This paper argues that misinformation research needs to move beyond studies of a few wealthy countries and online samples to include diverse, real-world information environments worldwide in order to produce more accurate and effective insights. I agree!
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1/ Last week, the US flag was lowered at WHO headquarters in Geneva after the US officially left.
Over 10 years ago, I checked into that same building as a young epidemiologist. I remember photographing the UN flags, feeling proud to work toward a healthier world with other countries.
From calculus and geometry to biological paradigm shifts and modern AI, the search for proof is a tangled story of faith and reason.
My new article for Psyche Magazine: psyche.co/ideas/why-th...
🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
Last night, I tried to write about evidence-based solutions. I was originally trained as a violence epidemiologist, am married to a police officer, and am a mom. I know there are things we can do.
I wrote it.
Deleted it.
Rewrote it.
Λειτουργία της εξόδου κινδύνου
Normal Greeks: “emergency exit procedure.”
Me, a late antique Hellenist: “liturgy of the exodus of danger.”
OP was a list of resources on the myth of the Dark Ages.
The "conflict thesis" used to be common, yes.
And if you're never going to read recent historians - basically anyone since Gibbon - who have tested that hypothesis, of course you'll continue to entertain ideas that were popular in the 18th century. Like many beliefs, it seems so self-evident.
Please don't go on until you've actually read any recent historian on those topics. The state also performed executions. Why is that not used as evidence of constant systemic persecution.
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There certainly were instance of conflict, but the Church didn't have any means to enforce any beliefs except where the emperor held power. It tried to play a gatekeeping role on doctrine (until the Gutenberg press made that impossible), but actual enforcement relied on secular law and rulers.
Beautiful meditation on finding life and beauty in the cracks! Oh sorry, that's kintsugi 😉
Doesn't it raise any flags for you that in 2000 years, there are two or three examples which are assumed to be paradigmatic? These conflicts of interest weren't somehow intrinsic to the religion. Galileo was religious himself. Please, read/listen to the articles being cited in the post first.
Still coming to the precise opposite conclusion as the sources. Seb Falk is a historian of science. Maybe his opinion ought to carry a little weight?
So... you literally didn't read any of the articles this links to, thereby exhibiting dark age thinking?
Awesome!
“Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I have found it is small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Three schematic diagrams. The first illustrates selective publishing of internal resection, the second selective causal focus, and the third selective access and funding for researchers.
1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
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Bar chart showing the estimated number of people globally who had one of several mental health conditions. This is whether or not they were diagnosed, based on representative surveys, medical data, and statistical modeling. Anxiety is the most common mental health condition globally, with an estimated 359 million people (4.4% of the world population) suffering from an anxiety disorder in 2021 (the latest year available). Next is depressive disorders (332 million, 4%), bipolar disorder (37 million, 0.5%), schizophrenia (23 million, 0.3%) and eating disorders (16 million, 0.2%). The data source is the IHME Global Burden of Disease Study from 2024. The chart is licensed CC BY to Our World in Data.
Anxiety is the most common mental health condition globally. It’s estimated that 4% to 5% of people in the world have an anxiety disorder at any given time.
Long-term surveys in the United States suggest that around one-third of people experience an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives.
Individual experience is really not that distinctive when talking about being socialised into implicit beliefs. Eg. Which pre/non-christian cultures even have a sacred-secular divide?
I've tried that logic on the atheists I know. "You grew up Christian"; your whole worldview is Christian. Switching off God does nothing and atheism adds nothing. Didn't go down well.
This morning I spoke with Lester Kiewiet on CapeTalk about how Donald #Trump is instrumentalising Nigerian suffering to pander to his populist voter base. This has very little to do with #Nigeria it is a populist tactic that is dangerous and ill-informed.
Read here: doi.org/10.5117/KT20...
Here is a copy of the interview on Cape Talk on Donald Trump's threat to send the military into Nigeria, supposedly to protect Christians.
I would be grateful for your thoughts and feedback:
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
All Royal Society journal content is freely available this week for open access week @royalsocietypublishing.org
from cyberselfish by paulina borsook: It's an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with the demands of participating in society, which coincides beautifully with a preference for, and glorification of, being the solo comman- der of one's computer in lieu of any other economically viable be- havior. Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.
2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint.
She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:
Well, people have always loved to hear about royal families doing royal things and buying merch saying "Keep Calm and Carry On"
OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
