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👩‍🔬 Managing Director @ Irrational Labs 🧠 Applying behavioral science to product design 💭 Personal blog (reposts != endorsements) 📍 Brooklyn, NY
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If you want to read one paper to understand wildfire insurance markets in CA, it’s this one. It is an absolute fantastic read and shows exactly why some insurers pulled out of the market. today.ucsd.edu/story/impact...

submitted 48 days ago • 5 comments

🚨In Nature🚨 Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias? We this test empirically & find that conservatives * ARE suspended more * BUT share more misinfo So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Since this is back… Unfortunately, academic inflation and toxic productivity culture has all but done away with this. The effects of this on science advancement will be seen for generations. Slowing down and thinking deeply is essential to solve complex problems and it’s undervalued at every level

submitted 68 days ago • 4 comments

Love that there’s a section called “down the rabbit hole”—fits the whole article imho 🎲 www.nature.com/articles/d41... #probability #science

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🚨In Science🚨 Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, ya? WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20%! -Lasts over 2mo -Works on entrenched beliefs -Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1/ [X->BSky repost]

submitted 72 days ago • 18 comments

🙄🙄🙄 come ON Here’s the thing: encouraging green consumer action is futile if upstream actors’ don’t behave in line too Sustainability is a system Recycling behavior and sustainable waste disposal needs a systems lens ♻️ 🔗 www-cbsnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbsn...

submitted 86 days ago • 5 comments

Enjoying “the new mind readers” by @russpoldrack.bsky.social What are your thoughts? 🤓 #booksky #reading #science

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Very nice example of how useful comparison (or trend calculation) usually needs something more than coefficients. They have a nice page on the general idea that is hidden down in the thread: ourworldindata.org/age-standard...

submitted 80 days ago • 3 comments

My small part in trying to get people to understand why it seems like running government like a business is a good idea, when in fact it's a terrible one (1/4): www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...

submitted 82 days ago • 12 comments

Can *you* tell your biases from your heuristics? They are related, but not the same: https://buff.ly/3Zpipu2

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Now out in @science.org: misinformation exploits outrage to spread online. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Doing this work was way harder than it had to be, thanks to Big Tech. I want to highlight our lead analyst @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social for his heroic perseverance to bring you this paper 🧵

submitted 87 days ago • 14 comments

How do you help investors avoid a lapse in earnings by reinvesting when their bonds mature? We worked with the National Treasury of Brazil & B3, Brazil’s stock exchange, to test behaviorally-informed messages to investors, & drove 5X more scheduled reinvestments. #financialinclusion

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Try our gift bot and tell me what you think! irrationallabs.com/giftlab/ #ai #psychology #gift

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View from the conference window. Vegas has nothing on Texel. 😍

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Excited to have made it to the Netherlands for The Conference, formerly known as Conversion Hotel. But first, coffee ☕ 🙏 Follow along this week as we talk all things experimentation, personalization, and product design. #CH2024 #behavioralscience #personalization

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Very small sample, but fun read nonetheless. NYT article summarizing the “humans + AI” are not as good as just AI.

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The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

submitted 100 days ago • 48 comments

Full (sad) circle moment. As an intern, I ran the Office of Science & Tech Policy’s Twitter acct in 2010. Just hit me that 1. it was the last time I had Twitter & 2. Trump then gutted the OSTP & went w/o a science advisor for first 2 years of his last term. Buckle up & thankful for discourse here 😞

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 100 days ago • 419 comments

Terrorizing the neighborhood, one passerby at a time. #doodle #dog (wishing he could be…) #partofyourworld 🧜‍♀️

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

🎙️🖥️ I'm hosting a webinar on applying behavioral science to trust and safety to reduce harms online next Friday Nov 15th @ 9am PST. I will review the latest experimental evidence as well as some @IrrationalLabs case studies in this area. Join me! 🎙️ 🖥️ Link in replies

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Is this thing on? #helloworld

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