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Yann de Mey
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Associate Professor in Agricultural Business Economics @WUR, interested in agricultural risk analysis | @AgEconMeet | 🇧🇪 living in 🇳🇱 | Feminist
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I usually do it like that too. Coincidentally, I wrote a referee report *while* reading a paper yesterday evening and I must say that it saved me a lot of time
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As far as high-profile academics moving out of Trump's America goes, it doesn't get more high-profile than this.

🇺🇸 → 🇨🇭
We are thrilled to welcome Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee as the new Lemann Foundation Professors to our department, beginning in the summer of 2026.
Exiting moment for any economist: when your kids learn about money in school 😁 #econsky
Had the privilege to catch Refused on their goodbye tour yesterday. What a blast! It’s rare to see a band with such energy, style blending, and political and audience engagement 11/10 #RefusedAreReallyFckingDead
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Just published 🌱:
We dug into 16 million+ field records across Central Europe to find out what drives farmers’ crop rotation choices.
Turns out past cropping, agronomic advice, and legume prices matter a lot and legumes are likely to play a much bigger role in the future👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...
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The only kind of gang activity we get to see around #Wegeningen
Works like a charm on anything you throw at it! But of course always double check manually and make final edits if needed
Great use case of ClaudeAI or ChatGPT: to transfer equations from a textbook to PowerPoint slides I just take a picture and ask for Latex code that can be plugged into the equation editor and converted into a perfect vector-based equation!
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Bluesky @bsky.app · Sep 8
v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚

Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!

Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
Greatly looking forward to the next AgEconMeet session with Marc Bellemare in two weeks
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Today's ChatGPT use case: give it Stata code and have it draft a methodology section based on it. A straightforward yet somewhat time-consuming task to do manually.

Bonus: if the writeup doesn't match what you THINK you did, it may be due to an error in your code that you didn't catch.

#EconSky
Just received a physical copy of the dissertation of one of my own PhD students via the internal mail system … from the other side of the building 🤣 (one elevator ride away). Gotta love bureaucracy 👏
In Stata it is a bit more intuitive: # specifies an interaction term between two variables and ## specifies a full factorial, including the main effects of each variable and their interaction term
Cool! Please share link here 😁
We ended with a nice interactive discussion 👍 it was a 10/10 session in my view 💪🏻
I focused on two things that stood out during the coding: 1) a major role for policy uncertainty and 2) introspective answers by a sub-group (9%) of respondents
This was A LOT of work, as we manually coded an open question detailing protest motivations, and then converged on a joint coding scheme across the 4 countries
Final day of the #EAAE2025! Kicking it off with an organized session on analyzing farmers’ voices in the farmer protests. Great way to showcase the work we did in DE-FR-BE-NL in a great team led by Doris Läpple
Very cool keynote by prof Anna Dreber about the replicability crisis and potential solutions 🙏 #EAAE2025
We had a nice session this morning about “What the EAAE can do for early career agecons”! #EAAE2025
The BEC group is well represented at the #EAAE2025, with 20 participants 🕺
FADN >> FSDN session at #EAAE2025. Nice to see the future dataset I will be using a lot ☺️ I was in particular impressed with the DIB linked database which will cover all relevant farm practices linked to policy at the farm level to FSDN!
You inadvertently captured today’s keynote at the bottom of this picture as well 👀🤣