🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 Miculka, A., & Imhoff, R. (2026). Dyadic Dynamic in Generalized Political Attitudes: Homophily, Relationship Satisfaction, and Convergence. International Review of Social Psychology, 39(1): 5, 1–15. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/irsp...

"a different approach"?? That's like saying Jeffrey Dahmer took "a different approach" to meeting his caloric requirements.

For decades, birthday party clowns folded balloons and played games. John Wayne Gacy is taking a different approach.

You can read more about our research here: doi.org/10.1525/coll...

1/The Antichrist raises a man from the dead and preaches, prompted by Satan. Frescoes by Luca Signorelli, San Brizio chapel, Orvieto Cathedral, around 1500

I told the BBC AI has enabled Iran to communicate with Western audiences more effectively than ever before - tools largely trained on Western data are creating "culturally appropriate" content "authoritarian countries wanting to target the West have lacked in the past". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Det er i dag 12 år siden Russland invaderte Ukraina, og vi har fremdeles ikke tatt inn over oss alvoret.

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

The great Steve Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social presented cutting-edge new work at the Cambridge Disinformation Summit with @almogsi.bsky.social showing how alienating us vs them rhetoric predicts real-world violent outcomes across 145 political manifestos between 1796 & 2024. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Viktig sak: Hvor lett det er å fjerne noen fra det offentlige (som har private selskaper som tilbyder av infrastruktur) ved å publisere drit i kommentarfeltene for innholdet. Er man opptatt av kunnskapsformidling er det kroneksempel på følgene av en privatisert offentlighet

A primer on Hungary’s electoral system. Hungary has a mixed-member pseudo proportional electoral system. 106 elected in first past the post constituencies 93 by proportional representation in closed lists 1/

While reading the news from Budapest, take a moment to look at this photo of Hungarian-American Bela Lugosi at an antifascist rally in Los Angeles during the war.

The success of the U.S. vaccination system depends on two fundamental pillars: parents trusting in vaccines and children having access to them. Under RFK Jr., both are in peril.

“[It’s not a] brilliant attack on Western democracy. The story, it appears, is that the Russian Mafia state is cultivating profit-yielding relationships with the aspiring Mafia boss of the U.S. and his band of crooks, subverting democratic institutions in the process.” @mashagessen.bsky.social 2019:

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Meanwhile, the international press is using Israel’s fake language & euphemisms. These are all headlines from the international media. It’s not a ground operation’ or a ‘security buffer zone’. It’s an INVASION. These are war crimes. 2/

🧵 New report just dropped 🚨 "Fractured Reality: How Democracy Can Win the Global Struggle Over the Information Space" — from the EU Joint Research Centre, led by Mario Scharfbillig and I. A landmark read for anyone working on disinformation, platforms & democracy. 👇 1/10

Donald Trump kunne ha stormet inn i studio, skutt Jake Tapper, og Mark Rutte hadde erklært full støtte. Ruttes servilitet oppmunterer Trumps aggresjon. Han truet med en ny krig i natt. Målet ikke spesifisert, men det er ikke så viktig. Selve krigen, å utøve amerikansk dominans, er grunn i seg selv.

A lot of my work is in tourism and I recently presented a report to one travel company about how Google's AI summary misrepresented some of their destinations. Highlights included: - Inventing non-existent parking - Inventing a dinner course included in the price - Inventing a whole-ass LAKE

RIP. I will never forget the police brutalizing him — and then that one cop stopping the other cop from helping him

I'm sorry but, if you could just remind me, who is it that's doing this? #Lebanon

“The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” www.cnbc.com/2026/04/08/s...

Russians continue their human safari in Kherson, hunting and killing civilians every day. Recently, a Russian drone unit known as "Rubikon," notorious for its skill, brutality, and ruthlessness, has been deployed to the area.

This study shows that disinformation spreads, not as “false facts”, but as narratives. Compare that to how mis- and disinformation are often operationalized in the big-N quantitative and experimental research in the Nature/Science journals — that’s a major weakness in the field.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “A fourth center of global power is quickly emerging — Iran,” writes the political scientist Robert Pape.

