Co-Founder & Managing Director at Colectiv. Former Director of Behavioural Science at Nesta & Co-Head of International Programs at The Behavioural Insights Team
Joined May 2012
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Watch this it’s fascinating - I asked James Timpson what he’d do about prisons and sentencing if he was in charge. He believes only a third of prisoners in jail should definitely be there. He’s now in charge of prisons (but not sentencing).
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And here’s an update of the "what share of young adults really really dislike the Conservative party" chart:
Now up to a record 45% 📈
Chart shows the share giving the Tories a 0 out of 10. Young people’s distaste for the Tories is getting very deeply rooted
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NEW 🧵: how Britain became gripped by the worst homelessness crisis in the developed world
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Gut-wrenching to see Bakhmut destroyed like this. I’ve seen countless such videos and photos now and it hits hard every time. This is what Russia has wrought on Ukraine. This video shows the central blocks of what used to be a vibrant city of 80,000 residents. It’s filmed heading east on Tsiolkovskoho Lane, then turning south on Nezalezhnosti (Independence) Street, and then east on Bazarna Street. I walked these streets every day for years. The vehicle drives by the back entrance to my second apartment; past New York Street Pizza; it scans toward the office where I saw many friends get married; past the central square and Palace of Culture; past the Silpo grocery and central market; then finally past the bus station.
Half of the prisoners Russia recruits as soldiers die within 2 months! Insane stats from a new BBC investigation.
The biggest method innovation since the #RCT? With @UNICEF we AI-interviewed 152 frontline NGO workers across Türkiye in 48 hours. #behaviouralscience can now be done at scale with insights from those who know programmes best. @Colectiv_tech #econtwitter colectiv.tech/blog/ai-for-hu…
Can AI help improve humanitarian work? I'm happy to share results from our recent project with #UNICEF Türkiye. Colectiv's AI interviewer bridges the gap between field insights and decision-makers. Please check out our blog, and follow Colectiv as we try to build up a following!
New results! With #UNICEF we used AI to conduct 152 qualitative interviews with #humanitarian workers across Türkiye in just 48 hours. Find out more in our blog and reports on how AI can gather and use frontline insights. Follow Colectiv for more updates! colectiv.tech/blog/ai-for-hu…
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We live in a time increasingly resembling the second half of the 1930s. I couldn't live with myself with the knowledge I didn't do more to stop another Hitler. In light of the Republican wavering and in memory of Navalny I will give $100 towards FPV drones for Ukr for every RT.
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An employee of a kindergarten in Kherson is heartbroken when she sees what Russian shelling did to it. Listen to her pain.
Russia shells Kherson every day, usually multiple times a day.
📹: Kherson administration
This is solid. Our political system just isn't up to the job of governing right now. Details matter. Evidence from similar schemes in other countries matter. But our politicians don't even know the capital of a country we're trying to deport people to.
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359,000 page planning application for a tunnel. You can't make this stuff up
🚀 Just published: My short piece on how AI could prevent further disasters like the UK Post Office. British scandal, but useful for anyone interested in using AI to improve public services.💡colectiv.tech/blog?post
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1/9 I am your new Santa Claus.
Well, I now have a sheepskin coat, an ushanka hat (a fur hat with ear-covering flaps), and soon I will get valenki (a traditional Russian winter footwear). I have grown a beard for the 20 days of my transportation.
Yep, and most applied #behaviouralscience projects I've been involved in aren't correcting for 'irrational' people - they're correcting difficult-to-use government programmes or hard-to-understand information. Let's not write off the whole field just yet!
As @CassSunstein and I say in Nudge: “we do not think that people are dumb; we think the world is hard.” I try to avoid using the word “irrational”. It is usually not helpful.
I can also remember the conversation I had with @mike_t_sanders about this in 2014 (about a working paper version). "How on earth do psychologists get significant results when n=100". This is how. And it's because of academic incentives. Just think what this did for her career.
The scale of this academic fraud is outrageous - two trials in one paper! It also had very real-world impacts. We replicated these findings in a large trial with the Guatemalan Tax Authority doi.org/10.3390/bs7020028 which produced a (v. precisely estimated) null effect.
The scale of this academic fraud is outrageous - two trials in one paper! It also had very real-world impacts. We replicated these findings in a large trial with the Guatemalan Tax Authority doi.org/10.3390/bs7020028 which produced a (v. precisely estimated) null effect.
If you’re in or adjacent to the field of #BehavioralScience & aren’t talking about the new evidence of data fraud by @HarvardHBS ⭐️ Prof. @francescagino, read this immediately 🤢👇🏻 @DataColada We have to do better. datacolada.org/109
![[109] Data Falsificada (Part 1): “Clusterfake”](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/2115158179701272576/kCp2RwZI?format=png&name=600x314)
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Lots of coverage today of the UK study that says breastfed kids are more likely to get good exam results.
This is the study: adc.bmj.com/content/early/20…
I can't possibly write another article about this because you'll think I'm obsessed, so here's a Twitter thread about it instead:
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Japanese medical doctor moves to help Afghanistan, changes mission when faced with state of local agriculture. Brings with him a medieval Japanese manual for land restoration. Gets murdered for his troubles. Same spot: January 2017 and April 2023. Tetsu Nakamura, 1946-2019.
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This is a great piece. archive.ph/2023.05.22-233135…
