Prashant Garg
@prashantgarg.bsky.social
Econ PhD @imperial. Visiting researcher at IFC and Cambridge.
AI and networks in economics.
www.prashantgarg.org
AI and networks in economics.
www.prashantgarg.org
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1/ 🚨 Hot off the press! Our study “Political Expression of Academics on Social Media” with @trfetzer.com is now peer-reviewed & live in Nature Human Behaviour @nature.com 🎉. Thread 👇
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TOMORROW (12 November): AYEW Big Data/Machine Learning Workshop!
Join us at 9pm AEDT (10am GMT) to @prashantgarg.bsky.social (@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social), Zhenkai (Cambridge), Saani (University of Cincinnati), Luka (@ucsandiego.bsky.social )
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Join us at 9pm AEDT (10am GMT) to @prashantgarg.bsky.social (@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social), Zhenkai (Cambridge), Saani (University of Cincinnati), Luka (@ucsandiego.bsky.social )
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November 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
TOMORROW (12 November): AYEW Big Data/Machine Learning Workshop!
Join us at 9pm AEDT (10am GMT) to @prashantgarg.bsky.social (@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social), Zhenkai (Cambridge), Saani (University of Cincinnati), Luka (@ucsandiego.bsky.social )
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Join us at 9pm AEDT (10am GMT) to @prashantgarg.bsky.social (@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social), Zhenkai (Cambridge), Saani (University of Cincinnati), Luka (@ucsandiego.bsky.social )
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Mapping Bob Dylan’s mind — Generative AI sheds new light on the underlying engines of metaphor, mood and reinvention in six decades of songs. @aeon.co @prashantgarg.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/can-a...
Can AI tell us anything meaningful about Bob Dylan’s songs? | Aeon Essays
Generative AI sheds new light on the underlying engines of metaphor, mood and reinvention in six decades of songs
aeon.co
November 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Mapping Bob Dylan’s mind — Generative AI sheds new light on the underlying engines of metaphor, mood and reinvention in six decades of songs. @aeon.co @prashantgarg.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/can-a...
Can AI tell us anything meaningful about Bob Dylan’s songs? Delighted to share a new essay in @aeon.co breaking down an artists' evolution using AI extracted idea graphs.
aeon.co/essays/can-a...
aeon.co/essays/can-a...
November 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Can AI tell us anything meaningful about Bob Dylan’s songs? Delighted to share a new essay in @aeon.co breaking down an artists' evolution using AI extracted idea graphs.
aeon.co/essays/can-a...
aeon.co/essays/can-a...
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Not long left to apply for our Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science vacancy❗
📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
October 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Not long left to apply for our Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science vacancy❗
📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
Delighted to share this new work. Check this thread by @zhou-hy.bsky.social. We use LLMs to analyse medical research to see whether it responds to local disease burdens.
🚨Thrilled to share our paper🚨
Does science focus on the diseases that hurt people the most?
When deadly outbreaks hit, how does research respond?
Our work with:
@prashantgarg.bsky.social
@trfetzer.com
shows how medical research worldwide responds to both endemic burdens and emergencies.
🧵👇
Does science focus on the diseases that hurt people the most?
When deadly outbreaks hit, how does research respond?
Our work with:
@prashantgarg.bsky.social
@trfetzer.com
shows how medical research worldwide responds to both endemic burdens and emergencies.
🧵👇
October 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Delighted to share this new work. Check this thread by @zhou-hy.bsky.social. We use LLMs to analyse medical research to see whether it responds to local disease burdens.
New paper on where medical research happens vs where disease burden is.
🚨Thrilled to share our paper🚨
Does science focus on the diseases that hurt people the most?
When deadly outbreaks hit, how does research respond?
Our work with:
@prashantgarg.bsky.social
@trfetzer.com
shows how medical research worldwide responds to both endemic burdens and emergencies.
🧵👇
Does science focus on the diseases that hurt people the most?
When deadly outbreaks hit, how does research respond?
Our work with:
@prashantgarg.bsky.social
@trfetzer.com
shows how medical research worldwide responds to both endemic burdens and emergencies.
