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This is exciting - look what just arrived (pre-orders help!):

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New papers! The efficiency of the London Gold Fixing Saving for a stormy day? The Jamaican Government Savings Bank and the precautionary savings motive Assessing the 1921–1922 federal financial rescue: the War Finance Corporation Bank lending program www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The Econ Department of the University of Alberta (@ualberta.bsky.social @uaeuofa.bsky.social) will be hosting the 9th InsTED Workshop on Sep 20-21, 2025. Prof. Nathan Nunn (@ubcvse.bsky.social) & Daniel Trefler (@rotmanschool.bsky.social @econuoft.bsky.social) will be our keynote speakers. #EconSky

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POSTDOC ALERT! Postdoc in the history of modern medicine or public health at Wisconsin: details at the link below. 2 years, excellent conditions. #Skystorians #HistMed #medhum please repost widely! mhb.wisc.edu/2025/02/25/p...

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New book from Erik Olssen!

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Our project blog is BACK. Our new series focuses on #EarlyModern health experiences of enslaved and free members of the African diaspora. With thanks to Lexie Cook for our first post... www.mmor.co.uk/blog/sealing...

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Today is publication day! I explain how agricultural inputs - which weren't even widely traded market goods 200 years ago - have become giant industries dominated by just a handful of transnational firms today. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255170... Many thanks to those who helped me along the way!

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Our lifestyle and environmental exposures are the predominant influencers of healthy aging and premature mortality, compared with polygenic risk, in the first comprehensive assessment www.nature.com/articles/s41... open-access

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Congratulations to Shao-yu Jheng, Hui-wen Koo & Kun-jung Wu whose paper "Property rights in a weak state: Evidence from land pawning in Qing Taiwan 1683–1895" won the Sir Timothy Coghlan Prize for best paper in the 2024 Asia-Pacific Econ History Rev doi.org/10.1111/aehr... 🍎📉📈🗃 #history #AcademicSky

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We're honoured to share a special collection of articles on Bob Morris' contributions to historical research 🧵 #UrbanHistory #Skystorians

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Comprehensive detail for a representative sample of British divorce 1857-1923 - a promising project! 📉📈🗃📗📜🍎 #history #AcademicSky #demography #sociology

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“The answer was not the point. The answer was never the point. The process of searching is the process of learning.”

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Nearly every religion claims to be cleaner than all the others. This claim can’t be true for all religions. But is it true for any? And could it affect disease outcomes? This nice study suggests so: doi.org/10.1093/ej/u....

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Here @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social we are running a project called 'The Algorithimic Archive', funded by the Mellon Foundation on the challenges & needs for archiving social media data. We need your help- if you use such data can you help us with this survey? forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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Congratulations Maggie Jones!

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The new issue of American Ethnologist (@amethno.bsky.social, 52.1, Feb 2025) features a forum titled "I was Wrong" featuring contributions from Veena Das, Hugh Gusterson, Carole McGranahan, Gil Hizi, Erin Routon, Meredith G. Marten, and Laura A. Meek. 1/3 #AnthroSky #Anthropology

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Useful reference to an ungated version of NBER Working Paper No. w33444 "Income Equality in the Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons"

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A nice thing you can do for yourself today is to install the Merlin Bird ID app from Cornell on your phone and take a walk outside and learn about some of the birds where you live. It identifies them by their call in real time. It is really fun and calming merlin.allaboutbirds.org

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EHES has an insightful new working paper by #KalleKapner👏 The paper is "The mortality impact of cholera in Germany"🇩🇪🤒🦠 👉Read all EHES working papers here: ehes.org/working-pape...

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Join us in 90 minutes — 9am EST/2pm GMT/3pm CET!

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In light of latest of steel/aluminum tariff threats, it's a good time to review the evidence. This work finds job losses in metals-using sectors outweigh job gains in metal sectors ~75 to 1. Steel Tariffs and U.S. Jobs Revisited econofact.org/steel-tariff... via @econofact.bsky.social

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We just added material transcribed from the 北洋职员录 to our online search so if you have interest in anyone who served as an official in the 北洋政府 1911-1924, take a look. Let us know if you find anything! We love hearing stories from users. searchjsl.leecampbellgroup.blog

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Outstanding analysis! Totally meeting the moment

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Out today: The Oxford Handbook of Mesolithic Europe with contributions by brilliant mesolithic specialists from across Europe. Solid and inspired research. The beautiful cover by Tom Björklund captures the human scale of the past - a fundamental theme for the book. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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I just posted some photos I took during a walk on the Isle of Kerrera near Oban back in January camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/Europe/Scotl...

