Stephan Lewandowsky
@lewan.bsky.social
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Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Bristol. Homepage:
https://www.lewan.uk
Great snappy documentary (12 minutes) about misinformation by the Expedition team
www.joinexpeditions....
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Explore the library of knowledge
Meet the world's best researchers. Enjoy conversations with leading academics, scientists and thinkers. From climate change to genetics, from AI to feminism, from economic growth to the exoplanets, discover the issues that matter to them, to us and to the world.
https://www.joinexpeditions.com/
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)
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This is absolutely the best thing Iāve ever read about elite news-media bothsiderism, as well the relationship between knowledge-production and journalism. Itās also filled w gossip and so human! 10/10
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
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Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist
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Annika Brockschmidt
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The man who has caused this will now be a trillionaire. 600.000 deaths, two thirds of them children.
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Anne Applebaum
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Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
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Ian Dunt
3 days ago
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boosting-the-british-right-13464487#
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George Monbiot
1 day ago
1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.š§µ
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James OāBrien
3 days ago
A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boosting-the-british-right-13464487
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Great thread. Donāt wake the dead
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD
3 days ago
For each additional moralāemotional word in a social media post, the number of shares increases 13% Our new meta-analysis finds robust evidence of moral contagion (N=4,821,006) The moral contagion effect is even stronger in larger, pre-registered studies (17%).
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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Lesley Abravanelš„šŖ©
3 days ago
Trump Dreams of Bringing Orwellian Nightmare to Life: Similar vanity projects sprouted up in Nazi Germany, in Saddam Husseinās Iraq, in Orbanās Hungary, and in many other countries that have fallen into the clutches of totalitarian leaders.
sfreporter.com/columns/lett...
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Trump Dreams of Bringing Orwellian Nightmare to Life
White House Ballroom demolition, Triumphal Arch are a tribute to Big Orange
https://sfreporter.com/columns/letters-to-the-editor/trump-dreams-of-bringing-orwellian-nightmares-to-life/
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We live in an era of democratic backsliding and autocratization. Scholars and researchers are among those in the firing line. How should they respond? We will provide hints & guidance in a webinar on 13 November for the European Geophysical Union: You can register here:
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How scientists can respond to autocratisation
<p>We live in an era of democratic backsliding and autocratisation, in which science is increasingly under politically-motivated attack. This webinar will provide an overview of how scientists can respond and safeguard their work. The webinar will last for 1.5 hours with time for audience Q&A. This webinar is based on The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: developed by an international group of researchers, led by psychologist and disinformation expert Stephan Lewandowsky, the handbook serves as a call to action, a toolbox, and a survival guide for scholars in politically hostile environments.</p><p>Please register for this online event using the link at the bottom of the webpage.</p>
https://www.egu.eu/webinars/646/how-scientists-can-respond-to-autocratisation/
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Ed Davey
5 days ago
Itās clear to anyone paying attention that Farage gets an easy ride from the media. They give him as much airtime as he wants but never hold him to account for the damage heās done. So much of whatās broken in Britain is thanks to Nigel Farage.
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David Gura
5 days ago
āThere are some people who hate London, and hate New York,ā Mayor Sadiq Khan told me, on Bloomberg TV. āThere's a reason why they demonize London, and now, indeed, New York. Why? Because we are progressive cities. We are liberal cities. We are multicultural cities. And we are incredibly successful.ā
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Naja Bentzen
6 days ago
As pressures on democracy and our infosphere continue to grow, the role of scientists is increasingly politicised and at risk.
@egu.eu
's webinar on 13 November, featuring
@lewan.bsky.social
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www.egu.eu/webinars/646...
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How scientists can respond to autocratisation
<p>We live in an era of democratic backsliding and autocratisation, in which science is increasingly under politically-motivated attack. This webinar will provide an overview of how scientists can res...
https://www.egu.eu/webinars/646/how-scientists-can-respond-to-autocratisation/
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We live in an era of democratic backsliding and autocratization. Scholars and researchers are among those in the firing line. How should they respond? We will provide some hints and guidance int his webinar on 13 November for the European Geophysical Union:
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How scientists can respond to autocratisation
<p>We live in an era of democratic backsliding and autocratisation, in which science is increasingly under politically-motivated attack. This webinar will provide an overview of how scientists can respond and safeguard their work. The webinar will last for 1.5 hours with time for audience Q&A.Ā </p><p>Please register for this online event using the link at the bottom of the webpage.</p>
https://www.egu.eu/webinars/646/how-scientists-can-respond-to-autocratisation/
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Michael E. Mann
8 days ago
Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:
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The Contrarian
9 days ago
"When authoritarian leaders destroy the symbols of democracy, they are preparing to destroy its substance. Their goal is to raise doubts about who this country belongs to, and make us believe that it doesnāt belong to us."
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Authoritarians donāt get the last word
That's why we are fighting back on every front.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/authoritarians-dont-get-the-last
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Lisa Oswald
10 days ago
We have a new preprint:
osf.io/preprints/so...
What have we learned about social media - the constantly moving target of empirical research - over the past decade?
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Ullrich Ecker
9 days ago
Happy to share a new paper (accepted at J Environ Psych), led by the amazing
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Black Summer Arson: Examining the Impact of Climate Misinformation and Corrections on Reasoning
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8uv2n_v2
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Phil McDuff
10 days ago
It's not confused and it's not hapless. They got what they wanted and got the center-right to establish it as the new common m normal. Then, consistent with the behaviour of all right wing racists for the last century, they refused to take yes for an answer and upped their demands.
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Kai Kupferschmidt
10 days ago
"Access to data by researchers is a crucial element of ensuring transparency and democratic accountability,ā
@lewan.bsky.social
says. āThe public is entitled to know what platforms and their algorithms are doing to the information landscape.ā I wrote for
@science.org
about Meta, TikTok and the DSA š§Ŗ
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Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchersā access to data, European Commission rules
Data are needed to study how social media spreads misinformation and influences elections, scientists say
https://www.science.org/content/article/meta-and-tiktok-are-obstructing-researchers-access-data-european-commission-rules
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Kate Starbird
12 days ago
Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Data Visualizations as Propaganda: Tracing Lineages, Provenance, and Political Framings in Online Anti-Immigrant Discourse | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Along with other visual content, data visualizations are increasingly used within online discourse, including political communication. Though often considered to be ''objective'', data visualizations ...
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3757574
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Almog Simchon
11 days ago
This project wouldnāt have come together without the amazing team -- Tomer Zipori and
@louisteitelbaum.bsky.social
for the heavy lifting and computational analysis,
@lewan.bsky.social
for his insight, and
@profsanderlinden.bsky.social
whose vision made this possible. Truly grateful for this!
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Sander van der Linden
11 days ago
New Bayesian *Meta-Analysis* of Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation! Open-access šThread! Buckle up
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
ā We find that prebunking interventions improve people's ability to discern between reliable & unreliable news without causing undue skepticism!
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Kit Yates
12 days ago
āScience is never settledā sounds reasonableābut itās often a rhetorical trick to undermine consensus on issues like vaccines or climate change. Science evolves, but some things are overwhelmingly supported by evidence. My latest for Live Science
www.livescience.com/...
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There is such a thing as 'settled science' ā anyone who says otherwise is trying to manipulate you
How bad-faith arguments sow doubt by weaponizing scientific humility.
https://www.livescience.com/human-behavior/politics/there-is-such-a-thing-as-settled-science-anyone-who-says-otherwise-is-trying-to-manipulate-you-opinion
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WatchYourRepsSC
12 days ago
Americaās Democracy Meets A Wrecking Ball
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Americaās Democracy Meets A Wrecking Ball
Trump isnāt governing; heās demolishing. From bulldozing the East Wing to deploying troops in American cities, his wrecking-ball presidency thrives because no one dares stop him.
https://open.substack.com/pub/meidastouch/p/americas-democracy-meets-a-wrecking?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
13 days ago
A particularly insidious form of attacks on science by the Trump administration:
@lewan.bsky.social
describes "another of at least 318 actions against science that the second Trump administration has taken since the president took office in January 2025."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Trojan gold: New US āstandardā is another veiled attack on science
Transparency, reproducibility, and acknowledging uncertainty are meritorious attributes of science that differentiate it from other human endeavors, such as politics. But they can also be subverted. I...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeb9857
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Alan Rusbridger
13 days ago
The Washington Post thinks the White House Ballroom is a splendid idea and anyone who thinks otherwise is a NIMBY. In other news Post owner Jeff Bezos is helping to pay for the Ballroom
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Michael E. Mann
13 days ago
Plutocrats, petrostates, polluters & propagandists who profit from the status quo don't care if you fall victim to denial, deflection, division, or despair. Same result: disengagement. Read
#ScienceUnderSiege
by
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
& yours truly:
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...
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Science Under Siege
In this āwell-researched guide,ā twoĀ of the worldās most respected scientists reveal the forces behind the dangerous anti-science move...