🧵👇
October 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
New paper on where medical research happens vs where disease burden is.
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WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.
Apply by: 10 Oct
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Apply by: 10 Oct
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
September 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.
Apply by: 10 Oct
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Apply by: 10 Oct
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Happy to share this paper. Full thread coming soon!
June 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Happy to share this paper. Full thread coming soon!
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🚨 Tariffs on inputs = tax on downstream products.🚨
Here’s cement’s granular production network. A 50% duty on key inputs propagates costs through roads, buildings, data-centres, and renewable infrastructure.
Public data, method & our paper in thread 🧵 0/8
Here’s cement’s granular production network. A 50% duty on key inputs propagates costs through roads, buildings, data-centres, and renewable infrastructure.
Public data, method & our paper in thread 🧵 0/8
July 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
🚨 Tariffs on inputs = tax on downstream products.🚨
Here’s cement’s granular production network. A 50% duty on key inputs propagates costs through roads, buildings, data-centres, and renewable infrastructure.
Public data, method & our paper in thread 🧵 0/8
Here’s cement’s granular production network. A 50% duty on key inputs propagates costs through roads, buildings, data-centres, and renewable infrastructure.
Public data, method & our paper in thread 🧵 0/8
🚨 Tariffs on inputs = tax on downstream products.🚨
Here’s cement’s granular production network. A 50% duty on key inputs propagates costs through roads, buildings, data-centres, and renewable infrastructure.
Public data, method & our paper in thread 🧵 0/8
Here’s cement’s granular production network. A 50% duty on key inputs propagates costs through roads, buildings, data-centres, and renewable infrastructure.
Public data, method & our paper in thread 🧵 0/8
July 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
🚨 Tariffs on inputs = tax on downstream products.🚨
Here’s cement’s granular production network. A 50% duty on key inputs propagates costs through roads, buildings, data-centres, and renewable infrastructure.
Public data, method & our paper in thread 🧵 0/8
Here’s cement’s granular production network. A 50% duty on key inputs propagates costs through roads, buildings, data-centres, and renewable infrastructure.
Public data, method & our paper in thread 🧵 0/8
Find more about evolving field of metascience of economics. Network approach to metascience will lower transaction costs of effort targeting
Paper by @prashantgarg.bsky.social analyzing causal claims in economics from 44,000 NBER and CEPR working papers: arxiv.org/abs/2501.06873
Causal Claims in Economics
We analyze over 44,000 NBER and CEPR working papers from 1980 to 2023 using a custom language model to construct knowledge graphs that map economic concepts and their relationships. We distinguish bet...
arxiv.org
July 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Find more about evolving field of metascience of economics. Network approach to metascience will lower transaction costs of effort targeting
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Paper by @prashantgarg.bsky.social analyzing causal claims in economics from 44,000 NBER and CEPR working papers: arxiv.org/abs/2501.06873
Causal Claims in Economics
We analyze over 44,000 NBER and CEPR working papers from 1980 to 2023 using a custom language model to construct knowledge graphs that map economic concepts and their relationships. We distinguish bet...
arxiv.org
July 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Paper by @prashantgarg.bsky.social analyzing causal claims in economics from 44,000 NBER and CEPR working papers: arxiv.org/abs/2501.06873
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conducting a systematic review of climate politics literature in political science and economics using the CPF. Here we draw inspiration from the work by @prashantgarg.bsky.social and @trfetzer.com on causal claims in economics.
www.causal.claims
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
www.causal.claims
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
www.causal.claims
July 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
conducting a systematic review of climate politics literature in political science and economics using the CPF. Here we draw inspiration from the work by @prashantgarg.bsky.social and @trfetzer.com on causal claims in economics.
www.causal.claims
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
www.causal.claims
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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Submit to the Leibniz Open Science Day 2025 taking place on October 27 in Berlin, organized with @leventneyse.bsky.social @jrgptrs.bsky.social @dsiegfried1.bsky.social @macartan.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @rwi.bsky.social @diw.de @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social www.zbw.eu/de/ueber-uns... 1/2
Leibniz Open Science Day 2025: Better Science for Better Policies
Where? Berlin. When? 27 October 2025. Replications and meta-studies in particular are becoming increasingly crucial to ensure the reliability and validity of scientific research findings.
