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Santiago Sanchez-Pages @sanpages.bsky.social · 2h

Analizamos +4.000 críticas en @fotogramasrevista.bsky.social, Cinemania, @eamcinema.com y @larazonlr.bsky.social. Encontramos que con estrellas enteras los críticos penalizan las peliculas de directoras mientras que con medias la penalización desaparece. La arquitectura de evaluación NO es neutral.

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Santiago Sanchez-Pages @sanpages.bsky.social · 2h

¿Dependen los sesgos de evaluación de cómo diseñamos las escalas de puntuación? En un reciente trabajo con @cubel.bsky.social investigamos esto en el contexto de la crítica cinematográfica española, comparando reseñas que utilizan estrellas enteras vs. medias estrellas. 🎬⭐️

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 5h

PODCASTS

Altmetric now tracks podcasts mentioning research

In 2018 there were roughly 500,000 podcasts in existence. Just 3 years later that number was 2 million. Today it's around 4 million.

Amid all the Squarespace ads there's citations to research.

Let's go
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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 8h

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 1d

so sorry

Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 1d

Blocked, so we’ll never be able to check our guess (Bluesky’s good side…)

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David Schindler @david-schindler.de · 2d

Ending slavery increased GDP by 9.1% as slavery reduced the welfare of the enslaved substantially, while only generating minuscule welfare gains to slave owners. Fascinating topic that once again highlights how coercive instructions are economically detrimental!

www.nber.org/papers/w3435...

The Economic Geography of American Slavery

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 1d

More credentials than Acemoglu, IMO!

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 1d

Four if you count Bernanke.

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 2d

Four items by Mokyr: the first is a topic already recognised by the Nobel, but the other three are less well known areas of Mokyr: his study of the Irish famine, his explanation of why the Dutch Republic was not the first, and his artisan theory of the Industrial Revolution.

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 1d

Although I know Acemoglu’s membership in the club is probably dubious, it will be hard for Economic History to get a better stretch for the Nobel Prize in Economics than the last three years

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 2d

I anticipate some sneers thrown Mokyr's way so my preemptive comment...

What ever else he might have done, what ever faults he might have, Mokyr has performed a tremendous service simply by stressing the great importance of the Scientific Revolution to the birth of the modern economy.

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 2d

Mokyr's work could not have been done today in most economics departments, but the irony is that his work would not fit in history departments today, either. Methodologically he seems more 'history' than 'economics' to economists, but the content and reasoning are too 'economics' for most historians

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 2d

By a Nobel-Prize winning economist, no less...

Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 18d

Econ history family: incoming book alert! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000

Avner Greif, Joel Mokyr, and Guido Tabellini

How the social organization of Europe and China shaped their divergent economic and political trajectories over the past millennium

Price:
$39.95/£35.00
ISBN:
Published (US):
Nov 4, 2025
Published (UK):
Dec 30, 2025
Copyright:
2025
Pages:
544
Size:
6.13 x 9.25 in.
Illus:
16 b/w illus. 11 tables. 1 map.

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 2d

The calls for October 18 all over the world are requiring some tweaks, given the local circumstances. Spain:

“About this event
Please join Americans and allies in Madrid, Spain for a NO TYRANTS protest on Saturday, October 18th. We've communicated our concentración to the authorities as taking place in Puerta del Sol from 12-1:30pm. More information to come as it's confirmed!
Note We are branding this rally as "No Tyrants".
Please do not bring any signage against kings to the rally.”

Highlighted: “Note We are branding this rally as "No Tyrants".
Please do not bring any signage against kings to the rally.”

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 3d

Manuscriptcentral guest account created

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 3d

Era por ver si me tenía que autodeportar

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 3d

No soy gafe absoluto, @08181.es

FC Barcelona Femení @fcbfemeni.bsky.social · 3d

Més líders 🫡

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 4d

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

www.construction-physics.com

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 4d

so the death of social democracy is inevitable now

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 4d

😨😨😨

AVAMET @avamet.bsky.social · 4d

🌧️Repàs de les pluges de l'episodi: mapa i registres de les últimes 72 hores (fins 10 h de dissabte)

De moment molt generós a tot el litoral i prelitoral del golf de València i també al litoral i sud de les comarques d'Alacant. Més de 250 l/m² a Miramar, Gandia i Columbretes.

Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 4d

For me, the most powerful argument against ebooks is about parenting: I don’t want my daughter to see me staring at a screen when I’m reading

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Frazz @mrs-frazzled.bsky.social · 4d

MIT is the first school to formally reject Trump’s “Compact.”

(Of course a Massachusetts school is the first to say no! Y’all have always been a leader in education!)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 5d

No conclusions about Duflo and Banerjee’s move until a proper RCT is implemented

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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 5d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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