We're pleased to announce the Bennett School of Public Policy opening this autumn. It will be a flagship, multi-disciplinary policy school, that will integrate & expand the teaching, research & engagement activities of the Bennett Institute. www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/bennett...

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

PhD students in social sciences studying "metascience" and AI: This looks like an *AMAZING* opportunity. Fully funded research postdoc that can be housed at whatever university you can find an appropriate mentor. sloan.org/programs/dig...

We are now looking to hire two new permanent lectureships in public policy www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50248/ @bennettinstitute.bsky.social

Are generative AI tools threatening freelance jobs? Not quite, says a new study. Instead of mass job losses, demand is shifting: 📉 Fewer jobs in repetitive writing & translation 📈 Strong growth in machine learning & AI-related roles Experience matters too. Full story: shorturl.at/VMzZm

23/250 is Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms This makes me wonder if people are answering Stack Overflow questions with ChatGPT answers . . .

📢 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 alert! We document how 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀. 💼 💻 📊 We analysed 𝟯𝗠+ 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀, used embeddings to cluster them into 𝟭𝟬𝟬+ 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲-𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀, and LLMs to classify them as s𝘂𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲, 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆, or 𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱.

I’m looking for a new PhD student with a curious and interdisciplinary mindset to work on integrating multimodal data to better understand trajectories of mental and brain health disorders! Deadline of applications: Feb 16! Please spread the word. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO680/f...

These are fair criticisms but miss the crucial point... Academics publish in expensive OA journals because top journals and citation count remain the dominant factors in determining whether you get hired and whether you get promoted... This will not change unless the incentive structure changes

There's an interesting new study by @ernestaigner.bsky.social @drodrik.bsky.social @jacobgreenspon.bsky.social on regional publication trends in economics - share of "authors based in low income countries remains low" disproportionate to those countries population shares vs. world ⤵️

Big thanks to Fundación Sicomoro for supporting the Winter Workshop in Complex Systems with grants for students and funding our much-needed coffee breaks! ☕✨ Your generosity keeps the ideas (and the caffeine) flowing!

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

"Suspense and surprise in technological innovation" Neat analysis of the link between expectations and outcomes in technological evolution.

Hello @bsky.app ! We are looking forward to connect with this community 🦋 Make sure you follow us to see our latest news! We'll be sharing more about our research, students' achievements, events, and everything related to #networkdatascience and #socialdatascience #weareCEU #DNDSatCEU #seeUatCEU

Our @bennettinstitute.bsky.social annual conference is on 28th March and tickets can now be booked - in person or online: www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/events/annua... It's always a great event & we have a fab line-up of speakers/sessions

Chat Bankman-Fried: an Exploration of LLM Alignment in Finance: Claudia Biancotti; Carolina Camassa; Andrea Coletta; Oliver Giudice; Aldo Glielmo

We are deeply grateful to our partners for their crucial support in bringing the Winter Workshop in Complex Systems 2025 to life. We couldn’t do it without you! 🌟 Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia- Sustainable Development and Climate Change PhD Program 🌟 Unversità degli Studi di Bergamo

Our new pre-print exploring the question: Will AI-generated art kill the art profession?

🌎 Apply now for the 2025 Complexity Global School! CGS introduces ideas and models of complex systems and their impact on political economies. Join global thinkers for this immersive 12-day program happening in Colombia on July 28-Aug 8. Applications close March 2! santafe.edu/news-center/...

New @inet-complexity.bsky.social study in Joule ➸ Employment dynamics during the US power sector transition reveal risks and opportunities ➸ www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/us-poli... Led by Joris Bücker with @doynefarmer.bsky.social @maria-drc.bsky.social, Matt Ives & Anton Pichler

How important are your #postdoc years in the likelihood of you staying & succeeding in #academia? In our newly published paper in @pnas.org, "Postdoc Publications and Citations Link to Academic Retention and Faculty Success," we study the journey of #CareerSuccess of ~45,000 #postdocs. 🧵1/7

Can #ChatGPT pass a PhD-level #history test? Not yet. Jakob Hauser, @maria-drc.bsky.social, Peter Turchin et al. tested #AI chatbots on historical knowledge using the Seshat Databank. GPT-4 Turbo scored a balanced accuracy of 46%—better than random guessing, but not expert. shorturl.at/xgRw9

✨I made a starter pack for complexity scientists on this platform.✨ go.bsky.app/QzMwdrL

LM agents today primarily aim to automate tasks. Can we turn them into collaborative teammates? 🤖➕👤 Introducing Collaborative Gym (Co-Gym), a framework for enabling & evaluating human-agent collaboration! I now get used to agents proactively seeking confirmations or my deep thinking.(🧵 with video)

Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies. Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility.. www.nber.org/papers/w33311

Our @ariannapera.bsky.social presenting on labor union organization and digital media strategies at #cs2italy

Without further ado, here’s the amazing speaker lineup for OSSEN 2025! Experts from across network science and economics will cover topics ranging from financial networks to urban mobility and more! Don’t forget to apply by 3 March: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/events/summe...

We recently launched NEP reports in Bluesky. Get announcements of new economics working papers in 100 fields, curated by volunteer, human editors. bsky.app/starter-pack... #RePEc #EconSky

Hello Bluesky! Our group @imperialchemeng.bsky.social researches #AI & #ChemicalEngineering. if you are interested, some of our 2024 research is below on: #ReinforcementLearning 🤖 #BayesianOptimization 📈 #AutomatedModelDiscovery 🔬 #DataDrivenOptimization ⛰️ #ScientificLLMs 🧠 #ReactionPlanning ⚛️

We’re thrilled to announce that this year’s keynote speaker is Prof. Aaron Clauset, from CU Boulder. He is one of the world's foremost experts in Network Science and Complex Systems Apply by 3 March www.maths.ox.ac.uk/events/summe... @aaronclauset.bsky.social @colorado.edu

Fantastic, very practical review, on the challenges in data and model anonymization. Also highlights the enormous gap between what is theoretically possible and what used in practice (eg. N>5 rule) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

PhD Students: we're now taking applications for internships in our lab. If your'e working on ML, CS, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Audio and Video processing and related disciplines, throw your hat in the ring! jobs.lever.co/spotify/0b16...

Multi-Agent Data-driven Economic Conference in Venice www.unive.it/web/en/8683/... #Economics #ComplexSystems

**New working paper** How does the under-representation of females in Economics affect the career trajectory of female Ph.D. students? Sahar Parsa and I look at this in a new working paper by exploring sabbatical leaves taken by female professors at top-50 US Econ departments.

What explains recent declines in income inequality in the European Union? Despite rising within-country inequality from 2007-2019, EU-wide inequality declined sharply due to upward convergence in market earnings among its poorest member states. More here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 New paper alert! Economic Agent Based Models have become increasingly data-driven. What does that mean and what impact can this have? arxiv.org/abs/2412.16591 📖✨ Chapter with @marcopangallo.bsky.social forthcoming in @sfiscience.bsky.social volume #Economics #ComplexSystems Part IV 👇🧵

Want to learn more? Read the working paper to learn about this novel intervention & how its effectiveness compared to an existing mentoring program. arxiv.org/abs/2211.09968

2/In a recent (open access) piece in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social w/ Guillaume Beaumier, we show how platform companies (in the paper Apple) use private regulation to address public interest issues to enhance their market power. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Exploring past episodes of technological disruption in the US labor market, with the goal of learning lessons about the likely future impact of AI, from David J. Deming, Christopher Ong, and Lawrence H. Summers https://www.nber.org/papers/w33323

📢 Flexible working supposedly addresses women's work-family conflicts but is less prevalent in women-dominated occupations. @aljoschajacobi.bsky.social, @tabeanaujoks.bsky.social & I explore why and how this has changed over past decades Out in @socialindicators.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s112...

DISADIST-ABM: 📢Open positions With Anton Pichler and @maria-drc.bsky.social we got a grant to model the well-being impacts of natural disasters beyond standard economic measures. We are looking for a 3-year PhD student and 2-year postdoc, deadline 15/01. More info 👇 1/8

We are hiring a postdoc/researcher at my group (SUNLab) @nunetsi.bsky.social. Interested in working on multidisciplinary problems like segregation, health, or economic growth from the perspective of Social Urban Networks? Contact me if you are interested. Please share it!

If business cycles are (at least partly) caused by forces endogenous to the economy, rather than by exogenous shocks, it is much easier to explain why economic activity tends to co-move across countries. New paper in JEBO: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kB5Vc24b7... 🧵👇

Mapping out tangible ways economists can use language models in their daily workflow, from ideation to publication, from Anton Korinek https://www.nber.org/papers/w33198

AI is good at pricing, so when GPT-4 was asked to help merchants maximize profits - and it did exactly that by secretly coordinating with other AIs to keep prices high! So... aligned for whom? Merchants? Consumers? Society? The results we get depend on how we define 'help' arxiv.org/abs/2404.00806

An employee of Huggingface, a site of AI training datasets, made a dataset of a million Bluesky posts scraped simply because they could. It’s currently trending: www.404media.co/someone-made...

📢 NetSci 2025 Speaker announcement: Manlio de Domenico, Associate Professor at UniPD & Head of CoMuNe Lab & President of CSS Italy & Co-founder and Co-director of MSCX "Network science in a complex world: broken, lost and future links" #NetSci2025 @manlius.bsky.social

NeurIPS Conference is now Live on Bluesky! -NeurIPS2024 Communication Chairs