I hope Vivian knows it's not really her. It would have happened anyway. It could have easily been a barista who gave him the wrong coffee, wind that blew the wrong way, an ant on the ground. Blaming her for his politics is part of the intentional harm he want to cause her. Abusers abuse. Always.

To channel @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social , there is a lot of bad news around, which makes us forget all the progress we have been making. Just look at these two maps. Sure, much more needs to be done, but progress has been made and that is why they are so angry!

This is more confirmation that today’s Republican Party, and the Trump administration, is on the right side of the global far-right. Whereas Trump 1.0 was primarily a combination of conservatives and radical rightists, Trump 2.0 is a combination of radical rightists and extreme rightists.

A proposed Trump policy would put Russ Vought in charge of American science. Its an example of the slow creep of politicization into processes that both parties traditionally understood as needing nonpartisan and expert guidance. What can you do about it? 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-creep-...

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

Denne saken om konspiteoriene rundt Shada er verdt å lese. (VGs versjon er derimot så "moderne" at den er nærest uleselig for dem som er interessert i tekst og fakta, og ikke bilder). www.faktisk.no/faktasjekk/f...

Roughly two more weeks to apply!

This is bad. Three Washington state protesters have been found guilty of federal conspiracy charges for sitting in front of a bus taking people to an immigration detention center in Tacoma, and now face 6 years. Six others took plea deals rather than going to trial. newrepublic.com/post/211138/...

The sheer irony.

"In addition to being morally abhorrent, this method is as likely to succeed as...bombing a handful of McDonald's in Dallas, Texas, and claiming that you've made America healthy again"

A new paper in Nature finds that engagement-based algorithms on social media amplifies intergroup, moralized and emotional (IME) information + toxic content relative to reverse-chronological feeds, with the largest increases in moral outrage and political content. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In light of the ongoing situation with Ebola in the DRC, I'm sorry to have to remind you that evolutionary biology makes it abundantly clear that ignoring a catastrophic disease outbreak because it's there, not here, is a terrible, terrible idea.

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

A handful of classic social psychology studies have seeped into pop culture—these studies have developed an almost mythological status in the field and in society. We debunked 5 of the biggests myths in the field in our recent newsletter: www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/debunking-...

The U. of Florida reviewed more than 1,200 general education classes and stripped nearly 500 active courses from the list, records show. That included every class offered by the Women’s Studies and African American Studies departments and most history and literature offerings. wapo.st/4tYfVzS

The popular myth - and assumption underlying all this placements hype -is that students are chaotic layabouts who need to be taught how to work. In fact most of my students are already performing impressive time management feats: juggling FT study with at least 1 job + often family commitments too

It was quite surprising to read the Pope’s encyclical and find it is basically an STS or media studies textbook.

How do they rise up?

Tired: Celebrating 1776 by giving guys attacking America $1.776 billion Wired: Celebrating 250 years by giving Iran $25,000,000,000

How does religiosity shape one's views about poor relief? Depends on how much money you make. In my new study w/@prri.org data @jssreligion.bsky.social, I find the link between religiosity & how one views the Bible's teaching on charity hinges on their economic position. 1/3 doi.org/10.1111/jssr...

It isn't "racial pride." The manifesto, which I'm reading right now, is a total slop-bucket of neo-Nazi accelerationism with misogynistic rants and multiple sections that are completely unfinished. It lionizes Brenton Tarrant, who murdered 51 people in a NZ mosque in 2019. nymag.com/intelligence...

This is going to be fun. kultuuriteadused.ut.ee/en/news/3rd-...

Vi har faktisk en rikskringkaster som hvitvasker brun retorikk. Det er alvorlig.

the group in question is the Society of St. Pius X, which has been on the border of a schism since the 60s, when the Church did away with the Latin Mass, had priests face the congregation, etc they come up a lot in my research on fascist Catholics in S. America in the 70s (1/?)

