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Fábio M. V. Sousa
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PhD Student @ AMBS.
Focus in Empirical Corporate Finance.
🇵🇹 Azorean living in Manchester 🇬🇧

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The 11th International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS) Conference will be held at @alliancembs.bsky.social from October 18 to 19, 2025.

For more details, visit:
www.alliancembs.manchester.ac.uk/events/inter...

I am very happy to be volunteering at this event.

#Finance #Governance #Manchester
August 1, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Congratulations to our Best Abstract Winners Fabio, Weifeng, Tunde-Success and Jiahui at the 2025 AMBS Doctoral Conference!

Amazing work 😀!
@alliancembs.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I’m honoured to have received the Best Abstract Prize at the AMBS Doctoral Conference 2025.

I’m grateful for the incredibly supportive research environment at Alliance Manchester Business School, and the guidance of my supervisors - Amedeo De Cesari and Konstantinos Stathopoulos.
June 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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"Trump called Bezos to complain about report that Amazon planned to list tariff costs on site" -The Guardian

Seems like a good time to repost this:
April 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Polling shows that Canadians are intrigued by the idea of ​​joining the EU.

But could they? 🧐

EU scholars say such a gambit is unlikely to succeed — but it's not actually impossible.
Could Canada join the EU? Unlikely … but not impossible.
EU scholars say Canada has the right vibe for Brussels — but there would be some major hurdles blocking a membership bid.
www.politico.eu
April 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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weird how this keeps happening
January 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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It's all very in character, isn't it? First praise the AfD, then retweet people saying that actually Hitler was the good guy in WWII (not Churchill), then give a Nazi salute live on cam.
January 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Wild idea, but maybe the world would be improved somewhat if we stopped rewarding edgelords with attention and column inches
January 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"It is a dream scandal for those **exploiting it**. Either they secure their demand for a new national inquiry, to then be further milked, or they can cry cover-up. And it plays to a ***wider agenda of smashing faith in the institutions*** of liberal society."

Highlights (***) are my own.
Opinion: The sudden sanctimonious concern among Elon Musk and politicians of the right for a subset of child rape victims is beyond cynical. But the flare-up tells us something vital. www.ft.com/content/be1f...
January 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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SCOOP: Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months.

Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content", Meta said they are fixing this “error” after I reached out for comment.
Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months
Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content"
www.usermag.co
January 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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PhD SCHOLARSHIP ALERT!! Fantastic opportunity to work with Dr Silvia Avram & Dr Laura Fumagalli - using new data to understand more about households living in debt - with the Money and Pensions Service. www.senss.ac.uk/collaborativ...
January 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
If you have a #Facebook account, consider deleting it.

I’m glad I left that network 3 years ago.
Calling women ‘household objects’ now permitted on Facebook after Meta updated its guidelines | CNN Business
Meta on Tuesday announced sweeping changes to how it moderates content that will roll out in the coming months, including doing away with professional fact checking. But the company also quietly updat...
www.cnn.com
January 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature
We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...
www.nature.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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**New working paper**

How does the under-representation of females in Economics affect the career trajectory of female Ph.D. students?

Sahar Parsa and I look at this in a new working paper by exploring sabbatical leaves taken by female professors at top-50 US Econ departments.
January 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Pleased to announce the launch of my official Bluesky account as EC Chief Spokesperson!

This will be another go-to space for important updates from the Spokesperson service.

Because communicating the EU to citizens requires diversification of channels and platforms!
January 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Very timely comment. Please, read the full thread for context, diagnosis, and policy recommendations.
As a result, we have a new phenomenon: news deserts, which are areas where communities lack access to credible local news sources, once again damaging democracy and civic citizenship: cmpf.eui.eu/news-deserts...
January 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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useful summary via Politico
January 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I am not surprised by the outcome, only by the speed by which it was reached.
The final boss of the oldest rule of Ukip/Brexit/Reform politics: 'Nigel always wins'.
Elon is absolutely speed-running this.
January 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Was thrilled to learn that @larsvil.bsky.social has a tutorial on reproducibility! Check it out, #EconSky.

larsvilhuber.github.io/tutorial-rep...
Tutorial reproducibility
larsvilhuber.github.io
January 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Completing the daily To-Do list before night, feels so good. I even had time to reply to some random emails, and go over two list of @nberpubs.bsky.social abstracts.
January 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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The Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes has resigned from her position at the Washington Post after her cartoon depicting Jeff Bezos and other billionaires genuflecting toward Trump was killed.

Her piece here: https://bit.ly/3Pk1g07
January 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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It seems everyday there is a fresh reminder why it was I left Elon Musk’s X for good.

Musk has a cheek to talk about the ‘security’ of the UK when he is clearly hell bent on wrecking it.

Musk’s influence on UK politics will make everyone worse off, apart from him. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
X under Musk is like a toxic partner, MP says in ‘break-up letter’
Labour’s Sarah Owen has joined a list of MPs leaving Elon Musk’s platform over its rise in misogyny, threats and intimidation
www.thetimes.com
January 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It seems that there is an ongoing trend on @bsky.app of fake accounts portraying themselves as financial economists.

These fake users will try to sell crypto related services via DM.

If someone DM you and tries to talk about crypto, it’s not me. Just block and report.
December 31, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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The Claus Hypothesis
December 25, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Dear All,

Season’s Greetings! May the New Year bring you Happiness, Health, and Success.

Cheers 🎉
December 20, 2024 at 2:29 PM