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fbrady @fbrady.bsky.social · 8h

i always feel smarter after having read @undercoverhist.bsky.social. congratulations to the nobelistas! theundercoverhistorian.substack.com/p/what-does-...

What does a Nobel Prize on ‘innovation-driven economic growth’ actually reward?

A historian's perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy

theundercoverhistorian.substack.com

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 9h

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
#EconSky

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 9h

Excellent essay!

It rebuts Marxist pessimism about the anti-monopoly movement, highlights the importance of contesting Capital's control of economic production, and ties it all into the recent failures of the movement (particularly wrt. the recent anti-monopolisation case against Google).

Marshall Steinbaum @econmarshall.bsky.social · 10h

I have a new piece in @lpeblog.bsky.social

“Anti-monopolism as an Ideology of the Left”

responding to @gabrielwinant.bsky.social’s “provocation.”

lpeproject.org/blog/anti-mo...

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 9h

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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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 11h

Once again: this is also happening in DC. Still.

It feels like we’ve been forgotten, maybe because there aren’t huge confrontations to run photos of. But our neighbors are still being taken every day. Routine traffic stops are now done by 12+ feds alongside local police.

Please talk about us too.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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fbrady @fbrady.bsky.social · 21h

some good discussion of join validation 👀

Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 1d

I finally made the switch to R from stata, and as a fierce long-time defender of stata, I can concede that R is leagues better in almost every way.

Still, I do wish there was an easier way to diagnose merges w/o complicated code. GPT hasn't helped, and joyn doesn't seem to do it right. Any advice?

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Jenny TP @jennytpgrows.bsky.social · 1d

#FoodStudies #EconSky #AcademicSky
Can anyone one help me track down a paper that quantifies the benefit of spending £1 in a local business over a big or multinational in the UK?
I read something that showed (ish) local spend =£5 to local economy & supermarket=40p but I can't find the source

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

UVA school of data science is hiring this year—searches are open to folks from all disciplines. We need humanists & social scientists to teach ethics/data & society courses + do research that supports school’s mission to be holistic in the study of data science: datascience.virginia.edu/faculty-jobs

Faculty Jobs — School of Data Science

School of Data Science at the University of Virginia.

datascience.virginia.edu

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

The Friends of BLS steering committee is sponsoring a member webinar noon to 1pm ET Thurs, Oct 23.

We aim to build nonpartisan support for a strong BLS & need your perspectives & energy.

Former Commissioners @ericagroshen.bsky.social, William Beach, & @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social will...
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fbrady @fbrady.bsky.social · 1d

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

Fighting Trump’s immigration blitz in Chicago, ward by ward. A story from @jake-sheridan.bsky.social @chicagotribune.com about aldermen opposing ICE www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/t...

Fighting Trump’s immigration blitz in Chicago, ward by ward

Some Chicago aldermen are adding new duties: getting tear-gassed and handcuffed, organizing legions of volunteers, and standing guard near elementary schools.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

Show Up Chicago Monday 10/27

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 1d

New blog post!

Let's say you have two measures meant to capture the same confounder. They're highly correlated. Can you still proceed with your regression analysis?

(I admit, the title is a bit of a spoiler)

www.the100.ci/2025/10/13/i...

If you have two measures of the same confounder, you can just include both of them in your regression model

Sometimes, researchers worry about multicollinearity in situations where it’s actually a non-issue. Here’s one such scenario. Imagine a situation where you are interested in the effect of X on Y (X...

www.the100.ci

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

"prisoners eligible in the program are 4.5 percentage points (14%) less likely to reoffend over a period of three years. The program also increases earnings, though only for native and older prisoners, and enhances stable housing and personal relationships. "

Prison Rehabilitation Programs, Recidivism, and Labor Market Outcomes

Presented by Maddalena Totarelli, member of the Junior Faculty at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU).

Thursday October 16, 1 - 2 p.m. ET

To receive the Zoom link for this seminar, please click here to register.

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of the Rehabilitation & Reintegration initiative, a prison-based job training and skills development program, on recidivism, labor market, and social outcomes. I use a difference-in-differences strategy to assess the causal impact of the program, introduced in the Netherlands in 2007. Drawing on rich administrative data from Statistics Netherlands and the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security, I find that prisoners eligible in the program are 4.5 percentage points (14%) less likely to reoffend over a period of three years. The program also increases earnings, though only for native and older prisoners, and enhances stable housing and personal relationships. My results highlight the potential of rehabilitation programs in facilitating the successful reintegration of former prisoners into society.

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Patricia Aufderheide @paufder.bsky.social · 1d

In These Times’ labor coverage is really good. Didn’t realize Admin is refusing payroll deductions for union dues and cancelled union contracts for a range of agencies: inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

The Answer to Trump’s Anti-Worker Shutdown Is Solidarity and Labor Militancy

The GOP’s assault on federal employees amid the government shutdown is far more extreme than Reagan’s PATCO union busting. The labor movement needs a more effective response this time.

inthesetimes.com

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 2d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 3d

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

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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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 3d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_A...

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Mark G. Sheppard @markgsheppard.com · 4d

Even without jobs data, Google Search Results for "Unemployment Benefits" being at a post-Covid high is probably —and I hate to use such labor econ/technical jargon here, but it's probably— "not good."

#EconSky

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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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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 4d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Laura K Gee @laurakgee.bsky.social · 4d

Want to reduce sexual harassment in MA higher ed? Sign up NOW to testify either remotely or in person Thur Oct 16 2025 for this bill I’ve been advocating for!

ACTION: Choose H.4113 from the menu of bills. The deadline to register is Tuesday, October 14, by 5 PM. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 4d

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.

And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 4d

Timeline cleanse: Bernie the Rescue Rat chomping a tortilla.

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fbrady @fbrady.bsky.social · 4d

decent run tbh!

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