Maxim Ananyev
@maximananyev.bsky.social
Applied economist at the Melbourne Institute. I work on issues on related to economic well-being. I also venture into political economy and economics of culture.
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📰📊Media mergers and political bias
A new study investigates how takeovers of Australian newspapers affect political slant. Analysing 30M+ articles, it found News Corp mergers pushed conservative bias & other acquisitions shifted coverage left.
🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#MediaBias #SciComm 🧪
A new study investigates how takeovers of Australian newspapers affect political slant. Analysing 30M+ articles, it found News Corp mergers pushed conservative bias & other acquisitions shifted coverage left.
🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#MediaBias #SciComm 🧪
Media ownership and ideological slant: Evidence from Australian newspaper mergers
This study examines how media acquisitions by corporate conglomerates influence the political slant of Australian newspapers. Using a comprehensive measure based on the language of over 30 million new...
doi.org
January 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
📰📊Media mergers and political bias
A new study investigates how takeovers of Australian newspapers affect political slant. Analysing 30M+ articles, it found News Corp mergers pushed conservative bias & other acquisitions shifted coverage left.
🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#MediaBias #SciComm 🧪
A new study investigates how takeovers of Australian newspapers affect political slant. Analysing 30M+ articles, it found News Corp mergers pushed conservative bias & other acquisitions shifted coverage left.
🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#MediaBias #SciComm 🧪
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Somehow only just became aware of LlooM, a toolkit that uses a combination of clustering and prompts to extract concepts and describe custom datasets — similar to a topic model. Looks nice, with lots of documentation and open colab notebooks!
Has anyone used it?
stanfordhci.github.io/lloom/about/
Has anyone used it?
stanfordhci.github.io/lloom/about/
What is LLooM? | LLooM
Concept Induction: Analyzing Unstructured Text with High-Level Concepts
stanfordhci.github.io
January 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Somehow only just became aware of LlooM, a toolkit that uses a combination of clustering and prompts to extract concepts and describe custom datasets — similar to a topic model. Looks nice, with lots of documentation and open colab notebooks!
Has anyone used it?
stanfordhci.github.io/lloom/about/
Has anyone used it?
stanfordhci.github.io/lloom/about/
Excited for this year’s Australian Gender Economics Workshop, organised by @alfredopaloyo.com.
I’ll present a paper, co-authored with Michael Poyker and Alexander Yarkin, on the effects of Evangelical movement.
Looking forward to discovering new research and catching up with old and new friends.
I’ll present a paper, co-authored with Michael Poyker and Alexander Yarkin, on the effects of Evangelical movement.
Looking forward to discovering new research and catching up with old and new friends.
January 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Excited for this year’s Australian Gender Economics Workshop, organised by @alfredopaloyo.com.
I’ll present a paper, co-authored with Michael Poyker and Alexander Yarkin, on the effects of Evangelical movement.
Looking forward to discovering new research and catching up with old and new friends.
I’ll present a paper, co-authored with Michael Poyker and Alexander Yarkin, on the effects of Evangelical movement.
Looking forward to discovering new research and catching up with old and new friends.
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DeepSeek released a whole family of inference-scaling / "reasoning" models today, including distilled variants based on Llama and Qwen
Here are my notes on the new models, plus how I ran DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B on my Mac using Ollama and LLM
simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/20/...
Here are my notes on the new models, plus how I ran DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B on my Mac using Ollama and LLM
simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/20/...
DeepSeek-R1 and exploring DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B
DeepSeek are the Chinese AI lab who dropped the best currently available open weights LLM on Christmas day, DeepSeek v3. That model was trained in part using their unreleased R1 …
simonwillison.net
January 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
DeepSeek released a whole family of inference-scaling / "reasoning" models today, including distilled variants based on Llama and Qwen
Here are my notes on the new models, plus how I ran DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B on my Mac using Ollama and LLM
simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/20/...
Here are my notes on the new models, plus how I ran DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B on my Mac using Ollama and LLM
simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/20/...
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Behavioural biologists have known for many years that birds try to combat traffic noise by becoming louder. For example, the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology has found that Berlin nightingales chirp an average of 14 decibels louder than their counterparts in the forest.
