iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

After noticing another (significant!) drop in data quality this morning, I saw that Prolific is now recommending that participants be paid $48/hr

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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

🎓 Great internal seminar this week with our colleague Adrian Chadi, who presented “ #Television and the #LaborMarket: Evidence from Natural Experiments in West and East #Germany.” Insightful discussion on media exposure and labour outcomes. #econtwitter #LaborMarket #applied #econsky

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 12/03/2026

Wrapped up a great week of regulatory outreach! Presented to the @CMAgovUK and @NZComCom on how human-machine market interactions can dampen competition. Thanks to Rajssa Mechelli & David Shaharudin Shahar-Yu for hosting!

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 15/01/2026

Considering outsourcing my ARC Raiders inventory management to Claude Cowork

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 23/12/2025

LLMs and agents are reshaping the landscape of social science research. Our preprint on "LLM Pollution" is featured in @ScienceMagazine's new piece on how Al is upending online studies. www.science.org/content/arti...

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AI may upend online studies critical to social science

Sophisticated bots risk contaminating surveys, games, and other approaches designed to shed light on human behavior

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Our dept is hiring an associate professor in microeconomics / competition theory. It is a wonderful department - do get in touch. The job ad is in German but we teach more and more in English, so we‘re flexible. www.hu-berlin.de/en/universit...

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W2-Professur für „Wettbewerbspolitik“ - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Huge shout-out to our PhD students presenting their research at the @unisouthampton.bsky.social ’s Doctoral Research Poster Showcase this week! 🎓 #PhDLife #ResearchExcellence #PhD #DoctoralResearch #Southampton #AcademicShowcase

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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Our department hosted a great seminar this week by my colleague @tfwerner.com titled "Experimental Evidence That Conversational AI Can Steer Consumer Behavior Without Detection". Eye-opening insights into conversational AI and consumer choices! #AIResearch #BehavioralEconomics #AcademicResearch

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 03/11/2025

📣 New paper! "Delegate Pricing Decisions to an Algorithm? Experimental Evidence" with @normann.bsky.social, Nina Rulié, & @ostypa.bsky.social We study what happens when humans delegate to a collusive algorithm, and AI pricing adoption becomes a strategic choice! arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2510.27636

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Delegate Pricing Decisions to an Algorithm? Experimental Evidence

We analyze the delegation of pricing by participants, representing firms, to a collusive, self-learning algorithm in a repeated Bertrand experiment. In the baseline treatment, participants set prices ...

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 22/09/2025

The fact that fries/chips are just normally sold at Chinese restaurants in Ireland should be studied. But still: spice bag is the best fast food invention since ???

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 01/09/2025

First day in the office! Excited to join the University of Southampton as an Assistant Professor/Lecturer

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 10/08/2025

I like the new robot 'personality' feature of ChatGPT. Although it's probably just a tweak to a system message, it's much more to the point and less wordy. Just weird that, out of the blue, it sometimes ends with things like, 'I am synthesized and not embodied.'

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

We have our first games ever in Ireland next month. The event will be at the University of Galway as part of CERIS’s Annual Workshop on September 26th. Virtual participation is possible and coauthorship to a meta paper is granted. Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 06/08/2025

With the release of Gemini Live / OpenAls Operator, we started working o perspective piece on how to tackle the growing threat these systems pose to online behavioural research and its validity. We hope this helps move the conversation forward. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.01390

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Recognising, Anticipating, and Mitigating LLM Pollution of Online Behavioural Research

Online behavioural research faces an emerging threat as participants increasingly turn to large language models (LLMs) for advice, translation, or task delegation: LLM Pollution. We identify three int...

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 05/08/2025

🚨New paper alert! "Recognising, Anticipating & Mitigating LLM Pollution of Online Behavioural Research" Online experiments are being polluted by LLMs. We map the threat and fixes🧵 w/ Raluca Rilla, @hiromu1996.bsky.social, @iyadrahwan.bsky.social & Anne-Marie Nussberger arxiv.org/abs/2508.01390

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Recognising, Anticipating, and Mitigating LLM Pollution of Online Behavioural Research

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 02/08/2025

Sitting on the beach, sipping cherry cola (sin azúcar), just won three straight games of Uno against my wife. Life is good.

