Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈
@allisonbetus.bsky.social
Quantitative social scientist. PhD in Communication. media effects | intergroup dynamics | white supremacist extremism
Pubs: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l-41bdcAAAAJ&hl=en
Rgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Allison-Betus
Pubs: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l-41bdcAAAAJ&hl=en
Rgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Allison-Betus
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A Friendlier White Genocide Myth: How Framing Influences Support for Bigoted Immigration Policy
<p>The White Genocide Myth (WGM) is one of the most popular conspiracy theories among White supremacists and other antisemites, yet narratives derived from it are regularly featured in mainstream immi...
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Since we're having a troll storm, why not pay a visit to my dissertation's new location on Scholarworks?
It's about how white supremacist extremism is mainstreamed via framing.
It was downloaded over 200 times before they moved it.
Writing about it while observing it irl was very stressful.
It's about how white supremacist extremism is mainstreamed via framing.
It was downloaded over 200 times before they moved it.
Writing about it while observing it irl was very stressful.
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we're going to win
Page One in Cincinnati:
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
we're going to win
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You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.
As I have argued for literally decades, plants are holding us down & must be abolished
One day you bourgeois fools will see
One day you bourgeois fools will see
Anti-solar NIMBYs aren't beating the accusations of being pretty dim bulbs. "Extracting from the sky" is a good one
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
As I have argued for literally decades, plants are holding us down & must be abolished
One day you bourgeois fools will see
One day you bourgeois fools will see
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We have gotten so used to Great Replacement becoming normalized that most people hardly noticed that a racist, antisemitic, xenophobic conspiracy theory popularized by mass shooters and 4chan trolls is now government policy.
The U.S. State Department is repeating a white nationalist conspiracy theory.
On Friday, it claimed that “mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization.”
That line comes straight from the Great Replacement myth: the lie that immigration is a plot to erase white populations.
On Friday, it claimed that “mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization.”
That line comes straight from the Great Replacement myth: the lie that immigration is a plot to erase white populations.
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
We have gotten so used to Great Replacement becoming normalized that most people hardly noticed that a racist, antisemitic, xenophobic conspiracy theory popularized by mass shooters and 4chan trolls is now government policy.
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Since 03/2023, I:
*Moved countries x1
*Moved states x4
*Experienced variously legally actionable discriminatory work environments in 3 different hospitals
* Had 9 different preceptors across 4 clinical sites
*Kept a 3.92 GPA through poverty, housing instabilty and disability
I am fucking FRIED.
*Moved countries x1
*Moved states x4
*Experienced variously legally actionable discriminatory work environments in 3 different hospitals
* Had 9 different preceptors across 4 clinical sites
*Kept a 3.92 GPA through poverty, housing instabilty and disability
I am fucking FRIED.
👋🏿 I'm 3 years into a fundraiser to support my journey of becoming a midwife, I'm STRUGGLING to take these very last steps. Finishing the $7889 left on this campaign would secure essential transportation to get to births and let me connect the pieces of my training and commitment to community birth.
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Since 03/2023, I:
*Moved countries x1
*Moved states x4
*Experienced variously legally actionable discriminatory work environments in 3 different hospitals
* Had 9 different preceptors across 4 clinical sites
*Kept a 3.92 GPA through poverty, housing instabilty and disability
I am fucking FRIED.
*Moved countries x1
*Moved states x4
*Experienced variously legally actionable discriminatory work environments in 3 different hospitals
* Had 9 different preceptors across 4 clinical sites
*Kept a 3.92 GPA through poverty, housing instabilty and disability
I am fucking FRIED.
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thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead
October 12, 2025 at 10:48 AM
thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead
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Oh hey! It’s me!
New article now available and Open Access.
Fact-checking doesn’t really work. If we want to understand what misinformation does, ethnography is super useful.
Come for the discussion of windmills and Elon Tweets, stay for the talk of the “Afrikaner Refugees.” It’s a wild time.
New article now available and Open Access.
Fact-checking doesn’t really work. If we want to understand what misinformation does, ethnography is super useful.
Come for the discussion of windmills and Elon Tweets, stay for the talk of the “Afrikaner Refugees.” It’s a wild time.
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
Blending #Truth and #Lies: Using an #Ethnographic #Sensibility to Study #Online #Misinformation
By @carolyneholmes.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
Blending #Truth and #Lies: Using an #Ethnographic #Sensibility to Study #Online #Misinformation
By @carolyneholmes.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Oh hey! It’s me!
New article now available and Open Access.
Fact-checking doesn’t really work. If we want to understand what misinformation does, ethnography is super useful.
Come for the discussion of windmills and Elon Tweets, stay for the talk of the “Afrikaner Refugees.” It’s a wild time.
New article now available and Open Access.
Fact-checking doesn’t really work. If we want to understand what misinformation does, ethnography is super useful.
Come for the discussion of windmills and Elon Tweets, stay for the talk of the “Afrikaner Refugees.” It’s a wild time.
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
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Unlinked non-sharing of information resources on social media is such a fascinating (and unhelpful) information behavior. I suspect there are a variety of motivations, social factors, and platform logics/folklores that drive people to do this (but you really should share links to resources).
People on here are constantly sharing screenshots of stories they think are important without linking to the original work, and then wondering why the media ecosystem is so broken. If you can't be bothered to even link to the work you're sharing, you're part of the problem!
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Unlinked non-sharing of information resources on social media is such a fascinating (and unhelpful) information behavior. I suspect there are a variety of motivations, social factors, and platform logics/folklores that drive people to do this (but you really should share links to resources).
Folks, if you fear you'll never find your niche, know there are organisms in the darkest depths of the ocean which have evolved to eat only wood
November 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Folks, if you fear you'll never find your niche, know there are organisms in the darkest depths of the ocean which have evolved to eat only wood
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Thus begins the #dadjoke thread for 2025 bsky.app/profile/hist...
Hey did I tell y’all what my New Year’s resolution is?
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January 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Thus begins the #dadjoke thread for 2025 bsky.app/profile/hist...
Almost made it, just for the record
Would have made it if all that other stuff hadn't already been there
Would have made it if all that other stuff hadn't already been there
I had 3 bags of stuff, each weighing 6 lbs. The were loose in a larger plastic bag
In a fit of arrogance, I scorned my stepladder & attempted to get the 18 lb bag on an overhead shelf as though I was shooting a layup
I did not succeed
I'm fine. I'm no longer an atheist. Have a good day, everyone
In a fit of arrogance, I scorned my stepladder & attempted to get the 18 lb bag on an overhead shelf as though I was shooting a layup
I did not succeed
I'm fine. I'm no longer an atheist. Have a good day, everyone
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Almost made it, just for the record
Would have made it if all that other stuff hadn't already been there
Would have made it if all that other stuff hadn't already been there
I had 3 bags of stuff, each weighing 6 lbs. The were loose in a larger plastic bag
In a fit of arrogance, I scorned my stepladder & attempted to get the 18 lb bag on an overhead shelf as though I was shooting a layup
I did not succeed
I'm fine. I'm no longer an atheist. Have a good day, everyone
In a fit of arrogance, I scorned my stepladder & attempted to get the 18 lb bag on an overhead shelf as though I was shooting a layup
I did not succeed
I'm fine. I'm no longer an atheist. Have a good day, everyone
November 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I had 3 bags of stuff, each weighing 6 lbs. The were loose in a larger plastic bag
In a fit of arrogance, I scorned my stepladder & attempted to get the 18 lb bag on an overhead shelf as though I was shooting a layup
I did not succeed
I'm fine. I'm no longer an atheist. Have a good day, everyone
In a fit of arrogance, I scorned my stepladder & attempted to get the 18 lb bag on an overhead shelf as though I was shooting a layup
I did not succeed
I'm fine. I'm no longer an atheist. Have a good day, everyone
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Yeah, this is just what happens when a cult member steps out of line and starts to formulate a plan to be leader once the elderly cult leader dies. Still a believer/grifter.
DONT FALL FOR MTG’S BULLSHIT SHE IS STILL A VIOLENT ANTISEMITE WHO BLAMES JEWS FOR EVERYTHING WRONG IN THE WORLD A FULLY ENDORSES GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY
Also, she fully believes a cabal of worldwide Jewish pedophiles control the government. She just thinks Trump has become compromised by them. Or possibly was secretly compromised the entire time.
November 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Yeah, this is just what happens when a cult member steps out of line and starts to formulate a plan to be leader once the elderly cult leader dies. Still a believer/grifter.
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Re-upping this today.
If you don't know enough to adequately anticipate how bad actors are likely to misuse your work, you're probably not ready to be investigating those questions.
If you do know and fail to adequately guard against it, you are not just complicit: you are a collaborator.
If you don't know enough to adequately anticipate how bad actors are likely to misuse your work, you're probably not ready to be investigating those questions.
If you do know and fail to adequately guard against it, you are not just complicit: you are a collaborator.
One of the first things taught in (good) social science research methods courses is how to frame your data accurately. This isn't just about choosing and understanding the correct method for your data and question, though that is part of it. It's also about correctly presenting data to your readers.
November 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Re-upping this today.
If you don't know enough to adequately anticipate how bad actors are likely to misuse your work, you're probably not ready to be investigating those questions.
If you do know and fail to adequately guard against it, you are not just complicit: you are a collaborator.
If you don't know enough to adequately anticipate how bad actors are likely to misuse your work, you're probably not ready to be investigating those questions.
If you do know and fail to adequately guard against it, you are not just complicit: you are a collaborator.
We need to acknowledge the role of imaginary grievance in far-right radicalization & extremism. It's motivator #1.
I know the puppy parade objects but it's dangerous to pretend that BS like "sometimes there's gay people outside & I don't feel like a man" are real problems which society must fix
I know the puppy parade objects but it's dangerous to pretend that BS like "sometimes there's gay people outside & I don't feel like a man" are real problems which society must fix
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
We need to acknowledge the role of imaginary grievance in far-right radicalization & extremism. It's motivator #1.
I know the puppy parade objects but it's dangerous to pretend that BS like "sometimes there's gay people outside & I don't feel like a man" are real problems which society must fix
I know the puppy parade objects but it's dangerous to pretend that BS like "sometimes there's gay people outside & I don't feel like a man" are real problems which society must fix
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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New conspiracy theory just dropped:
What if peer review, committee meetings, strategic plans, promotion & tenure processes, and letter-writing requests are all part of a secret plot to keep smart, creative, active minds from thinking and writing the big ideas that would *really* change the world?
What if peer review, committee meetings, strategic plans, promotion & tenure processes, and letter-writing requests are all part of a secret plot to keep smart, creative, active minds from thinking and writing the big ideas that would *really* change the world?
November 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
New conspiracy theory just dropped:
What if peer review, committee meetings, strategic plans, promotion & tenure processes, and letter-writing requests are all part of a secret plot to keep smart, creative, active minds from thinking and writing the big ideas that would *really* change the world?
What if peer review, committee meetings, strategic plans, promotion & tenure processes, and letter-writing requests are all part of a secret plot to keep smart, creative, active minds from thinking and writing the big ideas that would *really* change the world?
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okay, friends, let's do something community-oriented and helpful. #sblaar25 veterans, drop your best conference advice for first-time attendees. be sure to signal boost so folks across bluesky can add on/peruse.
November 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
okay, friends, let's do something community-oriented and helpful. #sblaar25 veterans, drop your best conference advice for first-time attendees. be sure to signal boost so folks across bluesky can add on/peruse.
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Currently stranded in a clinical situation and I could get called to a birth any time between now and tomorrow morning.
A $150 quick goal on my ko-fi would resolve this. If you can please help.
A $150 quick goal on my ko-fi would resolve this. If you can please help.
My in-bio site is functional in a static business card kind of way. I know newsletters are what all the cool authors have, the way my neurology is set up newsletters are hell. But Ko-fi is a great place to catch up with me, and if we're accustomed to interacting my DMs can get you my Signal.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Currently stranded in a clinical situation and I could get called to a birth any time between now and tomorrow morning.
A $150 quick goal on my ko-fi would resolve this. If you can please help.
A $150 quick goal on my ko-fi would resolve this. If you can please help.
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Submit a Claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
The most harrowing piece of fiction I've ever read was a book called Cuddly Holocaust & tech bros are proudly selling the inciting incident
Trouble in Toyland 2025: A.I. bots and toxics present hidden dangers
Tests show A.I. toys can have disturbing conversations. Other concerns include unsafe or counterfeit toys bought online.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The most harrowing piece of fiction I've ever read was a book called Cuddly Holocaust & tech bros are proudly selling the inciting incident
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feels like we're reaching a point where we're going to have to make "got way into stimulants, and became deeply confused" into its own branch on the tree of political thought
November 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
feels like we're reaching a point where we're going to have to make "got way into stimulants, and became deeply confused" into its own branch on the tree of political thought