Four-fifths of the world’s population have experienced at least one day of very strong heat stress—defined as at least three hours—in the past five years econ.st/3znXkEl

📢 📢 Abstract submission for INGENIO (CSIC-UPV) PhD Conference 2023 is open until 10/10 Confirmed speakers: Elisa Giuliani Lars Coenen Francesco Rentocchini @Bettatweeting Plus a lifetime of friendships, memories, networking ... 🪢: sites.google.com/view/phdays202…

📣📄📄📄 Call for Papers CESifo Venice Summer Institute 2023 SPRU, CESifo and and Pillars will be holding a workshop at the famed lagoon town in June 2023 on "Technological Change and the Future of Work: Combining Disciplinary Approaches" h2020-pillars.eu/Venice_Summer_… Spread the word!

📣CALL FOR PAPERS📣 @Euspri_forum 2023 Conference on 'Research with Impact' hosted by #SPRU University of Sussex Business School 14 - 16 June 2023 ➡️Find out more at bit.ly/3ESJICz 🗓️Submission deadline: 23 January 2023 #science #technology #innovation #policy #scipol #research #Impact

📣Applications are open: Eu-SPRI 2023 #EarlyCareerResearcher Event! Hosted by #SPRU University of Sussex Business School 13 June 2023 as part of Eu-SPRI Forum conference on #research with #impact (14 - 16 June) Find out more at bit.ly/3OXfP8B 👉Apply by 13 Feb 2023 #ECR #postdoc #PhD

Do collaborators learn more when they are co-located? Yes! They are 57% more likely to learn! In this Research Policy paper, hyejin youn & I track the careers of 1.6m #scholars between 1975-2018. We find the following... bit.ly/3HdF9W5 🧵1/7

Is ChatGPT an economic GPT? tl;dr yes. Impressive paper about job exposure to large language models produced with some help from GPT4. Kudos Tyna Eloundou @ManlikeMishap sam manning+ Daniel Rock. arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130

Today you can find my op-ed on #OpenAI #GPT4 and how to tell the difference between real and false automation threats in Italian newspaper Domani. You can read the English version of the article here: "AI doesn't destroy jobs, it precarizes them". casilli.fr/2023/03/24/art…

Maps twist our perception of the world Here are 20 to rethink it: 1. Countries closer to the equator (~poorer) seem smaller than they are (map by Neil Kaye)

ChatGPT has now a big problem. Google just updated its free competitor, Bard. Here are 8 things impossible on ChatGPT but that Bard can do (for free):

Molto onorata di aver ricevuto il prestigioso premio Linceo 2023 per economia, oggi all’Accademia dei Lincei. Grazie a tutti e tutte che hanno condiviso la mia strada so far e da cui continuo ad imparare. SPRU Luiss Guido Carli Pillars_Horizon2020

Arash Hajikhani VTT Philip Shapira Georgia Tech School of Public Policy Eu-SPRI Forum The University of Manchester Alliance MBS Nesta OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives OECD Innovation SKEMA Business School Barbara Ribeiro Digital Futures UoM Quantexa AYLIEN (a Quantexa company) Parsa Wrapping up an intense week of learning at #AI4STIP Winter School with group project presentations. Participants delivered AI-informed policy analyses, showcasing the practical application of AI methods. It’s been a journey of exploration, collaboration and knowledge-sharing. 💡

Arash Hajikhani VTT Philip Shapira Georgia Tech School of Public Policy Eu-SPRI Forum The University of Manchester Alliance MBS Nesta OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives OECD Innovation SKEMA Business School Barbara Ribeiro Digital Futures UoM Quantexa AYLIEN (a Quantexa company) Parsa What a fantastic group! 👏🏽✨ Huge thanks to the faculty for their time and support, contributing to the success of the #AI4STIP Eu-SPRI Forum Winter School. Kudos to all participants for their excellent contributions!

Science policy rant: One of the problems w obsessions w starting research networks as a solution to big problems is that it ignores the fact that many key areas of research don't get funding & aren't there to join any networks. So you fund a network & nothing happens

What is the state of academic science? It’s hard to tell with so many unobservables… so, we ran a big survey at ~150 US institutions to generate new findings about professors and their research. Our first draft is out with 7 key (preliminary) results using this new data:

Ron Boschma preaching to a huge congregation at #GeoInno2024 that thou shalt ignore the #DevelopmentTrap at your peril, lest you end up in a structural trap from which escape is nigh impossible. doi.org/10.1080/001300…

Massive crowd at #GeoInno2024 for the start of the session on #Innovation, #Institutions and the #Geography of the Economic System. Starting with Neil Lee as a self-confessed warm-up act (the same was said of Dua Lipa for a while), followed by Shiri Breznitz and myself.