www.zbw.eu
June 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Submit to the Leibniz Open Science Day 2025 taking place on October 27 in Berlin, organized with @leventneyse.bsky.social @jrgptrs.bsky.social @dsiegfried1.bsky.social @macartan.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @rwi.bsky.social @diw.de @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social www.zbw.eu/de/ueber-uns... 1/2
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This graph from @economist.com reveals a major pivot in #economics toward data and empirical work, with theory and modeling taking a back seat. The underlying data is open source at www.causal.claims
🏷️ @prashantgarg.bsky.social @trfetzer.com
🏷️ @prashantgarg.bsky.social @trfetzer.com
June 21, 2025 at 4:45 AM
This graph from @economist.com reveals a major pivot in #economics toward data and empirical work, with theory and modeling taking a back seat. The underlying data is open source at www.causal.claims
🏷️ @prashantgarg.bsky.social @trfetzer.com
🏷️ @prashantgarg.bsky.social @trfetzer.com
Can we learn about world cultures through AI? It’s promising.
New research by Lu et al. reveals cultural tendencies in AI outputs based on the language used to prompt it. #GenAI #Culture
Cultural tendencies in generative AI - Nature Human Behaviour
When used in Chinese (versus English), generative artificial intelligence exhibits a more interdependent (versus independent) social orientation and a more holistic (versus analytic) cognitive style embedded in large-scale textual training.
www.nature.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Can we learn about world cultures through AI? It’s promising.
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2/ Discipline matters.
Social Sci (27%) and Arts & Human. (31%) lead the exodus; Med & Health lag (13%).
Twitter signals (followers, PageRank, posting) predict migration better than h-index or citations.
Take-away: Your Twitter presence, not your CV, determines if you jump ship.
Social Sci (27%) and Arts & Human. (31%) lead the exodus; Med & Health lag (13%).
Twitter signals (followers, PageRank, posting) predict migration better than h-index or citations.
Take-away: Your Twitter presence, not your CV, determines if you jump ship.
June 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
2/ Discipline matters.
Social Sci (27%) and Arts & Human. (31%) lead the exodus; Med & Health lag (13%).
Twitter signals (followers, PageRank, posting) predict migration better than h-index or citations.
Take-away: Your Twitter presence, not your CV, determines if you jump ship.
Social Sci (27%) and Arts & Human. (31%) lead the exodus; Med & Health lag (13%).
Twitter signals (followers, PageRank, posting) predict migration better than h-index or citations.
Take-away: Your Twitter presence, not your CV, determines if you jump ship.
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An analysis of ~100,000 academics finds that a small subset of academics generate majority of social media posts.
That vocal minority can skew how the public—and even journalists—infer “academic consensus,” potentially fueling false perceptions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
That vocal minority can skew how the public—and even journalists—infer “academic consensus,” potentially fueling false perceptions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Political expression of academics on Twitter - Nature Human Behaviour
An analysis of nearly 100,000 academics on Twitter reveals strong progressive stances on climate and social issues, driven by a small, vocal subset. The study highlights potential gaps between academi...
www.nature.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
An analysis of ~100,000 academics finds that a small subset of academics generate majority of social media posts.
That vocal minority can skew how the public—and even journalists—infer “academic consensus,” potentially fueling false perceptions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
That vocal minority can skew how the public—and even journalists—infer “academic consensus,” potentially fueling false perceptions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Full data at www.academicexpression.online and raw data potentially available on filling the form
June 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Full data at www.academicexpression.online and raw data potentially available on filling the form
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Some interesting insights here, including that people are much more influenced by *people they follow* switching platforms than by their own *followers* switching platforms.
Preprint: "Why Academics are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky" arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801
Preprint: "Why Academics are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky" arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801
June 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Some interesting insights here, including that people are much more influenced by *people they follow* switching platforms than by their own *followers* switching platforms.
