Nos complace anunciar la Lima Summer School in Economics 2025, organizada por Universidad de Piura en colaboración con UBC Economics. Se dictarán mini-cursos en machine learning, empirical environmental economics y asymmetric information. Para info sobre el programa y becas: limase.pe/summer-school-…

La vida es hermosa con noticias como esta :') ✨ Por segundo año consecutivo, mentees de EconThaki serán becados para participar de la Lima Summer School (que es re top) ¡Gracias Marcos Agurto A. Universidad de Piura University of British Columbia por apostar a la diversidad! 🙏🏼 Más info en: limase.pe/summer-school-…

Innovation job market papers round up! Over the last week, I found 50+ papers from PhDs going on the job market and I’ll post a few abstracts to this thread every day until they’re all up.

There's a vibe that AI progress has stalled out in the last ~year, but I think it's more accurate to say that progress has become increasingly illegible. Since 6/23, perf. on PhD level science questions went from barely better than random guessing to matching domain experts. 🧵

El día de ayer cerramos con el programa de mentorías 2024. ¡Muchas gracias a tod@s l@s mentores y mentees que hicieron esto posible! 👏🏽 Además, este ciclo, recién graduad@s serán becad@s para la Lima Summer School 2025, que inicia pronto. Más info: limase.pe/summer-school-…

On the urgent need to seriously start working on ending aid dependency: africanistperspective.com/p/african-coun…

Exciting update: Open Philanthropy is doubling down on our YIMBY, innovation, and metascience success by launching a >$120m Abundance & Growth Fund to accelerate economic growth and boost scientific & technological progress. Funding from Good Ventures, Patrick Collison, + others. Why now? 🧵

Really enjoyed talking w/ Ben Casselman for this piece, which was well researched and does an excellent job surveying recent studies on the benefits of federal R&D funding + support of scientific research nytimes.com/2025/03/31/bus…

🎙️ #Voces | Carolina Concha-Arriaga (Carolina Concha-Arriagada), economista y profesora en Columbia, reflexiona sobre su formación en Chile, su paso por Georgetown y su agenda en micro aplicada y economía de la educación. Una mirada honesta al camino académico ➡️ econthaki.github.io/voces/2025/04/…

Sucedió! Estamos buscando gente para ser nuevos miembr@s y voluntari@s para EconThaki 👀 Aplicaciones abiertas hasta el 15 de mayo aquí: forms.gle/H3ZSJku7kfNw4c… x.com/EconThaki/stat…

There is a new platform, Sci-Net (sci-net.xyz) where researchers can help each other by providing paywalled papers. The platform builds upon Sci-Hub meme token $scihub to reward active members.

In light of the news that NIH is cutting support for lots of research abroad, posting Caroline Viola Fry and I’s recent piece arguing this kind of work has huge ROI, benefits the US, and is a small share of our R&D spend.

🎙️ #Voces | Emilio Colombi (Emilio Colombi), candidato a PhD en Michigan, reflexiona sobre su formación en la UNLP, su paso por el BCRA y UTDT, y su agenda en macro internacional. Una guía sincera y útil para quienes quieren empezar a investigar ➡️ econthaki.github.io/voces/2025/05/…

🚨 ¡Abrimos convocatoria! ET lanza 3 becas para contratar asistentes de investigación - mentees egresados de nuestros programas - de LATAM. ¿Eres estudiante del PhD o egresado/a reciente y quieres sumar un RA tu equipo? Postula hasta el 1/6. 🔗 Info: bit.ly/becasET2025

Hace 4 años comenzamos este viaje en X. ¡Lo celebramos lanzando nuestra convocatoria al programa de Ecomienza 2025! x.com/EconThaki/stat… #MiAniversarioDeX

What’s the return on government support for R&D? To try to get a credible answer, Open Philanthropy and Sloan Foundation are committing up to $1 million to trying something new: we call it a Pop-Up Journal. Today, we’re inviting organizations to bid on a five-year contract to

We’re launching Right Of Way, a podcast about energy policy, energy politics, and above all the upcoming permitting reform fight. Hosted by me and Pavan Venkatakrishnan, presented by IFP and Foundation for American Innovation 🇺🇸🚀. First episode dropping next week — stay tuned.

The FDA is sitting on a goldmine of drug development data — 10,000+ page dossiers detailing how drugs are designed, made, tested, and approved. Big Pharma has these in-house. Startups? Locked out. It’s time to fix that. Read my proposal for IFP on how. ifp.org/biotechs-lost-…

I’m excited to share our new nature paper 📝, which provides strong evidence that the walkability of our built environment matters a great deal to our physical activity and health. Details in thread.🧵 nature.com/articles/s4158…