Neri Marsili
@narsimarsi.bsky.social
Philosopher at UNED. I write on the dark side of communication: lies, bullshit, fictions, fake news, disinformation, twitter.
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Neri Marsili
@narsimarsi.bsky.social
· May 27
🔬 NEW PAPER with Michel Croce: "Misplaced trust in expertise: pseudo-experts and unreliable experts"
Preprint here: philpapers.org/rec/CROMTI-2
Preprint here: philpapers.org/rec/CROMTI-2
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Talking about variation in philosophical intuitions in philosophy bites
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November 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Talking about variation in philosophical intuitions in philosophy bites
Togo lizards prefer “pizza Quattro Formaggi”.
Feeling inspired by this ig Nobel prize winning study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Feeling inspired by this ig Nobel prize winning study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Opportunistic foraging strategy of rainbow lizards at a seaside resort in Togo
Rainbow lizards (Agama agama) are common in suburban areas throughout Africa, and have an opportunistic foraging strategy, with arthropods being the main prey source. In a coastal resort in southern ....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Togo lizards prefer “pizza Quattro Formaggi”.
Feeling inspired by this ig Nobel prize winning study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Feeling inspired by this ig Nobel prize winning study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
‼️Next month: Great workshop in Beijing on AI and online communication 👇👇
October 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
‼️Next month: Great workshop in Beijing on AI and online communication 👇👇
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For those who might be interested: I have a new paper forthcoming in Erkenntnis. It's about whether linguistic data on hedging support the popular knowledge norm of assertion (spoiler: it's not so clear that they do).
philpapers.org/rec/MOREHA-6
philpapers.org/rec/MOREHA-6
Dario Mortini, Evidentially Hedged Assertions and the Knowledge Norm of Assertion - PhilPapers
Speakers make evidentially hedged assertions when they weaken commitment to what they assert in virtue of disclosing imperfectly reliable sources of evidence in their assertions. A novel and increasin...
philpapers.org
September 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
For those who might be interested: I have a new paper forthcoming in Erkenntnis. It's about whether linguistic data on hedging support the popular knowledge norm of assertion (spoiler: it's not so clear that they do).
philpapers.org/rec/MOREHA-6
philpapers.org/rec/MOREHA-6
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At the 11th SEFA in Sevilla, Neri Marsili (@narsimarsi.bsky.social) speaks on:
“Posting and Reposting: Investigating Reputation, Trust, and Deniability in Online Communication”
“Posting and Reposting: Investigating Reputation, Trust, and Deniability in Online Communication”
October 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
At the 11th SEFA in Sevilla, Neri Marsili (@narsimarsi.bsky.social) speaks on:
“Posting and Reposting: Investigating Reputation, Trust, and Deniability in Online Communication”
“Posting and Reposting: Investigating Reputation, Trust, and Deniability in Online Communication”
Reposted by Neri Marsili
This frog kills fascists
October 6, 2025 at 7:26 AM
This frog kills fascists
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👋 Os pedimos un favor: si podéis dedicar 2 minutos a esta brevísima encuesta sobre tortillas 🥚, ayudaréis a nuestro colega @narsimarsi.bsky.social a empujar un poquito más las fronteras del conocimiento humano 🚀:
universityofgraz.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
universityofgraz.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
September 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
👋 Os pedimos un favor: si podéis dedicar 2 minutos a esta brevísima encuesta sobre tortillas 🥚, ayudaréis a nuestro colega @narsimarsi.bsky.social a empujar un poquito más las fronteras del conocimiento humano 🚀:
universityofgraz.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
universityofgraz.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Just published in *Mind*:
September 14, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Just published in *Mind*:
Book resubmitted
Manuscript: 72 pages
Referee report + replies: 38 pages
🥵
Manuscript: 72 pages
Referee report + replies: 38 pages
🥵
August 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Book resubmitted
Manuscript: 72 pages
Referee report + replies: 38 pages
🥵
Manuscript: 72 pages
Referee report + replies: 38 pages
🥵
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El debate que divide a España:
🥔 Tortilla: ¿Con cebolla o sin cebolla? 🧅
Desde la UNED queremos resolverlo con DATOS.
📊 Solo 2 min. Pásasela a tus padres, tu cuñado, tu vecina.
tinyurl.com/mt6e6mbh
🥔 Tortilla: ¿Con cebolla o sin cebolla? 🧅
Desde la UNED queremos resolverlo con DATOS.
📊 Solo 2 min. Pásasela a tus padres, tu cuñado, tu vecina.
tinyurl.com/mt6e6mbh
Qualtrics Survey | Tortilla de Patatas. Un debate histórico
Estudio sobre gastronomía española que busca responder a uno de los debates culinarios más importantes de nuestra gastronomía: la tortilla de patatas ¿con cebolla o sin cebolla? ¿muy hecha o poco hech...
tinyurl.com
August 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
El debate que divide a España:
🥔 Tortilla: ¿Con cebolla o sin cebolla? 🧅
Desde la UNED queremos resolverlo con DATOS.
📊 Solo 2 min. Pásasela a tus padres, tu cuñado, tu vecina.
tinyurl.com/mt6e6mbh
🥔 Tortilla: ¿Con cebolla o sin cebolla? 🧅
Desde la UNED queremos resolverlo con DATOS.
