Antonn Park
@bfediting.bsky.social
Freelance editor specializing in economics and justice policy (https://www.blueflowerediting) 🏊🏾♀️ 🚴🏾♀️
Editors, check this out!
Hey, #Editors & #WritingCommunity! 👋🏻
I've topped up the scholarships for all my self-paced courses again!
There's a limited number of scholarship spots for editors and writers from marginalized groups.
They're first-come, first-serve, no questions asked.
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#AmEditing #WriterSky 💙📚
I've topped up the scholarships for all my self-paced courses again!
There's a limited number of scholarship spots for editors and writers from marginalized groups.
They're first-come, first-serve, no questions asked.
TanyaGold.com
#AmEditing #WriterSky 💙📚
November 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Editors, check this out!
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Increasing the minimum wage decreases poverty and food insufficiency.
September 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Increasing the minimum wage decreases poverty and food insufficiency.
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🚨Update: Acting USDA ERS administrator among those placed on indefinite leave over the termination of the food insecurity/hunger survey.
This was reported by Agri-Pulse and has since been confirmed to me by an internal source.
www.agri-pulse.com/articles/234...
This was reported by Agri-Pulse and has since been confirmed to me by an internal source.
www.agri-pulse.com/articles/234...
ERS administrator, others on leave over hunger survey cancellation
The Agriculture Department has placed a dozen Economic Research Service employees on leave, including the agency’s acting administrator, as it probes a leak connected with the cancellation of a househ...
www.agri-pulse.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
🚨Update: Acting USDA ERS administrator among those placed on indefinite leave over the termination of the food insecurity/hunger survey.
This was reported by Agri-Pulse and has since been confirmed to me by an internal source.
www.agri-pulse.com/articles/234...
This was reported by Agri-Pulse and has since been confirmed to me by an internal source.
www.agri-pulse.com/articles/234...
Some of the terms I've flagged for review for this MIT Press book I'm editing: shagging, wankers, gas-bagger, and seagulls on cocaine
September 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Some of the terms I've flagged for review for this MIT Press book I'm editing: shagging, wankers, gas-bagger, and seagulls on cocaine
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Why do some securities cases move from civil to criminal enforcement?
Nathan Herrman, Sara Toynbee, and Matthew Kubic (all UT Austin McCombs School of Business) join @busscholarship.bsky.social to discuss their paper "Beyond Misconduct: What Explains DOJ Involvement in SEC Enforcement?." 1/2
Nathan Herrman, Sara Toynbee, and Matthew Kubic (all UT Austin McCombs School of Business) join @busscholarship.bsky.social to discuss their paper "Beyond Misconduct: What Explains DOJ Involvement in SEC Enforcement?." 1/2
Business Scholarship Podcast - Ep.260 – Nathan Herrmann, Sara Toynbee and Matthew Kubic on...
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September 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Why do some securities cases move from civil to criminal enforcement?
Nathan Herrman, Sara Toynbee, and Matthew Kubic (all UT Austin McCombs School of Business) join @busscholarship.bsky.social to discuss their paper "Beyond Misconduct: What Explains DOJ Involvement in SEC Enforcement?." 1/2
Nathan Herrman, Sara Toynbee, and Matthew Kubic (all UT Austin McCombs School of Business) join @busscholarship.bsky.social to discuss their paper "Beyond Misconduct: What Explains DOJ Involvement in SEC Enforcement?." 1/2
"Top economists and Jerome Powell agree that Gen Z’s hiring nightmare is real—and it’s not about AI eating entry-level jobs"
finance.yahoo.com/news/top-eco...
finance.yahoo.com/news/top-eco...
Top economists and Jerome Powell agree that Gen Z’s hiring nightmare is real—and it’s not about AI eating entry-level jobs
"The U.S. labor market experience is peculiar," UBS' Paul Donovan wrote in a UBS note asking, "the kids are alright?"
finance.yahoo.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
"Top economists and Jerome Powell agree that Gen Z’s hiring nightmare is real—and it’s not about AI eating entry-level jobs"
finance.yahoo.com/news/top-eco...
finance.yahoo.com/news/top-eco...
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🚨 It's been a long time in the making, but I'm happy it's finally out!
Standing on the shoulders of giants, in this preprint we propose an avenue for theoretical development in the field of environmental (cyber)criminology with practical applications for crime analysis.
bsky.app/profile/soca...
Standing on the shoulders of giants, in this preprint we propose an avenue for theoretical development in the field of environmental (cyber)criminology with practical applications for crime analysis.
bsky.app/profile/soca...
September 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🚨 It's been a long time in the making, but I'm happy it's finally out!
