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

In @natrevpsychol.nature.com, Team Scientists @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social, @dggoldst.bsky.social & @dilipsoman.bsky.social and Susan Michie argue that improving how we study nudges—through better design, collaboration, and open science—can help us learn when and where they’re most effective.

I remember first hearing about the Corporation for Public Broadcasting while watching a screening of Carl Sagans Cosmos at the American centre / USIS in Bombay in 1981.

"Funding for this program was made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by annual financial support from viewers like you" <---I bet you hear the exact cadence of your vintage

This looks about right? @mendelmatt.bsky.social @justinwolfers.bsky.social @jrobson.bsky.social

Acronym fail

🧵 Can you predict whether behavioral interventions will work in new contexts? … probably not, right? In our new paper with @dggoldst.bsky.social @dilipsoman.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social, we dive into how to better understand and improve generalizability. rdcu.be/ewD2z Summary👇

New paper just dropped: Szaszi, Barnabas, Daniel G. Goldstein, Dilip Soman, Susan Michie. (2025). Generalizability of Choice Architecture Interventions. Nature Reviews Psychology. Thanks to @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social for doing the lion's share! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

On Friday a judge struck down a CFPB rule that would've wiped medical debt from credit reports The decision will reduce credit access while giving debt collectors more leverage It comes a week after Trump signed a law that will kick 16 million off health insurance Compounding cruelty with cruelty

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Day 5 at Lord's

I mean I know I can be boring sometimes but....

This is a terrible outcome. In my research, I've shown the subscription cancellation problem is big The click-to-cancel rule was poised to make meaningful progress on this problem Now we're back to the sludge The result will be less competition, higher prices, and lower quality.

In Toronto, home renovation is just business as usual!

#Sludge from #NBorate on X. Tax payment easy, provident fund withdrawal sludgy = Subscription easy, cancel hard. Or casino - easy to convert cash to chips, not the reverse! @liamdelaney2025.bsky.social @casssunstein.bsky.social @katymilkman.bsky.social @lklades.bsky.social

‼️Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995. 👀 Clip from @thedailyshow.com 👇

Sorting matters! @ericjjohnson.bsky.social @olegurminsky.bsky.social @katymilkman.bsky.social @angeladuckworth.bsky.social

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

GATO? GUL DUKAT ALWAYS TRIBBLES OUT?! How can you say that? The Federation was almost DEAD under Picard and when I came in. Now we have the hottest planets in the entire Alpha Quadrant, the Gorn told me! #StarTrek #Sisko197

We have lost a fine Canadian today. Rest in peace!

Poor choice architecture! @ericjjohnson.bsky.social @casssunstein.bsky.social @katymilkman.bsky.social

We were supposed to have a new house built right next to us but nothing seems to have happened so far. Is this what they call a "theoretical construct"?

What a way to describe a 4-month period that will lead to 25+ million deaths worldwide.

Saved by the bell! TACO bell!

It pains me to say this, but if you are not a US citizen, you should not attend scientific conferences in the US, visit US institutions, or otherwise travel to our country. Right now it's not worth the risk. Hopefully that will change. If it doesn't, science in the US is sunk anyway.

I think I now know what to write in my annual performance report!

Neat idea to catch dark patterns! @randomwalker.bsky.social @casssunstein.bsky.social @katymilkman.bsky.social @dggoldst.bsky.social

In this Wednesday’s perspective on behavioral science from the archive, Bing Feng and @dilipsoman.bsky.social discuss behavioral scientists as problem solvers, auditors, designers, and strategists in organizations.

#OpenAccess from @bppjournal.bsky.social - Are media reports of published research an accurate representation of the research? - cup.org/4cV4dPH - Jingqi Yu, Catherine Yeung & Dilip Soman #FirstView