🔵Coming up this Monday! Join us on June 15 at the 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 with 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼 𝗜𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗼 (@univdauphine.bsky.social) who will present "Sounds of Silence" 🔗https://sites.google.com/site/alessandroispano/ #EconSky

🔵Coming up this Monday! Join us on June 01 at the 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 with @benbushong.com (𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆) who will present "Belief Sequences, Prior Recovery, and (Non-)Bayesian Updating" 🔗https://www.benbushong.com/ #EconSky

And the implication for lecturers who want to best respond to this strategy is to tell students to expect a test at random dates. I bet they'll love that 🤓

Georg Weizsäcker@georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Smart lies (to yourself)

Bibles are still pretty common in many German hotels. This time, I brought some competition 😎

I know Romania's entry at the Eurovision has been a bit controversial, but honestly, it's the best by far (and I'm not biased at all 🙃). If she doesn't win tomorrow this game is rigged :P

Why incentive-compatibility isn't enough for data quality: Our new online experiment shows that popular belief elicitation methods like BSR and BDM fail to outperform simple, unincentivized introspection.

Do We Need Complex Incentives for Belief Elicitation Online?

Banko-Ferran, Burdea & Woon: "A Horserace of Methods for Eliciting Induced Beliefs Online" CRC Discussion Paper No. 562

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Two thoughtful essays about the impact of LLMs on graduate education: ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma... economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul... From personal experience I think the self-control problem mentioned in the first essay is very real.

Probably not news to people thinking about this, but it occurred to me there is a risk that as we become more enamored with how much faster we can do all kinds of stuff with AI, we don't notice we're losing some of the joy and satisfaction related to the process of doing some of that stuff.

📢 Call for Papers: 2026 Workshop on Cognitive Economics 📢 We are pleased to share the Call for Papers for the 2026 Workshop on Cognitive Economics, taking place on 24–25 August 2026 in Herrsching am Ammersee.

Last 3 days to apply!

CRC Rationality & Competition@rationalitycrc.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📣 Call for Papers | Riederau Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies We are pleased to announce the Riederau Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies, taking place 8–10 September 2026 in Riederau am Ammersee (Germany).

Brought to you by the reality checks authority...the Dutch 🙃

Happy J Dilla Day to all who celebrate! And if you don't know him it's time look into his work, as he was one of the most innovative hip-hop artists! So much so, that there is a rhythm called after him -- Dilla time: www.ethanhein.com/wp/2022/dill...

Dilla Time

I recently finished reading Dan Charnas’ book Dilla Time. It’s a good one! If you are interested in how hip-hop works, you should read it. The book’s major musicological insight i…

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New favorite word: "quaquaversally" (=spreading in all directions). You can use it in the next application for the everywhere-but-understudied economic problem you're solving right now 🤓. Make sure to add a few duck images to really drive the point home 🦆🦆🦆

This makes sense and it's totally insane and worrisome on top of everything else.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Lots of people are asking me why DOJ is leveraging the ICE deployment in Minnesota to obtain unreacted copies of the state's sensitive voter file data. I recently explained why this is the biggest legal story and may be the biggest political story of the year. Watch and share.

Appeal for more short-run support for 🇺🇦

Deutsch-Ukrainische Gesellschaft - Für unsere und eure Freiheit!@de-ua-gesellschaft.bsky.social · 7mo ago

❕ Unser Aufruf an die Bundesregierung. Deutschland leistet bereits viel – doch bei der #Winterhilfe müssen wir jetzt einen weiteren Gang hochschalten. Den vollständigen Text findet ihr auf unserer Website: deutsch-ukrainische-gesellschaft.de/publications...

📣 Call for Papers | Riederau Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies We are pleased to announce the Riederau Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies, taking place 8–10 September 2026 in Riederau am Ammersee (Germany).

Keep Minnesota Weird

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Sub-zero resistance: Minnesotans standing tall against ICE.

Trump invaded Venezuela because he didn't get the Nobel Prize (among other things :) ); now he wants Greenland. I'd say if they give him an Oscar for Greenland 2, he might just let that drop. Look, he can play a very convincing Earth-destroying comet:

Next time you want to sound erudite, instead of saying "pics or it didn't happen", you should quote Émile Zola

Next step is to just teach our classes in the gym! Just kidding, this is a very cool study!

Exercise Improves Academic Performance | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 134, No 1

In a randomized controlled trial, we test whether removal of a barrier to exercise can improve academic performance. We find strong support for this hypothesis: University students who were provided w...

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These are the kind of border walls I would support as well!

Zdena@justzdena.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Greenland is protected by Lego. Bravo, Denmark 👏👏👏

whoever tried to disprove this and failed, could not have known about Strava

4 weeks to go to the 12-month mark. Oh boy! Are we going to make it? I feel I should start taking bets😅

I'd say there's a non-zero chance of this happening

DDominik Stecuła@stecula.bsky.social · 7mo ago

dionne brand

I stumbled onto this article just now, 20 years after its publication, and I'd recommend reading/listening to it not only for its brilliant narrative, but also for its many insights that are still relevant today: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Deep into the mercenary world of take-no-prisoners political talk radio

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Monty Python couldn’t have scripted the Deutsche Bahn better: www.theocharis.dev/blog/kidnapp...

We care a lot about our watermelons 🙃

Adam Sharp@adamcsharp.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A Romanian phrase for when someone is being irritating is mă scoți din pepeni. It means “you’re taking me out of my watermelons.”

How information campaigns can fall short even if they successfully correct beliefs: Our experiments show that correcting consumers' large underestimations of which products cause high emissions does not have an effect on their actual consumption decisions.

Correcting misunderstandings about CO2 emissions doesn’t help to fight climate change

Imai, Pace, Schwardmann & van der Weele "Correcting Consumer Misperceptions About CO2 Emissions" CRC Discussion Paper No. 529

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