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Emma Zang @dremmazang.bsky.social · 13h

Z-CAFÉ will soon open a new postdoctoral position. We’re looking for scholars passionate about family, health, demography, policy, and aging, broadly defined, who also bring strong statistical and computational skills.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d

Through segregation, violence, redlining, and sundown towns, Black families traveled. How did they know where to go? What places were safe? What places were welcoming? Search the data on this important part of American history: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap
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David Schindler @david-schindler.de · 1d

If you are on the market this year, join us for advice! Looking forward to it!

EEA @eeanews.bsky.social · 1d

📢 #EJME virtual workshop II
Join @david-schindler.de
🗓️Thurs, Oct 16 @15:30 CEST
ℹ️ Pitching your paper, advice on behaviour, things to say during interviews, fly-outs & Negotiating offers, contracts PLUS exploding offers
Registration: bit.ly/42cS3gX
@eayeconomists.bsky.social @resmedia.bsky.social

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Paolo Falco @paolofalco.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 2-Year Postdocs in Dev Econ at Uni Copenhagen 🚨

Come work on some exciting experimental projects😀!

Dedicated time for your own research.

Reach out to hear more!

** PLEASE REPOST **🙏

Application deadline 🗓️: Nov 11

👉http://bit.ly/4q2Uehf

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Paul Quelle-Horreur 😱🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 1d

If you are an environmental econ or philosophy grad student who would like to read my book but can’t buy or otherwise access it, just email me!

Paul Quelle-Horreur 😱🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 1d

I don’t spam y’all much anymore about my book but a photographer at a department event snapped this handsome pic so send tweet

A photo of my book, THE SOCIAL COST OF CARBON, on a display table next to
“Looking through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement” by my colleague Judith A. Houck

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 1d

Economists! We’re hiring an assistant professor who focuses on domestic labor or public economics. The Humphrey School is wonderful and Minneapolis is the best city ever in my humble opinion.

More details here:
hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Job Description
Assistant Professor
About the Job
The Humphrey School of Public Affairs seeks applications for a full-time, tenure track faculty position at the assistant professor or advanced assistant professor level in social policy with a field of specialization in the domestic (U.S.) applied policy areas of labor or public economics. The faculty member will join a vibrant community of interdisciplinary scholars at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and support graduate students pursuing the Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.) and other master's-level professional degree programs, and the Ph.D. in Public Affairs program.
Successful candidates must demonstrate the potential to develop an innovative and socially impactful research portfolio that addresses contemporary questions related to social policy.

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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 1d

I'm very curious where the skeleton is stored in the off-season.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 4d

See my new blog post with Kari Williams on the @ipums.bsky.social blog about the termination of the CPS Food Security supplement and the other federal data sources available for studying food security in the U.S. #econsky

blog.popdata.org/food-securit...

Measuring Food Security with U.S. Federal Data – Use It for Good

blog.popdata.org

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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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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 5d

Come to Berlin

ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 We are hiring!
📂 RFBerlin invites applications for Postdoctoral Fellow positions in Economics.
⏰ Application deadline: November 15.
More info: www.rfberlin.com/job/postdoct...
👉 Apply here or share with your network: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
#EconSky #EconJobMarket

Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics

The ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin) invites applications for postdoctoral fellow positions in economics. The initial contract is for two years, with the possibility of renewal for up to six year...

www.rfberlin.com

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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 5d

Two Lecturer jobs in Quantitative Social Science at University College London

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Chris Uggen @chrisuggen.bsky.social · 5d

Jobs! ISRDI @minnpop.bsky.social is searching for 2 full-time staff for a new National Institute on Aging Demography and Economics Coordinating Center (NIA DECC).

1. DECC Coordinator, JO 370494: hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

2. Communications Manager, JO 370497 - hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

About the NIA DECC

Demography & Economics of Aging Coordinating Center (DECC) Contact us at [email protected] Co-Directors: Gina Rumore, Cathy Fitch, and Rob Warren We aim to increase the efficiency, productivity, and impac...

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 7d

NEW: "I don’t like sending out 'emergency' newsletters, but I’ve had my eye on the situation in Chicago all day....This moment has elevated the crisis so that it is no longer just a conflict between the federal government and a state, but between two states."
www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 7d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 7d

This is the best one

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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 8d

I believe you mean you employed logit

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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 8d

We’re taking the kids on vacation to Vietnam and when I search “kids activities Saigon“ I really don’t think the War Remnants Museum should pop up!

Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 11d

I really get chills when I see a politician suggest building more housing to reduce housing prices!

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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 11d

I feel the opposite way since having kids! All my conversations with my husband are now dense information exchange with lots of comprehension checks

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12d

"The government shutdown is expected to delay the Labor Dept. report, leaving more questions about the health of the economy.

"Labor economist [me] said the jobs report... is the 'most important economic data release in the world. Period.'”
foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-...

The government shutdown is expected to delay the Labor Department report, leaving more questions about the health of the economy.

Labor economist Aaron Sojourner said the jobs report from the government, which comes out the first Friday of each month, is the “most important economic data release in the world. Period.”

Those monthly updates on the health of the American labor market are closely watched by investors to understand how the economy is changing.

“Billions of dollars of investment sort of shift on this report,” Sojourner said. “It's not perfect. It's an estimate. It's incredibly challenging to measure the 160 million, roughly, jobs in the economy in real time.”

But he said it’s the best available information at the time it’s released.

And the shutdown-induced delay in the release of the jobs data “clouds everyone's view of the economy.”

“Everybody is making high-stakes decisions with sort of worse information, worse visibility into what's happening around them,” said Sojourner, who works for the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 12d

lol my parents flew to Minnesota to celebrate #TheDoubleTax in St. Paul so naturally we hung out with THE WALZS because why not? 🤯

A portrait of THE WALZS, Anna Gifty and her family and her friends

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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 12d

Could have written an article about the pig who played Babe

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Howard Ramos @somardrawoh.bsky.social · 12d

JOB @westernu.ca -Sociology - Assistant Professor (Health and the Life Course or Work and the Economy). Please send widely to anyone that might be interested. Happy to answer any Qs about it if you DM or email.

csn-rec.ca/job-postings...

TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE OR WORK AND THE ECONOMY - Department of Sociology, Western University

csn-rec.ca

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Rafiuddin (Rafi) Najam @rnajam.bsky.social · 12d

Exciting news. We are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Public Policy. Focus areas: environmental policy, international development, or poverty.
Link:
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Submission Deadline: November 3, 2025.
Don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions.

Assistant Professor

This position is located in the Department of Public Policy within the College of Arts and Sciences. This tenure-track position includes 40% teaching, 40% research, and 20% service to the department. ...

unc.peopleadmin.com

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