Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 20/09/2026works exceptionally well for the bits written in binary! 120
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026How much should we worry about the value of more independent expert opinions decreasing with the increasing use of AI which makes everyone's information more correlated? Is this going to mark the end of Reviewer 2? 🥲 🙃 121
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026unfortunately, the dinner for breakfast game cannot be saved by the non-alcoholic beverage suppliers 021
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026OK, if I have to, I'm gonna go with the Soil Science Prize, cuz it ticks so many boxes---scientific merit, impressive collective effort and artistic merit (the picture in the preview could easily feature in a contemporary photo exhibition) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgAssessing soil health with underpants 121
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think this year includes one of the best collection of winners: improbable.com/ig/winners/#.... Really hard to pick a favorite!improbable.comPast Ig WinnersIg® Nobel Prize Winners For achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK Winners by year: 2026 : 2025 : 2024 : 2023 : 2022 : 2021 2020 : 2019 : 2018 : 2017 : 2016 2015 : 2014 : 20… 111
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 05/07/2026At least Trump will have no excuse when the whole team will be kicked out from all subsequent games 🙃 000
Reposted by Valeria BurdeaEconomics LMU Munich @econmunich.bsky.social · 12/06/2026🔵Coming up this Monday! Join us on June 15 at the 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 with 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼 𝗜𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗼 (@univdauphine.bsky.social) who will present "Sounds of Silence" 🔗https://sites.google.com/site/alessandroispano/ #EconSky 001
Reposted by Valeria BurdeaEconomics LMU Munich @econmunich.bsky.social · 29/05/2026🔵Coming up this Monday! Join us on June 01 at the 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 with @benbushong.com (𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆) who will present "Belief Sequences, Prior Recovery, and (Non-)Bayesian Updating" 🔗https://www.benbushong.com/ #EconSky 012
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 25/05/2026And the implication for lecturers who want to best respond to this strategy is to tell students to expect a test at random dates. I bet they'll love that 🤓 110
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Also, like for the Eurovision song, reviews for this film seem to be split. Here's a negative one I don't trust for the very obvious reason that it names Sebastian Stan as the A-lister, when that should clearly be Renate Reinsve!! www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...theguardian.comCannes got it wrong this year by awarding Palme d’Or to Cristian Mungiu’s very moderate FjordFilm about a couple on trial for child abuse isn’t a patch on the director’s previous Palme winner, while other disappointing films seemed to grab the jury’s attention 110
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 24/05/2026I think the US will get it later than Europe, which will be sometime in autumn I think. So you just need to plan a "research" visit at an appropriate date! :) 010
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Bibles are still pretty common in many German hotels. This time, I brought some competition 😎 000
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Clearly rigged...she even ticked more boxes on my Eurovision bingo card! Though, pretty happy Bulgaria ranked first this time! 000
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I know Romania's entry at the Eurovision has been a bit controversial, but honestly, it's the best by far (and I'm not biased at all 🙃). If she doesn't win tomorrow this game is rigged :P 220
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 28/04/2026I'd be happy to chat more in private at any point. In fact, Taisuke Imai and I are currently trying to do something broader about this. 020
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 28/04/2026And I agree with the final point. I think the answer to this question is not at all one-dimensional. In an ideal world we would have run this experiment in many different types of settings. We're revising it now and will try to include more of this in the discussion. 130
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Thanks so much for pointing that out! Just corrected the citation (not sure how it slipped in). 120
Reposted by Valeria BurdeaCRC Rationality & Competition @rationalitycrc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Why incentive-compatibility isn't enough for data quality: Our new online experiment shows that popular belief elicitation methods like BSR and BDM fail to outperform simple, unincentivized introspection.190researchblog.substack.comDo We Need Complex Incentives for Belief Elicitation Online?Banko-Ferran, Burdea & Woon: "A Horserace of Methods for Eliciting Induced Beliefs Online" CRC Discussion Paper No. 562 063
Reposted by Valeria Burdeadrewfudenberg.bsky.social @drewfudenberg.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Two 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.ergosphere.blogThe machines are fine. I'm worried about us.On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable. 36621
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 27/03/2026The 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? 🙃 011
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Probably 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. 020
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 19/03/2026See 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) 000
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 19/03/2026💰 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. 100
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 19/03/2026📅 Key dates Submission deadline: April 19, 2026 Notification of acceptance decisions: May 17, 2026 Submission link: forms.gle/4FQwGjWFUZF3... 100
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Both theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome. The program will include research presentations, a poster session, and a half-day mini-course for PhD students. 100
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 19/03/2026The workshop brings together researchers working on topics such as beliefs, memory, narratives and mental models, information acquisition, and dynamic decision-making. 100
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 19/03/2026📢 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. 122
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 24/02/2026It sounds like a great event to kick off the Enhanced Games with 🫠 020
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Brought to you by the reality checks authority...the Dutch 🙃 000
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Happy 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...ethanhein.comDilla TimeI recently finished reading Dan Charnas’ book Dilla Time. It’s a good one! If you are interested in how hip-hop works, you should read it. The book’s major musicological insight i… 020
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 30/01/2026New 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 🦆🦆🦆 050
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 30/01/2026The most appropriate flag in that case should have the pattern of a Persian rug then :) 000
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 28/01/2026I love this video documenting this tradition: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUY4...youtube.comPittsburgh's Weirdest TraditionYouTube video by Dean Bog 122
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 25/01/2026This makes sense and it's totally insane and worrisome on top of everything else. 022
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 25/01/2026and 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 010
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 24/01/2026And with this occasion I also learnt never to confuse a millennial with a millenarian: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millena... 010
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Among 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... 010
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 22/01/2026This is so true! I was recently reminded of this when reading this amazing replication effort: www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comExamining the replicability of online experiments selected by a decision market - Nature Human BehaviourThis study finds that decision markets can be a useful tool for selecting studies for replication. For a sample of 26 online experiments published in PNAS selected by a decision market, the authors fi... 110
Reposted by Valeria BurdeaGeorg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Appeal for more short-run support for 🇺🇦 191
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 22/01/2026What's the plan though? How will we do this? :) 100
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 22/01/2026That'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...)imdb.com 020
Reposted by Valeria BurdeaCRC Rationality & Competition @rationalitycrc.bsky.social · 20/01/2026📣 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).econexperiments.euWorkshop Homepage 148
Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 19/01/2026I was jealous of Berlin's night life already but this really stings! 000