Standing on the shoulders of giants, in this preprint we propose an avenue for theoretical development in the field of environmental (cyber)criminology with practical applications for crime analysis.
bsky.app/profile/soca...
Standing on the shoulders of giants, in this preprint we propose an avenue for theoretical development in the field of environmental (cyber)criminology with practical applications for crime analysis.
bsky.app/profile/soca...
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The 15th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior, sponsored by @au-spa.bsky.social, will be held July 8–9, 2026 in Cagliari, Italy! 🇮🇹
Keynote: Paolo Pinotti
Organizers: Erdal Tekin & Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua, Marco Nieddu
📅 Deadline: Mar 6, 2026
📄 Submit: www.american.edu/spa/risky-be...
Keynote: Paolo Pinotti
Organizers: Erdal Tekin & Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua, Marco Nieddu
📅 Deadline: Mar 6, 2026
📄 Submit: www.american.edu/spa/risky-be...
September 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The 15th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior, sponsored by @au-spa.bsky.social, will be held July 8–9, 2026 in Cagliari, Italy! 🇮🇹
Keynote: Paolo Pinotti
Organizers: Erdal Tekin & Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua, Marco Nieddu
📅 Deadline: Mar 6, 2026
📄 Submit: www.american.edu/spa/risky-be...
Keynote: Paolo Pinotti
Organizers: Erdal Tekin & Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua, Marco Nieddu
📅 Deadline: Mar 6, 2026
📄 Submit: www.american.edu/spa/risky-be...
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In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green?
New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g
New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g
September 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green?
New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g
New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g
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📢 Our new VoxDevLit on Organised Crime is out now!
Senior Editors @santiagotobon.bsky.social & Micaela Sviatschi @princetonecon.bsky.social review research on the roots & development impacts of organised crime.
Read & download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/or...
Senior Editors @santiagotobon.bsky.social & Micaela Sviatschi @princetonecon.bsky.social review research on the roots & development impacts of organised crime.
Read & download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/or...
Organised Crime
This VoxDevLit reviews research on the roots and development impacts of organised crime. Weak state capacity, dense local social networks, and incentives from illicit markets enable the rise and expan...
voxdev.org
September 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
📢 Our new VoxDevLit on Organised Crime is out now!
Senior Editors @santiagotobon.bsky.social & Micaela Sviatschi @princetonecon.bsky.social review research on the roots & development impacts of organised crime.
Read & download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/or...
Senior Editors @santiagotobon.bsky.social & Micaela Sviatschi @princetonecon.bsky.social review research on the roots & development impacts of organised crime.
Read & download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/or...
Visiting LA this week
September 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Visiting LA this week
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🚨 Kids LOVE fear?!🚨
Our new study led by Mihaela Taranu from the Recreational Fear Lab uncovers something surprising:
Children across all ages actively seek out scary experiences - for fun!
📄 doi.org/10.1007/s105...
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Our new study led by Mihaela Taranu from the Recreational Fear Lab uncovers something surprising:
Children across all ages actively seek out scary experiences - for fun!
📄 doi.org/10.1007/s105...
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Recreational Fear Across Childhood. A Cross-Sectional Study of Scary Activities that Children Enjoy - Child Psychiatry & Human Development
This study investigated the prevalence of children’s engagement in recreational fear activities — i.e., playful engagement with scary stimuli where both fear and enjoyment are experienced. A detailed ...
doi.org
June 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
🚨 Kids LOVE fear?!🚨
Our new study led by Mihaela Taranu from the Recreational Fear Lab uncovers something surprising:
Children across all ages actively seek out scary experiences - for fun!
📄 doi.org/10.1007/s105...
[1/🧵]
Our new study led by Mihaela Taranu from the Recreational Fear Lab uncovers something surprising:
Children across all ages actively seek out scary experiences - for fun!
📄 doi.org/10.1007/s105...
[1/🧵]
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Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics starting back up 🚨🚨TOMORROW🚨🚨 with an amazing line up of fall speakers, beginning with Obie Porteous on agricultural trade and climate change impacts in Africa
Line up here: cepr.org/events/event...
Make sure to register for the zoom link
#econsky
Line up here: cepr.org/events/event...
Make sure to register for the zoom link
#econsky
Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics
The Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics is open to those interested in academic research on the economic implications of climate-related issues.
cepr.org
September 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics starting back up 🚨🚨TOMORROW🚨🚨 with an amazing line up of fall speakers, beginning with Obie Porteous on agricultural trade and climate change impacts in Africa
Line up here: cepr.org/events/event...
Make sure to register for the zoom link
#econsky
Line up here: cepr.org/events/event...
