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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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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Who are the people in that fourth image and what are they saying?
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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.
thelancet.com
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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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Brilliant stuff!
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'm not sure this is nudging in the wild, sounds more like wild nudging.
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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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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
You much be in an RCT.
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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 · 14/06/2026
than China and the Indian subcontinent combined
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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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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Yes, there is the superpower of getting them just thinking about a workout!
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
There is also the aching muscles that say "good workout" that you previously used to get after a couple of hours of exercise that now shows up in 15 mins?
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
*applaud the genius
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
This is so true that I also have to upload the genius that they still have ridiculously fanatical fans! :-)
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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 · 03/05/2026
Congratulations Dr. Kang! Onwards and upwards.
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Maybe it's a hotel for the bourgeois?
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
One cannot argue against that, for sure :-) As a policy though, I wish granting agencies redistributed their funds so that there was maybe a 35+% success rate for larger grants.
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I guess that is an important variable. In Canada we usually have higher success rates, and a lot of the kind work in putting together proposal actually involves commitments from partners Etc
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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 · 24/02/2026
I also see that no region has been assigned the highest probability colour, perhaps a nudge to make the worst-affected people feel that they're not the worst?
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I logged in immediately on reading this but my months are not cool. I guess there is an element of personalization as well? :-)
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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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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
What an amazing paper and I need finding!
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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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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Wait what, you actually *speak* on the phone!?
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
No.
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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Brilliant work as always!
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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...
equator.org
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...
dailynous.com
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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Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 @dilipsoman.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
This is amazing!
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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
givingwhatwecan.org
Birth Lottery
If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?
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