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.
The moment I read "gg" (as in gigi) + "auto", my mind instantly thought this is a package that styles your plots with an Italian car theme. Which, sometimes, could be the better option? 🙃
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.
See the full CfP for more details: drive.google.com/file/d/1ku4L...
📩 Questions: cog.econ.workshop.2026@gmail.com
Organizing committee:
Kai Barron (WZB Berlin)
Valeria Burdea (LMU Munich)
Tilman Fries (LMU Munich)
Yves Le Yaouanq (CREST-IP Paris)
Yiming Liu (HU Berlin / WZB Berlin)
💰 Financial support
Accommodation (3 nights) and meals are covered for all invited participants. Travel support is also available, with priority given to early-career researchers.
PhD students and early-career scholars are warmly encouraged to apply.
📅 Key dates
Submission deadline: April 19, 2026
Notification of acceptance decisions: May 17, 2026
Submission link: forms.gle/4FQwGjWFUZF3...
Both theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome. The program will include research presentations, a poster session, and a half-day mini-course for PhD students.
The workshop brings together researchers working on topics such as beliefs, memory, narratives and mental models, information acquisition, and dynamic decision-making.
📢 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!
It sounds like a great event to kick off the Enhanced Games with 🫠
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...
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 🦆🦆🦆
The most appropriate flag in that case should have the pattern of a Persian rug then :)
I love this video documenting this tradition: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUY4...
This makes sense and it's totally insane and worrisome on top of everything else.
and with that video, they should gather all the Trump administration, sit them down in front of a screen, go through the video frame by frame and ask them to defend their lies in front of the evidence
And with this occasion I also learnt never to confuse a millennial with a millenarian: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millena...
Among other cool things, it includes a paper I have cited, as well as 200 other people -- Guilbeault et al. (2018) that was actually randomly selected for replication, and it ended up being a very precise null result...
This is so true! I was recently reminded of this when reading this amazing replication effort: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Appeal for more short-run support for 🇺🇦
What's the plan though? How will we do this? :)
That's a fun way to start! There's actually a relatively new Romanian movie that's been somewhat critically acclaimed, and I think it's also easily accessible. It's called "Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World" (www.imdb.com/title/tt1816...)
📣 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).
I was jealous of Berlin's night life already but this really stings!
Indeed!! In for both in any case!
Yes please! :)
Yes please!!
I hope this will only make these books more sought after! The comparison with communist Romania is an alarm signal that can easily be drawn, but the starting points and contexts are so different that it may be a bit far-fetched.