📊 Solo 2 min. Pásasela a tus padres, tu cuñado, tu vecina.
tinyurl.com/mt6e6mbh
El debate que divide a España:
🥔 Tortilla: ¿Con cebolla o sin cebolla? 🧅
Desde la UNED queremos resolverlo con DATOS.
📊 Solo 2 min. Pásasela a tus padres, tu cuñado, tu vecina.
tinyurl.com/mt6e6mbh
🥔 Tortilla: ¿Con cebolla o sin cebolla? 🧅
Desde la UNED queremos resolverlo con DATOS.
📊 Solo 2 min. Pásasela a tus padres, tu cuñado, tu vecina.
tinyurl.com/mt6e6mbh
Qualtrics Survey | Tortilla de Patatas. Un debate histórico
Estudio sobre gastronomía española que busca responder a uno de los debates culinarios más importantes de nuestra gastronomía: la tortilla de patatas ¿con cebolla o sin cebolla? ¿muy hecha o poco hech...
tinyurl.com
August 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
El debate que divide a España:
🥔 Tortilla: ¿Con cebolla o sin cebolla? 🧅
Desde la UNED queremos resolverlo con DATOS.
📊 Solo 2 min. Pásasela a tus padres, tu cuñado, tu vecina.
tinyurl.com/mt6e6mbh
🥔 Tortilla: ¿Con cebolla o sin cebolla? 🧅
Desde la UNED queremos resolverlo con DATOS.
📊 Solo 2 min. Pásasela a tus padres, tu cuñado, tu vecina.
tinyurl.com/mt6e6mbh
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Community Notes were never going to replace fact checking. It could offer something else, something complementary.
So far it does not look like it is offering much. Saying that it is a new system still being tested is simply not good enough when you are Meta.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
So far it does not look like it is offering much. Saying that it is a new system still being tested is simply not good enough when you are Meta.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Column | Zuckerberg fired the fact-checkers. We tested their replacement.
Our tech columnist drafted 65 community notes, Meta’s new crowdsourced system to fight falsehoods. It failed to make a dent.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Community Notes were never going to replace fact checking. It could offer something else, something complementary.
So far it does not look like it is offering much. Saying that it is a new system still being tested is simply not good enough when you are Meta.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
So far it does not look like it is offering much. Saying that it is a new system still being tested is simply not good enough when you are Meta.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Like the widely reported study showing that 59% of social media users repost news without reading them – a percentage which must include all journalist reporting on this, since the study makes no such claim
digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/tribune/arti...
digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/tribune/arti...
July 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Like the widely reported study showing that 59% of social media users repost news without reading them – a percentage which must include all journalist reporting on this, since the study makes no such claim
digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/tribune/arti...
digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/tribune/arti...
Got some spare budget for software 💰. Any good advice on paid tools that you couldn't do your research without?
July 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Got some spare budget for software 💰. Any good advice on paid tools that you couldn't do your research without?
Is this real? 😱
He would have been a fifth grader if he hadn’t been left back
July 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Is this real? 😱
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"Misplaced Trust in Expertise: Pseudo-Experts and Unreliable Experts" by Michel Croce & Neri Marsili doi.org/10.1080/0269... The persistence of scientific misconceptions is often attributed to a decline in trust in experts. #socialepistemology #journal #article #trust #expertise #misinformation
Misplaced Trust in Expertise: Pseudo-Experts and Unreliable Experts
The persistence of scientific misconceptions is often attributed to a decline in trust in experts. Against this simplistic picture, we emphasise that misplaced trust in expertise plays a crucial ro...
doi.org
June 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"Misplaced Trust in Expertise: Pseudo-Experts and Unreliable Experts" by Michel Croce & Neri Marsili doi.org/10.1080/0269... The persistence of scientific misconceptions is often attributed to a decline in trust in experts. #socialepistemology #journal #article #trust #expertise #misinformation
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Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
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🎉Exciting times ahead for @elmanubohn.bsky.social, Michael Franke, and me! We will soon be advertising 2 PhD positions (linguistics/biology/psychology) for our SFB subproject "Modeling Great Ape Signaling Behaviour" 🧮 🐵 Stay tuned!
Die @dfg.de hat den linguistischen SFB Common Ground: Kognition – Grammatik – Kommunikation an der @unituebingen.bsky.social bewilligt! 🎉🥂Großer Erfolg der Kolleg:innen!! Herzliche Glückwünsche!! Hier geht es zur PM 👉👉👉 www.dfg.de/de/service/p...
DFG fördert 13 neue Sonderforschungsbereiche
www.dfg.de
June 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
🎉Exciting times ahead for @elmanubohn.bsky.social, Michael Franke, and me! We will soon be advertising 2 PhD positions (linguistics/biology/psychology) for our SFB subproject "Modeling Great Ape Signaling Behaviour" 🧮 🐵 Stay tuned!
Why you definitely SHOULD NOT share this JD Vance meme
YouTube video by MSNBC
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June 29, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Allegory of Sunset Air (Allegory of the Everning)
June 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Allegory of Sunset Air (Allegory of the Everning)