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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I grew up in a country who thought high school students some of the landmark Supreme Court decisions. One of which banned the use of human shields. Another one defined the right to refuse an unlawful command. That Israel ceased to exist. This war is criminal. IT MUST STOP!

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Join us in Copenhagen. Register now!

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Sofie Cairo @cairosofie.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

📢 The next #REGIS seminar will occur this Friday, May 9, 2025, at 12.30 PM CET. 🤓 Jing Zhao (Mälardalen University 🇸🇪) will present the paper by Erik Brynjolfsson, Danielle Li, and Lindsey Raymond, titled "Generative AI at Work," published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2025).

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Trying to avoid politics here but I can’t remain silent. According to this report: a member of Likud, Netanyahu’s party, said that Israel is moving to “major event of destruction and displacement”. However, as if this is not bad enough, the Hebrew word he used was actually “extermination” 1/3

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

My amazing colleague and coauthor will present tomorrow on REGIS. Join!

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Submitted my PhD dissertation today. Now, that’s a productive Monday.

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

These days of university funding weaponisation, global democratic backsliding, and landmark antitrust lawsuit against major science publishers for sure makes writing the introduction of my economics of science PhD dissertation interesting. No shortage of motivations.

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This picture offers a bit of normalcy in a-world-gone-mad. Villa in the jungle.

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Had some time to listen to pods the last day or two. Man.. the way the Tech world is seizing on the Trump victory is absolutely terrifying.

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The last couple of years, and especially the run up to a second Trump administration, reminds me of this paper: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... The bright side is that we’ve been down this road before, and if there will be will, there will be a way to tackle the problem of bigness.

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The Problem of Bigness: From Standard Oil to Google

(Summer 2019) - This article sets recent expressions of alarm about the monopoly power of technology giants such as Google and Amazon in the long history of Americans' response to big business. I arg...

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Today was a special day, it was my fifth and (hopefully) last time presenting at Copenhagen Business School’s Department of Strategy and Innovation’s PhD day!

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

My husband just asked me which @dacemoglumit.bsky.social books we have at home. 8 years together, now, more than ever, I’m sure he’s the one 😍

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

A great service, boost your visibility by sending your JMP to @mattsclancy.bsky.social

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I was lucky enough to somehow collect amazing, devoted, and genuine mentors along the way, the kind that stay even when I changed jobs or moved countries. It’s a massive privilege.

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Proud owner of two subscriptions (Eng & Heb). Haaretz is not perfect. But it’s one of the last sources of credible information in Israel. Now the Israeli government is trying to shut them down. Disgraceful.

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Shani Cohen @shanicn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I am on the job market, which seems like a great opportunity for my first post on here! My job market paper is about failures of contingent thinking -- the act of reasoning about hypothetical events. 1/

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

@bsky.app, a week after I left Twitter: Pros: Almost surpassing the number of followers I had on Twitter. Much less addictive. Much less toxicity. Cons: don’t know most of my followers. My feed is not yet ‘calibrated’. Content is interesting but targeting is off (not sure it’s bad).

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

1/2 I’ve spent a good chunk of time analyzing data on academic economists, and while I’ve grown somewhat desensitized, there are still moments when the sheer elitism of the field catches me off guard. It’s everywhere I look.

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Ok someone needs to add bookmarks options here @support.bsky.team!

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A year of data collection. Finally first quick and dirty estimates. *** Deadline in two weeks. I’m happy.

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Many followers the last couple of days (corresponds with the recent rapid growth of this platform). While I recognize some, many of you are new to me, welcome! You could expect: - Innovation studies - Economics of science - Sometimes politics* (🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇪🇩🇰🇪🇺) *I remove political posts within 1-2 days.

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I wonder how many “quiet movers” are out there? Since election night, I only opened Twitter/X four times. I removed it from my phone and will delete it at some point. Bottom line: who should I follow here?

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

I’ll be back in Cambridge, MA later this month to present my JMP “Exploring the Role of Social Media in the Diffusion of Economic Research” at the @nberpubs.bsky.social’s productivity lunch (29th of October). Please DM me if you’re around and want to join or have a cup of coffee!

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 09/12/2023

Wow, Zotero & Retraction Watch just stopped me from citing a retracted paper that had been hanging around in my bibliography. How great is that? #academia

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

אין לי הרבה מומחי ביטחון בפיד. ויש לי שאלה.. האם ידוע על עוד עסקת חילופי שבויים דומה לזו שנחתמה בין ישראל לחמאס? שואל כי התמריצים פה מעניינים על פניו ונראה שלפחות נכון לעכשיו זה עובד ומצליח להציל לא מעט נפשות.. מנסה אותך אבישי.. @avishaybsg.bsky.social

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Making a lemonade: Universities did not open yet in Israel (bc. War). My sister, a brilliant psychology student, decided she must keep her mind off the war, so asked if I have an idea for something for her to do.. Bottom line: My dad and her are collecting data for my JMP ❤️.

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Is there an R function for Poisson IV regression? Ideally, it will also allow for robust SE, and provide model diagnostics (Sargan, Wu-Hausman).. If not, how would you estimate an IV regression with a count outcome variable? OLS only?

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Wasting way too much time on this. Using R, I want to produce a latex table, augmenting results of multiple IV and OLS regressions, with robust SE (should support lm/iv_robust()). For the IV models, I want to have an additional panel (at bottom) with its first stage results.

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Focusing on the positive - my first R&R! Making a lemonade: A lot of work that will hopefully keep my mind away for the constant worries about Israel.

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

600 dead and counting. They massacred whole towns. Kids, women, elderly and unarmed man in their homes. Burned houses to the ground while families were hiding inside. I’m at a loss of words. Paralysing shock and grief. This is the worst attack on Jews since the holocaust.

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Bringing something “Danish” to non Danes is so tricky. One should ideally go for liquorice, but that’s so polarised. A hit or a miss. Oh well.

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Samuli Reijula @samulireijula.net · 01/10/2023

is there an easy way to find your twitter connections here?

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

I really want to see the New England fall. Where and when should I see it? Anyone can recommend a cabin to rent? A specific place to see? All recommendations welcomed!

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Yotam Sofer @yotamsofer.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Working on a project using the NBER working paper series as a setting. Do you know what is the most viral working paper (on the other platform)? www.nber.org/papers/w27408 Let’s make it viral here as well :)

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 20/09/2023

When I first joined here I was just lurking around to see what's going on (same with Mastodon actually). I guess everyone else was doing the same. But that became incredible boring real quick because I got followers but no posts on my timeline. So post, produce content! Let's make 🟦 happen!

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