Professor Amanda Sturgill
@drsturg.bsky.social
Truthmonger. I write books, teach students and make podcasts about you being smarter about misinformation. #WeAreAltGov #DetectingDeception https://bit.ly/UnSpunPod
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When it comes to the battle against misinformation, no one is coming to save us. It's up to us. Here's why and what you need to do. theunspunpodcast.substack.com/p/moving-for...
Why does your 80-year-old Aunt Gladys act like a petulant toddler when you correct her wacky ideas? Throw the latest UnSpun podcast on in the car on the way to Thanksgiving and learn what actually works to help someone change their mind.
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a woman standing in a kitchen with the words that 's nice honey would you like some more kool-aid below her
ALT: a woman standing in a kitchen with the words that 's nice honey would you like some more kool-aid below her
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November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Why does your 80-year-old Aunt Gladys act like a petulant toddler when you correct her wacky ideas? Throw the latest UnSpun podcast on in the car on the way to Thanksgiving and learn what actually works to help someone change their mind.
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Pssst...packing up to head over the river or whatever later this week? Maybe throw this UnSpun episode in your podcast player for the road.
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It will help you understand this and
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It will help you understand this and
November 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Pssst...packing up to head over the river or whatever later this week? Maybe throw this UnSpun episode in your podcast player for the road.
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It will help you understand this and
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It will help you understand this and
Can verify.
Writing is a process where you fail to put anything coherent together for days when you have loads of free time, and thus instead waste hours staring at social media, only to feel inspiration strike when you really need to start packing and preparing to leave for a week-and-a-half long trip.
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Can verify.
So...you knew that was stupid and not supportable before you said it, right?
November 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
So...you knew that was stupid and not supportable before you said it, right?
There's a difference between a dictionary definition (punishable by frowns and pearl clutching) and legal definitions (punishable by jail/fines/whatever the law says).
Learn something new and forward to a friend who needs to learn:
www.law.cornell.edu/wex/sedition
Learn something new and forward to a friend who needs to learn:
www.law.cornell.edu/wex/sedition
sedition
www.law.cornell.edu
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
There's a difference between a dictionary definition (punishable by frowns and pearl clutching) and legal definitions (punishable by jail/fines/whatever the law says).
Learn something new and forward to a friend who needs to learn:
www.law.cornell.edu/wex/sedition
Learn something new and forward to a friend who needs to learn:
www.law.cornell.edu/wex/sedition
Ok, FINE. Here's a hint for the music quiz in this week's UnSpun. There are THREE song clips that show reactance - the theme of the episode for you to guess. (here or where you pod...https://bit.ly/UnSpunPod)
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Ok, FINE. Here's a hint for the music quiz in this week's UnSpun. There are THREE song clips that show reactance - the theme of the episode for you to guess. (here or where you pod...https://bit.ly/UnSpunPod)
Literal conversation with a campus journalist yesterday: "Don't like bad press? Don't do bad things."
People in trouble will try to blame the messenger as a deflection.
That doesn't mean the message isn't vital to society.
People in trouble will try to blame the messenger as a deflection.
That doesn't mean the message isn't vital to society.
You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,
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November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Literal conversation with a campus journalist yesterday: "Don't like bad press? Don't do bad things."
People in trouble will try to blame the messenger as a deflection.
That doesn't mean the message isn't vital to society.
People in trouble will try to blame the messenger as a deflection.
That doesn't mean the message isn't vital to society.
PSA: Right to Be (not on Bsky) offers free, on-line bystander training. I've done it, and it's pretty empowering.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
PSA: Right to Be (not on Bsky) offers free, on-line bystander training. I've done it, and it's pretty empowering.
righttobe.org/upcoming-fre...
righttobe.org/upcoming-fre...
#ProfLife - a very short thread.
Mega boss: "We know extra task will make you work 12 hour days this semester. We're short-staffed because [pick one], but will compensate you in appreciation"
Choose:
1. The demographic cliff hit enrollment
2. Federal funding cuts
3. College is no longer cool
Mega boss: "We know extra task will make you work 12 hour days this semester. We're short-staffed because [pick one], but will compensate you in appreciation"
Choose:
1. The demographic cliff hit enrollment
2. Federal funding cuts
3. College is no longer cool
November 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
#ProfLife - a very short thread.
Mega boss: "We know extra task will make you work 12 hour days this semester. We're short-staffed because [pick one], but will compensate you in appreciation"
Choose:
1. The demographic cliff hit enrollment
2. Federal funding cuts
3. College is no longer cool
Mega boss: "We know extra task will make you work 12 hour days this semester. We're short-staffed because [pick one], but will compensate you in appreciation"
Choose:
1. The demographic cliff hit enrollment
2. Federal funding cuts
3. College is no longer cool
Reposted by Professor Amanda Sturgill
When someone says “Get the facts,” our brains often hear, “You’re wrong.” That gap between intent and perception is how truth gets lost, and this matters for your 🦃 talks with Aunt Gladys.
