social
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Economist, associate prof at University of Melbourne, studying development, health, mental health, norms, culture, gender sites.google.com/site/victoriabaran…

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J-PAL @j-pal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We're hiring! 📣 J-PAL Global is looking for a Communications Associate in Cambridge, MA. You will help turn findings from randomized evaluations into work that moves policy: blog posts, newsletters, social, our annual report, and thought leadership. 👉 Apply: bit.ly/4AhTtWT
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Wow incredible read! I completely agree, economists should listen more. More generally, we don’t ever train on how to develop good surveys. In fact I don’t think we even have a toolkit (besides Stancheva’s), do we?
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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 20/08/2026
Economists, stop using X!
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CESifo @cesifo.org · 20/08/2026
New working paper📝 “Masculinity Around the World” ✍️ @ralphdehaas.bsky.social, @vicbar.bsky.social, Ieda Matavelli & @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social Find out how #masculinity norms shape economic, health, and political outcomes. 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Correction: RFK Jr killed many, many more people than the polio vaccine ever did.
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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
To be a prominent antiracist Black scholar is to know you are a target, almost totally surrounded by resentments. You know that at any point, the attacks can come like a lynch mob. My latest @TheEmancipator.org. theemancipator.org/2026/08/15/i...
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The Media Lynched Jason Arday
The death yesterday of Jason Arday, a 41-year-old Black scholar who resigned from the University of Cambridge after waves of attacks over the last few weeks, hits close to home. His death left me so d...
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/08/2026
It’s official: the Nerd Reich podcast is getting banned from YouTube….the week of my book launch! Incredible timing, since I’ll be all over the media next week talking about tech fascism. They can delete my account. They can’t stop my work. Buy the book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Screenshot of email: Your YouTube Account will be disabled in 7 days
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Love this!!
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Pauline Grosjean and I were on ABC radio’s The Economy, Stupid, with Peter Martin. We talked about findings from our recent Global Masculinity Survey, and our previous study examining Australia’s natural historical experiment during the convict era. Check it out! www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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What can convict Australia tell us about the manosphere? - ABC listen
Australia's early settlements were radical experiments in almost exclusively male societies. Their impact is still felt today.
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
HELP: I’m trapped in a bureaucratic worm hole!! Has anyone successfully gotten a Spanish visa to do an academic sabbatical in Spain (not employed by Spanish uni, just visiting)? Which visa did you use?
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sorelle @friedler.net · 28/07/2026
My department is hiring tenure-track in computer science! Deadline: Oct 1, 2026. We care about and support both research and teaching. We're located in the suburbs of Philadelphia. It's a great place to work and live! I'm happy to answer any questions. www.haverford.edu/provost/news...
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Haverford College invites applications for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science to begin Fall 2027.
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
What’s most interesting to me in this figure is that there is absolutely no convergence. You’d think that countries with lower LE to start would show greater improvements. Nope not in the slightest. Seems we haven’t hit the diminishing returns part of the longevity curve.
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
We need to reassess this obsession with cars. Especially in Australia.
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 19/02/2025
I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...
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How to use a histogram as a legend in {ggplot2} | Andrew Heiss
Land isn’t unemployed—people are. Here’s how to use R, {ggplot2}, {sf}, and {patchwork} to create a histogram legend in a choropleth map to better see the distribution of values.
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It’s time to make fossil fuels go extinct.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Just a reminder that patriotism isn't holding a bible and wrapping yourself in the flag while you violate the Constitution and plunder the country. Happy 4th of July, stay cool and safe!!
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Admin bloat in Unis seen around the world. And is it generating better science? Better learning?
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The Verge @theverge.com · 29/06/2026
Got a gift link here: www.theverge.com/science/9576...
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The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 26/06/2026
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PEPFAR Has Saved Tens of Millions of Lives. Why Is It at Risk? | Council on Foreign Relations
PEPFAR has long been hailed as a landmark health initiative, earning bipartisan support for its role in combating HIV/AIDS worldwide. However, the Trump administration’s efforts to overhaul U.S. forei...
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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I'm so grateful to the colleagues who have been willing to read my forthcoming book How Economics Discovered Women in advance (#1).
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Dean Yang @deanyang.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Why do development economists finally need an association of their own? IDEA Board member Owen Ozier makes the case for @ideadevecon.bsky.social on the World Bank's Development Impact blog — development's most-read blog. Read it, then join us! blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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Introducing IDEA – the International Development Economics Association
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
ARC DP assessor reports now available! Rejoinders due back to ARC in ~1 week. Those of us teaching are frantically marking finals, also due next week. ARC apparently unaware that researchers work at Unis that teach. Still, thanks to assessors and CoE who volunteer their time for science!