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January 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Behavioural biologists have known for many years that birds try to combat traffic noise by becoming louder. For example, the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology has found that Berlin nightingales chirp an average of 14 decibels louder than their counterparts in the forest.
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Must have been a real mindfuck living in the B.C. times and not knowing what the years were counting down to.
December 9, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Must have been a real mindfuck living in the B.C. times and not knowing what the years were counting down to.
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Here's a great essay from my colleagues (including @pollcat.bsky.social & @aebrown.bsky.social) about how @pewresearch.org measures characteristics it's often awkward to ask about, including religion, income, political affiliation & gender.
Who Are You? The Art and Science of Measuring Identity
As a shop that studies human behavior through surveys and other social scientific techniques, we have a good line of sight into the contradictory nature of human preferences. Here's a look at how we c...
www.pewresearch.org
December 5, 2024 at 5:25 AM
Here's a great essay from my colleagues (including @pollcat.bsky.social & @aebrown.bsky.social) about how @pewresearch.org measures characteristics it's often awkward to ask about, including religion, income, political affiliation & gender.
A meme in honor of one of the most fascinating stories in economic research.
December 2, 2024 at 11:44 PM
A meme in honor of one of the most fascinating stories in economic research.
Personal news: my dearest friend and love, Tatiana Ershova, said yes to marrying me.
December 2, 2024 at 2:02 AM
Personal news: my dearest friend and love, Tatiana Ershova, said yes to marrying me.
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I am NOT a geographical determinist
But…
This map does help us understand why the Khasi hills remained matrilineal
Why might torrential rains help women??
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open.substack.com/pub/dralicee...
But…
This map does help us understand why the Khasi hills remained matrilineal
Why might torrential rains help women??
😀
open.substack.com/pub/dralicee...
November 29, 2024 at 8:15 AM
I am NOT a geographical determinist
But…
This map does help us understand why the Khasi hills remained matrilineal
Why might torrential rains help women??
😀
open.substack.com/pub/dralicee...
But…
This map does help us understand why the Khasi hills remained matrilineal
Why might torrential rains help women??
😀
open.substack.com/pub/dralicee...
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Since it is inefficient to attempt to educate every reviewer individually, I am yeeting into your feed this clear paper from Gelman, Hill, and Yajima on how Bayesians can do even better than correcting for multiple comparisons. arxiv.org/abs/0907.2478
Why we (usually) don't have to worry about multiple comparisons
Applied researchers often find themselves making statistical inferences in settings that would seem to require multiple comparisons adjustments. We challenge the Type I error paradigm that underlies t...
arxiv.org
November 26, 2024 at 9:11 AM
Since it is inefficient to attempt to educate every reviewer individually, I am yeeting into your feed this clear paper from Gelman, Hill, and Yajima on how Bayesians can do even better than correcting for multiple comparisons. arxiv.org/abs/0907.2478
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The keynote speakers for the Australian Gender Economics Workshop are Prof Paola Profeta (Bocconi) and Prof Doris Weichselbaumer (Linz). Also, the website is now live: t.ly/mWzth. Please join us in Wollongong next year!
AGEW 2025
6–7 February 2025
University of Wollongong
t.ly
November 28, 2024 at 3:03 AM
The keynote speakers for the Australian Gender Economics Workshop are Prof Paola Profeta (Bocconi) and Prof Doris Weichselbaumer (Linz). Also, the website is now live: t.ly/mWzth. Please join us in Wollongong next year!
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It's misleading to portray culture as static.
Actually, there's considerable contestation & flux.
While India's urban FLFP is extremely low, Hindu British women work at high rates!!
This tells us something important!!
www.ggd.world/p/can-archit...
Actually, there's considerable contestation & flux.
While India's urban FLFP is extremely low, Hindu British women work at high rates!!
This tells us something important!!
www.ggd.world/p/can-archit...
November 27, 2024 at 2:39 PM
It's misleading to portray culture as static.
Actually, there's considerable contestation & flux.
While India's urban FLFP is extremely low, Hindu British women work at high rates!!
This tells us something important!!
www.ggd.world/p/can-archit...
Actually, there's considerable contestation & flux.
While India's urban FLFP is extremely low, Hindu British women work at high rates!!
This tells us something important!!
www.ggd.world/p/can-archit...
Arranged some of my Econ books. There's a system.
November 27, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Arranged some of my Econ books. There's a system.
