[bonzini]

It's SIGBOVIK, so that's the kind of content you'd expect independent of the date.

[ale42]

Actual research paper about the influence of a name on career and other "major life decisions":

• Why Susie sells seashells by the seashore: implicit egotism and major life decisions (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11999918/)

With follow-ups:

• I sell seashells by the seashore and my name is Jack: comment on Pelham, Mirenberg, and Jones (2002) (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14599244/)

• Assessing the validity of implicit egotism: a reply to Gallucci (2003) (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14599245/)