Governor Macklem presents Professor @rjuhasz.bsky.social of the University of British Columbia with the 2025 Governor’s Award at the Fellowship Learning Exchange conference 🏆 Congratulations Professor! Learn more: bit.ly/3YA2wRP #cdnecon #economy #awards #BankOfCanada

IMO, one of the most time-saving use cases of LLMs is handling the syntax of a new library, which can be time-consuming to learn if it's only needed, say, once. They can also help save time when finding bugs in code, especially when the bugs are common.

Ben Golub@bengolub.bsky.social · last yr.

LLM's speed up writing code that scientists use in everyday work by a factor of at least 3 if you know how to use them well

A few comments on the @mark-carney.bsky.social platform released today. You can find it here: liberal.ca/cstrong/. I provided some 'sounding board' advice here and there to those working on the platform. As always: I disclose, but you can decide what weight to put on that. Thread below...

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You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

Nice research brief on our work - with @annamueller.bsky.social @alex-brewer.bsky.social et al. Which one of us hasn't had to do at least one Assessment©️ pretty much every day of our work lives? "Addressing hidden inequalities in workplace assessments can help create a more equitable workplace."

Who gets feedback, who gives it: Gendered patterns in workplace assessments

This study examines how gender shapes the giving and receiving of workplace feedback, revealing that women supervisors are more likely to provide high-quality, constructive assessments, yet men are mo...

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It is an honor to receive a Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship. Thank you to everyone involved!

UBC Science@science.ubc.ca · last yr.

Congratulations to the Science recipients of the 2024 Faculty Research Awards: Jeff Clune @cs.ubc.ca Alannah Hallas & Alison Lister @ubcphas.bsky.social Takamasa Momose & Tao Huan @ubcchem.bsky.social Andrew Trites @ubcoceans.bsky.social prizes.research.ubc.ca/news-announc...

Understanding causality vs. correlation is genuinely hard especially on complex topics like inflation. Our research finds that 60% of Americans think high interest rates cause high inflation & support rate cuts to fight it. But high rates usually respond to inflation,not cause it

Congratulations to Jane Platt on receiving the Wesbrook Scholarship, one of UBC's most prestigious awards! Wishing her success as she continues her research in public policy! Read the announcement: economics.ubc.ca/news/vse-stu...

🎉Congrats to Professor @rjuhasz.bsky.social of the University of British Columbia for winning the 2025 Governor’s Award. Her research focuses on industrial policy and industrialization, emphasizing their importance in economic studies. bit.ly/3DLWm9U #cdnpse #cdnecon @industrialpolicy.bsky.social

Congratulations to our @ubcvse.bsky.social colleague @rjuhasz.bsky.social who has won the 2025 @bankofcanada.bsky.social Governor's Award! We are proud of and happy for Reka! bsky.app/profile/bank...

Bank of Canada@bankofcanada.ca · last yr.

🎉Congrats to Professor @rjuhasz.bsky.social of the University of British Columbia for winning the 2025 Governor’s Award. Her research focuses on industrial policy and industrialization, emphasizing their importance in economic studies. bit.ly/3DLWm9U #cdnpse #cdnecon @industrialpolicy.bsky.social

There is a postdoctoral position for research on adversarial robustness at UBC, supervised by Mathias Lecuyer (@mathias-lecuyer.bsky.social), Geoff Pleiss, and Nidhi Hegde. Please spread the word! 🇨🇦 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Application for a postdoctoral position on adversarial robustness

Location - Work primarily takes place at UBC, Vancouver, Computer Science department. Position - We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for a funded position, under the joint supervision of Math...

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Hey #EconSky Economists for Ukraine (econ4ua.org) drafted an open letter to the future German chancellor. We call for 🇩🇪 & 🇪🇺 to step up & to ⬆️ support for #Ukraine. Please read & sign (if you agree), the form is at the end of ✉️): tinyurl.com/m9ta2b5d Please share this letter with your colleagues.

To: The future German chancellor

To: The future German chancellor From: Economists For Ukraine. Dear Chancellor, Congratulations on taking the helm of the Federal Republic of Germany! You are in a perfect storm, and Germany mus...

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We woke up to find our nihilistic juvenile kittens had pulled this book off the shelf and were trying to trash it. A little on the nose...

Glad we got through the tariff emergency (at least the first wave of it....). Also glad that people are bringing creativity, energy, and determination to figuring out a medium and long-run response. But I want to throw cold water on three ideas I've seen floated. I'll explain...

Prof. Kim Ruhl (UMN PhD 2004) of University of Wisconsin-Madison has been named as one of 3 members of President Trump's Council of Economic Advisors. I admire Kim for his service to our country, and I hope he is able to have a favorable influence on US economic policy. news.wisc.edu/uw-madison-e...

UW–Madison economics professor Kim Ruhl appointed as member of President’s Council of Economic Advisers

Established by Congress in 1946, the CEA comprises three economists who advise the U.S. president on a wide range of economic policy issues based on data, research and evidence.

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chain of thought is hilarious (distilled deepseek 14b running via ollama)

Hi Everyone! We're hosting our Wharton AI and the Future of Work Conference on 5/21-22. Last year was a great event with some of the top papers on AI and work. Paper submission deadline is 3/3. Come join us! Submit papers here: forms.gle/ozJ5xEaktXDE...

I asked DeepSeek to do a proof, and it felt like getting a portal into Erdős's amphetamine accelerated inner monologue. Watching chain of thought output is mesmerizing.

I have an AI generated proof of a statistics lemma beyond my measure theory paygrade. Question: how many samples from LLMs do I need in practice to be 95% confident the proof is correct? Do different LLMs help ensure that there is no correlation between these draws?

PLEASE RT :) Submit to the annual Network Science and Economics Conference, the largest US event for network theory and empirical research in and adjacent to economics Deadline Jan 30 (soon!) Conference Apr 11-13 at Stanford

For the Spring semester, I am restarting my free weekly open office-hours for anyone in the world with Econometrics questions. Wednesdays 10-12AM Eastern or by appointment; sign up and drop by! Details and sign up at donskerclass.github.io/OfficeHours....

PSA to job market candidates: if you didn't get a particular flyout, it may have had nothing to do with the quality of your interview. Departments have a myriad of internal constraints and goals that are unobservable to you, and the process is a lot more complex than you think.

Stop presenter on their first slide.

Ben Golub@bengolub.bsky.social · 2y ago

diagonalize

For those attending #ASSA2025, come to our session on ML/AI + unstructured data (e.g., text and images). We'll have a couple of papers on the econometrics of it, and I'll talk about incorporating this type of data in demand estimation. It's Sunday Jan 5 at 10:15 AM. www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...

The main argument for a Strategic BItcoin Reserve seems to be that Bitcoin holders worry about an impending shortage of greater fools and need the US government to act as the greatest fool of last resort.

Tenured position in the teaching of economics at University of British Columbia economics.ubc.ca/professor-of...

Quarto + Revealjs is an outstanding product and toolchain. @quarto.org (and in particular @cscheid.net ) are providing an enormous public good. Check out github.com/grantmcdermo... as well for a great theme.

GitHub - grantmcdermott/quarto-revealjs-clean: A minimalist and elegant presentation theme for Quarto Reveal.js

A minimalist and elegant presentation theme for Quarto Reveal.js - grantmcdermott/quarto-revealjs-clean

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We’re hiring predocs at VSE with a start date of summer 2025. Come work with me on industrial policy and industrialization past and present. Not your thing? A number of my wonderful colleagues are also hiring! Listing is here: economics.ubc.ca/news/pre-doc...

Pre-Doctoral Fellow/Research Technician Opportunities - Vancouver School of Economics

Join the Vancouver School of Economics: Pre-Doctoral Fellow/Research Technician Opportunities The Vancouver School of Economics (VSE) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is excited to announce...

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Post-Doc opportunity at VSE/Stone Centre on Wealth and Income Inequality! Starts Sept 1, 2025. Application information at the link below: stonecentre.economics.ubc.ca/applications...