Xhezaira Guleksi
@xhezguleksi.bsky.social
PhD Student @unifau.bsky.social interested in political & historical econ | MSc Dev Econ at Uni Göttingen | Teaching in German for the challenge. | Inconsistent runner
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once again I must tap my own sign
June 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
once again I must tap my own sign
Listened to prof. Makdisi the other day
www.youtube.com/live/4UzA1W3...
www.youtube.com/live/4UzA1W3...
Palestinian American historian Ussama Makdisi on Gaza, Palestine & Israel - Jung & Naiv: Folge 762
YouTube video by Jung & Naiv
www.youtube.com
May 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Listened to prof. Makdisi the other day
www.youtube.com/live/4UzA1W3...
www.youtube.com/live/4UzA1W3...
Looking forward to this one! And for all Econ PhD students in Bavaria who might be taken aback from the „DevEcon“ sign, DevEcon is quite a cross-sectional field in Econ, many labor/migration/environmental &co topics would be part of it . Try applying first (and check suitability second 😉)
@jisteinert.bsky.social, Andreas Landmann, and I are organizing a Bavarian PhD Workshop in Development Economics in July! Goal is to strengthen the regional network among PhD students in Bavaria who work on DevEcon. Please spread the word and apply/drop by! :) Deadline May 4.
tinyurl.com/zzem65nx
tinyurl.com/zzem65nx
CfP_BavarianDevEcon_PhDWorkshop_2025.pdf
tinyurl.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Looking forward to this one! And for all Econ PhD students in Bavaria who might be taken aback from the „DevEcon“ sign, DevEcon is quite a cross-sectional field in Econ, many labor/migration/environmental &co topics would be part of it . Try applying first (and check suitability second 😉)
The convergence of resource extraction, repression, and border militarisation in the Balkans is the result of an EU model that prioritises European capital over people's lives.
📝 by Manja Petrovska, co-author of our 'Re-packaging Imperialism' report
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
📝 by Manja Petrovska, co-author of our 'Re-packaging Imperialism' report
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
The crisis in North Macedonia runs deep
The tragedy in Kocani cannot be explained away as another case of local corruption.
www.aljazeera.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Currently fighting the impulse to rationalise it
I keep oscillating between the need to find the hidden agenda and interests being served (in large part due to my need to rationalize things) and the intuition that this is simply stupid, ignorant, and largely improvised and impulse-driven
April 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Currently fighting the impulse to rationalise it
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Such a travesty that the Demographic and Health Survey program was terminated this week.
I realize the Gates Foundation can't pick up all the pieces, but this one seems like a natural one for them to pick up given that the DHS is the go-to data source for many of their focus areas.
I realize the Gates Foundation can't pick up all the pieces, but this one seems like a natural one for them to pick up given that the DHS is the go-to data source for many of their focus areas.
The Demographic and Health Surveys, a major effort supported by USAID and widely used across the world, are also not currently available.
February 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Such a travesty that the Demographic and Health Survey program was terminated this week.
I realize the Gates Foundation can't pick up all the pieces, but this one seems like a natural one for them to pick up given that the DHS is the go-to data source for many of their focus areas.
I realize the Gates Foundation can't pick up all the pieces, but this one seems like a natural one for them to pick up given that the DHS is the go-to data source for many of their focus areas.
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Wieder einmal zeigt sich: "die #Jugend" wählt nicht rechts. Vielmehr sind junge Wähler:innen eine sehr #heterogene Gruppe.
Bei den 18-24-Jährigen ist die #Linke mit 25% stärkste Kraft.
Am besten schneidet die #AfD bei den 35-44-Jährigen (25%) ab, am schlechtesten (10%) bei den über 70-Jährigen.
Bei den 18-24-Jährigen ist die #Linke mit 25% stärkste Kraft.
Am besten schneidet die #AfD bei den 35-44-Jährigen (25%) ab, am schlechtesten (10%) bei den über 70-Jährigen.
February 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Wieder einmal zeigt sich: "die #Jugend" wählt nicht rechts. Vielmehr sind junge Wähler:innen eine sehr #heterogene Gruppe.
Bei den 18-24-Jährigen ist die #Linke mit 25% stärkste Kraft.
Am besten schneidet die #AfD bei den 35-44-Jährigen (25%) ab, am schlechtesten (10%) bei den über 70-Jährigen.
Bei den 18-24-Jährigen ist die #Linke mit 25% stärkste Kraft.
Am besten schneidet die #AfD bei den 35-44-Jährigen (25%) ab, am schlechtesten (10%) bei den über 70-Jährigen.
One of the things I actually find so sweet about Germans :)
Tell me you are in Germany without telling me you are in Germany
January 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
One of the things I actually find so sweet about Germans :)
While I agree w the args, I don’t like the positioning of “western approach vs the others”, as in my view, it is more corporates striving for the most financial profit (which is a global phenomenon in our capitalistic world). Plus, what are the sources of what China used for its model?
