Last month, Florian Ederer presented his work (with @paulgp and Kyle Jensen) on #EJMR

The presentation was live-streamed

I was able to get some data on the number of people who watched live

A LOT of people watched

More on my latest newsletter article: https://osc.ac/en/economics/5-the-most-watched-econ-seminar-in-history/

#Economics

Tweet by first author: https://twitter.com/florianederer/status/1658478757601222659

Thread on the #EJMR forum:
https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/florian-ederer-claims-he-could-geolocate-the-majority-of-ejmr-posters

Collection of comments (looks like a rather right-wingy blog):
https://www.karlstack.com/p/yale-university-vows-to-geolocate-aa2

Article in Times Higher Education:
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/toxic-anonymous-online-posts-linked-university-ip-addresses

Interesting paper on de-anonymization of users on an economics forum (#EJMR). The forum used four hex digits of the hashed IP address as pseudonym - which allowed the authors to guess locations and institutions of users.

Really nice combination of cryptanalysis, NLP, statistics. Of course also with major implications regarding privacy, ethics, responsible disclosure.
(The authors initially intended to share code + dataset but refrained from it shortly afterwards).

https://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/files/2023-07/ejmr_paper_nber(1).pdf

https://www.youtube.com/live/JwmZuxN0LDI

Hate speech on #EJMR comes from a high share of posters and from all types of organisations including high ranking universities. A sobering study by Florian Ederer, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, amd Kyle Jensen.

But how representative are those posting on #EJMR for the profession as a whole? How strong is the selection bias and why does this platform attract these people?

#racism #sexism #misogyny #economists

With all the #EJMR crap going on, it was a great to be a small part of the AEA's Summer Program. Met one of the faculty, a bloke by the name of David Card. Saw some cool presentations and got to work with a super smart UW-M student. Great job #HowardU

There has been much talk about the mental state of US economists recently. This IZA paper might add interesting facts to this debate https://docs.iza.org/dp16309.pdf #ejmr #econtwitter #mentalhealth

Interesting papers - a model to identify (geolocate) IP adresses of anonymous posters #ejmr
https://www.karlstack.com/p/yale-university-vows-to-geolocate-aa2

I can't stress enough how unethical this #ejmr research paper appears to have been.

When you do this kind of work against a service, you follow a principle called responsible disclosure. That means you give notice to the victim what you found, and you give them a chance to fix it.

The researchers here do not seem to have provided any notice. The authors should not be in academia, #yale should be ashamed, and #nber should retract this.

I didn't know about #ejmr (Economics Job Market Rumors) before the current scandal on anonymity and identity online (link to the paper below). The amount of racist, xenophobic, misogynist content in that site is just baffling (just take a look at https://www.econjobrumors.com/). How come economists have tolerated this thing for so long? I really don't get it.

https://ucmerced.app.box.com/s/927hnrth6j4clkd09ll3ondecqasc0vg

@linuzifer Das hier könnte was für LNP sein https://github.com/florianederer/florianederer.github.io/blob/8bea4d0bef8367d2bdb168ebcacf9cce7d1a05d9/ejmr_slides_nber.pdf Macht gerade ziemlichen Trubel bei den US Ökonominnen (naja, das innen kann man sich so ziemlich sparen), da das Forum sich dort ziemlich Beliebtheit erfreut und natürlich Creti und Pleti dort die Sau raus lassen #ejmr

#ejmr two precious hours of my life wasted

How Sexist is Economics?
Alice Evans reviews two recent important works:

1. “Anonymity and Identity Online” (Ederer, Goldsmith-Pinkham & Jensen) find that about 5 percent of posts at #EJMR are misogynistic

2. “Mental Health in European Econ Departments” (Macchi, Sievert, Bolotnyy and Barreira) find that 34% of Econ female graduate students have been sexually harassed.

“A tiny minority of people may be acting very inappropriately, to not just one but multiple women.”

https://draliceevans.substack.com/p/how-sexist-is-economics?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

#econtwitter If you find that #EJMR paper interesting, you may be interested in reading studies on another controversial forum, 4chan. Here are some links
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.03452
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461444819888746
https://projects.csail.mit.edu/chanthropology/4chan.pdf

For non-economists, I’m referring to a paper that will be released soon on a forum called EconJobMarketRumors. It allows anonymous posting, so you can imagine the type of posts that get written. The paper leaked and is quite interesting from a technical perspective.

@marytzu Touché!

What I really want is for some enterprising young sociologist to use these methods to create graphs like these (#chicago lolololololllllllll) for our very own #sjmr

#ejmr

@wrigleyfield Yours is the only post that I found on the #EJMR article situation. I learned at the other place. I am finding academic engagement to be limited here but other engagement, i.e., news etc., to be better.

Here’s the real test that Mastodon has failed:

I just searched #ejmr and found ONE POST (visible to my server of scientists)

If a social media site cannot give me the gossip at a time like this, what are we even doing?!