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Joris Gillet

@jorisgillet.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer Behavioural Economics at Middlesex University London UK www.jorisgillet.nl

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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"As the [AI-detection] software has become integrated into universities’ digital submission systems, there have been more complaints of false positives." www.ft.com/content/7e34...
ft.com
Students turn to lawyers to fight AI misconduct accusations
Legal cases rise as universities struggle with approach to technology
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
London gallery owner with some *very* far fetched reason why they don't advertise the prices of their artworks.... www.instagram.com/p/DdRB8OAgayB/
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Giles Huxley-Parlour on Instagram: "It would be disingenuous of me to pretend that galleries don’t hide prices to create rarity and seem exclusive, of course they do to varying degrees, but there are ...
233 likes, 103 comments - gileshuxleyparlour on September 14, 2026: "It would be disingenuous of me to pretend that galleries don’t hide prices to create rarity and seem exclusive, of course they do t...
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"He confirmed it was not legal tender as it was made by the Bank of the Rust Bucket Rally" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Why charities are still clinging to using a giant cheque
Despite bank transfer and internet banking, the giant cheque photo opportunity refuses to die.
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meanwhile on campus www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2659013...
hamhigh.co.uk
Scenes from new Sharon Horgan mid-life crisis comedy shot at north London university
Scenes for Sharon Horgan's HBO Max comedy Youth were shot at Middlesex University's Hendon campus with students playing extras.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Nu kan bijna niemand het zich meer veroorloven om in zijn eentje te werken en een gezin te onderhouden. Je hebt nu situaties dat beiden vier dagen in de week werken. Samen werken ze 64 uur. Dat is heel wat meer dan vroeger.” www.intermediair.nl/werk-en-carr...
intermediair.nl
Hoogleraar arbeidsmarkt neemt het op voor jongeren: ‘Aanname dat gen Z lui is, is niet gebaseerd op bewijs’
Is Gen Z echt lui? Hoogleraar Ton Wilthagen legt uit waarom jongeren het deeltijdpatroon volgen en hoe de politiek meer werken aantrekkelijk kan...
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"There was, however, one corner of Miami’s real estate market where people seemed open to talking about climate risk: The corner serving the ultra-rich." heated.world/p/the-open-h...
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The open houses at the edge of disaster
What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"But it may also expect the customer to stay because canceling is difficult, switching requires reentering information, products are bundled together, or the customer has become deeply embedded in an ecosystem." www.promarket.org/2026/09/04/a...
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American Companies Expect Their Customers To Stay Much Longer. That May Be Making the Economy Less Competitive - ProMarket
In new research, Li Azinovic-Yang, John D. Kepler, Ava E. Speros, and Christopher R. Stewart find that over the last two decades, companies in the United States have grown to expect customer relations...
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"cautioned that two-thirds of students already worked to support themselves" www.ft.com/content/1e9d...
ft.com
UK universities pledge work experience to more than 1mn students
Initiative comes amid growing concern among employers about young people’s readiness for workplace
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The reason why they asked him to do less research is *not* the reason you might expect... www.techtimes.com/articles/327...
techtimes.com
Duke Told Dan Ariely to Do Less Research. Here's What Happened
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely spent two decades watching Duke’s compliance machinery grow. Then it told him to cut his research by 80 percent.
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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My local chicken place’s chaotic pricing scheme winds me up an unreasonable amount.
Menu with per-piece prices written in manually

Chicken
1 piece - £1.90/per - £1.90 total
2 piece - 1.75 - £3.50
3 piece - 1.80 - £5.40
6 piece - 1.85 - £11.10
12 piece - 1.17 - £14.00
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Christou, a social justice professor at Middlesex University (...) did not return messages seeking comment" retractionwatch.com/2026/09/08/e...
retractionwatch.com
Editors of higher education journal coauthor editorial with fake references
Taylor & Francis is investigating an article in one of its journals after the editors published an editorial about academic freedom that contains multiple fake references and citation errors.&n…
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"For the bottom 90% of New Yorkers, average real incomes accounting for inflation fell slightly, by 0.8%, from 2019 to 2024" www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/09/02/i...
thecityreporter.nyc
Bottom 90% of New Yorkers’ Incomes Stagnate As Very Richest See Huge Gains Since COVID
The city “is generating enormous wealth, but the vast majority of that prosperity is flowing to those who already have the most,” Comptroller Mark Levine says.
