I think people just don't know that Pangram exists? Or they just don't care? It's definitely not perfect but its **pretty good** at confirming AI slop in referee reports, papers, etc etc

made this webapp (works best on mobile) for my numbers-obsessed 4-year old! Take it for a spin! www.peternencka.com/blockmath/

Another incredible thesis title (and thesis) from our MA program. Excited to follow Addie’s career at Vandy!

Miami University Economics@miamiecon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to Addie Taylor on her MA defense, "When the Moon Makes you Drive Like You've Had Too Much Wine: The Effect of the Lunar Cycle on Fatal Car Crashes.” After graduation, she'll be going to Vanderbilt University for a Ph.D. in Eco.

Just discovered I’m a Canadian citizen under their new laws and I’m celebrating by restarting my français lessons on Duolingo

It’s been a pleasure to get to know Luke the past 2 years, where he’s been a rockstar RA for me, @loismiller.bsky.social, @camilantmorales.bsky.social, @julia-turner.bsky.social, and Kalena Cortes. Look for him to apply to your PhD programs after a few years as a predoc with the West Point crew!

Miami University Economics@miamiecon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to Luke Koulouris on his MA defense, "To Bet or Not to Bet? How Legalized Sports Gambling Affects the Household." After graduation, he'll be going to the United States Military Academy (West Point).

crazy how fast one goes from "wow these claude presentations are beautiful" to "please never show me a claude presentation again in my life"

good week for parental leave for me

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3mo ago

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

New paper by Tuttle: www.restud.com/racial-dispa... #REStud #EconSky

We had a great time celebrating our senior award winners last night - congratulations to all, and thank you to our advisory board for sponsoring the reception! (And no, we didn't ask people to coordinate colors! The invisible hand at work.)

We are still interviewing for research assistants at the Philly Fed for this cycle. It’s a great opportunity for students who want to get more experience with research and there are lots of development opportunities rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FRS/jo...

Research Assistant/Sr. Research Assistant

Company Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Job Description Summary Research assistants (RAs) at the Philadelphia Fed play a key role in the Economic Research Department. Whether they are helping eco...

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📢Publication alert: Our paper "Universal Investments in Toddler Health. Learning from a Large Government Trial" has found a terrific home and is accepted at @theeconjournal.bsky.social 1/N

Looking forward to watching my coauthors Emily & Paola share our work on political polarization and college choices at the @nber.org econ of ed meeting today! If you’re not in Chicago, you can tune in to it on YouTube at 1:20pm CT 👇 www.nber.org/conferences/...

Economics of Education Program Meeting, Spring 2026

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signed up to be a Hugo voter this year (anyone can! reactormag.com/anyone-can-v...) and its a great slate of books from what I’ve read so far

Anyone Can Vote in the Hugo Awards — And Here's How - Reactor

You — yes, you! — can nominate work and vote for the winners of the 2026 Hugo Awards!

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Los Angeles Worldcon@laworldcon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Best Novel A Drop of Corruption by @robertjbennett.bsky.social (Del Rey; Hodderscape) Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social (William Morrow; Gollancz) 1/

a fun thesis to advise! Carving out a niche as the sports econ and econ history MA thesis advisor. perhaps sports econ history next

Miami University Economics@miamiecon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Congratulations to Drake Peavy on his MA defense, "How NIL and the Transfer Portal Changed Competitive Balance in College Basketball." After graduation, he'll be going to EY in Chicago as a Transfer Pricing Consultant.

Congratulations to Drake Peavy on his MA defense, "How NIL and the Transfer Portal Changed Competitive Balance in College Basketball." After graduation, he'll be going to EY in Chicago as a Transfer Pricing Consultant.

Trying to build this without building a full-fledged secondary password manager. New Claude thinks it is impossible, but it just baffles me. Has to be possible, right?

This is cool and a great use of @openrouter.bsky.social Since this is open source, I'd encourage folks to look under the hood at how these prompts are run, e.g., github.com/Davidvandijc... The multi-agent logic can help you do all sorts of bespoke things on your own!

coarse/src/coarse at dev · Davidvandijcke/coarse

Contribute to Davidvandijcke/coarse development by creating an account on GitHub.

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David Van Dijcke@packlesshepherd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I coded up an open-source, not-for-profit AI paper reviewer that rivals the performance of @reviewer3com.bsky.social, Refine.ink, and Stanford Agentic Reviewer (according to Gemini 3.1). Costs <$2! Live @ coarse.ink. Plug in paper, @openrouter.bsky.social key, and email. #econsky

🎉🏫New paper! 🏫🎉 "High Schools and the Uneven Rise in American Opportunity" by myself, Alison Doxey, and Ezra Karger (@ezrakarger.bsky.social) www.peternencka.com/assets/high_... www.nber.org/papers/w35068

Examining how the World War I agricultural commodity price boom affected human capital accumulation during the early decades of the high school movement in the US, from Taylor Jaworski, Carl T. Kitchens, and Luke P. Rodgers www.nber.org/papers/w35032

If you are sponsoring golfers and formula one teams, I'm less inclined to trust your academic product

Recently accepted by #QJE: “The Effects of Gender Integration on Men: Evidence from the U.S. Military,” by Greenberg, Wasserman, and Weber: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Add April Fools Day to the long list of already bad things made worse by AI

One of the best thesis titles (and actual theses) our program has ever produced

Miami University Economics@miamiecon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Joe Suek is our first Dept Honors student, Quant Eco/ Mth/ Stats major (Eco MA student). His honors defense was,"Puff Puff Passthrough: Competitive Conduct in Cannabis Dispensaries," with Prof Chuck Moul. He's from Dallas, TX and will be going to Bates White as a Eco consultant.

This (both the data and digitization method) is extremely “Peter catnip” (@riacton.bsky.social’s words)

Cameron Blevins@cblevins.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📣 New historical data visualization! "How Fast Was the Mail?" is an interactive map showing how long information took to travel across the US between 1882-1908: cblevins.github.io/mail-time/ +

Big loss for Miami but excited to have another excuse to visit Maine!!

Riley Acton@riacton.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sharing some news... After a decade of posing as a Midwesterner, I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to get back to my New England roots this summer! I'll be joining the stellar @bowdoincollege.bsky.social faculty and moving to one of my favorite parts of the world: midcoast Maine! 💙

I am very excited that PyFixest 0.50.0 is on PyPi, including a new graph-based solver for demeaning that makes fixed effects estimation in PyFixest significantly faster for "sparse" fixed effects structures.

🚨 Pre-Doc Opportunity at LEHD 🚨 Do you know graduating seniors or recent graduates in economics, math or statistics? The LEHD group at Census is hiring up to 2 positions in this category. Apply following the instructions here: www.census.gov/about/census... If you have questions, DM me!

Economic Measurement and Research Internship (EMRI) Program

The EMRI program seeks to hire interns in economics, accounting and related fields to support the nation’s growing demand for information.

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My research team (w/ Sam Bazzi, Eric Chyn, Martin Fiszbein, Thomas Pearson, and Pat Testa) is hiring a full-time economics pre-doc starting in May! If you know someone who might be interested, see the link below: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

It is time for EconMadness! Put your prediction models (or vibes to the test) in the annual economist bracket challenge for March Madness. Enter your brackets here Men’s 🏀 : fantasy.espn.com/games/tourna... Women’s 🏀: fantasy.espn.com/games/tourna...

Join a group

You've been invited to join a group and play ESPN's Men's Tournament Challenge

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This is my favorite LLM benchmark. While Claude’s tone sometimes drives me crazy (“I’m going to be honest with you”) it at least sometimes pushes back petergpt.github.io/bullshit-ben...