Presenters Volha Charnysh http://AliCirone.bsky.social Federica Carugati #SIOE2024

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Here’s the session on AI and Autocracy, with Yoshua Bengio (Turing Award winner), Jens Prüfer, Maryam Saeedi, Angela Zhang, and Ruben Enikolopov. Fabulous! #SIOE2024 SIOE

It’s almost time for the #SIOE2024 Gala boat cruise on Lake Michigan! Bring your nametag, grab a sweater, and do NOT be late for the 6:30 departure from the Keller Center!

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Important announcement — SIOE 2025 is in SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA! Pauline Grosjean gives a remote preview of the conference venue and the beach!

What a glorious evening. Thanks to all for making this such a great event. See you next year in Sydney!

Seems to be the theme of the week.

J.D. Vance’s original sin was blowing off Go Big Read at UW–Madison.

Middlebury will be hiring in comparative politics with a Russia / East Europe focus next year! Great place to work for scholars of this region.

SIOE is the FUN conference. And next year we’re in Sydney. 🏄

🙌 SIOE is econ and interdisciplinary, in the best way — to get an idea of the really creative papers we see each year, check out the most recent conference program: call.sioe.org/program/chicago PS — next year we’re in Australia!

I've posted a review article on deep learning for economists arxiv.org/pdf/2407.15339. The DL literature is vast, and I initially found it pretty daunting to find the parts of it that are most relevant to economic applications. I hope people will find this useful! #econtwitter

A slightly more unusual view of Sydney today. For those who think we can’t have ⁦SIOE⁩ here because it’s not gritty enough 😜

Thank God. The woman went home to see her mother and was taken hostage.

I want to thank whoever paid attention in Joe Biden's administration and among those who advised it - for inclusion of Alexandra Skochilenko in today's exchange. Some of the Russian political prisoners that we released are opposition leaders or world-famous activists. Sasha

Persistence and change, small-town edition. The Logan County GOP has the same county-fair pavilion, down to the same water cooler, as I remember 40 years ago. But ideologically it is light years from the Ed Madigan / Bob Michel party of that era.

Great work! Ben is on the job market this year. You can learn more about him here: benshaver.github.io

Winner of the 2022 SIOE Williamson Award. Congrats!

Interview that my son Max, a writer, gave to Радио Свобода: svoboda.org/a/pisatelj-mak…. (In Russian.) In 2024, it is not easy to be a Russian writer - if you write about abuse, state control, and homophobia as Max does.