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Stephan Lewandowsky is an Australian psychologist. He has worked in both the United States and Australia, and is currently based… more

Stephan Lewandowsky
H-index: 88
Neuroscience 23%
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Reposted by: Stephan Lewandowsky, Steve Peers, Lesley A. Hall , and 7 more

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

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Precisely. It seems to be a model not a deterrent.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 3d
We see Fascism in the U.S., and we like it!
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George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 3d
Sunday Express: Tory ‘ICE' force would deport 150,000 a year #TomorrowsPapersToday
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"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.
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We see Fascism in the U.S., and we like it!
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George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 3d
Sunday Express: Tory ‘ICE' force would deport 150,000 a year #TomorrowsPapersToday
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leibnizpandemic.bsky.social
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.
Ein Screenshot eines Computers
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by Christina Pagel — Reposted by: Stephan Lewandowsky, Scott L. Greer

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📢 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.
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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 ...
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by Stephan Lewandowsky

lewan.bsky.social
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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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
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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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by Stephan Lewandowsky — Reposted by: Nina Jankowicz

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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?
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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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by Stephan Lewandowsky — Reposted by: Stephan Lewandowsky, Dorothy Bishop, Sarah J. Schoppe‐Sullivan

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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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Reposted by: Stephan Lewandowsky, Ruha Benjamin, Marc Lynch , and 9 more

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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 [98]
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by Stephan Lewandowsky

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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.
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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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by Naomi Oreskes — Reposted by: Stephan Lewandowsky, Halley E. Froehlich

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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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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by: Stephan Lewandowsky, Staffan I. Lindberg, Will Jennings , and 11 more

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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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Reposted by: Stephan Lewandowsky, Timothy Snyder, Staffan I. Lindberg , and 21 more

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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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Reposted by: Stephan Lewandowsky, Robbert Sanderman, Peter Thorne , and 14 more

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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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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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Reposted by: Stephan Lewandowsky, Anna O. Law, Kim L. Scheppele , and 23 more

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

lewan.bsky.social
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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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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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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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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lewan.bsky.social
fantastic news!
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lewan.bsky.social
What is it about acronyms that imbue them with such seemingly onanistic power and attraction? Is it the throbbing of consecutive consonants? Or is it merely their ability to hide atrocities? legionmagazine.com/e...
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Stigmatisiert man Menschen nicht, sondern geht empathisch auf sie ein, sind sie erstaunlich tolerant, was die Berichtigung Ihrer Überzeugung angeht, sagt @lewan.bsky.social​, Psychologe aus Bristol. „This is not just wishful thinking.“ Eine Studie mit 4225 Impf-kritischen Teilnehmern in UK... 1/2
Ein Mann lächelt in die Kamera.
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Reposted by: Stephan Lewandowsky, Joaquín Hortal, Patrick A. Jansen , and 3 more

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When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
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Reposted by: Stephan Lewandowsky, Sander van der Linden, Melanie C. Green

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Why #misinformation must not be ignored - A new, open access article by @ulliecker.bsky.social and colleagues, published in American Psychologist bit.ly/4pJ20fY
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