#AcademicRunPlaylist - 2/28/24

Today was pretty hectic, and while I was more enticed by this sign than repelled, I did successfully resist the urge to investigate with some help from talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was an informative talk by Alfred Ombudo K'Ombudo on trade dynamics in East Africa and the EU economic partnership agreement at Strathmore University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpjCIRH4Jqs

Next was a fantastic talk by Alexander Yarkin on ICT technology development and immigrant immigration at the Economics of Migration seminar. Yarkin uses a variety of data sources, including surveys, international calls, origin-country Internet traffic flows, and Facebook data to convincingly demonstrate that improving home-country Internet access decreases integration. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u562mEXw8yw

Next was an interesting talk by Monica Alexander on using social media data for estimating migration patterns at Western University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hBZpb9ewDA

Next was an engaging conversation with Kevin Donovan and Todd Schoellman on labor market dynamics in low and middle income countries at VoxDev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9ux30ymUa0

Next was a great talk by Brooke Erin Duffy on the promises and precarities of visibility in the creator economy at the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dua5hx0Zz9Y

Next was an amazing talk by Övül Sezer on impression management at Harvard Law School. Sezer opens with an overview of impression management theory, then delves into fascinating studies about how and why hiding success can backfire. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sY7VaX0riE

Next was a short talk by Carey Morewedge on how people perceive bias at the Psychology of Technology Institute. Morewedge presents a suite of impressive studies that show how people perceive their own biases vs. other people vs. algorithms, and discusses how algorithms can help reveal these biases. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N13oj-gmq1U

Next was a fabulous talk by Pantelis Pipergias Analytis on a recommender network perspective on the informational value of critics and crows at the Santa Fe Institute. Analytis shows compelling evidence that people are often better off taking advice from critics rather than peers, as well as other interesting phenomena of recommendation dynamics. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSB8Xao-k_g

Last was an excellent talk by Elena Glassman on AI-resilient LLM interfaces at Michigan Interactive and Social Computing. While I think it's a bad idea to use LLMs for information retrieval and summarization, I liked the alternative interface/visualization ideas for LLM output https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRXuIDPm7VQ