Preprint: "Why Academics are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky" arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801
Preprint: "Why Academics are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky" arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801
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Preprint: "Why Academics are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky" arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801
Why Academics Are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky
We analyse the migration of 300,000 academic users from Twitter/X to Bluesky between 2023 and early 2025, combining rich bibliometric data, longitudinal social-media activity, and a novel cross-platfo...
arxiv.org
June 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Preprint: "Why Academics are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky" arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801
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Combien de scientifiques ont quitté Twitter entre 2023 et 2025 ?
Selon cette étude, 18% des universitaires sur 300 000 étudiés ont effectué une migration vers Bluesky.
De plus, les chercheurs qui ont reconstruit leur réseau sur Bluesky restent significativement plus actifs et engagés.
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Selon cette étude, 18% des universitaires sur 300 000 étudiés ont effectué une migration vers Bluesky.
De plus, les chercheurs qui ont reconstruit leur réseau sur Bluesky restent significativement plus actifs et engagés.
1/2
June 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Combien de scientifiques ont quitté Twitter entre 2023 et 2025 ?
Selon cette étude, 18% des universitaires sur 300 000 étudiés ont effectué une migration vers Bluesky.
De plus, les chercheurs qui ont reconstruit leur réseau sur Bluesky restent significativement plus actifs et engagés.
1/2
Selon cette étude, 18% des universitaires sur 300 000 étudiés ont effectué une migration vers Bluesky.
De plus, les chercheurs qui ont reconstruit leur réseau sur Bluesky restent significativement plus actifs et engagés.
1/2
When we started in June 20204, we thought we just learn use of private data and level of null results in economics. Since then, @thiemo and I have introduced the concept of “Knowledge Graphs” into economics.
New open-access data for econ nerds: Causal Claims in Economics 🔓
250k+ claims made in 45k papers and 69 variable over 1980-2024. Now free to download. 🥳 Details below
250k+ claims made in 45k papers and 69 variable over 1980-2024. Now free to download. 🥳 Details below
🚨Thrilled to share our new paper "Causal Claims in Economics"! 🚨
@fetzert
and I analysed over 44,000 economics papers using AI to create a knowledge graph of economics and map out causal relationships.
Here's what we found 🧵👇
@fetzert
and I analysed over 44,000 economics papers using AI to create a knowledge graph of economics and map out causal relationships.
Here's what we found 🧵👇
June 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
When we started in June 20204, we thought we just learn use of private data and level of null results in economics. Since then, @thiemo and I have introduced the concept of “Knowledge Graphs” into economics.
New open-access data for econ nerds: Causal Claims in Economics 🔓
250k+ claims made in 45k papers and 69 variable over 1980-2024. Now free to download. 🥳 Details below
250k+ claims made in 45k papers and 69 variable over 1980-2024. Now free to download. 🥳 Details below
🚨Thrilled to share our new paper "Causal Claims in Economics"! 🚨
@fetzert
and I analysed over 44,000 economics papers using AI to create a knowledge graph of economics and map out causal relationships.
Here's what we found 🧵👇
@fetzert
and I analysed over 44,000 economics papers using AI to create a knowledge graph of economics and map out causal relationships.
Here's what we found 🧵👇
June 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
New open-access data for econ nerds: Causal Claims in Economics 🔓
250k+ claims made in 45k papers and 69 variable over 1980-2024. Now free to download. 🥳 Details below
250k+ claims made in 45k papers and 69 variable over 1980-2024. Now free to download. 🥳 Details below
Reposted by Prashant Garg
This matters especially for political and scientific communication, where actors from both communities actively engage. Not to go too far, how about the cool recent paper by @prashantgarg.bsky.social rashantgarg.bsky.social and @trfetzer.com , which explores this in depth: bsky.app/profile/pras...
1/ 🚨 Hot off the press! Our study “Political Expression of Academics on Social Media” with @trfetzer.com is now peer-reviewed & live in Nature Human Behaviour @nature.com 🎉. Thread 👇
June 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
This matters especially for political and scientific communication, where actors from both communities actively engage. Not to go too far, how about the cool recent paper by @prashantgarg.bsky.social rashantgarg.bsky.social and @trfetzer.com , which explores this in depth: bsky.app/profile/pras...