#AcademicRunPlaylist - 4/24/24

I had a fantastic visit to Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto today discussing workplace related research with students and faculty and touring the campus. During my time on the shinkansen I was also able to listen to some talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a great talk by Ryan Bubb on clustering mutual fund voting patterns at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0XC3Wf1wnU

Next was an intriguing talk by Kenny Smith on language learning, language use, and the evolution of linguistic structure at the Santa Fe Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjBtagmAi40

Next was an excellent talk by Aaron Clauset on the issues with network community detection algorithms at Northeastern. Clauset clearly lays out the case for why community detection has fallen out of favor in recent years (partly due to this work), and how analysts should think about communities and networks moving forward. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWFhxiRmHPo

Next was a great talk by Adam Galinsky on why gender differences in work are mostly power differences at Columbia Business School. Galinsky gives a good overview of much of the work in this space, and rightly points out that many of the gender differences that are currently observed will likely disappear when women and men societally have equal power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aafc5wWPYtA

Next was an important talk by Claudia Barned and Akosua Nwafor on discriminatory requests/refusals of care providers at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. There’s a ton here for organizations both within and outside of healthcare on the systemic issues that need to be investigated and approaches that can improve the status quo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCgTby6Dd-M

Last was a compelling talk by Daniel Susskind on the future of economic growth at the Oxford Martin School. He takes a hammer to the incredibly misguided “degrowth” movement, moving on to the more interesting question of how to rethink growth moving forward. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCE3k37mHT4&t=19s