Julien Senn
@sennjulien.bsky.social
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Julien Senn
@sennjulien.bsky.social
· Oct 24
A few days ago I was very excited to share a new paper on "The Fundamental Properties, Stability and Predictive Power of Distributional Preferences" but didn't realize I can write a thread on bsky.
So here is the thread !
#Econsky
1/11
So here is the thread !
#Econsky
1/11
Paper acceptance day!! 🥳🥳
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Paper acceptance day!! 🥳🥳
First week of teaching in Paris Sorbonne. Of course, my first lecture is postponed because today is strike day and getting to the Uni might be nearly impossible for staff & students. The experience wouldn't be french otherwise. 😅
September 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
First week of teaching in Paris Sorbonne. Of course, my first lecture is postponed because today is strike day and getting to the Uni might be nearly impossible for staff & students. The experience wouldn't be french otherwise. 😅
I am very happy to share that I am joining the Sorbonne University as an Econ Prof.
I am extremely grateful to everyone that made this possible, above all my parents.
I am extremely grateful to everyone that made this possible, above all my parents.
June 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I am very happy to share that I am joining the Sorbonne University as an Econ Prof.
I am extremely grateful to everyone that made this possible, above all my parents.
I am extremely grateful to everyone that made this possible, above all my parents.
🚨 Incredibly excited about this 🚨
Thread below
Thread below
Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:
"Beliefs about inequality and the nature of support for redistribution"
By @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social, Ernst Fehr, @sennjulien.bsky.social, & Thomas Epper
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky
"Beliefs about inequality and the nature of support for redistribution"
By @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social, Ernst Fehr, @sennjulien.bsky.social, & Thomas Epper
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky
June 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🚨 Incredibly excited about this 🚨
Thread below
Thread below
Reposted by Julien Senn
Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:
"Beliefs about inequality and the nature of support for redistribution"
By @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social, Ernst Fehr, @sennjulien.bsky.social, & Thomas Epper
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky
"Beliefs about inequality and the nature of support for redistribution"
By @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social, Ernst Fehr, @sennjulien.bsky.social, & Thomas Epper
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky
June 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:
"Beliefs about inequality and the nature of support for redistribution"
By @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social, Ernst Fehr, @sennjulien.bsky.social, & Thomas Epper
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky
"Beliefs about inequality and the nature of support for redistribution"
By @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social, Ernst Fehr, @sennjulien.bsky.social, & Thomas Epper
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky
Reposted by Julien Senn
🚨PSA for anyone using GPT in human subjects research🚨
A judge has ruled that OpenAI must retain ChatGPT and API data indefinitely, with few exceptions.
This might have implications for your IRB compliance and the security of your participants' data. 1/
A judge has ruled that OpenAI must retain ChatGPT and API data indefinitely, with few exceptions.
This might have implications for your IRB compliance and the security of your participants' data. 1/
June 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
🚨PSA for anyone using GPT in human subjects research🚨
A judge has ruled that OpenAI must retain ChatGPT and API data indefinitely, with few exceptions.
This might have implications for your IRB compliance and the security of your participants' data. 1/
A judge has ruled that OpenAI must retain ChatGPT and API data indefinitely, with few exceptions.
This might have implications for your IRB compliance and the security of your participants' data. 1/
I have a paper that has been sitting for so long at a journal that even the link to track the submission is now broken. #academiclife #delayshurt
a man in a suit and tie is standing in the middle of a field .
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is standing in the middle of a field .
media.tenor.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I have a paper that has been sitting for so long at a journal that even the link to track the submission is now broken. #academiclife #delayshurt
🚨Publication alert🚨
What motivates citizens to support redistributive policy proposals?
Find out in our new paper just accepted in the @jpube.bsky.social (joint with @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social, T.Epper, E. Fehr).
Paper: tinyurl.com/9u45tcep
A thread🧵
What motivates citizens to support redistributive policy proposals?
Find out in our new paper just accepted in the @jpube.bsky.social (joint with @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social, T.Epper, E. Fehr).
Paper: tinyurl.com/9u45tcep
A thread🧵
May 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
🚨Publication alert🚨
What motivates citizens to support redistributive policy proposals?
Find out in our new paper just accepted in the @jpube.bsky.social (joint with @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social, T.Epper, E. Fehr).
Paper: tinyurl.com/9u45tcep
A thread🧵
What motivates citizens to support redistributive policy proposals?
Find out in our new paper just accepted in the @jpube.bsky.social (joint with @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social, T.Epper, E. Fehr).
Paper: tinyurl.com/9u45tcep
A thread🧵
Reposted by Julien Senn
I noticed this too that universities and PIs are increasingly trying to exploit their market power, and no one seems to stop them. In other countries non-fulltime PhD and postdoctoral positions are very uncommon, as far as I know.
Keeping one eye on academic jobs in Germany, I'm seeing more 50–75% positions, where salary & work hrs are both reduced. I'm even seeing 50%-time, 3-year doctoral jobs, where you're expected to write a dissertation in <20hrs/week in 3 years (while supporting a research team). 👎
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a star wars character is saying `` it 's a trap '' .
Alt: Admiral Akbar saying "it's a trap"
media.tenor.com
May 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I noticed this too that universities and PIs are increasingly trying to exploit their market power, and no one seems to stop them. In other countries non-fulltime PhD and postdoctoral positions are very uncommon, as far as I know.
I don't think this is only a german problem. The fact that juniors have to so extremely rely on advisor(s) for all the important steps in their career is in my view one of the biggest issues in academia.
“There is far too much power in the hands of professors in the German system,” says @leising.bsky.social.
My latest @nature.com story digs into efforts to tackle the entrenched structural heirarchy that enables academic bullies.
My latest @nature.com story digs into efforts to tackle the entrenched structural heirarchy that enables academic bullies.
Can Germany rein in its academic bullying problem?
Researchers and administrators are exploring ways to restructure a rigid hierarchy that can breed power abuses.
www.nature.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I don't think this is only a german problem. The fact that juniors have to so extremely rely on advisor(s) for all the important steps in their career is in my view one of the biggest issues in academia.
Academic journals time bipolarity: Before acceptance, every interaction takes months. After acceptance, they need everything from you within 48hours.
April 23, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Academic journals time bipolarity: Before acceptance, every interaction takes months. After acceptance, they need everything from you within 48hours.
Reposted by Julien Senn
The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US
April 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US
Reposted by Julien Senn
Tenure was created for moments like this.
It's there to give you more security & courage to speak out truthfully.
Use it or lose it.
It's there to give you more security & courage to speak out truthfully.
Use it or lose it.
April 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Tenure was created for moments like this.
It's there to give you more security & courage to speak out truthfully.
Use it or lose it.
It's there to give you more security & courage to speak out truthfully.
Use it or lose it.
Elect stupid people, suffer from stupid policies.
Monstrously destructive, incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else.
April 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Elect stupid people, suffer from stupid policies.
What a time to be a young (european) scientist in the last 5 years: covid, budget cuts, hiring freezes, and now a potential wave of US-based scientists searching for a new home.
European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts
Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited
www.theguardian.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
What a time to be a young (european) scientist in the last 5 years: covid, budget cuts, hiring freezes, and now a potential wave of US-based scientists searching for a new home.
Waking up to a paper acceptance on a sunny Sunday morning makes the coffee taste substantially better. ☕️🎉☀️
March 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Waking up to a paper acceptance on a sunny Sunday morning makes the coffee taste substantially better. ☕️🎉☀️
Another great cartoon by @chappatte.bsky.social in @letemps.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Another great cartoon by @chappatte.bsky.social in @letemps.bsky.social
When you think you've hit the bottom, Trump, Vance and co. show you can go lower. 🤮
I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.
March 1, 2025 at 9:19 AM
When you think you've hit the bottom, Trump, Vance and co. show you can go lower. 🤮
Reposted by Julien Senn
🧵 Who enters politics? Are politicians different from the general population? In our @jeeanews.bsky.social paper (M. Jokela, @jannetukiainen.bsky.social, Å. von Schoultz), we study Finnish politicians’ cognitive and personality traits using military conscription test data. 📊
Personality Traits and Cognitive Ability in Political Selection
Abstract. A vast scholarship questions whether voters are sufficiently informed to act in their best interest at the polling booth, which may also have imp
academic.oup.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🧵 Who enters politics? Are politicians different from the general population? In our @jeeanews.bsky.social paper (M. Jokela, @jannetukiainen.bsky.social, Å. von Schoultz), we study Finnish politicians’ cognitive and personality traits using military conscription test data. 📊
As other places, @ethzurich.bsky.social now also focuses on net academic age (years +PhD) when evaluating candidates. This trend penalizes people who graduated from places with short PhDs. Some places make you graduate in 3-4years, while others give you 6-7. Huge difference!
ethz.ch/staffnet/en/...
ethz.ch/staffnet/en/...
New guidelines for assistant professorships
These guidelines came into force on 1 January 2025. Following a complete overhaul, they are now consistent with the current framework conditions once again. Assistant professors can choose whether the...
ethz.ch
February 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
As other places, @ethzurich.bsky.social now also focuses on net academic age (years +PhD) when evaluating candidates. This trend penalizes people who graduated from places with short PhDs. Some places make you graduate in 3-4years, while others give you 6-7. Huge difference!
ethz.ch/staffnet/en/...
ethz.ch/staffnet/en/...
Reposted by Julien Senn
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
The fastest female to sail around the globe without assistance is 🇨🇭. Justine Mettraux made it in 76 days--beating the former record by 11 days. Amazing achievement!!
Justine Mettraux, première navigatrice et première internationale à boucler cette 10e édition du Vendée Globe 💙
January 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The fastest female to sail around the globe without assistance is 🇨🇭. Justine Mettraux made it in 76 days--beating the former record by 11 days. Amazing achievement!!
40 years later, we surely can't say that Zappa was wrong.
"The biggest danger to America isn't communism, it's ... fascist theocracy."
- Frank Zappa in 1986.
- Frank Zappa in 1986.
January 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
40 years later, we surely can't say that Zappa was wrong.
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty"
I did a NYT video interview—along with voices from Hungary, Nicaragua, and Russia— about how repression works in authoritarian states.
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Video: Opinion | How Tyranny Begins
Tyranny doesn’t happen overnight. Take it from the people who missed the first signs.
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty"