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Enrique Fatas

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Prof in Behavioral Economics at the Universidad Europea in Madrid and Valencia (Spain), working on behavioral public policy, social norms, discrimination, development, and conflict. #BehavioralScience #BehaviouralScience .. more

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Enrique Fatas @enriquefatas.bsky.social · Sep 9

Where are you, @alvarolaparra.bsky.social ? Welcome to La Terreta

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Anna Reuter @anna-reuter.de · Aug 27

Information session on the Master program in #DevEcon @uni-goettingen.de for prospective international non-EU applicants:
📆 Tomorrow (28th), 2 pm German time on Zoom

#EconSky #Postgrad #Students

Come to Göttingen! 😀 Information event for prospective students/applicants from Non-EU/EEA countries: August 28, 2025, 14:00, Zoom: https://lnkd.in/eQZKsMvY Application window for citizens from… | Wi...

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · Aug 27

🌍 How can we use behaviour change to tackle real-world challenges?
See how our Introductory Course uses sustainability examples to bring behaviour change to life 👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/explor...
📅 Next course starts 6 October - sign up: www.futurelearn.com/courses/beha...
@susanmichie.bsky.social

Sustainability & Behaviour Change: A look inside our introductory course

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Antonio Fatas @antoniofatas.bsky.social · Aug 25

Very good article by @martinsandbu.ft.com. I am still debating whether pragmatism now to prepare for a future confrontation might make sense. But when I hear European leaders praise Trump I do feel like the title of this article: they are selling our soul.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Aug 25

Europe is selling its soul to Trump on.ft.com/3JBTEGx | opinion

Europe is selling its soul to Trump

What masquerades as pragmatism is self-harming opportunism

on.ft.com

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Enrique Fatas @enriquefatas.bsky.social · Aug 17

Unbelievable!!!

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Enrique Fatas @enriquefatas.bsky.social · Aug 16

Same experience here with a couple or recent tests. Perplexity Pro always failed when I tested it, no matter the LLM engine chosen, @carlbergstrom.com

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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · Aug 15

Apply for funding to work with me and Gord at Cornell!

Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · Aug 15

Interested in doing a postdoc with me & @dgrand.bsky.social? Consider applying to Cornell's Klarman Fellowship: as.cornell.edu/research/kla...

It involves a competitive internal application process, but it's 3 years of funding @$80k/year

Please email me/Dave if you're interested! Oct 15th deadline

Klarman Fellowships

The Klarman Fellowships in the College of Arts & Sciences provide postdoctoral opportunities to early-career scholars of outstanding talent, initiative and promise. Among the most selective of its kin...

as.cornell.edu

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · Aug 14

As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview.
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

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Enrique Fatas @enriquefatas.bsky.social · Aug 13

Until mother says “I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do it” or “I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do”… :-(

Enrique Fatas @enriquefatas.bsky.social · Aug 12

As densely populated apartments significantly outperform detached houses across virtually every environmental metric, Spain should be considered an environmental paradise, @kikollan.llaneras.es ??

Es una pregunta genuina, que conste.

Enrique Fatas @enriquefatas.bsky.social · Aug 12

Trust in science/scientific expertise is an essential ingredient of successful public policies. Great thread by @carlbergstrom.com below. A few years ago I wrote with Cristina Bicchieri on this topic:

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Laura K Gee @laurakgee.bsky.social · Aug 11

Come hang with me at the Advances with Field Experiments (AFE) in Chicago Sept 18/19! ALSO pls submit a paper for the prizes (I’m helping judge and I’d like to see variety in the submissions!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Enrique Fatas @enriquefatas.bsky.social · Aug 11

Cronyism, I’d call it

Enrique Fatas @enriquefatas.bsky.social · Aug 10

Thanks for sharing, @alvarolaparra.bsky.social :-)

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Enrique Fatas @enriquefatas.bsky.social · Aug 10

Me estoy perdiendo algo, @jl-ferr.bsky.social ? Yo siempre me he definido como migrant (y nunca como ex-pat).

