Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

I hear they changed "toot" to "post"...... that's one #Hometown feature upstreamed

Very sad news from Italy, where the great economic historian Gianni Toniolo has died. He was a wonderful scholar and a generous academic citizen, both in Italy and on the European stage. Among other things he played an important role in promoting #econhist at the #CEPR. His history of the Bank of Italy was launched just three weeks ago at a glittering occasion in Rome. He was courtesy itself and was always very kind to me personally. He will be greatly missed. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam uasal.

@susanathey has arrived. Now the market will surely tip.

In case someone didn't know, two books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use:

#Bayesian Data Analysis, 3rd ed (aka BDA3) at https://stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/ and lectures plus #rstats, #Python and #Stan code at https://avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_Aalto/

#Regression and Other Stories at https://avehtari.github.io/ROS-Examples/ including #rstats and #Stan code

The web sites also have links to the publishers' web stores if you prefer hard copies of these

It's November and somehow the floral beauty continues into fall!!

#floral #flower #flowers #photography #photos #pixelfed #mastoart #art #botanical

✨ Hello Fediverse!

If you haven't heard of Pixelfed before, it is the fediverse equivalent to Instagram.

Imagine being able to follow your friends on Twitter from your IG account, on the fediverse you can!

Tomorrow is my first day as a software engineer at @bitwarden! My goal is to make computer security more user friendly 🤓

(Also, it is neat that my employer has a Mastodon account)

NEW: Mastodon users can now register their handle with RePEc. This allows to verify their RePEc profile on Mastodon. Watch your monthly RePEc email for the link.

https://ideas.repec.org/i/emastodon.html

#dailyRePEc

This one is for all the new people on #Mastodon: did you know that the #fediverse has more than just a microblogging replacement? And that they can all interoperate with your Mastodon account?

Check them out!

Facebook replacement: Friendica
Instagram replacement: Pixelfed
YouTube replacement: PeerTube
Spotify replacement: Funkwhale
MeetUp replacement: Mobilizon
Reddit replacement: Lemmy
Podcasting replacement: Castopod
GoodReads replacement: BookWyrm

Mastodon is really having a moment in mainstream news coverage. CNN, BBC, TIME, etc.

The influx of users will continue at an alarming rate. Remember to be welcoming, and kind, and positive, and helpful.

This isn't just an opportunity to improve the idea of social media, it's an opportunity to shine a wonderful light on #opensource.

I'll write more later on how Ed #Prescott's major contributions came to be, but in fact other economists did so in the 1970s to 1990s better than us

Today's #whosaidwhenhistecon is thus in honor of Prescott

So who said when (and to whom?) 1/n

"Prescott has written on finance..industrial org, macro, adaptative control, optimal control...bayesian econ. Tom has hit more home run than Ed, Ed has hit more doubles and triples. Ed is an all around basic price man..."

Honestly, this product is so great, I'd be happy to pay $8/month for Mastodon blue

And look - MIT already has a gated instance. Anyone who's on mastodon.mit.edu is verified to have an MIT email. Neat isn't it?
https://mastodon.mit.edu/

So the German government has set up its own #mastodon #instance, simplifying validation—official accounts are on the server. Super interesting and curious if/who else will follow suit.

https://social.bund.de/explore

User growth on http://econtwitter.net seems about linear? No idea if it will keep up.

I am unexpectedly excited to see @notjustbikes arrive on the scene!

If you don’t know them – absolutely fantastic YouTube vids on urban planning and the death-by-a-thousand-cuts of car centric city design

I like reading #introduction posts even from those I know, so here's mine:

I'm a researcher at the French CNRS. I study the applied practices of economists in the past 70 years or so, across fields (macro, urban, public, welfare etc), topics, methods & policy advice

I think that it is very important for economists & public at large to understand the history of their concepts, tools & models, so I try to post relevant research, archival nuggets & thread some stories

Home in the World: a memoir

Amartya Sen's autobiography, out last year
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324091615/about-the-book

some reviews:

By Antoinette Baujard:
https://read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article-abstract/54/5/1005/313469/Home-in-the-World-A-Memoir?redirectedFrom=fulltext

By Branco Milanovic : https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/26/05/2022/many-one-review-amartya-sens-home-world-memoir

If u want to migrate from your existing Mastodon server to econtwitter.net server without losing followers then follow these steps:

1. Sign up to econtwitter.net (u can use the same email address as your existing server)
2. In the new account, go to accounts and select "moving from another account".
3. Then enter your old account handle.
4. Now login to your old account, go to accounts, then select "moving to another account".
5. Then enter your new account handle.
6. Submit.

(from Google)