Tobias Werner
@_ToFeWe
Postdoc @Max_Planck_CHM | PhD in Economics | Affiliated with @DICEHHU & @BCCPBerlin | I am on the econ job market 2024/2025!
Thrilled to share that this September I’ll be joining @UoS_Economics at @unisouthampton as a Lecturer 🎉 I look forward to continuing my research in industrial organization, experimental economics, and human-AI interactions, and to engaging more with the UK econ community.
Great coverage by The Verge of our work on how ChatGPT is changing the way we speak. The implications are very broad, with AI being potentailly able to conduct mass manipulation of culture and public opinion. theverge.com/openai/686748/…
📣 Call for papers Experimental Economics invites submissions for a special issue on Human-AI Interaction, opening on July 15th. Find out more: cup.org/3IgW1xS #OpenAccess @EcScienceAssoc
You gotta love German academia. Receiving a letter (yes, an actual letter, not an email) many, many months after applying just to tell you that you won't be considered for the professorship is always quite the experience.
Does anyone know a paper that specifically looks at the share of online samples (Prolific, MTurk, etc.) relative to lab studies/field studies in recent years? I feel like I saw some stats on that sometime ago on X, but I can’t find it.
New Anthropic Research: Project Vend. We had Claude run a small shop in our office lunchroom. Here’s how it went.
Nur weil es jetzt woanders schlechter läuft, bietet das deutsche akademische System nicht plötzlich Top-Bedingungen. Die strukturellen Probleme sind massiv. Das darf nicht von der Reformnotwendigkeit ablenken. zeit.de/2025/23/wissen…
Love it! Pasted the complaint into Gemini to explain it to me, and it started by assuming that this is a fictional scenario.
Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard. hrvd.me/IntStudents25t
Happy to be flying back to Berlin next week, but proud to be visiting an institution with the courage to stand its ground and fight back.
Love the idea of Google's Flow tool, but the scene builder seems quite buggy. It always glitches when trying to extend or jump to a scene.
Graham Norton’s #Eurovision hopes and dreams: 🥹 Celine Dion:
Quite the day to be submitting my global talent visa application!
We're ending Britain's open borders experiment. For too long, businesses were actively encouraged to bring in lower paid workers, rather than invest in our own people. We’re fixing the system and restoring control to our borders. Here’s how. Thread👇
A new discussion paper "Suspicion and Communication" (w/ Lisa Bruttel and Friedericke Fromme) is out now! Check it out: ideas.repec.org/p/pot/cepadp/8… 1/N @cepa_unipotsdam