Thread of surreal archeological discoveries 🧵 1. Roman mosaic found under Italian vineyard

My thoughts on my way back to Lithuania after the NATO Summit.🧵

Childcare Regulations May Be Stifling Fertility, New Paper Finds fee.org/articles/child…

Please find our (Alan Kramer, Jonas Scherner, Samuël Kruizinga and my) piece on blockade in the era of the world wars The International History Review Journal here👇We map the state of the field and develop a research framework for approaching the subject. It is open access doi.org/10.1080/070753…

Six months ago I wrote a viral thread, arguing that NATO has 2-3 years to prepare for Russia challenging NATO Art 5. I wanted to revisit the topic for a while. In light of @JDVance1's pick as VP, today seems as good as any. TLDR: panic should set in. 1/15

Thread of surreal drawings 🧵 1. Mike Tyson by Fabrice Goosens

RAD No. 314, exploring issues of #data secrecy and data privacy in #Russia, is now available online. Thanks to Mark Harrison, Cedar collective, and Nikita Zakharov for their expert analysis. Download the free PDF: css.ethz.ch/content/dam/et…

My short essay "Russia's Arc of Secrecy in the Twenty-First Century" appears in the new issue of @RussAnalDigest -- thanks to Fabian Burkhardt for his help css.ethz.ch/content/dam/et… Warwick Newsroom CAGE @ Warwick Warwick Economics The British Academy

The art of making marble look transparent 🧵 1. The Veiled Virgin by Giovanni Strazza

There is a reason why Russia demolishes the memory of a Soviet atrocities, while erecting and reimposing monuments of Lenin and Soviet empire - it is a symbolic form of dominance. The past never happened, not the way you think. Russia was always here and there is no alternative.

🧵1/2 According to polls, over 70 percent of Israelis want Netanyahu to resign. Over 70 percent of Republicans cheered him enthusiastically. That's a perfectly compatible set of data haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

China appears to be stockpiling materials at a rapid pace. This is worrying Americans, and not just because it could fuel inflation by raising commodity prices econ.st/3WAfnCO 👇

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Thread of the most surreal villages on Earth 🧵 1. Marpissa in Paros, Greece

Ukraine has the largest delegation in the country's history at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. Guess why.

Misinformed about misinformation: Are ordinary citizens really helpless to distinguish truth from lies, and is misinformation as prevalent as we have been led to believe? ft.com/content/4b2ee5…

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📢 #PublicationAlert "Religion and Growth", by Project Leader Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin and Ludger Woessmann has been published in the latest issue of AEA Journals Journal of Economic Literature: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10… In this paper, the authors provide a framework for

Congratulations Sascha O. Becker new fellow of Academy of Social Sciences