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Jörg Oechssler
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Professor of Economics, University of Heidelberg
http://oechssler.uni-hd.de/
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Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · Mar 3
After Trump´s disgraceful behavior last week, we thought we need to do something to help Ukraine directly. And you can help too…
georgweizsaecker.bsky.social Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · Mar 3
If one person gives a euro to Ukraine, the result is €1.

If two people give 2 each, it is €4.

If 3,000 give 3,000 each, it is 9 million.

Let’s coordinate, here 👇

and please re-post to spread the word.

yourcontributionsquared.eu/en/
Your Contribution Squared
yourcontributionsquared.eu
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markfabian.bsky.social
Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.
bartoszbartk.com Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d
I'm still relatively new to this journal associate editor business, but it already sucks… I've had a paper on my desk for more than a month now:

Reviewers invited: 12
Of those…
Declined: 5
No response: 7
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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paolocrosetto.bsky.social
So it's back to the lab! And we are ready in Grenoble since we did not dismantle them, we rather invested in better subject pool recruitment and management.
joshmccrain.bsky.social Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 8d
new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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manoel-bittencourt.bsky.social
Heidelberg, Germany, from the castle, on a Friday evening.
November 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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jku-economics.bsky.social
🚨JOB OPENING🚨

JKU Linz is hiring an Assistant Professor in Microeconomics (non-tenure track, 6 years).

The target date for applications is Nov 15, the hard deadline Nov 20.
Please share within your network!

Job ad and application (requires EJM login): econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
A staggering statistic: "North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year." What are we doing?
hansonmark.bsky.social Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 15d
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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georgweizsaecker.bsky.social
14 postdoc fellowships for 2yrs, in Freiburg, Tübingen or Konstanz
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15d
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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sebkranz.bsky.social
Here is a rock song "HC1 Heartbreak" (MP3 and Lyrics)

econ.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/aisongs/hc1_...

based on my research paper arxiv.org/abs/2411.14763 on robust standard errors and large scale methodological replications. Made with Suno and ChatGPT. AI amazes me again and again.
From Replications to Revelations: Heteroskedasticity-Robust Inference
Analysing the Stata regression commands from 4,420 reproduction packages of leading economic journals, we find that, among the 40,571 regressions specifying heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors, ...
arxiv.org
November 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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tfwerner.com
📣 New paper! "Delegate Pricing Decisions to an Algorithm? Experimental Evidence" with @normann.bsky.social, Nina Rulié, & @ostypa.bsky.social

We study what happens when humans delegate to a collusive algorithm, and AI pricing adoption becomes a strategic choice!

arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2510.27636
Delegate Pricing Decisions to an Algorithm? Experimental Evidence
We analyze the delegation of pricing by participants, representing firms, to a collusive, self-learning algorithm in a repeated Bertrand experiment. In the baseline treatment, participants set prices ...
arxiv.org
November 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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sweiwang.bsky.social
great idea. i would be glad to do the same for PhD students/postdocs working on behavioral/experimental economics. #econsky
joshua-goodman.com Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 27d
I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world.

If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.
October 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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mbigoni.bsky.social
🚨 Job Market Alert 🚨

The Department of Economics of the University of Bologna invites applications for a fixed-term Assistant Professor position
**any field**
starting AY 2026/27.

📅 Apply by Nov 10

💼 6-year contract, low teaching load, no Italian required.

Info: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
October 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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joshgans.bsky.social
New paper by Rivera Mora & @philippstrack.bsky.social Strack challenges everything we thought we knew about mechanism design beyond expected utility. The results are wild. 🤯
Paper: "Mechanism Design Beyond Expected Utility Preferences" (Sept 2025) static1.squarespace.com/static/62d2f...
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October 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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impartialspectator.bsky.social
A useful summary.

aethermug.com/posts/famous...
Famous Cognitive Psychology Experiments that Failed to Replicate
A quick reference
aethermug.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
oechssler.bsky.social
Deadline coming up tomorrow! Join us in Heidelberg.
October 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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richardtol.bsky.social
Some more words on Energy Economics open.substack.com/pub/richardt...
Autopsy
Lessons for editors
open.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 6:22 AM
oechssler.bsky.social
We have an opening for a professorship in Heidelberg in labor economics, political economy, or more generally in applied micro. Please share!
Full Professorship (W3) in “Labor Markets / New Political Economy” (f/m/d) | INOMICS
The position is to be filled by the Winter Semester 2026/27 at the Alfred-Weber-Institute for Economics of Heidelberg University.The successful candidate will have an outstanding and internationally v...
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September 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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robertoweber.bsky.social
Anyone living in the US should be horrified by the administration's use of government power & threats to target people whose opinions they don't like. They may be going after comedians for now, but if you think you are safe in your academic, corporate, or journalistic job, you are fooling yourself.
karaswisher.bsky.social Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · Sep 18
I am actually sad to have to say this since I have admired much about Disney CEO Bob Iger over the years, but what a profoundly quisling move this is by someone who knows better. It’s shameful and he has tarnished his once proud reputation.
September 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
oechssler.bsky.social
Nice summary.
Americans have 400 days to save their democracy | Timothy Garton Ash
I never thought I’d see fear spread so far and fast. Next year’s midterm elections are now crucial for the Democratic party – and for democrats everywhere, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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richardtol.bsky.social
All is not well at Elsevier richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...
Fraud and cover-up
Fraud and cover-up
richardtol.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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christinafelfe.bsky.social
### Full Professorship in Applied Economics - 1 week left to apply ###

Succesful candidates will enjoy 3 positions at once - professorship at the UKonstanz, PI at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” and the directorship of TWI!
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/a...
Full Professorship (W3) in Applied Economics
Deadline: 15.09.2025
stellen.uni-konstanz.de
September 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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michaelchwe.bsky.social
Please sign our open letter demanding that the Univ of California reject the malicious attacks from the Trump admin tinyurl.com/ucstandup
Home
Please forward this letter widely at https://tinyurl.com/ucstandup
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August 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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rahmstorf.bsky.social
As in Germany!
August 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
oechssler.bsky.social
This new ranking by Google Scholar looks somewhat reasonable. But I have never heard of the "International Review of Economics & Finance" and the "International Journal of Finance & Economics".
scholar.google.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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p-hunermund.com
Der Wissenschaftsrat geht hier mit dem niederländischen Modell einen m.M.n. völlig falschen Weg. 2–3 Jahre nach der Promotion kann sich niemand schon in seinem wissenschaftl. Feld etabliert haben. Statt das Rad neu erfinden zu wollen, sollte man auf das internationale Tenure-Track-System setzen.
jmwiarda.bsky.social Jan-Martin Wiarda @jmwiarda.bsky.social · Jul 14
Schluss mit "Up or Out"
Der Wissenschaftsrat erklärt Dauerstellen zum Regelfall. Ein Paukenschlag vor der Novelle des Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetzes. Im Interview erklären Wolfgang Wick und Insa Großkraumbach, was das bedeutet.
Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/07...
July 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM