Stian Reimers
@steer-rhinos.bsky.social
Behavioural scientist and/or professor of psychology, interested in decision making in its many forms. Currently also director of digital innovation at City St George's School of Health and Medical Sciences.
We're well into "Unsubscribing from any mailing list that sends messages containing the phrase 'No tricks, just treats' or 'Spooktacular'" season. Already Yorkshire Trading and Coursera have, sadly, succumbed.
October 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
We're well into "Unsubscribing from any mailing list that sends messages containing the phrase 'No tricks, just treats' or 'Spooktacular'" season. Already Yorkshire Trading and Coursera have, sadly, succumbed.
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🌟We are looking for children turning 4 years old to participate in our study 🚲🎉 If your child was born in England just after lockdowns ended (between July 19th and October 19th 2021) you could take part and get a free Amazon Fire Tablet! 🖱️Sign up here: cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
July 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🌟We are looking for children turning 4 years old to participate in our study 🚲🎉 If your child was born in England just after lockdowns ended (between July 19th and October 19th 2021) you could take part and get a free Amazon Fire Tablet! 🖱️Sign up here: cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Today at #NDAS2025: using #AI for systematic literature review quality assessments with Dr Nick Behn, and checking methodology and designing animated online tasks for kids with Professor @steer-rhinos.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Today at #NDAS2025: using #AI for systematic literature review quality assessments with Dr Nick Behn, and checking methodology and designing animated online tasks for kids with Professor @steer-rhinos.bsky.social
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Hello, #Econsky! The Department of Economics at City St George’s is now on Bluesky. Follow us for updates on our research, events, and life around the department.
May 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Hello, #Econsky! The Department of Economics at City St George’s is now on Bluesky. Follow us for updates on our research, events, and life around the department.
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Honest people don’t lie. Or do they? Liars aren’t honest. Or are they?
One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers.
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One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers.
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April 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Honest people don’t lie. Or do they? Liars aren’t honest. Or are they?
One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers.
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One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers.
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Looking forward to speaking at this event - I’ll be talking about how the presentation format of graphical trends influences what people predict will happen next. But whether or not that’s your thing there’s a great selection of interesting talks from both academics and practitioners.
Join us on May 1 at the City University (City St George’s, University of London) for a Behavioral Insights for Policy workshop—bringing together top academics & practitioners working on behaviorally informed themes such as consumer choice, online safety, market regulation, computational models & AI.
Bridging Theory and Practice: Behavioural Insights for Policy Workshop | City St George's, University of London
This workshop will bring together academics and practitioners working on behavioural, policy-relevant issues.
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk
April 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Looking forward to speaking at this event - I’ll be talking about how the presentation format of graphical trends influences what people predict will happen next. But whether or not that’s your thing there’s a great selection of interesting talks from both academics and practitioners.
Very much looking forward to this - open to anyone from any walk of life which involves giving informal money guidance to others. Do come along if it's something that might be useful for you.
LONDON Tues 29 April. Free Money Guiders event: The Psychology of Money with @steer-rhinos.bsky.social of
@citystgeorges.bsky.social A fascinating session on financial decision making and how we use learning for good money guidance. Registration essential psychologyofmoneylondon.eventbrite.co.uk
@citystgeorges.bsky.social A fascinating session on financial decision making and how we use learning for good money guidance. Registration essential psychologyofmoneylondon.eventbrite.co.uk
The Psychology of Money - Live in London
In person in London, draws on science and research about how people think and act with money to know our, and clients, relationships better
psychologyofmoneylondon.eventbrite.co.uk
March 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Very much looking forward to this - open to anyone from any walk of life which involves giving informal money guidance to others. Do come along if it's something that might be useful for you.
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❗️Norway more than doubled the aid planned for #Ukraine in 2025
Thank you, Norway! 🇳🇴🇺🇦
Norway will spend 85 billion Norwegian kroner (over €7.2bn) on supporting Ukraine this year, up from 35 billion (€3bn).
Jonas Gahr Støre said: "We are increasing support because there is a need for it”
Thank you, Norway! 🇳🇴🇺🇦
Norway will spend 85 billion Norwegian kroner (over €7.2bn) on supporting Ukraine this year, up from 35 billion (€3bn).
