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Ann Ngengere @angengere.bsky.social · 5h

Great science, left alone, does not speak for itself and needs to be made accessible.

But tools and platforms alone are not enough. What really matters is the steady, personal connection that turns research into public knowledge.

#SciComm

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How to communicate science

Specialists can help

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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 1d

All Protocol Observed

Welcome to Issue 216 of The Continent

Raila Odinga was nicknamed Agwambo, the “mystery man”. Over and over, through crisis after crisis – and handshake after handshake – Odinga would live up to that moniker. Now Kenya must reckon with life without him.

👉 bit.ly/216_TC

The image is the cover of The Continent, dated 18 October 2025, issue 216. At the top, there’s a yellow strip with the words “African Journalism.”
The main image is an illustration of a Raila Odinga from the chest up. He has a serious, calm expression, dark brown skin, short black hair, and a mustache. He’s wearing a dark blue pinstripe suit, a white shirt, and a blue patterned tie.
The headline on the left reads:
“Kenya’s man of mystery bows out.”
The background is a gradient of deep blue, fading from darker at the top to lighter in the middle. In small text at the bottom right, it credits the illustrators: CAPU Toons/Debunk.

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Ann Ngengere @angengere.bsky.social · 23d

Two thought provoking essays on reading, writing and literacy

➡️The dawn of the post literate society- open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...

➡️The end of thinking - open.substack.com/pub/derektho...

The dawn of the post-literate society

And the end of civilisation

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Jun 27

🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...

The Misleading Panic over Misinformation

People can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth.

www.cato.org

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Journal of Science Communication (JCOM) @jscicom.bsky.social · Apr 14

How is AI reshaping #scicomm? A new special issue explores promises & pitfalls of gen AI, and its transformative impact on how science-related info is created & consumed. Image generated with OpenAI’s DALL·E based on article abstracts in the style of different art eras. jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Apr 10

"...genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway."

Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust www.nature.com/articles/d41... via @nature.com

More engagement! More voices! More #scicomm!

#GoScience!

Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust

Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted. But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway.

www.nature.com

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · Mar 21

🧵NEW: A CDC clone website is filled with false and misleading vaccine claims against a backdrop of false balance. The NGO (Children's Health Defense) led by the current HHS Secretary until December 2024 is hosting content for the CDC clone.

infoepi.substack.com/p/cdc-clone...

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Vox @vox.com · Mar 6

Childhood in the centuries before vaccination was marked by illness, but also by grief and loss in a way that we tend to forget now that disease outbreaks are more of a rarity. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/WmCVmk

What was childhood like before vaccines?

The anti-vax movement has gone mainstream, but before these shots, grief and loss marked the lives of children.

voxdotcom.visitlink.me

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · Mar 13

“The HPV vaccine represents a powerful tool in the fight against cancer. Yet, accurate information and access are often lacking in schools and even health clinics.”
www.npr.org/sections/sho...

An urgent argument for the HPV vaccine

Data shows it can prevent six types of cancer. But anti-vaccine activists, including U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have helped dampen its usage.

www.npr.org

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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · Jan 20

“We must join together to fight health misinformation”

LSHTM Director Liam Smeeth urges bold, collaborative action in 2025 as #misinformation ranked top global risk, LSHTM launches counter-misinformation principles. #PublicHealth

👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Jan 17

“Misinformation and disinformation can no longer be viewed simply as an academic nuisance, but rather they are a societal threat”

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Jan 15

The embrace of LIES and the rise of those who spread them a massive threat to humanity.

Conflict, extreme weather and disinformation top global risks in 2025 cnb.cx/42g80ns

"Misinformation & disinformation were cited as top risks over a two-year time horizon..."

Conflict, extreme weather and disinformation top global risks in 2025, Davos survey says

Risk specialists identified armed conflict, extreme weather and misinformation among the top global risks for the year ahead, according to a new WEF survey.

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · Jan 7

"Fact-checkers have not been biased in their work — that attack line comes from those who feel they should be able to exaggerate and lie without rebuttal or contradiction.”

