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Georg Weizsäcker
@georgweizsaecker.bsky.social
Microeconomist, Behavioral Economist, Author of "Misunderstandings: False Beliefs in Communication"
Gratuliere!
February 9, 2026 at 4:39 PM
The sheer size of the child penalty in labor markets (worldwide) makes it so important. Here's a new study digging deeper.

@jonasjessen.bsky.social @kinnelavinia.bsky.social
Why the motherhood penalty persists: Our analysis shows that declines in general competencies like numeracy account for at most 10% of the long-term child penalty in earnings, suggesting that gender norms, not skill depreciation, remain the primary driver of inequality.
The Earnings Gap Isn’t a Skill Gap: Labor Market Skills Don’t Explain the “Child Penalty”
Jessen, Kinne & Battisti: "Child penalties in labour market skills" European Economic Review, Volume 184 (2026)
190researchblog.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:54 PM
A top conference series
📢 The Call for Papers for the 𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀, organized by @klaus-m-schmidt.bsky.social & Ernst Fehr is now open!
Keynotes: Supreet Kaur & @philippstrack.bsky.social
📆 𝟮𝟯 - 𝟮𝟰 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
ℹ️https://www.ifo.de/cesifo/f9G

In cooperation with @rationalitycrc.bsky.social
February 9, 2026 at 11:29 AM
May be a question for political scientists: are there many countries where a head of the government comments names individual citizens who disagree with him/her? Some (good) reason appears to keep them from doing it, normally.
February 9, 2026 at 8:35 AM
Reposted by Georg Weizsäcker
1/Universities need to systematically address the findings in the Epstein files. In my opinion, every university in which current or past faculty, administrators, trustees appear in the files, should establish formal bodies to review and assess.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
A $50,000 Watch and Friendly Notes: One College Leader’s Ties to Epstein
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Reposted by Georg Weizsäcker
It’s been a year since this post. Life is…so different now.

Yet, I’m sitting here on my living room floor, with my cold coffee, in the same robe, playing with my beautiful son. Just like I was when I wrote this.

@standupforscience.bsky.social started with a skeet and an idea.
Can’t believe I’m typing this but…

FUCK IT IM PLANNING A STAND UP FOR SCIENCE PROTEST IN DC.

If you want to be involved, be dm me. I’m nervous, I’ve never done this before, but we gotta be the change we want to see in the world.
IF YOU KNOW IF ANYONE PLANNING A SCIENCE RELATED PROTEST IN DC, PLEASE DM ME!
February 8, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Link to article text for headline👇🏼

www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news...
Industrial heat is one of the hardest parts of the energy transition.

This sand battery is now delivering fossil-free heat for industry, storing renewable electricity as high-temperature heat and releasing it when needed. Simple idea, big impact.
February 8, 2026 at 1:10 PM
This cartoon is titled "Aid to #Ukraine"

A picture is worth a thousand words

#UkrainianView
February 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Ganz einfache Lösung: ETS nicht aufweichen
February 7, 2026 at 4:08 PM
But the bureaucracy!

bsky.app/profile/robe...
The Trump family pockets a cool half billion dollars in order to turn over a technology in which US taxpayers invested tens of billions to the Emiratis—against the advice of the national security community. And US media decides it's nothing really worth talking about.
Trump’s family is embroiled in a $500m UAE scandal. We’ve hardly noticed | Mohamad Bazzi
A crypto startup founded by Trump’s family signed a huge deal with the UAE president’s brother. Where’s the political fallout?
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Meritocracy versus rule of money

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Putin unterstützt die Rechtspopulisten in Westeuropa. Jetzt kommt Trump auch dazu. Die AfD freut sich drüber. Schließlich ist sie seit langem Sprachrohr für Putin und Trump. Wollen wir uns diese Einmischung aus dem Ausland in die deutsche Politik gefallen lassen?
February 7, 2026 at 2:02 PM
$500 million bribe to a head of state who puts his country in crisis.

Lesson to 🇪🇺, don‘t allow it here, not a single €.
“Under any other president, a UAE royal secretly paying $500 million to the Trump family’s crypto business would cause a political earthquake in Washington. There would be demands for an investigation by Congress, televised hearings, and months of damage control” — my latest @theguardian.com
Trump’s family is embroiled in a $500m UAE scandal. We’ve hardly noticed | Mohamad Bazzi
A crypto startup founded by Trump’s family signed a huge deal with the UAE president’s brother. Where’s the political fallout?
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:47 PM
(report by @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org whose account I recommend following for energy news)
February 7, 2026 at 7:59 AM
… so demand can avoid buying at peak prices, thus reduce them

bsky.app/profile/east...
February 7, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Batteries give flexibility - also to the demand side
Don't look but after Solar boom, Batteries Hockey Stick of Hope is here.

Grid scale batteries are being installed at factories, farms, ports...

Rystad says: "Battery storage is no longer just enabling renewables — it is actively replacing gas generation."
www.rystadenergy.com/insights/ene...
February 7, 2026 at 3:36 AM
300 warm help boxes for 🇺🇦

(donation page in English, and supported by @efdavies.bsky.social)
Ich unterstütze die Kampagne „300 Warm Help Boxes“.
Nach schweren russischen Angriffen auf die zivile Energieinfrastruktur leiden viele Menschen in Kyjiw unter Stromausfällen und extremen Temperaturen.
Für ältere Menschen sind Kälte und Dunkelheit nicht nur eine Belastung-
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February 6, 2026 at 9:17 PM
‚“My project is about bears and ‘black’ is a trigger word,” they wrote. “Insane.”‘
February 6, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Reposted by Georg Weizsäcker
EU tech law

EU Commission preliminary finding that TikTok has breached Digital Services Act re 'addictive design' ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Commission preliminarily finds TikTok\'s addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act
Today, the European Commission preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design.
ec.europa.eu
February 6, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Modern art, of a kind
February 5, 2026 at 9:16 AM
So true 👇🏻 that corruption makes you weak
We are one misstep away from major capital flight. And the promised foreign investment is never coming in. South Korea doesn't have to invest 60% of its annual GDP when they can pay 1/1000 of that amount to the Trump crypto coin to have Trump never mention it again.
February 5, 2026 at 4:39 AM
February 4, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Berlin office 😟

bsky.app/profile/karl...
Auch das Berliner Büro der „Washington Post“ wird dichtgemacht.
February 4, 2026 at 9:48 PM
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
February 4, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Funny thing, corruption. It shows one’s weakness of mind and makes the mind even weaker.
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
February 4, 2026 at 5:45 PM