January 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
While I agree w the args, I don’t like the positioning of “western approach vs the others”, as in my view, it is more corporates striving for the most financial profit (which is a global phenomenon in our capitalistic world). Plus, what are the sources of what China used for its model?
But also if we want the more cynical approach, it is actually “just better business”
So it doesn’t matter if you're a company in the US, China, or elsewhere. DeepSeek should be a cue to pivot HARD toward investing in far more efficient methods of AI development. Even if you care nothing about community & climate impacts, it’s just better business. 19/
January 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
But also if we want the more cynical approach, it is actually “just better business”
And how come we still don’t take seriously climate change?
Then there are the global impacts. More coal & gas means more carbon emissions, accelerating our climate crisis. Hence why Google & MSFT saw a ~50% & 30% jump in emissions since 2019 & 2020 respectively (from @darakerr.bsky.social at @npr.org). 10/
www.npr.org/2024/07/12/g...
www.npr.org/2024/07/12/g...
AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change
The tech giants both report surges in greenhouse gas emissions as they double-down on adding artificial intelligence to all of their products.
www.npr.org
January 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
And how come we still don’t take seriously climate change?
Why can’t we as a society still not take into account economic costs when thinking about innovation in tech, but headlessly run after the new big thing?
…they take up drinking water - yes, drinking water, because of the water quality required to cool these facilities - which threatens to hike water prices for families… 8/
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
AI Is Taking Water From the Desert
New data centers are springing up every week. Can the Earth sustain them?
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Why can’t we as a society still not take into account economic costs when thinking about innovation in tech, but headlessly run after the new big thing?
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Many journalists have written extensively about those externalities.
When these massive data centers come to town, they distort power supplies (per @bloomberg.com’s @leonardonclt.bsky.social, @naurtorious.bsky.social,
@andretartar.bsky.social)… 7/
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
When these massive data centers come to town, they distort power supplies (per @bloomberg.com’s @leonardonclt.bsky.social, @naurtorious.bsky.social,
@andretartar.bsky.social)… 7/
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse
There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas
www.bloomberg.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Many journalists have written extensively about those externalities.
When these massive data centers come to town, they distort power supplies (per @bloomberg.com’s @leonardonclt.bsky.social, @naurtorious.bsky.social,
@andretartar.bsky.social)… 7/
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
When these massive data centers come to town, they distort power supplies (per @bloomberg.com’s @leonardonclt.bsky.social, @naurtorious.bsky.social,
@andretartar.bsky.social)… 7/
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Please sign the petition in solidarity with the students in Serbia (the content is the same as the other link, but this one includes affiliation)
docs.google.com/forms/d/1A56...
docs.google.com/forms/d/1A56...
Solidarity with Students in Serbia
Herewith, we express our solidarity with the students and universities of Serbia.
On 1 November 2024, the canopy at the recently renovated Novi Sad train station collapsed, killing 15 people.
For ...
docs.google.com
January 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Please sign the petition in solidarity with the students in Serbia (the content is the same as the other link, but this one includes affiliation)
docs.google.com/forms/d/1A56...
docs.google.com/forms/d/1A56...
I can't wait to read this book, but a general question: why are academic books so expensive? Is it due to high publishing costs? Is it something else? I'd be interested to know.
Absolutely delighted about the publication of UNCONQUERED STATES (Oxford University Press), which looks at the global history of non-European powers in the imperial age.
December 31, 2024 at 1:37 PM
I can't wait to read this book, but a general question: why are academic books so expensive? Is it due to high publishing costs? Is it something else? I'd be interested to know.
This is so helpful!
Here are the first five sets of slides:
01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro...
02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b...
03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust...
04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct...
05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...
01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro...
02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b...
03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust...
04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct...
05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...
December 31, 2024 at 1:32 PM
This is so helpful!
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First post on Blue Sky!
Thought I’d start it with a thread laying out the chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy (the proofs are finally in!)
The Handbook comes out in November
Thought I’d start it with a thread laying out the chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy (the proofs are finally in!)
The Handbook comes out in November
September 22, 2023 at 6:40 PM
First post on Blue Sky!
Thought I’d start it with a thread laying out the chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy (the proofs are finally in!)
The Handbook comes out in November
Thought I’d start it with a thread laying out the chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy (the proofs are finally in!)
The Handbook comes out in November
Since I'm a new arrival myself & sharing is caring:
November 13, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Since I'm a new arrival myself & sharing is caring:
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Great list! Here is a link to a related starter pack created by @pavisuri.bsky.social which includes political working in economic history (we call it HPE): bsky.app/starter-pack...
November 12, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Great list! Here is a link to a related starter pack created by @pavisuri.bsky.social which includes political working in economic history (we call it HPE): bsky.app/starter-pack...