The famed Stanford Smallville is officially open-source! 25 AI agents inhabit a digital Westworld, unaware that they are living in a simulation. They go to work, gossip, organize socials, make new friends, and even fall in love. Each has unique personality and backstory.

Partisan, Tribal, and Hateful. Pre-premiere today by lehan zhang and Hasin Yousaf. Soon in seminar rooms near you!!!

Is gridlock causing polarization? 🧐 Proud to be interviewed and have my work with @Marc_S_Jacob and Gabriele Gratton featured on my favorite podcast! Check it out — link below 👇 Thank you for the invitation Wiola Dziuda Anthony Fowler @ProfWillHowell podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-…

🚨🚨🚨Announcing the 2nd Resilient Democracy Lab Workshop UNSW Sydney, March 18 don’t miss it! Program, info, and registration👇👇👇 resilientdemocracylab.org/events

The 2nd Resilient Democracy Lab Workshop is on this Monday at UNSW Economics Updated program below, including talks by Umair Khalil Gianmarco Daniele lehan zhang Zhuravskaya Jiemai Wu Emilio Depetris-Chauvin ⭐️⭐️⭐️ and myself.

And now our very own lehan zhang !

🚨Announcing APEN 2024!!!🚨 🌏U of Sydney 🗓️November 8, 2024 Peter Bils (Vanderbilt) Jiahua Che (CEIBS) Claudio Ferraz (UBC) Pauline Grosjean (UNSW) Masyhur Hilmy (UNSW) Federica Izzo (UCSD) Motohiro Kumagai (ANU) Register here: sites.google.com/view/apenetwor…

Thank you Jennifer Doleac for this public good! Excited to be on the jm this year!

Join us Uni of Sydney Economics on 8th Nov for this fantastic workshop 🤩

📢 COMING SOON to a working paper near you! (Next week? Stay tuned!)

Check out our new working paper 😁

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19896 Adding Fuel to the (Gun)Fire: How Politicians Polarize the Public Debate Lehan Zhang lehan zhang, Gabriele Gratton Gabriele Gratton, Pauline Grosjean UNSW Economics, Hasin Yousaf UNSW Economics ow.ly/qAOK50UQ61H #CEPR_PoE, #CEPR_PE, #EconTwitter

Pauline, Hasin, lehan zhang and I have just finished incorporating some of your feedback. If you haven’t done so yet, go check how we document “How politicians polarize the public debate”! Link to paper: gratton.org/papers/AddingF… Thread:👇

📣Now hiring: Predoc in Economics and Data Science Elliott Ash Ash and I are hiring a predoc -- work ETH Zurich Zurich on exciting projects in applied econ (education, political econ etc.), using AI, NLP, and causal inference. Apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/11505 Econ RA Listings

thinking about thinking (about writing an essay on creativity and AI) congeecosmicbinchicken.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/cre…

TOMORROW (23 April): AYEW Political Economy Workshop! Join us at 11:00am BST to listen to Andrea Tugnoli (University of Geneva), lehan zhang (@eth) and Nicola Benigni (Economics at Zurich) Sign up for Zoom details: monash.edu/business/impac…

I am very much looking forward to hear from ⁦lehan zhang⁩ presenting our paper “Adding Fuel to the (Gun)Fire: How Politicians Polarize the Public Debate” today in Milan 👇 cepr.org/events/3rd-cep…

Inviting submissions to the first Symposium in AI+Mindfulness, an interdisciplinary scientific conference on AI, mindfulness, meditation, and well-being. Oct 1st, 2025 at this year's Zurich AI Festival.

One week left to submit to this!