Neri Marsili
@narsimarsi.bsky.social
Philosopher at UNED. I write on the dark side of communication: lies, bullshit, fictions, fake news, disinformation, twitter.
🔬 Il progetto COST-X (Università di Torino) ha aperto le selezioni per un Tecnico della Ricerca: nerimarsili.com/uploads/2/5/... 👉 Bando completo: webapps.unito.it/albo_ateneo/... ℹ️ Maggiori informazioni sul progetto: nerimarsili.com/cost-x.html ℹ️ Domande? neri.marsili@unito.it
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📣 Open for applications today: ERC Plus grant scheme to support transformative research! Why: link.europa.eu/8gF4JC How: link.europa.eu/rWWh4n Apply: link.europa.eu/8vMfYQ Deadline: 2 September 2026 #ChooseEurope #HorizonEurope #ERCPlus #FrontierResearch
A new rule in Peru restricts authors with retractions from getting special bonuses.
New rule in Peru restricts authors with retractions from getting special bonuses
Peru’s Ministry of Education headquarters in Lima.ANDINA/Editora Perú In an ongoing effort to combat scientific misconduct, Peru has passed new rules that bar research faculty at public unive…
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Technopanic is out in exactly one week! May 25th will be the official release date. Available for preorder www.amazon.co.uk/Technopanic-...
Technopanic: How Justified Are Our Fears About Digital Media? eBook : Acerbi, Alberto: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Technopanic: How Justified Are Our Fears About Digital Media? eBook : Acerbi, Alberto: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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Neri Marsili@narsimarsi.bsky.social · 4mo agoMy first book is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! “Sincerity and Insincerity” explores what sincerity demands, why it matters, and what falls in between — half-truths, omissions, deliberate misdirection, and more. Free download for 2 weeks 👇 doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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Neri Marsili@narsimarsi.bsky.social · 4mo agoMy first book is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! “Sincerity and Insincerity” explores what sincerity demands, why it matters, and what falls in between — half-truths, omissions, deliberate misdirection, and more. Free download for 2 weeks 👇 doi.org/10.1017/9781...
My first book is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! “Sincerity and Insincerity” explores what sincerity demands, why it matters, and what falls in between — half-truths, omissions, deliberate misdirection, and more. Free download for 2 weeks 👇 doi.org/10.1017/9781...
On this day, communities across the globe commemorate the 1.5 million Armenians who perished during the Armenian Genocide. Manuscripts held at the Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul are a poignant testament to the survival of Armenian cultural & spiritual heritage: hmml.org/stories/witnesses-of-light
Witnesses of Light: Armenian Manuscripts as Testimony and Digital Memory After Genocide
“The extraordinary manuscripts held at the Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul are a poignant testament to the survival...”
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Neri Marsili@narsimarsi.bsky.social · 4mo ago[Please circulate] 📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant (online surveying & data analysis) for the ERC project COST-X @ Università di Torino ‼️ Deadline approaching: 20 April 2026 🗓️ Looking for a stats-savvy candidate (R preferred) 12+12 months Details here: 👇 www.nerimarsili.com/uploads/2/5/...
[Please circulate] 📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant (online surveying & data analysis) for the ERC project COST-X @ Università di Torino ‼️ Deadline approaching: 20 April 2026 🗓️ Looking for a stats-savvy candidate (R preferred) 12+12 months Details here: 👇 www.nerimarsili.com/uploads/2/5/...
Hey, did you read the last by Cass R. "Separation of powers" Sunstein? (you probably shouldn't)
MIT Press@mitpress.bsky.social · 5mo ago"Freedom from fear is a central goal of the system of separation of powers." @casssunstein.bsky.socials explains the separation of powers in an excerpt via @bigthink.com:
New w/@scottclifford.bsky.social. Lots of work uses agree-disagree scales, and a lit review shows these are 1) frequently just measured in one direction (agree = higher trait) and 2) correlated with each other. This has potentially big issues for conclusions. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Acquiescence Bias and Criterion Validity: Problems and Potential Solutions for Agree-Disagree Scales - Political Behavior
Political Behavior - Scholars frequently measure dispositions like populism, conspiracism, racism, and sexism by asking survey respondents whether they agree or disagree with statements...
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(a) [ActP [ComP col cavolo [JP [ForceP che [TP Gianni è venuto]]]]] (b) [ActP [TP Gianni è venuto] Act° [ComP col cavolo [JP [ForceP [tTP]]]] www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The syntax of Italian col cavolo and un cavolo: Between emphatic negation and utterance minimisation | Journal of Linguistics | Cambridge Core
The syntax of Italian col cavolo and un cavolo: Between emphatic negation and utterance minimisation
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I edited 2 volumes for Frontiers back in 2021 - before I knew better. Never again - it was challenging to get them to adhere to their own ethics guidelines & the “review” system is set up to avoid rejection as much as possible.
@frontiersin.bsky.social is a predatory publisher, and not an acceptable venue to publish in. For all those who still think the opposite, here’s an invitation to edit an issue of their earth science journal (I’m a philosopher), with an equally mind-boggling explanation.
Acabamos de sacar un libro blanco sobre desacuerdos en contextos digitales, uno de los resultados del proyecto #digi_morals financiado por #fundacionBBVA Resultado de la colaboración entre tres ámbitos: la filosofía, la comunicación y la ciencia política 👇👇🎉🎉📣 e-archivo.uc3m.es/entities/pub...
Desacuerdos en contextos digitales : variedades, causas y posibles intervenciones
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Togo lizards prefer “pizza Quattro Formaggi”. Feeling inspired by this ig Nobel prize winning study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Opportunistic foraging strategy of rainbow lizards at a seaside resort in Togo
Rainbow lizards (Agama agama) are common in suburban areas throughout Africa, and have an opportunistic foraging strategy, with arthropods being the main prey source. In a coastal resort in southern ....
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‼️Next month: Great workshop in Beijing on AI and online communication 👇👇
For those who might be interested: I have a new paper forthcoming in Erkenntnis. It's about whether linguistic data on hedging support the popular knowledge norm of assertion (spoiler: it's not so clear that they do). philpapers.org/rec/MOREHA-6
Dario Mortini, Evidentially Hedged Assertions and the Knowledge Norm of Assertion - PhilPapers
Speakers make evidentially hedged assertions when they weaken commitment to what they assert in virtue of disclosing imperfectly reliable sources of evidence in their assertions. A novel and increasin...
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At the 11th SEFA in Sevilla, Neri Marsili (@narsimarsi.bsky.social) speaks on: “Posting and Reposting: Investigating Reputation, Trust, and Deniability in Online Communication”
👋 Os pedimos un favor: si podéis dedicar 2 minutos a esta brevísima encuesta sobre tortillas 🥚, ayudaréis a nuestro colega @narsimarsi.bsky.social a empujar un poquito más las fronteras del conocimiento humano 🚀: universityofgraz.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Qualtrics Survey | Tortilla de Patatas. Un debate histórico
Estudio sobre gastronomía española que busca responder a uno de los debates culinarios más importantes de nuestra gastronomía: la tortilla de patatas ¿con cebolla o sin cebolla? ¿muy hecha o poco hech...
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Neri Marsili@narsimarsi.bsky.social · last yr.El debate que divide a España: 🥔 Tortilla: ¿Con cebolla o sin cebolla? 🧅 Desde la UNED queremos resolverlo con DATOS. 📊 Solo 2 min. Pásasela a tus padres, tu cuñado, tu vecina. tinyurl.com/mt6e6mbh
Book resubmitted Manuscript: 72 pages Referee report + replies: 38 pages 🥵