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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Oh, you donated to a charity? Here’s fifty emails a month to make you regret doing that
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Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A turtle enjoying UChicago's wonderfully restored Botany Pond.
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Chicago: a magical place.
Chicago skyline facing east to full double rainbow
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Dear parents: let’s all agree to send details of the birthday party in text format alongside your super cute pdf invite so we can easily add the event to our calendars with 2 clicks. From: an overwhelmed and dyslexic mum
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
It’s true, people don’t think about the social cost of driving. Instead they mostly scream at the cyclists like they are the scum of the earth. I would love to see an estimate of the mortality cost of driving vs cycling (taking into account pollution, crashes, health benefits of exercise).
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs are savings.
Screenshot of Grist article title with the same info as in post. Image of Copenhagen bike-lanes filled with people on bikes.
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Fabio Sabatini @fabiosabatini.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The impact of the USAID shutdown on Africa, as seen from space and on the ground. M. Nicolini and I study the effects of the aid cuts by linking GODAD data on USAID projects to satellite-based measures of economic activity and IPC food insecurity indicators. 👉 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1/11
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I’m starting a new trend of avoiding trying too hard, calling it maxxminn-ing. I’ll just let myself out now…
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/06/2026
For the Australians, but also others interested in this issue: Australia's emissions data just saw its *biggest ever* land-use data revision. Except this time, it's UPWARDS: the same amount as power sector GHGs fell 2018->2026 (!!!!!) A thread on that + other updates from the data!
a chart showing revisions to land use data in Australia
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Yes, it’s nearly there.
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Julian Reif @julianreif.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Submissions for the 2026 Midwest Health Economics Conference are due 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟏. We invite submissions of full papers or extended abstracts. Conference held on Sept 24-25 at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Submit a paper or volunteer as a discussant: go.gies.illinois.edu/MHEC2026
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MHEC 2026 Submission Form
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Why is Uber’s website so absolutely atrocious for seeing completed trips, downloading invoices and managing business accounts? Also I have a uber credit card charge that doesn’t appear anywhere on my uber account transaction history. Just a ghost charge. Wtf?!
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Noam Angrist @noamangrist.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
📣 We're hiring a postdoc to join us on education research projects at Oxford @oxfordecondept.bsky.social @oxfordcsae.bsky.social. Join me @gamblingondev.bsky.social @roccozizzamia.bsky.social on multiple exciting projects! Applications due June 7th. www.economics.ox.ac.uk/csae-postdoc...
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CSAE Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Deadline: Sunday, 7 June, 2026
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
🚨 U Melbourne flagship McKenzie Postdoc - 3 years fully funded, no teaching - 25K research budget - fame and prestige EOI closing 7 May, need to have a supervisor (email/DM me with Qs!) sites.research.unimelb.edu.au/research-fun...
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McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowships Scheme
Find information and resources for applicants and recipients of the McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowships Scheme scheme.
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Thoughts and prayers, it’s all that’s left of the US democracy.
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Hard to think of a better appointment to the RBA board than my old mate, Bruce Preston. By any measure he's Australia's leading monetary economist. Good news for the Bank, for Australia, and for economics. (Many moons ago we were baby economists together at the RBA.)
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Economist Bruce Preston appointed to RBA Board
The economics professor is the second academic economist added to the board since a review recommended boosting its expertise.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Murder. And not just the one who pulled the trigger.
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 16/01/2026
A new NYT video analysis by confirms that Renee Good's vehicle did not run over Jonathan Ross and did not strike him. It's possible that it brushed up against him, but that remains unclear. Ross should be under arrest. This is a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...
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Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
A friendly reminder to everyone still using X/Twitter: stop it.
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Sadly it was clear as day that this was always the intention, folks.
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 08/12/2025
Watch the Nobel Lecture in Economics live from @stockholm-uni.bsky.social and the Royal Academy of the Sciences: www.kva.se/en/event/the... The lecture begins at 2:30 CET today December 8th #econsky
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The Nobel Lectures 2025 - Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Great paper! Really helps synthesise the theory and empirics in one comprehensive but clear way. Check it out 👇🏼
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Karinna Saxby @ksaxby.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Check out the amazing line up of speakers!! Please submit and share 🌟 🌈 @jankabatek.com @drbrendannolan1.bsky.social
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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨 Pauline Grosjean, Ieda Matavelli, Ralph De Haas and I are hiring a postdoc for our projects on masculinity in economics. Position is 2 years, at UNSW In Sydney, Australia. Starting Sept 2026. Please reach out with any questions. Apply: econjobmarket.org/positions/12...
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EJM - Econ Job Market
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