Elspeth Kirkman
@karminker.bsky.social
Exhausted mother. Shark enthusiast. Works at Nesta. Gabs on TikTok. Fellow at @uniofexeter.bsky.social and @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Formerly at the Behavioural Insights Team.
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How can an artist's perspective help us to make better decisions?🎨🔮
Decisionscape: How Thinking Like an Artist Can Improve Our Decision-Making by @karminker.bsky.social @nestauk.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social reviewed by Robyn Gausman-Burnett.
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Decisionscape: How Thinking Like an Artist Can Improve Our Decision-Making by @karminker.bsky.social @nestauk.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social reviewed by Robyn Gausman-Burnett.
Read more 👉 ow.ly/t54S50Vgk5a
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March 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
How can an artist's perspective help us to make better decisions?🎨🔮
Decisionscape: How Thinking Like an Artist Can Improve Our Decision-Making by @karminker.bsky.social @nestauk.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social reviewed by Robyn Gausman-Burnett.
Read more 👉 ow.ly/t54S50Vgk5a
Image: agsandrew
Decisionscape: How Thinking Like an Artist Can Improve Our Decision-Making by @karminker.bsky.social @nestauk.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social reviewed by Robyn Gausman-Burnett.
Read more 👉 ow.ly/t54S50Vgk5a
Image: agsandrew
I enjoyed @raviguru.bsky.social’s blog on lotteries as a policy tool this week ravigurumurthy.substack.com/p/should-pol...
February 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I enjoyed @raviguru.bsky.social’s blog on lotteries as a policy tool this week ravigurumurthy.substack.com/p/should-pol...
My thoughts on a major reason why the DOGE mindset is bad. If you thoughtlessly f*ck about at this intersection then you will find out.
February 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
My thoughts on a major reason why the DOGE mindset is bad. If you thoughtlessly f*ck about at this intersection then you will find out.
Is anyone maintaining some kind of simplified account of what’s happening in the US? I can’t tell what matters and what’s noise (which I assume is deliberate) and want a scant “in ten years we will see that this stuff mattered” timeline or something (obv it’ll be speculative).
February 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Is anyone maintaining some kind of simplified account of what’s happening in the US? I can’t tell what matters and what’s noise (which I assume is deliberate) and want a scant “in ten years we will see that this stuff mattered” timeline or something (obv it’ll be speculative).
Facebook is truly broken at this point. This is about 60% of my feed now - “look at this things that’s obviously AI. I know no one will praise me for making it”. Is it just a scam victim recruitment pipeline now?
January 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Facebook is truly broken at this point. This is about 60% of my feed now - “look at this things that’s obviously AI. I know no one will praise me for making it”. Is it just a scam victim recruitment pipeline now?
Well that’s the stupidest experiment I’ve run in a while. Thanks for playing.
January 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Well that’s the stupidest experiment I’ve run in a while. Thanks for playing.
Please do my stupid little one question survey! It’ll take ten seconds nimble.li/vdrben69
One question quiz
nimble.li
January 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Please do my stupid little one question survey! It’ll take ten seconds nimble.li/vdrben69
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Take a break from your regularly scheduled doomscrolling and marvel at this clip. A jawdropping feat of editing by Questlove - incredible!
Ladies & Gentlemen...50 Years of SNL Music | Official Preview | Peacock Original - SNL Fanatic
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January 27, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Take a break from your regularly scheduled doomscrolling and marvel at this clip. A jawdropping feat of editing by Questlove - incredible!
I asked ChatGPT to generate 5000 random numbers between 1 and 10 and then simulate 5000 humans choosing numbers between 1 and 10… yeah, it knows us
January 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I asked ChatGPT to generate 5000 random numbers between 1 and 10 and then simulate 5000 humans choosing numbers between 1 and 10… yeah, it knows us
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I swear to God, if I see one more person excuse Musk's absolute and undeniable support of fascism, obviously not meaning @stevepeers.bsky.social, because "he is autistic" I will lose it. Amazingly I've managed to make it 43 years on this planet as an autistic individual without supporting the Nazis.
Are Musk fans/apologists going to tell us that he's just giving his heart to the crowd, or that autism made him say it? Or maybe he's talking about the past guilt of Romans?? /s
Musk telling a German far right policy that there’s ‘too much focus’ on past guilty in Germany, less than a week after making a straight arm salute at Trump’s inauguration.
What’s the old maxim about if something walks like a duck and quacks like a duck?
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
What’s the old maxim about if something walks like a duck and quacks like a duck?
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
January 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I swear to God, if I see one more person excuse Musk's absolute and undeniable support of fascism, obviously not meaning @stevepeers.bsky.social, because "he is autistic" I will lose it. Amazingly I've managed to make it 43 years on this planet as an autistic individual without supporting the Nazis.
