Come to Europe, friends!
The European Research Council (ERC) has just confirmed increased ERC funding for top global researchers moving to Europe. Drop me an email if you want to know more.
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
🧠 Our fun new study in @currentbiology.bsky.social, where @pbogdan.bsky.social used fMRI & LLM embeddings from a schema encoding dataset to show that relational semantics have distinct patterns of representation from concept semantics
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
w/@synecphory.bsky.social
Just released: Efip podcast episode on how to democratize power over AI
inclusive-prosperity.simplecast.com/episodes/not...
(Other episodes with @rodrikdani @AtifRMian @S_Stantcheva: inclusive-prosperity.simplecast.com)
cc @econfip.bsky.social
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The Economics for Inclusive Prosperity podcast series continues with Max Kasy, on how democracies can rescue AI from tech titans. inclusive-prosperity.simplecast.com
Deep breath.
I'm honored and excited to join the faculty of America's oldest research university, Johns Hopkins.
I'll start this summer as a full professor, one of the founding faculty at the brand-new School of Government and Policy.
We're building something unique & important, even historic.
Come join @nathannunn.bsky.social James Fenske, Stephan Heblich and myself in the far north of 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, boasts up to 240 nights of active aurora borealis per year ❤️
Check out the February 2026 issue (24,1) of @jeeanews.bsky.social Journal of @eeanews.bsky.social
Teaching materials available: www.eeassoc.org/teaching-mat...
academic.oup.com/jeea/issue
The Culture Conference 2026 is already starting next week! 🥳
If you plan to attend in-person, please register ‼️before Sunday 22/02‼️
We are almost full, so don’t wait 😊
Online registration will remain open 💻
See you next week in Utrecht 🌇
To register:👇
culture-conference.com/registration/
This new paper offers practical solutions for pluralistic ignorance (when people assume their opinon is unpopular when many others share it):
-in loose cultures, share accurate information
-in tight ones, lowering the costs of speaking up can spark social change.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
⚙️ Working at the intersection of causality and networks?
We're organizing a satellite event at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston on June 1st. The focus is networks science and causal inference.
Submit your work by March 10th!
causnets.github.io
People form beliefs not only as individual agents, but as members of social groups.
Children (4-6 years old) who belonged to a group were more convinced by evidence that supported their ingroup’s belief (and were less convinced by evidence that opposed their ingroup): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📢 Predoc Fellow Opportunity
Join the team of Dr. Thomas Graeber, NOMIS Professor at the University of Zurich.
Start Date: Flexible between June–September 2026 (1-year appointment, extendable)
Deadline: Rolling applications – Open until filled
Read more here: theeconomicmisfit.com/2026/02/14/p...
Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding:
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
Each culture that celebrates the Lunar New Year has traditions passed down from generation to generation that are thought to bring good luck. NPR readers share theirs.
This is much more praise than we (or at least I) deserve, but we'll take it ;)
Everyone working in development economics should read this chapter.
They provide evidence that what works in development is less about finding universally good levers and more about designing interventions compatible with locally embedded social structures.
www.nber.org/papers/w3481...
Studying how managers’ gender attitudes shape workplace culture and gender inequality, from Virginia Minni, Kieu-Trang Nguyen, Heather Sarsons, and Carla Srebot www.nber.org/papers/w34782
No matter where they live, kids cooperate according to their community’s social norms by middle childhood.
Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/4r0Rxga
Such a great book by
@paulinegrosjean.bsky.social
I ❤️ the 🇫🇷 version.
Path breaking research is risky. Without tenure researchers will only play it safe and we will have fewer inventions and treatments.
Call for papers for the 2026 edition of the workshop on Persistence and Cultural Transmission at @QUBelfast on 18 and 19 of June. Keynote s.: Siwan Anderson and Patrick Francois. Submission👇
hhdi.co.uk/hhdi-nide-jo....
#econtwitter #econ #econconf #conference #Culture
@nathannunn.bsky.social @felipev84.bsky.social
We are open: please wait for us to unlock the door. Thank you for your understanding
this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities
1) In an undergrad lecture on IQ of my UChicago behav sci degree, we heard how some difference between reading & numeric skills was considered "atypical" – a red flag, but in fact 25% of people had this difference. The professor leaned in to us and said "You cannot call 25% of people abnormal."
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Have a friend who is likely stranded from his wife & kids indefinitely because of this. No warning to people who have sunk years of their life into an onerous process
www.npr.org/2026/01/14/g...
This man was convicted and sentenced to 22 years in prison for attacking the federal government before Trump pardoned him. Now he works for the federal government.
Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version?
I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/
It all started a few years ago... 🧵
We are hiring a post-doc to study the impact of AI agents on complex social systems in Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative and/or the Polarization Lab! Apply here:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...
In last 8 days: invade Venezuela and kidnap president, ICE shoots a mom in the face, and Trump admin brings criminal charges against Fed chair?
Am I missing anything?
An insightful and engaging conversation with @pbrakes.bsky.social on how and why to conserve animal cultures
