Christiana Varda
@civi.bsky.social
I spend most of my time thinking and writing about how people think about knowledge claims encountered on social media.
Expect to see posts about dogs, indie movies and books. And musings/occasional rants.
Based in Cyprus.
(She/Her)
Expect to see posts about dogs, indie movies and books. And musings/occasional rants.
Based in Cyprus.
(She/Her)
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Christiana Varda
@civi.bsky.social
· Aug 29
Hello BlueSky. Having a go at this new medium.
It's hard to start from scratch again, so if you have recs for people who are on the platform and who conduct research on #EpistemicCognition #Misinformation #InformalLearning #MediaLiteracy, let me know in the comments.
It's hard to start from scratch again, so if you have recs for people who are on the platform and who conduct research on #EpistemicCognition #Misinformation #InformalLearning #MediaLiteracy, let me know in the comments.
TFW you have to give a final push to cross off a few more tasks from your list before your vacation.
August 7, 2025 at 7:57 AM
TFW you have to give a final push to cross off a few more tasks from your list before your vacation.
My pet peeve? Transcripts that have not been formatted at all.
July 30, 2025 at 6:34 AM
My pet peeve? Transcripts that have not been formatted at all.
A kitten foster has turned into a kitten adoption. I'm finally starting to get all the cat memes. Consider this your warning.
June 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
A kitten foster has turned into a kitten adoption. I'm finally starting to get all the cat memes. Consider this your warning.
Here we are again: About to edit a manuscript I now officially hate. It took everything to open that document again.
June 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Here we are again: About to edit a manuscript I now officially hate. It took everything to open that document again.
"Escapism, it turns out, isn’t always avoidance. Sometimes it’s a way back to yourself."
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...
Opinion | The Subversive Joy of BookTok
www.nytimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
"Escapism, it turns out, isn’t always avoidance. Sometimes it’s a way back to yourself."
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...
It was so nice to meet @vea.bsky.social over coffee IRL today. It honestly felt like I traveled back in time to the good old days when social media fostered connection rather than division.
June 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It was so nice to meet @vea.bsky.social over coffee IRL today. It honestly felt like I traveled back in time to the good old days when social media fostered connection rather than division.
Somehow it seems I am (yet again) monumentally behind on life.
Maybe it's just pre-conference stress.
Maybe it's just pre-conference stress.
June 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Somehow it seems I am (yet again) monumentally behind on life.
Maybe it's just pre-conference stress.
Maybe it's just pre-conference stress.
When your tiny speck of a country makes it into the script, as an obscure reference.
It always catches me by surprise and makes me feel seen.
Also, Kathryn Hahn as a half Cypriot? I'm on board. 🥰
#Cyprus #TheStudio
It always catches me by surprise and makes me feel seen.
Also, Kathryn Hahn as a half Cypriot? I'm on board. 🥰
#Cyprus #TheStudio
May 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
When your tiny speck of a country makes it into the script, as an obscure reference.
It always catches me by surprise and makes me feel seen.
Also, Kathryn Hahn as a half Cypriot? I'm on board. 🥰
#Cyprus #TheStudio
It always catches me by surprise and makes me feel seen.
Also, Kathryn Hahn as a half Cypriot? I'm on board. 🥰
#Cyprus #TheStudio
Simply beautiful. Unapologetically hopeful. It was the perfect start to my day.
In Defense of Despair www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
In Defense of Despair www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
In Defense of Despair
The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so.
www.newyorker.com
May 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Simply beautiful. Unapologetically hopeful. It was the perfect start to my day.
In Defense of Despair www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
In Defense of Despair www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
When you agree to a review, but they don't tell you in advance that you basically have 10 days to do it.
May 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
When you agree to a review, but they don't tell you in advance that you basically have 10 days to do it.
Reposted by Christiana Varda
jesus LLMs are the scooters from WALL-E
May 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
jesus LLMs are the scooters from WALL-E
Reposted by Christiana Varda
Freire weeps
May 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Freire weeps
Discovering a special issue on a topic you're immensely interested in, feels akin to receiving a love letter.
May 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Discovering a special issue on a topic you're immensely interested in, feels akin to receiving a love letter.
🎉 Publication alert!
The study reports how trust in scientists varies across countries, considering individual and country-level factors. It also examines people's normative perceptions of science in society and policy making and which issues should be prioritized in science.
Key findings:👇🧵
The study reports how trust in scientists varies across countries, considering individual and country-level factors. It also examines people's normative perceptions of science in society and policy making and which issues should be prioritized in science.
Key findings:👇🧵
Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳
With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
January 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🎉 Publication alert!
The study reports how trust in scientists varies across countries, considering individual and country-level factors. It also examines people's normative perceptions of science in society and policy making and which issues should be prioritized in science.
Key findings:👇🧵
The study reports how trust in scientists varies across countries, considering individual and country-level factors. It also examines people's normative perceptions of science in society and policy making and which issues should be prioritized in science.
