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...

Call for submissions: Metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowship | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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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

How Is Generative AI Impacting The Freelance Job Market?

A new study led by an international research team reveals the surprising impact of generative AI tools like ChatGPT on the freelance workforce. The research,

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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 . . .

Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms

Abstract. Large language models (LLMs) are a potential substitute for human-generated data and knowledge resources. This substitution, however, can present

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📢 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...

Fully Funded PhD Scholarship in Network Science at Northeastern University London

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

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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

Climate News@climatenews.bsky.social · 2y ago

Why do academics not publish their work on an academic shared space that universities collectively use? Why is it required to have a layer of publishers that simply do not publish anymore. In the days of expensive paper printing it made sense. In the digital era it makes no sense at all.

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 ⤵️

Ernest Aigner@ernestaigner.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to announce that our paper, “The Global Distribution of Authorship in Economics Journals”, co-authored with @jacobgreenspon.bsky.social @drodrik.bsky.social, is now published in World Development! 🌍📚 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Here’s a quick summary 🧵

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

Estimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023

This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. APCs are fees charged for publishing in some ...

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"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

Bennett Institute for Public Policy Annual Conference 2025 - Bennett Institute for Public Policy

Driving forward key policy questions in a turbulent world

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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?

Andres Karjus@andreskarjus.bsky.social · 2y ago

How does #genAI affect creative professions? Does domain training also provide an #AI edge? In "Expertise elevates AI usage: experimental evidence comparing laypeople and professional artists" we ran controlled tasks w 50 artists + laypeople & a #GPT4o agent: arxiv.org/abs/2501.12374 Results... ⏬

🌎 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

Labour Markets Need Active Management in the Energy Transition

Complexity Economists at the University of Oxford have alerted US policymakers to coming skills shortages in the US power sector, in one of the most…

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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

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Can ChatGPT pass a PhD-level history test? According to a CSH study, the answer is “not yet.” GPT-4 Turbo couldn’t get most of the answers right.

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✨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

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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 ⚛️