Itamar Shatz

My research deals with the social sciences, digital humanities, data science, and their intersections, exploring questions like how we can generate novel insights from large-scale language data and address cognitive biases that interfere with scientific analyses.

I also teach quantitative and computational research methods, advocate for open research, and engage in science communication. My goal is to unlock new directions of research, and facilitate research that is more robust, generalisable, and impactful.

I help people be more effective, mainly through deeply researched practical advice that improves our productivity, decision-making, communication, learning, and wellbeing. My writing has featured in mainstream media including The New York Times, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review.

My new book, Solving Procrastination: The Science of Why We Put Things Off and How to (Finally!) Stop, is published by Penguin Random House. I also write about applied psychology and philosophy at Effectiviology, and run Probably Good (probablygood.org), which helps people build careers that are good for them and for the world.