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Lisa Fazio

@lkfazio.bsky.social

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Associate prof of psychology Vanderbilt Univ, studies how adults and children learn true and false information, she/her, lkfazio.com

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · Oct 24

"Vanderbilt is failing in its moral responsibility to push back against rising authoritarianism and political coercion."

My effort to convince Vanderbilt (and all universities) to take a stand for the rule of law, the Constitution, and our democracy.

www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

Here's why Vanderbilt's response to the Trump higher ed 'compact' is not enough | Opinion

With the deadline looming for colleges to sign Trump's "compact," Vanderbilt must resist, says one university professor.

www.tennessean.com

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, David R. Miller, Robert L. Tsai , and 2 more Lisa W. Fazio, David R. Miller, Robert L. Tsai, Stella M. Rouse, Nathan P. Kalmoe

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15h

Breaking News: Prosecutors failed to secure an indictment against six Democrats who posted a video reminding members of the military to refuse illegal orders.

Prosecutors Fail to Bring Charges Against Democrats Involved in Illegal Orders Video

The rejection was a remarkable rebuke, suggesting that ordinary citizens did not believe that the lawmakers had committed any crimes.

nyti.ms

Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 20h

It was puzzle box day again and I'm very relieved that the 2nd group of students also had fun!!

Resources at osf.io/q2zk3/files/...

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Will Jennings, Julia Lynch , and 2 more Lisa W. Fazio, Will Jennings, Julia Lynch, Florian Keusch, Richard M. Carpiano

David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social · 21h

Check out our new paper on the demographic foundations of trust in science in @poqjournal.bsky.social

The tldr is that w/ all of the radical shifts in trust in the US over the last 50+ years, the demographic predictors of trust in science have been rock steady(!)

academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 21h

What happened to everyone who was super concerned about technology companies being the "arbiter of truth"? You're good with the AI system that Musk keeps personally tweaking because he doesn't like its answers providing official health advice???

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

A federal government MAHA website, advertised during the superbowl, is directing users to Grok to "get real answers about real food"? (Via @almsnatalie.bsky.social)
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

Trump’s nutrition website directs users to Elon Musk’s Grok

The inclusion of Elon Musk’s chatbot in the government website follows backlash over the chatbot creating millions of sexualized images of women and children.

www.nextgov.com

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Tom Clark, Scott L. Greer , and 1 more Lisa W. Fazio, Tom Clark, Scott L. Greer, Prokla Redaktion

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

A federal government MAHA website, advertised during the superbowl, is directing users to Grok to "get real answers about real food"? (Via @almsnatalie.bsky.social)
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

Trump’s nutrition website directs users to Elon Musk’s Grok

The inclusion of Elon Musk’s chatbot in the government website follows backlash over the chatbot creating millions of sexualized images of women and children.

www.nextgov.com

Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 22h

And in typical Microsoft fashion they got rid of it! (the functionality is still somewhat there but it's now a part of printscreen and more confusing)

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 22h

90% of Canadians think platforms and government need to protect Canadians from health related misinformation on social media. Hard to get 90% of Canadians to agree on anything!!!!

Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 23h

"As university leadership signals a willingness to purge and sanction political dissidents, the question remains what powerful organizations like the AAU will do."

More valuable history and lessons for today from @bakerdphd.bsky.social

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

How Elite Colleges Aided Censorship During the Red Scares

Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.

www.insidehighered.com

Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 23h

100%!!!

Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 23h

It's official - I'm old. Today my students admitted that they had no idea what a usb flash drive was or how to use one 💀

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 1d

If you know the moral thing for an organization to do, feels important to state it, even if you recognize that the org likely won't do it. We should recognize the way that powerful orgs historically capitulated to censorship and suppression. Shame only works when we remember the transgressions.

Reposted by Stephen M. Walt, Lisa W. Fazio

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 1d

"Silence is not neutrality; it is permission."

Wise words on what higher education needs right now from
@arneduncan.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

www.washingtonpost.com

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d

In her latest column, @bakerdphd.bsky.social looks at the history of AAU regarding campus free speech. If they took a stance on many key issues today, some status-obsessed public universities would face very difficult membership decisions.

How Elite Colleges Aided Censorship During the Red Scares

Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.

www.insidehighered.com

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio

Stephanie Simoes @critikid.bsky.social · 1d

This is a cool opportunity for people in Alabama with K-8 kids! The "Spot the Truth Challenge" invites students to create short videos showing how they spot truth vs. misinformation online. There are prizes! Enter here: www.mediamastersrock.com/spot-the-tru...