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We still have a relatively poor understanding of the relationship between evidence and policy. Program evaluation in particular is often motivated by a desire to make policy better. But how effective is program evaluation itself?Michelle Rao's JMP tackles this question. www.michellerao.com/research
November 27, 2024 at 5:42 AM
We still have a relatively poor understanding of the relationship between evidence and policy. Program evaluation in particular is often motivated by a desire to make policy better. But how effective is program evaluation itself?Michelle Rao's JMP tackles this question. www.michellerao.com/research
A difference between ChatGPT and Claude in one picture.
November 26, 2024 at 10:21 PM
A difference between ChatGPT and Claude in one picture.
INSIDE SCOOP: This book is awesome.
November 26, 2024 at 12:45 PM
INSIDE SCOOP: This book is awesome.
Fantastic! Congratulations, Jan!
Celebrating our successful ARC Discovery bid 🥳
Huge thank you goes to Vincent Mancini for being the driving force behind this exciting project!
Huge thank you goes to Vincent Mancini for being the driving force behind this exciting project!
November 26, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Fantastic! Congratulations, Jan!
I've been a paid subscriber to Alice Evans's brilliant blog for over a year now, and I absolutely love it.
The topics she writes about—gender, identity, status, norms, and beliefs—are close to my research interests.
But beyond that, I believe anyone can benefit from her insatiable curiosity.
The topics she writes about—gender, identity, status, norms, and beliefs—are close to my research interests.
But beyond that, I believe anyone can benefit from her insatiable curiosity.
November 26, 2024 at 12:34 PM
I've been a paid subscriber to Alice Evans's brilliant blog for over a year now, and I absolutely love it.
The topics she writes about—gender, identity, status, norms, and beliefs—are close to my research interests.
But beyond that, I believe anyone can benefit from her insatiable curiosity.
The topics she writes about—gender, identity, status, norms, and beliefs—are close to my research interests.
But beyond that, I believe anyone can benefit from her insatiable curiosity.
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to catch a bus you must think like a bus
May 15, 2024 at 10:40 PM
to catch a bus you must think like a bus
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These high childcare costs are pushing mothers not only out of the workforce but also--and maybe ironically--into political conservatism. Because moms pushed out of paid work often struggle with loss of identity. And because conservative Christian moms' groups often step in to fill that void. 1/🧵
Cost of child care for one child can be more than rent in some US counties blog.dol.gov/2024/11/19/n...
NEW DATA: Childcare costs remain an almost prohibitive expense
We updated our National Database of Childcare Prices with data from 2019-2022 and found that U.S. families spend between 8.9% and 16.0% of their median income on full-day care for just one child.
blog.dol.gov
November 19, 2024 at 5:33 PM
These high childcare costs are pushing mothers not only out of the workforce but also--and maybe ironically--into political conservatism. Because moms pushed out of paid work often struggle with loss of identity. And because conservative Christian moms' groups often step in to fill that void. 1/🧵
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ANU's Research School of Economics has three excellent job market candidates on the market this year, doing very interesting work. Take a look. 👀
rse.anu.edu.au/research/job...
rse.anu.edu.au/research/job...
Job Market Candidates | Research School of Economics
rse.anu.edu.au
November 20, 2024 at 3:12 AM
ANU's Research School of Economics has three excellent job market candidates on the market this year, doing very interesting work. Take a look. 👀
rse.anu.edu.au/research/job...
rse.anu.edu.au/research/job...
Australian economists on this platform.
November 17, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Australian economists on this platform.
Since Feb 2022, Petr Kuzmin started his protests on Princess Bridge - to condemn Putin's criminal invasion into Ukraine and support Russian anti-war movement.
He used to go there every day. Now, the protest happens every Saturday.
I'm happy when I have a chance to join.
He used to go there every day. Now, the protest happens every Saturday.
I'm happy when I have a chance to join.
November 18, 2023 at 11:45 AM
Since Feb 2022, Petr Kuzmin started his protests on Princess Bridge - to condemn Putin's criminal invasion into Ukraine and support Russian anti-war movement.
He used to go there every day. Now, the protest happens every Saturday.
I'm happy when I have a chance to join.
He used to go there every day. Now, the protest happens every Saturday.
I'm happy when I have a chance to join.