Valeria Burdea
@valeriaburdea.bsky.social
Behavioral & Experimental Econ @LMU_Munich
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Where's Waldo? :)
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Where's Waldo? :)
Reposted by Valeria Burdea
Dear fans of the CRC TRR 190,
Next week, we will launch our research blog CRC TRR 190 Coffee Break! There will be a blog post about our most recent exciting research every day, from Monday to Sunday. Afterwards, we will post every Monday, 1pm CET.
Next week, we will launch our research blog CRC TRR 190 Coffee Break! There will be a blog post about our most recent exciting research every day, from Monday to Sunday. Afterwards, we will post every Monday, 1pm CET.
November 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Dear fans of the CRC TRR 190,
Next week, we will launch our research blog CRC TRR 190 Coffee Break! There will be a blog post about our most recent exciting research every day, from Monday to Sunday. Afterwards, we will post every Monday, 1pm CET.
Next week, we will launch our research blog CRC TRR 190 Coffee Break! There will be a blog post about our most recent exciting research every day, from Monday to Sunday. Afterwards, we will post every Monday, 1pm CET.
Reposted by Valeria Burdea
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
We are hiring assistant professors in Economics (any field)
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social @econmunich.bsky.social
Target date for applications: November 24!
More info at: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
#EconSky #EconJobMarket #EJME
We are hiring assistant professors in Economics (any field)
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social @econmunich.bsky.social
Target date for applications: November 24!
More info at: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
#EconSky #EconJobMarket #EJME
October 21, 2025 at 5:16 AM
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
We are hiring assistant professors in Economics (any field)
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social @econmunich.bsky.social
Target date for applications: November 24!
More info at: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
#EconSky #EconJobMarket #EJME
We are hiring assistant professors in Economics (any field)
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social @econmunich.bsky.social
Target date for applications: November 24!
More info at: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
#EconSky #EconJobMarket #EJME
"the median analysis has about 10% power"...ugghhh
Quantitative Political Science Research Is Greatly Underpowered | The Journal of Politics
The social sciences face a replicability crisis. A key determinant of replication success is statistical power. We assess the power of political science research by collating over 16,000 hypothesis te...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
October 21, 2025 at 8:14 AM
"the median analysis has about 10% power"...ugghhh
Reposted by Valeria Burdea
🔵Coming up this Monday!
Join us on October 20 at the 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 with 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿 (𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗺), who will present "Divided We Act: Political Polarization, Social Sanctions, and Strategic (Un)Fairness"
🔗https://sites.google.com/site/silviasonderegger/home
#EconSky
Join us on October 20 at the 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 with 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿 (𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗺), who will present "Divided We Act: Political Polarization, Social Sanctions, and Strategic (Un)Fairness"
🔗https://sites.google.com/site/silviasonderegger/home
#EconSky
October 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
🔵Coming up this Monday!
Join us on October 20 at the 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 with 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿 (𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗺), who will present "Divided We Act: Political Polarization, Social Sanctions, and Strategic (Un)Fairness"
🔗https://sites.google.com/site/silviasonderegger/home
#EconSky
Join us on October 20 at the 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 with 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿 (𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗺), who will present "Divided We Act: Political Polarization, Social Sanctions, and Strategic (Un)Fairness"
🔗https://sites.google.com/site/silviasonderegger/home
#EconSky
Question: under which conditions would it be an optimal and credible strategy for a presidential candidate to run on a platform to reduce their own executive power?
October 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Question: under which conditions would it be an optimal and credible strategy for a presidential candidate to run on a platform to reduce their own executive power?
In preparation for its less humble cousin.
Past Ig Winners
Ig® Nobel Prize Winners For achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK Winners by year: 2025 : 2024 : 2023 : 2022 : 2021 2020 : 2019 : 2018 : 2017 : 2016 2015 : 2014 : 2013 : 20…
improbable.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
In preparation for its less humble cousin.
💯and this holds not just for books.
Spending time with the material
Digital reading only goes so far.
www.robinsloan.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:20 AM
💯and this holds not just for books.
