Ben WaberI had a fairly relaxed Sunday, which gave me lots of time for dog walks with great talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/8)
First was an interesting talk by Diane Vaughan on the air traffic control workplace with a panel discussion by Gil Eyal, Venkat Venkatsubramanian, and Iddo Tavory at Columbia University. Vaughan presents a deep, ethnographic view of air traffic control and how a workplace evolves in this fast-paced, high pressure environment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEyry69mz3s (2/8) #work #ethnography
Dead Reckoning: Celebrating Recent Work by Diane Vaughan
Next was an important talk by Niamh Mulachy on class, #inequality, and #finance at #CRASSH with discussion from Ariane Hanemaayer and Ronjon Paul Datta. This conversation gets into the various theoretical lenses through which we can view class and inequality and what that means for potential paths forward https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yOuZWSqKgU (3/8) #sociology
CRASSH | Class and Inequality in the Time of Finance - Niamh Mulcahy - Book launch
Next was an incredible panel on corporate morality, human rights, and reputation at the Saïd Business School w/Grant Rozeboom, Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Kendy Hess, & Michael Posner. It's easy to say that companies should be accountable for improving human rights, but what does that mean? What happens if companies become quasi-governments? How can this conflict with real problems in the Global South? Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGH9nqDEDv8 (4/8) #ESG
Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation - Morality, Human Rights and Reputation.
Next was a fantastic talk by Joowon Klusowski on choice and illusion of control at #DataColada. Through a series of rigorous experiments, Klusowski takes an absolute hammer to the notion that choice causes an illusion of control, showing instead that many of the effects of choice that are observed are due to pre-existing illusions. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4m_4TANQj8 (5/8) #psychology #BehavioralEconomics
Joowon Klusowski (Yale University) - Data Colada Seminar Series (4 February 2022)
Next was an intriguing talk by @MatthiasNau on MRI-based eye tracking at Western University. The methods presented here seem like a powerful new tool for researchers using #fMRI with gaze as a variable or even to correct for other issues (I would like to see data from many more, varied subjects before widespread adoption) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQvCbIuk794 (6/8) #neuroscience
BrainsCAN Computational Core Methods Lunch: DeepMReye
Next was a nice talk by Eunmi Mun on CEO succession in #Japan at the Harvard US-Japan Program. Mun shows longitudinal data showing a disappointing lack of progress in reducing the influence of lifetime employment insiders on boards and in the CEO chair. While this isn't all bad, it certainly makes organizational change and independent oversight harder to implement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EXeC7QKj5Y (7/8) #management
Eunmi Mun, “The Norm of Lifetime Employment and CEO Succession in Japan”
Last was an engaging conversation with Angela N. Aneiros on D&O insurance and social change on the Business Scholarship Podcast. As investors start to demand improved management through #DEI initiatives, people metrics, and more, Aneiros argues that directors and execs will be much more likely to become personally liable for failure https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9waW5lY2FzdC5jb20vZmVlZC9idXNpbmVzcy1zY2hvbGFyc2hpcC1wb2RjYXN0/episode/aHR0cHM6Ly9waW5lY2FzdC5jb20vZ3VpZC8yZWI0MDQyYi1jZjliLTQ2M2YtYjljYy1kNjAzOGUxYjA2YTM?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjQnNHPr9yAAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQLA (8/8)
Business Scholarship Podcast - Ep.136 – Angela Aneiros on D&O Insurance and Social Change
Angela Aneiros, lecturer at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article The Unlikely Pressure for Accountability: The Insurance Industry’s Role in Social Change. In this article Aneiros examines the role of D&O insurance in shaping corporate directors’ decisions around diversity, equity, and inclusion. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School, with editing by Daniel Hamilton, a third-year student at Brooklyn Law School.
Matthias Nau@bwaber Thanks for checking out my talk about #DeepMReye! Would love to hear more about the things you would want to see to fully trust it. More datasets? More types of viewing behavior? More scanning sequences etc?
The paper includes ~300 subjects scanned with a total of 15 sequences on 5 MRI scanners, but a lot more has been done since the paper was published. Happy to chat :)
@MatthiasNau It's not my area of expertise (and I know collecting fMRI data is expensive and hard), but I really worry about not having a broader sample that spans more diverse populations. It might be in your papers, but I'd want to know the demographic breakdown of participants, failure rate on different groups, etc.
@bwaber Thank you for the feedback! Such a sample would indeed be amazing. We know that the tool is being used in many different types of studies (incl. patient populations, children, different species etc.), but we don't have such a demographic breakdown yet. Lot's more to be done!