Tips for how to change a mind in this week's UnSpun. Here, or wherever you pod. bit.ly/UnSpunPod
Tips for how to change a mind in this week's UnSpun. Here, or wherever you pod. bit.ly/UnSpunPod
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
When someone says “Get the facts,” our brains often hear, “You’re wrong.” That gap between intent and perception is how truth gets lost, and this matters for your 🦃 talks with Aunt Gladys.
Tips for how to change a mind in this week's UnSpun. Here, or wherever you pod. bit.ly/UnSpunPod
Tips for how to change a mind in this week's UnSpun. Here, or wherever you pod. bit.ly/UnSpunPod
When someone says “Get the facts,” our brains often hear, “You’re wrong.” That gap between intent and perception is how truth gets lost, and this matters for your 🦃 talks with Aunt Gladys.
Tips for how to change a mind in this week's UnSpun. Here, or wherever you pod. bit.ly/UnSpunPod
Tips for how to change a mind in this week's UnSpun. Here, or wherever you pod. bit.ly/UnSpunPod
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
When someone says “Get the facts,” our brains often hear, “You’re wrong.” That gap between intent and perception is how truth gets lost, and this matters for your 🦃 talks with Aunt Gladys.
Tips for how to change a mind in this week's UnSpun. Here, or wherever you pod. bit.ly/UnSpunPod
Tips for how to change a mind in this week's UnSpun. Here, or wherever you pod. bit.ly/UnSpunPod
We are living in the future, and it is stupid. Someone asked me if I could find a paper to send them. We have a trial of a highly advertised grammar checker at my school, and it offered to help me reply. It took a 1-line "hey, do you have this" email and then wrote a paragraph interpreting.
November 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
We are living in the future, and it is stupid. Someone asked me if I could find a paper to send them. We have a trial of a highly advertised grammar checker at my school, and it offered to help me reply. It took a 1-line "hey, do you have this" email and then wrote a paragraph interpreting.
La Noticia in Charlotte's covering ICE enforcement actions today. It's hard to do journalism when you are not safe. Nationally, there's evidence of citizens and green card holders being caught up. I appreciate journalists doing this risky work.
Check out their work here.
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Check out their work here.
lanoticia.com
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November 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
La Noticia in Charlotte's covering ICE enforcement actions today. It's hard to do journalism when you are not safe. Nationally, there's evidence of citizens and green card holders being caught up. I appreciate journalists doing this risky work.
Check out their work here.
lanoticia.com
Check out their work here.
lanoticia.com
Over-parsing the definition sometimes means your argument is very weak.
If you take your car out, put a big dent in it, and return it, I don't want to listen to you saying you just borrowed it as if that clears everything.
If you take your car out, put a big dent in it, and return it, I don't want to listen to you saying you just borrowed it as if that clears everything.
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Over-parsing the definition sometimes means your argument is very weak.
If you take your car out, put a big dent in it, and return it, I don't want to listen to you saying you just borrowed it as if that clears everything.
If you take your car out, put a big dent in it, and return it, I don't want to listen to you saying you just borrowed it as if that clears everything.
Why isn't Barney in Get Out?
Why isn’t Hannibal Lecter in Eat Pray Love
Why Isn’t Pennywise in The Running Man? It's more complicated than you might think... bit.ly/4a04Vvk
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Why isn't Barney in Get Out?
I might have just seen the worst Christmas idea ad I have ever seen.
Go to some website, answer some questions about a loved one, upload a picture and pick a topic, and then they get a book that look like they wrote it with their photo on the cover, but it's AI.
Who would want that? Why?
Go to some website, answer some questions about a loved one, upload a picture and pick a topic, and then they get a book that look like they wrote it with their photo on the cover, but it's AI.
Who would want that? Why?
November 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I might have just seen the worst Christmas idea ad I have ever seen.
Go to some website, answer some questions about a loved one, upload a picture and pick a topic, and then they get a book that look like they wrote it with their photo on the cover, but it's AI.
Who would want that? Why?
Go to some website, answer some questions about a loved one, upload a picture and pick a topic, and then they get a book that look like they wrote it with their photo on the cover, but it's AI.
Who would want that? Why?
In my experience, the preening peacocks and grunting baboons who serve them can cause a lot of damage.
But it's the quiet folks in the back with great minsd and terrible ideas that whisper to the peacocks that you really have to watch out for.
