Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Stephan Maurer

@stephanmaurer.bsky.social

4.2K followers 1.4K following 600 posts

Economist by day, Civil War historian by night. University of Edinburgh, UPF-BSM, and CEP. Author of "Die Schlacht von Gettysburg": amzn.eu/d/epEJdVz Personal webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/stephanernstmaurer/

sites.google.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Reposted by Stephan Maurer

David Schindler @david-schindler.de · 23h

This will make the academic job market basically non-existent for non-US citizens. And job ads in Europe are down too. This will be a tough year to be on the market for many people. I encourage everyone to keep their eyes open for jobs posted in non-traditional channels.

Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 1d

Two new colleagues fortunately had applied shortly before and received h1b. But university now apparently saying for new searches to only consider people with existing work permits/citizenship

7 8

Reposted by Stephan Maurer

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 2d

Occasionally you come across the odd screenshot from LinkedIn and realize where ChatGPT got its cringe

1 6 71

Reposted by Stephan Maurer

Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 2d

So today's Substack about the impact of tariffs concluded:

"in many ways the level of the tariffs is less important than the huge uncertainty Trump’s policies have created. And that uncertainty hasn’t abated at all."

Ya don't say. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/leprechaun...

Leprechauns, Effective Tariffs and Inflation

Yes, tariffs are hurting us. No, Trump wasn’t right.

paulkrugman.substack.com

18 120 490

Reposted by Stephan Maurer

T. J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 2d

Doomscrolling break!
I imagine every historian has a list of Most Neglected Aspect of History. I welcome them in the replies. Here's a thread on my candidate:

The California steamship lines from 1849–1869, during the gold rush until the first transcontinental railroad's completion.

My case:
🧵
1/15

13 23 71

Reposted by Stephan Maurer

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

310 540 4.1K

Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 3d

Well, "initally" as per Zielbild 2035.

Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 3d

Also further evidence for recent rumors that they're going for 8 ships, rather than the initially planned 6...

Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 3d

Not too shabby as far as conference venues go...

Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 5d

Adding another one: Distributing public housing widely across cities, rather than clustering it in few areas.

Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 7d

High-quality and free pre-tertiary education

1 3

Reposted by Stephan Maurer

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 10d

Have we passed peak social media? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com here www.ft.com/content/a072...

30 130 470

Reposted by Stephan Maurer

Monika Schnitzer @monika-schnitzer.com · 9d

Post von @mikezaccardi.bsky.social
Top 10 companies by decade:
None from 1995 are in today's Big 10

5 19

Reposted by Stephan Maurer

IAB @iabnews.bsky.social · 11d

🌍 Haben oder Nichthaben: Chancengleichheit und sozialer Aufstieg 🔎 Eine aktuelle OECD-Studie wirft einen Blick auf die Frage, inwieweit wirtschaftliche Ungleichheit von Startbedingungen beeinflusst wird, die die Menschen nicht kontrollieren können. (1/3)

1 3 3

Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 10d

I was today years old when I learned that Johnny Cash covered Springsteen's Highway Patrolman

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FZl...

Highway Patrolman

YouTube video by Johnny Cash - Topic

www.youtube.com

Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 15d

Gibt ja auch einige Userszenarien, teilweise sehr gut gemacht (Baton Rouge, Prairie Grove, Helena, Langensalza, Nuits...)

1 1

Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 15d

Kommt bei mir auch so ungefähr hin, war eines meiner ersten Spiele überhaupt und immer noch eines meiner Lieblinge. Die Kampagnen sind sehr rundimentär und mit wenig Optionen, die Verluste werden schnell unrealistisch hoch, aber das Gameplay ist einfach cool und die OrBats gut recherchiert.

1 1

Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 15d

Vorsicht, in Podol sind ein paar Kompanien der Brigade Poschacher verschanzt!

1 1

Reposted by Stephan Maurer

Joshua Conrad Jackson @joshcjackson.bsky.social · 16d

🚨New preprint🚨

osf.io/preprints/ps...

In a sample of ~2 billion comments, social media discourse becomes more negative over time

Archival and experimental findings suggest this is a byproduct of people trying to differentiate themselves

Led by @hongkai1.bsky.social in his 1st year (!) of his PhD

2 12 42

Reposted by Stephan Maurer

Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · Dec 5

"Political Representation Gaps and Populism", by Laurenz Guenther, is definitely one of my favourite (descriptive) papers of this year! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

2 6 12

Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 17d

The updated version of our paper on the historical dynamics of the Great Gatsby Curve is now available as a @excinequality.bsky.social Working Paper:

kops.uni-konstanz.de/entities/pub...

#EconSky

The Short and Long Run Dynamics of the Great Gatsby Curve

kops.uni-konstanz.de

2 3

Reposted by Stephan Maurer

Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 19d

Extra funding to attract US faculty and postdoctoral researchers to Heidelberg and other universities in Germany‘s southwestern state Baden-Württemberg (less cool than Berlin but prettier and, uh, richer).

DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 19d

Wissenschaftler haben es in den USA derzeit schwer. Baden-Württemberg will das nutzen und investiert knapp 24 Millionen Euro, auch um Forscher aus Harvard abzuwerben.

Baden-Württemberg will US-Nachwuchsforscher nach Heidelberg locken

Wissenschaftler haben es in den USA derzeit schwer. Baden-Württemberg will das nutzen und investiert knapp 24 Millionen Euro, auch um Forscher aus Harvard abzuwerben.

www.spiegel.de

2 8 14

Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 19d

And even less given that presumably inside the cost for these frigates somewhere is the cost of US-made AEGIS.

Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 19d

The projected 26b for the F127 might contain AEGIS though, no?

1 1

Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 19d

Worth noting though this only covers the $83b planned thru Dec 26 — so excludes US orders already placed (F-35s) or rumored for the more distant future (P-8s, more F-35s). So maybe not as big a paradigm shift in procurement as implied by the Politico article.

www.politico.eu/article/germ...

1 3

Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 20d

Time for this classic:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BCX...