I highly recommend NABE’s Econ Career Week for anyone who’ll be on the Econ PhD job market this Fall… #EconJobMarket conta.cc/4yUpx2p

Entering the Econ Job Market? Hear Directly from Employers During NABE’s Econ Career Week!

Email from National Association for Business Economics NABE Econ Career Week | August 10-13 Greetings! Whether you're preparing to enter the PhD job market this year or planning ahead for a future job

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Post a perfect album from the 90's that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or Alice In Chains @thebrpage.bsky.social

Marc F. Bellemare@marcfbellemare.bsky.social · last wk.

Post a perfect album from the 90's that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or Alice In Chains upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...

This is Ender. He pressed the belly rub button and assumed the position. Now it's time for your end of the deal. 12/10 (TT: enderthehavanes)

Happy #Matariki! To celebrate the Māori New Year, here is some Māori #archaeology: American sweet potatoes were essential to the Māori settlement of Te Waipounamu. Hardier than native crops, they enabled farming in the South Island's harsher climate. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

The great migration into the eastern Pacific coincided with a dry climate in the western Pacific. theconversation.com/the-real-mys...

The real mystery behind Moana: after 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?

New evidence suggests a massive centuries-long drought may be part of the answer.

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Happy to have contributed to the latest HBES newsletter on our recent paper, The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter, led by @vivek123.bsky.social I reflect on MTH through the lens of my research on Bayaka women's foraging & cooperation in the Congolese rainforest www.hbes.com/revisiting-m...

Revisiting Man the Hunter - HBES

– by Haneul Jang For decades, the phrase Man the Hunter has occupied a central place in discussions of human evolution. Today, however, the phrase sounds outdated, evoking a familiar image of men hunt...

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💙 Call for contributions! 💙 To mark 60 years since the Man the Hunter conference (1966), Hunter Gatherer Research is curating a two-part special issue on “Lessons and Reflections from Hunter-Gatherer Research” www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr A thread on the two issues & formats👇

Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias@ceciliapad.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨NEW SPECIAL ISSUE SERIES OF HUNTER-GATHERER RESEARCH🚨Celebrating and critically reflecting on the history and methodologies of the field, co-edited by @haneuljang.bsky.social and I. More info, check the submissions page of our website: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr or get in touch!

BREAKING: Today Vancouver City Council voted to EXTEND the massively successful Granville Street people-first transformation/pedestrianization until September 7th! With budget, which is key. Now the key is to DO IT WELL post- #WorldCup. Also direction for next year, & a November Christmas Market.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: “This isn’t cutting edge anymore. It’s just learning from our own successes & failures, and standing on the shoulders of smarter cities. Time to get it done.” My op-ed in today’s @vancouversun.bsky.social makes the case for a people-first Granville Street (& MORE streets) beyond the #WorldCup.

is there anything heated rivalry CAN'T do for this country????

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last mo.

have to be impressed with Canada's glow up in the last 20 years or so. unrecognizable team, quality at every position. already a historic tourny for them. could they make the quarters?!

1/ We have a PhD position open on 'Mental Disorders as Harmful Stable States'. If you know students interested in the intersection of mental health & statistical modeling (EMA & time series), please encourage them to apply. www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3621...

PhD Position on "Mental disorders as harmful stable states"

PhD Position on “Mental disorders as harmful stable states” The departments Clinical Psychology and Methodology & Statistics, at the Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden Univers...

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dog shit country, truly

DR Congo superfan denied US visa to support team at World Cup

Michel Kuka Mboladinga is iconic for his motionless tribute at DRC games, but a US World Cup repeat has been denied.

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Up Congo DRC!! Really playing brilliantly this WC, simply wonderful 🇨🇩🎉

Belinda Archibong@belindaarch.bsky.social · last mo.

Allez les Léopards! 🇨🇩

Congrats DR Congo! They had to quarantine in Belgium before the World Cup due to the devastating Ebola outbreak, yet still made it to the knockout stage for the first time in history!

denying a visa to the man who imitates a statue of a man we assassinated

Bradford Pearson@bradfordpearson.bsky.social · last mo.

dog shit country, truly

IVORY COAST, CONGO, SENEGAL, CAPE VERDE, and GHANA!!!!!!!! AFRICAN SUPREMACY.