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On February 8 Stephen Boyden, immunologist and human ecologist, turns 100! Still active in Canberra, Boyden worked with René Dubos & Frank Fenner, and from the early 1970s was warning of the health impacts of climate change. His most recent book is The Bionarrative (2016) #climate #histstm #envhist

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NEW! Dr Martin Goldberg of National Museums Scotland talks about the translation of THAT Old English runic inscription on the huge Hiberno-Scandinavian silver broadband armring from the Galloway Hoard. Part 1 of 3 🎬 Thanks to @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social @brucester74.bsky.social

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A vivid cross-section of the enslaved in pre-revolutionary Massachusetts: painter, runaway sailor, seamstress, tool-maker, servant, the ‘well-known’ Cato/Betty Cooper and a family providing for Harvard College students. And more coming in Black History Month! 🗃📗 📜 🍎 #history #AcademicSky

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1/ How should public health think about new GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic? Do pharmaceutical solutions undermine public health prevention efforts? In @milbankfund.bsky.social, Neil Mehta & I consider what new anti-obesity drugs might mean for population health. 🔗 www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...

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Analyzing the distinct adjustment paths of US labor markets (places) and US workers (people) to increased Chinese import competition during the 2000s, from David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Maggie R. Jones, and Bradley Setzler https://www.nber.org/papers/w33424

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🚀📈 Making Victorian visual culture searchable: Introducing an open-access and AI-powered dataset of 72,000 illustrations from the Illustrated London News (1842-1890). (w. Bethany Warner, @pfyfe.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social) openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

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The Basement Banker: How Leonard Lane's underground credit union fought financial discrimination in 1950s BC. #BlackHistoryMonth #canada #canadianhistory Let's learn more 👇 open.substack.com/pub/pinecone...

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To all econ students on the market and advisors: I am thinking about filling an additional postdoc position at the University of Mannheim working on portfolio choice, wealth inequality, and labor markets. Interested? If yes, please let me know! sites.google.com/site/kuhneco...

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Waiata Māori: Early Recordings Links to open-access recordings of waiata from the 78rpm era. Includes Ana Hato, Deane Waretini, Rotorua Māori Choir, Te Whānau Tahiwi, George Nepia, and Inia Te Wiata. A Digital NZ "story" I put together a few years ago. digitalnz.org/stories/5d66...

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Important new research! Big cities fuel inequality within and across generations. They generate wealth & high incomes but do not provide opportunities as they once did, especially for low-income neighborhoods & communities of color 📉📈🗃📗🍎 #history #polisky #geosky #sociology #AcademicSky #demography

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We're pleased to begin posting on BlueSky with today's new bio, the first in a 7-part series about enslaved Black people in Upper Canada. The first in the series tells the story of an enslaved Black woman (fl. 1802–3) whose name is unrecorded. #BlackHistoryMonth www.biographi.ca/en/bio/name_...

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“A ‘Red Rag’ to an Infuriated Bull”: American Flags, Canadian Vexilloclasts, and the Origins of Canadian Flag Culture, 1880–1930 doi.org/10.5840/rave...

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🚨 New working paper 🚨 I investigate wealth mobility in the United States using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). #EconSky #WealthMobility

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Happy to announce that my paper with Noel Maurer on labor coercion in colonial Peru has finally been upgraded to "published" by the Journal of Economic Growth. Share it please with your family, friends, colleagues, and enemies! #econhistory link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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For all our American neighbours who may be struggling to find accurate health information - thr Public Health Agency of Canada has a website you are more than welcome to use: www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

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Tom Power is a great interviewer

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Alex Persaud shows that a 1911 criminalization of select castes in Madras imposed new restrictions and reduced the share of indentured labourers returning home from Fiji at the end of their contracts. OA in the Asia-Pacific Econ His Rev 📉📈🗃📗 #history #AcademicSky #sociology #Fiji #Indiasky #polisky

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Applications are invited for an assistant professorship in rural North American history at the University of Guelph (near Toronto). Tenure-track, endowment support for research and student support. Application deadline 24 February. 🗃📗 #history #AcademicSky #Indigisky

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