Join us for the first IDEA Research Seminar, featuring Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University). Register here: idea.devecon.org Professor Mookherjee will be following up on his NBER invited lecture, which you can watch TOMORROW, Tuesday, July 28 at 9 AM US EDT here: www.youtube.com/@NBERvideos/...

The Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke seeks an associate or assistant professor of public administration: www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?... #PAJobMarket

What happens to migration and regional connectivity when violence becomes part of everyday life? My fab coauthor Michele Coscia @mikk.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy wrote a blog about our recent article combining network analysis & IV michelecoscia.com?p=2545

Please circulate our Call for Papers for the POLITICAL ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE @gsb.stanford.edu, Nov 11-12. Submission deadline: Aug 31. Jointly organized with @allanhsiao.bsky.social www.gsb.stanford.edu/events/polit...

The Political Economics of Sustainability

This conference focuses on the politics and the economics of environmental problems and regulation.

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IDEA on the World Bank's Development Impact blog. Board member Owen Ozier introduces the association — why development economics needs a global professional home, and what IDEA is building. Read it, then join us: idea.devecon.org blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Introducing IDEA – the International Development Economics Association

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Welcome to IDEA!

Thank you! The recent workshop we co-organised on Organised Crime: Local Roots & Global Reach was inspired by a very successful event organised by @angeltguevara.bsky.social and @geraldinebustos.bsky.social a couple of years ago at @uniessexgov.bsky.social Looking forward to more collaborations

Department of Government, Essex@uniessexgov.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Well done to @angeltguevara.bsky.social for co-organising this organised crime workshop! And it's great to see Essex PhD @amayoap.bsky.social! Essex PGRs/PhDs, getting it done. And thanks @roxanagutz.bsky.social for the post and your leadership!

Interested in pursuing a PhD using linked administrative data to address important policy challenges? I'm happy to support applications for the ADR PhD Studentships at Queen Mary University of London. Deadline 15 Sept👇 If interested, contact me r.gutierrez@qmul.ac.uk www.adruk.org/news-publica...

Funding opportunity: ADR UK PhD Studentships

ADR UK is inviting applications from Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs) to host a cohort of PhD studentsh...

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Updating my coming presentation on 500+ politicians killed in Mexico, list sadly grows. Last night: incumbent mayor of San Miguel Amatitlán, Oaxaca, shot dead. He'd formally requested state protection weeks ago. Ignored. World Cup: Pan y circo. Slides: dropbox.com/scl/fi/swnsn...

Many thanks to participants of the "Organised Crime" workshop held yesterday made possible thanks to co-organiser Ángel Torres generosity of @qmul.bsky.social @uniessexgov.bsky.social At end of event we were admiring this view of London when realised had not taken the group photo, so few ppl missing

We just started the workshop, transmitting presentations via this link essex-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Looking forward to hosting this workshop on Organised Crime: Local Roots and Global Reach on 10 June. If you would like to attend in person, email me at r.gutierrez@qmul.ac.uk Places are limited. You can also join Zoom, in this link essex-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #OrganisedCrime

Delighted to see this in print.

Spatial Economic Analysis@spatialeconomic.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨New Article🚨 "Displacement and disconnection: the impact of violence on migration networks and highway traffic in Mexico" by Michele Coscia(@mikk.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy)& Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero(@roxanagutz.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1080/1742... @rsaeurope.bsky.social @itu.dk @qmul.bsky.social

Looking forward to hosting this workshop on Organised Crime: Local Roots and Global Reach on 10 June. If you would like to attend in person, email me at r.gutierrez@qmul.ac.uk Places are limited. You can also join Zoom, in this link essex-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #OrganisedCrime

Looking forward to presenting today along with Monica Beeder and Angel Torres-Guevara, at FIAP Jean Monnet, Rome+Dubliln Room, 7:00-8:30pm. #LASA2026 Paris.

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero@roxanagutz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢 Excited to be presenting at #LASA2026 in Paris! 🗓️ Thursday, May 28 | 7:00–8:30 PM CT #LatinAmericanStudies #PoliticalEconomy global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Interested in contributing a chapter to a book on Drug Trafficking? Meet us at: Lobby of the Paris Marriott Hotel during #LASA2026 🗓 Friday, May 29, 2026 ⏰ 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Or contact co-editors at: M.Beeder@soton.ac.uk, r.gutierrez@qmul.ac.uk, a.torresguevara@essex.ac.uk

📢 Excited to be presenting at #LASA2026 in Paris! 🗓️ Thursday, May 28 | 7:00–8:30 PM CT #LatinAmericanStudies #PoliticalEconomy global.oup.com/academic/pro...

How does violence reshape migration? Using 🇲🇽 census data 2005–2020 and network analysis across 6M+ migration links, we show violence drove displacement and reduced 🚗 highway traffic linking violent municipalities to the rest of the country www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News@news.sky.com · 10mo ago

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Looking forward to presenting 👇 at Fragile Lives 2025: Gender, Institutions, and Fragility in Berlin. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2407.06722 Programme: zerohunger.de/fragile-live...

Ahora voy a leer 👇Aborda cómo detectar a psicópatas integrados: personas que no cometen delitos graves de violencia, pero causan daños significativos en la vida personal y en instituciones de la sociedad, incluyendo la política. #PEACELA www.amazon.co.uk/psic%C3%B3pa...

Minorities in academia are expected to overperform, stay silent, and endure stereotypes (e.g, you don’t know how to write, are poorly educated). This is a minority tax: taking extra unpaid labour and diversity duties that don't count towards promotion. bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Easily my favourite book on mastering Shiny: building interactive apps, reports, and dashboards using R. And it's free 👉 mastering-shiny.org/basic-app.html #rstats #Shiny #DataViz

The Prince of Mathematics! (1777–1855) From humble beginnings, Carl Friedrich Gauss reshaped science, from number theory, celestial mechanics to probability, statistics, and geometry. A mind of rare depth and clarity. 🎬 Watch the full documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC6r...

Carl Friedrich Gauss: The Prince of Mathematics! (1777–1855)

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Women with names perceived as masculine are less likely to be omitted from citations than those with feminine names. Men with feminine-sounding names are more likely to be omitted than men with masculine names, suggesting citation bias based on gender perceptions. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Summer project: reading 👇 and building new maps. A very good guide for spatial thinking in criminology and R. #PEACELA

Did you know that the widely used method of least squares was born chasing comets? Legendre published it in 1805 to estimate their orbits Gauss claimed he’d used it privately since 1795 Legendre: I published it first Gauss: I published why it works… in 1809. archive.org/details/nouv...

The U.S. Consolidated Counterdrug Database (CCDB) is unclassified but little known or used by drug policy researchers. Kendra McSweeney’s fab paper focuses on its cocaine module, explaining how this U.S. dataset is built, accessed, and what it reveals. tinyurl.com/mry7a84n