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🚨Call for Paper Alert: Climate econ workshop in Nantes, France on Sept 13. Keynote by Olivier Deschenes. Who would want to miss that? Submit by June 16th! and please circulate around. :)

My new book, The Third Awokening, launches today in the US and Canada. It argues that well-meaning liberals, not post-Marxist radicals, powered progressive illiberalism and deculturation. amazon.com/dp/B0D459XT8N/…

Like we are more or less willing to do this (and mean it if we offer). There is like, a set of conventions, we know it and we can walk you through it, it's honestly silly to try to figure it out without asking x.com/malleshpai/sta…

I'm hiring (several) postdocs Knowledge Lab this year and over the next 5 years at the University of Chicago in AI, Data and Computer Science, Computational Social Science, Tech Policy, Science of Science and Innovation, and more! Check out ads (and please forward to your favorite

The average person living in a high-income country today emits twice as much CO2 as someone in a middle-income country, and at least 30 times more than a person living in a low-income country. How to rebalance the scales, ask Ishac Diwan and Dani Rodrik? prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/economic…

Internet access unlocks economic and educational opportunities. Using (free) geospatial data, we can now identify which areas lack internet access at super granular levels. Here's the breakdown:

The most at-risk reef fishes receive the least attention, a new Science Advances study finds, revealing that aesthetic charisma and utility affect support from the public and scientists. scim.ag/7Ji

The Hollywood anti-communist crusade in the McCarthy era targeted dissent, jeopardized careers, had a chilling effect on progressive films, and made society more conservative, from Hui Ren Tan and @tianyi91 nber.org/papers/w32682

🚨We are hiring🚨 Postdoc to work on a project "Citizen and Expert Narratives of the EU Energy Crisis '22 - '23" We're looking for someone with a PhD in economics or polsci, with interest in and knowledge of EU energy and climate policy! More info: shorturl.at/gcLA4

Are you an academic interested in working with Reddit data for your research? I'm excited to announce that we've just opened up applications to participate in a Beta program for Reddit's new Reddit for Researchers data offering! To learn more: reddit.com/r/reddit4resea…

Not surprised that more and more evidence comes out they eroded perceived public service quality or accessibility is a main driver of populist support. It’s been blatantly obvious.

If you want to access the slides from yesterday's job market session at #EEAESEM24, we posted them here: eea-esem-congresses.org/sessions/europ… and also on EconGradAdvice (where you'll find plenty of other resources concerning the job market and career advice): sites.google.com/view/econgrada… EEA

LLM2Vec (Mistral) has been consistently downloaded more than half a million times each month for the past two months (670K downloads past month). What's happening :). huggingface.co/McGill-NLP/LLM…

This piece from the Financial Times dives into how America’s billionaire alumni weaponise elite university donations. Dean Amir Pasic shares his take on this current issue. Read the article: ft.com/content/856431…

How to use a written text for quantitative analysis. A interesting online workshop.

Why is far-right behavior rising in democracies? 🌍📚 Meet Vicente Valentim , IE University professor. His research reveals how societal norms have shifted, enabling individuals with far-right views to act without fear of judgment. Understanding these dynamics is crucial to

We have a new paper explaining all the ways you can use natural language processing to analyze text data in Nature Reviews Psychology We provide user friendly recommendations for using NLP to ensure rigour and reproducibility Free link: nature.com/articles/s4415… Led by Stefan Feuerriegel

Storytelling matters in econ too

Why are voters and parties so divided on cultural issues? Why do low-income voters support the right? This paper shows that economic change raising the salience of the educational divide can shift voters' social identities, explaining these phenomena. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

Uhh 3 heavyweights, super interesting paper