Niklas Witzig

@benleo_econ There is an extended scale by Toplak et al. (But not super recent) tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Question for #AcademicTwitter hivemind. Are there any new (or recent) versions of the CRT, or something along similar lines?

@DavidAJaeger for git in general: learnxinyminutes.com/docs/git/

@grand_schemer @benrozemberczki @GaborBekes @ceu @korenmiklos @martonfleck @arieda_muco Surprised your not defending racket here

@benrozemberczki @GaborBekes @ceu @korenmiklos @martonfleck @arieda_muco Except Stata, that’s so 2000.

@KathiHartinger @IZipperle @dzionara @SarrazinErik Very happy to have you in Mainz Kathi! And maybe we'll have to switch over, too at some point.. :)

you should totally follow them (well, for as long as we are all still on twitter that is): @nmwitzig @IZipperle @dzionara @SarrazinErik

I have had a fantastic first week of teaching at JGU Mainz - so grateful for my colleagues who have welcomed me with open arms :)

Many risky decisions have the potential to create positive externalities for society - e.g. innovation. Do these externalities affect how we distribute income? Do we reward risk-taking if it can benefit society? In my job market paper, I try to answer these questions:🧵1/8

@PHuenermund If videos are also fine, I like the ones by youtube.com/c/NerdoftheRin…

@Danielf_Parra Congrats!

Today I handed in the final version of my thesis, which will stay in the library. Now I just have to wait for my diploma to officially become Dr. Parra :)

We are pleased to announce the CRC-JGU Mainz Summer School 2021. You will find further information on our website: crctr224.de/en/events/summ…

A short thread on software, code, versioning, citation, and repositories. Only very few AEA articles reference Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket repositories. More should do so. A few notes.

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." - George R.R. Martin #WorldBookDay

A survey of nearly half a century of Behavioural Economics (modestly labelled as 40 years by author @alxndr_trc 😎), plotting the shifts, the subdivisions, and the internationalization of the field. 👏 buff.ly/3sZhs9V HT @davdittrich

@flx_fly Dune

was soll ich lesen

@vickytnz @dominikstrb @chipsmitdip

Holy crap the “reorder objects” function in powerpoint for Mac was not what I was expecting

@dominikstrb @WhoaInteresting @KriegeskorteLab the role of head stabilization in economics: evidence from hawk data

Hawk's head stabilization

@reziliusReza @dominikstrb

Holding the head and the eyes still despite movements of the body. A superb example of the brain's steadicam. Motor control is a beautiful science.

@dominikstrb The discipline already moved beyond the h-index: irif.fr/~haberm//haind…

@EconTalker #2

@yudapearl @dominikstrb

For anyone who is interested, Carlos is going to demo the "Causal Fusion" software forms.gle/q1sLgtqkfZ4Nph… tomorrow, during his talk at the SoCal 2019 Methods Conference, UC Riverside. You can see the papers and the agenda at: docs.google.com/document/d/10-… #Bookofwhy