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Neri Marsili

@narsimarsi.bsky.social

Philosopher at UNED. I write on the dark side of communication: lies, bullshit, fictions, fake news, disinformation, twitter.

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Hey, did you read the last by Cass R. "Separation of powers" Sunstein?

(you probably shouldn't)

09.03.2026 00:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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...

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...

25.02.2026 12:38 — 👍 105    🔁 47    💬 4    📌 8
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PhilMod Talk - Neri Marsili Posting and Reposting - Investigating Reputation, Trust, and and Deniability in Online Communication

Virtually in Ottawa in a couple of weeks!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philmod-ta...

24.02.2026 19:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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

(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...

07.01.2026 09:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Slop Evader — Tega Brain A browser extension for avoiding AI slop.  Download it for Chrome or Firefox. This is a search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT's...

tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader

31.12.2025 11:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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.

13.12.2025 07:38 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

It’s part of a general pattern of automated harassment, driven by a strategy designed for maximising APC profit. It’s not a hitch, it’s the predictable outcome of Frontier’s business model (not so different from mdpi or other predatory journals, which also regularly send me invitations of this sort)

12.12.2025 15:04 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

As academics, we owe it to our community not only not to submit to these journals, but also to treat their outputs as what they are (predatory trash, with occasional good work caught in the net) when reviewing CVs, tenure applications,etc. until they either go bankrupt or change their predatory ways

10.12.2025 22:32 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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@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.

10.12.2025 22:25 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

This is genuinely not ironic?

07.12.2025 00:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Desacuerdos en contextos digitales : variedades, causas y posibles intervenciones

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...

18.11.2025 19:33 — 👍 12    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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Reviewing an LLM-written paper (guest post) - Daily Nous A philosopher noticed something off about the paper he was refereeing for a journal. In the following guest post, Jakob Ohlhorst (RWTH Aachen University) shares his experience and raises some question...

dailynous.com/2025/10/28/r...

02.11.2025 23:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Talking about variation in philosophical intuitions in philosophy bites

02.11.2025 21:38 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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From the geography community on Reddit: Percentage of monthly income needed to rent 100m2 by European region. Explore this post and more from the geography community

www.reddit.com/r/geography/...

02.11.2025 21:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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 ....

Togo lizards prefer “pizza Quattro Formaggi”.

Feeling inspired by this ig Nobel prize winning study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

25.10.2025 09:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Interpreting Human and Artificial Minds
Workshop
WHEN
SUNDAY
NOVEMBER 09, 2025
10:00 - 18:00
REGISTER ONLINE
SPEAKERS
M R. X. DENTITH (BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY
IN ZHUHAI)
"DO CONSPIRACY THEORIST BELIEVE
THEIR CONSPIRACY THEORIES?"
SIMON GOLDSTEIN (UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG)
"WHAT DOES CHATGPT WANT? AN
INTERPRETATIONIST GUIDE
NERI MARSILI (UNIVERSITY OF TURIN)
"THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF HIDING:
ANONYMOUS TESTIMONY IN ONLINE
SPACES"
WHERE
ROOM 109, LEE SHAU KEE HUMANITIES, BUILDING 3,
PEKING UNIVERSITY
李兆基人文学苑3号楼,109
WU QIANTONG (CAS)
"PHILOSOPHICAL ZOMBIES AND THE POSSIBILITY OF AI CONSCIOUSNESS"

Interpreting Human and Artificial Minds Workshop WHEN SUNDAY NOVEMBER 09, 2025 10:00 - 18:00 REGISTER ONLINE SPEAKERS M R. X. DENTITH (BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY IN ZHUHAI) "DO CONSPIRACY THEORIST BELIEVE THEIR CONSPIRACY THEORIES?" SIMON GOLDSTEIN (UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG) "WHAT DOES CHATGPT WANT? AN INTERPRETATIONIST GUIDE NERI MARSILI (UNIVERSITY OF TURIN) "THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF HIDING: ANONYMOUS TESTIMONY IN ONLINE SPACES" WHERE ROOM 109, LEE SHAU KEE HUMANITIES, BUILDING 3, PEKING UNIVERSITY 李兆基人文学苑3号楼,109 WU QIANTONG (CAS) "PHILOSOPHICAL ZOMBIES AND THE POSSIBILITY OF AI CONSCIOUSNESS"

‼️Next month: Great workshop in Beijing on AI and online communication 👇👇

21.10.2025 10:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

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

25.09.2025 16:05 — 👍 26    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1
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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”

04.10.2025 10:27 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This frog kills fascists

06.10.2025 07:26 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

👋 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_...

15.09.2025 11:15 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Takes the fun out but here it is!

academic.oup.com/mind/advance...

14.09.2025 05:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Just published in *Mind*:

14.09.2025 04:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Book resubmitted
Manuscript: 72 pages
Referee report + replies: 38 pages
🥵

28.08.2025 10:44 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But then, it’s the “style” section..

23.08.2025 23:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That digression on the Met exhibition is sooo weird

23.08.2025 23:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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...

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

13.08.2025 11:54 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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...

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

13.08.2025 11:54 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Column | Zuckerberg fired the fact-checkers. We tested their replacement. Our tech columnist drafted 65 community notes, Meta’s new crowdsourced system to fight falsehoods. It failed to make a dent.

Community Notes were never going to replace fact checking. It could offer something else, something complementary.

So far it does not look like it is offering much. Saying that it is a new system still being tested is simply not good enough when you are Meta.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

05.08.2025 10:29 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0