SPOT-THE-TRUTH-CHALLENGE - Media Masters Rock!

Media Masters Rock! is an educational initiative for Alabama K–8 students and teachers, providing free digital citizenship and media literacy lessons that meet Alabama standards.

www.mediamastersrock.com

Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 1d

Heads up #SPSP2026 - no excuses!

Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 1d

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Kevin Carey, David R. Miller

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint

www.wsj.com/business/med...

The high wouldn’t last. Seahawks safety Julian Love soon intercepted a throw from New England quarterback Drake Maye, and the Patriots never recovered. In the end, Kane lost a bit less than $100,000 in bets that favored the Patriots.

“What are you gonna do about it? You get very numb to these kinds of numbers,” said Kane, who works out of his one-bedroom apartment in Philadelphia.

Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 1d

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

Dear Ms. Wolfe,
Petitioner-Appellee Rümeysa Öztürk submits this Rule 28(j) letter to advise the Court that on January 29, 2026, the immigration court held that the Department of Homeland Security had not met its burden of proving removability, and the immigration court thereby terminated removal proceedings against Ms. Öztürk.' This development underscores the dangers of the government's interpretation of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Under the government's view, it could punitively detain any noncitizen in retaliation for her speech for many months, so long as it simultaneously institutes removal proceedings—no matter how unmeritorious—all without any federal court review of the lawfulness of detention at any time.
To be clear, the termination of Ms. Öztürk's removal proceedings does not moot her habeas case. (By contrast, as Ms. Öztürk has argued, this appeal is moot.
Br. 18-20.) Without habeas jurisdiction and the bail order that is currently in place, any government appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals would again subject Ms. Öztürk to re-detention. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.6(a). For that reason, she continues to suffer the threat of continuing "now-or-never" First and Fifth Amendment harms.
Br. in Opp. 55-57.

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Daniel Kuehn, Larry W. Hunter , and 2 more Lisa W. Fazio, Daniel Kuehn, Larry W. Hunter, Anisah Anisah, Annalee Newitz

Emi @kayamalie.bsky.social · 1d

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

A diagram of the evolution of whales, from land dwelling mammals to the ocean giants we know today.

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder: the nat'l minimum wage today is *HALF* what it was in the 1960s.

A number of states have kept up, but most Republican-led states and most purple states haven't.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum...

Minimum wage in the United States - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 2d

tagging @tnfalpha.bsky.social since I know he's interested in motivational interviewing as a technique to combat vaccine misinfo

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Julia Lynch

Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 2d

If you liked the Bad Bunny show and visual representations in Puerto Rican art, my newly tenured friend Nico Ramos Flores has a forthcoming book: "Archipelagoes of Longing: Puerto Ricans, Resistance, and Memory." It examines PR visual/literary culture as it relates to oppression, migration, & trauma

Archipelagoes of Longing

sunypress.edu

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 2d

Can you imagine you get hired as part of the SuperBowl halftime and they're like "so you're going to be grass number 74..." 😂

"you just walk out and DO. NOT. MOVE" The dancingest music that ever danced is playing and you must NOT MOVE A MUSCLE.

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Sander van der Linden, Philipp Schmid

Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 2d

Nice writeup of our now-finished JITSUVAX project: cordis.europa.eu/art... The main output of the project is the empathetic refutational interview...
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Inoculating against anti-vax messaging through empathy

Vaccine hesitancy can be overcome through personalised, empathetic conversational approaches.,,,European Commission

cordis.europa.eu

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 2d

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Joanne Spetz, Valerie P. Hans , and 8 more Lisa W. Fazio, Joanne Spetz, Valerie P. Hans, Sarah E. Gollust, Scott A. Imberman, Juan Moreno‐Cruz, Jason Lyall, Alessandro Rigolon, Timothy R. Johnson, Nathan P. Kalmoe, David Darmofal

Christopher Crawford @crawfordchrisv.bsky.social · 2d

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

Officials in authoritarian regimes frequently make absurd false statements in public to signal their loyalty

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

BASH: Is this measles outbreak a consequence of the administration undermining support for vaccines?

DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines

BASH: Oh, come on

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 3d

So I heard we’re posting super bowls. Here’s a Fatimid lusterware bunny. Islamic lusterwares originate in Iraq to emulate the sheen of Chinese porcelain, but the combo with highly animated-looking Fatimid animal motifs is my favorite. He even has a little snack.

www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...