Creating the US SA was always and obviously the idea.

People need to study the humanities, case study number one million.

BlueSky is a bad site used by good people. That describes most social media sites. But BlueSky is egregiously unethical. Any of you can be disappeared for baseless reasons. I've been on social media for 17 years and never been suspended. BlueSky is the first place to do so – over Johnny Cash lyrics.

"Demokratiet hviler ikke bare på stemmesedler, men på at borgerne kan lese, tolke, og tenke selv. Derfor er kampen for lesing ikke bare en kamp om skoletimer eller biblioteksbudsjetter, det er en kamp for fremtiden" 📖: www.utdanningsnytt.no/bibliotek-de...

Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals. This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.

The percentage of Americans who say religion is an important part of their lives declined from 66% in 2015 to 49% in 2025. Among the fastest declines in the world. news.gallup.com/poll/697676/...

"Det er alt for farleg å bruke det i yrke der kunnskap er viktig, og det gjeld veldig mange yrke: Journalistikk, utdanning, forsking, prosjektarbeid og mykje anna." Takk for at du bruker den faglige tyngden din til å si klart i fra @jilltxt.bsky.social 💚

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

Et tilleggspoeng: media klipper og redigerer omtrent alle sitater av Trump. Det er nødvendig fordi han kommuniserer i en uendelig strøm av usammenhengende haranger. Som regel kommer dette Trump til gode, ved at han fremstår mer rasjonell og sammenhengende enn han er (sanewashing).

8/ The Kremlin is conducting multiple information operations against the Baltic states as it did to justify the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, likely as part of Phase Zero conditions-setting for a possible attack on the Baltic states at some point in the future.

We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI. We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research! Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in one month of "ceasefire." Gardens, homes, entire neighborhoods turned to dust www.bbc.com/news/article...

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

New report identifies major surge in water-related conflicts. Violence over water is reported in every region of the world. Pacific Institute releases an update to the Water Conflict Chronology, now documenting over 2750 cases over more than 4000 years. #water www.worldwater.org/water-confli...

“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…” Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza. 🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...

My two cents.

More evidence that the rise of religious nones in the US 🇺🇸 has reached a plateau (for now)

Fascists are so basic. Jews as communists, bankers, pornographers, and godless scientists. The only one she missed was freemasons.

Samtidigt som Aktivklubb Sverige uppmärksammats för grova våldsbrott så eskalerar organisationens våldsretorik. Veckans Studio Expo om våldsnatten i Stockholm och aktivklubbarnas våldsamma utveckling.

As if the SCOTUS decision wasn't bad enough, the 6th circuit said "hold my beer" and explicitly created a constitutional right to bully trans kids who are already at tremendous risk of self harm and suicide. These judges want dead trans kids.

Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning

It is *obscene* that that beast wearing the skin of a man called Elon Musk was just awarded a trillion dollar pay-package after he personally signed the death warrant of hundreds of thousands of innocents earlier this year.

Here’s the quirky paper: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1... And here’s to those who keep working to support visibility of, awareness about, and accountability for this fascist movement and its leaders and henchmen.

Shout-out to the best possible team of co-authors: Elisa Tognon, @kenzonera.bsky.social, @rritabajraktari.bsky.social, Vincent Yzerbyt, @olivierklein.bsky.social, and Klein Pit (who originally started this project). OA here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

They are destroying what SHE built. #TeenVogue

Last week, MIT released a sketchy, vendor-funded report claiming more than 80% of ransomware was powered by AI. I had a deadline and didn’t get to read it when it first came out. Now I’ll never get to read it. People pointed out so many methodological problems that they pulled it offline. 1/x

"Sheffield Hallam University staff in China were threatened ... access to the university's websites from China was blocked, impeding its ability to recruit Chinese students, in a campaign of threats and intimidation lasting more than two years."

For those asking for background - I was in Sudan twice this year and wrote about it www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Antivaxxers are essentially demanding the right to spread disease to – and potentially kill – other people’s children. Republicans, perhaps desensitised after doing nothing to stop school shootings year after year, are apparently entirely okay with that.

🚨 New Blog Post Alert! Check out our latest piece by Daniel Nikolaj Madsen, "The Worrisome Hybridization of School Shooters and the Extreme Right." This thought-provoking article examines the alarming intersections of these critical issues. #SchoolShooters #ExtremeRight www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Four Bulgarian nationals were jailed in France yesterday for desecrating a Jewish Holocaust memorial. Investigators suspect they did it at the behest of the Russian govt, to drive a wedge between French Jews and French Muslims and feed support for the far-right. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

This is why we can’t have nice things

Come for the alliteration, stay for the insight.

Me (emerging from a tank I have driven through your house) now is a time for healing

Happy to share a new paper (accepted at J Environ Psych), led by the amazing @emilyspearing.bsky.social Black Summer Arson: Examining the Impact of Climate Misinformation and Corrections on Reasoning osf.io/preprints/ps... @johnfocook.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social

New article! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... am terrible at being on mat leave but ok at writing about tradwives

Switzerland strengthens crisis preparedness 🇨🇭 with the National Science Advice Network (NSAN), providing independent, evidence-based expertise in public health, cybersecurity, disinformation & international challenges. 👉 Read article here: shorturl.at/tldPY #ScienceAdvice #Covid-19

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Jeg har satt sammen en knøttliten videosamling av den visstnok forbilledlige Charlie Kirk. Jeg har i stor grad fokusert på antisemittisk sludder om at jøder sprer kulturmarxisme via akademia, media og Hollywood, og Kirk som maser om den store befolkningsutskiftningen, den type ting.

I jump into the moderation debate. I agree with @adambonica.bsky.social and @gelliottmorris.com on the methodology, but I want to draw attention to a bigger issue. The collapse of candidate effects generally. leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...

Violent J6er takes guns to Obama’s house. Trump admin says, meh, don’t prosecute. Peaceful protester is thrown to the ground by ICE agents. Trump admin says prosecute to full extent of the law.

Highlight of my week: used our game Fake Plots! to teach my students about cognitive biases, psychological needs, and how to spread misinformation… laughed so much! Most creative people! sites.google.com/view/the-phi... #philsky

Western intelligence agencies are tracking “active clubs” — neo-fascist fight clubs now in 27 countries, according to a GPAHE report. Born from an American neo-Nazi gang, they’re expanding across borders building a transnational movement that officials see as a growing security threat. Read more:

Yes, Lord of the Rings is about how you must trust the “hard men.” Just as Narnia is about an evil lion. And the New Testament tells a tale of a wimp who wouldn’t fight back. Next week on “fascists read classics,” we’ll meet tech visionary George Orwell…

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it” Willful ignorance is also motivated by social identity concerns--it is driven by ingroup favoritism + outgroup derogation and fuels conspiracy belies. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Every time.

In less than 24 hours Tucker’s interview with Nick Fuentes is at almost 10 million views on X. Most Carlson interviews get ~3 million total if they’re lucky; Fuentes is on track to easily eclipse top interviews w/Sam Altman, the president of Iran & Ted Cruz (12, 27 & 40 million total)

The second part of our investigation into the neo-Nazi Rope Culture web server has everything you could ask for: a Nazi arrested for child pornography, a painting by a Nazi leader, a Nazi editor getting mad at a Nazi writer for sloppy writing, and Facebook amplifying a Nazi website.