Make sure to register for the zoom link
#econsky
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Join us in Berlin for another great Masterclass 🚨
This time, we’re hosting Andrea Weber for a two-day workshop on UI 📋
Apply by Sept 6th!
#EconSky
This time, we’re hosting Andrea Weber for a two-day workshop on UI 📋
Apply by Sept 6th!
#EconSky
Attention Berlin-based PhDs & early-career researchers!
On 23-24 October, join the RFBerlin Masterclass with Andrea Weber and get the chance to deepen your understanding of market, labour and policies.
Apply till 6 September: form.typeform.com/to/tfgOD5y3
On 23-24 October, join the RFBerlin Masterclass with Andrea Weber and get the chance to deepen your understanding of market, labour and policies.
Apply till 6 September: form.typeform.com/to/tfgOD5y3
September 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Join us in Berlin for another great Masterclass 🚨
This time, we’re hosting Andrea Weber for a two-day workshop on UI 📋
Apply by Sept 6th!
#EconSky
This time, we’re hosting Andrea Weber for a two-day workshop on UI 📋
Apply by Sept 6th!
#EconSky
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This is so cool! Any #QueerSFF writers want to take advantage of this opportunity. These are fantastic editors. #WriterSky #SFF
Want to get feedback from a professional editor on the opening pages of your #QueerSFF novel?
This year, @spacemagiccon.bsky.social has created that opportunity for you!
Submit your novel's opening pages to apply for a one-to-one session. ⬇
forms.gle/vaqPkKYwM1ex...
#RSM2025 🌈📚🪐 #WriterSky
This year, @spacemagiccon.bsky.social has created that opportunity for you!
Submit your novel's opening pages to apply for a one-to-one session. ⬇
forms.gle/vaqPkKYwM1ex...
#RSM2025 🌈📚🪐 #WriterSky
September 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This is so cool! Any #QueerSFF writers want to take advantage of this opportunity. These are fantastic editors. #WriterSky #SFF
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We usually rely on GDP, trade, or wages to study the past. This amazing paper flips the script.
It analyzes 630,000 paintings (1400-2000) to extract emotions and shows how art tracks living standards, wars, inequality, and even climate shocks.
(How is this economics? Everything is economics!)
It analyzes 630,000 paintings (1400-2000) to extract emotions and shows how art tracks living standards, wars, inequality, and even climate shocks.
(How is this economics? Everything is economics!)
September 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
We usually rely on GDP, trade, or wages to study the past. This amazing paper flips the script.
It analyzes 630,000 paintings (1400-2000) to extract emotions and shows how art tracks living standards, wars, inequality, and even climate shocks.
(How is this economics? Everything is economics!)
It analyzes 630,000 paintings (1400-2000) to extract emotions and shows how art tracks living standards, wars, inequality, and even climate shocks.
(How is this economics? Everything is economics!)
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Want to get feedback from a professional editor on the opening pages of your #QueerSFF novel?
This year, @spacemagiccon.bsky.social has created that opportunity for you!
Submit your novel's opening pages to apply for a one-to-one session. ⬇
forms.gle/vaqPkKYwM1ex...
#RSM2025 🌈📚🪐 #WriterSky
This year, @spacemagiccon.bsky.social has created that opportunity for you!
Submit your novel's opening pages to apply for a one-to-one session. ⬇
forms.gle/vaqPkKYwM1ex...
#RSM2025 🌈📚🪐 #WriterSky
September 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Want to get feedback from a professional editor on the opening pages of your #QueerSFF novel?
This year, @spacemagiccon.bsky.social has created that opportunity for you!
Submit your novel's opening pages to apply for a one-to-one session. ⬇
forms.gle/vaqPkKYwM1ex...
#RSM2025 🌈📚🪐 #WriterSky
This year, @spacemagiccon.bsky.social has created that opportunity for you!
Submit your novel's opening pages to apply for a one-to-one session. ⬇
forms.gle/vaqPkKYwM1ex...
#RSM2025 🌈📚🪐 #WriterSky
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Does #inequality affect what poor households consider "necessities"? Yes, a 🆕 study finds, with implications for understanding the decline in caloric consumption over time in #India.
Very insightful!
Paper: doi.org/10.1093/jeea...
Authors: @clement-s-bellet.bsky.social @eve-colsonsihra.bsky.social
Very insightful!
Paper: doi.org/10.1093/jeea...
Authors: @clement-s-bellet.bsky.social @eve-colsonsihra.bsky.social
Does Inequality Affect the Needs of the Poor?
Abstract. We investigate how inequality affects what is considered most necessary to purchase. Combining detailed consumption surveys in India with an inst
doi.org
September 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Does #inequality affect what poor households consider "necessities"? Yes, a 🆕 study finds, with implications for understanding the decline in caloric consumption over time in #India.
