come to Munich!

Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · 3w ago

CESifo are organising a workshop on the economic and societal impacts of AI, to be held in Munich 3-4 December 2026. Deadline: 15 September. transform-cluster.de/event/cesifo...

Hi folks -- CAYLUS (Central Australian Youth Link Up Service) is advertising for a community worker position and I thought I'd put the call out. Scroll down the list here until you see "Community Development worker" for details. www.tangentyere.org.au/work-with-us

Tangentyere

Find out more about Tangentyere Council programs and services, enterprises, structure and governance, and jobs that are available in the Council with an effort to improve the living conditions and opp...

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16hr flight ahead of me. It might just be enough to deal with all the outstanding emails... 🤞

An account from am economist who was not worried about AI but now is worried because of the Hugging Face Incident I think it is very hard to ignore the fact that cybersecurity will become a very big issue very quickly and we can only hope AI defense beats offense joshuagans.substack.com/p/its-worse

It’s worse

The Hugging Face incident is bad, really bad

joshuagans.substack.com

New paper by Ronchi and Smith www.restud.com/daddys-girl-... #REStud #EconSky

The authors behind this study openly try dozens to hundreds of quasi experiments and publish only the ones that "work". This makes me very skeptical of any of their findings, regardless of any robustness tests they do.

The call for submissions is closing this Friday, make sure you don't miss it 👇 #CALIBERsummit

Jan Kabatek 💙💛@jankabatek.com · 2mo ago

Call for Submissions: 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝗔𝗜 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 Are you working on research that leverages AI tools and methods? Building new tools and agents? Or studying the impacts of AI on the society & environment? Then submit your work to our summit (Nov 24-25)! melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au/conferences/...

@ksaxby.bsky.social is 100% correct, this census will be a turning point for LGBTQ+ research in Australia! 🌈 theconversation.com/for-the-firs...

For the first time, the census will ask your sexual orientation. My new study shows why it matters

Are you straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, asexual or another sexual orientation? The census wants to know. Here’s why.

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Pretty big break happening in academia between the “AI is banned for reviews” journals and the “AI is mandatory for reviews” journals. www.refine.ink/blog/economi...

Refine partners with the American Economic Association and the Econometric Society

Two leading publishers in economics now use Refine's AI-assisted technical verification as part of their publication processes.

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This is a striking chart. It shows the consequences of mandatory age-verification for accessing, ehm, select websites in Australia. The search term in question is the name of one of the most visited sites on the internet. I'll let you guess which one.

Call for Submissions: 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝗔𝗜 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 Are you working on research that leverages AI tools and methods? Building new tools and agents? Or studying the impacts of AI on the society & environment? Then submit your work to our summit (Nov 24-25)! melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au/conferences/...

2026 AI Summit

The Melbourne Institute is proud to present The inaugural CALIBER Summit for AI-powered Research in Business & Economics.

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Can now positively confirm, Melbourne is an absolutely fabulous city and the research community here is equally fabulous!

Jan Kabatek 💙💛@jankabatek.com · 2mo ago

📢We're hiring 📢 Short notice, but Melbourne Institute is looking for a Senior Research Fellow (level C) to work on applied industrial microeconomics research using Australian administrative datasets. Apply here: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UOM_Ex...

📢We're hiring 📢 Short notice, but Melbourne Institute is looking for a Senior Research Fellow (level C) to work on applied industrial microeconomics research using Australian administrative datasets. Apply here: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UOM_Ex...

My particular thanks to all the young scholars I've met over the years, including those I first met as graduate students, who have encouraged me to think more deeply about the economics of gender.

#Statatip: use inrange(VAR,MIN,MAX)==1 to condition on MIN<=VAR<=MAX

SEHO2026 is delivering both great talks and stunning views ❤️🇮🇹

A lovely write-up of our last week's @leap-econ.bsky.social summit by Serena Doyle: melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au/news/news/20...

LEAP towards closing the gap for LGBTQ equality

Closing the gap for LGBTQ equality requires research and data, as evidence that documents lived experience is required for policy change.

melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au

The inaugural LEAP Summit for LGBTQ+ Research and Researchers in Asia-Pacific is in full swing! 🥳🌈 @leap-econ.bsky.social @ksaxby.bsky.social @unimelb.edu.au

Very cool analysis of the submissions to a major management journal that shows how much the system of science, built for humans, is under strain as a result of AI. AI can be used to do better science or it can be used to just do more stuff. The danger is that "more" is winning due to incentives.

🚨 U Melbourne flagship McKenzie Postdoc - 3 years fully funded, no teaching - 25K research budget - fame and prestige EOI closing 7 May, need to have a supervisor (email/DM me with Qs!) sites.research.unimelb.edu.au/research-fun...

Brutal.

And all of this started because Stanisław Ulam didn't feel like calculating the odds of winning a game of Solitaire...

Alfredo Paloyo@alfredopaloyo.com · 7mo ago

The fact that Monte Carlo studies were named after the casino just dawned on me (and confirmed with Wikipedia). I guess I never really thought about why they were called that in the first place. 🤦🏽‍♂️

The fateful V-Day is approaching once again, please be careful out there, folks! www.huffpost.com/entry/valent...

If This Is Your Wedding Date... We Have Bad News For You

Well, this study is far from romantic.

huffpost.com

Vladyslav Heraskevych, Ukraine's skeleton racer, was scheduled to compete in his third Olympic Games on Feb. 12. He was barred from taking part in the competition after refusing to change his helmet, one depicting the faces of Ukrainian athletes killed during Russia's full-scale invasion.

'It means more than any medal' — Ukraine's skeleton racer sacrifices Olympic dream to honor war victims

Editor's note: This story has been updated with comments from President Volodymyr Zelensky and Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha. Wearing a helmet commemorating Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia is no...

kyivindependent.com

The fateful V-Day is approaching once again, please be careful out there, folks! www.huffpost.com/entry/valent...

If This Is Your Wedding Date... We Have Bad News For You

Well, this study is far from romantic.

huffpost.com

If you’re not using Claude Code, now’s the time to jump in!

Talking to lots of folks across various professions using Claude Code, it is genuinely surprising, even to me, how much of a leap they have seen in the ability of LLMs to do real work in the last six weeks. I know people on this site are sometimes skeptical of AI, but worth paying attention to.

Call for papers for Workshop in Causal Health Economics (organized by Erik Grönqvist and @helenasvaleryd.bsky.social) with @hitoshishigeoka.bsky.social as keynote speaker. Just before #ESPE in Helsinki and best time to visit Sweden 👇

If you'd like to embed a Bluesky feed on your website, check out this neat and simple widget: github.com/Vincenius/bs...