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Stephan Lewandowsky
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Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Bristol. Homepage: https://www.lewan.uk

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Stephan Lewandowsky is an Australian psychologist. He has worked in both the United States and Australia, and is currently based at the University of Bristol, UK, where he is the chair of cognitive psychology at the School of Psychological Science. His research, which originally pertained to computer simulations of people's decision-making processes, recently has focused on the public's understanding of science and why people often embrace beliefs that are sharply at odds with scientific evidence. .. more

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Sociology 19%
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Deanna Fry @deannafry.tv · 9h
UPDATE: CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams breaks down how the arrests of Independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort could impact journalism.

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Don Lemon @donlemonofficial.bsky.social · 18h
My first remarks since being arrested last night.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 19h
"A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming."

Gift link.
A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules
www.nytimes.com

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Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · 20h
ICE is spreading fear and chaos through our state - taking kids from schools, abducting people, and shipping them to detention camps with no due process.

I sat down with leaders from Columbia Heights to discuss ways we can fight back at the local, state, and federal levels.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20h
CNN in Minneapolis: We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This this crowd has not let up. It's just continuous.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22h
The arrest of Don Lemon is textbook fascism—a brazen attempt to silence reporting on a criminal regime. Stand up for Don, because our rights stand and fall with those of courageous journalists throughout this country.

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 1d
From law faculty in Minnesota lpeproject.org/blog/an-open... ⚖️
An Open Letter to the Minnesota Law Community
Seventy-two University of Minnesota Law faculty address the federal government's ongoing campaign of fear, intimidation, and violence against Minnesotans.
lpeproject.org

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d
Matt Goodwin and the end of England: How one man's career explains our public life iandunt.substack.com/p/matt-goodw...
Matt Goodwin and the end of England
How one man's career explains our public life.
iandunt.substack.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d
"Blood-boiling stories are still pouring in from all over the Minneapolis region." prospect.org/2026/01/29/i...
The Battle of Minneapolis Is Not Over - The American Prospect
ICE kidnappers are still on the rampage.
prospect.org

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2d
For those asking, the BBC examined the video here. And remember, monstering a victim to excuse an extra judicial killing is something psychopaths and bootlickers do.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
How Alex Pretti shooting led Trump to shift course in Minneapolis
BBC analysis editor Ros Atkins looks at why tensions have been running so high in the city - and how we got here.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 2d
Another one that seems difficult to spin by the Nazis.
adamparkhomenko.bsky.social Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d
Seems like a good video for his trial

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d
Seems like a good video for his trial

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

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Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · 2d
New: Tesla 4th quarter profit plunges 61% year-over-year; annual profit down 46%

the brand damage:
-1 million lost vehicle sales, per study
-Declining revenue, profits, deliveries in 1st half of '25
-Lower total production/deliveries than '24
-Lost crown as world's leading EV seller
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Tesla bet big on Elon Musk. His politics continue to haunt it.
Tesla struggles to regain its footing in the electric vehicle market, hindered by Elon Musk’s political activity, impacting its stock price and performance.
wapo.st

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d
They won’t investigate the murders of Good or Pretti, but they’ll investigate fake 2020 election fraud. www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...
FBI executing search warrant at Georgia election office related to 2020 vote, law enforcement official says
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is executing a search warrant at a Fulton County election office in Georgia related to the 2020 election, a law enforcement official familiar with the matter said o...
www.reuters.com

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Michael Cohen @indecisionwins.bsky.social · 3d
Excited to share a new preprint on psychological characteristics among voters that predict support for Donald Trump: specifically, low empathy, low agreeableness, and complaints about unfairness. (1/4)
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io

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Serge Broom @sergebroom.bsky.social · 3d
Art by Lar DeSouza…

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 3d
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be

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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 3d
People who have known Representative Ilhan Omar for years were not surprised when @ilhanmn.bsky.social responded to a crude assault on Tuesday night with courage, poise and a determination to keep speaking with her constituents. Her experience has made her a focused— and fearless — elected leader.
Ilhan Omar’s American Dream Is Strong Enough for These Times
Thirty years after she came to the US, the Minnesota representative keeps the faith in an America that will ultimately reject the divisive politics of Trump and his minions.
www.thenation.com

