Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

Infighting at the United Automobile Workers burst into public view after Shawn Fain, the union’s president, responded angrily to accusations that he had abused his position to seek special favors for his fiancée and her sister.

U.A.W. President Says He’s the Victim of ‘Bogus Allegations’

A grand jury is investigating whether Shawn Fain used his position to seek favors for his fiancée and retaliated against the union official who denied them.

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Praying that I hear once in my lifetime, "The most common crime in America, the one every worker is most likely to be victimized by, is wage theft. And will everything I do to stop you from being ripped off before you get your paycheck."

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4w ago

political candidates should be tripping over themselves to run on this message (and we know why they aren't)

Semesterzeit neu denken? Ja, bitte.

Jan-Martin Wiarda@jmwiarda.bsky.social · last mo.

Hitzekollaps im Hörsaal Wer Studierende und Lehrende vor den immer häufigeren Hitzetagen schützen will, sollte die Semesterzeiten neu denken. Ein Gastbeitrag von Nils Weidmann. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/06...

This Pride Month, we're highlighting research by Erwan Dujeancourt, Anne Boschini, and Anna Nordén on wealth, gender, and sexual orientation. academic.oup.com/ser/article/... #pride #research #WomenInEconomics

🎉Sommerfest und Campus Run an der #FUBerlin 👥 Für FU-Angehörige & Freund*innen der FU 📍 Vorplatz Holzlaube, Fabeckstraße 🆓 Eintritt frei 🎵 Live-Bands, Kinderlauf, Campus Run Wir freuen uns auf viele Besucher*innen! Mehr zum Sommerfest ♾️ blogs.fu-berlin.de/sommerfest/

Lauren Southern's story of being raped by Andrew Tate is sad on so many levels. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Professorin berichtet über Morddrohungen an Uni: "Marburg ist für mich zum Angstort geworden"

Schmierereien mit Mordaufrufen, Störungen in Seminaren und wachsender Druck: Die Marburger Historikerin Christina Brüning spricht erstmals öffentlich über Bedrohungen gegen sie, warum sie sich an ihre...

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Awesome. Literally didn’t see that coming. Somehow still a little proud. #AIEthics #AILaw #Deutschland Cc @hertieschool.bsky.social

The Internet Ethics program--Markkula Center for Applied Ethics@iethics.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Landmark German ruling declares Google's #AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers": the-decoder.com/landmark-ger... #ethics #law #internet #tech #business h/t @garymarcus.bsky.social

Solidarity with E. Jean Carroll and all survivors who face legal retaliation and criminal prosecution for speaking the truth. This is both remarkable and utterly unsurprising. Survivors have been jailed, retraumatized, harassed, and sued into silence for far too long.

Last year I broke the story of how the Berlin immigration authority moved to deport four young foreign residents over allegations tied to protests against Israel’s genocide – amid intense political pressure from the Berlin Senate. Yesterday, a Berlin court struck down the last deportation order.

Hanno Hauenstein@hahauenstein.bsky.social · last yr.

Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters - my latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/03/31/g...

Der wissenschaftliche Stab des @svrwirtschaft.bsky.social sucht zwei engagierte Ökonominnen oder Ökonomen für unseren Standort in Berlin: eine/n Mikroökonomen und eine/n Makroökonomen mit dem Schwerpunkt Öffentliche Finanzen. Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Bewerbung!

Unrepresented academic wins at Employment Tribunal against a university represented by KC & Hon Fellow of St Johns, Oxford Nottingham Uni discriminated against Dr Saad on grounds of race/religion Academics can often succeed without representation as most University processes are rarely lawful

My colleague Felix Weinhardt @bsoeberlin.bsky.social just released a short but important note that might make you rethink how you interpret your OLS estimates. Worth a look @paulgp.com @p-hunermund.com @ariannaornaghi.bsky.social @conjugateprior.org 👇 opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hsog/f...

It's been great to host the PEPE Workshop 2026! Many thanks to all speakers and participants for two very stimulating days of presentations and discussions, and for making the workshop such an engaging event — already looking forward to the next edition!

