Two happy updates:
🎓 Defended my PhD at @eui-sps.bsky.social. Grateful to committee @eliasdinas.bsky.social, Dominik Hangartner,
@jatucker.bsky.social, and to my supervisor @mgoldenprof.bsky.social!
🇺🇸 Now in Palo Alto, starting my postdoc at Stanford CDDRL
@stanfordcddrl.bsky.social

🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027!

📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences

Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!

Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd

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Growth can go hand in hand with degrowth in material use as economies shift toward quality and services, rising living standards and clean growth are possible, from Philippe Aghion, Timo Boppart, Michael Peters, Matthew Schwartzman, and Fabrizio Zilibotti https://www.nber.org/papers/w33634

Pleased to share this short interview about our recent report on Russian emigrants’ return, co-authored with @karolinanugumanova.bsky.social and @vetasergeeva.bsky.social.

Russia has declared ASEEES @aseees.bsky.social an "undesirable organization." ASEEES is the largest Western academic association for Slavic studies. This ruling puts Russian scholars at risk of prosecution for being members or participating in the annual conference.

ovd.info/express-news...

🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social
👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.

🚨 New working paper: War, Propaganda, and Russian Fatalities in Ukraine

@ifomichev.bsky.social and I study how Russian fatalities in the Russia–Ukraine war affect engagement with propaganda on social media in soldiers’ hometowns. Here's what we find 🧵

#workingpaper #ukraine #russia #propaganda

Don't miss out on this #EUIWidening opportunity 👀

Designed to enhance knowledge exchange and access to resources in social sciences & humanities, this #call invites researchers to apply for short-term mobility stays at the #EUI. 📚🤝

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📰 New in @nytimes.com
The “return” of Russian emigrants following the war in Ukraine is more complex than it seems. Insights from OutRush.io led by @emilkamalov.bsky.social & @vetasergeeva.bsky.social w/ @karolinanugumanova.bsky.social explore why many skilled Russians won’t return.
buff.ly/8OQQ4TB

🚨 Our new OutRush.io report (with @vetasergeeva.bsky.social & @karolinanugumanova.bsky.social) was featured in the New York Times.

We look at return, onward migration & political life of post-2022 Russian emigrants.

📄 Report: outrush.io/report_march...
🗞️ NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/w...

Yet another take on authoritarianism in your newsfeed: @emilkamalov.bsky.social and I have published an article in PSA on how authoritarian state may impact their citizens' well-being even when they're abroad.

New Publication:
One of our recent pieces with @vetasergeeva.bsky.social has just been published in Post-Soviet Affairs. We argue that politically motivated emigrants experience a distinct set of psychological stressors, most of which are related to their autocratic homelands.

tinyurl.com/mpm6pekp

"Which journals have a fast turnaround time?" is a frequent question in academia. Most of the time, people answer based on anecdotes (or grudges). My lab at Cornell decided to build a Chrome plugin, what we are calling Coauthor, to crowdsource an answer: coauthor.fly.dev
#AcademicSky

WORKING PAPER: Short-Term Mobility and Changes in Political Norms with @valentimvicente.bsky.social

🌐Link: osf.io/preprints/os...

Our interconnected world fosters unprecedented flows of people, goods, and ideas. Can this also reshape perceptions of what is politically acceptable? 🧵

Hi all! I put together a starter pack featuring scholars of Russian politics. Feel free to comment if you'd like to be included, and don’t forget to share!
go.bsky.app/JwWasmi