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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 3d

Don't even get me started on "sandwich"

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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 5d

There's certainly darkness on the edge of town!

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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 9d

Very nice work @giladfeldman.bsky.social, congratulations to your student as well!

Gilad Feldman @giladfeldman.bsky.social · 9d

Our PCIRR Stage 2 Registered Report now officially accepted by Royal Society Open Science:

"Revisiting mental accounting classic paradigms: Replication Registered Report of the problems reviewed in Thaler (1999)"

Mengfei Li's remarkable UG RRR thesis.

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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 13d

By definition, people who claim to have a growth mindset cannot simultaneously also claim to be "introvert" or "extrovert" yes?

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 18d

That’s not how a Venn diagram works?

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 20d

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Nick Byrd, Ph.D. @byrdnick.com · 28d

If we nudge a random subset of clinicians to improve prescriptions to SOME patients (e.g., 65-or-older), will the effect spillover to (or contaminate) other patient populations?

It did in this clinical trial in #Canada; doi.org/10.1001/jama...

#philSci #medicine #stats #methods

"The intervention group showed a reduction in antibiotic prescriptions at 12 months after intervention compared with the control group (adjusted rate ratio [aRR], 0.93; 95% CI, 0.93-0.94) ...across all age and sex groups and for antibiotics typically used for respiratory infections."

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Liam Delaney @liamdelaney2025.bsky.social · Sep 7

@dilipsoman.bsky.social was thinking about your book at this stage in the Kerry hills yesterday!! I can attest that the last mile can be challenging. Though the last bit of the last mile when you can see the line is good fun!!

Picture of the 25 mile mark at the Dingle Marathon in County Kerry

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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · Sep 6

I take it that the said kid will grow up to read Tversky and Kahneman 1974 and make marginal notes like 8! next to the anchoring example.

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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · Sep 6

The two of you will make a fine combination!

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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · Sep 5

Can someone explain the logic (if any) of this weirdly specific ban? www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/m... @dynarski.bsky.social @ericjjohnson.bsky.social @casssunstein.bsky.social @justinwolfers.bsky.social @dggoldst.bsky.social

US considers banning Iranian diplomats from shopping at Costco during UN meeting | CNN

The movements of Iranian diplomats are severely limited in New York, but one proposal being floated would bar them from shopping at big, members-only wholesale stores like Costco and Sam’s Club withou...

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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · Sep 5

That's me in the corner!

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Sep 4

During the pandemic, I travelled from Michigan to Ohio to get a COVID jab, bc vax were in short supply

This weekend, I am traveling from Massachusetts to Rhode Island to get a COVID jab, bc brains are in short supply

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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · Sep 4

The abstract of this paper does provide an update of your priors if you believed there was some chance Bart knew before.

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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · May 2

Adapted this illustration illustrating electricity for behaviour change!

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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · Sep 3

That's me in the spotlight

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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · Aug 29

Under the hood of mental accounting

Research by Fei et al suggests our internal representation of expenditure categories is a hierarchical taxonomy, in which we adjust for overspending in nearby rather than more distant categories:
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HT @dilipsoman.bsky.social

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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · Aug 20

I got TWO of those in a day last week!

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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · Aug 10

My goodness its going to be the end of the world as we know it! www.pcmag.com/news/end-of-... @dggoldst.bsky.social @katymilkman.bsky.social @joshgans.bsky.social

End of an E-Era: AOL to End Dial-Up Internet Access

The pioneering service has dwindled to a Yahoo sub-brand, but some people still rely on it for their online connection. Come Sept. 30, they'll need a new ISP.

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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · Aug 9

Make it was built anticipating a city like Chicago and therefore to have competition ready? Very forward looking behaviour :-)

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Behavior Change for Good Initiative @bcfginitiative.bsky.social · Aug 5

In @natrevpsychol.nature.com, Team Scientists @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social, @dggoldst.bsky.social & @dilipsoman.bsky.social and Susan Michie argue that improving how we study nudges—through better design, collaboration, and open science—can help us learn when and where they’re most effective.

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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · Aug 2

I remember first hearing about the Corporation for Public Broadcasting while watching a screening of Carl Sagans Cosmos at the American centre / USIS in Bombay in 1981.

Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · Aug 2

"Funding for this program was made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by annual financial support from viewers like you" <---I bet you hear the exact cadence of your vintage

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · Aug 2

"Funding for this program was made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by annual financial support from viewers like you" <---I bet you hear the exact cadence of your vintage

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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · Aug 1

This looks about right? @mendelmatt.bsky.social @justinwolfers.bsky.social @jrobson.bsky.social

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Jul 28

Acronym fail

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