Department of Economics, Uni of Bath @econuniofbath.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢Join us at the PEPE Workshop 26 @uniofbath.bsky.social on 23–24 April Two days of research in political economy and public economics, with speakers from Bath @ox.ac.uk @warwickecon.bsky.social @uniofleicester.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social and @fundacioieb.bsky.social

Latest in academia 📚 In “Parenthood and the Career Ladder: Evidence from Academia,” the authors examine how parenthood shapes academic careers. Their key finding: parenthood marks a sharp turning point with around 1 in 3 women leaving academia. #womenineconomics #academia #genderequality

Sobering finding #econtwitter : in Spanish unis (across disciplines), narrowly missing out on tenure has asymmetric consequences for women, nearly *60* pp less likely to be tenured (anywhere) 15 yrs later; 2X the male effect size. From @manuelbagues Giulia Vattuone @natazino

It's the annual Ask a Manager salary survey! Every year, vastly fewer men fill this out than women. Men, please share your salary info (anonymously) so we have concrete salary comparisons to inform pay negotiations and fight the pay gap

Ask a Manager@askamanager.org · 4mo ago

ASREC Europe Venice 🇮🇹 Fri/Sat 25/26 Sep 2026 co-organized with @valerueda.bsky.social 3 keynotes: Mara Squicciarini 🎉 @saumjha.bsky.social 🎉 Joel Mokyr 🎉 Submit here by 30 April 👉 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Interview zum Thema Wohnen in Deutschland in der @taz.de. Entstanden im Kontext eines von der @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social geförderten Projekts zum Thema Wohnraummangel, gemeinsam mit @sebastiankohl.bsky.social, @lucastella.bsky.social & @simonvoss.bsky.social.

taz@taz.de · 4mo ago

Die einen wohnen beengt, andere haben mehr Platz, als sie brauchen. Ökonom Max Steinhardt sieht großes Potential, Wohnfläche besser zu verteilen.

Really very happy to see our paper covered in Nature Magazine Full paper here cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publica...

Nature@nature.com · 4mo ago

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s, lowering their chances of getting university jobs, tenure and reducing their publication output, finds a large analysis of academics in Denmark. go.nature.com/4tcO2Em

Delighted to see "Swiftness & delay of punishment" (joint w/ @libordusekeu.bsky.social) published online @theeconjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a... Open access 👉 www.hertie-school.org/fileadmin/5_... Longer thread with summary👇

Swiftness and delay of punishment

Abstract. We study how the swiftness and delay of punishment affect behaviour in the context of speeding offences. Using rich administrative data from auto

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Christian Traxler@chtraxler.bsky.social · 2y ago

"The more immediately a punishment is inflicted, the more ... useful it will be." Beccaria (1764) In a new paper with Libor Dusek, we estimate the effects of a swift & delayed punishment on subsequent behavior in a straightforward context: speeding tickets Thread🧵 ideas.repec.org/p/bdp/dpaper...

Working fron home is polluting, study finds: Additional residential emissions > commuting emmissions

Simon Briole@simonbriole.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Very happy to see our paper "Does working from home pollute? The environmental effects of WFH" (with E. Lavaine) out in the European Economic Review! Link (open access): doi.org/10.1016/j.eu... #EconSky #EconTwitter #EconResearch #EnvironmentalEconomics #AirPollution

“Women get sent to the gulags first, obviously. Which women? All women. Every woman. Every woman and girl is sent to the gulags. We will determine who the good ones are after the fact. Well, what about the good ones? What about the trad ones? First of all, there are no trad ones or good ones.”

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 6mo ago

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

🏫 Can “efficiency upgrades” really fix #schoolchoice outcomes? 👥 A new study by Josué Ortega, @gabrielziegler.bsky.social, R. Pablo Arribillaga, and Geng Zhao shows why improving the Deferred Acceptance algorithm may still leave key problems untouched. 📑 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new...

Whether Blake Lively is a good or likeable person is not on trial. Whether women should be allowed to report sexual harassment in their workplaces without facing retaliation is what’s on trial

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

„𝗪𝗶𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝘇𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺, 𝗱𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗞𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗳 𝗴𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗞𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝘇𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘁“ Neues Promotionskolleg EQUALFIN: Promovierende erforschen Zusammenhänge zwischen Finanzpolitik, Klimawandel und sozialer Gerechtigkeit. Kooperation 🤝 @htwberlin.bsky.social 🔗 www.fu-berlin.de/campusleben/...

Hat die Tagesschau gestern auch gemacht. Hatte irgendwie gehofft dass staatliches deutsches Fernsehen bei Propaganda vorsichtiger wäre……

Annika Brockschmidt@ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Es ist kein Journalismus, die Lügen einer Behörde zu stenografieren, deren Agenten erneut einen Menschen getötet haben.