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"upper-class people are more likely to snatch from a children’s supply of candy, and engage in other kinds of unethical behavior" arstechnica.com/science/2026...
arstechnica.com
Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners
The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and "24/7" lectures.
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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 03/09/2026
"Dan Ariely did not reply to any of the three emails we sent him" Did you try giving him a deadline?
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"The expectation from employers now is that recruits are able to communicate effectively, think critically about problems and have sound judgment." www.ft.com/content/5377...
ft.com
Business schools face demand for higher, ‘human’ skills
As AI erodes entry-level tasks, employers want ‘tier two’ abilities that young masters in management graduates once learnt at work
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"By this measure, jobs like “accountants and auditors” (...) were among those judged most susceptible to AI automation" arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/a...
arstechnica.com
AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
Young employment in AI-impacted fields down 19% compared to more AI-resistant occupations.
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
De vrije markt op het Nederlandse spoor archive.ph/Lcjq7
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 24/08/2026
Six editors and nearly 60 advisory editors of Games and Economic Behavior resigned after Elsevier, the journal’s publisher, decided not to renew the editor-in-chief’s contract.
retractionwatch.com
Editors of economics journal resign after Elsevier doesn’t renew EIC’s contract
Six editors and nearly 60 advisory editors of Games and Economic Behavior resigned after the journal’s publisher decided not to renew the editor-in-chief’s contract.  In late July, Elsevier to…
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"also created a partnership with Middlesex University to offer free tuition to refugees" thefinch.news/article/how-...
thefinch.news
The Finch — Hyperlocal news for Finchley, North London
The Finch is an independent newspaper covering Finchley and North London. Local news, community, sport, food, culture and opinion.
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"shortage of economics teachers in the UK" res.org.uk/economics-ri...
res.org.uk
Economics rises to fifth most popular A-level as entries surge 50% since 2020 - Royal Economic Society
The RES is calling for long-term action to address the shortage of economics teachers in the UK, as millions of young people remain unable to study the subject.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff!
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
new blog (mostly aimed at research dissertation students and maybe fellow research dissertation supervising colleagues) blog.jorisgillet.nl/2026/08/dear...
blog.jorisgillet.nl
Dear Student, the Order in Which Someone Will Read Your Research Paper Is Not Necessarily the Same as the Order in Which You Write Your Research Paper
As part of my teaching allocation, I also supervise a number of MBA dissertations/capstone projects each year. These projects typicall...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Sunday Times research finds universites down £550+ million on international (aggregate across the 55 universities with lower international fee income of 128 surveyed)
Annual revenue from international students. Change over 2 years. Coventry dowm £74m
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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bandcamp.com · 05/08/2026
Today’s tube station painting is Burnt Oak. It’s new and up on my website. Burnt Oak Underground Station. London. Postcard painting. Watercolour darrenhaymanart.com
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De Speld @speld.nl · 02/08/2026
Mitchell (24) gaf per ongeluk 1,4 miljoen euro uit op festival - 'Je betaalt met muntjes, ik had niets door'
speld.nl
Mitchell (24) gaf per ongeluk 1,4 miljoen euro uit op festival
Een flinke tegenslag voor de 24-jarige Mitchell uit Harderwijk.
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Lemondrop 👉 YOUMA? @lipstick-lemondrop.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
holy moly @hausofdecline.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com ???
Photo of a page from the July issue of In These Times, depicting a six-panel comic from Haus of Decline. 

Panel 1: A woman standing and smiling in front of a chart. “THE ADVENTURES OF BLOODLESS QUANT”
Panel 2: Another woman pleads to Bloodless Quant: “Bloodless Quant, please help! I can’t afford to feed my family!”
Panel 3: BQ replies, “That’s ludicrous. The stock market is at an all-time high”
Panel 4: The woman says “But groceries are—“ but BQ cheerfully interjects, “You shouldn’t make statements if you don’t have economic literacy!” 
Panel 5: BQ holds up a chart with a line rocketing upward, saying “Here’s a chart explaining why your fears are unfounded”
Panel 6: A boy asks the woman, “What are we having for dinner tonight?” The woman dejectedly stirs a pot with the chart in it. “Chart,” she replies.
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
George Akerlof retires jishnudas.substack.com/p/george-ake...
jishnudas.substack.com
George Akerlof Retires
A thank you note
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Interview with one of the 2% of professional economists who are not necessarily against rent controls in all situations jwmason.org/slackwire/at...
jwmason.org
At Vox, a Conversation on Rent Control – J. W. Mason
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Always fun when another news story about that 'AI actress' makes people discover the ideas of Tyler Cowen...
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"The authors of the study (...) found that fewer than 1% of around 4,800 survey responses collected by 12 different companies contained text that was likely not written by a human. " retractionwatch.com/2026/04/30/a...
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Are AI chatbots infiltrating online survey data? Not yet, says new study
Mohamed Nohassi/Unsplash Despite concerns some have raised about potentially compromised data, AI chatbots aren’t yet completing online research surveys widely, according to a new preprint.  T…
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
My 'video poster' for TeachECONference 2026 is online: 10min presentation of my paper Do Economics Students Under- or Overestimate Income Inequality? It's about a novel way of eliciting students' estimations of UK and Global income inequality as a classroom exercise. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwH-...
youtube.com
Do Economics Students Under- or Overestimate Income Inequality? | Joris Gillet
YouTube video by CTaLE
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/06/2026
SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...
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The True Source of Value
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Golden Egg factory inside the goose
What you see are the eggs
What produces them is the factory itself
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74 - 3 = 71
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Graduation week!
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Darren Maughan @darrenm1973.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Not an English teacher, but I recall being told *at university* that the town of Milton Keynes was named after Milton Friedman and John Maynard Keynes.
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Opvallende vacature op banen-aan-de-universiteit-enzo-website Academictransferpuntcom...
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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
a photo of a university block. in the foreground, the fence surrounding the block has a sign saying "MODERN UNIVERSITY OF THE YEAR 2026". in the background, a construction vehicle is smashing through the scaffolding of an already partially-demolished building
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
it has come to my attention that busytown is anti pig
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"The positive effect of finding a compatible match seemed to outweigh any negative effects of choice overload." www.psypost.org/more-choices...
psypost.org
More choices on dating apps actually increase commitment, new study suggests
Contrary to the idea that dating apps offer too many choices, new research suggests that seeing more profiles helps users find better matches. Having abundant options tends to increase an individual's...
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Sadly this news article doesn't actually answer the question posed in the headline www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Murder, monsters, occupational hazards: Why movie geologists die so often
Cinematic geologists are usually good guys—sometimes gals—but they have a one in three fatality rate, a film analysis show
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
"More than 100,000 people have registered with Cruks, the national self-exclusion scheme (...) which bars them from all licensed casinos, arcades and gambling websites." www.dutchnews.nl/2026/05/gamb...
dutchnews.nl
Gambling addiction treatment up 13% amid boom in online betting - DutchNews.nl
The number of people treated for gambling addiction in the Netherlands rose again last year, climbing 13% to 3,108 from 2,750 in 2024, with the increase driven almost entirely by online gambling. The ...
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
"However, people without pets donate the most." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
tandfonline.com
Pet Ownership Ties as Indicators for Giving Behavior
Social ties play an important role in driving philanthropic behavior. However, there is scant research on how pet ownership may be an indicator of giving behavior. Leveraging a database of 787,877,...
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Behind those 'earn $50-$150 as an expert, training AI' part-time job openings you get bombarded with on LinkedIn... www.wired.com/story/i-work...
wired.com
I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Disproving one of the main ideas from classical economics by finding a five pound note.on the street...
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"Die redenatie ligt mijlenver af van politiek Den Haag waar hogere schulden taboe zijn maar financiële instellingen juist meer ruimte krijgen" archive.ph/0HJCp
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"the stagedive as a metaphor for mutual aid (..): It's an expression of true human trust to fling your own body out into unknown nothingness, trusting strangers to catch you. It's a sign that we can take care of each other and keep each other afloat." stereogum.com/2498912/ever...
stereogum.com
Every Hardcore Show Can Be Somebody's Transformative Experience
A review of Drug Church's stop in Richmond. Plus: the best hardcore tracks of the month.
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Joris Gillet @jorisgillet.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
"Cheating is easier at Princeton than at some places because the school does not allow its professors to proctor exams. Thanks to an honor code pact going back to 1893, Princeton profs do not watch their students take in-class tests." arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com
AI invades Princeton, where 30% of students cheat—but peers won't snitch
Old "honor code" systems are under strain.
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