Stephan Lewandowsky

@lewan.bsky.social

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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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Sociology 19%

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 8h

Donald Trump, obliged to withdraw the military from the streets of US cities, now directs that foreign sovereign states be bombed.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20h

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement.
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How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point

Nonconsensual deepfakes on X are nothing new, but now it's built into the platform.

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 20h

Ghastly OpEds by Jay Bhattacharya in 2025

-His justification for canceling funds for mRNA vaxx R&D
-His argument that no pandemic preparedness is needed

As Seth Berkey says: "Magical thinking has no place in public health." We must condemn these "misguided policies"
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Magical thinking will not prevent future pandemics or improve public health

For much of human history, infectious diseases were the main causes of morbidity and mortality. The sciences of public health, epidemiology, microbiology, and vaccine and drug development have dramati...

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of stunners here: 1. calling a sociopathic narcissistic idiot a "genius". 2. tacitly linking a fabricated hate campaign against Somali-Americans to the equally fabricated hate campaign against Jews by the Nazis. 3. doing it in broad daylight.

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d

Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.”

Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d

Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 4d

Indeed. But it's not just Putin. It is also Trump, Musk, and the other plutocrats. I don't think this is about Russia v. EU, it's about plutocrats and oligarchs v. democracy.

The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 4d

The dictator’s threats and dirty tricks go unanswered and unpunished. We can’t keep rolling over like this

✏️ @lukemcgee.bsky.social

Putin is out to destroy the UK and Europe. If we don’t accept that, we’re doomed

The dictator’s threats and dirty tricks go unanswered and unpunished. We can’t keep rolling over like this

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 4d

The dictator’s threats and dirty tricks go unanswered and unpunished. We can’t keep rolling over like this

✏️ @lukemcgee.bsky.social

Putin is out to destroy the UK and Europe. If we don’t accept that, we’re doomed

The dictator’s threats and dirty tricks go unanswered and unpunished. We can’t keep rolling over like this

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 6d

Oh look, Jonathan Turley mentioned me in one of his “angry old man on porch” pieces again. He just can’t help himself. He does it a few times a year, as I explain below. You’d think a preeminent legal scholar wouldn’t concern himself with a 36yo mom but NOPE

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 6d

Let’s talk about something not many people are chatting about and what’s actually happening right now.

You might wonder why Imran Ahmed and the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) suddenly became targets of the U.S. government. The honest answer is that their research hit where it hurt.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 6d

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Imran Ahmed @imranahmed.bsky.social · 8d

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

A bit of real cheer for us all!

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Sven Giegold @sven-giegold.de · 9d

Die Stellungnahme der EU-Kommission zu den Trumps Anti-DSA-Sanktionen lenkt vom zentralen Punkt ab: Seit Monaten setzt die EU-Kommission das EU-Digitalrecht nur mutlos um. Die Strafhöhen sind zu niedrig, die Verfahren zu langsam, Sanktionen ja werden nicht verhängt. Das muss sich jetzt ändern!

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Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 9d

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: “Yoel 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.”

Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 9d

Very good statement from the Cambridge Summit organizers.

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 10d

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 ...

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 10d

With a detailed shoutout to our Anti-Autocracy Handbook sks.to/autocracy 2/2
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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 10d

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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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 10d

It begins.

The EU lawmaker who was in charge of digital affairs during 🇪🇺President von der Leyen's first term has been banned from entering the United States, because the 🇺🇸 tech giants and government don't like the EU's tech laws.

What will be the 🇪🇺President'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

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 10d

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.

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The Many Lies of Andrew Lowenthal

Pulling receipts: what a cropped email & sworn declaration reveal in the ongoing saga of a smear campaign

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 10d

The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship 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....

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FactCheck.org @factcheck.org · 10d

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...

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 11d

Sadly, i fear they are likely to sit and watch and pretend it out of existence.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11d

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?
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Families of Palestine Action hunger strikers seek urgent meeting with Lammy

Justice secretary urged to ‘show a bit of humanity’ with protesters severely ill after refusing food for weeks

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11d

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.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11d

Families of Palestine Action hunger strikers seek urgent meeting with Lammy

Justice secretary urged to ‘show a bit of humanity’ with protesters severely ill after refusing food for weeks

www.theguardian.com

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 11d

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.

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