TOMORROW (12 November): AYEW Big Data/Machine Learning Workshop! Join us at 9pm AEDT (10am GMT) to @prashantgarg.bsky.social (@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social), Zhenkai (Cambridge), Saani (University of Cincinnati), Luka (@ucsandiego.bsky.social ) Sign up for Zoom link: monash.edu/business/imp...

Mapping Bob Dylan’s mind — Generative AI sheds new light on the underlying engines of metaphor, mood and reinvention in six decades of songs. @aeon.co @prashantgarg.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/can-a...

Can AI tell us anything meaningful about Bob Dylan’s songs? Delighted to share a new essay in @aeon.co breaking down an artists' evolution using AI extracted idea graphs. aeon.co/essays/can-a...

Not long left to apply for our Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science vacancy❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

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.

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

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/...

Happy to share this paper. Full thread coming soon!

🚨 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

🚨 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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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...

Full data at www.academicexpression.online and raw data potentially available on filling the form

Some interesting insights here, including that people are much more influenced by *people they follow* switching platforms than by their own *followers* switching platforms. Preprint: "Why Academics are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky" arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801

Preprint: "Why Academics are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky" arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801

Combien de scientifiques ont quitté Twitter entre 2023 et 2025 ? Selon cette étude, 18% des universitaires sur 300 000 étudiés ont effectué une migration vers Bluesky. De plus, les chercheurs qui ont reconstruit leur réseau sur Bluesky restent significativement plus actifs et engagés. 1/2

When we started in June 20204, we thought we just learn use of private data and level of null results in economics. Since then, @thiemo and I have introduced the concept of “Knowledge Graphs” into economics.

New open-access data for econ nerds: Causal Claims in Economics 🔓 250k+ claims made in 45k papers and 69 variable over 1980-2024. Now free to download. 🥳 Details below

This matters especially for political and scientific communication, where actors from both communities actively engage. Not to go too far, how about the cool recent paper by @prashantgarg.bsky.social rashantgarg.bsky.social and @trfetzer.com , which explores this in depth: bsky.app/profile/pras...

New Paper! @prashantgarg.bsky.social @fdenker.bsky.social @abovet.bsky.social study the migration of academics from X to Bluesky 🦋 Please reach out with any comments, ideas, or questions! A thread by my prolific coauthor👇

Why academics are leaving Twitter for Bluesky. Bluesky users know. #econsky

US universities, filled with faculty much more liberal than general public, are getting targeted by the government. STEM scientists are more liberal than social sciences and humanities, and are ones targeted to most.

A large-scale study of academics’ tweets shows disparities in who shapes academic discourse and how it reaches the public. @prashantgarg.bsky.social @trfetzer.com @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social #AcademicTwitter #ClimateAction www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/ 🚨 Hot off the press! Our study “Political Expression of Academics on Social Media” with @trfetzer.com is now peer-reviewed & live in Nature Human Behaviour @nature.com 🎉. Thread 👇

*record scratch* "Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation."

People change social networks when their friends do.

Cool paper alert

Of course there's also the answer that Twitter/X got shit and is run by a neo-Nazi ket-head but this is still genuinely interesting.

Happy to share this paper. Full thread coming soon!

🧵1/8 New research from @powertochange.org.uk revisits the 100 places in England with the sharpest rise in long-term high street vacancies between 2015 and 2023. Inspired by work from @trfetzer.com, @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social and @prashantgarg.bsky.social

How economics has changed

Wait, what’s going on? Are we dying?

It was a pleasure to discuss some of my causal ML+text data papers with Patrick, Xuanli and AYEW!

While unfortunate for Harvard and perhaps US, it’s nice to see international academic community welcoming international students to their institutions.

Really enjoyed discussing business dynamism, market power and productivity with the economic measurement community @escoeorg.bsky.social today.

Our work on Causal Claims in Economics, covered by @economist.com, on article titled "What the failure of a superstar student reveals about economic?"

We are happy to welcome @prashantgarg.bsky.social this week @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social who has presented his paper on causal claims today.

Across 300,000 papers published in top 100 economics journals, more than 90% of claims use language that is causal while less than 10% are actually using causal inference methods.

Join us for a discussion of Causal ML and text data! 👇

📢 Happening this Wednesday! Tune in for a roundtable on Causal ML & Text as Data with Dr. Xuanli Zhu (Keio) & @prashantgarg.bsky.social (@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social), hosted by Patrick Healy (Monash) Register & submit your questions: forms.gle/PtNjoRHbQsD2... #EconSky #EconJobMarket

Increasing use of private data in economics. (= increasing inability to review data integrity?)

I'm sure many of you have read the excellent paper on high street vacancy and support for right-wing populist parties by @prashantgarg.bsky.social @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social @trfetzer.com. What to do about it? We're working with 5 places to test models of community-led high street renewal 👇👇

📢 Hey #EconSky #EconJobMarket Join us on May 21 (Wed) at 10:00 AM BST / 7:00 PM AEST for the AYEW Season 10 Finale Roundtable! Our past AYEW speakers Xuanli Zhu & @prashantgarg.bsky.social will share insights on Causal ML & Text-as-Data. Register: forms.gle/SX7oc8LRuDmJ...