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In Revise and Resubmit, a dynamic AI duo— Nikita and Pavlov — guides you through the fascinating world of academic research. Whether they’re debating emerging trends, revisiting theories, or exploring the latest innovations, their conversational style makes scholarly insights accessible and engaging for academics. Papers chosen by Mayukh. Powered by Google NotebookLM.

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  The Power of Proximity to Coworkers (Emanuel et al 2026) | FT50 QJE

  Sep 6, 20261h 45mS1

  English Podcast Starts at 00:00:00 Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:50:20 Hindi Podcast Starts at 01:11:59 Danish Podcast Starts at 01:28:39 Reference Emanuel, N., Harrington, E., & Pallais, A. (2026). The Power of Proximity to Coworkers. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 141(3), 1825–1870. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjag027 ‌ ‌Youtube Channel ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠ Podcast Website https://mayukhmukhopadhyay.com/reviseandresubmit Academy of Management PDW on Space Economy Registration Flyer https://cto.aom.org/discussion/flagship-aom-2026-pdw-space-economy-consolidating-a-research-agenda-8 AOM SIM Curriculum Committee https://sim.aom.org/curriculum/curriculum-committee AOM SIM-Bytes Curriculum Lessons https://sim.aom.org/curriculum/simbytes ️✨ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit . I am truly delighted that you've chosen to spend this moment with me. There are some ideas that arrive quietly, almost unnoticed, and yet they linger long after the conversation has ended. They remind us that the spaces we share are never merely spaces. They become part of who we are becoming. Today, we explore a fascinating paper, "The Power of Proximity to Coworkers," by Natalia Emanuel, Emma Harrington, and Amanda Pallais , published online on 12 May 2026 in The Quarterly Journal of Economics . This is one of the world's most prestigious academic journals and proudly belongs to the FT50 journal list , where groundbreaking research continues to shape our understanding of economics, organizations, and society. Not so long ago, many of us discovered that work could happen almost anywhere. Kitchen tables became offices. Bedrooms became meeting rooms. Conversations became little glowing squares on a screen. And somewhere along the way, we began asking a quiet question. What, if anything, had been left behind? This study does not answer that question with nostalgia. Instead, it listens carefully to the evidence. Following software engineers through office closures, remote work, and the gradual return to shared workplaces, the authors uncover something beautifully subtle. Sitting close to colleagues does more than shorten the distance between desks. It shortens the distance between experience and curiosity. Junior employees receive more feedback. Their work improves. Skills that might have taken years to develop begin to emerge through countless small conversations that rarely appear on a calendar. And yet, the story is not without its quiet complexity. Senior engineers often produce more code when they work remotely, free from the interruptions that mentoring naturally brings. Productivity, it seems, wears more than one face. Perhaps that is what makes this paper feel so deeply human. It reminds us that learning is rarely dramatic. More often, it happens in passing. A brief suggestion. An unexpected question. A glance at someone else's work. These moments are so ordinary that we hardly notice them, until one day we realize they have gently shaped the people we have become. ❤️ As we journey through this remarkable research together, I hope you'll think not only about offices or remote work, but about your own life. Who helped shape you simply by being nearby, and how much of who you are today was learned without either of you ever realizing it? ✨ My heartfelt thanks to Natalia Emanuel, Emma Harrington, and Amanda Pallais , and to Oxford Academic , for publishing this exceptional contribution in the prestigious FT50-listed The Quarterly Journal of Economics . If you enjoy thoughtful conversations where research meets the quiet truths of everyday life, please subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify , and subscribe to Weekend Researcher on YouTube . You can also listen on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcasts . Thank you for being here, and for bringing your curiosity with you.

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  Inventing ELIZA (Ciston et al 2026) - Weekend Book Review

  Sep 5, 20261h 29mS1

  English Podcast starts at 00:00:00 Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:33:36 Hindi Podcast Starts at 00:54:20 Danish Podcast Starts at 01:13:18 Reference Ciston, S., Berry, D. M., Hay, A. C., Marino, M. C., Millican, P., Shrager, J., Schwarz, A. I., & Weil, P. (2026). Inventing ELIZA. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15790.001.0001 ‌Youtube channel link https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher Podcast Website https://mayukhmukhopadhyay.com/reviseandresubmit ️✨ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit , and to another episode of Weekend Book Review . I am genuinely delighted that you're here. There is something quietly magical about opening a book that promises not merely to tell us where technology has been, but to gently remind us of who we have always been whenever we find ourselves speaking to a machine. Today, we journey through Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI , published by The MIT Press on July 14, 2026 . It is written by an extraordinary group of scholars and creators, Sarah Ciston, David M. Berry, Anthony C. Hay, Mark C. Marino, Peter Millican, Jeff Shrager, Arthur I. Schwarz, and Peggy Weil . Together, they bring expertise from computer science, philosophy, digital humanities, cognitive science, literature, and the arts. It feels fitting that a story about one of history's first conversations between humans and computers is told by voices that come from so many different ways of understanding the world. For many of us, conversations with artificial intelligence have become almost ordinary. We ask questions, seek advice, even confess worries that we might hesitate to share elsewhere. It all feels remarkably new. And yet, sixty years ago, another conversation had already begun. This book invites us to meet ELIZA , the world's first chatbot, not as a museum piece, but as a living idea whose echoes still surround us today. Through remarkable archival discoveries, including the long lost original source code and forgotten scripts, the authors reveal that ELIZA was far more imaginative than history had remembered. It was not simply a clever illusion. It was a new way of imagining what dialogue between humans and machines could become. ✨ But perhaps the most moving figure in these pages is Joseph Weizenbaum himself. He built ELIZA with curiosity and playfulness, only to become increasingly unsettled as people began believing the machine truly understood them. He watched as users projected empathy, wisdom, even companionship onto lines of code. What began as an experiment slowly became a cautionary tale about our remarkable willingness to see ourselves reflected in technology. As I read this book, I found myself wondering whether the history of artificial intelligence is really the history of machines at all. Perhaps it is the history of our own longing to be heard, understood, and accompanied, even if the listener exists only through computation. So, as we begin today's Weekend Book Review , I invite you to carry one quiet question with you. ✨ When we believe a machine understands us, what is it truly revealing about the machine, and what is it revealing about ourselves? My heartfelt thanks to Sarah Ciston, David M. Berry, Anthony C. Hay, Mark C. Marino, Peter Millican, Jeff Shrager, Arthur I. Schwarz, Peggy Weil , and The MIT Press for this thoughtful and timely book. If you enjoy book reviews and conversations where ideas meet humanity, please subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify , and subscribe to the Weekend Researcher YouTube channel. You can also listen on Amazon Prime Music and Apple Podcasts . Thank you for joining me. Let's begin.

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  Praying for Rain (Espín-Sánchez 2026) | FT50 QJE

  Aug 30, 20261h 48mS1

  English Podcast Starts at 00:00:00 Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:49:40 Hindi Podcast Starts at 01:06:08 Danish Podcast Starts at 01:33:02 Reference Espín-Sánchez, J.-A., Gil-Guirado, S., & Ryan, N. (2026). Praying for Rain. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 141(3), 2363–2422. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjag026 ‌ ‌Youtube Channel ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠ Podcast Website https://mayukhmukhopadhyay.com/reviseandresubmit Academy of Management PDW on Space Economy Registration Flyer https://cto.aom.org/discussion/flagship-aom-2026-pdw-space-economy-consolidating-a-research-agenda-8 AOM SIM Curriculum Committee https://sim.aom.org/curriculum/curriculum-committee AOM SIM-Bytes Curriculum Lessons https://sim.aom.org/curriculum/simbytes ️️ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit . I am so glad you've joined me today. There are certain questions that seem to follow humanity across every generation. They wait quietly beneath our routines, returning whenever the sky remains empty a little longer than we hoped. They ask not only what we believe, but why we continue believing. ✨ Today's journey takes us through a remarkable paper, "Praying for Rain," by José Antonio Espín Sánchez, Salvador Gil Guirado, and Nicholas Ryan , published online on 11 May 2026 in The Quarterly Journal of Economics . This is one of the world's most prestigious academic journals and proudly belongs to the FT50 journal list , where research often reshapes how we understand people, institutions, and society. There is something deeply human about waiting for rain. We can measure clouds, predict seasons, and calculate probabilities, yet the experience of waiting has always carried something beyond numbers. It carries hope. It carries memory. Sometimes, it carries prayer. ☁️ This study begins with what sounds like an ancient custom, but gradually unfolds into something surprisingly modern. Looking across two centuries of records from Murcia, Spain, and extending their investigation to communities around the world, the authors ask a gentle but profound question. Why do certain traditions endure? Their answer is neither cynical nor dismissive. Instead, it invites us to notice how people learn from the rhythms of nature. In places where the chance of rainfall naturally grows as a drought continues, prayers offered during the hardest moments are also more likely to be followed by rain. ️ Little by little, experience becomes tradition. Tradition becomes belief. And belief becomes part of the story a community tells itself about hope, resilience, and survival. Perhaps what fascinates me most is that this paper is not simply about religion or weather. It is about the quiet partnership between the world outside us and the meanings we create within it. It reminds us that culture is often shaped not only by what is true, but by what repeatedly feels true in the lives of ordinary people. As we explore this extraordinary research together, I hope you'll listen not only as a student of economics or history, but as someone who has also waited for something beyond your control. After all, how many of our deepest convictions begin with a coincidence that arrives at exactly the moment we needed it most? My heartfelt thanks to José Antonio Espín Sánchez, Salvador Gil Guirado, and Nicholas Ryan , and to Oxford Academic , for publishing this outstanding contribution in the prestigious FT50-listed The Quarterly Journal of Economics . If you enjoy conversations where research meets the quiet mysteries of being human, please subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify , and subscribe to Weekend Researcher on YouTube . You can also find us on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcasts . Thank you for listening, and for bringing your curiosity along.

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  The Fitzroy (Sally Fiber 1995) - Weekend Classics

  Aug 29, 20261h 17mS1

  English Podcast starts at 00:00:00 Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:25:03 Hindi Podcast Starts at 00:41:32 Danish Podcast Starts at 00:58:55 Reference The Fitzroy: The Autobiography of a London Tavern: by Sally Fiber, (co-authored with Clive Powell-Williams), Temple House Books [an imprint of The Book Guild Ltd], 1995, 114 pp., ISBN: 9781857760231. https://www.abebooks.com/signed-first-edition/Fitzroy-Autobiography-London-Tavern-Fiber-Sally/31922800663/bd ‌ ‌Youtube Channel ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠ Podcast Website https://mayukhmukhopadhyay.com/reviseandresubmit ️ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit , the episode Weekend Classics . There are books that tell us about a place, and then there are books that make us feel we have briefly stood inside it. This week, I found myself stepping through the doors of a London pub that seems to have gathered an entire vanished world around itself. The Fitzroy: The Autobiography of a London Tavern , published on 21 August 1995 by Temple House Books, is Sally Fiber's remarkable act of remembrance, written with Clive Powell-Williams. And perhaps nobody could have written this particular book quite as she did. Fiber was born in 1936 and grew up inside the Fitzroy Tavern. Her grandfather, Judah "Pop" Kleinfeld, and later her parents ran the establishment. So when she writes about the Fitzroy, she isn't looking back at history from a comfortable distance. She is remembering the rooms in which she grew up, the people who passed through them, and the strange mixture of affection, danger, fame and ordinary life that surrounded her childhood. And what people they were. Dylan Thomas drank here. Augustus John drew a self-portrait in her mother's autograph book. George Orwell, Nina Hamnett and Jacob Epstein belonged to the world that gathered around this corner of Fitzrovia. Yet Fiber also remembers detectives, politicians, Albert Pierrepoint, police raids, scandal, murder and courtroom battles. That contrast is what stayed with me. The Fitzroy was somehow both literary salon and rough neighbourhood pub. A place where art and gossip could occupy the same table, where a memorial for Dylan Thomas could take place in the bar, and where charity collections could quietly change children's lives. Reading Fiber, I kept thinking about how cities disappear without really leaving. Buildings remain. Street names remain. Perhaps even the pubs remain. But the particular people, voices and rituals that gave those places their meaning slowly become impossible to recover. This book is Fiber's attempt to recover them. And perhaps that is why a tavern can have an autobiography at all. If a building can remember through the people who passed through it, then what exactly are we losing when a neighbourhood loses its old gathering places? So, when a place becomes famous for the people who once inhabited it, are we really remembering the place itself, or are we remembering a version of ourselves that no longer exists? My thanks to Sally Fiber and Clive Powell-Williams , and to Temple House Books, an imprint of The Book Guild Ltd , for this fascinating journey into Fitzrovia's past. If you enjoyed this episode of Weekend Classics , please subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify and to the Weekend Researcher YouTube channel. You can also find the channel on Amazon Prime Music and Apple Podcasts . Until next time, keep reading, keep questioning, and perhaps occasionally look twice at the old places we think we already know.

