Lisa Spantig
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Observations about (academic) life.
Interested in Behavioral, Development & Experimental Economics
Current research: Financial Inclusion and Honesty
www.lisaspantig.com
- Reposted by Lisa SpantigThreema kostenlos Heute zum Welt-Datenschutz-Tag verschenke ich letztmalig Android Lizenzen für #Threema & #ThreemaLibre Schreib mich jetzt einfach direkt auf Bluesky an - DN sind offen! Nur so lange der Vorrat reicht! 😉 #WhatsApp #Messenger #Signal #Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #Gratis #Kostenlos
- Reposted by Lisa Spantig📣 Thrilled to announce our 5th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 7-8 Sept 2026, @tum.de, Campus Heilbronn. Keynotes: @peterbergman.bsky.social (University of Texas at Austin) & Esther Duflo (@mit.edu, University of Zurich) 🫶🏻 Submission deadline May 15, 2026 🚨 #EconSky
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- Mal was Schönes und Unterstützenswertes: Der Kreativwettbewerb "Frauen in MINT" für 5.-9. Klassen in NRW läuft! ▶️ Sichtbarkeit von Vorbildern erhöhen, Interesse wecken, die Bedeutung wissenschaftlicher Innovationen hervorheben. Bitte an Lehrkräfte weiterleiten! kreativwettbewerbnrw2025.weebly.com
- As an EU citizen, am I allowed to buy this? And if yes, should I?
- Reposted by Lisa SpantigEinordnung und Kernfragen zur journalistischen Berichterstatung über den US-amerikanischen Angriff auf Venezuela. Ein Thread. Gerne Repost. 1/6
- Reposted by Lisa SpantigTHREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
- Mein 2025 Highlight: die technische Uni führt eine Beihilfe-App ein. Vorher: jede Rechnung sortiert nach Datum in ein Word-Dokument eintragen, mit Betrag, Art der Rechnung,... Dann noch alle Rechnungen in Kopie beilegen und schon kann's per Post verschickt werden. Erstattung ca 3-6 Monate später.
- "28 more effective than cash transfers in a baseline scenario and 3732 (!!!) times in an optimistic scenario" It's early in the evaluation process, but still: Malengo is such a cool program!
- Exciting news on @malengo.org, the NGO that helps East African students move to Europe for education: Our research team has given us a glimpse of their early findings! Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social: forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk... Thread follows!
- Not sure the university approves so many parties.
- People are holding administrative burden parties to collectively take on tasks www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
- Academic job markets are weird: You are sad and disappointed when you don't get the job you interviewed for, but you are also happy for the person who got it (as you usually know them quite well).
- Reposted by Lisa SpantigHi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
- "Da hast du jetzt eher uns rekrutiert als umgekehrt." Evtl habe ich gerade den beiden Fundraiserinnen, die an unserer Tür geklingelt haben, so eindrücklich von Effektiv Spenden erzählt, dass sie von dem Konzept ganz angetan waren. effektiv-spenden.org
- Wenn man heute mit einem Adventskalender anfängt, schafft man zwei bis Weihnachten!
- Just to be clear: I expect a contrast in the polishedness of the papers, simply because: have you ever written a more polished paper than your job market one? For the talks: I will still need to put mine together, so that's another thing to find out tomorrow. Either way, it will be interesting!
- How strong are contrast effects? Join us at the U Penn seminar and find out: After @vasilisawerner.bsky.social presents her super-polished (former JM) paper, "Destructive Communication", I will present "Individual Preferences for Truth-Telling". Tomorrow, 7 pm CET. Registration: shorturl.at/mD1qe
- How strong are contrast effects? Join us at the U Penn seminar and find out: After @vasilisawerner.bsky.social presents her super-polished (former JM) paper, "Destructive Communication", I will present "Individual Preferences for Truth-Telling". Tomorrow, 7 pm CET. Registration: shorturl.at/mD1qe
- If the email of the company your employer hired to teach you about phishing looks so suspicious that you delete it immediately... ...and your employer first notifies you about this upcoming training more than an hour later... ...it will surely be a very successful training!
- Reposted by Lisa SpantigEvidence that academics have been complaining about service roles for about 3000 years...
- Mein Bruder beschwert sich, dass das Bewerbungsverfahren für seinen neuen Job lange gedauert hat. "Ich hab mich Anfang August beworben und erst Ende September Rückmeldung erhalten!" Ich: "August 2025?" Die Länge der deutschen Berufungsverfahren hat mich abgestumpft. #IchBinHanna
- "A castle!" "This is a large church." "Who lives in the church?" "Nobody." "Why does nobody live there? It is a house. And a big one." My niece (4) is visiting the city and asking good questions.
- This is one of my favorite conferences! Relatively small, great discussions and a variety of topics studied with the same methodology - field experiments. Thank you so much for organizing it, @henninghermes.com @lergetporer.bsky.social @fpeter.bsky.social @simonwiederhold.bsky.social! 🙏🏼
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- Excited to share that during my most recent conference trip, I realized my French is not sufficient to discuss the digital euro. With a cab driver. After midnight.
- Why LLMs are not a substitute for humans in research on human behavior: Human participants were responsive to semantic nuances that LLMs didn't pick up. Example: Cut their beard to shame someone vs cut their beard to shave someone. #Econsky
- Large Language models (LLMs) do not simulate human psychology. That's the title of our new paper, available as preprint today (1/12): arxiv.org/abs/2508.06950
- What a surprise. Not.
- I present to you the ultimate filing cabinet for old and resting (let's be honest: abandoned) projects, well hidden under a staircase in the back entrance of a local government office.
- Important read for everyone who collects their own data on online platforms #econsky
- 🚨New paper alert! "Recognising, Anticipating & Mitigating LLM Pollution of Online Behavioural Research" Online experiments are being polluted by LLMs. We map the threat and fixes🧵 w/ Raluca Rilla, @hiromu1996.bsky.social, @iyadrahwan.bsky.social & Anne-Marie Nussberger arxiv.org/abs/2508.01390
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- Bad: being on leave the week before the exam. Even worse: being on leave the week before going to the field for data collection (at the same time that the exam takes place). Booking vacation half a year in advance may not be ideal.
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- Reposted by Lisa Spantig🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share. Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*. I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind. github.com/bretthollenb...
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- Surprises from other disciplines: Someone emails their new publication in which they cite one of my publications. Undecided how to feel about this: a nice gesture, but I also appreciate the +300 other author teams citing this publication and not sending one email each. Thanks to all, I guess?!
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- Good that they didn't apply the "the result is not surprising" heuristic to reject the paper in this case. It's important to document issues with the publication process given that it's the main evaluation criterion. But also: now what?
- Also today: Interdisciplinary event at the uni. An older professor is interested in experimental economics and tries to find out the name of the professor I work with. Plot twist: it's me, assistant prof of experimental econ, with my own group.
- Call with the president of a student association. They reached out because they want to increase the number of female members. I asked why. Answer: Mainly because firms have told them so. Turns out it's not really a priority for the current members (for now). I asked them to reflect on this...
- Reposted by Lisa Spantig"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.
- In the German system, the professor is - supervisor - employer - examiner of "their" PhD students. Plus, they usually function as gatekeeper to the relevant scientific community. What can possibly go wrong? 🤔
- “There is far too much power in the hands of professors in the German system,” says @leising.bsky.social. My latest @nature.com story digs into efforts to tackle the entrenched structural heirarchy that enables academic bullies.
- Today, we also have a law in Germany that obliges all civil servants (most professors in Germany have this status) to commit themselves to the free democratic order as defined in the Basic Law and to stand up for its preservation (BeamtStG §33 (1)).
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- Great thread on a great threat, with lots of scientific evidence. In short: the "Brandmauer" is important on various dimensions. We should make sure it keeps standing.
- Reposted by Lisa SpantigI just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
