Florent Bédécarrats

I am delighted that my thesis, "The poverty-environment trap: Climate change, natural resources and population dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa," has received the Prize of the Association Française de Science Economique (AFSE)!

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

"I can't use Quarto because my coworkers don't code and they need to edit docume-" 👀 ✋🏼🔜 quarto.org/docs/blog/po... #rstats #quarto #databs

The debate on replicability and robustness in the social sciences isn't just academic. Selective reporting - especially in leading journals - undermines evidence-based policy. We illustrate this for the literature on infrastructure and rural electrification. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

J'ai signé (une deuxième fois). Et vous ? petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped

Actually let me do this proper

🧰 Resources for PhD students and young researchers The past few days, I have been collecting useful resources that might help younger researchers: - academic writing advice - data-management warnings - econometric tools and methods - and a few other things sites.google.com/view/philipp...

Le New-York Times Sur le travail de Philippe Collin Bravo Et merci Je suis justement en train de me régaler de lady Liberty que j’ai envoyé aussi à mon étudiant sciences Po préféré www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Greens, in England

You've heard about the @MarkJCarney speech. You should listen to it all. It is one of great speeches of all time. We will talk of this for decades. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQOr...

I watch the bulk of ashleythebaroness videos, despite rarely sharing them. But this one hit today. And she's right! We're not dealing with some foreign ideology. We're dealing with a uniquely American phenomenon. fascism wrapped in our own flag

Scandaleux et inimaginable ! Il faut revenir sur ce projet urgemment > En 2026, l'UE permettra aux États-Unis d'accéder nos données biométriques euractiv.fr/news/en-2026...

This is a great paper on residential segregation in Europe. See how Western Europe is rather much segregated.

Wrote up a little intervention post/explanation for my class about why using LLMs for trying to learn programming (as first time learners!) is bad and detrimental datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-11...

I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily slidecrafting-book.com #quarto

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭 anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

Just in case you were wondering why capital letters are also called "UPPERcase" :)

Happy to announce ✨quarto-revealjs-editable✨ This fully supersedes the imagemover extension, as I back then didn't realize the potential. You can now also move, resize, change font size and alignment for text in your slides github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto #slidecrafting

🗞️ La détermination des chercheurs et chercheuses face à l'inaction (et aux reculs) écologique(s) Merci @afeitz.bsky.social d'avoir recueilli nos propos pour @lesechosfr.bsky.social.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

You can watch Hadley's keynote at this link: www.youtube.com/live/ctc2kx3... #useR2025

Is there any game-theoretic framework showing some short or long-term benefit to EU in the Von der Leyen-Trump deal?

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

“The starvation of Gaza can be measured in the jutting ribs of a 6-year-old girl.” 📝 Vivian Yee 📷 Saher Alghorra @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/w...

“Extreme-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has warned that with this new plan, “within a few months ... Gaza will be totally destroyed”.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

"Never again" means not this, ever: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

"The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has depleted all its food stocks for families in Gaza. Today, WFP delivered its last remaining food stocks to hot meals kitchens in the Gaza Strip. These kitchens are expected to fully run out of food in the coming days." www.wfp.org/news/wfp-run...

"The soldiers reloaded their magazines and kept shooting even after it was clear that no return fire was coming from the other side – and despite the cries of the aid workers who tried to identify themselves." From Haaretz. archive.ph/4vam4

livefreeordichotomize.com by @lucystats.bsky.social matthewbjane.github.io/blog.html by @matthewbjane.bsky.social www.andrewheiss.com/blog/ by the king @andrew.heiss.phd ngreifer.github.io/blog/ by yours truly (can't resist a self-promotion 😉) Stats blogs are the best!

The plan to prove that the most incompetent White men are preferable to the most highly qualified Black men has been a smashing success. Between the tariff lunacy tanking the economy, the chain-sawing of the federal govt, & Signal-gate (parts 1 & 2), the supremacy is not looking very supreme.

The "Getting Started in R - Tinyverse Edition" eight-page pdf guide now has a 2nd edition using, appropriately, `tinyplot` as the plotting package. See github.com/eddelbuettel... for more. #rstats

At last, someone who understands how tariffs are going to make America great again! xkcd.com/3073/

Je ne sais pas si elle est étrange, mais cette victoire-ci est inattendue. Merci aux jurys du prix du Livre politique, aux étudiant.es, et à @assembleenationale.bsky.social.

An Israeli bombing of a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City killed at least 27, as hundreds of thousands flee Rafah in one of the war’s largest displacements amid Israel’s new push to “divide up” Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Hey! @wimthiery.bsky.social is here and you might want to follow him for climate stuff. That is all.

Real photo of an econ seminar during the introduction slide:

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN

Bonjourrrr

Al Jazeera Correspondent Hossam Shabat was killed by Israeli forces today in a targeted strike on is car. He was 23 years old. His final social media post reported fellow journalist Mohammed Mansour’s killing an hour earlier. ≈200 of our colleagues have now been killed in Gaza.

“Destroying American Science is Not Patriotic” - my opening remarks for the recent @ucbitss.bsky.social Annual Meeting here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBnl...

Difference-in-differences practitioners be like

If econ memes had a Nobel Prize, @khoavuumn.bsky.social would have won it by popular acclaim. He's beloved in our community of online economists for his kindness and wit. Definite follow.