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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 21h

This month's Facts in my climate action newsletter focuses on the excellent study by @cabels18.bsky.social, @kiiahuttunen.bsky.social, Ralph Hertwig & @lewan.bsky.social. I really appreciated their excellent analysis, please check out my summary here: wecanfixit.substack.com/i/174419696/...

Democracy is worth fighting for. Here's how

Facts: Fight democratic backsliding ⚖️| Feelings: Unthinkable Resource Hub🫶| Action: Protect democracy🗳️

wecanfixit.substack.com

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 3d

Precisely. It seems to be a model not a deterrent.

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 3d

We see Fascism in the U.S., and we like it!

George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday Express: Tory ‘ICE' force would deport 150,000 a year #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Philipp Markolin, PhD @philippmarkolin.bsky.social · 3d

"If we Europeans do not wake up and say, ‘We want to take back control of our democracies,’ I can tell you this: within 10 years [...] we will be a continent, like many others, of conspiracy theorists, extremists, noise and fury."

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"Europeans, let's wake up!" — Defend Democracy

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” President Macron on the occasion of German Unity Day, 3 October 2025.

defenddemocracy.eu

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Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · 4d

Hand holding a frying pan with a fried egg in it, with the words “This is your university if you sign” at the top. Image is from the 1980s “This is your brain on drugs” campaign.

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Leibniz-Lab Pandemic Preparedness @leibnizpandemic.bsky.social · 6d

Beim Summer Lecture zitiert @lewan.bsky.social eine 🇺🇲Umfrage. 85% aller Teilnehmern wissen nichts über Impfstoffe. Aber fast die Hälfte derer, die sich als „Impfstoffexperten“ bezeichnen teilen Fehlinformation. Die, die angeben am meisten zu Wissen, wissen am wenigsten. Bei Desinformation typisch.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 6d

📢 I've decided to do regular 2-3 mins video updates of latest authoritarian antics of Trump administration on YouTube & TikTok.

Have been inspired by reading how many people get their news there and how dominated it is by the right.
www.tiktok.com/@profchristi...

www.youtube.com/@ProfChristi...

Professor Christina Pagel

I'm Professor Christina Pagel at University College London. My research is in health systems. I'm passionate about science, public health, supporting diversity in the sciences, and protecting liberal ...

www.youtube.com

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 6d

Ah ok. So inciting violence and supporting fascism (and interfering in European elections), in addition to engaging in unethical research, are personal opinions that FRSs are free to engage in. Did I get that right? @deevybee.bsky.social

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting. I am not holding my breath. But yes, it will say a *lot* about the Society if they do not expel him now. @deevybee.bsky.social

Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 6d

The Royal Society is meeting today to determine what action to take on Elon Musk's continued membership.
What they decide will say a great deal about what the society stands for and whether it is able to meet the needs of the modern scientific community.

Royal Society to consider expelling Musk after rally speech - Research Professional News

“Language of violence” in address to anti-immigration march pushes science academy to reassess billionaire’s fellowship

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 6d

The amazing @ninajankowicz.com does a deep dive into the machinations of the Jim Jordan reality-inversion machine which recently claimed that Tech Giants were pressured by Biden admin into "censorship." They weren't. And they said so in front of Jordan's committee:

Jim Jordan Claims Google Censored Conservatives. His Own Committee’s Work Shows Otherwise.

Google execs’ interviews before the House Judiciary Committee show no evidence of “censorship” or government coercion - so who’s lying?

wiczipedia.substack.com

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Chris Hickie mud fud @cphickie.bsky.social · 7d

Very tough article to read because it shows how little respect for human subjects Mark and David Geier had. Thank you Dr. Morozov and Professor Caplan for your work exposing how little the Geiers cared about the children they experimented upon.

Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 7d

Terrific sleuthing and deep background research by @alex23.bsky.social into the horrors of "research" on autism conducted by none other than the person RFK Jr put in charge of ... you guessed it, the (non-existent) link between autism and vaccines:

From Willowbrook to the Geiers: Families Speak Out

“Once, I went down to the Geiers’ basement to use the bathroom. I saw several ladies packaging drug bottles into boxes. And in the bathroom I saw what appeared to be equipment from a chemistry lab.”

www.etpnews.com

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 7d

Terrific sleuthing and deep background research by @alex23.bsky.social into the horrors of "research" on autism conducted by none other than the person RFK Jr put in charge of ... you guessed it, the (non-existent) link between autism and vaccines:

From Willowbrook to the Geiers: Families Speak Out

“Once, I went down to the Geiers’ basement to use the bathroom. I saw several ladies packaging drug bottles into boxes. And in the bathroom I saw what appeared to be equipment from a chemistry lab.”

www.etpnews.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7d

Judge Young is a Reagan appointee, by the way.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7d

Young’s opinion, which rules that the Trump admin illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation, is absolutely scathing.

“In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”

And there's the issue of masks. This Court has listened
carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk's captors for masking-
up and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd
Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as
disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a
single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small
wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard
them
as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It
should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks.
Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and
honor still matters.
To us, masks are associated with cowardly
desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we
have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.
Carrying on
in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this
administration and everyone who works in it
"We can not escape
history," Lincoln righty said. "[It] will light us down in
honor or dishonor, to the latest generation." Abraham Lincoln,
Second Annual Message to Congress (Dec. 1, 1862) .
Perhaps we're now afraid to stick our necks out. If the
distinguished Homeland Security intelligence agency can be
weaponized to squelch the free speech rights of a small, hapless
group of non-citizens in our midst, so too can the Federal Home
Loan Mortgage Corporation, and the audit divisions of the I.R.s.
and the Social Security Administration be unconstitutionally
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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 7d

Couldn't be clearer now I suppose. And yet, some "serious" pundits who are "nuanced" will find a way to turn the obvious into a complicated unanswerable question.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7d

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 7d

Thought provoking piece by my colleague #Charlie Tyson
www.chronicle.com/article/can-...

Can Academic Freedom Survive the Surveillance State?

Two weeks in a Boston courtroom underscore the perils of intellectual life in America.

www.chronicle.com

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 7d

It really does not get more explicit than Trump telling top active-duty military generals that they will need to participate in occupations of large cities run by his political opponents as part of his "war from within"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 9d

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?

Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.

It undermines police and the law.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 9d

Dear Trump,
You know that eventually, inevitably, you'll have to fire RFK Jr.
The longer you wait, the more his unmitigated health disasters redound back upon you, further tarnishing your already sad legacy.

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

More kids are severely ill or dying from the flu, CDC reports

As fewer children get their flu shots, cases of a rare, severe complication are rising. Last season, the U.S. experienced the highest number of pediatric flu deaths in 15 years.

www.nbcnews.com

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 9d

So exhausting..

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 9d

Trump and Putin are threatening to carve up Europe between them. Suddenly, it all feels a bit 1939 | Simon Tisdall

Forget the US president’s seeming volte-face on Ukraine this week: he and Putin fundamentally agree that European liberal democracy is the problem, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisd...

www.theguardian.com

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 9d

Word of caution: anyone who calls those thugs "fascists" is guilty of inciting violence. (If you need a dictionary to comprehend this, try Enid Blyton's Topsy-Turvy World. You can find it at the top of the Magic Faraway Tree.)

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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 9d

Reuters reports that Fox News host Jesse Watters called for the UN ‘to be bombed over U.S. President Donald Trump's difficulties with an escalator and a teleprompter.’ Watters said this on Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox. Broadcast to millions.
EU should sanction #Murdoch
#terrorism #watchlist

Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 10d

This sounded so incredible, even today, so I didn't want to believe it. But it checks out: www.reuters.com/business/med...

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 10d

This sounded so incredible, even today, so I didn't want to believe it. But it checks out: www.reuters.com/business/med...

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 10d

Parts of the US are now officially living under occupation by hostile armed forces. Too bad it's the U.S. army.

Trump orders deployment of troops to Portland and authorises 'full force'

The president says the latest move to send troops to a major US city is "necessary" to protect immigration detention facilities.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 10d

If you haven’t already seen the anti-autocracy guide for academics, I recommend it to you.

Good for context and advice.

And if you’re looking for people to participate in such a discussion, maybe check with @lewan.bsky.social or @ninajankowicz.com. Good, smart people.

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The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding

The Anti-Autocracy Handbook is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. It tries to provide guidance to ...

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