Key findings:👇🧵
Reposted by Christiana Varda
Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.
January 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.
Sharing this on behalf of #EARLI SIG 20 'Inquiry Learning', for which I'm JURE Coordinator. We're kicking off 2025 with a new webinar series called "IBL Behind the Scenes". Our first webinar is on 23 January 2025.
Registration (and abstract): forms.gle/JdtkRuKwk8VZ...
Registration (and abstract): forms.gle/JdtkRuKwk8VZ...
January 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Sharing this on behalf of #EARLI SIG 20 'Inquiry Learning', for which I'm JURE Coordinator. We're kicking off 2025 with a new webinar series called "IBL Behind the Scenes". Our first webinar is on 23 January 2025.
Registration (and abstract): forms.gle/JdtkRuKwk8VZ...
Registration (and abstract): forms.gle/JdtkRuKwk8VZ...
Reposted by Christiana Varda
A lot of the “free speech!” people seem to think their speech stops being free as soon as someone else is free to call BS
PS fact checks don’t suppress speech, fact checks are actually MORE SPEECH. /end
January 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A lot of the “free speech!” people seem to think their speech stops being free as soon as someone else is free to call BS
Reposted by Christiana Varda
Two salient facts about Facebook replacing its fact-checking program with community notes:
(1) community notes are cheaper.
(2) the incoming political regime dislikes fact-checking. So community notes are less trouble.
The rest is just framing. Zuck's sole principle is to do what's best for Zuck.
(1) community notes are cheaper.
(2) the incoming political regime dislikes fact-checking. So community notes are less trouble.
The rest is just framing. Zuck's sole principle is to do what's best for Zuck.
Zuckerberg says Meta plans to eliminate its fact-checking program, move content moderators to Texas to address claims of bias, raise the bar for enforcing its terms and lift certain “restrictions” on immigration and gender talk.
Huge shift in platform policy.
Huge shift in platform policy.
January 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Two salient facts about Facebook replacing its fact-checking program with community notes:
(1) community notes are cheaper.
(2) the incoming political regime dislikes fact-checking. So community notes are less trouble.
The rest is just framing. Zuck's sole principle is to do what's best for Zuck.
(1) community notes are cheaper.
(2) the incoming political regime dislikes fact-checking. So community notes are less trouble.
The rest is just framing. Zuck's sole principle is to do what's best for Zuck.
Reposted by Christiana Varda
Over the past 4–5 years, Facebook has sunset tools (chiefly CrowdTangle) used by researchers and journalists, made data difficult and expensive to get, and iced out academics studying disinformation.
Now, it's shutting down the fact checking on its platform.
Now, it's shutting down the fact checking on its platform.
January 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Over the past 4–5 years, Facebook has sunset tools (chiefly CrowdTangle) used by researchers and journalists, made data difficult and expensive to get, and iced out academics studying disinformation.
Now, it's shutting down the fact checking on its platform.
Now, it's shutting down the fact checking on its platform.
Reposted by Christiana Varda
If you care about learning, the theories that describe it, and how to improve and apply those theories to educational contexts, then you need to read this by @mattbernacki.bsky.social article! (1/2) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
https://buff.ly/3Pn7Dj4
https://buff.ly/3Pn7Dj4
January 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
If you care about learning, the theories that describe it, and how to improve and apply those theories to educational contexts, then you need to read this by @mattbernacki.bsky.social article! (1/2) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
https://buff.ly/3Pn7Dj4
https://buff.ly/3Pn7Dj4
And against all odds, I decided to decorate the house for Xmas. Now I really feel like winter break is fast approaching!
December 1, 2024 at 7:06 PM
And against all odds, I decided to decorate the house for Xmas. Now I really feel like winter break is fast approaching!
Reposted by Christiana Varda
Fun fact: If someone quotes a post of yours in a way that is unwelcome (as is commonplace on Twitter/X) there is a tool to combat the unwanted attention. Simply click the three dot menu on the quote post & click "Detach quote". This removes your post from their quote post. Useful to know, do share!
November 12, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Fun fact: If someone quotes a post of yours in a way that is unwelcome (as is commonplace on Twitter/X) there is a tool to combat the unwanted attention. Simply click the three dot menu on the quote post & click "Detach quote". This removes your post from their quote post. Useful to know, do share!
This has been on my watchlist for a while.
Thelma is my favorite film of the year. It’s hilarious, moving and incredibly thrilling. June Squibb, Richard Roundtree and Fred Hechinger are absolutely sublime. Could not recommend it more.
November 30, 2024 at 4:41 PM
This has been on my watchlist for a while.
I'm gonna push myself to write another section of this chapter, and then I'll go out and celebrate with a beer or two.
I'm so ready for a vacation, honestly.
I'm so ready for a vacation, honestly.
November 30, 2024 at 4:33 PM
I'm gonna push myself to write another section of this chapter, and then I'll go out and celebrate with a beer or two.
I'm so ready for a vacation, honestly.
I'm so ready for a vacation, honestly.