Lunch break and looking for a read? Our latest paper is out in Psychology, Crime, & Law🍷 Housing stigma: the effects of wrongful conviction and mental illness by Tianshuang Han, Kelsey Downer, Laura Fallon & Brent Snook. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Housing stigma: the effects of wrongful conviction and mental illness

We examined potential housing discrimination against exonerees with mental illness in the Canadian rental market. We sent inquiries to landlords advertising apartments online across Canada, using s...

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Reading for a coffee break ☕️: check out our lab research Replication, a Hallmark of Good Science: Unraveling the Factors that Predict Replication Success by Malcolm Grant, Brent Snook & Cathryn Button doi.org/10.20982/tqm...

Looking for some summer reading? Check out our lab's research by Madi Hynes and Brent Snook: “Potential Jurors’ Perceptions of Interrogations and Confessions in Canada.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Potential jurors’ perceptions of interrogations and confessions in Canada

Canadian potential jurors (N = 377) were surveyed about their perceptions of police interrogation practices, confession evidence, and factors contributing to false confessions. Most respondents (85...

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New tool rates diet misinformation by potential for harm, not just true or false medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03... "If we can properly measure how misleading a piece of advice is and how much harm it may pose, we can build stronger safeguards..."

New tool rates diet misinformation by potential for harm, not just true or false

A new tool that not only identifies diet and nutrition misinformation online but also evaluates the content's risk for potential harm has been developed by a team of UCL researchers. The work has been...

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Read our analysis of the video showing a US Tomahawk missile strike next to Girls’ School in Iran on February 28 here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran - bellingcat

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footag...

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BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers. This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight. (🎥 Vahid Online)

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Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products to increase worker productivity | Fortune

Health experts offer a blunt warning on using tobacco products to increase productivity, saying the adverse health effects have been well documented.

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Interested in finding out more about @jaspstats.bsky.social? The Psych Methods Group at the University of Amsterdam is running four hands-on workshops (in person or online) this summer (@ejwagenmakers.bsky.social, @fbartos.bsky.social). More information at jasp-stats.org/workshops/ but to sum up:

Workshops - JASP - Free and User-Friendly Statistical Software

The JASP team is excited to support four workshops this year (2026). Each of these workshops can be attended either in person (at the University of Amsterdam) or online: On Monday August 24th, we orga...

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As a historian of science, I was raised to think rejecting science was a pathology of anti-democratic governments. Well, this might be the proof of that. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change

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Precisely, and it is surprising (?) and disappointing that this point is not made 24/7 at 100dB+ by European politicians and media who ostensibly support democracy. In the 1930s, ignorance of what is coming was an excuse. Today they cannot pretend not to know of what the fascists really want.

Ben Coates@bencoates1.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I wonder how many Dutch voters fully realize that what ICE is doing in Minnesota is *exactly* what Wilders (and van der Plas, Baudet, Eerdmans etc) would like to see happen here. It’s a free preview of what far right government actually looks like.

MAGAs: The left is escalating the rhetoric by calling us Nazis Also MAGAs: Look at our new podium, featuring a Nazi slogan about the time Nazis wiped out an entire village in Czechoslovakia and killed up to 5000 innocent people in retaliation for one Nazi being killed. "One of ours, all of yours."

“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” — George Orwell, 1984

Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess

Yep. New US “standard” 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."

Trojan gold: New US “standard” 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...

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That’s the spirit of it www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America

But don’t call that fascism. That would be bad.

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Terrific sleuthing and deep background research by @alex23.bsky.social into the horrors of "research" on autism conducted by none other than the person RFK Jr put in charge of ... you guessed it, the (non-existent) link between autism and vaccines:

From Willowbrook to the Geiers: Families Speak Out

“Once, I went down to the Geiers’ basement to use the bathroom. I saw several ladies packaging drug bottles into boxes. And in the bathroom I saw what appeared to be equipment from a chemistry lab.”

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Great feature with some thoughts from me; "The undermining of democratic institutions on display in these groups echoed fascist methods used throughout history..they are trying to undermine institutions of truth, facts & education because that is what’s standing in their way–an informed citizenry"

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Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow

It’s becoming a tragedy that we have to keep repeating this… or maybe a farce… newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/25/y...

You can lead people to data, but you can't make them think

Comment from Auckland University: Scientific evidence for human-induced climate change is beyond dispute, so why is disinformation still so rife?

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Our registered report on the impact of using norms as a lever against vaccination misinformation @collabrapsychology.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

If you're a @drilledmedia.bsky.social listener you know I think social scientists are key sources if we want to understand why governments haven't acted on climate. So imagine my nerd delight to get my hands on an incredible new batch of research on climate obstruction. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

Welcome to the World of Obstruction

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out. Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

The assault on expertise is driven by an agenda to place uniformed, ill-conceived, often politically-motivated antiscience from charlatans on an equal footing with scientific consensus. Please read #ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & me: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-un...

Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World|Hardcover

In this “well-researched guide,” two of the world’s most respected scientists reveal the forces behind the dangerous anti-science movement—and offer “powerful ideas about...

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Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · last yr.

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

Policies limiting immigration are often justified based on the idea that immigrants are more prone to violence. The evidence says otherwise. New research finds that immigrants in custody show lower criminogenic risk than U.S.-born citizens.   Read here: doi.org/10.1037/law0... #psychlaw #lawpsych

Excellent article. Telling it like it is. Kennedy is a menace to US children, adults and the US science advantage he is hosing away.

Does the Considering Offender Probability in Statements (COPS) Scale allow law enforcement to distinguish between guilty and innocent people placing 911 homicide calls? Research from the FBI BAU and Villanova University suggests it does not. Read a summary from the authors: bit.ly/3DgM3dL

"It remains an unforgettable inspiration to all those fighting for freedom. In a world where authoritarianism, nationalism, xenophobia and political lying are all on the rise, we need Animal Farm by our side more than ever now." Animal Farm at 80: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

‘Animal Farm was my parents’ teamwork’: Orwell’s son on 80 years of the satirical classic

Richard Blair on the role his mother played in developing the 1945 political fable – and how it nearly didn’t get published

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We know that a consensus of opinions is persuasive, but how reliable is this effect across people and types of consensus, and are there any kinds of claims where people care less about what other people think? This is what we tested in our new(ish) paper in @psychscience.bsky.social

The world rightfully was appalled when the Taliban blew up the 1000+ year-old Buddhas of Bamiyan. Wanton destruction of world cultural heritage by ideologically-intoxicated vandals. We may be witnessing something similar right now (except death toll will be higher): theconversation.com/...

How RFK Jr is systematically undermining vaccines around the world

Vaccines saved 154 million lives. But as fear of disease fades, so does protection – raising the chilling prospect of a return to the pre-vaccine era.

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