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.”

Germany racking up a tennis score

I have a similar take as it relates to referring to research results/information/expert opinion/advice etc as "insight"

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!

Imagine If every room were labeled by what it is not

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

They said "doesn't matter" while simultaneously waving me in. @leftbobgolfer.bsky.social

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!

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.

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.

Nudge!

All this while I've been thinking it's a mischievous rabbit!

A workshop on making events more equitable and inclusive. In-person only.

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

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...

I miss the days when we criticized Presidents for relative peccadillos like starting wars without evidence!

Last minute strategic pivot :-)

Trump's Davos speech is an embarrassing ramble. America, humiliated.

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.

"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...

Neat trial building on earlier work by @jiayingzhao.bsky.social and colleagues! @nealemahoney.bsky.social @katymilkman.bsky.social @erikbryn.bsky.social @casssunstein.bsky.social

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".

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

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

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%

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.

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.

It's time for Guns N Roses to update that November weather song #Toronto.

Brilliant! abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

I concur that the newest sludge in expense reimbursement is..... @joshgans.bsky.social @lisakramer.com

"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...

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...

Then and now!

+1

#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

Very nice work @giladfeldman.bsky.social, congratulations to your student as well!

By definition, people who claim to have a growth mindset cannot simultaneously also claim to be "introvert" or "extrovert" yes?

That’s not how a Venn diagram works?

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...#Canada; #philSci #medicine #stats #methods

@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!!

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

That's me in the corner!

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

The abstract of this paper does provide an update of your priors if you believed there was some chance Bart knew before.

Adapted this illustration illustrating electricity for behaviour change!

Under the hood of mental accounting Research by Fei et al suggests our internal representation of expenditure categories is a hierarchical taxonomy, in which we adjust for overspending in nearby rather than more distant categories: buff.ly/YnEsQXk HT @dilipsoman.bsky.social

My goodness its going to be the end of the world as we know it! www.pcmag.com/news/end-of-... @dggoldst.bsky.social @katymilkman.bsky.social @joshgans.bsky.social