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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted to share this new work. Check this thread by @zhou-hy.bsky.social. We use LLMs to analyse medical research to see whether it responds to local disease burdens.

Hongyu Zhou @zhou-hy.bsky.social · 7d

🚨Thrilled to share our paper🚨
Does science focus on the diseases that hurt people the most?
When deadly outbreaks hit, how does research respond?

Our work with:
@prashantgarg.bsky.social
@trfetzer.com

shows how medical research worldwide responds to both endemic burdens and emergencies.
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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · 7d

New paper on where medical research happens vs where disease burden is.

Hongyu Zhou @zhou-hy.bsky.social · 7d

🚨Thrilled to share our paper🚨
Does science focus on the diseases that hurt people the most?
When deadly outbreaks hit, how does research respond?

Our work with:
@prashantgarg.bsky.social
@trfetzer.com

shows how medical research worldwide responds to both endemic burdens and emergencies.
🧵👇

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · 26d

any reviews?

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Sep 1

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.

Apply by: 10 Oct

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · Jun 2

Happy to share this paper. Full thread coming soon!

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · Jul 24

🚨 Tariffs on inputs = tax on downstream products.🚨

Here’s cement’s granular production network. A 50% duty on key inputs propagates costs through roads, buildings, data-centres, and renewable infrastructure.

Public data, method & our paper in thread 🧵 0/8

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · Jul 24

8/8 Explore the data, methods and paper at aipnet.io. Bonus: Here's input/output links for another related product, Tin.

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · Jul 24

7/ Our paper finds that global supply shocks on internationally traded goods have become more prevalent since 2016, particularly affecting consumer goods and processed intermediates. Here's a map of these supply shocks. Post 2024 map, when data updates, will likely be worse...

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · Jul 24

6/ Diverging strategies of U.S. vs. China in global trade. China: Importing more upstream products like Cement to build advanced domestic industries. US: Importing more downstream goods, relying on global supply chains.

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · Jul 24

5/ The pending 15% baseline tariff agreement between the US and EU may impact 12 million tonnes of transatlantic clinker, reshaping supply chains, alongside ongoing 50% US steel duties

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · Jul 24

4/ Why it matters
Cement production accounts for over 8% of global CO₂ emissions and exceeds US$1 trillion in annual construction spending. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · Jul 24

3/ In our paper, AI-Generated Production Networks (2024), joint with @trfetzer.com , @econopete.bsky.social and Bennet Feld, we used AI to build AIPNET, a detailed map of global production networks. It shows how critical inputs like Cement and Steel underpin industries worldwide

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · Jul 24

2/ Each node is a product. Size of node based on how "important" or "central" product is in international trade. Blue nodes are capital goods, silver are intermediates and green are final consumption good.

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · Jul 24

🚨 Tariffs on inputs = tax on downstream products.🚨

Here’s cement’s granular production network. A 50% duty on key inputs propagates costs through roads, buildings, data-centres, and renewable infrastructure.

Public data, method & our paper in thread 🧵 0/8

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · Jul 17

Find more about evolving field of metascience of economics. Network approach to metascience will lower transaction costs of effort targeting

BITSS @ucbitss.bsky.social · Jul 17

Paper by @prashantgarg.bsky.social analyzing causal claims in economics from 44,000 NBER and CEPR working papers: arxiv.org/abs/2501.06873

Causal Claims in Economics

We analyze over 44,000 NBER and CEPR working papers from 1980 to 2023 using a custom language model to construct knowledge graphs that map economic concepts and their relationships. We distinguish bet...

arxiv.org

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BITSS @ucbitss.bsky.social · Jul 17

Paper by @prashantgarg.bsky.social analyzing causal claims in economics from 44,000 NBER and CEPR working papers: arxiv.org/abs/2501.06873

Causal Claims in Economics

We analyze over 44,000 NBER and CEPR working papers from 1980 to 2023 using a custom language model to construct knowledge graphs that map economic concepts and their relationships. We distinguish bet...

arxiv.org

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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · Jul 1

conducting a systematic review of climate politics literature in political science and economics using the CPF. Here we draw inspiration from the work by @prashantgarg.bsky.social and @trfetzer.com on causal claims in economics.
www.causal.claims
cepr.org/voxeu/column...

www.causal.claims

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Marianne Saam @mariannesaam.bsky.social · Jun 30

Submit to the Leibniz Open Science Day 2025 taking place on October 27 in Berlin, organized with @leventneyse.bsky.social @jrgptrs.bsky.social @dsiegfried1.bsky.social @macartan.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @rwi.bsky.social @diw.de @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social www.zbw.eu/de/ueber-uns... 1/2

Leibniz Open Science Day 2025: Better Science for Better Policies

Where? Berlin. When? 27 October 2025. Replications and meta-studies in particular are becoming increasingly crucial to ensure the reliability and validity of scientific research findings.

www.zbw.eu

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Stephan Hollander @stephanhollander.bsky.social · Jun 21

This graph from @economist.com reveals a major pivot in #economics toward data and empirical work, with theory and modeling taking a back seat. The underlying data is open source at www.causal.claims

🏷️ @prashantgarg.bsky.social @trfetzer.com

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · Jun 20

Love it !

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · Jun 20

Can we learn about world cultures through AI? It’s promising.

Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · Jun 20

New research by Lu et al. reveals cultural tendencies in AI outputs based on the language used to prompt it. #GenAI #Culture

Cultural tendencies in generative AI - Nature Human Behaviour

When used in Chinese (versus English), generative artificial intelligence exhibits a more interdependent (versus independent) social orientation and a more holistic (versus analytic) cognitive style embedded in large-scale textual training.

www.nature.com

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · Jun 11

Have fun, hope it recharges your stock of utils

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · Jun 2

2/ Discipline matters.
Social Sci (27%) and Arts & Human. (31%) lead the exodus; Med & Health lag (13%).
Twitter signals (followers, PageRank, posting) predict migration better than h-index or citations.
Take-away: Your Twitter presence, not your CV, determines if you jump ship.

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · Jun 8

If you read the full paper, especially the content before this excerpt, you will find the citation to best practices.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Jun 4

An analysis of ~100,000 academics finds that a small subset of academics generate majority of social media posts.

That vocal minority can skew how the public—and even journalists—infer “academic consensus,” potentially fueling false perceptions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Political expression of academics on Twitter - Nature Human Behaviour

An analysis of nearly 100,000 academics on Twitter reveals strong progressive stances on climate and social issues, driven by a small, vocal subset. The study highlights potential gaps between academi...

www.nature.com

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