Yotam Sofer

I grew up in a country who thought high school students some of the landmark Supreme Court decisions. One of which banned the use of human shields. Another one defined the right to refuse an unlawful command.

That Israel ceased to exist.

This war is criminal.
IT MUST STOP!

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📢 The next #REGIS seminar will occur this Friday, May 9, 2025, at 12.30 PM CET.

🤓 Jing Zhao (Mälardalen University 🇸🇪) will present the paper by Erik Brynjolfsson, Danielle Li, and Lindsey Raymond, titled "Generative AI at Work," published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2025).

I stand for peace and justice for Israel 🇮🇱 and Palestine 🇵🇸

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Not “destruction”.

See captions from @haaretzcom.bsky.social (Hebrew and English version).

Regards of semantics, these are the predominant voices you hear from Israel for a while now.

This must stop. It stands in contrast to all the Jewish values I was raised to uphold. 2/3

Trying to avoid politics here but I can’t remain silent. According to this report: a member of Likud, Netanyahu’s party, said that Israel is moving to “major event of destruction and displacement”. However, as if this is not bad enough, the Hebrew word he used was actually “extermination” 1/3

I suspect there is a seniority gap here (seniors focus on framing/ contributions, juniors on methods/data)..

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Submitted my PhD dissertation today. Now, that’s a productive Monday.

These days of university funding weaponisation, global democratic backsliding, and landmark antitrust lawsuit against major science publishers for sure makes writing the introduction of my economics of science PhD dissertation interesting.

No shortage of motivations.

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This picture offers a bit of normalcy in a-world-gone-mad.

Villa in the jungle.

Had some time to listen to pods the last day or two.
Man.. the way the Tech world is seizing on the Trump victory is absolutely terrifying.

The Problem of Bigness: From Standard Oil to Google (Summer 2019) - This article sets recent expressions of alarm about the monopoly power of technology giants such as Google and Amazon in the long history of Americans' response to big business. I arg...

The last couple of years, and especially the run up to a second Trump administration, reminds me of this paper:

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The bright side is that we’ve been down this road before, and if there will be will, there will be a way to tackle the problem of bigness.

Brazil gives Meta 72 hours to explain changes to fact-checking program Brazil's government will give Meta until Monday to explain the program, Solicitor General Jorge Messias said on Friday.

After X, Brazil takes on Meta. Eyes on Brazil.

www.reuters.com/technology/b...

But do we know research expended faster then population growth? I’m not sure…
What I would believe is that reduction in relative real wages & increased competition for talent is driving the best talent away from (academic) science. But the jury is still out!
Related: journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5...

Thanks for tagging me @mattsclancy.bsky.social

I did not explicitly test whether null effects (e.g., on policy citations) are tightly bounded, but a quick look at the CIs exclude meaningful increases, the link attached will lead you to the full draft. Happy to hear your thoughts.

I am very thankful for the continuous support of my senior colleagues, and their constructive feedback.

Much work to come!

Oh, and a massive shout out to @hckongsted.bsky.social who is (among many other things) the man behind PhD day :)

It was even more special as I took the stage a bit after Astrid Thomsen, who brilliantly presented our coauthored paper “From the ivory tower to Capitol Hill: Which academics get a voice in congress?”

I presented my paper “Being your own master: How constraints on academic freedom affect firm performance”, coauthored with @hckongsted.bsky.social and @valentinatartari.bsky.social.

Today was a special day, it was my fifth and (hopefully) last time presenting at Copenhagen Business School’s Department of Strategy and Innovation’s PhD day!

Congrats!

My husband just asked me which @dacemoglumit.bsky.social books we have at home.

8 years together, now, more than ever, I’m sure he’s the one 😍

A great service, boost your visibility by sending your JMP to @mattsclancy.bsky.social

I was lucky enough to somehow collect amazing, devoted, and genuine mentors along the way, the kind that stay even when I changed jobs or moved countries.

It’s a massive privilege.

Proud owner of two subscriptions (Eng & Heb).

Haaretz is not perfect. But it’s one of the last sources of credible information in Israel.

Now the Israeli government is trying to shut them down.

Disgraceful.

I am on the job market, which seems like a great opportunity for my first post on here! My job market paper is about failures of contingent thinking -- the act of reasoning about hypothetical events. 1/

@bsky.app, a week after I left Twitter:

Pros: Almost surpassing the number of followers I had on Twitter. Much less addictive. Much less toxicity.

Cons: don’t know most of my followers. My feed is not yet ‘calibrated’. Content is interesting but targeting is off (not sure it’s bad).

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In my view, this exclusivity risks eroding trust in economic science, stifling idea generation, and leading to bad science—all of which could fuel even more distrust.

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I’ve spent a good chunk of time analyzing data on academic economists, and while I’ve grown somewhat desensitized, there are still moments when the sheer elitism of the field catches me off guard. It’s everywhere I look.