Daniela Scur

Tenure Track, Assistant Professor Position at The Department of Economics Description and QualificationThe Department of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) seeks candidates for one tenure-track assistant professor po...

Come work with me!

Stockholm Sch of Econ (@handels_sse ) is hiring Assistant Professors this year, both in Economics (my dept) and in Finance.

By revealed preference, I think it’s a great place to work + a lovely city to live in.

Econ advert below:

jobs.hhs.se/en/job/stock...

Bumi the 1-year-old rockhopper penguin played during a bubble enrichment activity at the Saint Louis Zoo.

Southern rockhopper penguins, like Bumi, are listed as a vulnerable species by the World Wildlife Fund.

TIL!

Super interesting work, important and expertly summarized by @marome1.bsky.social (but also go read the paper loads of great details there!)

We have put together a template repository, the SoDa Replicator, to help you build reproducible and collaborative projects and have the content automatically reviewed against a custom replication checklist. Feedback welcome.

github.com/sodalabsio/s...

Video tuorials: youtube.com/@sodareplica...

Again, the dictionary account FTW

This is Barrett. He keeps trying to howl along with his big sister Hazel. Personally finds the practice repulsive but refuses to be left out. 13/10 for both (TT: jennyrae23)

I feel seen

Lol the JUDGEMENT in her eyes, right??? "Uhm........ Do I have to draw this for you? It happens every day. How do you not know this already?"

Aussie Shephard dog sneaking her face around a chair, begging to go outside and play ball

My doggo Arran SENSES 3pm. She decided that's ball time, and every day anyone is home at 3pm she will come and do her ball dance until you to outside and play ball with her.

Exciting news. We are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Public Policy. Focus areas: environmental policy, international development, or poverty.
Link:
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Submission Deadline: November 3, 2025.
Don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions.

Bestie sent me this today:

"I just saw a video where a woman said:

'I'm not being mean, I'm just not actively making you comfortable'

And henceforth I will be using that line until the day I die."

And oh sister, I love it.

For grad students or postdocs out there: let me know if you'd like to present in my department's (Ed Policy, Org, & Leadership) Quantitative Working Group meeting Wednesday of next week (October 8) at 3pm Central time. Work at any stage is fine, it's very informal. I have a presenter gap this month.

I have screenshotted the first three paragraphs of the introduction. It reads: Methods for the computation of derivatives in computer programs can be classified into four categories: (1) manually working out derivatives and coding them; (2) numerical differentiation using finite difference approximations; (3) symbolic differentiation using expression manipulation in computer algebra systems such as Mathematica, Maxima, and Maple; and (4) automatic differentiation, also called algorithmic differentiation, which is the subject matter of this paper. Conventionally, many methods in machine learning have required the evaluation of derivatives and most of the traditional learning algorithms have relied on the computation of gradients and Hessians of an objective function (Sra et al., 2011). When introducing new models, machine learning researchers have spent considerable effort on the manual derivation of analytical derivatives to subsequently plug these into standard optimization procedures such as L-BFGS (Zhu et al., 1997) or stochastic gradient descent (Bottou, 1998). Manual differentiation is time consuming and prone to error. Of the other alternatives, numerical differentiation is simple to implement but can be highly inaccurate due to round-off and truncation errors (Jerrell, 1997); more importantly, it scales poorly for gradients, rendering it inappropriate for machine learning where gradients with respect to millions of parameters are commonly needed. Symbolic differentiation addresses the weaknesses of both the manual and numerical methods, but often results in complex and cryptic expressions plagued with the problem of “expression swell” (Corliss, 1988). Furthermore, manual and symbolic methods require models to be defined as closed-form expressions, ruling out or severely limiting algorithmic control flow and expressivity. We are concerned with the powerful fourth technique, automatic differentiation (AD). AD performs a non-standard interpretation of a given c…

Today let us read Baydin et al (2018) Automatic Differentiation in Machine Learning: A Survey

arxiv.org/pdf/1502.05767

Except now I have this song in my head

10/10. No notes.

🆕 Culture and economic development 📢

Today on VoxDevTalks, Natalie Bau (UCLA), @saralowes.bsky.social (@ucsandiego.bsky.social) & @eduardomontero.bsky.social (Harris School of Public Policy) discuss how culture shapes economic policy and, consequently, development: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

Come hear what Larry Katz, Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Kei Hirano, Francesca Molinari, and Andres Santos think about publishing econometrics in general interest journals!

Tomorrow's Chamberlain Seminar: 12pm ET

RIGHT??? I'm obsessed with it. When I move it comes with me in my hand luggage!

An ice cream scoop on a countertop, but not just any ice cream scoop - a Claudia Goldin ice cream scoop!

Claudia Goldin giving a lecture in a university hall with slides behind her

Highlight of my day was not just having lunch with the amazing Claudia Goldin, but learning she's responsible for my favourite kitchen item: my ice cream scoop.

She has not just been an inspiration for my professional life but has also directly, heavily improved my personal life!

What a star.

Fellow econ folks! We are hiring! Come work with me and my delightful colleagues at The University of Melbourne!

Applications close November 23, 2025

Link: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UoM_Ex...

We're hiring a research associate or research manager for a project in the DRC! This is a great opportunity for anyone who is interested in gaining very hands-on research and work experience in a low-income country in partnership with the local government. Also a great preparation for a PhD.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

a photo of a golden retriever puppy, named Douglas, sitting on a black bed in a playpen. Douglas is sweetly looking up at the camera with a stuffed duck in his mouth.

This is Douglas. He just got a new stuffed duck friend and is so excited. Thinks he's gonna call them Ducklas. 12/10 (IG: thatgoldendouglas)

This is Finny. He doesn’t go chasing waterfalls. He carefully studies their timing and arrives in advance. 14/10 very impressive (TT: jordancain70)

This is why one should follow the dictionary account

An Open Letter to Bluey’s Parents: Please Stop Mum. Dad. Let me begin by saying I’m a fan. You are truly two of the finest method actors of your dog generation. Your commitment to playing Ground...

"As if the dancing weren’t enough, when my kids yell 'HEAVY,' I’m expected to pantomime that whatever I’m holding is unbearably heavy. That works fine with a pen. It’s even manageable with a cup of hot coffee. But when holding your best friend’s newborn?"

🫂❤️

🚨🚨 Pre-doc Hiring! 🚨🚨

We are hiring pre-docs to start in Princeton in Summer 2026, supporting Pascaline Dupas, @thomasfujiwara.bsky.social @seema.bsky.social and Mica Sviatschi. This is a great opportunity to gain experience in development economics research before applying to PhD programs. Link 👇

Kayak trip with the lab in Deep Cove BC

🚨postdoc opportunity at UBC🚨 applications are now open for the Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, due internally Oct. 15 - www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam...

I can nominate 1 person and give feedback on that nominee's materials - if interested plz email me by Sept. 10 - join us!