Of course Tversky paves the road to interpretable AI:
gonzoml.substack.com/p/tversky-ne...
gonzoml.substack.com/p/tversky-ne...
Tversky Neural Networks
Psychologically Plausible Deep Learning with Differentiable Tversky Similarity
gonzoml.substack.com
August 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Of course Tversky paves the road to interpretable AI:
gonzoml.substack.com/p/tversky-ne...
gonzoml.substack.com/p/tversky-ne...
In an essay called "To Act As If", Inger Christensen writes "It's nothing new for art and science to operate at the boundary between meaning and meaninglessness." Got me thinking about how the many "as if" assumptions in (behavioral) econ might be distributed around this boundary...🤔
August 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
In an essay called "To Act As If", Inger Christensen writes "It's nothing new for art and science to operate at the boundary between meaning and meaninglessness." Got me thinking about how the many "as if" assumptions in (behavioral) econ might be distributed around this boundary...🤔
After reading the White House letter about the internal review process of the Smithsonian exhibitions, I think I found a way they can legitimately avoid all this interreference: submit one thing of the many requested and say the indexing suggested they were all one and the same :)
August 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
After reading the White House letter about the internal review process of the Smithsonian exhibitions, I think I found a way they can legitimately avoid all this interreference: submit one thing of the many requested and say the indexing suggested they were all one and the same :)
In an attempt to see the glass half full, my takeaway is: keep applying--as early and as often as possible 🤓
Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
August 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
In an attempt to see the glass half full, my takeaway is: keep applying--as early and as often as possible 🤓
Reposted by Valeria Burdea
July 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I am quite hopeful that these tools will give us more time to think, and to think more deeply
Modeling computers and AI as cognitive tools provides a lens to interpret evidence on inequality, workflows, and teams, from Ajay K. Agrawal, @joshgans.bsky.social, and Avi Goldfarb https://www.nber.org/papers/w34034
July 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I am quite hopeful that these tools will give us more time to think, and to think more deeply
with a bit of a delay, since Bluesky's feed is a bit random, but I was there, and it was a great talk! Here's a summary of it: dennievandolder.com/post/impact-...
July 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM
with a bit of a delay, since Bluesky's feed is a bit random, but I was there, and it was a great talk! Here's a summary of it: dennievandolder.com/post/impact-...
Reposted by Valeria Burdea
🔵Coming up this Monday!
Join us on July 14 at 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 with @atavoni.bsky.social (𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐚), who will present "Tipping in Coordination Games: An Experimental Approach"
🔗https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/alessandro.tavoni/en
#EconSky
Join us on July 14 at 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 with @atavoni.bsky.social (𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐚), who will present "Tipping in Coordination Games: An Experimental Approach"
🔗https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/alessandro.tavoni/en
#EconSky
July 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🔵Coming up this Monday!
Join us on July 14 at 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 with @atavoni.bsky.social (𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐚), who will present "Tipping in Coordination Games: An Experimental Approach"
🔗https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/alessandro.tavoni/en
#EconSky
Join us on July 14 at 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 with @atavoni.bsky.social (𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐚), who will present "Tipping in Coordination Games: An Experimental Approach"
🔗https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/alessandro.tavoni/en
#EconSky
There are many good things about learning with an LLM. But one key advantage of learning with other people is that they can ask you questions that make you realize you actually don't know what you're talking about :)
July 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
There are many good things about learning with an LLM. But one key advantage of learning with other people is that they can ask you questions that make you realize you actually don't know what you're talking about :)
Reposted by Valeria Burdea
Humboldt University just won a court case against its own boss, the government of Berlin. 😲
The case was about limited-term employment for scientific staff.
Here's a quick-and-dirty explainer, esp. for non-German readers who may be affected. 1/n
www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/frust...
The case was about limited-term employment for scientific staff.
Here's a quick-and-dirty explainer, esp. for non-German readers who may be affected. 1/n
www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/frust...