Kevin Prince Boateng Ghana Goal Celebration

Alt: Kevin Prince Boateng Ghana Goal Celebration

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🗣️ Published today in @aeajournals.bsky.social. Ethan Lewis and I use a visa lottery, as a nationwide randomized experiment, to test the effects of foreign labor on US firms and workers. doi.org/10.1257/app.... A concise summary from @nber.org —> www.nber.org/digest/20221...

Proud of this! And grateful to @owenozier.bsky.social for making the case on the @cgdev.org blog. Two days in, we are actually at 2,671 scholars across 126 countries! Clearly, development economics is ready for a global home of its own... We are happy to be that home at @ideadevecon.bsky.social !

Board member @owenozier.bsky.social writes about @ideadevecon.bsky.social on @cgdev.org's blog. www.cgdev.org/blog/introdu...

Introducing IDEA—the International Development Economics Association

Labor economists have the Society of Labor Economists. Health economists have the International Health Economics Association. Economic historians have the Economic History Association. What about deve...

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Very much looking forward to the discussion... Please join if interested in the interplay of religious beliefs, broadly defined, and economic development...

3D Seminar@3dseminar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our next seminar will be held on June 25th, at 3 pm (UTC+2). David Fuechtjohann (GIZ) and Nathan Nunn (University of British Columbia) will discuss the role of religion and religious actors in shaping economic and social development across the world. Register at: listserv.gwdg.de/mailman/list...

Brain scans can predict a child's socioeconomic status better than they can predict the child’s IQ. #neuroskyence By @natmesanash.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...

IQ’s link to brain structure, function in children may be a mirage

A child’s socioeconomic status, screen time and amount of sleep all show stronger associations with measures of brain structure and function, according to an imaging study of nearly 12,000…

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NEW PAPER. Why do larger networks train better? "Because they contain more candidate *sub*networks that can learn the task" → lottery tickets This popular explanation uses an appealing but misleading metaphor🧵 We propose an intuitive alternative grounded in theory: escape dimensions

🚨We're hiring again, this time for a research assistant position 🚨 The position is to help with a project looking at learning and social behaviour in birds along an urban gradient Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆28th June deadline More info: shorturl.at/vBxiW #ringing #fieldwork

Finding no evidence of an asset-threshold poverty trap, from @deankarlan.bsky.social, Amol Singh Raswan, and Christopher R. Udry www.nber.org/papers/w35253

If you are registered for the CEAs in Vancouver, you are registered for the online portion this Friday May 22. Please join me in the @cleforum.bsky.social session at 10:15-11:45 PDT (1:15-2:45ET) virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/e/cea2026/pr...

Evidence from archaeology, aDNA, osteology, and other disciplines shows that humans tamed and rode horses as early as the fourth millennium BCE, showing that the process of domestication began well before the first favorable genetic mutations. Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/4wtC7En

Read the latest #AER journal article on "Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of US Political Differences" by @sahilchinoy.bsky.social @nathannunn.bsky.social Sandra Sequeira & @s-stantcheva.bsky.social Via @aeajournals.bsky.social sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/publica...

Update: Health officials are working to contain a new Ebola outbreak in the DRC of a virus strain with no known vaccine.

World Health Organization declares Ebola outbreak in Congo a global health emergency

Health officials are working to contain a new Ebola outbreak in the DRC of a virus strain with no known vaccine.

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"Why doesn't the US have national health insurance?" Fascinating new paper from Alsan and Neberai out in QJE @qjeharvard.bsky.social finds: rise of private health insurance in the US was enabled by 'strategic, interest group-financed effort to shape citizen views and influence policy' #EconSky

Another fantastic panel at #CESRabat / #HBES2026 with Fiona Jordan, @edhagen.net, @joehenrich.bsky.social, & Monique Borgerhoff Mulder! A great point made by Monique and echoed by Joe: The evolutionary social sciences agree about much more than we disagree about, and we need to stick together!