Hello Bluesky friends & colleagues. I don’t normally post about my papers but thought it fitting that my first message draws attention to why I am here and not on X. A study we’ve just published on conspiracy thinking, fake news & epistemic trust: journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

The role of epistemic trust and epistemic disruption in vaccine hesitancy, conspiracy thinking and the capacity to identify fake news

Epistemic trust ‐ defined as readiness to regard knowledge, communicated by another agent, as significant, relevant to the self, and generalizable to other contexts–has recently been applied to the fi...

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Exploring potential benefits of social media in an autistic adults population. If you are an #autistic adult living in the UK pl consider taking part in our study on online masking & authentic self-presentation & its relationship to autistic wellbeing. @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social

Dr Georgia Pavlopoulou@jopavlopoulou.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our team is collecting data on autistic wellbeing, masking and social media- if you are #autistic pls consider taking part redcap.idhs.ucl.ac.uk/surveys/?s=9...

Hello to all new followers First gen academic, 11 years in the UK I research, teach & train on neurodiversity and mental health Passionate about creative community based participatory methods Funded on a/preventing depression in #adhd #autistic students b/interpersonal therapy with autistic adults

Is it possible to create a different space / way of communicating on Bluesky (or similar), or is a pull towards an attention economy (& everything that brings) an inevitable consequence of scale?

Trying to figure out what Bluesky is: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

X users jump to Bluesky - but what is it and who owns it? - BBC Sounds

The social media is picking up one million new users every day at its current rate.

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