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Hey Prolific participants!
We’ve launched a brand new look 🎉 and we’re running a competition to celebrate.
To enter, quote this tweet and share the best study you’ve taken on Prolific, and why ❤️
Prizes and details in the thread 👇
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5 lucky winners will win a voucher, plus a Prolific sweatshirt and water bottle 🙌
1st prize: £200 voucher (and you get to choose our next Prolific mug theme! ☕️)
2nd prize: £100 voucher
3rd prize: £50 voucher
4th prize: £30 voucher
5th prize: £20 voucher
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⚠️ Following an issue which affected instant cash outs for participants earlier this week, we've taken the decision to temporarily suspend all cash outs over the weekend
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To celebrate our brand new look, we’re running two competitions - one for our researchers and one for our participants!
For researchers, enter now by quoting this tweet and sharing your favourite findings from a study you ran on Prolific ❤️
Prizes and details in the thread 👇
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You can enter more than once. We’ll put all tweets into the raffle and send you a message on Twitter if you’ve won a prize.
The deadline to enter is Sunday 9th July at 11.59pm BST.
Start sharing your favourite studies - good luck!
T+Cs apply:
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We wanted to update everyone that we’ve been unable to process cashouts for participants via PayPal this afternoon. We're in contact with PayPal to resolve this issue and will update you as soon as we have any news.
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⚠️ We're so sorry about this, and it's not a decision that we've taken lightly, but doing so will give our engineers more time to work on fixing the problem and avoid any further issues
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We are aware of an incident regarding a bad actor, posing as a researcher and are taking immediate action. We are deeply sorry for any offence caused.
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UPDATE - We're continuing to work with PayPal to get cashouts back up and running. We don't yet have an estimated time for the fix from PayPal, but we'll let you all know as soon as we have further information.
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⚠️ Thanks so much for your patience on this one and we’ll let you know as soon as the issue has been fixed
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⚠️ Just to be clear, participants will still be able to earn money for taking part in studies, but they won't be able to cash this money out
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One month ago, Prolific went viral on TikTok. 30,000 new participants, and lots of feedback later - here's what we've learned, and what we're doing about it
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Thanks everyone for your patience while we looked into the ongoing issue with cash outs. We’re now in a position where 90% of cash outs are working again, so we’ve decided to turn this functionality back on.
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We are aware of the ongoing site-wide issues affecting Prolific. Our team is actively working to resolve this as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience. Stay tuned for updates.
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🔎What could you discover with £10,000?!
We're awarding £10,000 ($14,000) in Prolific credit to fund world-changing research!
Follow the thread or click below for all the details!⬇️
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We are facing an unprecedented crisis worldwide, and we'd like to do our part to help!
From today, we are offering 0% Prolific service fees on all eligible studies related to COVID-19.
Please read this blogpost for more details:
#COVID19
#coronavirus
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#HappyNewYear
from Prolific! 🎉
As we begin an exciting new year, we want to take a moment to say a huge thank you to all our researchers and participants. We can't wait to see what you'll achieve in 2024!
We hope you have a wonderful year of happiness and prosperity. 💙
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UPDATE - Cashouts are now back up and running, and those who were waiting for a cashout should have received it. Thanks for your patience folks. Any issues, please get in touch using this form:
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Addressing recent site issues affecting Prolific.
During the last couple of weeks, there have been a number of instabilities affecting our platform, with last Friday (21st of October) being the most significant.
Unfortunately, we have experienced a higher level of malicious
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We often receive requests from researchers for examples of fair attention checks.
So, we'd love to get submissions of checks that may be used in a pre-approved, publicly available repository🗄️
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We are aware of the ongoing site-wide issues affecting Prolific. Our team is actively working to resolve this as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience. Stay tuned for updates.
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As many of you will be aware, at 7am (GMT) Sunday 19th March, we became aware of a malicious user on our platform.
Read our full statement about what happened and the actions we're taking here:
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Thank you to all the researchers who shared their favourite findings from studies they ran on Prolific!
We loved seeing all of the ground breaking research being done using our platform 💙
Without further ado, the winners are…👇
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Our mission is to make high-quality data available to anyone, anywhere. Today, AI is changing research - and the world. Harnessing it ethically is a challenge faced by every research platform.
This new study explores the implications - and how we’re helping researchers get
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YES! 🎊 New paper out showing Prolific's advantages over MTurk &co. Shout out to
@EyalPeer2
et al. for the great work
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We're thrilled to announce that we've reached another major milestone: Prolific now has 100 employees!
Looking to join a company that values its employees and offers incredible growth opportunities? Take a look at our open roles!
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🥁 We’re delighted to welcome
@jim_a_lumsden
in our team, who’s joined as Data Analyst.
In his PhD at
@BristolUni
, Jim explored whether making (boring) psychological tests more like video games could increase engagement.
Read here what he discovered:
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This morning, we're delighted to announce a new and exciting feature: The Prolific Fishing tool! Experts are calling it "the most significant research tool on the internet", so go and check it out:
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We’re really excited to announce this fundraising which will accelerate the next phase of our growth. Thank you to
@PartechPartners
and
@OxfordSciEnt
for your support and belief.
Nine years ago we started Prolific because we believed online people research was broken. Today, I’m delighted to announce that we’ve secured $32m in funding to take Prolific to the next stage of our journey. Thank you to
@PartechPartners
and
@OxfordSciEnt
for backing us!
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5 lucky winners will win Prolific credit and a branded water bottle 🙌
1st prize: £500 credit
2nd prize: £100 credit
3rd, 4th, 5th prize: £50 credit
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We're excited to share that the new mug design for the Brand New Participant Competition winner is now up on the participant study page ☕️✨
@Panettoro
thank you for taking the time to submit your idea to us, and congratulations again on winning first place.
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We're so sorry for any inconvenience this has caused - please bear with us whilst we work on a resolution.
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📢 Hot off the press!
We are excited to announce our $1.2m Seed round to help us take online behavioural research to the next level 💪
Prolific wants to challenge Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in the online research space by
@sohear
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We’re thrilled to share that Prolific is growing in the US! 🎉🇺🇸
We've opened a new workspace in the thriving heart of New York. 🗽
Read more about our expansion and exciting US roles that you can apply for in our latest blog:
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🥁 We're thrilled to announce our 2018 Junior Researcher Grant Winners: Claire Gothreau (
@claire_gothreau
), Nikola Erceg (
@nertzeg
), Thorsten Erle (
@TMErle_
), Emma Henderson (
@EmmaHendersonRR
), Dominik Stecula (
@decustecu
) and Steph Suddell (
@stephsuddell
)
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Another study about Prolific 🥳
A study recently came out which compared Prolific with MTurk and lab samples. We'll let the paper speak for itself 😎
Follow our 🧵
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We are aware there have been some issues with submissions in our platform.
Please be assured that finding a solution is our top priority.
For all Prolific users who are affected, we're very sorry for the inconvenience caused, and we will come back with a solution shortly.
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Unfortunately Prolific is down at the moment due to ongoing issues with Google. We'll keep you all posted with any updates, and sorry for any inconvenience in the meantime!
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Prolific is fixing what’s broken about MTurk. Today, we are excited to announce that we have joined
@ycombinator
to supercharge our mission to improve behavioral research online! 🎉🙌
Read our CEO
@ekadamer
's post about why and how we are doing it. 👇
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🥁 We’re thrilled to announce our brand new Prolific Junior Researcher Grant scheme:
We will allocate 5,000 USD to enable grad students and postdocs to run well-powered, high quality studies using our platform.
Application deadline: 20 Nov 2018
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We're delighted to announce the limited public release of representative sampling via Prolific! 🙌 Currently available for 🇬🇧 and 🇺🇸 samples. Read more and sign up to the beta program here:
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An
@IpsosMORI
poll commissioned by
@TheEconomist
caused a stir with its rather alarming findings.
Apparently, regardless of Covid risk:
- 19% of Brits support a 10pm curfew
- 26% support closing nightclubs.
We redid the poll, and got some more relieving results.
A thread...
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Brand new Prolific researcher competition winners:
1st place -
@WilliamMeese
2nd place -
@BoWangPsy
3rd place -
@i_evangelidis
4th place -
@GreenwaldTessa
5th place -
@ClimentQD
We hope you enjoy your prizes! 🎉
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This has affected both instant cashouts and those scheduled for Tuesday and Friday afternoons. Any attempted cashouts that have failed will see the money returned to the Prolific account.
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Prolific is pleased to announce that we’ve partnered with
@HumanFeedbackIO
!
Human Feedback Foundation is dedicated to building a better, safer future for AI. 🤝🤖
We’re committed to ensuring AI has a positive impact with human values at heart.
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We are thrilled to announce a new partnership here at Prolific! 🚀
We've partnered with
@meadowsresearch
to offer their customers the chance to use Prolific's best-in-class participants when creating behavioural experiments!
Check out Meadows Platform:
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Hello to
#SIPS2018
from Prolific!
If you have any qs at all about how to recruit participants online ethically, fast, at low cost *and* from a range of demographics (incl US and Europe), please give a shout! 🙋🏻♀️
pssst: we’re building a representative samples feature 🛠😃
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We're giving everyone at Prolific an extended Easter break. This is why we think rest is important, and how it'll work for our team and you.
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What's the difference between MTurk, Prolific, Qualtrics & Co from a researcher's point of view?
We've been asked this question so many times that we've decided to write a post about it. We hope you find it useful 🙂
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Brand new Prolific competition winners:
1st place -
@Panettoro
2nd place -
@mrderrickh2006
3rd place -
@DeeM151715
4th place -
@TheDunhams3825
5th place -
@BaasLima
We hope you enjoy your prizes! 🎉
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Thank you to all the
#researchers
and participants who have had such a huge impact on our journey 🙏
We’ll be rolling the new style out gradually, so you’ll see Prolific fully change over time.
We hope you enjoy it - and stay Prolific!
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In next week’s webinar,
@david_jurgens
and
@jiaxin_pei
from Potato will discuss how to unlock the full potential of your AI annotations.
Register now:
Here’s David from Potato. As you can see, he is a big potato fan.
#AI
#AIannotation
#DataLabeling
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1. INTRODUCING… Custom Completion Codes 🎉 A fast new way to sort through your study responses! [A thread]
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We're updating our 'whitelist' and 'blacklist' terminology. We believe that our commitment to being an inclusive company should be reflected in our actions, and our language. Read more here:
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Excited to be here at Durham University, sponsoring the first ever Psychology Early Careers Conference!👋
#PECC24
@durham_uni
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Submission issue is now resolved
We have now successfully completed the retrospective remuneration for participants affected by Tuesday’s incident.
This includes all returned or timed-out submissions.
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Hi all 👋 we're aware there are some issues with accessing the site at the moment. Our team are on the case and hope to have everything back up and running asap 💪 I'll add an update here once we have one -CR
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Engaged participants 🤝 Good research
Treating participants as collaborators is key for ethical and fair research. We’re proud to have the most engaged participants out there!
Thanks for sharing your learnings (and for the great memes)
@MoshePoliak
🩵
Once, we ran a study on Prolific and a participant wrote on Reddit that the study “Felt like I was losing the will to live.” I went on the Prolific Subreddit (24k members!) and asked what matters. Here is what they told me. A thread on happier participants and better studies 1/9
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Thank you to all the participants who posted their favourite Prolific studies!
So great to see the fun you’ve had contributing to all kinds of cutting-edge research 😍
And the winners for the participant competition are...📷👇
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Interested in
#openscience
and
#RegisteredReports
🤓? Read
@EmmaHendersonRR
's guest blog about writing a Registered Report, backed by
#Prolific
's Junior Researcher Grant💪!
#preregistration
#replication
@RegReports
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You can enter more than once. We’ll enter all tweets into the raffle and send you a message on Twitter if you’ve won a prize.
Deadline to enter is Sunday 9th July at 11.59pm BST.
Start sharing your favourite findings - good luck!
T&Cs apply:
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📢 We’ve had reports of some studies being filled with an imbalance in the gender of participants - thanks to everyone who’s brought it to our attention! (1/2)
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🚀 Prolific made it to the Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50! 🌐 We're honoured to be ranked among the fastest-growing tech companies.
Prolific legends Sara Saab and Chloe Cochrane picked up the award last night at the ceremony in London 🏆
Read more:
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We’re proud to share our first-ever Participant Wellbeing Report!
📚 This report analyzes the effect of research participation on mental wellness, outlining the actions we take to ensure participant wellbeing.
Download the report now ⬇️
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Let AI conduct and synthesize hundreds of qualitative interviews in hours, not weeks. Prolific is now partnering with
@OutsetAI
, helping their users:
🙋 Access over 120k vetted Prolific participants
🎥 Run video, audio, and text interviews
🎨 Test concepts, ads, designs, and
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We've arrived at
#QuirksLondon
and we're excited for the day ahead. Stop by our stand (no. 704) and save us from eating all the pic 'n' mix ourselves! 🍬
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Thanks again everyone for bearing with us while we continue to work towards a fix for everyone.
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Our whole team sends greetings from Glasgow, where we’re coworking this week!
Stay tuned for various updates & releases 😉
#teamprolific
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@LaurenGrewal
Hi Lauren, we're very sorry to hear that you've had a bad experience on our platform. We take data-quality incredibly seriously. I've sent you a DM so we can investigate this further - JT
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📢 We're thrilled to announce the winners of Prolific's first ever £10K Research Grant Competition! Follow this 🧵 to find out who!
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We're thrilled to be at
#WorldSummitAI
in Amsterdam!
Don’t miss our talk at 12:30pm on the White Box stage. Our CEO Phelim Bradley will discuss:
Where data sourcing goes wrong 😱
Why the people behind your data matter ❤️
What the future holds for AI data collection 👀
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Spin-to-win a prize at Booth 323
@APAconvention
Win the highly talked about portable fans!
Also up for grabs... 💧Water bottles, 🗒️notebooks,🍬sweets, and FREE credits 🤑 towards your next study
#APA2023
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This just in 📢 Our Representative Samples Tool is now officially live to everyone!
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We're excited to announce that our early-finish Summer Hours are being extended into Winter!❄️
88% of our employees say that this scheme had a positive impact on their mental/physical health, so it was a no-brainer to extend it.
What would you do with your free hours?
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We're thrilled to be attending
#APA2023
conference 🎉
Come by Booth 323 👋
We’ve got 🍬 sweets, branded swag, and spin-the-wheel
See you
@APAconvention
from 10am - 5pm today
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Yesterday, our platform experienced some issues with study submissions. We’re happy to say this has been resolved, and the platform is working as normal!
Our priority now is fixing all balance issues encountered by those affected, rectifying studies and crediting back earnings.
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The moral(s) of the story?
1. The way you frame a question makes a huge difference
2. Prolific can get representative samples to answer your questions in under 24 hours 😉
You can read the full
@FT
analysis below:
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Introducing study sorting and filtering for participants! 🚀
Organise studies in your feed by length, reward and device requirements, so you don’t miss out on the best ones for you. Simply set your preferences in Settings.
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We’re looking into it, but in the meantime, here’s what we recommend if you’re hoping to achieve a 50% gender-split in the study you’re running: (2/2)
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Our amazing researchers and participants are the key to a brighter future. So, we want to celebrate that with a brighter new look.
This is an exciting milestone on our mission to revolutionise how the world learns about people… so people can revolutionise the world. 🌎
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And... it's a wrap 👏
As we're 12 days knee-deep in 2023, here's a look into the past at all the incredible things we were able to accomplish in the 365 days of 2022✨
#onlineresearch
#dataquality
#surveyfacilitators
#academicresearch
#industryresearch
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Celebrating 100,000 quarterly active participants on Prolific today!
Hooray! 🥳
Happy Easter, everybody! 🐰
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@claireinez
is our new Frontend Developer! She joins us from Deliveroo, and brings loads of software experience. Outside of work she organises Node Girls - providing workshops for women and non-binary folk. She also loves to visit niche museums and sew her own clothes 👗
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🎄Reduced Support during the festive period🎄
Our Support team will be taking a well-earned rest over the Christmas break, which means we may take longer than usual to get back to any requests for help (1/3)
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We're aware some users are experiencing slow loading times. The team is working on a fix. While it's slow, all functions are working, including cashouts. This should be resolved shortly. -Jeremy
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We're sending greetings from
@BalliolOxford
, where we're coworking this week! 👌 We've grown from 6 to 15 people this year and are on a mission to empower great research. Watch this space 😀
#teamprolific
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So thrilled to be part of
#StartedinOxford
tonight! We're bringing people together to power the world's research 😎🤟
@enterprisingox
@OxfordIncubator
@UniofOxford
#prolificteam
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It’s the season to playback our favourite moments of 2023 🥳
This was a big year for Prolific, including a series A funding round, reaching 100+ employees, and a rebrand.
To celebrate, here are some highlights from the past year. Thank you being part of this journey w/ us! 🚀
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Get ready to master AI annotations 💪
Join us on Wednesday, July 26 @ 5pm (BST) for a live webinar on how to unlock the power of machine learning through diverse data labeling.
Register now:
#AI
#AIannotation
#DataLabeling
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Ready to make the transition to online research?
Or, are you looking for better data?
Prolific has 130K+ high-quality & diverse participants for you
Got questions? Ask our in-house research consultant Andrew, at the Booth today
#EconTwitter
#RESConference
#RES2023
@UofGlasgow
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Say hello to our amazing April joiners🚀
Brenda is our new People Associate! She joins us from Monzo, bringing a wealth of culture and comms experience. In her spare time, Brenda loves Yoga With Adriene and is aiming to read 52 books by the end of 2021 (already on 18!) 📚
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After an incredible journey at Prolific, we say farewell to our COO
@yojimbo23
this week.
☕️ Maybe you recognize Jim from the iconic Prolific mug?
📧 Or the millions of emails with his legendary ‘Jim from Prolific’ sign-off?
But did you know… 🚀👇🧵
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