This morning at #FGSP2025 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de we had a symposium on current views on motivated reasoning with talks from @marlephie.bsky.social @kwinter.bsky.social @philippschmid.bsky.social and Arne Stolp (from @tobiasrothmund.bsky.social‘s lab) and myself. For some more details, here’s a🧵

New paper on impact of #healthmisinformation with the amazing Hannah Bauer This meta-analysis aims to help fact-checkers identify dangerous misinfo and to help researchers plan studies on health misinformation. doi.org/10.1080/1041...

#conspiracy It was great to be part of this work. Check it out 👇🏽

Not unexpected... but still interesting to watch what happens if someone "overplays his hand".... www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

This just makes me sick… with stories like this basically every history schoolbook in Germany starts to explain fascism… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Go 🇳🇱!! 👍🏻 “The Dutch city of The Hague has successfully defended its landmark law, which bans fossil fuel advertising, in court.” www.clientearth.org/latest/press...

… because women are not in the public’s interest…🙄insane… www.science.org/content/arti...

In the month of International Women’s Day, we asked six scientists about the most influential woman who shaped their field. @histoftech.bsky.social @samaraklar.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What a week…good to see EU courts doing their Job!

„Smashing the old order does not, in itself, create anything at all. The Visigoths and the Vandals built nothing on top of the ruins of Rome. They indulged their thumos and scampered away to feast for a while on the wealth they looted, and then they disappeared..“ www.noahpinion.blog/p/this-thing...

Naomi Oreskes wrote about this 7 years ago and the Trump administration is doing exactly that: Using replications and open science as a trojan horse. Doubt is their product. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The NIH canceled my research on vaccine hesitancy www.statnews.com/2025/03/28/v... via @statnews "Each year in the United States, approximately 6,000 people die from influenza. More than 7,000 will die from Covid-19 in 2025. ...an American child died from measles for the first time in a decade."

So will we need a new category in risk of bias assessments when doing systematic reviews? Study conducted by US after 2025 yes/no? www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Bird flu detected in sheep in England for the first time

We're seeing a lot of very rapid geopolitical and geo-economic thinking going on right now in Europe about what the end of the US alliance means for its security, economy & diplomacy. I haven't seen any parallel thinking among the US Atlanticist community about what it means for the US. (Brief) 🧵

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Nice comments! „makes it feel like a consciousness with which we can have a relationship, but as far as I know that would be like a bird falling in love with its reflection in a window. What’s behind the glass is an empty room with no bird.“ Nick Harkaway www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Welcome to Europe, 🦋 May you soon be a designated VLOP! #DSA www.euronews.com/next/2025/03...

Nice Initiative!: „a group of volunteer science communicators and artists dedicated to amplifying the voices of scientists affected by budget cuts and grant terminations. Our portraits highlight their contributions and the importance of their work.“ silencedsciencestories.com?trk=feed_mai...

Experience with measles vaccine mandates in Germany. There is a lot to address in the future but overall positiv reports from involved parties. www.rki.de/DE/Aktuelles... www.tagesschau.de/wissen/gesun...

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For over 75 years, WHO has been at the heart of global health, saving lives and building a healthier world: 🔗 bit.ly/4i4FD0i #HealthForAll

Happy to join the Editorial Board of @commspsychol.bsky.social Interesting health/misinfo/science denialism research going on? You might wanna consider CP. www.nature.com/commspsychol/

Virtual contact between U.S. non-Muslim and Muslim students from MENA and SE Asia regions demonstrates that online interactions can effectively reduce prejudice and dehumanization. @shirahebelsela.bsky.social @boazhameiri.bsky.social @eranhalperin75.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

So much potential knowledge flushed down the toilette.. www.science.org/content/arti...

#sciencedenialism If denialism kills your own voters...you start to realise something truly amazing: VACCINES WORK! Fox News Opinion Piece: MMR vaccine is crucial to avoiding potentially deadly disease www.foxnews.com/opinion/robe...

I knew I had seen the Trump Zelensky scene before... Well basically every US movie starts with some rich ignorant dude humiliating the hero...

"Man without suit encountered suit without man."

If you want to control it then you need to isolate it… www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-wh...

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

Excellent vaccine attitudes article flagging dismissive health encounters as trigger to turn to misinformation! The JITSUVAX project and training is all about tackling this - great we are cited in the piece. jitsuvax.com jitsuvax.info @jitsuvax.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

“The problem was not what our enemies did, but what our friends did.” 1933 Hannah Arendt. It is the silence... the hiding away from conflict that does the damage. 🇺🇦🇪🇺 Russia could not break Ukraine... but its "friends" might... www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdCV...

@briannosek.bsky.social just posted this on LinkedIn. Do not save and share your work exlusively in journals or on gov. Platforms. OSF can help and many other initiatives from the community for the community. Knowledge will find its way and we can help.

Während die #Klimakatastrophe derzeit keine Rolle spielt, dreht sich die Spirale in der Natur weiter.

"The monological belief system model suggests that developing a belief in one conspiracy theory will cause them to be more likely to believe in others." Evidence for this was usually based on single surveys. Nice to see a more convincing test of that idea. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Science is for everyone. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#Mansplaining: “to explain something to a woman in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner, typically to a woman already knowledgeable about the topic” #Vanceplaining: mansplaining states already knowledgeable about the topic www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Alarming read. No business as usual: “I am publishing this piece anonymously. The very fact that I am having to publish this anonymously in a country that has the right to free speech written into our Constitution is an indictment of what is happening.” www.bmj.com/content/388/...

"Donald Trump's actions are a sweeping and damaging attack on the health of the American people and those dependent on US foreign assistance." We need community, resistance and cooperation now more than ever. I know people are tired but public health needs you. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Diseases don't care about sovereignty...I thought we have learned that lesson often enough...but no: “We Argentinians will not allow an international organization to intervene in our sovereignty, much less in our health,” edition.cnn.com/2025/02/05/a...

I think I usually have at least 80% of these terms in my work… wearing that fact like a badge of honor! Already thinking about a paper title that has them all #catchthemall

Health misinformation is way less of a problem if accurate information is easily accessible. Absence of info is a public health problem. Really worrying to see this healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/01...

Very good thread on microtargeting!

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

This is gonna hurt global health on a massive scale. “the U.S., the organization’s largest contributor, providing about 18% of its total funding” healthpolicy-watch.news/u-s-to-exit-...

Check out our new publication on trust in scientists in 68 countries! Proud that I was part of this great initiative lead by the amazing Viktoria Cologna and Niels G. Mede 👇🏽

Seriously. I sue drug companies, you don't have to tell me they suck, nor explain to me the risks of pharmaceuticals. But vaccines are different, they're like stealing fire from the Gods and burning plagues with it. Their benefit/risk ratio is downright magical.

Die "Welt"-Verantwortlichen stellen Rechtsaußen-Milliardär Elon Musk einen Freifahrtschein aus, um per Gastbeitrag Wahlwerbung für die AfD zu machen. Renommee der "Welt" wird gerade mit lautem Scheppern in die Mülltonne befördert: www.djv.de/news/pressem...