Jonas Gahr Støre said: "We are increasing support because there is a need for it”
March 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
❗️Norway more than doubled the aid planned for #Ukraine in 2025
Thank you, Norway! 🇳🇴🇺🇦
Norway will spend 85 billion Norwegian kroner (over €7.2bn) on supporting Ukraine this year, up from 35 billion (€3bn).
Jonas Gahr Støre said: "We are increasing support because there is a need for it”
Thank you, Norway! 🇳🇴🇺🇦
Norway will spend 85 billion Norwegian kroner (over €7.2bn) on supporting Ukraine this year, up from 35 billion (€3bn).
Jonas Gahr Støre said: "We are increasing support because there is a need for it”
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⭐ We are still looking for 4-year old children born during lockdown to take part in the BICYCLE study 🧸🎉 We are especially interested in hearing from families living in the East Midlands 📍 please share with those who might be interested! cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
January 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
⭐ We are still looking for 4-year old children born during lockdown to take part in the BICYCLE study 🧸🎉 We are especially interested in hearing from families living in the East Midlands 📍 please share with those who might be interested! cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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The comments under this week's newsletter, particularly from people who changed their career in their 40s, are extremely lovely. In short: it's not too late. You can still do it iandunt.substack.com/p/happy-new-...
Happy New Year: Now sort your fucking life out
It'll keep on pissing itself away until you set goals.
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January 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The comments under this week's newsletter, particularly from people who changed their career in their 40s, are extremely lovely. In short: it's not too late. You can still do it iandunt.substack.com/p/happy-new-...
A festive project here, bringing together animation, MIDI input, USB relays to contol low-voltage devices, and smart device management, all run from a browser with JavaScript. The owl tells the students what Chrismas melody to play and when they get it right, the piano gets more festive...
December 23, 2024 at 2:20 PM
A festive project here, bringing together animation, MIDI input, USB relays to contol low-voltage devices, and smart device management, all run from a browser with JavaScript. The owl tells the students what Chrismas melody to play and when they get it right, the piano gets more festive...
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive,” by Kaur, Mullainathan (@sendhil.bsky.social), Oh, and Schilbach (@fschilbach.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive?*
Abstract. Workers who are worried about their personal finances may find it hard to focus at work. If so, reducing financial concerns could by itself incre
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December 13, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive,” by Kaur, Mullainathan (@sendhil.bsky.social), Oh, and Schilbach (@fschilbach.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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American Psychiatric Association Adds ‘Obsessive Categorization Of Mental Conditions’ To ‘DSM-5’
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October 30, 2024 at 8:25 PM
American Psychiatric Association Adds ‘Obsessive Categorization Of Mental Conditions’ To ‘DSM-5’
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Making most of my first video post to show this magnificence from tonight's Taunton carnival. Something I grew up with, but I still get that sense of awe as one of these comes around the corner.
October 19, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Making most of my first video post to show this magnificence from tonight's Taunton carnival. Something I grew up with, but I still get that sense of awe as one of these comes around the corner.
Waking up this morning approaching Penzance on the Night Riviera sleeper. Really is a wonderful way to travel, albeit one entirely unsuited to sleeping.
October 19, 2024 at 6:36 AM
Waking up this morning approaching Penzance on the Night Riviera sleeper. Really is a wonderful way to travel, albeit one entirely unsuited to sleeping.
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October 14, 2024 at 11:37 PM
In AI roleplay news, I've built a web app for law students to prepare for consultations with clients in our law clinic. Exciting developments: (a) a point-and-click interface for selecting cases; (b) using openAI's whisper API so users can speak/listen rather than type. Built with GPT-o1 support.
September 29, 2024 at 8:27 PM
In AI roleplay news, I've built a web app for law students to prepare for consultations with clients in our law clinic. Exciting developments: (a) a point-and-click interface for selecting cases; (b) using openAI's whisper API so users can speak/listen rather than type. Built with GPT-o1 support.
Today has been induction week escape room day: Students learn about the university to crack combination boxes, decode phone numbers, and scan barcodes to open the treasure chest. All modelling collaborative autonomous learning. Six hours and 200 - all successful - students later, ready for a pint.
September 26, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Today has been induction week escape room day: Students learn about the university to crack combination boxes, decode phone numbers, and scan barcodes to open the treasure chest. All modelling collaborative autonomous learning. Six hours and 200 - all successful - students later, ready for a pint.
