Dilip Soman 🇨🇦
@dilipsoman.bsky.social
Testing the waters, floating the trial balloons. Professing and researching. Author / editor of a few books, but claims to have no time to write book called "Its About Time"
Brilliant! abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Password to Louvre’s video surveillance system was 'Louvre', according to employee
According to an employee with knowledge of the system, the password to the Louvre's video surveillance system was simply "Louvre" at the time of the robbery last month.
abcnews.go.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Brilliant! abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
I concur that the newest sludge in expense reimbursement is..... @joshgans.bsky.social @lisakramer.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I concur that the newest sludge in expense reimbursement is..... @joshgans.bsky.social @lisakramer.com
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"What if behavioral scientists could identify the relief of the behavioral landscape by working like cartographers?" @dilipsoman.bsky.social asks in his latest piece for Behavioral Scientist. Read it here: behavioralscientist.org/the-behavior...
October 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"What if behavioral scientists could identify the relief of the behavioral landscape by working like cartographers?" @dilipsoman.bsky.social asks in his latest piece for Behavioral Scientist. Read it here: behavioralscientist.org/the-behavior...
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Here is the full Reagan speech from the Reagan Presidential LIbrary that have the Americans so upset last night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t5Q...
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Here is the full Reagan speech from the Reagan Presidential LIbrary that have the Americans so upset last night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t5Q...
+1
“There’s almost no limit to what you can get people to do if you let them think it is their idea”
Jim Downey - former SNL writer
Jim Downey - former SNL writer
October 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
+1
#JDM Vaguely remember paper showing that corporate transgressions should be punished with similar actions; e.g. better to punish a company that cuts a forest by getting them to plant trees rather than pay fine. Pointers to paper? @dggoldst.bsky.social @danielread.bsky.social @cfcamerer.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
#JDM Vaguely remember paper showing that corporate transgressions should be punished with similar actions; e.g. better to punish a company that cuts a forest by getting them to plant trees rather than pay fine. Pointers to paper? @dggoldst.bsky.social @danielread.bsky.social @cfcamerer.bsky.social
Very nice work @giladfeldman.bsky.social, congratulations to your student as well!
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.
Details 👇🧵
"Revisiting mental accounting classic paradigms: Replication Registered Report of the problems reviewed in Thaler (1999)"
Mengfei Li's remarkable UG RRR thesis.
Details 👇🧵
September 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Very nice work @giladfeldman.bsky.social, congratulations to your student as well!
By definition, people who claim to have a growth mindset cannot simultaneously also claim to be "introvert" or "extrovert" yes?
September 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
By definition, people who claim to have a growth mindset cannot simultaneously also claim to be "introvert" or "extrovert" yes?
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That’s not how a Venn diagram works?
September 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
That’s not how a Venn diagram works?
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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
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."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jf4udtyuylqocyyrqdwqoxuf/bafkreie5era2ppuuthpwhvj3geltxkcplxcklzxhli2iicrpjbxhvdlttu@jpeg)
September 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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@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!!
September 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
@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!!
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...
www.cnn.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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
That's me in the corner!
September 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
That's me in the corner!
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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
This weekend, I am traveling from Massachusetts to Rhode Island to get a COVID jab, bc brains are in short supply
September 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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
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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The abstract of this paper does provide an update of your priors if you believed there was some chance Bart knew before.
September 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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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Adapted this illustration illustrating electricity for behaviour change!
May 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Adapted this illustration illustrating electricity for behaviour change!
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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:
buff.ly/YnEsQXk
HT @dilipsoman.bsky.social
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:
buff.ly/YnEsQXk
HT @dilipsoman.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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:
buff.ly/YnEsQXk
HT @dilipsoman.bsky.social
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:
buff.ly/YnEsQXk
HT @dilipsoman.bsky.social
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.
www.pcmag.com
August 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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
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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.
August 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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.
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.
"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
August 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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.
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"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
August 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM
"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
August 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM