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Ryszard Szarfenberg
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Uniwersytet Warszawski, EAPN Polska, ATD Czwarty Świat
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hrw.org
Iran’s authorities are committing large-scale killing of protesters while having shut down the internet, cutting off people in Iran from the rest of the world.

Iranian authorities should immediately end the bloodshed and release everyone arrested for exercising their human rights.
January 12, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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hrw.org
Amid Iran's internet blackout, there are concerning reports of large scale killings by security forces.

Hear from HRW's Executive Director Philippe Bolopion on the emergency situation in Iran:
January 12, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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itsafronomics.blacksky.app
IMO one of the best research studies of the year.

TLDR: A new study shows that rideshare has improved employment outcomes, social connections, and well being of people with disabilities—with the highest benefits being for those with vision/hearing or mobility disabilities. WOW. #disabilitysky #phd
melissadgentry.bsky.social Melissa Gentry @melissadgentry.bsky.social · Nov 7
I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics.

My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6
Photo shows the title page for an academic paper titled "Driving Inclusion: The Effect of Improved Transportation for People with Disabilities" by Melissa Gentry. The abstract is as follows: People with disabilities face substantial barriers to economic and social participation. I explore the extent to which these barriers are overcome by the availability of reliable and flexible transportation, which may serve as ``reliability insurance'' in case other modes of transit fail. Leveraging the roll-out of Uber, I use a stacked difference-in-differences approach to show that the availability of reliable and flexible transportation leads to improvements in social and economic participation through increased marriage rates and labor force participation, and reduced reliance on public assistance. The reduction in public assistance outweighs expected rideshare costs, lending support to the recent push towards public-private partnerships in the transportation space.
December 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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emollick.bsky.social
Gemini, ChatGPT & Claude: “What is the single best investment equivalent in spending $1000 that I could make if I time traveled back to any destination circa 1300.”

Gemini: Magna Carta stored at Durham Cathedral

ChatGPT: A share in Stora Kopparberg

Claude: A waqf at Al-Azhar
January 2, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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scottsantens.com
If you support universal basic income, please start walking the walk this year by donating monthly to @itsafoundation.bsky.social in support of making UBI happen, because it's not going to just happen without resources.
It's Time to Walk the Walk for Universal Basic Income (UBI)
UBI means some pay more tax but most net ahead. Walk the walk now: align monthly giving with your likely net tax and help build the income floor.
www.scottsantens.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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cepr.org
Top CEPR Discussion Paper of 2025 - DP19943
Do Temporary Cash Transfers Stimulate the #Macroeconomy? Evidence from Four Case Studies
Valerie Ramey
https://ow.ly/pRhM50XLr81
#CEPR_MG #EconSky #2025inReview
December 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
rszarfenberg.bsky.social
Cezary Miżejewski nie żyje.
December 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
rszarfenberg.bsky.social
Żegnaj Czarku.😢
December 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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larsjohannessen.bsky.social
Christmas reading:

The junkification of research - Rhodes & Linnenluecke (Organization, 2025)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #academicsky

Pictured: the downward spiral of junkification ⬇️
Pictured is the authors' figure, titled, "The downward spiral of junkification." This starts with "commodification of research," which leads to "pay-to-publish proliferation," which leads to "decline in quality and integrity," which leads to "increase in low-quality publications" and "innovation decline", the end result of which is "junkification."
December 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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janetgornick.bsky.social
Steven Greenhouse on AI & work. He cites Acemoglu: there are "essentially two routes for developing AI: an anti-worker route and a pro-worker route." Includes link to video of related panel, co-hosted by @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social and @stone-lis.bsky.social.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Most people aren’t fretting about an AI bubble. What they fear is mass layoffs | Steven Greenhouse
Artificial intelligence could make income inequality even worse and create a new underclass. Governments and society must take action
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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adambonica.bsky.social
New analysis from Americans for Tax Fairness: US Billionaires added $5.1 trillion to their fortunes since 2017. To put that in perspective, if that money went to the American people instead, every household would get $37,800.
“Americans for Tax Fairness” shows the explosive growth in billionaire wealth in the United States from December 30, 2017, to October 27, 2025. It reports that the number of billionaires increased from 551 to 916, and their total wealth grew from $2.9 trillion to $8.0 trillion—an increase of $5.1 trillion or 176%. The table lists the top 20 billionaires, including Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and others, with each person’s net worth in 2017, their net worth in 2025, and the dollar and percentage growth over the period. Elon Musk’s wealth grew the most in dollar terms (from $20 billion to $490 billion, a 2,305% increase). At the bottom, a highlighted row shows the top 20 billionaires gained $2.45 trillion (a 286.6% increase), while all other billionaires combined gained $2.7 trillion (a 133.2% increase).
October 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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paths2include.bsky.social
📣New #PATHS2INCLUDE working paper, using a cross-nationally harmonized factorial survey experiment designed to study the organizational context of ethnic discrimination.

