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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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Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Stephan Lewandowsky, Sander van der Linden

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Imran Ahmed @imranahmed.bsky.social Β· 17h
Merry Christmas everyone!!!

A bit of real cheer for us all!

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Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Lisa W. Fazio, Stephan Lewandowsky , and 20 more

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Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Β· 1d
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:

My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.

Huh? When did I say that?!
A passage from the book In Covid’s Wake, with a highlighted sentence reading: β€œYoel Roth, the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, states that "the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands," including demands involving domestic speech.”

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social Β· 1d
Very good statement from the Cambridge Summit organizers.

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Sander van der Linden

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social Β· 1d
try this: zenodo.org/records/1569...
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 ...
zenodo.org

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social Β· 2d
With a detailed shoutout to our Anti-Autocracy Handbook sks.to/autocracy 2/2
2/2

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social Β· 2d
Superb video by @simonoxfphys.com Simon Clark on how truth on climate change is twisted and dismantled by Trump administration: www.youtube.com/watc.... 1/2
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The misinformation situation is worse than you think
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Make your donation have the maximum impact: https://givewell.org (pick YOUTUBE and then Simon Clark at checkout) The handbook: https://zenodo.org/records/15696097 Become a patron at http://www.patreon.com/simonoxfphys REFERENCES 1. https://web.archive.org/web/20250
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Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Laurent Pech

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com Β· 2d
It begins.

The EU lawmaker who was in charge of digital affairs during πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊPresident von der Leyen's first term has been banned from entering the United States, because the πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ tech giants and government don't like the EU's tech laws.

What will be the πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊPresident's response?
Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators
State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social Β· 2d
Want to see how they lie? I published this last week: Matt and his assistant Andrew Lowenthal cutting emails in half and lying about what they said to spin up the antivax rage machine. The Twitter Files were a propaganda campaign. And here we are now.

open.substack.com/pub/reneedir...
The Many Lies of Andrew Lowenthal
Pulling receipts: what a cropped email & sworn declaration reveal in the ongoing saga of a smear campaign
open.substack.com

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Lisa W. Fazio, Stephan Lewandowsky , and 3 more

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social Β· 2d
The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s β€œcensorship industrial complex” hoax.

Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.

www.state.gov/releases/off...
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
www.state.gov

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky

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FactCheck.org @factcheck.org Β· 2d
Trump, FDA Make Misleading International Vaccine Schedule Comparisons

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Trump, FDA Make Misleading International Vaccine Schedule Comparisons - FactCheck.org
Echoing a longstanding anti-vaccine trope, President Donald Trump falsely claimed that the American vaccine schedule "long required" babies to get "far more" vaccines than are given in "any other" cou...
www.factcheck.org

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social Β· 3d
Sadly, i fear they are likely to sit and watch and pretend it out of existence.

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Leigh Sparks

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social Β· 3d
Definitive proof that in Sadiq Khan's London, Christmas has been cancelled altogether

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
London's Christmas lights: A view from the skies
Aerial photographs taken at night show central London dazzling in festive light displays.
www.bbc.co.uk

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Patrick Dunleavy

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Β· 3d
Is the government going to sit and watch while the #PalestineAction hunger strikers die? Is most of the media going to carry on ignoring them? Just how callous has the Establishment become?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Families of Palestine Action hunger strikers seek urgent meeting with Lammy
Justice secretary urged to β€˜show a bit of humanity’ with protesters severely ill after refusing food for weeks
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social Β· 3d
Help reimagine how @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social communicates about the amazing research and researchers in cognitive psychology.

Psychonomic fellows - Apply for the role of Science Communication Editor by Feb 28th.

www.psychonomic.org/page/2026_Sc...

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social Β· 4d
when your censor is in the house - or is head of it - govt no longer needs to make a direct order. this is proceeding precisely as planned.
β€˜60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It β€˜Political.’
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Adam Bonica

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social Β· 6d
Apparently this is not the onion: www.lee.senate.gov/2025/12/patr...

Reposted by Martin McKee, Stephan Lewandowsky, Andrew Scott , and 7 more

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org Β· 6d
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Stephan Lewandowsky, Trevon D. Logan , and 2 more

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com Β· 7d
It gets even more patheticβ€”

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Rep. Joyce Beatty @RepBeatty Β· 6m For the record. This was not unanimous. I was muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition to this move. Also for the record, this was not on the agenda.

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Juan Cole, Eric J. Segall , and 1 more

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com Β· 13d
β€œFaith leaders have been beaten, arrested, even shot with β€œless lethal” weapons, and church attendance has fallen significantlyβ€”by more than 50% in Spanish-speaking parishes in one Catholic diocese. But now there’s a plan to target Spanish-speaking churches nationwide during the holiday season”
Trump's War On Christmas Is A War On Liberalism
After decades of make-believe, the Trump administration is promising an actual war on Christmas that would traumatize religious communities with armed state power.
www.liberalcurrents.com

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Stephan Lewandowsky, Will Jennings , and 3 more

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social Β· 14d
Is the tide turning? New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Renewed talk of a customs union may well come to nothing, but rapidly changing geo-politics mean the UK needs urgently to face up to the failure of the entire Brexit β€˜strategy’: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/is-t...

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Eric J. Segall, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social Β· 14d
β€œProject Censored’s List of Buried Stories Hits Half-Century Mark”
My review of @projectcensored.bsky.social Top 10 Stories for @randomlengthsnews.bsky.social. Independent media storiesβ€”ignored/marginalized by M$Mβ€”frame a different worldpicture. 1/12
www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/202...
This is the deeper point of Project Censored’s list: That it’s not just about this or that suppressed and under-reported story, it’s about a whole different way of seeing the world if that systemic censoring were stripped away. Here, then, is Project Censored’s half-century anniversary list, so you can see for yourself what that means.

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social Β· 14d
On second thought, the "will not" does a lot of heavy lifting here. The deafness and imperviousness is perhaps better explained by "do not want to"? The pursuit of anti-democratic goals is too persistent and too strategic to be explained by anything other than, well, strategy.
georgemonbiot.bsky.social George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Β· 15d
How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Hugo Mercier, Philipp Schmid , and 5 more

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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social Β· 14d
It's out!!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Big thank you to my coauthors @small-schulz.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, and to all participants who discussed 20 political issues over 4 weeks in 6 subreddit, 3 experimental conditions and let us observe.

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Mary Corcoran, Graham Dutfield , and 2 more

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Β· 15d
How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social Β· 16d
They are hoping not to be noticed because you know UK is no longer part of Europe… special relationship… that sort of thing.

Reposted by Christian Odendahl, Stephan Lewandowsky, Juan Cole , and 3 more

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social Β· 16d
I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is β€œnot much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Alan Richardson

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com Β· 16d
After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.

No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Β· 16d
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"

Reposted by Michael E. Mann

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social Β· 17d
Hmm, I wonder if inexplicable changes in long-term weather patterns (wasn't there a name for it? can't remember) are "relevant and necessary" at Texas Tech? @katharinehayhoe.com @michaelemann.bsky.social @naomioreskes.bsky.social
joel-fleming.bsky.social Joel Fleming @joel-fleming.bsky.social Β· 17d
You can't even pretend to be a real university when you're doing this. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Alan Richardson

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Joel Fleming @joel-fleming.bsky.social Β· 17d
You can't even pretend to be a real university when you're doing this. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...