
Maxim Ananyev
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Maxim Ananyev
@maximananyev
Senior Research Fellow at @MelbInstUOM & Life Course Centre. Views are my own. Political economy. Disadvantage. Cultural Economics. Admin data. UCLA alum.


Social scientists working with materials requiring digitization can only study what machines can read. In practice, that means printed Latin-script documents from well-funded archives. In a new working paper, I show that Vision Language Models used zero-shot outperform every existing OCR system across every script evaluated, and I propose a pipeline for deploying them on new collections. I apply it to six archival collections spanning 1.8 million pages across six countries for under $1,900.





📢 Excited to co-organize the 2nd Women in Macro Workshop in Dublin 🍀 together with Dilan Aydın Yakut, @martyna_marczak, and @Alessia_metrics! 📅 Submit your paper by 1 Feb 2026! Details 👇 #WomenInMacro @tcdeconomics @imtcd @centralbank_ie @ISWEconomics @SNDE_ECON


📣 We are excited to co-organize the 2nd Women in Macro Workshop with @centralbank_ie and @ISWEconomics in Dublin on April 24, 2026! 🎙️ Keynote address by @helene_rey 📅 Submit your paper by 1 Feb 2026. 🔗forms.gle/b5maVXvm52rAYz… Details 👇 #WomenInEconomics #WomenInMacro

Me (in initial yrs of PhD): I am just starting and I'm passionate about this ques. I'm gonna read, think, discuss and develop hypothesis+ get hands dirty with empirics. Meanwhile econ twitter: if you are not vibe coding, developing a full paper in 22 mins with claude code and +

The Department of Economics is looking for two Assistant Professors to join us in 2026! Closing date for applications is 12 January 2026. Job details jobs.tcd.ie #jobfairy #econjobs #economics #EconTwitter @TCD_SSP @imtcd @Trinity_TIME @TRiSSTCD



Job Altert! We’re hiring at Monash Economics! Join a research-active, friendly department in Melbourne, Australia—a brilliant city to live in. Supportive culture, strong research ecosystem, and salaries that let you live well. Apply: econjobmarket.org/positions/11805 DM/email me




