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by Liam Delaney

liamdelaney2025.bsky.social
@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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by Liam Delaney

liamdelaney2025.bsky.social
Fair play to him. Have had that in the background on many late night attempts to do some research. A really strong piece of traditional public braoad. The archive is a great legacy www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘It’s been quite a ride!’ Melvyn Bragg to step down from Radio 4’s In Our Time after 27 years
The broadcaster is leaving the hit BBC programme after presenting more than 1,000 episodes and having ‘enriched the lives of millions’
www.theguardian.com
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Reposted by: Liam Delaney, John Drury

lsepbs.bsky.social
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by Liam Delaney

liamdelaney2025.bsky.social
Heard a quote once from someone (wish I could remember who) summarising behavioural finance work that said that stock markets reflect the mood swings of old rich guys. Can't remember a case before where they reflect the mood swings of one individual old rich guy!

Reposted by: Liam Delaney, Giulio Mattioli

henrymance.ft.com
FT Editorial: "Unless the Israeli government agrees to an immediate end to the war and a surge of aid into Gaza, western countries should be sanctioning Netanyahu and his government." www.ft.com/content/69d5...
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Famine now unfolding in Gaza, says UN-backed monitor – Middle East crisis live
Famine now unfolding in Gaza, says UN-backed monitor – Middle East crisis live
Airdrops are not enough to avert the humanitarian catastrophe, says the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative Famine is “now unfolding” in Gaza, with thousands of children malnourished and hunger-related deaths on the rise among the youngest, a UN-backed monitor has said in an alert. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative (IPC) said that air drops over Gaza will not avert the “humanitarian catastrophe” unfolding across the territory. Mounting evidence shows that widespread starvation, malnutrition, and disease are driving a rise in hunger-related deaths… Latest data indicates that famine thresholds have been reached for food consumption in most of the Gaza Strip and for acute malnutrition in Gaza City. Continue reading...
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Famine is "playing out" in Gaza, a global hunger monitor said in an alert issued as international criticism of Israel intensifies over rapidly worsening conditions in the Palestinian territory.
Famine 'playing out' in Gaza, warns global hunger monitor
Famine is "playing out" in Gaza, a global hunger monitor said in an alert issued as international criticism of Israel intensifies over rapidly worsening conditions in the Palestinian territory.
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Reposted by: Liam Delaney

cortneyprice.bsky.social
Honored to be back for LSE #behaviouralscience Alumni Conference, especially at graduation time! Excited to join great panel w/Zeina Afif (World Bank) & Anna Guerraggio (UNDP) & engage with past & current cohorts

@lsepbs.bsky.social @mmglz.bsky.social @krpd.bsky.social @liamdelaney2025.bsky.social
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Reposted by: Liam Delaney, Elizabeth Robinson

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Thrilled to be part of the Bluesky community! 🎉

Join us, including Acting Dean @profejzrobinson.bsky.social, at the beginning of our journey to lead the way in sustainability impact.

Find out more about us here ⬇️ www.lse.ac.uk/global-schoo...
Global School of Sustainability
We inform policy and influence the economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protections crucial to ensuring a sustainable future.
www.lse.ac.uk
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by Helen Margetts — Reposted by: Liam Delaney, Joanna Bryson, Ben H. Ansell , and 5 more

kobihackenburg.bsky.social
Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19  LLMs, 707 political issues.

We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more! 

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by Liam Delaney

liamdelaney2025.bsky.social
Up Tipp!

For UK friends All Ireland hurling final on BBC2 now. If you want to see something that brings a big chunk of Ireland to a halt every year highly recommended.
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Reposted by: Liam Delaney, Mark Petticrew, Marcus Grant , and 1 more

who.int
People are getting killed trying to get food.

877 people have died and 5666 were injured in #Gaza trying to get food in recent weeks.
As of 15 July, 877 fatalities and 5666 injuries have been reported among people trying to access food supplies. Image of an empty bowl and spoon against black background.
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Reposted by: Liam Delaney, Graham Dutfield

henrymance.ft.com
for this week's Lunch with the FT, I met a humanitarian hero: war doctor David Nott www.ft.com/content/e5fa...
War zone surgeon David Nott: ‘Life is all about taking calculated risks’
The doctor who’s saved countless lives through his work in Ukraine and Gaza on operating under fire, the challenges of PTSD — and his belief in God
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by Liam Delaney

liamdelaney2025.bsky.social
Enjoyed back-handed compliments about talks over the years "I was going to go home when I saw it was an economist but you weren't too bad" from an audience member after a public talk a few years back my favourite. Famous public intellectual was "pleasantly surprised you have read around a bit".
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Reposted by: Liam Delaney, Maria Sobolewska

iandunt.bsky.social
Holy shit the government's Restoring Trust in Democracy policy paper is good.
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Reposted by: Liam Delaney, Jennifer A. Richeson, Jesse H. Kroll , and 1 more

masonfromtwitter.bsky.social
This is how insane people sound when you tell them why A.I. is bad
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Reposted by: Liam Delaney

lsepbs.bsky.social
🎤 Prof @liamdelaney2025.bsky.social gave the IAREP Kahneman Keynote Lecture 2025. During his inspiring talk, Prof Delaney explored the evolving role of economic psychology in shaping behavioural public policy.