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/michael-e-mann/science-under-siege/9781541705517/
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Thomas Zimmer
13 days ago
Sunday Reading: A Constant Torrent of Authoritarian Arrogance, Corruption, and Complicity American politics is an exasperating, frenzied, and acutely dangerous mess. Letās sort through the events of the past week to separate what matters from what does not. Ā Some thoughts from my new piece:
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A Constant Torrent of Authoritarian Arrogance, Corruption, Complicity
American politics is an exasperating, frenzied, and acutely dangerous mess. Letās sort through the events of the past week to separate what matters from what does not.
https://democracyamericana.com/posts/fe5acc52-4f95-444f-9a11-f3cd6d72cfc2
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Zack Polanski
14 days ago
Are the right ok? This is next level of "journalistic* " slop.
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Prof Christina Pagel
14 days ago
The Trump Action Tracker has an update! Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info
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Andrew Weinstein
15 days ago
āAuthoritarians always target art first. They do so, because art and history are enemies of the myths a regime needs to survive." From my new TIME piece on Donald Trumpās campaign to defund the arts and rewrite our history. The stakes could not be higher.
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Trumpās Campaign to Defund the Artsāand Rewrite History
"The campaign to defund the arts, capture our museums, and rewrite our history is a prelude to silencing dissent."
https://time.com/7327987/trump-defund-arts-rewrite-history/
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My latest column in Science appeared a few days ago, entitled Trojan gold: New US āstandardā is another veiled attack on science.
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
The main points are as follows: 1/n 1/9
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Trojan gold: New US āstandardā is another veiled attack on science
Transparency, reproducibility, and acknowledging uncertainty are meritorious attributes of science that differentiate it from other human endeavors, such as politics. But they can also be subverted. In the United States, an executive order from the Trump administration called Restoring Gold Standard Science illustrates how this can be achieved despite it being cloaked in language that most of the scientific community would enthusiastically support. The order seeks to āto ensure that federally funded research is transparent, rigorous, and impactful, and that Federal decisions are informed by the most credible, reliable, and impartial scientific evidence available,ā and it has already informed the Environmental Protection Agencyās (EPA) revised procedures for conducting risk evaluations for chemicals already in commerce.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aeb9857
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www.treason.io/p/news-white...
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NEWS: White House secretly assembles revenge cell for Trump w/ spy agencies & cops
Trump's team has pulled together the CIA, FBI, DHS, and other agencies as part of a "weaponization" working group.
https://www.treason.io/p/news-white-house-secretly-assembles
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Sander van der Linden
16 days ago
Public health is under attack by a deluge of misinformation. We offer a consensus report from the American Psychological Association summarizing what we know & what interventions are effective in countering it. We provide 8 concrete recommendations. Open-access -
awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Not sure the dude who's choosing pictures to go with headlines had a good day at the Financial Times:
www.ft.com/content/0...
17 days ago
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Dietram A. Scheufele
19 days ago
We warned against "political hijacking" of
#openscience
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academic.oup.com/joc/article/...
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's diagnosis in
@science.org
shows, ignoring the scholarship in this space for almost five years creates serious vulnerabilities for science and the societies it serves.
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Trojan gold: New US āstandardā is another veiled attack on science
Transparency, reproducibility, and acknowledging uncertainty are meritorious attributes of science that differentiate it from other human endeavors, such as politics. But they can also be subverted. I...
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aeb9857
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Just 2 hours to go to the Skeptics in the Theatre gig tonight in Bristol:
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James OāBrien
20 days ago
Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. Weāve been expecting youā¦
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Marc Veldhoen
21 days ago
Very good š. This describes a lot of what is going on accurately. Credit:
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Carl T. Bergstrom
22 days ago
This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted. It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed. The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasnāt asking and praising him for his insight.
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Timothy Caulfield
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Yep. New US āstandardā is another veiled attack on science
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@lewan.bsky.social
Gold standard "is thus best understood as yet another of at least 318 actions against science that the second Trump administration has taken since the president took office in January 2025."
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Trojan gold: New US āstandardā is another veiled attack on science
Transparency, reproducibility, and acknowledging uncertainty are meritorious attributes of science that differentiate it from other human endeavors, such as politics. But they can also be subverted. I...
https://science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeb9857?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=SCIeToc&et_rid=35098333&et_cid=5762787
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The London Economic
24 days ago
Calmly explain your points to them and they become incensed š
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Renee DiResta
25 days ago
I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform? Is it...requesting content moderation?
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Knock me down with a feather. What a surprise.
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Oh gosh... it's a grift. Who woulda known. The people crying "censorship" (better known as fascists in everyday language) are profiting from their lies, as revealed by
@ninajankowicz.com
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The Grifter Complex
A new censorship documentary may have paid its on-camera experts
https://wiczipedia.substack.com/p/the-grifter-complex
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George Monbiot
26 days ago
To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent ā persistence ā is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Hereās what you need to know about Starmerās illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/13/keir-starmer-protest-labour-rights-uk
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