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Robb Willer
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Professor of Sociology, Psychology, & Org Behavior, Stanford University
Director, Polarization and Social Change Lab, @pascl-stanford.bsky.social
Co-Director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society

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Robb Willer is an American sociologist and social psychologist whose research has examined American politics, political psychology, moral persuasion, and cooperation.

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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · Jun 17
Saturday's No Kings protests were massive, inclusive, and nonviolent. It was an honor to team up with
@owasow.bsky.social to analyze how nonviolent resistance can wins hearts, minds, and elections.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13h
PBS News notes this Sunday will be “PBS News Weekend’s” last due to federal budget cuts

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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · 2d
My goodness what dystopic nonsense.

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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · 2d
Exactly.
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Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

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Michael Donnelly @mjdonnelly.bsky.social · 2d
Political Scientists: Canada announced a new program to attract top talent: www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

UofT has a small number it can nominate, but the Dean wants nominations from any department that can identify someone who fits. Internal deadline is SOON (Jan 14), so reach out if interested.
Canada Impact+ Research Chairs - Canada.ca
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d
Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

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Kathy E. Gill 🏍️ @kegill.bsky.social · 4d
“We think that having good media literacy skills is a very big civic skill,” Kiia Hakkala, a pedagogical specialist for the City of Helsinki, told The Associated Press.

They start at age THREE.

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Finnish children learn media literacy at 3 years old. It's protection against Russian propaganda
Finland has been fighting fake news by teaching media literacy to children as young as 3. The Nordic nation includes this in its national curriculum to help citizens recognize disinformation, especial...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d
What if, and bear with me on this coz its going to sound radical, the Washington Post's Editorial Board could reach out to actual experts on this topic rather than rely on right-wing youtubers?
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If policymakers who care about work were taking the long view, they would be especially cautious about restricting support for households with kids. Research shows that children who grow up with SNAP grow up to get more education, be healthier, and work and earn more. In fact, every dollar spent on SNAP and other basic assistance programs has a return of nearly 10-to-1 on government investment, thanks to lower long-run health care costs, higher taxes paid, and less crime. That return is much higher than the “modest at best” return that researchers calculate we got from the 2017 tax cuts–the very cuts that policymakers have now slashed SNAP in order to extend.

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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 6d
For researchers interested in semantic change over years and decades...

I've created a toolkit — lexichron — for measuring long-term shifts in word meanings using Google Ngrams and other corpora (e.g., COHA, COCA).

Here's the public GitHub repo:
github.com/eric-d-knowl...

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GitHub - eric-d-knowles/lexichron
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