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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Here's an old blog entry on the same topic berlinschoolofeconomics.de/insight/lyin...

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Lying is easy

by Georg Weizsäcker (Humboldt University of Berlin)

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 17/04/2026

Join us in celebrating the 2025 Cozzarelli Prize Class V: Behavioral and Social Sciences winning paper, “The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research.” Read the article here: ow.ly/GL4K50YKy7E

2025 Cozzarelli Prize Winner. Class V Winner: “The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research.” Authors: Sean J. Westwood

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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Agreeing to disagree! 👇🏻 Tomorrow I debate @patrick-bernau.de about bureaucracy, following his book presentation. He will argue that (i) Germany is in bad shape and (ii) most of it is bureaucracy's fault. I will argue that not (i) and not (ii).

Event announcement "Bürokratie: Ist Deutschland zu ordentlich für die Zukunft". The image contains two portrait shots and info on a lecture by Patrick Bernau and a debate between Patrick Bernau and Georg Weizsäcker. 31 Oct 2025, 5:45pm. HU Berlin, Spandauer Str. 1, room 220.

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Deutscher Ethikrat @ethikrat.org · 15/05/2025

Wie solidarisch sind wir? Um diese Frage geht es u.a. auf unserer Jahrestagung "Gelingende #Solidarität" am 18. Juni. @corneliabetsch.bsky.social moderiert das Panel mit @dkuebler.bsky.social und @walzenjet.bsky.social 👇 www.ethikrat.org/veranstaltungen/tagungen/gelingende-solidaritaet/

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Berlin School of Economics @bsoeberlin.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

❓🎓Why despite a gender-blind admissions system, equally qualified female students in China are significantly less likely than their male peers to apply to and be admitted to elite universities?❕Social expectations are the real issue 📑 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new... @dkuebler.bsky.social

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Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

"A climate of fear has descended on the research community. Researchers, afraid of losing their funding or job security, are removing their names from publications, abandoning studies, and rewriting grant proposals and papers (...)." 😬

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Dorothea Kübler @dkuebler.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

„cooperation between universities could address a collective action problem“

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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

So happy to see so many great people from this great department standing up here. Really hoping to see this kind of solidarity at university leadership and forming across universities

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

👇shows the importance of coordination, to generate safety in numbers. It would be good to know whether US university leaders are currently working on a coordination of their responses.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

"Columbia will remain the college of no king."

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Someone has finally come up a good opposition strategy

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Steffen Huck @steffenhuck.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Such a clever mechanism for such a good cause!

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Jeff Mosenkis @mosenkis.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Why Dean Karlan, Chief Economist of USAID resigned yesterday: "I was ready to rebuild from wherever we ended up to identify the most effective programs, figure out how to get them back in place, and to recommend new awards. But I received no response. Zero engagement." www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned on Tuesday

He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

In Israel, it took civil society to stop Netanyahu's attempt to usurp power via judicial overhaul, not the feckless opposition. CS organized rallies, free teach-ins on college grounds and neighborhood venues, placing signs on highways, and threatening mass disobedience. Lessons here for the USA.

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. "Then they came for the trade unionists … "Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me." —Martin Niemöller #econsky #academicsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/01/pres...

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Presidential memo shuts down all government grants (now including NSF)

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Patrick Bahners @pbahners.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Ein Konservativer driftet ab: Mit seinem Gedankenspiel zur Ausbürgerung von Straftätern entfernt sich Friedrich Merz vom überlieferten Gedanken hinter dem Status der Staatsbürgerschaft. F.A.Z.-Einspruch-Podcast, Folge 328, ab 2:22. www.faz.net/einspruch/me...

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Merz-Forderung zur Ausbürgerung von Straftätern: Wäre das rechtlich möglich?

In Folge 328 sprechen wir mit der Kriminologin Britta Bannenberg über den Umgang mit psychisch auffälligen Gewalttätern. Außerdem: Wie verhält sich das Gedankenspiel von Friedrich Merz zur Ausbürgerun...

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Not everyone is glad to see private firefighters in LA marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/01/are-...

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Are private firefighters repugnant (in Los Angeles)?

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

If you are okay with a felon being the president, at minimum, you should be okay with allowing felons to vote.

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Dorothea Kübler @dkuebler.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

„Karen Dynan, who worked in the Treasury Department under Mr. Obama, said economists there were known as “skunks at the garden party” — always showing up to explain why some attractive-sounding program wouldn’t work as intended.“

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Nageeb Ali @snageebali.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Relevant to the debate on fact-checking amidst Meta's decision, Adam Szeidl and Ferenc Szucs tell a clear and terrifying story about the power of misinformation and propaganda, and its effects on democratic accountability. drive.google.com/file/d/1M2Nx...

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Noteworthy that WELT‘s leaders had credible internal warnings. It was evident to them that the utterances by „Musk“ were likely AI generated. Is this still journalism?

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Conflicts of interest in medicine… marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2024/12/shou...

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Should big Tobacco fund (and program) continuing medical education?

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Miloš Fišar @milosfisar.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

📢 Call for papers #YEM2025 📅 May 22-23 2025 in Brno, Czech Republic 🗒️Topics: Applied Empirical Research, Labor Economics, Experimental Economics and Behavioral Theory 👥Keynotes: @dkuebler.bsky.social @neumarkecon.bsky.social ✅Submit paper by Feb 17 ℹ️Details: yem.econ.muni.cz

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YEM 2025 | YEM: Young Economists' Meeting

YEM: Young Economists' Meeting in Brno, Czech Republic

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Using the results shown below and others, we estimate that couples in Germany act as if they value women's earnings at 48 cents on the Euro, compared to men's earnings. In Sweden, it's 80 cents on the Euro. Full paper here: bit.ly/MTO-T

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META BENE @meta-bene.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

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Zeichnung eines einzelnen Blattes an einem Ast. Das Blatt sagt: I would prefer not to

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Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Why do I think these instances are interesting? To me, these are not just random instances that LLMs are sometimes wrong (like people), these are *diagnostic* that LLMs do not have a world model and are not “reasoning”, it exposes the basic architecture. Why? 1/n

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Berlin School of Economics @bsoeberlin.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

📰New article by @dkuebler.bsky.social in @faznet.bsky.social . Dorothea Kübler highlights how conflicts of interest are often overlooked in social science research and how they can impact public trust. Read more👉 zeitung.faz.net/faz/geistesw... #conflictofinterest #socialscience

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Schwarze Schafe vermindern das Ansehen der Herde

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

We have a new DP by P. Rosmer who reproduce + sensitivity analysis of "Preference discovery in university admissions: The case for dynamic multioffer mechanisms" by Grenet et al. Full report and authors' response here: osf.io/zwt7n/

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Johannes Haushofer @johanneshaushofer.com · 30/12/2023

If you're not done with your year-end giving, please consider helping a Ugandan student attend university in Germany! @malengo.org is running a GoFundMe campaign to support our 2024 cohort: gofund.me/6c385c14 Please spread the word!

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