Robert West

@robertjwest.bsky.social

Based at UCL. Researching tobacco use, human motivation and application of AI to behavioural science. Co-founder of Behaviour Change Wheel and COM-B model.

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Robert, Rob, Bob, or Bobby West may refer to:Robert West (chemist), American professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Robert West (painter), Irish artist, draughtsman, and teacher Robert West (politician), BNP politician and founder of the Christian Council of Britain Robert West (boxer), American boxer Robert West, American football player Robert Lucius West, Irish artist, draughtsman and teacher Robert Van Osdell West Jr., American entrepreneur in the oil and gas business Robert West (psychologist), professor of health psychology at University College London Bob West, American actor Bob West, character in 1977 British comedy Adventures of a Private Eye Rob West, a candidate in the Ontario New Democratic Party candidates, 1987 Ontario provincial election Robbie West, Australian rules footballer Bobby West (boxer), American boxer, opponent of Mark Kaylor in 1983 Bobby West (musician), pianist/composer on 1972 American album A Possible Projection of the Future / Childhood's End .. more

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

This is an important and sobering read about a 1943 American pamphlet warning citizens what fascism in America would look like. Every bit of it is happening now

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

January 9, 2026

Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.

open.substack.com

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

the ICE officer calling a woman he just murdered a “fucking bitch” is visceral, but imo the most material new information in the latest video is that she very clearly turns the wheel away from the officer right before it happens

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

very disappointing.

There is a code of conduct for Royal Society fellows - it's not a value judgement to say that Musk has contravened it!

see relevant bits of code and the Royal Society stated values below.

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 2d

Statement from Birzeit University on the Israeli military invasion of its campus and shooting of students www.birzeit.edu/en/news/stat...

Statement from Birzeit University on the Israeli military invasion of its campus and shooting of students

As part of its ongoing assault on Palestinian life and institutions, the Israeli occupying army carried out a military invasion of Birzeit University during official working hours, at a time when the ...

www.birzeit.edu

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 2d

Large Language models pose an existential threat to online survey research www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

An AI can now evade a comprehensive suite of data quality checks, achieving a 99.8% pass rate on 6,000 trials of standard attention checks.

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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MS NOW @ms.now · 3d

BREAKING: The Hennepin County District Attorney's office says they have jurisdiction to charge the ICE agent involved in the fatal Minneapolis shooting.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 3d

his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis

Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3d

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Robert West @robertjwest.bsky.social · 19d

I think this conversation has been instructive and apologise to the anonymous person or bot for allowing them to illustrate important features of self-delusion. Today I will be demonstrating to plead with our government to show humanity to the hunger strikes. And this person or both will be blocked.

Robert West @robertjwest.bsky.social · 19d

The charge of assaulting a police officer relates to a different group of people. The person in that case is not on hunger strike. But again, this person illustrates another tactic - conflation with apparently hard evidence.

Robert West @robertjwest.bsky.social · 21d

Notice, the continuing reliance on insults and deflection. The discussion was about people on hunger strike, whom this person (assuming it's not a bot) appeared to imply had been violent and were seeking special treatment. This is all standard fare but instructive to see it in action.

Robert West @robertjwest.bsky.social · 21d

For anyone else who may be reading this, you may notice 1) the use of insult, and 2) deflection from the original facts in question. This happens when a party to a disagreement finds engaging with material facts too aversive to engage with.