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 31/07/2025

Last day of my postdoc with some of the best colleagues I could have hoped for.

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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Mengchen Dong @iyadrahwan.bsky.social and I report data from 3,000+ people (incl. welfare claimants) showing how much accuracy they're willing to sacrifice to get faster AI decisions for social benefits. it's very hard for non-claimants to understand claimants. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Heterogeneous preferences and asymmetric insights for AI use among welfare claimants and non-claimants - Nature Communications

Governments use AI to speed up welfare decisions, raising concerns about fairness and accuracy. Here, the authors find that welfare claimants are more averse to AI and their preferences less understoo...

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 08/07/2025

Thrilled to share that this September I’ll be joining @sotonecon.bsky.social at @unisouthampton.bsky.social pton.bsky.social as a Lecturer 🎉 I look forward to continuing my research in IO, experimental economics, and human-AI interactions, and to engaging more with the UK econ community.

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 03/07/2025

You gotta love German academia. Receiving a letter (yes, an actual letter, not an email) many, many months after applying just to tell you that you won't be considered for the professorship is always quite the experience.

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 01/07/2025

So happy to see this in print! What began as my Master’s thesis in Bonn 7 years ago is now published in Experimental Economics. With @adrianecon.bsky.social & Fabian Winter doi.org/10.1017/eec....

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Willingness to volunteer among remote workers is insensitive to the team size | Experimental Economics | Cambridge Core

Willingness to volunteer among remote workers is insensitive to the team size

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 27/06/2025

Does anyone know a paper that specifically looks at the share of online samples (Prolific, MTurk, etc.) relative to lab studies/field studies in recent years? I feel like I saw some stats on that sometime ago on X, but I can’t find it.

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 29/05/2025

Nur weil es jetzt woanders schlechter läuft, bietet das deutsche akademische System nicht plötzlich Top-Bedingungen. Die strukturellen Probleme sind massiv. Das darf nicht von der Reformnotwendigkeit ablenken. www.zeit.de/2025/23/wiss...

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Wissenschaftsstandort Deutschland: Plötzlich begehrt wie Harvard

Trump vertreibt die klügsten Köpfe aus den USA. Und plötzlich ist Deutschland wieder begehrt. Diese Chance sollten wir nutzen – die Forschung hier hat einiges zu bieten.

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 22/05/2025

Happy to be flying back to Berlin next week, but proud to be visiting an institution with the courage to stand its ground and fight back.

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BAIREM @bairem.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The "Berlin Center for AI Research in Economics and Management" (BAIREM) was founded at TU Berlin. With its work, the center strengthens the interface between technology, business and society - and makes an important contribution to responsible digital transformation. Find us: tu.berlin/wm/bairem

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Berlin Center for AI Research in Economics and Management - TU Berlin

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

We did not want to start the week like this, but here we are. Yet again our chair’s inbox is filled with messages from replicators who have opened “replication” folders only to find names, Social Insurance Numbers, mental-health diagnoses and incomes of study participants. 🧵

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Vasilisa Werner @vasilisawerner.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

A new discussion paper "Suspicion and Communication" (w/ Lisa Bruttel and Friedericke Fromme) is out now! Check it out: ideas.repec.org/p/pot/cepadp... 1/N @cepa-unipotsdam.bsky.social

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 02/05/2025

Being in Philly for the #IIOC2025 reminds me how much my connection to US history comes entirely from American movies. Looking at Independence Hall, all I can picture is Nicolas Cage sprinting across the roof in National Treasure.

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 28/04/2025

Happy to be in Michigan to give a talk on a new paper of ours about delegation to pricing algos! Booked an early flight to Detroit to see the Diego Rivera murals, only to realize it's of course Monday and the Detroit Institute of Arts is closed. Brilliant planning on my part.