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

Every time I teach the MOVE bombing, students are shocked. And when I teach the aftermath involving an anthropologist who hoarded some of the remains and used them as teaching tools, they are even more shocked. And I teach in Pennsylvania. Even some students from Philly are unaware of this history

While psychopathy was positively related to both types of violent extremism, machiavellianism and narcissism predicted defensive extremist intentions. In contrast, religious fundamentalism and social dominance orientation predicted offensive extremist intentions. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This new @eurosky.social project looks really interesting. Aside from providing EU hosting of your Bluesky data, it gives you a convenient Single Sign-On to a range of open-source apps. Most are new to me, but I am intrigued by tangled.org (GitHub alternative) and leaflet.pub (Substack alternative)

When Rubio abruptly halted foreign aid last year, cleanup crews in Vietnam were forced to abandon one of the largest chemical spills in the world for weeks. Left exposed: open pits of soil contaminated with dioxin, the deadly byproduct of Agent Orange. From Pulitzer finalist “The End of Aid”:

#ChristianNationalism contains two very different ideologies. Ruiqian Li & Paul Froese show Religious Traditionalists focus on cultural values, while Christian Statists want the federal government run by Christians. #1 cited JSSR article from 2023. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1111/jssr...

IF WE TOLERATE THIS is out today! These are worrying times politically but if there's one thing I want to get across, it's that the slide into far-right nationalism is not inevitable. Please help me spread the word. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

PsyPost has covered our recent work on the impact of Nazi propaganda on the emotions of Germans nowadays. You can find the original paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Happy Birthday David Attenborough! From the earliest days of television, to controller of BBC2, to bringing the wonders, beauty and fragility of the natural world to our eyes & attention - you’re a legend! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Energy officials and experts say delays, political infighting, and underinvestment have left Kyiv unprepared for another winter of Russian strikes.

Hurra for David Attenborough i dag ❤️

Siri, oppummer hva som er feil med vår tid i én setning.

This is now what passes for “science” from the BBC. Hackneyed cliches, faux mystery, factually incorrect statements. 1. Archaeologists are, once again, “baffled” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Worse than fascism: shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/worse-than...

Alt dette med aldersgrense i sosiale medier får meg til å tenke på en ting: Aldersverifisering. I dag stoler meta et al på selvrapportering. Som få er ærlige på. Så hører jeg folk snakke om bankID. Uten å ta stilling til konseptet aldersgrense lurer jeg på om folk vet hva dette innebærer? 1/10

Den viktigste demokratiske verdien har blitt at man uten blygsel kan fremme de mest hårreisende påstandene eller meningene du kan forestille deg uten at dette skal ha noe som helst konsekvenser for deg i ettertid. Og får du pushback, går du bare og griner om å ha blitt «kansellert»

New from me: We need to update our priors and start thinking about the problem of online political violence as it is, not as it once was. So I am nailing this to the wall: 14 Theses Concerning Online Political Violence medium.com/the-berger-d...

The editorial cartoonist's pen is one of the sharpest tools in journalism, whittling issues down to basics for satire or rage. I'm proud to say that my long-ago colleague, Milt Priggee, is unafraid to shock with a tough point of view.

Disse menneskene blir modigere og slemmere av å høre talepunktene sine i offentligheten. For hver "vanlig" politiker med en konspirasjonsteori om Arbeiderpartiet eller folk som jobber i offentlig sektor som sådan føler de seg litt tøffere. De vet at viktige folk støtter dem. Så ber de deg henge deg.

New deep dive from me into the anti-science movement, it's structure, tactics, and impact on science and society. Some data analysis, unique testimonies, new infographics and also a first attempt at outlining broadly-agreed upon actions how to fight back. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/protagon...

Right after the 2024 election I advised everyone to join a knitting group, if they didn't already belong. Bc you defeat fascism with civil society, and sometimes knitting groups and choirs are where it remains when things Get Bad.

When people are like “haha but it must be so fun having your beat be so busy all the time!” I picture them going over a waterfall in a barrel

1/ Why do we believe conspiracy theories about the assassination attempts on Trump? After the failed attack by Cole Allen at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, conspiracy theories began to circulate, claiming it was a staged event designed to bolster Trump’s flagging approval ratings.

Reminder: when authors observe Cohen's d = 4, no they didn't. Article now retracted: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Critique: osf.io/preprints/ps... Blog on plausibility of effect sizes: trustworthy.scientific.claims/posts/if-res...