Marita Freimane

Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time.

Summers called this female Chinese economist “peril.”

“Yellow peril” was partially built on the claim that Chinese women were sexually immoral threats.

That logic fueled the Page Act of 1875, which barred Chinese women by presuming they were prostitutes, even before the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?

Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.

Here are the key take-aways 🧵

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You are working on competition-related topics (or want to, or are just curious)?
You have a paper you'd like to present?
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Come to #Mannheim for the #MaCCI Annual Conference (March 19-20, 2026).

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AI Acquihires: Competition Risks, Talent Battles and Economic Spillovers Webinar - 8 October @ 17:00 CEST

🗣️Jonathan Kanter @lugaricano.bsky.social @imarinescu.bsky.social @igorletina.bsky.social Hans Zenger

Moderator: @florianederer.bsky.social
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With a great feature in @theguardian.com! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS

👩‍🎓 Workshop Disclosure, Information Sharing, and Secrecy
DISS 2026
📅 February 23-24, 2026
🔬 Online (Zoom)

Deadline: November 15

Submit papers on information disclosure (or non-disclosure) in econ, mgmt science, accounting, law, et al.

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Dear journalists:

The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.

Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It Welcome to the era of ‘gaslight driven development.’ Soundslice added a feature the chatbot thought it existed after engineers kept finding screenshots from the LLM in its error logs.

ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-hall...

.@hertieschool.bsky.social & IfW Kiel are jointly 🚨 recruiting a Professor of International Economics🚨 (Associate/Full).

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Great opportunity to join Berlin's thriving econ community. No kings here.

Deadline: Sep 30, 2025

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Call for Papers:

The 4th Annual Zurich Workshop in AI+Economics

to be held Dec 5-6, 2025, hosted by ETH Zurich and University of Zurich.

Info: eash.cc/AI-econ
Submit (by Aug 15th): eash.cc/AI-econ-sub-2025

Beyond Time: Unveiling the Invisible Burden of Mental Load This paper introduces a novel, scalable methodology to measure individual perceptions of gaps in mental load -- the cognitive and emotional burden associated with organizing household and childcare ta...

🧵New paper out:

“Beyond Time: Unveiling the Invisible Burden of Mental Load”

with Barigozzi, Monfardini, Montinari, @elenapisanelli.bsky.social @svevav.bsky.social

🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2505.11426

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The Conflict-of-Interest Discount in the Marketplace of Ideas Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

This is an incredibly important paper.

If you're an antitrust scholar and you're getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by a dominant monopolist as expert witness in a lawsuit that's in your research area, shouldn't you disclose that work on your CV?

www.nber.org/papers/w3364...

🚨 We’re hiring! The Digital Reskilling Lab at Harvard is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join our research on workforce development, labor markets and AI.

Apply here 👉 academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14918

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1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute 2025 (MLESI25) <span id="docs-internal-guid-53f97f20-7fff-b55c-c89c-4f85d663a48c" style="color: #39393a;"><span style="color: #000000;">MLESI<span id="docs-internal-guid-394e21c4-7fff-1437-16ff-fdbb1ce1d34c" style="...

Last chance to apply to this year's Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute, our AI/ML summer school for graduate students, co-organized with @sendhil.bsky.social @asheshrambachan.bsky.social @aleximas.bsky.social @lindseyraymond.bsky.social: www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen... #econsky

Back home after a fantastic Platform Analytics workshop at UC San Diego – totally worth the long trip. Huge thanks to the organizers for putting together such a great event and for including me in the program. I can highly recommend it! platformanalytics.org

Drag 'em, Rupert.

YouTube video by Workshop on Platform Analytics Gender Bias, Feedback, and Productivity: Marita Freimane (Zurich)

We just posted Workshop on Platform Analytics Day 1 talk videos!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlBp...

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Dear academic economists! Two weeks left to apply to a position as full professor at the Econ Dept @stockholm-uni.bsky.social. in Sweden, academic - and personal - freedoms are deeply respected. And the microdata is awesome! Deadline March 31! #econsky su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

This session will feature Professor Philine Widmer (PSE), who will present her latest paper, “The Political Effects of X's Recommender Algorithm” (co-authored with Germain Gauthier, Roland Hodler, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya). Drawing on a large-scale field experiment, Philine's work examines the effects of Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on user engagement and political beliefs. Their findings reveal that switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed not only increases engagement but also nudges users toward more conservative positions.

📆 1 Apr. @ 17:00 CEST - Media Plurality #Webinar Session 8
"The Political Effects of X's Recommender #Algorithm" with @phinifa.bsky.social. Followed by a discussion with Jean-Lou Fourquet @apreslabiere.fr.
Moderator: Julia Cagé
✍️ cepr.org/events/polit...
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"how firms capitalize on digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, for economic growth, and the challenges faced during this transformation"

Nice experiment demonstrating monopoly power: ability to "reduce quality without losing significant business" - well done!

"no thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent" okay she cooked actually. i needed to hear that.

Reminder to please submit! Deadline is Feb 28.

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thank god we banned tiktok

The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it? | Zoe Williams The truth is paralysing. But after JD Vance met the far-right leader Alice Weidel in Germany, it is time to be clear about what we are seeing, writes Zoe Williams

The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it? | Zoe Williams

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"Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "