#Cultural

Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

dannagal

One of the things we are wrestling with in the misinformation/conspiracy theory research is that counter-information ("corrective info," EMPIRICALLY TRUE FACTUAL EVIDENCE) has VERY LITTLE effect on people's beliefs when

Daniel J Davis

DanielJWrites

Serious answer? The idea that things like Patriotism and Christianity aren’t automatic punchlines or villains.“Subversive” takes on both subjects have been the dominant storytelling mode for decades in both Hollywood

Ky Schevers

reclaimingtrans

In terms of my politics, I could still be classified as a kind of radical feminist but my views diverge so much from what gets called "radical feminism" these days

Samyak सम्यक সাম্যক

samyak128

As every single report about the genocide of Uighur Muslims in Xianjiang shows, American "values" and "human rights" have a price. If the cost of espousing these "values" is too

Stephen Fisher

SeaSpitfires

Nice little thread on the perils of German memoirs. It reminds me of an account from another senior German that I looked into earlier this year – the capture of

Justin Sytsma 🇨🇦

justinsytsma

A little :Let's talk about shame as a motivator. How effective is it in truly changing one's behaviour, but even more than that, one's thought patterns? Example inspired by something

Sophia Yan

sophia_yan

#China's crackdown on its tiny congregation of #Jews. ~100 practising in a community of ~1,000. That such a small group can attract the #CommunistParty’s ire shows how far the suppression

Eric Weinstein

EricRWeinstein

I thought a lot about Holocaust Remembrance Day and a thought came to me which was as shocking as it was clear to me. I have no *right* to listen

Anita James

travelanita1

Violet Flame on Mt. Shasta, CA [actual photo] Mount Shasta, located near the Oregon border in northern California, holds the distinction of being one of the world’s preeminent sacred mountains.

Dr. Kristina Killgrove

DrKillgrove

New today is an awesome book, “A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution,” edited by @desilva_jerry and pub’d by @PrincetonUPress. In

The Gaian Way

GaianWay

.@Jonesieman of the @nytimes weighs in on @deepadaptation. Worth reading but.... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/style/climate-change-deep-adaptation.html#deepadaptation #ClimateCrisis But the last words of the article make me concerned:

premier content slop curator

NotE0157H7

Some bullshit went down last night that really reaffirms my stance that the fediverse and Mastodon is mostly a model of what to not do at this point. A big

蓝忘机的巨鸡击入羡羡的菊菊

Peanut_Poppy

A little thread on some of the religious Taoist things in MDZS. (I'm not an expert on Taoism, neither am I a practitioner, this is what I absorbed over the

Deborah Varenna

VarennaD

Currently attending the #QueersInTheLibrary webinar as part of @CoastIQlitfest #TheCoastIsQueer Brilliant discussion about libraries as (safe) spaces, gate-keeping, and queerness as a disruption of heteronormativity. "What can librarie

Football Beyond Borders

FBeyondBorders

Less than half of state schools offer counselling for students. In light of #Covid19 there needs to be urgent government action to improve this and ensure young people are supported

Friendless Churches

friendschurches

This is the story of John Jones, the most extraordinary Welshman you’ve never heard of. He was a carpenter, a poet, an architect for the Rothschilds, President of the Eisteddfod...

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