New in Nature Human Behaviour: How Deceptive Online Networks Reached Millions in the US 2020 Elections www.nature.com/articles/s41... -Reached at least 37M Facebook and 3M Instagram users -3 networks out of 49 responsible for >70% of users reached -Exposed users older, more conservative

"Israel’s Latest Genocide Is Against the Shias of Lebanon. Why Is the World Silent?" Lebanon’s Christians are being told by the Israeli military to get rid of any displaced Shias hiding in their homes or villages. Haven’t we seen this story before, and don’t we all know how it ends? My latest:

BREAKING @Narjes_Rahmati The US-Israel have just bombed Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran's most prestigious school for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Iran's "MIT", its graduates are sought after by universities and companies globally.

[Trump posts a fully nude selfie showing him smoking crack minutes before launching nuclear missiles at Iran] NYT: In a bold statement aimed at the Iranian regime hardliners and at Democrats ahead of the midterms, the President this morning sent a clear message.....

Two weeks ago, the Hungarian opposition was bracing for a false flag operation, an "emergency" that would allow Viktor Orban to turn the tide or even cancel an election he is losing. Now it appears to have arrived

Burned the midnight oil to get this ready in time, but on Monday we've got another installment in our (critically acclaimed) "Who the Hell?" series hitting the Posting Through It main feed. These take forever to make and aim to be definitive bios of key MAGA figures. www.patreon.com/posts/094-wh...

It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.

One of my favorite “history fun facts” I often share in class is that Notre Dame is called “the fighting Irish” because in 1924, UND students beat the shit out of a local Klan that tried to harass them for being Catholic. stories.nd.edu/stories/a-cl...

Today we have "The Land Holds Truth: Searching for Unmarked Graves at Indian Residential Schools" by @archaeomapper.bsky.social The latest in our Land, Memory, & Schooling: Env. Histories of Colonial Education series, edited by C. Fraser & @jdunkin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/04/03/t...

Errors present in 45% of AI generated reports of news stories 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

“go back to the moon but this time we have really good cameras” was a fantastic idea

“‘All I’m going to say is that I stand by my decision,’ she said… “Much of the audience at the board meeting broke into cheers and applause after her statement. Chants of ‘shame’ were heard as board members voted to fire her...” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

When you have senior white male military officers willing to end their career by raising concerns about the blocking of Black and female officers, it feels safe to say this isn't about ending DEI: the better historical parallel is Wilson's resegregation of the bureaucracy bsky.app/profile/nbcn...

You may have heard about the dangerously theocratic New Apostolic Reformation. But you may not have heard of many of the leaders of the movement. To help, @profgagne.bsky.social and I have compiled a list of two dozen top apostles, for handy reference. religiondispatches.org/2026/04/02/m...

11/12 Across all three papers, the same pattern: transparency — simply telling people they're being manipulated — reduces AI-driven influence at best partially, and often not at all. This is a critical problem, because the EU AI Act relies heavily on transparency as its main tool.

🧵 3 papers by me & my team Ullrich Ecker Fabio Carrella Emily Spearing Almog Simchon ask an urgent question: if you tell people they're being manipulated by AI — deepfakes, AI-written articles, microtargeted ads — is the manipulation defanged? Thread 👇 1/10

Just what we don't need. Already, our rivers are overloaded with both human and livestock waste, leading in many cases to #rivercide. Now the government, responding as always to lobbyists, wants to make it worse. Then it wonders why it loses public support. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ETC har kartlagt Sverigedemokraternas stormavdelning.

China and Russia to emerge as the biggest winners from America's murder/suicide.

Konspi-entreprenører som Silje Schevig må tas på alvor. Det er det @olejacobmadsen.bsky.social gjør i denne glimrende teksten. Morsom er den også. www.psykologtidsskriftet.no/artikkel/202...

The medical examiner in Buffalo has ruled that the death of a nearly blind man left alone by Border Patrol agents on a frigid night was a homicide, a finding that could lead to criminal charges.

It seems we just bombed some residential buildings in an attempt to kill a former diplomat who was trying to facilitate negotiations. A civilian trying to *end* hostilities, surrounded by other civilians in their homes. We are completely lost.

Ben Gvir's equivalent in US politics would be literally if the leader of the Aryan Nations splinter group The Order were elected to Congress and given a cabinet position instead of dying in a shootout with the FBI. It's difficult to explain how much of a supremacist extremist Ben Gvir is.

A quick reminder that no matter what the Roberts Court does in the birthright citizenship case, they still allowed US science and innovation to be gutted this year. Cancer and Alzheimer’s research has been destroyed because of the Court’s extremism.