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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...
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Many thanks to Paolo Roberti for having given me the opportunity to take part in this workshop: it was amazing, I learnt a lot from all participants and had the opportunity to finally meet in person many colleagues whom so far, I only knew through their great papers.
If you work in, study at, or an alumnus of a U.S. university, it is a good time to contact your school's leadership to insist on taking a stand against government overreach.
This is important. More than 700 Harvard faculty, with diverse views, have now signed a letter urging the university administration to "publicly condemn attacks on universities," "legally contest and refuse to comply with unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom" and +
Noteworthy that the protest organizers give info about the # of people who pledged to participate - in advance. It's a good way to communicate that there will be saftey in numbers.
Submissions for our 2025 ESA European Meeting are now open!
Send your abstract by May 5 and join us in September in Brno
@econmuni.bsky.social More info:👇 esa2025.econ.muni.cz #econtwitter #econsky
There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
"Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say it. That’s why I resigned."
Mathematics Professor Kit Yates quits as associate editor of the Royal Society’s journal Open Science
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Just heard that Trump is putting an end to atmospheric monitoring site NY67 that is run out of my lab. This is one of the oldest NADP sites in the US, continually measuring acid rain and other pollutants since 1977. Closing it down is tragic.
This is extremely concerning.
Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...
"We can heal the sick and save children’s lives, all inexpensively... We properly honor a firefighter who saves a single child, but three cheers for us as taxpayers for rescuing millions of children around the world from AIDS, starvation and disease.
That is, until January."
-- Nick Kristof
The second are those who see the creation of a solid international State as the main purpose; they will direct popular forces toward this goal, and, having won national power, will use it first and foremost as an instrument for achieving international unity."
... and who, although involuntarily, play into the hands of reactionary forces, letting the incandescent lava of popular passions set in the old moulds, and thus allowing old absurdities to arise once again. ...
...rather the division falls along the line, very new and substantial, that separates the party members into two groups. The first is made up of those who conceive the essential purpose and goal of struggle as the ancient one, that is, the conquest of national political power...
Manifesto di Ventotene, 1941. "The dividing line between progressive and reactionary parties no longer follows the formal line of greater or lesser democracy, or of more or less socialism to be instituted; ...
INRAE, my employer, a French public research centre, **officially** takes position in defense of Science in the USA and Stand Up for Science with a direct message from our CEO.
INRAE also works to put in place positions for colleagues leaving the US.
I am so very proud of this. Scientists Unite!
Can Europe become a safe haven for researchers, much as the United States once was for scholars fleeing totalitarian regimes in the 20th century? www.lefigaro.fr/marseille/fa...
Support for Ukraine at "Your contribution squared" is up and up ↗️: 100 people who each give at least 100€.
The bang for the buck, ↗️ even more: only a single step (e.g., to 101) moves the total by more than 200€.
An opportunity to be effective. Please pass it on.
yourcontributionsquared.eu
ex-US Ambassador to Denmark
“Americans are going to learn really quickly what it’s like to be politically isolated. We are burning bridges with our best friends. And let’s be clear: Russia and Saudi Arabia will never be our real friends. These are transactional relationships at best.”
Democracy dies in deference
Why Dean Karlan, Chief Economist of USAID resigned yesterday:
"I was ready to rebuild from wherever we ended up to identify the most effective programs, figure out how to get them back in place, and to recommend new awards.
But I received no response. Zero engagement."
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Today we published this page in @larepubblica.bsky.social and @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social saying no to ethnic cleansing in Gaza and in the West Bank. Jews in Italy count only 30.000 community members, plus an imprecise number who "identify as"...
Humbled to be joining the great keynote lineup at ESA European Meeting. Huge thanks to @milosfisar.bsky.social and all the organizers. Excited to learn, share, and grow together—hope to see you there!
Submissions for the UNIBO Young economists workshop on social economy now open!
Full info here:
x.com/DSE_Unibo/st...
...Quando l’esporsi e il rischiare, nell’osservazione e nel dibattito pubblico, sono necessari per poter intravedere “tutto ciò che non si sa o che si tace”. Prima che sia troppo tardi." Davvero: prima che sia troppo tardi.