#Economics #Psychology #BehaviouralScience #Keynote #Kahneman #PublicPolicy
Liam Delaney – Positioning Economic Psychology in Behavioral Public Policy | IAREP 2025
YouTube video by IAREP
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by Liam Delaney — Reposted by: Liam Delaney

liamdelaney2025.bsky.social
Video of my IAREP Kahneman lecture on positioning economic psychology in the emerging behavioral public policy field youtube.com/watch?v=_3ti... Readings & some speaking notes here. economicspsychologypolicy.blogspot.com/2024/12/iare... Thanks to students & colleagues for many years of discussions.
IAREP Kahneman Lecture: Economic Psychology and Behavioural Public Policy
economicspsychologypolicy.blogspot.com
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by Liam Delaney

liamdelaney2025.bsky.social
Been 20 years or so in the making in Ireland but national pension auto-enrolment now at this stage. A blog-post from a few years back outlining the issues and background research. economicspsychologypolicy.blogspot.com/2024/04/pens...
Picture of a newspaper advertisement for Irish pension auto-enrolment
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Reposted by: Liam Delaney, Markus Freitag, Olga Onuch , and 5 more

jayvanbavel.bsky.social
Only a small % of people engage in toxic activity online, but they’re responsible for a disproportionate share of hostile or misleading content on nearly every platform

Because super-users are so active, they dominate our collective impression of the internet www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?
Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way out
www.theguardian.com
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by Liam Delaney

liamdelaney2025.bsky.social
Recent CEP paper on the value of parks for well-being during crises. In general the more you look at quantifying welfare effects the more urban green spaces come into prominence cep.lse.ac.uk/_NEW/PUBLICA...
The value of a park in crises: Quantifying the health and wellbeing benefits of green spaces using exogenous variations in use values
Most people consider parks important for their quality of life, yet systematic causal evidence is missing. We exploit exogenous variations in their use values to estimate causal effects. Using a representative household panel with precise geographical coordinates of households linked to satellite images of green spaces with a nationwide coverage, we employ a spatial difference-in-differences design, comparing within-individual changes between residents living close to a green space and those living further away. We exploit Covid-19 as exogenous shock. We find that green spaces raised overall life satisfaction while reducing symptoms of anxiety (feelings of nervousness and worry) and depression. There is also suggestive evidence for reduced loneliness. Given the number of people in their surroundings, a compensating-surplus calculation suggests that parks added substantial benefits during the period studied.
cep.lse.ac.uk
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Reposted by: Liam Delaney

timharford.ft.com
Still trying with GPTo3. I asked it to help me confirm and find a half-remembered anecdote from philosopher Jonathan Glover probably his brilliant book "Humanity".
GPT found it, gave me page refs in 2 editions, and listed other sources. Impressive! Only problem: the story is not in the book.
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Reposted by: Liam Delaney

lseeuroppblog.bsky.social
💥 New: What is the value of a park?

Research from Christian Krekel @lsepbs.bsky.social @cep-lse.bsky.social finds that green spaces in urban areas produce wellbeing benefits that equate to around €119 per resident. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
What is the value of a park? - EUROPP
Wellbeing data suggests the monetary value of a park to residents of urban areas can be put at around €119 per resident, in any given year.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
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Reposted by: Liam Delaney, Eoin Daly

pietersender.bsky.social
I’m no expert but I would’ve got a person to do it.
A BBC news headline which says “Penguin says it did “all necessary due diligence” with The Salt Path
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by Liam Delaney

liamdelaney2025.bsky.social
Clontarf half-marathon yesterday. Lot of lovely coastal runs in Ireland. Of the signs being held up "Therapy was another option" a bit close to the bone near the end but definitely made me laugh.
Map of the clontarf half marathon route
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by Liam Delaney

liamdelaney2025.bsky.social
Spoke with the founding editor of journal of economic psychology Fred van Raaij after my talk at IAREP on history of interactions of economic psychology and behavioural economics. He gave some memories of people like Katona & Simon. Stunning how fast the time flies in academic fields.
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by Liam Delaney

liamdelaney2025.bsky.social
Think the best way to start a talk there is with the Imperial March blaring out of speakers and opening with..."People of Britain....". Admittedly following with "for too long our models of utility have been overly constrained by inflexible ideas on human temporal attitudes.." would be a bit tame
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by Liam Delaney

liamdelaney2025.bsky.social
Speaking today at London Behavioural and Experimental Economics workshop organised by Arnaud Chevalier & Abu Siddique beside my favorite imposing dystopian London tower sites.google.com/view/lbeewor... Speaking on "Valuing the past: behavioural & philosophical perspectives".
Picture of Senate House
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by Liam Delaney

liamdelaney2025.bsky.social
Images from a recent talk. Thanks to my pal offline for pointing out that I look like I am delivering a passionate monologue about racing pigeons.
Three images of the author giving a talk while making hand gestures that look like he is describing pigeons Three images of the author giving a talk while making hand gestures that look like he is describing pigeons Three images of the author giving a talk while making hand gestures that look like he is describing pigeons
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by Liam Delaney

liamdelaney2025.bsky.social
Website of an initiative we have been working on for the last few years on building ethical behavioural science frameworks within corporate contexts. Has been a fascinating year developing the cohorts and materials.

www.forgoodframework.com
LSE FORGOOD | Home
The LSE FORGOOD initiative brings the leading ethical behavioural intervention framework to business.
www.forgoodframework.com
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