Uma Karmarkar
@umakarma.bsky.social
Decision (neuro)scientist. Joint faculty between business and policy at UCSD. Neuroeconomics, psych, marketing, policy, snark, etc.
I'm doing the thing where you procrastinate on the important task by working on useful but less pressing tasks.
Being honest with myself about this has not helped me stop doing it.
Being honest with myself about this has not helped me stop doing it.
October 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I'm doing the thing where you procrastinate on the important task by working on useful but less pressing tasks.
Being honest with myself about this has not helped me stop doing it.
Being honest with myself about this has not helped me stop doing it.
This is only the second year that the Society for Neuroeconomics has offered a Mid Career Award, and we are delighted to announce @ccruff.bsky.social as the 2025 winner!
October 6, 2025 at 2:35 AM
This is only the second year that the Society for Neuroeconomics has offered a Mid Career Award, and we are delighted to announce @ccruff.bsky.social as the 2025 winner!
A huge congratulations to @drnikkisullivan.bsky.social and Kiyohito Iigaya, the 2025 winners of the Society for Neuroeconomics Early Career Award!
October 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
A huge congratulations to @drnikkisullivan.bsky.social and Kiyohito Iigaya, the 2025 winners of the Society for Neuroeconomics Early Career Award!
For pop culture* vultures, this brand has been extensively promoted on the reality show Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, and I'm dying to know what their customer demographics look like.
(*SEE WHAT I DID THERE?)
(*SEE WHAT I DID THERE?)
September 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
For pop culture* vultures, this brand has been extensively promoted on the reality show Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, and I'm dying to know what their customer demographics look like.
(*SEE WHAT I DID THERE?)
(*SEE WHAT I DID THERE?)
Spectacular, but just to be as extremely nerdy as possible, I did think "blood circulation" for that blue and red one.
August 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Spectacular, but just to be as extremely nerdy as possible, I did think "blood circulation" for that blue and red one.
Shut up, you were thinking it too.
August 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Shut up, you were thinking it too.
I just needed to get professional help to install spm
August 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I just needed to get professional help to install spm
At a cafe this morning -
Me : <squinting> did someone...frame a drawing of the Circle of Willis on the wall?
Spouse:
Me : No, sorry, I think that's an axolotl
Spouse: *Why are you like this*
(Okay, but like, I think I have a point, just look at the pictures)
Me : <squinting> did someone...frame a drawing of the Circle of Willis on the wall?
Spouse:
Me : No, sorry, I think that's an axolotl
Spouse: *Why are you like this*
(Okay, but like, I think I have a point, just look at the pictures)
August 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
At a cafe this morning -
Me : <squinting> did someone...frame a drawing of the Circle of Willis on the wall?
Spouse:
Me : No, sorry, I think that's an axolotl
Spouse: *Why are you like this*
(Okay, but like, I think I have a point, just look at the pictures)
Me : <squinting> did someone...frame a drawing of the Circle of Willis on the wall?
Spouse:
Me : No, sorry, I think that's an axolotl
Spouse: *Why are you like this*
(Okay, but like, I think I have a point, just look at the pictures)
Yes, I have run fMRI studies. However, I have always been, and will always be afraid of the magnet.
July 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Yes, I have run fMRI studies. However, I have always been, and will always be afraid of the magnet.
We consulted the sacred texts.
June 4, 2025 at 3:11 AM
We consulted the sacred texts.
I have reached the stage in my career where for-profits ask for work in exchange for "opportunities to develop cases", "connections with industry", "a chance for student involvement", etc.
It's like getting to live that influencer life, only less photogenic!
It's like getting to live that influencer life, only less photogenic!
May 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I have reached the stage in my career where for-profits ask for work in exchange for "opportunities to develop cases", "connections with industry", "a chance for student involvement", etc.
It's like getting to live that influencer life, only less photogenic!
It's like getting to live that influencer life, only less photogenic!
Hello darkness, my old friend
May 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Hello darkness, my old friend
Funniest part about this Harvard/MIT shade is that the comic artist is from Stanford, whose clay tile roofs yielded the affectionate architectural description of "Fancy Taco Bell".
April 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Funniest part about this Harvard/MIT shade is that the comic artist is from Stanford, whose clay tile roofs yielded the affectionate architectural description of "Fancy Taco Bell".
Definite need for more exploration of addiction & shopping behavior- hard to split "retail therapy" from "maladaptive"
We've proposed integrating knowledge in psychiatry, cons behavior and neuroecon for this problem (Clithero, Karmarkar & Hsu, 2021)
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
We've proposed integrating knowledge in psychiatry, cons behavior and neuroecon for this problem (Clithero, Karmarkar & Hsu, 2021)
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
March 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Definite need for more exploration of addiction & shopping behavior- hard to split "retail therapy" from "maladaptive"
We've proposed integrating knowledge in psychiatry, cons behavior and neuroecon for this problem (Clithero, Karmarkar & Hsu, 2021)
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
We've proposed integrating knowledge in psychiatry, cons behavior and neuroecon for this problem (Clithero, Karmarkar & Hsu, 2021)
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Cleaning up old files & found my favorite professional photo featuring a central takeaway from my research on ambiguity and information preferences.
February 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Cleaning up old files & found my favorite professional photo featuring a central takeaway from my research on ambiguity and information preferences.
Ming Hsu with an exceptional talk title at the recent symposium honoring his advisor Colin Camerer #cfcfc #neuroeconomics
February 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Ming Hsu with an exceptional talk title at the recent symposium honoring his advisor Colin Camerer #cfcfc #neuroeconomics
Perfect timing - my fancy science advocacy pin (thank you @nicolecrust.bsky.social !) is ready for introducing neuroecon and applied psych to psych undergrads today, and high schoolers on @skypeascientist.bsky.social in a few weeks.
January 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Perfect timing - my fancy science advocacy pin (thank you @nicolecrust.bsky.social !) is ready for introducing neuroecon and applied psych to psych undergrads today, and high schoolers on @skypeascientist.bsky.social in a few weeks.
BRB, ordering a bunch of those plushie neurons for next year's neuroecon conference.
December 10, 2024 at 4:47 PM
BRB, ordering a bunch of those plushie neurons for next year's neuroecon conference.
This one is at least interesting?
November 21, 2024 at 8:46 PM
This one is at least interesting?
Setting aside the fact that this logo could be the love child of the Dune movie title and Bloomingdale's (see below), my unhappiness was really with the removal of the cat.
November 20, 2024 at 3:13 AM
Setting aside the fact that this logo could be the love child of the Dune movie title and Bloomingdale's (see below), my unhappiness was really with the removal of the cat.
People in this thread posted brilliant foundational scientific literature (some of which I've even read!) But If I'm answering honestly?
Some combo of Neuromancer and Snow Crash helped me declare Symbolic Systems as my undergrad major, and everything just accelerated from there.
Some combo of Neuromancer and Snow Crash helped me declare Symbolic Systems as my undergrad major, and everything just accelerated from there.
November 18, 2024 at 4:56 PM
People in this thread posted brilliant foundational scientific literature (some of which I've even read!) But If I'm answering honestly?
Some combo of Neuromancer and Snow Crash helped me declare Symbolic Systems as my undergrad major, and everything just accelerated from there.
Some combo of Neuromancer and Snow Crash helped me declare Symbolic Systems as my undergrad major, and everything just accelerated from there.
Largely agree, although Eddie Izzard's not wrong about them
November 15, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Largely agree, although Eddie Izzard's not wrong about them
I can't find where the original for this came from, but it made my day.
November 12, 2024 at 9:03 PM
I can't find where the original for this came from, but it made my day.
My name in Landsat (from Nasa)
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The "U" is Canyonlands Park Utah.
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The "U" is Canyonlands Park Utah.
October 31, 2024 at 5:42 PM
My name in Landsat (from Nasa)
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
The "U" is Canyonlands Park Utah.
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
The "U" is Canyonlands Park Utah.
The UCSD Office of IRB Administration holds monthly office hours on zoom and I cannot tell you how much this has changed my life. My students and I can just... ask a question. To a person. With no lag time.
October 31, 2024 at 5:05 PM
The UCSD Office of IRB Administration holds monthly office hours on zoom and I cannot tell you how much this has changed my life. My students and I can just... ask a question. To a person. With no lag time.