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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 13d

AI Acquihires: Competition Risks, Talent Battles and Economic Spillovers Webinar - 8 October @ 17:00 CEST

🗣️Jonathan Kanter @lugaricano.bsky.social @imarinescu.bsky.social @igorletina.bsky.social Hans Zenger

Moderator: @florianederer.bsky.social
Register: cepr.org/events/ai-ac...
#EconSky

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Marita Freimane @maritafreimane.bsky.social · 14d

With a great feature in @theguardian.com! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Bernhard Ganglmair @ganglmair.bsky.social · Aug 27

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS

👩‍🎓 Workshop Disclosure, Information Sharing, and Secrecy
DISS 2026
📅 February 23-24, 2026
🔬 Online (Zoom)

Deadline: November 15

Submit papers on information disclosure (or non-disclosure) in econ, mgmt science, accounting, law, et al.

#EconSky
#EconConf
@tmartens.bsky.social

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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · Aug 26

Dear journalists:

The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.

Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

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404 Media @404media.co · Jul 23

ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-hall...

ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It

Welcome to the era of ‘gaslight driven development.’ Soundslice added a feature the chatbot thought it existed after engineers kept finding screenshots from the LLM in its error logs.

www.404media.co

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Christian Traxler @chtraxler.bsky.social · Jul 21

[email protected] & IfW Kiel are jointly 🚨 recruiting a Professor of International Economics🚨 (Associate/Full).

👉 apply.interfolio.com/169770

Great opportunity to join Berlin's thriving econ community. No kings here.

Deadline: Sep 30, 2025

Please share widely! #EconSky

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Elliott Ash @elliottash.bsky.social · May 26

Call for Papers:

The 4th Annual Zurich Workshop in AI+Economics

to be held Dec 5-6, 2025, hosted by ETH Zurich and University of Zurich.

Info: eash.cc/AI-econ
Submit (by Aug 15th): eash.cc/AI-econ-sub-2025

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Pietro Biroli @pietrobiroli.bsky.social · May 20

🧵New paper out:

“Beyond Time: Unveiling the Invisible Burden of Mental Load”

with Barigozzi, Monfardini, Montinari, @elenapisanelli.bsky.social @svevav.bsky.social

🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2505.11426

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Beyond Time: Unveiling the Invisible Burden of Mental Load

This paper introduces a novel, scalable methodology to measure individual perceptions of gaps in mental load -- the cognitive and emotional burden associated with organizing household and childcare ta...

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · May 6

This is an incredibly important paper.

If you're an antitrust scholar and you're getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by a dominant monopolist as expert witness in a lawsuit that's in your research area, shouldn't you disclose that work on your CV?

www.nber.org/papers/w3364...

The Conflict-of-Interest Discount in the Marketplace of Ideas

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Raffaella Sadun @raffasadun.bsky.social · Apr 30

🚨 We’re hiring! The Digital Reskilling Lab at Harvard is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join our research on workforce development, labor markets and AI.

Apply here 👉 academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14918

#EconJobs #Postdoc #FutureOfWork #AI #LaborEconomics #Harvard

Postdoctoral Fellow with the Digital Reskilling Lab - Digital, Data, and Design Institute

The Digital Reskilling Lab, led by Professors Raffaella Sadun and Jorge Tamayo, is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow. The mission of the Digital Reskilling Lab is to conduct research on workplace initiati...

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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · Apr 12

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

David D. Levine @daviddlevine.com · Apr 12

LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."

LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'

www.theregister.com

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Jann Spiess @jannspiess.bsky.social · Apr 8

Last chance to apply to this year's Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute, our AI/ML summer school for graduate students, co-organized with @sendhil.bsky.social @asheshrambachan.bsky.social @aleximas.bsky.social @lindseyraymond.bsky.social: www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen... #econsky

Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute 2025 (MLESI25)

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Marita Freimane @maritafreimane.bsky.social · Apr 8

Back home after a fantastic Platform Analytics workshop at UC San Diego – totally worth the long trip. Huge thanks to the organizers for putting together such a great event and for including me in the program. I can highly recommend it! platformanalytics.org

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Apr 5

Drag 'em, Rupert.

Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · Apr 5

Brutal Wall Street Journal front page today: “Trump Heads to Golf Club Amid Tariff Turmoil"

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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · Apr 5

We just posted Workshop on Platform Analytics Day 1 talk videos!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlBp...

Gender Bias, Feedback, and Productivity: Marita Freimane (Zurich)

YouTube video by Workshop on Platform Analytics

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Jonas Vlachos @jonasvlachos.bsky.social · Mar 13

Dear academic economists! Two weeks left to apply to a position as full professor at the Econ Dept @stockholm-uni.bsky.social. in Sweden, academic - and personal - freedoms are deeply respected. And the microdata is awesome! Deadline March 31! #econsky su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Professor in Economics

Department of Economics For more information about us, please visit: Department of Economics Subject/subject description Economics, with no restrictions on field of research. Main responsibilities Res

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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · Mar 25

📆 1 Apr. @ 17:00 CEST - Media Plurality #Webinar Session 8
"The Political Effects of X's Recommender #Algorithm" with @phinifa.bsky.social. Followed by a discussion with Jean-Lou Fourquet @apreslabiere.fr.
Moderator: Julia Cagé
✍️ cepr.org/events/polit...
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This session will feature Professor Philine Widmer (PSE), who will present her latest paper, “The Political Effects of X's Recommender Algorithm” (co-authored with Germain Gauthier, Roland Hodler, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya). Drawing on a large-scale field experiment, Philine's work examines the effects of Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on user engagement and political beliefs. Their findings reveal that switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed not only increases engagement but also nudges users toward more conservative positions.

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · Mar 24

"how firms capitalize on digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, for economic growth, and the challenges faced during this transformation"

Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · Mar 24

A great job for the right person (PhD, a decent publication record, data anlysis skills): research fellow on the economics of digital innovation at the @ec.europa.eu recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/vacancy/1699

recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · Mar 22

Nice experiment demonstrating monopoly power: ability to "reduce quality without losing significant business" - well done!

Jacob Parry @jacob-parry.bsky.social · Mar 21

Google contends that “European news content in Search has no measurable impact on ad revenue for Google,” citing tests of user behaviour.
blog.google/around-the-g...

Our experiment on the value of European news content

We launched an experiment measuring the value of European news results for Google which showed that European news content in Search has no measurable impact on ad revenu…

blog.google

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · Mar 7

"no thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent" okay she cooked actually. i needed to hear that.

Adriana Guatame-García @adrianaguatame.bsky.social · Mar 6

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · Feb 23

Reminder to please submit! Deadline is Feb 28.

#econsky

Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · Jan 27

Looking forward to co-organizing one of BFI's most popular conferences again! And this year, we were super duper lucky to nab @seema.bsky.social as the keynote speaker :)

More info: bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event...
Submission deadline: Feb 28

Please please RT and share with your networks!

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Marita Freimane @maritafreimane.bsky.social · Feb 23

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · Feb 20

thank god we banned tiktok

dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · Feb 20

NEW: Last year, @johnnyryan.bsky.social made a website for a fake company using a photo of Russian soldiers to purposely elicit suspicion. A US data broker offered him access to thousands of lists of American devices anyway. Many lists targeted US leaders and defense contractors.

Our latest:

Google Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic Diseases

Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found.

www.wired.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Feb 18

The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it? | Zoe Williams

The truth is paralysing. But after JD Vance met the far-right leader Alice Weidel in Germany, it is time to be clear about what we are seeing, writes Zoe Williams

www.theguardian.com

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