“A hard hit for the fact-checking community and journalism”: Meta eliminates fact-checking in the U.S.

Meta will replace its third-party fact-checking program in the U.S. with a crowd-sourced community notes program similar to the one used by X, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on his Facebook page on…

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Jan 7

Dear Meta & Zuckerberg

Please read.👇 Science-informed policies, please.

Study: Social media users’ actions, rather than biased policies, could drive differences in platform enforcement mitsloan.mit.edu/press/social...

Social media users’ actions, rather than biased policies, could drive differences in platform enforcement | MIT Sloan

A paper in Nature suggests that the higher quantity of social media policy enforcement for conservative users could be explained by the higher quantity of misinformation shared by those users.

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Jane Lytvynenko @janelytv.bsky.social · Jan 7

Over the past 4–5 years, Facebook has sunset tools (chiefly CrowdTangle) used by researchers and journalists, made data difficult and expensive to get, and iced out academics studying disinformation.

Now, it's shutting down the fact checking on its platform.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jan 7

Ditching of Facebook factcheckers a ‘major step back’ for public discourse, critics say

Mark Zuckerberg’s decision regarding Meta platforms condemned as ‘a full bending of the knee’ to Donald Trump Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to ditch factcheckers on Facebook and “prioritise free speech” weeks before Donald Trump returns to power was…

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Sarah Scott Scire @sarahscire.com · Jan 7

The journalists doing the fact-checking say they were blindsided. www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/a-ha...

"In all the years we have been part of the partnership, we or the IFCN never received any complaints from Meta about any political bias"

“A hard hit for the fact-checking community and journalism”: Meta eliminates fact-checking in the U.S.

Meta will replace its third-party fact-checking program in the U.S. with a crowd-sourced community notes program similar to the one used by X, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on his Facebook page on Tue...

www.niemanlab.org

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Jan 3

Deep sigh

“the world has turned a blind eye to the lessons learned from the pandemic”

www.science.org/content/arti...

COVID 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting

Five years after SARS-CoV-2 surfaced, scientists reflect and look ahead to the next threat

www.science.org

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Jan 2

“a well-organized, financed, politically motivated, and steadily globalizing campaign of disinformation & attacks against science that makes it difficult to mount an effective global response to the climate & pandemic threats”

@michaelemann.bsky.social & Hotez

skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-tr...

A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science | Skeptical Inquirer

Over the past decade, many of us in the scientific community have come to appreciate the existential threat we face today—a threat unlike any we’ve witnesse ...

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine @nationalacademies.org · Dec 19

Proactive solutions are needed to address #misinformation about science.

Our new report provides a comprehensive assessment of the literature on science misinformation, its origins and impact, and strategies for mitigating its spread and potential harms: https://buff.ly/4iM0xSY

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · Dec 18

"We can’t be intimidated by the attacks that are coming," @scstars.bsky.social writes. "We have to do the rigorous accountability journalism that pisses off people in power."

Reaching the hard-to-reach

"We can't be intimidated by the attacks that are coming. We have to do the rigorous accountability journalism that pisses off people in power."

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Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · Dec 16

"Derek Beres...used to have orthorexia, an eating disorder characterised by an obsession about eating only healthy food. He sees Covid as a turning point for the unchecked circulation of nutritional misinformation."

www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

How I escaped the wild west of #cleaneating Instagram and TikTok

Misinformation about health, nutrition and food are rampant on social media. For people prone to eating disorders, this can lead down a dangerous path

www.theguardian.com

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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · Dec 10

This is so spot on. As a climate scientist and public intellectual, I see or experience these often

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Dec 12

"To counter the avalanche of disinformation that is likely heading our way:

-Meet people where they are

-Explain how it relates to them

- Risks, but avoid fearmongering

- Narratives require # s

- It's not about control, it's about health, safety, & education."

medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Opinion | Fighting Misinformation Like a Doctor

Politicians should view their constituents the same way we view our patients

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Dec 10

Study: The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
"...we found that exposure to conspiracies involving scientific claims increased conspiracy belief endorsement and can further negative effects."

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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