CELLS welcomes applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher position in "Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine." The position is limited until September 30, 2028. Submission deadline: 01.17.25 Information: uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/752…

Check out this review from my former advisor at HSE University: "It is very difficult to disentangle the genuine beliefs that our generation still held from the cynicism that emerged from the contemplation of real life and its comparison with Marxist and Communist Party dogmas."

We wrapped up the year at Hannover’s Christmas market✨🎄 2024 was crucial for advancing the methodological and conceptual basis of our research. In 2025, we’ll build on this progress, share findings & welcome new team members. Stay tuned! #ModelTransfer #ERCStGr European Research Council (ERC)

A big film about Russian deserters (with Eng subs). You'll know how Russians end up in war and how they escape from the front. You'll also get an answer to a question you probably didn't really want to know: why the worst thing in war is shoes. youtu.be/wlrMTW3e37s?si…

рождественский дроп🎊 как и обещала, открываю запись в разговорный клуб: если у вас в планах на 2025 учить немецкий, и вам не хватает практики говорения, то это хороший шанс для вас! ниже в треде — подробности о занятиях в разных группах. за ретвиты чмок💋

Удобная платформа, поддержал сбор на помощь политзекам zaodno.help

Simpler isn’t always better. Ockham’s razor — the idea that the simplest explanation is usually best — has shaped scientific decisions for centuries, but recent advances in machine learning and beyond challenge this assumption. A new paper in PNAS argues that by relying too much

What people fear about entering Russia is already the new normal in the USA. My colleague in PolSci entered the USA from Europe recently to attend ISA Convention. Her colleagues, all Germans, were forced to open their laptops and show content of their research presentations. 1/

Oral history: an interview with Robert Axtell (George Mason University) on the Sugarscape project and the early use of ABMs in economics buff.ly/8GRumfl

We are pleased to invite you to the MAPS Symposium, taking place on June 4 and 5, 2025, at Koniglicher Pferdestall. Attendance is free and open to all. We have a great lineup! Join us for two days of engaging discussions and critical reflections.

#ESHET2025 just began in Turin. I'll be presenting in the symposium on 'Model Transfer in the History of Economics' on Saturday, May 24 at 8:45 AM (together with my hermano Murat Bakeev and Elizaveta Burina). Hope to see many friends and colleagues! SHoET

I enjoyed the session a lot, thanks so much to everyone who participated!

This morning, I posted about how misguided the idea of using AI to run a centrally planned economy is: 🔗 x.com/JesusFerna7026… One of my (not-so-secret) secrets is that over the years, I’ve read as many books on central planning as I could find, including digging in obscure

An old Soviet joke. The Russians arrest a Jew for studying Hebrew. “Why are you studying Hebrew in Russia? You will die before being allowed to go to Israel.” “When I die, I will go to heaven and everyone there will speak Hebrew.” “Ha! And what if you go to hell?” “I already

Москва 2025 — сон сумасшедшего, ты идешь по центру там ягодные сезоны, за ними вакансии оператора БПЛА, идут куклы на ходулях, рядом — вечер военной поэзии, экспозиция СЕМЬЯ СКВОЗЬ ВЕКА, огромный самовар (???), следом выставка эпизоды финской русофобии

There have been several recent papers which might be called the ‘Economic History of Science’ but I think this new one is the first true thoroughbred to dash out of the starting stall: A network analysis tracing how discrete scientific ideas diffused amongst scholars through

I have just posted my survey paper “Deep Learning for Solving Economic Models” on my webpage: sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Deep_… In one or two weeks, it will also circulate as a working paper at the NBER and CEPR. Still, I wanted to let people know already, since I am quite happy with the

I'm on the political science job market this year! In my JMP, "Reading Orwell in Moscow", I study what people read when the authoritarian regime they live under invades another country. nvasilenok.github.io/pdfs/papers/Re…