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  ESG investing and pollution outsourcing (Yan et al., 2026) | FT50 SMJ

  Aug 23, 20261h 32mS1

  English Podcast Starts at 00:00:00 Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:42:58 Hindi Podcast Starts at 01:05:22 Danish Podcast Starts at 01:18:51 Reference Yan, S., Zhang, F., & Li, Z. (2026). ESG investing and pollution outsourcing. Strategic Management Journal, 1–36. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.70115 ‌ ‌Youtube Channel ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠ Podcast Website https://mayukhmukhopadhyay.com/reviseandresubmit AOM SIM Curriculum Committee https://sim.aom.org/curriculum/curriculum-committee AOM SIM-Bytes Curriculum Lessons https://sim.aom.org/curriculum/simbytes ️ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit ! Today, I want to take you into a rather intriguing corner of the world of corporate sustainability, where appearances can be deceiving and the most important clue may be hiding somewhere just beyond the obvious. ️‍♂️ Our paper today is titled “ESG Investing and Pollution Outsourcing” , by Shipeng Yan, Fan Zhang, and Zhengyu Li , published online on 3 August 2026 in the Strategic Management Journal , a highly prestigious academic journal and proudly part of the FT50 journal list . The paper is published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Now, ESG investing has often been presented as a powerful new force for corporate accountability. The logic seems straightforward. Investors care about environmental performance, so companies should have every reason to become cleaner, greener, and more responsible. But as I began exploring this study, I found myself drawn to a rather more curious possibility. What if the pollution does not disappear? What if it simply moves? Using global firm data covering 2006 to 2019 , Yan, Zhang, and Li investigate whether companies facing pressure from ESG investors might reduce pollution within their own operations while quietly shifting some of that environmental burden onto suppliers. The result is a fascinating and uncomfortable puzzle: a company may appear cleaner on paper, while the pollution associated with producing its goods remains much the same. The authors describe this as a sophisticated form of corporate decoupling. And the story becomes even more interesting when we look at the conditions under which this behaviour weakens. ESG investors can sometimes make a genuine difference when they provide access to green technologies or when they have greater visibility into the environmental practices of suppliers. In other words, perhaps the real test of ESG is not simply asking, “Is this company cleaner?” Perhaps we should ask, “Where did the dirt go?” That question takes us beyond corporate reports and sustainability promises, into the complicated world of supply chains, incentives, institutional pressure, and the curious ways organisations respond when someone is watching. ❓ So, if a company becomes greener only because the pollution has been moved somewhere we cannot easily see, are ESG investors really changing corporate behaviour, or merely changing the appearance of it? My sincere thanks to Shipeng Yan, Fan Zhang, and Zhengyu Li , and to John Wiley & Sons Ltd. for bringing this important research to the academic community. If you enjoy Revise and Resubmit , please subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify and to Weekend Researcher on YouTube . You can also find the podcast on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcasts . Until next time, keep questioning the evidence, follow the trail, and remember: sometimes the most revealing clue is the one that seems to have disappeared.

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