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 17/04/2025

Our paper "Algorithmic Price Recommendations and Collusion" is forthcoming in Experimental Economics! Big congrats to Matthias Hunold for co-authoring with not one, but two Werners. Talk about excellent taste. 😎

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 15/04/2025

Let me tell you… trying to become a ✨global talent✨ sounds a lot fancier than it actually is.

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 06/04/2025

How did Duke manage to lose that. Oof

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Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I have a postdoc position in Behavioral/Experimental Economics available for 6 years, at the oldest university in Germany in beautiful Heidelberg. Please forward to anyone who might be interested! #EconJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd #Economics #JobAlert

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Shengwu Li @shengwuli.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

If you’re a Boston-area grad student interested in behavioral economics meets computer science, come to this workshop on April 4. urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

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Boston Economics and Computing Hub

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Jonas Frey @jfrey.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I will run a workshop on how to code experiments with oTree on April 29th & May 6th, 2025. The suggested workshop fee is 200€, but you can pay less or attend for free. Signup: forms.gle/6oe5qXmHTK1M... More information: jonasfrey.net/workshops #EconSky

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oTree Workshop 29 April 2025 & 6 May 2025

Prerequisites: none Fee: €200, fee reduction / waiver possible if needed Time: 09:00 to 18:00 CET (UTC+1) including breaks The time from 09:00 to 11:00 on the 29 th will be used for a Python / HTML...

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 21/03/2025

What a ride! See you at the equator.

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NEP-AIN: Artificial Intelligence @repec-nep-ain.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The Economics of Large Language Models: Token Allocation, Fine Tuning, and Optimal Pricing: Dirk Bergemann; Alessandro Bonatti; Alex Smolin

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NEP-AIN: Artificial Intelligence @repec-nep-ain.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

If you like the new economics working papers disseminated through this account, consider boosting this message so that others can notice its existence. And there are similar accounts for other fields of economics in this starter pack!

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NEP-COM: Industrial Competition @repec-nep-com.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 05/03/2025

Excited to spend the next three months at Harvard University! Thanks to David C. Parkes and the EconCS group for hosting me. If you're around and interested in discussing the topics at the intersection of Economics and AI, especially IO-related work, please reach out!

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Adrian Hillenbrand @adrianecon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

📣 Exciting postdoc position! Please share! Interested in Organisation Design and running RCTs with organisations? 2 years postdoc in the Market Design department @ZEW, no teaching! jobs.zew.de/jobposting/1...

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2-Year Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d, 100 %) Organisational Design, RCTs with firms

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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 17/02/2025

Thrips. Is there anything worse than thrips? Invading my precious alocasia like they own the place. But they’ve messed with the wrong household.

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Christian Hilbe @chilbe.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

In game theory, we often assume that people only interact in one game at a time. In a new paper, we explore theoretically and experimentally how people cooperate when they engage in two games concurrently, either with the same partner or with different partners, www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) @arc-mpib.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨 Applications for the 22nd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality are now open! 🌐 Join us in Berlin @mpib-berlin.bsky.social from June 17–25, 2025 to explore "Decision Making in a Digital World". ✏️ Application deadline is March 9 - more info at 👇!! www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...

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Summer Institute

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NEP-AIN: Artificial Intelligence @repec-nep-ain.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The Spoils of Algorithmic Collusion: Profit Allocation Among Asymmetric Firms: Simon Martin; Hans-Theo Normann; Paul P\"uplichhuisen; Tobias Werner

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Vasilisa Werner @vasilisawerner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

🚨Less than two weeks to go: Apply to the workshop “Text as Data in Behavioral Economics”, aimed at exploring the intersection of text mining techniques and behavioral economics. 📍Potsdam, Germany on 10-11.06.25. 📍Submit here until 15.02.25: sites.google.com/view/text-as... #EconSky

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Text as Data in Behavioral Economics

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