Frust über Universitätskarrieren: Gerichtsentscheidung gegen Dauerstellen ist für den Nachwuchs bitter
Junge Wissenschaftler müssen weiter auf faire Beschäftigungsbedingungen warten. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht traf eine negative Entscheidung zu einer Berliner Regelung gegen Kettenbefristungen.
www.tagesspiegel.de
July 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Humboldt University just won a court case against its own boss, the government of Berlin. 😲
The case was about limited-term employment for scientific staff.
Here's a quick-and-dirty explainer, esp. for non-German readers who may be affected. 1/n
www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/frust...
The case was about limited-term employment for scientific staff.
Here's a quick-and-dirty explainer, esp. for non-German readers who may be affected. 1/n
www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/frust...
I hope the Italians are not too jealous, but 🕺>🤌
More cuttlefish content:
Cuttlefish may communicate using disco-like arm gestures 🐟🦐🕺🪩
www.scientificamerican.com/article/cutt...
Cuttlefish may communicate using disco-like arm gestures 🐟🦐🕺🪩
www.scientificamerican.com/article/cutt...
Cuttlefish May Communicate with Discolike Arm Gestures
Scientists identified four arm wave signals cuttlefish use: “up,” “side,” “roll” and “crown”
www.scientificamerican.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I hope the Italians are not too jealous, but 🕺>🤌
Reposted by Valeria Burdea
I’m excited to read this! Currently feeling like people are t feeling enough blame for what they should have known 😅
July 10, 2025 at 6:18 AM
I’m excited to read this! Currently feeling like people are t feeling enough blame for what they should have known 😅
You may not feel like reading about yet another depressing state of affairs, with all that's going on in the world right now. But this book is so full of interesting insights, so personal yet universal, that I couldn't help but feel hopeful by the end of it. Highly recommended!
As the U.S. Government endeavors to make tuberculosis great again, please consider preordering a signed copy of my book about our deadliest infection, its long history, and why in the 75 years since TB became curable, we've allowed over 150,000,000 people to die of the disease. everythingistb.com
June 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
You may not feel like reading about yet another depressing state of affairs, with all that's going on in the world right now. But this book is so full of interesting insights, so personal yet universal, that I couldn't help but feel hopeful by the end of it. Highly recommended!
Reposted by Valeria Burdea
Have a look at the first edition of the Berlin Micro Theory & Behavioral Econ PhD Conference, and recommend your students to apply next time!
sites.google.com/view/berlin-...
sites.google.com/view/berlin-...
Berlin Micro Theory & Behavioral Economics PhD Conference - Programme
Day 1
July 7th, 2025
sites.google.com
June 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Have a look at the first edition of the Berlin Micro Theory & Behavioral Econ PhD Conference, and recommend your students to apply next time!
sites.google.com/view/berlin-...
sites.google.com/view/berlin-...
Finally had a chance to read this paper and I think it's interesting, even if you're not doing research on lie detection. The issue of the correlation between second- and first-order beliefs and actions is relevant to any information processing environment.
June 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Finally had a chance to read this paper and I think it's interesting, even if you're not doing research on lie detection. The issue of the correlation between second- and first-order beliefs and actions is relevant to any information processing environment.
It might not reflect the everyday lives of most people in Romania nowadays, but it might capture the essence of their most vivid memories. I could almost smell the crisp mountain air watching the first moments of this short film.
This short film documents the rhythms of daily life for one family in a secluded mountain village in Romania, their days characterised by steady work and a close connection to the land
Life moves slowly in a Romanian mountain village, shaped by care and the seasons | Aeon Videos
Join a Romanian family as they prepare for winter in the mountains and reflect on the richness of a slower way of life
buff.ly
June 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
It might not reflect the everyday lives of most people in Romania nowadays, but it might capture the essence of their most vivid memories. I could almost smell the crisp mountain air watching the first moments of this short film.
This is a fascinating paper! I have nothing more intelligent to say about it. Luckily, the LLMs don't either :)
New paper: "Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective" (D. Krakauer, J. Krakauer, M. Mitchell).
We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from the perspective of what emergence means in complexity science.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11135
We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from the perspective of what emergence means in complexity science.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11135
arxiv.org
June 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This is a fascinating paper! I have nothing more intelligent to say about it. Luckily, the LLMs don't either :)