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Our new working paper where we analyze a decade long experiment on Facebook where 0.5% of users never see ads: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Let’s start the day with some good news! We are excited to release csdid in Python! d2cml-ai.github.io/csdid/index.ht… The Python package scales better than our R did package (and substantially faster than the Stata sister package.) Thanks to Alexander Quispe Rojas and team for the partnership! 🚀

Thrilled to welcome to NovaSBE the new undergraduate classes in management, economics and portuguese & business. These are the students in economics and management with the highest GPA ever both for Nova SBE and for any other business/economics school in Portugal. The last

🚨New in Nature Human Behaviour 🚨 Will misinfo warning labels backfire for ppl who distrust fact-checkers? No! Labels reduce belief in & sharing of false news even for those highly distrusting of fact-checkers - warning labels are a key tool for platforms! rdcu.be/dSHtF

🚨 New preprint 🚨 I am excited to share a piece with Rui Mata and Zak Hussain in which we advocate for a greater reliance on open LLMs in the behavioral and social sciences. Despite the availability of powerful, more reproducible open alternatives (e.g., via Hugging Face),

🚨 We're hiring! NovaSBE is seeking new (open rank) faculty in MIS & Business Analytics. I will be at #CIST2004 if you want to learn more! Apply by Nov 15, assessed on a rolling basis. Details here: novasbe.unl.pt/Portals/0/File… #ResearchByTheBeach #AcademicJobs #Lisbon #ISTwitter

Automating AI research is exciting! But can LLMs actually produce novel, expert-level research ideas? After a year-long study, we obtained the first statistically significant conclusion: LLM-generated ideas are more novel than ideas written by expert human researchers.

One of Brussels favorite pieces of legislation Is GDPR. In my new blog Silicon Continent (starting today!) I talk about how it is undermining innovation in Europe and how to fix it. siliconcontinent.com/p/is-gdpr-unde…

Forthcoming in the AER: "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions" by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Peter Hull, and Michal Kolesár. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

New: massive e-learning platform Udemy gave teachers a window to 'opt-out' of their material being used to train AI. That window is already over. We spoke to instructors who had no idea they had automatically been opted-in. See here, it's greyed out 404media.co/massive-e-lear…

Big news! The Epic Games Store and other app stores are coming to the Google Play Store in 2025 in the USA - without Google's scare screens and Google's 30% app tax - thanks to victory in Epic v Google. theverge.com/policy/2024/10…

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”

New working paper: in a large RCT academics taking ozempic were able to stop procrastinating and finish their paper on the effects of ozempic

Spotify uses playlists to gain advantage with their suppliers, from Luis Aguiar, Joel Waldfogel, and Axel Zeijen nber.org/papers/w33048

I really hope you are all started writing the draft you'll submit to WoPA (platformanalytics.org) #marketing #economics #platforms See you in sunny San Diego in April 🤌

🚀 Do you want to join an amazing team? We are hiring! 🚀 ISTO is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) starting no later than March 2025. The deadline for applications is 22nd November 2024. More info: som.lmu.de/isto/en/instit…

🔴The 🇪🇺 Commission fines Meta €797.72 million over abusive practices benefitting Facebook Marketplace 👇 For more information ⬇️ 🔗 europa.eu/!Cpt4R9 #EUCompetition

There has been tremendous pressure on every CIO / CTO to come up with some AI success stories so that the company isn't seen as missing out on AI, so of course they have responded by rebranding traditional automation as "AI agents".