shoutout to @hannahrecht.bsky.social for a fantastic R package. This is a great way to get US census data: github.com/hrecht/censu... #EconSky

GitHub - hrecht/censusapi: R package to retrieve U.S. Census data and metadata via API

R package to retrieve U.S. Census data and metadata via API - hrecht/censusapi

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At #RES2026, Wednesday delegates will hear from past & present data editors of @theeconjournal.bsky.social on replication practices, procedures & checks across economics. We look forward to welcoming @floswald.bsky.social & Joan Llull. Chaired by Damian Clarke. More: bit.ly/4s1RxMM #EconSky

when I run out of my daily claude allowance I feel like super mario as soon as the magic star effect wanes. slow running!

Did you know that if in Italy there is an election on Sunday and Monday, schools close Friday 14:00 and reopen Wednesday morning? Now you know!

I wrote something to help people avoid the stata m:m command jpedataeditor.github.io/posts/202603...

#julialang homework for our floswald.github.io/CompEcon/ course: reverse engineering the #esselunga presto spesa handheld supermarket scanner system. custom types, simulation, optimization. pluto.land/n/yt8hux1c

pluto.land – easily share Pluto notebooks, the reactive Julia platform.

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“AI is a bubble. Too many GPUs for too little business case” exhibit 1:

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Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Latest substack on Iran by @snellarthur.bsky.social is a must read substack.com/home/post/p-...

Latest substack on Iran by @snellarthur.bsky.social is a must read substack.com/home/post/p-...

I was 33, exhausted, chronically ill, very smart, no degree, only ever used Excel, & feared math 😢 (so frustratingly common) Do I regret learning #Rstats, #SAS, #Python, & SPSS ALL AT ONCE? 🫠 No! It gave me the empathy to teach people new tools w/out degrading them about their other tools. #databs

We are hiring! VU Amsterdam (Dept of Spatial Economics) seeks AP in Urban and Real Estate Economics. Research fit: (spatial) general equilibrium + reduced-form work on land/housing, commuting, amenities, local public goods. RT. #UrbanEconomics #AcademicJobs workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/va...

Healthcare in Greenland is publicly funded, free at the point of use, and despite geographical challenges considered very good. Healthcare costs in the USA are extortionate and responsible for 60% of all US bankruptcies. So maybe Denmark should be sending hospital ships the other way.

before diving into agentic AI coding, learn git. Version control becomes even more critical when you need to undo what the AI did. (And no, letting the AI manage versioning is not the answer.)

"Third, Europe actually can defend itself and resorting to scare figures such as Rutte’s 10% of GDP, is nonsense. Russia, the most obvious security threat to European states, has a GDP that is less than 10% of just the EU’s. If you add the UK and Norway to the mix, Russia shrinks in comparison."

The Worst Argument Possible

Of course Europe can defend itself, indeed it should.

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sorry i made that up.

Where can you find economists on BlueSky? RePEc has a list https;//ideas.repec.org/i/ebluesky.h... #RePEc #EconSky

Time to call things by their name. A thug is a thug. And the boss is the boss.

Bruce Springsteen@brucespringsteen.net · 6mo ago

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

interesting paper: Vibe Coding Kills Open Source Software.

Gábor Békés@gaborbekes.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Great points! One extra point from a recent paper of ours arxiv.org/html/2601.15...

#EconSky #DataEditorTips Your results should replicate each time you submit your paper, not only *after* it was accepted. Having your package replicable all the times is going to buy you a lot of time and-more importantly-peace of mind. What if you cannot replicate a result in the accepted version?

I forgot how painful MS word and rich text format are. Please, funding agencies, give us templates in formats suitable for scientific writing. just wanted to insert a 2x2 grid of equally sized figures with referenced captions. Totally impossibly hard to achieve. Not to talk about citations. d'oh...

📣 Call for Papers: AI and Society Conference 🗓️ 11–12 June 2026 at Bocconi University Submit full papers: bocconi.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Keynote by the one and only Sendhil Mullainathan @sendhil.bsky.social Please share w/ your colleagues and students, we look forward to your submission

It’s just delirious. None of this makes any sense.

Thomas Seal@twseal.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Trump says he'll impose a 10% tariff (rising to 25% in June) on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, because they've sent people to Greenland, until the US can buy Greenland.

When Elon changed the name of Twitter to X everyone was like "what the fuck, that sounds like the name of a website for extremely illegal pornography made by and for nazis" And behold what it became. Nominative determinism go ew

Yeah, I was right in the middle of it. And yeah, the whole “dark fiber” thing was a wonder to behold. Now we have “dark GPUs” that will be obsolete by the time the data centers are built, which are waiting for the power and water infra. Yeah lots of companies are going to die.

How to deal with 17GB dataset on a 16GB RAM laptop? my updated version of Grant's @gmcd.bsky.social big data workshop from 2 years ago. That's where I first saw @duckdb.org and never looked back. interfaces in #rstats #julialang #python floswald.github.io/duckdb-polars/

[…] in his conversation with the Times, Trump said, “I don’t need international law.” When asked if there were any limits on his powers on the world stage, Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind.”

“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”

from @gaborbekes.bsky.social 's linkedin page. a rare show of unity amongst world experts on good governance 🤷🏻‍♂️