Very insightful!
Paper: doi.org/10.1093/jeea...
Authors: @clement-s-bellet.bsky.social @eve-colsonsihra.bsky.social
Very insightful!
Paper: doi.org/10.1093/jeea...
Authors: @clement-s-bellet.bsky.social @eve-colsonsihra.bsky.social
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For those still complaining -- in this day and age! -- about tables/figures at the end of the paper because it's a "hassle to scroll up and down", here's a tip.
If you click on a link on a page (e.g. to a fig/table), you can return instantly to that page by:
Preview: ⌘ + [
Adobe: ⌘ + left arrow
If you click on a link on a page (e.g. to a fig/table), you can return instantly to that page by:
Preview: ⌘ + [
Adobe: ⌘ + left arrow
August 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
For those still complaining -- in this day and age! -- about tables/figures at the end of the paper because it's a "hassle to scroll up and down", here's a tip.
If you click on a link on a page (e.g. to a fig/table), you can return instantly to that page by:
Preview: ⌘ + [
Adobe: ⌘ + left arrow
If you click on a link on a page (e.g. to a fig/table), you can return instantly to that page by:
Preview: ⌘ + [
Adobe: ⌘ + left arrow
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Interesting long read in the @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
Opinion | Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Interesting long read in the @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
Switching it up a bit today: proofreading Federal Reserve transcripts on using FRED instead of my usual copyedits 🤓
August 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Switching it up a bit today: proofreading Federal Reserve transcripts on using FRED instead of my usual copyedits 🤓
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The preliminary program has been posted for the 2026 ASSA / American Economic Association / American Finance Association / etc. meetings in Philadelphia January 3-5 2026
www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...
www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...
American Economic Association
www.aeaweb.org
August 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The preliminary program has been posted for the 2026 ASSA / American Economic Association / American Finance Association / etc. meetings in Philadelphia January 3-5 2026
www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...
www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...
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📢 Organised crime is not a marginal security issue — it is a core development challenge.
At our VoxDevLit launch event (Sept 11), Santiago Tobon & Maria Micaela Sviatschi will summarise research on the roots & development impacts of organised crime.
Register ➡️ cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
At our VoxDevLit launch event (Sept 11), Santiago Tobon & Maria Micaela Sviatschi will summarise research on the roots & development impacts of organised crime.
Register ➡️ cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
August 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
📢 Organised crime is not a marginal security issue — it is a core development challenge.
At our VoxDevLit launch event (Sept 11), Santiago Tobon & Maria Micaela Sviatschi will summarise research on the roots & development impacts of organised crime.
Register ➡️ cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
At our VoxDevLit launch event (Sept 11), Santiago Tobon & Maria Micaela Sviatschi will summarise research on the roots & development impacts of organised crime.
Register ➡️ cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Three ingredients for a perfect Fluffernutter: white bread, Fluff of course (made in Lynn, MA), and Teddie peanut butter (made in Everett, MA). Picked up the latter two on my trip back to Boston last week 🤌🏾
August 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Three ingredients for a perfect Fluffernutter: white bread, Fluff of course (made in Lynn, MA), and Teddie peanut butter (made in Everett, MA). Picked up the latter two on my trip back to Boston last week 🤌🏾
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At last! 🎉 After years in the making, my paper with Manuel Fernandez & @marcogn.bsky.social is out as an IZA Discussion Paper.
We ask: Can better streets boost property tax compliance? 🚧💰 If so, why?
We answer this with an RCT in Mexico + a model of tax compliance.
docs.iza.org/dp18082.pdf
At last! 🎉 After years in the making, my paper with Manuel Fernandez & @marcogn.bsky.social is out as an IZA Discussion Paper.
We ask: Can better streets boost property tax compliance? 🚧💰 If so, why?
We answer this with an RCT in Mexico + a model of tax compliance.
docs.iza.org/dp18082.pdf
August 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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At last! 🎉 After years in the making, my paper with Manuel Fernandez & @marcogn.bsky.social is out as an IZA Discussion Paper.
We ask: Can better streets boost property tax compliance? 🚧💰 If so, why?
We answer this with an RCT in Mexico + a model of tax compliance.
docs.iza.org/dp18082.pdf
At last! 🎉 After years in the making, my paper with Manuel Fernandez & @marcogn.bsky.social is out as an IZA Discussion Paper.
We ask: Can better streets boost property tax compliance? 🚧💰 If so, why?
We answer this with an RCT in Mexico + a model of tax compliance.
docs.iza.org/dp18082.pdf