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A starter pack of schools or departments of psychology from around the world.
Please share, encourage your school/dept social-media person to join up, and feel free to suggest additions...
😃
go.bsky.app/FmgYgVj
September 17, 2024 at 6:30 PM
A starter pack of schools or departments of psychology from around the world.
Please share, encourage your school/dept social-media person to join up, and feel free to suggest additions...
😃
go.bsky.app/FmgYgVj
Excitement: I now have a large language model comparable to ChatGPT running on my own PC. As in, without an internet connection. It's a capable model, which opens up use cases in universities where you wouldn't want to pass sensitive data outside the organisation.
September 16, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Excitement: I now have a large language model comparable to ChatGPT running on my own PC. As in, without an internet connection. It's a capable model, which opens up use cases in universities where you wouldn't want to pass sensitive data outside the organisation.
Nice to wake up and see a piece about our BICYCLE project in the most read articles on the BBC website. We're looking at development effects of lockdown on children's cognitive and linguistic development. Also there's actually a photo of one of the tasks I developed! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
September 1, 2024 at 7:41 AM
Nice to wake up and see a piece about our BICYCLE project in the most read articles on the BBC website. We're looking at development effects of lockdown on children's cognitive and linguistic development. Also there's actually a photo of one of the tasks I developed! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Looking for a full-time research assistant to start in July.
I study decision-making, using lab and field experiments, secondary data, text analysis, etc...:
home.uchicago.edu/~ourminsky/
Main qualifications: Love of research + strong research methods and data analysis skills.
I study decision-making, using lab and field experiments, secondary data, text analysis, etc...:
home.uchicago.edu/~ourminsky/
Main qualifications: Love of research + strong research methods and data analysis skills.
https://chicagobooth.edu/-/media/faculty/research-professional-program/job-ads/2023-24/behavioral-rp-ad.pdf…
January 17, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Looking for a full-time research assistant to start in July.
I study decision-making, using lab and field experiments, secondary data, text analysis, etc...:
home.uchicago.edu/~ourminsky/
Main qualifications: Love of research + strong research methods and data analysis skills.
I study decision-making, using lab and field experiments, secondary data, text analysis, etc...:
home.uchicago.edu/~ourminsky/
Main qualifications: Love of research + strong research methods and data analysis skills.
I do write about things other than ChatGPT. But not today. Because today I built an online experiment in JavaScript without writing any code, just describing it to ChatGPT. I'll explain what I did.🧵
Chat here:
chat.openai.com/share/0d8a61...
Study here:
reimers.co.uk/bicycle/splat/ (NB: audio)
Chat here:
chat.openai.com/share/0d8a61...
Study here:
reimers.co.uk/bicycle/splat/ (NB: audio)
November 10, 2023 at 2:22 PM
I do write about things other than ChatGPT. But not today. Because today I built an online experiment in JavaScript without writing any code, just describing it to ChatGPT. I'll explain what I did.🧵
Chat here:
chat.openai.com/share/0d8a61...
Study here:
reimers.co.uk/bicycle/splat/ (NB: audio)
Chat here:
chat.openai.com/share/0d8a61...
Study here:
reimers.co.uk/bicycle/splat/ (NB: audio)
I'm involved in a really interesting project looking at possible effects of being born in lockdown on language and cognitive development. We're advertising for two posts - RA and postdoc - details at the end of these links:
www.city.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...
www.city.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...
www.city.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...
www.city.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...
November 7, 2023 at 11:23 AM
I'm involved in a really interesting project looking at possible effects of being born in lockdown on language and cognitive development. We're advertising for two posts - RA and postdoc - details at the end of these links:
www.city.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...
www.city.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...
www.city.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...
www.city.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...
The most impressed I've been with GPT-4 is building browser-based cognitive tasks. I just prompted "...use HTML, css, and JavaScript to implement a Corsi visuo-spatial short-term memory task.", and it's produced a working version (after 1 x feedback). At no point did I explain what a Corsi task was.
November 1, 2023 at 4:00 PM
The most impressed I've been with GPT-4 is building browser-based cognitive tasks. I just prompted "...use HTML, css, and JavaScript to implement a Corsi visuo-spatial short-term memory task.", and it's produced a working version (after 1 x feedback). At no point did I explain what a Corsi task was.