Andreas Menzel

What if parental leave policies shape kids’ career paths?

👩‍👦 @sofianasinani.bsky.social's award-winning project shows boys with longer maternal care apply less to “female” university fields.

📚 A fresh look at gender norms+policy.

🏆 RES 2025 Best Poster Prize

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People always ask me : “Cristi, how do you manage parenting a baby while going up for tenure?”

It’s easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents:

Sleep when the baby sleeps
Cry when the baby cries
Publish when the baby publishes

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review

Nikkei found academics had written "give a positive review only" and "do not highlight any negatives" in white text or tiny font on 17 preprints to combat AI peer reviews.

asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.

What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?

A 🧵

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Havent studied this professionally but used public transport all my life, and can state that for me showing up and seeing 10 minutes or more to wait feels frustrating. 6-9 minutes is ok-ish, 5 or less feels good. The gold standard should be a 5 minutes rythm, if at all possible.

We will close this post next Wednesday! @amenzelecon.bsky.social

Research Assistant Position: The Brotherhood of the Traveling Pants - Evidence from Employers in Jordan | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

Come work with me, Paolo Falco, @amenzelecon.bsky.social and Lisa Ho in Jordan! Looking for a full-time RA. povertyactionlab.org/careers/rese... Please repost!

Best take so far on this story!

Though, indeed, the post reunification differences seem sharper at the borders than the pre-WW2 differences. So there do seem to be some causal effects of the separation.

Greens moving from hipster Kreuzberg/Wedding to serene Charlottenburg and Schöneberg is really telling. Curious to see if Die Linke, freed from the BSW stalinists, will become the Greens of the next generation.

I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.

Putin’s Three Years of Humiliation The Russian president can’t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades its allies to betray it.

this, at least, is clear: "Trump is genuinely bored of the war. He doesn’t understand it. He doesn’t know why it started. He doesn’t know how to stop it. He wants to change the channel and watch something else."
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The tears were shed because it was his farewell as chairman of the security conference.

Ohne Worte ...

USAID What’s Happening & Why it Matters

What can you do about the assault on USAID?

Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Can't install reghdfe on new computer. Is it because it is on a federal server??

Me 29 yo econ grad student: capital income taxes are efficient and fair, makes sense.

Me 38 old academic: Lets make up for lost years paid into pension system with some ETFs

Me 39 old academic: WTH, capital income taxes are highway robbery, worse!!

Since becoming a dad a few years ago, the disconnect between the astounding beauty of seeing my child grow up, and the darkness that seems to engulf the larger (political) world around us, has been jarring for me. Still not sure how to deal with that. Tune out of the social media doom machine?

No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960 With A Personal Coda

Excellent post from @global-developments.org (with a moving personal story).

No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960 www.global-developments.org/p/no-south-k...

I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up: