the meeting of the Society for Inexact Philosophy will be held some time in 2026 at an university

Pitt three-year postdoc: primary responsibilities will be managing PEEL lab; postdoc will be an integral member of Econ dept. and join a large team of behavioral/experimental economists, attending/presenting in seminars, and pushing forward own research agenda #econsky www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

For decades, John was the best experimental economist in the world. #econsky #academicsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/01/john...

NEW we are hiring 2-3 Postdocs in Social & Decision Neuroscience (SDN) at Caltech. The posting is here www.hss.caltech.edu/about/job-op... Applications are due 15 February 2026. Our core group in SDN is RAdolphs, me, DMobbs, JO'Doherty, and ARangel. Our track record of postdoc success is strong

www.legacy.com/us/obituarie... John Kagel cultivated the experimental lab and culture at Pitt that we still enjoy. we all know his auction expts, but he also had a long-standing interest in animal behavior, e.g. Demand Curves for Animal Consumers, Commodity-Choice Behavior with Pigeons as Subjects

if only there was a field that studied optimal allocation of resources under constraints and uncertainty. did anyone maybe even get a fancy award for working that out? (if i recall correctly, this is not the first time it's happened to NEA sessions. ASSA, please sort it out.)

which other Bayesian econometrician is going to tell you about the appearance of “self help” in an earlier Beowulf translation?

help: in this Spiegel interview, Werner Herzog mentions giving an opening address at the most important math congress in the US in the Spring. what is he referring to? any leads would be appreciated www.spiegel.de/kultur/werne...

NEW Handbook of Experimental [Economics] Methodology (Eds Erik Snowberg, Leatt Yariv) is out. shop.elsevier.com/books/handbo... chapter w Isabelle Brocas, Juan Carrillo label-laboratory.org + Ian Krajbich krajbichlab.psych.ucla.edu/people/ is about many ways to measure and cause choice processes

while he was known for broad and deep work on many topics, i, along with other behavioral economists, am especially thankful for "Psychological Expected Utility Theory and Anticipatory Feelings" www.jstor.org/stable/2696443 let me also mention a nice short method piece www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

another benefit: being in one of the best cities in the world

Check out the rest of Pitt JM candidate @jiaweilyu.bsky.social 's exciting research too: sites.google.com/view/jiaweil...

"Surely it doesn't need to be said that Paul Dano is one of our greatest actors. Anyone who doesn't get that doesn't know what acting is. He's also a brilliant director and writer, a very snappy dresser, and a gigantic mensch." --Tony Kushner

She also has a nice paper with Yiming Liu (former Pitt PhD), Cappelen, and Tungodden, R+R at MS, that finds underestimation of the role of unequal opportunities in people's mental models of inequality. drive.google.com/file/d/1i1m1...

Reminder: last day to submit to the JEBO issue in honor of @cfcamerer.bsky.social We are excited about all the great submissions we have gotten thus far.

Good morning. A coda (from me) on this replication business. While I understand the impulse, it is disheartening that most of the discussion generated by this replication is about the replication "process" -- both the APSR's process and my own process. What could we be talking about instead?

For anyone interested, I've created a repository that includes a full (or, as full as possible given some constraints) accounting of the process that led to yesterday's published replication. It also includes a brief response to the authors' response that they released today.

I am not privy to all the details of the exchanges thus far, obviously, but this ad hominem attack on @dandekadt.bsky.social has no place in a constructive discussion about knowledge production.

I have now read the response by Turnbull-Dugarte and López Ortega again with a clearer eye. Multiple claims in this response are untrue or seek to obscure the truth. My interest has always been the accuracy of the scientific record, so I feel compelled to note some of these claims here.

Today I published a replication outlining concerns with "Instrumentally Inclusive" by Turnbull-Dugarte and López Ortega (2024, APSR). I document seemingly idiosyncratic and ad hoc choices made by the authors that create a pattern of statistically significant results consistent with their theory.

What does it mean to understand language? We argue that the brain’s core language system is limited, and that *deeply* understanding language requires EXPORTING info to other brain regions. w/ @neuranna.bsky.social @evfedorenko.bsky.social @nancykanwisher.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2511.19757 1/n🧵👇

🚨 New working paper! How well do people predict the results of studies? @sdellavi.bsky.social and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... 🧵👇

intriguing JMP on an information intervention that appears to have enduring effects (the thread spells out some of the potential mechanisms)

Julia Baumann's sites.google.com/view/julia-b... JMP "Dreaming Rich: How inequality sustains itself through motivated beliefs" co-authored with @pittecon.bsky.social graduate Yiming Liu drive.google.com/file/d/1i2yD... + ineq -> + aspiration for the top -> - support for redistribution #econsky

who wants to watch along with me and discuss?

great idea. i would be glad to do the same for PhD students/postdocs working on behavioral/experimental economics. #econsky

I’m reading the galleys now:) #econsky #academicsky #book marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-...

You could hardly have more different books on behavioral economics. Chater and Loewenstein regret their part in what they feel has turned into a scam, while Thaler and Imas celebrate how it has gone from victory to victory. #econsky #academicsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/dive...

Congratulations to 2001-02 CASBS fellow Joel Mokyr, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences "for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress" 👏 Mokyr's work at CASBS: casbs.stanford.edu/people/joel-... Mokyr is the 31st CASBS fellow to win a Nobel

MIT Rejects the Compact! I am so proud. "The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief ...

🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE Colin Camerer: Econ's Neurovisionary @sweiwang.bsky.social chats w/@cfcamerer.bsky.social on his work on the neuroeconomics of habit formation, building & scaling behavioral models, & neuroscience as a wide-open field for economists 🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#coli...

this wonderful paper uses our R package, baggr, for Bayesian evidence aggregation! Give it a look :) !!

an amazing resource for everyone in behavioral/experimental econ and beyond

The U.S. is a nation of immigrants #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/immi...

Tour de force review on “Economics of Attention” by Loewenstein just published in J Econ Lit @aeajournals.bsky.social #behavioraleconomics

I was the AEA's President Elect as the first Trump term began. We worried about government statistics then, and appointed a committee that included members (such as Google's Chief Economist) who might be in a position to help make reliable statistics available if the government went dark. #econsky

I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on. Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts. 1/

Was für ein Kunstwerk! Ann Katrin Berger #FRAGER #EURO2025 #ART

Some have asked us to extend the deadline for the special JEBO issue in honor of @cfcamerer.bsky.social. The new deadline is December 1. We look forward to your submissions. #econsky

This wondrous account deeply resonates with my experience years ago bsky.app/profile/swei...

Now spelled right:) marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/07/mark...

A copy of the NEW BOOK coauthored by current CASBS fellow Wengcheong Lam, "The Archaeology of Han China," completed earlier this academic year here, has entered into the Center's renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection! 📖 About this @universitypress.cambridge.org book: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

1996-97 CASBS fellow David Card 😏

“The No Club” is now available in Chinese! I got to celebrate the publication while presenting at the ESAWorld meetings in Beijing. It was a pleasure to meet our publisher at China Machine Press and to reconnect with our extremely talented and generous Pitt alumni. What an amazing trip.

NEW: The board of the Fulbright Program has just resigned after accusing Trump aides of political interference. They say a State Dept. office under Rubio and Darren Beattie has cancelled scholarships to nearly 200 US professors and researchers. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

An important piece from the @apsrjournal.bsky.social (by @devorahmanekin.bsky.social and @tmitts.bsky.social) to make sense of ongoing events: it matters not only which tactics are adopted by protesters but also who they are.

1978-79 CASBS fellow Marina von Neumann Whitman, an economist who reached the highest levels of public service & corporate America, has died. Read the @foreignaffairs.com article she wrote while in residence at the Center: www.jstor.org/stable/20040... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/b...

Two papers out today on RL in the dopaminergic neurons of the midbrain of mice (one from McGill's new PI @paulmasset.bsky.social). Both papers demonstrate heterogeneity in discount factors! www.nature.com/articles/s41... nature.com/articles/s41... 🧠📈 🧪 #NeuroAI

"Senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of Donald Trump, the Guardian has learned."