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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦

@dilipsoman.bsky.social
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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"

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
aiddata.org
Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Lettuce speculate on the reasons @justinwolfers.bsky.social !
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 11/08/2023
As we approach students-don't-read-the-syllabus season, a quick reminder that professors don't read emails or follow instructions either 🧐
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
New mean/ mode illustration just dropped. Between Rogan and Trump the mean necktie length is correct, but the modal necktie length is tied at “stupidly incorrect.”
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Germany racking up a tennis score
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I have a similar take as it relates to referring to research results/information/expert opinion/advice etc as "insight"
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
AI-assistants on every webpage are beginning to sound like the Wal-Mart and other "may I help you find something" in-store agents of yesteryear!
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Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Imagine If every room were labeled by what it is not
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
A good idea for smaller grants but for the bigger ones, the grind of having to put together a detailed proposal is actually very helpful in sharpening the project and getting various stakeholders on board. HT @rafmbatista.bsky.social
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
They said "doesn't matter" while simultaneously waving me in. @leftbobgolfer.bsky.social
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Leftbobgolfer🇨🇦 @leftbobgolfer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I went to the library to get a book on Pavlov's dog and Schrodinger's cat. The librarian said that she thought it rang a bell but wasn't sure if it was there or not!
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Nudge!
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
All this while I've been thinking it's a mischievous rabbit!
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Lisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · 05/02/2026
A workshop on making events more equitable and inclusive. In-person only.
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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 27/01/2026
AI deepfakes affect people even if they know the videos are fake: nice media coverage here of phys.org/news/2026-0... one of our recent studies. 1/2 1/2
phys.org
People are swayed by AI-generated videos even when they know they're fake, study shows
Generative deep learning models are artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can create texts, images, audio files, and videos for specific purposes, following instructions provided by human users. Over ...
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
After jailing Imran Khan two years ago, Pakistan’s military establishment has tried to erase him from public life. @osmansamiuddin.bsky.social travelled to Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore to report on this bizarre effort to disappear the country’s most famous man. www.equator.org/articles/the...
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The Hidden Imran • EQUATOR
The cricketing legend is Pakistan’s most famous man. Can the state make him vanish?
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I miss the days when we criticized Presidents for relative peccadillos like starting wars without evidence!
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Last minute strategic pivot :-)
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Trump's Davos speech is an embarrassing ramble. America, humiliated.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Neat trial building on earlier work by @jiayingzhao.bsky.social and colleagues! @nealemahoney.bsky.social @katymilkman.bsky.social @erikbryn.bsky.social @casssunstein.bsky.social
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Saying that "on average, nudges [or insert any other intervention here] aren't very effective" is a bit like saying that "on average, vehicles are not very fast".
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Brilliant little online tool: Spin the globe and see what your life would have been like had you gotten a different draw in the place-of-birth lottery h/t @leightjessica.bsky.social on LinkedIn
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Birth Lottery
If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
If you randomly select an option for this question, the probability that your answer is true will be A. 0% B. 25% C. 50% D. 25%
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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Grumpy opinion: Too many young development economists are working on behavioral econ questions that are unimportant for development. The topics are amenable to small experiments that can nail mechanisms and demonstrate smarts via a clever design. The profession over-rewards those attributes.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
It's time for Guns N Roses to update that November weather song #Toronto.
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Brilliant! abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
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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.
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I concur that the newest sludge in expense reimbursement is..... @joshgans.bsky.social @lisakramer.com
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Behavioral Scientist @behscientist.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"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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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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...
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President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Then and now!
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
#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
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Very nice work @giladfeldman.bsky.social, congratulations to your student as well!
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
By definition, people who claim to have a growth mindset cannot simultaneously also claim to be "introvert" or "extrovert" yes?
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 20/09/2025
That’s not how a Venn diagram works?
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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Nick Byrd, Ph.D. @byrdnick.com · 10/09/2025
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
"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."
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Liam Delaney @liamdelaney2025.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
@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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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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
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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...
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
That's me in the corner!
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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
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