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 3d
This is gathering momentum, which is terrific to see. But still a very long way to go.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 3d
While Minneapolis mourned a man killed by federal agents, Trump’s elite gathered in black tie to celebrate a Melania vanity film.
This is what a ruling family looks like.
Let them eat cake.

open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Let Them Eat Cake: While Minneapolis Mourned, Trump Hosted a Melania Gala
As protesters froze in the streets after the killing of Alex Pretti, Trump’s elite celebrated a $75 million vanity film—another glimpse of a family governing like royalty.
open.substack.com

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 3d
This broad alliance signals the determination of the MEPs to drastically reduce European dependence on US technologies and to massively expand their own capabilities.
Digital liberation: EU Parliament calls for detachment from US tech giants
EU MEPs outline a course change in digital policy. They demand independence from US infrastructures and more domestic AI and open source.
www.heise.de

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3d
President Macron:

Recent events confirm that the situation in Greenland is a strategic wake-up call for the whole of Europe, in terms of asserting our European sovereignty, contributing to Arctic security,combating foreign interference and disinformation
fighting global warming,

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 3d
Did Trump’s 2024 re-election make it okay to be openly prejudiced? New work from @chriscrandall.bsky.social suggests it did. The more negatively Trump spoke about a group, the more okay it became to express prejudice (and the more prejudiced people were) towards that group after the election.
Changing Norms Following the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: The Trump Effect on Prejudice Redux Samuel E. Arnold, Jenniffer Wong Chavez, Kelly S. Swanson, and Christian S. Crandall Abstract Following the 2016 U.S. Presidential election of Donald Trump, prejudice toward groups targeted during his campaign (e.g., Asian Americans, Mexicans) become more acceptable. By contrast, both Trump and Clinton voters reported less prejudice of their own. We conducted a 2024 conceptual replication, measuring perceived norms of prejudice and own-prejudice toward 128 groups, both before (N = 362) and after (N = 261) the U.S. election. We separately measured the negativity of Trump's campaign rhetoric toward these groups (N = 188). Levels of prejudice and perceived norms of prejudice acceptability were mostly stable pre-/post-election, but Trump's negative rhetoric predicted an increase in perceived acceptability of prejudice among targeted groups (replicating the 2016 results), and a rise in selt-reported prejudice in the same groups post-election (reversing the 2016 results). Despite changes in the sociopolitical context between elections, the election of a leading politician who campaigned on prejudice was again associated with increases in the acceptability of prejudice.

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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 3d
Early reviews are in:
‘Even if they showed this on a plane, people would still walk out’

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 3d
I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.

I don’t let bullies win.

Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 4d
We are pleased to announce that a keynote speaker for the April Cambridge Disinformation Summit is 2001 Nobel Economist, Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz.

Professor Stiglitz will discuss systemic economic risks from disinformation and from platforms that amplify or monetize disinformation.
We are pleased to announce that a keynote speaker for the April Cambridge Disinformation Summit is 2001 Nobel Economist, Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz. Professor Stiglitz is a University Professor, teaching at the Columbia Business School, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, and the School of International and Public Affairs. Professor Stiglitz will discuss systemic economic risks from disinformation and from platforms that amplify or monetize disinformation. The Summit is hosted by the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, The Psychometrics Centre - University of Cambridge, the University of Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab, and the Cambridge Judge Business School Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability.

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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 4d
What in the world? Why are federal agents acting like this?

Oh right, they are unprofessional and murderers.

#ProudBlue
📹: thetnholler via reallyamericanmefia/IG

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 4d
Original open access study here: doi.org/10.1038/s442.... 2/2
2/2
The continued influence of AI-generated deepfake videos despite transparency warnings
Communications Psychology - Three experiments show that people continue to rely on the content of deepfake videos when making moral judgements, despite prior warnings that the videos were fake,...
doi.org

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 4d
AI deepfakes affect people even if they know the videos are fake: nice media coverage here of phys.org/news/2026-0... one of our recent studies. 1/2
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People are swayed by AI-generated videos even when they know they're fake, study shows
Generative deep learning models are artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can create texts, images, audio files, and videos for specific purposes, following instructions provided by human users. Over ...
phys.org