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

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

🚨 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

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.

ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It 🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-hall...

[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

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

🧵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 /1

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...

🚨 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

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.

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

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

Drag 'em, Rupert.

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

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/...

📆 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... #EconSky

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

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

"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.

Reminder to please submit! Deadline is Feb 28. #econsky

thank god we banned tiktok

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

Holy forking shirt balls "Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "

Applications are open for the Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute (MLESI) 2025 are open! If you're a graduate student, come learn about ML/AI and its uses throughout economics. Apply by March 28. The application and more info can be found here: www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen...

Gör som jag säger, inte som jag gör

The MPIfG is seeking a research group leader (tenure track) with a focus on the socioeconomic and political impacts of technological change to set up a new research group at the intersection of #economy, #society, and #technology. 📢Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/SULoAf

The Spring 2025 VIDE seminar schedule is coming up with the first talk in two weeks on Wednesday, February 5! Further information and mailing list sign-up at: www.digitalecon.org

CBS is considering "offer[ing] concessions to win approval" of a merger by ***paying the President off*** in a baseless lawsuit he filed. How do you lose the rule of law? Gradually, then suddenly. Not a drill.

Just a reminder for Germans abroad that you need to re-register to vote in the Federal Election, even if you didn't move houses since 2021 (yes, I'm a political scientist and had to google this). Here are the docs you need: www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/bundestagswa.... (1)

Relevant to the debate on fact-checking amidst Meta's decision, Adam Szeidl and Ferenc Szucs tell a clear and terrifying story about the power of misinformation and propaganda, and its effects on democratic accountability. drive.google.com/file/d/1M2Nx...

My recent paper update got a fair amount of attention on here and so I decided to make a thread! The paper studies recruitment at major US and European multinationals to quantify the salience of hiring discrimination in access to top jobs and identify its source…🧵 (1/N)

🚨Huge update to our paper on modeling & measuring systemic discrimination🚨 New more structural framework that is closely tied to applications + measurement New measurement section on methodology for identifying direct, systemic & total discrimination Two new field studies demonstrating tools. 1/2

Australia to introduce ‘news tax’ on tech companies https://www.ft.com/content/d975e8fc-9b9c-4dcf-a280-2e55d29c2501

With @overleaf.com down, here's a quick tip to keep working. If you're already syncing overleaf with Dropbox, you can still find your files in Dropbox/Apps/Overleaf Install the latex extension in vscode or download an editor like texstudio. Should take 15 mins or less to get set up! #econsky

Please overleaf... come back!😔🫶

Thrilled to share that my work on feed-ranking algorithms, based on a large-scale experiment I conducted with 5 million people in India, was recently featured on the Economics that really matters blog! So excited for feedback from folks in this lovely space 🦚 www.econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-...

Massive experiment on India’s TikTok-like platform: Replacing personalized algorithms with randomized content reduced hate speech by 27%—but led to a 35% drop in platform usage. Toxic users adapted by sharing hate at higher rates. #econsky

Taylor Owen, Director of The Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University, writes that the merger of state and tech power is a fundamental challenge to democratic governance in the digital age.

🚨 8th Economics of Media Bias Workshop 2025 🚨 Working on media economics? Check out the call, help spread the word to your colleagues and submit your exciting work! Frankfurt, May 8-9 Keynote by Elliott Ash More infos: mediabiasworkshop.org/event/8th-ec... #EconSky #MediaBias

The resolution to boycott Haaretz which passed in today's gov meeting without legal review is another step in Netanyahu's journey to dismantle democracy. Like his friends Putin, Erdoğan & Orbán, Netanyahu is trying to silence critical, independent media. Haaretz will not balk

@maritafreimane.bsky.social this is an amazing paper. I thought it was so cool I did a TikTok on it, other people seem to agree as it’s got ~20k views since this morning! - vm.tiktok.com/ZGdYwVDAq/

Please let me know of any papers on the effects of toxic behavior in the workplace (broadly defined) on productivity and labor market outcomes that I am missing here! #EconSky

Thank you, Matt, for highlighting my work and connecting it to the challenges faced by legacy news media, which are central to much of my other research—much appreciated!

Working in media economics? Don’t miss the CEPR Workshop on Media, Technology, and Politics, hosted at Bocconi in June 2025! #econsky mailchi.mp/cepr/call-fo...

Submit your papers for the spring 2025 NBER Gender in the Economy meeting! The theme is "Women in the Digital World". Submission Deadline: 12/9/24 Meeting: 2/28/25 in Cambridge t.co/DGsccq6Blw

I cannot stress how important the lessons from this amazing paper are for our own profession where negative feedback on online platforms is particularly targeted at female economists and underrepresented minorities. We should not be blind to the idea that this likely reduces productivity.

Thank you, Florian, for highlighting my job market paper! 🎉 You can read it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1Sqb1... Below, a short thread. 👇 (1/8)