Where's Waldo? :)

Dear fans of the CRC TRR 190, Next week, we will launch our research blog CRC TRR 190 Coffee Break! There will be a blog post about our most recent exciting research every day, from Monday to Sunday. Afterwards, we will post every Monday, 1pm CET.

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We are hiring assistant professors in Economics (any field) @lmumuenchen.bsky.social @econmunich.bsky.social Target date for applications: November 24! More info at: econjobmarket.org/positions/11... #EconSky #EconJobMarket #EJME

"the median analysis has about 10% power"...ugghhh

🔵Coming up this Monday! Join us on October 20 at the 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 with 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿 (𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗺), who will present "Divided We Act: Political Polarization, Social Sanctions, and Strategic (Un)Fairness" 🔗https://sites.google.com/site/silviasonderegger/home #EconSky

Question: under which conditions would it be an optimal and credible strategy for a presidential candidate to run on a platform to reduce their own executive power?

In preparation for its less humble cousin.

💯and this holds not just for books.

Of course Tversky paves the road to interpretable AI: gonzoml.substack.com/p/tversky-ne...

In an essay called "To Act As If", Inger Christensen writes "It's nothing new for art and science to operate at the boundary between meaning and meaninglessness." Got me thinking about how the many "as if" assumptions in (behavioral) econ might be distributed around this boundary...🤔

After reading the White House letter about the internal review process of the Smithsonian exhibitions, I think I found a way they can legitimately avoid all this interreference: submit one thing of the many requested and say the indexing suggested they were all one and the same :)

In an attempt to see the glass half full, my takeaway is: keep applying--as early and as often as possible 🤓

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

I am quite hopeful that these tools will give us more time to think, and to think more deeply

with a bit of a delay, since Bluesky's feed is a bit random, but I was there, and it was a great talk! Here's a summary of it: dennievandolder.com/post/impact-...

🔵Coming up this Monday! Join us on July 14 at 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 with @atavoni.bsky.social (𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐚), who will present "Tipping in Coordination Games: An Experimental Approach" 🔗https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/alessandro.tavoni/en #EconSky

There are many good things about learning with an LLM. But one key advantage of learning with other people is that they can ask you questions that make you realize you actually don't know what you're talking about :)

Humboldt University just won a court case against its own boss, the government of Berlin. 😲 The case was about limited-term employment for scientific staff. Here's a quick-and-dirty explainer, esp. for non-German readers who may be affected. 1/n www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/frust...

I hope the Italians are not too jealous, but 🕺>🤌

I’m excited to read this! Currently feeling like people are t feeling enough blame for what they should have known 😅

You may not feel like reading about yet another depressing state of affairs, with all that's going on in the world right now. But this book is so full of interesting insights, so personal yet universal, that I couldn't help but feel hopeful by the end of it. Highly recommended!

Have a look at the first edition of the Berlin Micro Theory & Behavioral Econ PhD Conference, and recommend your students to apply next time! sites.google.com/view/berlin-...

Finally had a chance to read this paper and I think it's interesting, even if you're not doing research on lie detection. The issue of the correlation between second- and first-order beliefs and actions is relevant to any information processing environment.

It might not reflect the everyday lives of most people in Romania nowadays, but it might capture the essence of their most vivid memories. I could almost smell the crisp mountain air watching the first moments of this short film.

This is a fascinating paper! I have nothing more intelligent to say about it. Luckily, the LLMs don't either :)

Need to get some of these into my emoji database. Happy Unknown Pleasures anniversary for those who celebrated yday!

Thinking about this poem today

Anarchy sounds better than tyranny, if these were the only options...

Excitiiiing!!

This will have further negative consequences for trust in science, which is on shaky grounds to begin with...

I'm really excited for this one! Back during my PhD years, when I first started thinking of the 'Description-Experience gap,' I drew a lot of inspiration from @arc-mpib.bsky.social excellent work on the topic. Full circle to now discuss my research on it there!

I don't think I ever felt like celebrating the results of a presidential election in Romania, but yesterday I couldn't help it. Millions of others couldn't either. Hopeful times ahead! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvg...

Coffee as an input to science #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/05/arie...

For those who will be in Paris from June 2 to 7, check out the Paris Game Theory Festival: sites.google.com/view/parisgt...

Our NSF grant on "Source Credibility, Political Identity, and Factual Belief Revision" with Jonathan Woon was also just cancelled because it is no longer "in alignment with current NSF priorities". This is sad and frustrating!

The message is essential, but also, Steve Kerr is an overall awesome person!

Glyph-breakers are the definition of multi-disciplinary scientists! Inspiring (not so little) article: aeon.co/essays/what-...

"pre-registration has now become mainstream in experimental economics" New preprint by Taisuke Imai et al.: osf.io/preprints/me...

I wonder if LLMs are more likely to "hallucinate" on April 1st 🤔

extremely useful advice in a challenging time for higher education and research communities

@econ4ua.bsky.social is organizing an open letter to the future German chancellor (Germany is holding elections Sunday), urging them to lead and stand up to Russia. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A thread worth reading

This is so much more than just an art/biogr. book: "The world comes into being in our gaze all the time. It isn't, it becomes. It is impossible to live in this becoming, it is impossible to grasp, therefore we have developed a whole range of different ways of managing it. We call it knowledge." 💜

After the thought of "wanton wonton" crossed my mind today, my appetite for those little pockets of joy has slightly decreased 🥲

The "uncut, bloopers included" versions of these papers are in pre-production! Great initiative!!

There goes the joke that meteorologists exist so that economists can feel better about their forecasts 🥲 Cool stuff, though!

I will be working in Munich for four weeks in July! Let me know if you are in the area and want to meet up. Thanks to @valeriaburdea.bsky.social and @econmunich.bsky.social for the hospitality!

This is too funny not to share

Ugh, this is sad but also important research