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zombie westland
@tomwestland.bsky.social
it is a lovely morning in the village, and i am a horrible goose

economic history of africa + southeast asia, comparative development, markets and industrialisation

(he/him)

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CALL FOR PAPERS
A workshop at LSE next April on 'Uses and Abuses of the Murdock Atlas in Social Science Research'. We're looking for cross-disciplinary engagement to think critically about what this widely used source means, what it can & can't tell us. Submit by Nov 14
www.lse.ac.uk/economic-his...
Uses and abuses of the Murdock Atlas in social science research
www.lse.ac.uk
Reading the supposedly devastating report into BBC bias
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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C3S data shows that every year since the Paris Agreement has ranked among the 10 warmest on record.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣

"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Just a reminder to sign up for this webinar on IPUMS International on Wednesday!
Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊

Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data.

🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom
Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s...

Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.
Register for IPUMs International Online Session
Please use this form to register for the IPUMs International Session hosted by the Historical Economic Demography Group at LSE. The session will be on Zoom from 15:15-16:30 UK Time on 12 November 202...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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🚨 We are hiring! ‼️‼️

tenured track assistant or associate prof in economics at university of Melbourne @unimelb.bsky.social

welcome applications from all fields (but especially from econometrics)

econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...
EJM - Econ Job Market
econjobmarket.org
October 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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The medieval cities and towns of Eritrea (ca. 1000-1900 CE)
www.patreon.com/posts/143143...
November 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
no offence to the horny-for-robots people but i'm always going to prefer my partner for this kind of thing
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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There’s still no evidence that Trump knows what a dog is or does
“cracking like dogs”
November 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
it is so funny how most Tech Bro who want to revolutionise transport reinvent the concept of a train but Elon Musk is so stupid he managed to reinvent the concept of a taxi
November 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
can someone explain why i'm like, average to meh about broccoli but go absolutely nutso for it when its in the form of soup
November 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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"Home Office data suggests that recent immigrants are more likely to be working than British nationals and make higher wages than them."

✍️ Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out,

ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
Lower migration is bad news for the UK economy - UK in a changing Europe
Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out, and that the recent collapse in immigration will harm the UK's economic p...
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Satellite images show that most of the 260,000 civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher are likely still trapped, as mass RSF killings continue
Satellite images show most el-Fasher civilians likely still trapped
Latest images suggest that majority of 260,000 civilians still in captured city, as mass RSF killings continue
www.middleeasteye.net
November 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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The fact that Ms Rachel had three venues cancel on her because she wanted to hold a birthday party for a THRRE-YEAR-OLD DOUBLE-AMPUTEE GIRL from Gaza... look at yourselves! Look in the mirror! When are people going to find the courage to say enough is enough?
November 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Can’t help but hear the last sentence of this in Danny DeVito’s voice
November 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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‪When you go in the bathroom you’re American. When you come out of the bathroom you’re American. But what are you inside the bathroom‬

‪UR-A-PEEIN’‬
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November 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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New article out today! Published on the eve of Ghanaian independence, A Wreath for Udomo fictionalises Kwame Nkrumah's struggle against imperialism and imagines a future after British rule.

hwiccanreview.substack.com/p/accra-noir...
Accra Noir: ‘A Wreath for Udomo’ (Peter Abrahams, 1956)
A political thriller for a nation about to exist
hwiccanreview.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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International students *create* educational opportunities for US natives.

Each additional Chinese master's student causes enrollment of 0.26–0.44 additional native students, by funding/expanding master's programs.

New at @nber.org—> doi.org/10.3386/w34391

Ungated: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/giykh...
October 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Sussan Ley’s leadership really displaying end-of-life behaviours right now
October 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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today in class we read @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social ‘s Defector essay and then talked about whether we should spend the next few weeks on Hawthorne’s short stories or on The Scarlet Letter—students agreed on trying the longer, more difficult thing in light of the essay defector.com/close-readin...
Close Reading Is For Everyone | Defector
In Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as if it were just another thing, like...
defector.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
honestly one of the most beautiful things i have ever seen. how do i turn this into a typst template
Pierre Bayle being like “I invented four kinds of textual note for a reason, people”
October 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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everything I'm seeing about this is apocalyptic. is anyone on here fundraising around this already / know the best Jamaican orgs to support atm?

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Hurricane Melissa live updates: Jamaica braces for its worst storm in history
Hurricane Melissa, now a powerful Category 5 storm, is set to be Jamaica's worst storm in history.
abcnews.go.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
i sent @christa.bsky.social the Olivia Reingold clip and I believe she is now in a fugue state
October 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM