Dr Dan Wilson ( @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social ) is suprised by how rapidly anti-vax misinfo has become mainstream and politically acceptable in the US. 🗣️ "Now they are our leaders. I didn't think it could get that far." Clip: youtube.com/shorts/8XWBClHPnXQ Full: youtube.com/watch?v=QJB2HGVBaeA ⚛️🧪

The Science Counterpunch just landed! We chat to Dr Dan Wilson ( @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social ) about how anti-vax misinfo has become mainstream, how journos and politicians ask ineffective questions to cranks, and how to Debunk with Funk! Check it out! Full: youtube.com/watch?v=QJB2... ⚛️🧪

The Science Counterpunch just landed! We chat to Dr Dan Wilson ( @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social ) about how anti-vax misinfo has become mainstream, how journos and politicians ask ineffective questions to cranks, and how to Debunk with Funk! Check it out! Full: youtube.com/watch?v=QJB2... ⚛️🧪

Here's a short teaser video Clip: youtube.com/shorts/EjD2_... Full: youtube.com/watch?v=nopk... ⚛️🧪

The BASE collaboration at @cern.bsky.social has successfully transported loose, anti-matter particles by road for the first time! Anti-matter delivery is a reality! If you want to understand the latest developments, check out the explainer video here: youtube.com/watch?v=nopk... ⚛️🧪

The BASE collaboration at @cern.bsky.social has successfully transported loose, anti-matter particles by road for the first time! Anti-matter delivery is a reality! If you want to understand the latest developments, check out the explainer video here: youtube.com/watch?v=nopk... ⚛️🧪

If you haven’t given this a listen, make sure you do. @gregggonsalves.bsky.social is a treasure trove of knowledge and compassion with deep insights into the myriad problems facing science and public health. @badboyofscience.bsky.social & @philippmarkolin.bsky.social - great work with the series!

Tomorrow, Director Bhattacharya is hosting the inaugural "Scientific Freedom" Lecture with Matt Ridley sharing his perspectives on the search for the origin of Covid-19 (and hawking his book on the subject published in 2022). 1/3

The BS detector has already exploded. SO MANY LIES.

Life long AIDS activist and epidemiologist Prof @gregggonsalves.bsky.social says the time is now to stand up for public health. YOU can do something: protest, write letters, organise! 🗣️ "What did you do during those times?" Clip: youtube.com/shorts/mwz2s... Full: youtube.com/watch?v=iiej... ⚛️🧪

Great discussion with life long AIDS activist and epidemiologist Prof @gregggonsalves.bsky.social about the destruction of public health in the US and how we can push back! Gregg has transformed global public health once and he's looking to do it again! Full: youtube.com/watch?v=iiejPpoPl4E ⚛️🧪

Great discussion with life long AIDS activist and epidemiologist Prof @gregggonsalves.bsky.social about the destruction of public health in the US and how we can push back! Gregg has transformed global public health once and he's looking to do it again! Full: youtube.com/watch?v=iiejPpoPl4E ⚛️🧪

Our next episode of #ScienceCounterpunch will air tomorrow. Friday 5pm UK. We talked to @gregggonsalves.bsky.social about the capture of public-health institutions by political actors dead-set on burning down the house, what has already been destroyed for a generation, and how we can fight back.

UK particle physics and astronomy are facing “catastrophic” cuts while science spending received a record increase. Documents seen by ⁦‪@BBCNews‬⁩ suggest money has been diverted away to government research areas🧪. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

.@royalsociety president Sir Paul Nurse says the new science funding system that has allegedly led to cuts has been rushed. “Some of the problems that have arisen could have been avoided if things had just been taken more slowly, in a more considered way."🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Archaeologist @flintdibble.bsky.social explains how pseudo-archaeology leverages - often false - historical catastrophes to attract disillusioned viewers. 🗣️ "We are all worried about the end of the world right now!" Clip: youtube.com/shorts/fI5mjc8Hifo Full: youtube.com/watch?v=LUEUZf0s0lE ⚛️🧪

Archaeologist @flintdibble.bsky.social explains how pseudo-archaeology leverages - often false - historical catastrophes to attract disillusioned viewers. 🗣️ "We are all worried about the end of the world right now!" Clip: youtube.com/shorts/fI5mjc8Hifo Full: youtube.com/watch?v=LUEUZf0s0lE ⚛️🧪

RFK Jr has always been extremely weird and cringe and it’s incredible to see both MAGAs and Very Serious Scientists like Jay Bhattacharya twist themselves in knots to pretend this is normal, cool even, totally not nanny state shit to take away your twinkies while saying vaccines cause autism.

Archaeologist @flintdibble.bsky.social explains how pseudo-archaeology leverages the conspiracies and populist, anti-expert rhetoric which plagues politics and science communication. 🗣️ "There's something deep there." Clip: youtube.com/shorts/12OfNqVbIeU Full: youtube.com/watch?v=LUEUZf0s0lE ⚛️🧪

Archaeologist @flintdibble.bsky.social explains how pseudo-archaeology leverages the conspiracies and populist, anti-expert rhetoric which plagues politics and science communication. 🗣️ "There's something deep there." Clip: youtube.com/shorts/12OfNqVbIeU Full: youtube.com/watch?v=LUEUZf0s0lE ⚛️🧪

Why do you think they call me “Tony Quark”? 🤙 🛹

Det här gäller kost och träning med. Media lyfter ständigt fram pseudovetenskap för underhållning. Idag är det tydligt att den här pseudovetenskapen och folk som blivit lurade att tro den har stor politiskt makt på många platser, inte minst USA.

Oooh the "scientists baffled" headlines are inevitably for bad articles.

FLINT AND KAYLEIGH IN THE SAME VIDEO, THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!!!

@kayleighhistory.bsky.social agrees that the media pushes pseudo archaeology for clicks. You can't blame people for being excited when major platforms also push flawed history. 🗣️ "I wasn't the only one feeling like this." Clip: youtube.com/shorts/xpSuB... Full: youtube.com/watch?v=LUEU... ⚛️🧪

Archaeologist @flintdibble.bsky.social explains how the media has always platformed pseudo-archaeology. It's seen as less insidious than climate change denial or anti-vaccine sentiments. 🗣️ "They've never not been like this." Clip: youtube.com/shorts/TeS6D... Full: youtube.com/watch?v=LUEU... ⚛️🧪

Archaeologist @flintdibble.bsky.social explains how the media has always platformed pseudo-archaeology. It's seen as less insidious than climate change denial or anti-vaccine sentiments. 🗣️ "They've never not been like this." Clip: youtube.com/shorts/TeS6D... Full: youtube.com/watch?v=LUEU... ⚛️🧪

Had a fantastic conversation on the Science Counterpunch Podcast. Check it out here!

New episode of #ScienceCounterPunch is out now. With @flintdibble.bsky.social and @kayleighhistory.bsky.social and @badboyofscience.bsky.social we tackle ancient apocalypse, alternative history, and all other archeology-themed pseudoscience. It matters. Listen: open.substack.com/pub/protagon...

History and archaeology YouTuber Kayleigh Düring explains why influencers get so angry when you debunk fantastical historical narratives. It effects their income.💰 🗣️"It's all about money. It's all about the grift." Clip: youtube.com/shorts/pHIVb... Full: youtube.com/watch?v=LUEU... 🧪⚛️

Archaeologist @flintdibble.bsky.social follows up with a great irony. Abusive pseudo archaeology influencers claiming to be cancelled are running a grift "as old as time". 🗣️"Being an antagonistic piece of f-ing shit... works!" Clip: youtube.com/shorts/Cd25i... Full: youtube.com/watch?v=LUEU... ⚛️🧪

The latest Science Counterpunch just landed! 🥊 Archaeologist @flintdibble.bsky.social and YouTuber Kayleigh Düring expose the roots of pseudo archaelogy and alt history, their damaging impacts on society, and how we can all fight back! Full discussion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUEU... ⚛️🧪

The latest Science Counterpunch just landed! 🥊 Archaeologist @flintdibble.bsky.social and YouTuber Kayleigh Düring expose the roots of pseudo archaelogy and alt history, their damaging impacts on society, and how we can all fight back! Full discussion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUEU... ⚛️🧪

If protons *and* neutrons can bind together to form atomic nuclei, why can't neutrons *alone* or protons *alone* do the same? It turns out that the answer lies in quantum mechanics and the Pauli exclusion principle. Check it out! Link: youtube.com/shorts/PFdFwbr6hL0 ⚛️🧪

If protons *and* neutrons can bind together to form atomic nuclei, why can't neutrons *alone* or protons *alone* do the same? It turns out that the answer lies in quantum mechanics and the Pauli exclusion principle. Check it out! Link: youtube.com/shorts/PFdFwbr6hL0 ⚛️🧪

A striking disconnect emerged this week over the STFC funding crisis. 🧪🔭 #UKRI framed the problem as a budget constraint, while ministers, Lords and MPs stressed protecting curiosity-driven research. Full narrative: lheurtier.github.io/STFCcuts.html

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New episode of #ScienceCounterpunch out now.

Make sure to follow, like, subscribe & comment, all the stuff that academics usually do not like to do but then how do you think other people will get to see good content? Also, go march tomorrow with @cdelawalla.bsky.social www.protagonist-science.com/p/stickly-li...

I think this conversation with @lewan.bsky.social has been incredibly interesting, insightful and intelligent, which is what most content out there is not. So you can get the full conversation here, either on YouTube or your favorite RSS podcatcher www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHz3...

We talked to @cdelawalla.bsky.social and others before, and many young & working scientists with a lot to lose are in the fight. Who is almost entirely missing are the institutions, the academic societies, the administrators and provosts and senior academics. This is disgraceful. Clip 6/6 👇

Scientists often say: “We don’t want to be political.” But when democracy and evidence are dismantled, silence is the most political choice of all. Non-action doesn’t keep science neutral. It's collaboration and just cedes the field to people who don’t care about truth. Clip 5/6 👇

Having unaccountible oligarchs in charge is bad for society, public health, democracy and honestly the planet. I mean, just look when conspiracy-driven “Twitter cranks” end up shaping public health policy, the consequences aren’t abstract. They’re measured in dead babies. Clip 4/6 👇

A handful of Silicon Valley oligarchs now dictate the information diet of hundreds of millions of people. That’s social media today The #DSA forces platforms to give researchers access to study systemic risks to #democracy Transparency isn’t censorship. It's democratic necessity Clip 3/6 👇

Platforms are not neutral public squares. They arbitrary censor users, they push agendas, they avoid accountability. That is why they hate the EU’s #DigitalServicesAct —it's forcing companies to assess and thereby admit(!!) the societal risks of their algorithms for 450M Europeans. Clip 2/6 👇

Highlights from today's #ScienceCounterpunch Misinformation is like cognitive glitter Once it’s in your brain, you never fully get rid of it In this clip, cognitive psychologist @lewan.bsky.social explains why debunking lies is so hard, especially when repetition makes them feel true Clip 1/6 👇

@lewan.bsky.social explains how science protects against tyranny in a democracy. 🗣️"The Trumpian disdain for science isn't coincidental [...]. It's central." 🗣️"This is how you dismantle democracy." Clip: youtube.com/shorts/YNNbscKvoY0 Full: youtube.com/watch?v=nHz3SXsJb_E ⚛️🧪