Enrique Fatas @enriquefatas.bsky.social · Aug 10

En inglés sí que hay esa distinción: migrant (as a person who moves regularly in order to find work especially in harvesting crops, Webster), versus immigrant (a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence) 2/n

Enrique Fatas @enriquefatas.bsky.social · Aug 10

Pregunta genuina: la RAE define a migrante como el que migra, o sea el que se traslada desde el lugar en que se habita a otro diferente. 1/n

Enrique Fatas @enriquefatas.bsky.social · Aug 10

Part of a strategy to hide reality as it is and prevent people from seeing the King as it is: Naked

Enrique Fatas @enriquefatas.bsky.social · Aug 10

A miserable WPost headline, btw

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · Aug 7

Google Gemini doesn’t appear to be doing too well:

‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’

Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments

Google Gemini users said the bot is sharing self-loathing messages while attempting to solve tasks, including "I am a disgrace to this universe."

www.businessinsider.com

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Antonio Fatas @antoniofatas.bsky.social · Jul 30

Yes, but let's be clear about the narrative: this was not a trade deal. The US can always impose 15% tariffs on the EU, no need for Europe to agree. What was agreed is that the EU will not retaliate after that imposition (plus some other details that no one yet understands).

The EU has validated Trump’s bullying trade agenda

The US president’s deals are not a win-win for the global economy

on.ft.com

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Antonio Fatas @antoniofatas.bsky.social · Jul 30

To state the obvious, the US economy has slowed down in 2025. Growth rates by semester (to remove the noise associated to imports/inventories dynamics in first two quarters)

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Enrique Fatas @enriquefatas.bsky.social · Jul 28

And bad news for democracy everywhere

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Enrique Fatas @enriquefatas.bsky.social · Nov 28

A gentle reminder of the Call for Papers we circulated a while ago (see original thread below). If interested, do not leave it for later and submit now! If you are a PhD student ready to present your work in a poster session, register and submit your work ASAP!

#BehavioralScience
#EconSky

Enrique Fatas @enriquefatas.bsky.social · Nov 17

Together with Jordi Brandts (CSIC) and Shaun Hargreaves-Heap (Department of Political Economy, King’s College London), we are excited to organize the 3rd Workshop in Behavioral Economics@Europea (WoBE@E) on Behavior and Governance in Valencia (Spain) next December 18th to 20th.

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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. @estebanjq.bsky.social · Feb 15

Stand up to Elongate!

Powerful image by Zez Vaz zezvaz.com

Pass it on 🙏🏼💪🏼👊🏼✊🏼

A single person standing defiantly in front of a column of Tesla Cyber Trucks (aka, Musk Shit Bricks)

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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · Mar 16

It’s human trafficking of Venezuelans to a foreign country, paying El Salvador, who gets slave labor from them in one of the most brutal prisons on earth.

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Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting @handle.invalid · Apr 15

“We are investing in community violence intervention (CVI) programs because street outreach by credible messengers and behavioral science-informed interventions help de-escalate stressful situations before they lead to violence."

A new $20 million grant is available for community organizations working on violence prevention efforts in Chicago • The TRiiBE

In a joint announcement, local officials announce a new grant that will fund street outreach and case management for residents impacted by gun violence.

thetriibe.com

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Eugenio Verrina @verrinaeugenio.bsky.social · Apr 15

🚨PhD position in Experimental and Behavioral Economics at GATE Lyon 🚨

The candidate will be co-supervised by myself and a colleague at GATE. If you know any strong candidates (or if you're one!), feel free to reach out.

Deadline: May 15, 2025

Happy to answer questions! Full call in link below.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · Apr 15

Feels like we are in a threshold cascade: I will join as long as X percent of my alters join. You will join as long as Y percent of your alters join. These sorts of things can domino through networks but they can also come to an abrupt halt if a pivotal node does not reach its threshold.

Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · Apr 15

Stanford’s president and provost release a statement supporting Harvard. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l...

Stanford president and provost back Harvard in funding fight

The president and provost said Harvard’s rejection of government demands was “rooted in the American tradition of liberty.”

stanforddaily.com

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · Jul 27

We have deal 🇪🇺🇺🇸

Together, the EU and the US are a market of 800 million people.

And nearly 44 percent of global GDP.

It’s the biggest trade deal ever ↓

europa.eu/!gRXhqQ

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