Tolkien wrote Wormtongue for a reason.
But it's the quiet folks in the back with great minsd and terrible ideas that whisper to the peacocks that you really have to watch out for.
Tolkien wrote Wormtongue for a reason.
a man with long hair and a beard is looking at another man
ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is looking at another man
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November 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
In my experience, the preening peacocks and grunting baboons who serve them can cause a lot of damage.
But it's the quiet folks in the back with great minsd and terrible ideas that whisper to the peacocks that you really have to watch out for.
Tolkien wrote Wormtongue for a reason.
But it's the quiet folks in the back with great minsd and terrible ideas that whisper to the peacocks that you really have to watch out for.
Tolkien wrote Wormtongue for a reason.
So, I feel a little dumb for asking, but this is phishing, yes?
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
So, I feel a little dumb for asking, but this is phishing, yes?
Extremely niche hot take: the nation's pre-eminent newspaper needs to rethink publishing pieces on sartorial choices of politicians. What a waste of ... newsprint? screen real estate?
But seriously, I couldn't care less about party-aligned neckties or whatever. I do care about what they do.
But seriously, I couldn't care less about party-aligned neckties or whatever. I do care about what they do.
November 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Extremely niche hot take: the nation's pre-eminent newspaper needs to rethink publishing pieces on sartorial choices of politicians. What a waste of ... newsprint? screen real estate?
But seriously, I couldn't care less about party-aligned neckties or whatever. I do care about what they do.
But seriously, I couldn't care less about party-aligned neckties or whatever. I do care about what they do.
Assuming this is a good faith question, and acknowledging that I'm not a food economics expert, here's what I think.
You asked why people in the U.S. need government food assistance in a country this wealthy. Don't we have charity? It’s a fair question. The answer isn’t simple.
You asked why people in the U.S. need government food assistance in a country this wealthy. Don't we have charity? It’s a fair question. The answer isn’t simple.
Atheist, no church. UK people donate to food banks, community cafes, and orgs like the one linked. Also Sikh langar (kitchen) feed people. We know where to go if we can't afford to eat, and it's not any right wing people offering the help. faresharemidlands.org.uk
FareShare Midlands | Fighting hunger, tackling food waste in the UK
FareShare is the UK's largest charity fighting hunger and food waste. We save good food from going to waste and redistribute it to frontline charities.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Assuming this is a good faith question, and acknowledging that I'm not a food economics expert, here's what I think.
You asked why people in the U.S. need government food assistance in a country this wealthy. Don't we have charity? It’s a fair question. The answer isn’t simple.
You asked why people in the U.S. need government food assistance in a country this wealthy. Don't we have charity? It’s a fair question. The answer isn’t simple.
"Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge?
"Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
"And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge? "Are they still in operation?"
...
"If they had rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
#vibe
"Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
"And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge? "Are they still in operation?"
...
"If they had rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
#vibe
So, I go to church. One of the things I do is coordinate volunteers for a homeless family shelter in the city. Most of the 20 families who live there are single mom + kids and often fleeing domestic violence. The moms work, but are usually low wage and get SNAP to help with foods.
November 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge?
"Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
"And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge? "Are they still in operation?"
...
"If they had rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
#vibe
"Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
"And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge? "Are they still in operation?"
...
"If they had rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
#vibe
So, I go to church. One of the things I do is coordinate volunteers for a homeless family shelter in the city. Most of the 20 families who live there are single mom + kids and often fleeing domestic violence. The moms work, but are usually low wage and get SNAP to help with foods.
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
So, I go to church. One of the things I do is coordinate volunteers for a homeless family shelter in the city. Most of the 20 families who live there are single mom + kids and often fleeing domestic violence. The moms work, but are usually low wage and get SNAP to help with foods.
Reposted by Professor Amanda Sturgill
Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
Poetic #FridayFeeling
Of the bloviating in my feed
the excuses in my classroom
the "we just need you to" in my email
the "but you're so good at" so ...
the "well, you know, they're difficult so..."
I am tired.
Of the bloviating in my feed
the excuses in my classroom
the "we just need you to" in my email
the "but you're so good at" so ...
the "well, you know, they're difficult so..."
I am tired.
November 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Poetic #FridayFeeling
Of the bloviating in my feed
the excuses in my classroom
the "we just need you to" in my email
the "but you're so good at" so ...
the "well, you know, they're difficult so..."
I am tired.
Of the bloviating in my feed
the excuses in my classroom
the "we just need you to" in my email
the "but you're so good at" so ...
the "well, you know, they're difficult so..."
I am tired.
Linked-In tells me today is something called "World Productivity Day."
No.
No.
November 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Linked-In tells me today is something called "World Productivity Day."
No.
No.