It wasn’t the nicest day in Boston, but I did get a good look at this hawk and I was able to get in a bunch of talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/14)
First was an interesting talk by Anne Stone about what ancient DNA tells us about human adaptation at Arizona State University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVd7zJkfthU (2/14) #anthropology
Lucy 50 Monthly Lecture Series—Anne Stone PhD

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Next was an excellent talk by Johannes Loh on competition and value capture in platform markets at @Weizenbaum_Institut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6VooALqGMY (3/14) #economics
“#Competition & #valuecapture in #platform markets: Implications for complementor #strategy”, J. Loh

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Next was a wide-ranging talk by Anne Booth on poverty and inequality in Indonesia at the Crawford School of Public Policy. She also nicely takes down a bunch of economic indices for poor methodology/usefulness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_JRBh9bLG4 (4/14) #economics #Indonesia
FKP 2014 06 06 - "Poverty and Inequality in Indonesia" by Anne Booth (SOAS, UK)

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Next was a short talk by Lucy Montague on the role of urban design theory in the creation of place and placelessness at UNSW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU6wt0qrJDk (5/14)
Session 4 - Lucy Montague "Expressing urban meaning in urban forms..."

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Next was a great talk by Matt Jordan on deduplication of large-scale text datasets at Ai2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZLxis-p8yE (6/14) #AI
Deduplication of Large-scale Text Datasets for Pretraining of Language Models

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Next was an intriguing talk by @SaxeLab on what deep learning implies about cognition at #CCN2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmupDwKLgPQ (7/14) #AI #CognitiveScience
Keynote Lecture: Andrew Saxe - CCN 2024

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Next was a thought-provoking talk by @KassemSarrah on work and alienation in the platform economy at @Weizenbaum_Institut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxjfGjDlUEI (8/14) #sociology
“#Work and Alienation in the #PlatformEconomy – #Amazon and the #Power of #Organization”, S. Kassem

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Next was an engaging talk by @lisik on seeing social interactions at #CCN2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWpIon_cxBw (9/14) #AI #neuroscience
Keynote Lecture: Leyla Isik - CCN 2024

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Next was a fascinating talk by Zeray Alemseged on Lucy’s children and human origins at ASU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EibLdxkQZ3k (10/14) #anthropology
Lucy50 Symposium 2024—The Impact of Lucy on Human Origins Science—Zeray Alemseged

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Next was a short talk by Tracy Kivell on Lucy and the evolution of hand dexterity and tool use at ASU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3469samYjD4 (11/14) #anthropology
Lucy50 Symposium 2024—The Impact of Lucy on Human Origins Science—Tracy Kivell

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Next was a short talk by Kaye Reed on the origin and evolution of the savanna “hypothesis” of human evolution at ASU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsOSJVWypWQ&t=10s (12/14) #anthropology #history #science
Lucy50 Symposium 2024—The Impact of Lucy on Human Origins Research—Kaye Reed

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Next was a fantastic talk by Brooke Erin Duffy on platform labor and the politics of algorithmic invisibility at @Weizenbaum_Institut. Duffy focuses on social media creators and their challenges of understanding how the algorithms that drive their livelihoods actually work, leading to direct and indirect harms to employees and the platform itself. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXeIL8VrY1M (13/14) #sociology
"#Platform #Labor and the Politics of #Algorithmic In/Visibility", Brooke Erin Duffy

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Last was a short talk by Giana Eckhardt and Samuelson Appau on what happens when brands regulate markets at @Weizenbaum_Institut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEB4lUIXqWg (14/14) #economics #tech #law
"When #Brands Regulate #Markets", Giana Eckhardt and Samuelson Appau

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