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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 recently got a little assistance with her grooming because she recently read a study showing that a little (text) brush-up can lead to more success when applying for a job. In their study, @emmawiles.bsky.social, Zanele Munyikwa, and @johnjhorton.bsky.social test... 1/🧵

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Emma Wiles @emmawiles.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

🚨 New paper alert, with @johnjhorton.bsky.social! Using an experiment run on a large online labor market, we provide evidence that providing employers access to an AI-written first draft of a job post harms the efficiency of the market. emmawiles.github.io/storage/jobo...

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John Horton @johnjhorton.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

gave Claude Code (wow!) some work to do writing documentation. It fixed up a file "survey.py" then got interrupted and lost the context. When it went back, it started again with "survey.py" and said...

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John Horton @johnjhorton.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Models you can run on @expectedparrot.bsky.social (w/ just one key); we also hit each one daily to make sure it's not deprecated/down and create this report: www.expectedparrot.com/getting-star...

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Expected Parrot @expectedparrot.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

With E[P] you can run jobs locally using your own API keys for LLMs, or use our key which comes with $25 in credits. Toggle on "help me" and we'll dig into any issues with your surveys and experiments and help you fix them!

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 07/03/2025

Sloan Foundation announced a program to support postdocs in philosophy, sociology, and metascience who want to understand how AI will affect science. Pass it along to anyone who might be interested, the Institute for Complex Social Dynamics might be interested in hosting sloan.org/programs/dig...

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Call for submissions: Metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowship | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Our mission is to make the world a better place through the advancement of scientific knowledge.

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John Horton @johnjhorton.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Economic content of the speech last night (w/ GPT-4o & @expectedparrot.bsky.social ) 1/ NB: www.expectedparrot.com/content/john...

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John Horton @johnjhorton.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Using skip-logic & piping to implement bilateral bargaining in github.com/expectedparr... Notebook here: www.expectedparrot.com/content/john...

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John Horton @johnjhorton.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I just posted the exact same thing on twitter and here & got way more engagement here despite having probably 7x the followers. Twitter really is cooked huh?

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John Horton @johnjhorton.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This is very cool & the point is push the model to its limits, but specifying this kind of complex flow is quite easy with github.com/expectedparr... - short thread 1/n

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John Horton @johnjhorton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Tools to social scientists using LLMs: www.expectedparrot.com

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John Horton @johnjhorton.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

What seems to be going on here is that (a) more people in student sample played exact EV in mirror than in lottery & (b) distributions are *both* roughly symmetric around EV. You can see why w/ means it looks PT-ish (& also at other quantiles). FWIW, I think everyone should CTFO & let Oprea respond

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MIT Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work @mitshapingwork.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

How is AI reshaping labor market opportunity, and for whom? Join us on 1/21 to hear from @johnjhorton.bsky.social, @sendhil.bsky.social and @lindseyrraymond.bsky.social about their latest research findings and insights, chaired by David Autor. Register: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/align... #EconSky

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Zi Yang Kang @ziyangkang.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

1/ My co-author @mitchwatt.bsky.social is on the #EconJobMarket this year. Mitch is an applied theorist interested in market design, IO, and public policy. I happen to know his #JMP and its companion paper very well. 😇 🧵👇 with an overview of both papers. #EconSky

Mitch's JMP: Optimal Redistribution Through Subsidies

Our other paper: Optimal In-Kind Redistribution

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John Horton @johnjhorton.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Thankful to have a plausible alternative short form social media /microblogging platform

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Cameron @cameron.stream · 18/11/2024

@johnjhorton.bsky.social posted this in the EDSL discord as well -- super cool that this works.

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John Horton @johnjhorton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

ok fine i'm here. i forgot i made this account & tried to make another one today w/ this user name and it said it was taken & I thought "what bastard took my..." oh, right it was me

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