Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

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

Hello JMCs of #EconTwitter: our dept at Warwick Econ has 3 AP positions this year (open fields) and a 3-year postdoc in econometrics. 👇
https://econjobmarket.org/positions/8871
https://econjobmarket.org/positions/9040

We are a very lively department, with great students from UG to PHDs, and 2nd in the UK for research.

Get in touch if you have questions about the dept/life in the UK.
We also want to emphasize that we especially welcome applications from #LGBTQ and minority applicants.

This academic directory
allows you to follow a discipline in bulk with a few clicks. Incredible quick start discovery tool.
🐱https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
#Sociology
#STS Science and Technology Studies
#PoliticalScience
#Geography
#History and #Philosophy of Science
#Philosophy
#History (Google Spreadsheet)
#Philosophers and Philosophy Teachers

Bravo to @hendrikerz
🐘https://scholar.social/@hendrikerz/109281004549755949
#TwitterMigration #AcademicTwitter #AcademicMastodon #Academic
#FollowFriday #FF #fediverse #feditips

There is now a Mastodon server just for #EconTwitter!

Thanks to @paulgp for building this lifeboat

If you’re looking for a server this is a great option

https://econtwitter.net/about/more

And now @undercoverhistorian is here! Hooray

For the most part #EconTwitter was a warm and supportive haven on the bird site, and I trust that this offshoot on Mastodon will prove to be the same.

I don't think Mastodon or the fediverse has ever received this much attention before. It's a great opportunity for people to finally see that social media can be done differently, that it can be a protocol not under control of any single company.

Hierarchies in the economics profession: how did we get there? — @undercoverhistorian
https://theundercoverhistorian.substack.com/p/hierarchies-in-the-economics-profession

@amoroso Thanks. Looks like I have arrived in the Fediverse.

Did you know that the European Union had an official Mastodon instance where only official EU institutions could open an account?

https://social.network.europa.eu/explore

No need to pay for a blue checkmark, accounts on this instance are, by definition, officials.

That’s Fediverse done right!

I set up #ActivityPub on my #WordPress website and it totally works, #AMA

#Blog #Writing

Time for an #introduction.

I'm a sociologist at UMich, and director of Organizational Studies.

I recently published a book, Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy.

I'm a cancer survivor trying to figure out life in a permanently changed body.

When I can, I'm looking to the past to think about what kind of intellectual movement could smash #neoliberalism.

#sociology #economics #histodons #sts #histsci #medsoc #chronicillness #highered #academic

It's so weird. As I've been spending more time on Mastodon, not once has someone mocked me and told me to "cry moar". I thought that's how social media works these days.