Read about the experiment and its outcomes 👇 paths2include.eu/publications...
October 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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markiewkatomasz.bsky.social
"W sumie nisko opłacani pracownicy doznają pięciokrotnie więcej urazów związanych z upałem niż ich najlepiej wynagradzani współpracownicy".

markiewka.substack.com/p/kryzys-kli...
Kryzys klimatyczny uderza w najsłabszych
Zgadnijcie, jakie grupy społeczne są najbardziej poszkodowane kolejnymi falami upałów. Podpowiem: te, o które niby upominają się przeciwnicy transformacji energetycznej.
markiewka.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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demagog.org.pl
🗣️ Wypowiedź Sławomira Mentzena z @konfederacja.bsky.social ❌ #fałsz.

💡Wśród projektów dofinansowanych z KPO nie ma wniosku o rozszerzenie działalności o udzielanie chwilówek.
August 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
In many ways its the knock-on benefits of UBI that make the policy so important.
"Being poor is actually a full-time job and being broke is like a full-time job with the amount of paperwork and the time going from office to office proving what you have done. . With Universal Basic Income all that would be eliminated with the time liberated to do something socially productive." – David Graeber
July 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
rszarfenberg.bsky.social
Ciężki jest los obrońców demokracji.
July 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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davebrady72.bsky.social
This is an extremely informative resource. Visualizes range of estimates of minimum wage estimates across a large number of studies. Also really illustrates which studies are outliers.
benzipperer.org Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · Jul 21
Minimum wages increase pay, but what happens to employment? You can find estimates all over the map, but the median estimate is close to zero

Over 70 percent of published studies find a small negative or positive effect for a given wage response
bar graph plotting the distribution of own wage elasticities from minimum wage studies, showing a median estimate of -0.13, with over 70% of studies having estimates more positive than -0.4
July 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
rszarfenberg.bsky.social
Emocjonalizować czy deemocjonalizować wypowiedź o zamachu stanu?
July 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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gulczynski.bsky.social
90% of unaccompanied minors applying for asylum in the EU are boys.
July 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
rszarfenberg.bsky.social
Wyniki przeliczenia głosów w ponad 250 komisjach. Nie ma dowodów na masowe fałszerstwa.
July 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
rszarfenberg.bsky.social
Prywatyzacja i urynkowienie - mechanizmy w edukacji, ochronie zdrowia i mieszkalnictwie
May 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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scottsantens.com
Meme of Yoda from The Empire Strikes Back having just lifted Luke's X-wing from the swamp: WHEN THE RESULTS OF ANOTHER BASIC INCOME PILOT COME OUT AND EMPLOYMENT INCREASED AGAIN
April 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
rszarfenberg.bsky.social
Apokalipsa znaczenia i drogi wyjścia
April 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
rszarfenberg.bsky.social
Wdrażanie AI w polskiej administracji publicznej
April 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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freekspinnewijn.bsky.social
Incredible!

The EU Commission falsely claims the draft Return Regulation (2025) is based on distinct pieces of research.

See reaction of research insitutes involved.

Evidence-base policies don't allow cherry-picking...
March 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM