Maria del Rio-Chanona
Assistant Professor at UCL Computer Science
Future of Work, LLMs, Econ, Networks, ML & ABM
Previously, CSHVienna, Harvard Growth Lab, INETOxford & UNAM_MX alumni 🇲🇽
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- Reposted by Maria del Rio-ChanonaWant to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations
- Reposted by Maria del Rio-ChanonaPhD students in social sciences studying "metascience" and AI: This looks like an *AMAZING* opportunity. Fully funded research postdoc that can be housed at whatever university you can find an appropriate mentor. sloan.org/programs/dig...
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- Reposted by Maria del Rio-Chanona23/250 is Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms This makes me wonder if people are answering Stack Overflow questions with ChatGPT answers . . .
- 📢 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 alert! We document how 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀. 💼 💻 📊 We analysed 𝟯𝗠+ 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀, used embeddings to cluster them into 𝟭𝟬𝟬+ 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲-𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀, and LLMs to classify them as s𝘂𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲, 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆, or 𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱.
- Our Difference-in-Differences (DiD) analysis reveals clear shifts in demand. 📉 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 tasks saw 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗽 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀—50% for "About Us" page writing, 30% for Western language translation, and around 20% for other languages—𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁-𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝗴𝗶𝗴𝘀 and 𝘃𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻 freelancers.
- Reposted by Maria del Rio-ChanonaI’m looking for a new PhD student with a curious and interdisciplinary mindset to work on integrating multimodal data to better understand trajectories of mental and brain health disorders! Deadline of applications: Feb 16! Please spread the word. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO680/f...
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- Reposted by Maria del Rio-ChanonaNew @inet-complexity.bsky.social study in Joule ➸ Employment dynamics during the US power sector transition reveal risks and opportunities ➸ www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/us-poli... Led by Joris Bücker with @doynefarmer.bsky.social @maria-drc.bsky.social, Matt Ives & Anton Pichler
- Reposted by Maria del Rio-ChanonaHow important are your #postdoc years in the likelihood of you staying & succeeding in #academia? In our newly published paper in @pnas.org, "Postdoc Publications and Citations Link to Academic Retention and Faculty Success," we study the journey of #CareerSuccess of ~45,000 #postdocs. 🧵1/7
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- Reposted by Maria del Rio-Chanona✨I made a starter pack for complexity scientists on this platform.✨ go.bsky.app/QzMwdrLat://did:plc:6rzh4qv4b5ukqsdgq6hhpop7/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3laq6gigdxj2j
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- Reposted by Maria del Rio-ChanonaFascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies. Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility.. www.nber.org/papers/w33311
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- Reposted by Maria del Rio-ChanonaWithout further ado, here’s the amazing speaker lineup for OSSEN 2025! Experts from across network science and economics will cover topics ranging from financial networks to urban mobility and more! Don’t forget to apply by 3 March: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/events/summe...
- Reposted by Maria del Rio-ChanonaWe recently launched NEP reports in Bluesky. Get announcements of new economics working papers in 100 fields, curated by volunteer, human editors. bsky.app/starter-pack... #RePEc #EconSky
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- Multi-Agent Data-driven Economic Conference in Venice www.unive.it/web/en/8683/... #Economics #ComplexSystems
- Reposted by Maria del Rio-Chanona**New working paper** How does the under-representation of females in Economics affect the career trajectory of female Ph.D. students? Sahar Parsa and I look at this in a new working paper by exploring sabbatical leaves taken by female professors at top-50 US Econ departments.
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- 🚨 New paper alert! Economic Agent Based Models have become increasingly data-driven. What does that mean and what impact can this have? arxiv.org/abs/2412.16591 📖✨ Chapter with @marcopangallo.bsky.social forthcoming in @sfiscience.bsky.social volume #Economics #ComplexSystems Part IV 👇🧵
- 2/Originally, ABMs focused on theoretical exploration—abstract economies, simplified dynamics. But the last decade has seen a shift: data-driven ABMs. These models reproduce specific economies and ground themselves in real-world data. 🌍📊
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- Reposted by Maria del Rio-Chanona📢 Flexible working supposedly addresses women's work-family conflicts but is less prevalent in women-dominated occupations. @aljoschajacobi.bsky.social, @tabeanaujoks.bsky.social & I explore why and how this has changed over past decades Out in @socialindicators.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s112...
- Reposted by Maria del Rio-ChanonaDISADIST-ABM: 📢Open positions With Anton Pichler and @maria-drc.bsky.social we got a grant to model the well-being impacts of natural disasters beyond standard economic measures. We are looking for a 3-year PhD student and 2-year postdoc, deadline 15/01. More info 👇 1/8
- Reposted by Maria del Rio-ChanonaWe are hiring a postdoc/researcher at my group (SUNLab) @nunetsi.bsky.social. Interested in working on multidisciplinary problems like segregation, health, or economic growth from the perspective of Social Urban Networks? Contact me if you are interested. Please share it!
- Reposted by Maria del Rio-ChanonaIf business cycles are (at least partly) caused by forces endogenous to the economy, rather than by exogenous shocks, it is much easier to explain why economic activity tends to co-move across countries. New paper in JEBO: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kB5Vc24b7... 🧵👇
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- Reposted by Maria del Rio-ChanonaAn employee of Huggingface, a site of AI training datasets, made a dataset of a million Bluesky posts scraped simply because they could. It’s currently trending: www.404media.co/someone-made...
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- Reposted by Maria del Rio-ChanonaNeurIPS Conference is now Live on Bluesky! -NeurIPS2024 Communication Chairs
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- 🚨Funded PhD position at UCL Computer Science! 🌍💻 Learn how to use and develop LLMs, RL, Networks, and Agent-Based Models to forecast the impact of #AI in society and pathways towards a #net-zero economy. 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #MachineLearning #ComplexSystems #GreenTransition #PhD
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