Given the circumstances I’m not sure the WaPo situation is very comparable to Twitter. A lot of people are still on Twitter (myself included). I was just suggesting many people aren’t likely to go read a Twitter thread posted here. And the data is clear about Academic Twitter’s trajectory...

You can’t come to
BlueSky and post links to Twitter! :)

But scientists have almost no control over whether the public trusts science. And they can’t fight well funded right wing actors pushing mistrust in science and intellectual elites 3

If you get time, please add me

Link to preprint in case the NHB shareable link doesn’t work: osf.io/preprints/ps...