These stats from the “List of Municipalities in Florida” Wikipedia page feel… totally wrong? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
January 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
These stats from the “List of Municipalities in Florida” Wikipedia page feel… totally wrong? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
I don’t have anything profound to say but I need to say something because that was a Nazi salute and silence isn’t an option
January 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I don’t have anything profound to say but I need to say something because that was a Nazi salute and silence isn’t an option
Just realised this is basically the argument against TikTok
January 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Just realised this is basically the argument against TikTok
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The sun is in my eyes... I could just buy and install blinds, or I can use my design thinking and UX tools to solve the problem creatively
January 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The sun is in my eyes... I could just buy and install blinds, or I can use my design thinking and UX tools to solve the problem creatively
Such a delight to talk to Spencer Greenberg on the Clearer Thinking podcast - a really fun format and a wide ranging conversation podcast.clearerthinking.org?ep=244
Home | Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg — the podcast about ideas that matter
Home | Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg — the podcast about ideas that matter
podcast.clearerthinking.org
January 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Such a delight to talk to Spencer Greenberg on the Clearer Thinking podcast - a really fun format and a wide ranging conversation podcast.clearerthinking.org?ep=244
Wut?
Seeing Chip Carter's beautiful eulogy is reminding me of a fancy-people thing that I never learned until well into adulthood.
Chip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad.
Skip is a nickname for a guy named after his grandfather.
Trip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad AND grandfather.
Chip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad.
Skip is a nickname for a guy named after his grandfather.
Trip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad AND grandfather.
January 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Wut?
Whoever named the local coastal features was on something
January 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Whoever named the local coastal features was on something
My kid has got the measure of the political capital system at play in primary school because yesterday she sighed dramatically and said “I just wish I was allergic to something”
January 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
My kid has got the measure of the political capital system at play in primary school because yesterday she sighed dramatically and said “I just wish I was allergic to something”
Merry Christmas, especially to the lady listening to a sermon on top volume on her phone after hissing at my giggling kids to be quiet on the train 🤡 #sufferthelittlechildren 🙄
December 27, 2024 at 11:45 AM
Merry Christmas, especially to the lady listening to a sermon on top volume on her phone after hissing at my giggling kids to be quiet on the train 🤡 #sufferthelittlechildren 🙄
Never mind the word search, spot the typo 👀 #knowyouranemone
December 21, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Never mind the word search, spot the typo 👀 #knowyouranemone
Dancing to Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree with the five year old. Suddenly she stops and says,
“Mummy, what comes after death?”
Me: 👀
Her: 👀
Me: 😬
Her: “it goes, voices singing let’s be jolly, DEATH… then what?”
Me: 😑
“Mummy, what comes after death?”
Me: 👀
Her: 👀
Me: 😬
Her: “it goes, voices singing let’s be jolly, DEATH… then what?”
Me: 😑
December 19, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Dancing to Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree with the five year old. Suddenly she stops and says,
“Mummy, what comes after death?”
Me: 👀
Her: 👀
Me: 😬
Her: “it goes, voices singing let’s be jolly, DEATH… then what?”
Me: 😑
“Mummy, what comes after death?”
Me: 👀
Her: 👀
Me: 😬
Her: “it goes, voices singing let’s be jolly, DEATH… then what?”
Me: 😑
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📄In @naturehumbehav.bsky.social, "The Formality Effect" explores how formal communications from the government can lead to increased resident action. By @elizabethlinos.bsky.social, Jessica Lasky-Fink,
@chriselarkin.bsky.social, Lindsay Moore & @karminker.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@chriselarkin.bsky.social, Lindsay Moore & @karminker.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The formality effect - Nature Human Behaviour
Effective government partly depends on effective communications to citizens. Over six studies in three different policy contexts, Linos et al. identify a counter-intuitive formality effect: citizens a...
www.nature.com
December 19, 2024 at 9:33 PM
📄In @naturehumbehav.bsky.social, "The Formality Effect" explores how formal communications from the government can lead to increased resident action. By @elizabethlinos.bsky.social, Jessica Lasky-Fink,
@chriselarkin.bsky.social, Lindsay Moore & @karminker.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@chriselarkin.bsky.social, Lindsay Moore & @karminker.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Slow take (it’s been at least thirty years) is the kid in the trio advert called Suzi (Trio, I assume) because of Suzi Quatro?
December 19, 2024 at 8:49 AM
Slow take (it’s been at least thirty years) is the kid in the trio advert called Suzi (Trio, I assume) because of Suzi Quatro?
When a picture says 1000 words. (Taken in a toilet cubicle at a local church)
December 18, 2024 at 8:41 PM
When a picture says 1000 words. (Taken in a toilet cubicle at a local church)