Dr Jeni Cross
@drjeni.bsky.social
Sociologist researching and writing about community engagement, social change, and regenerative development.
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Seven lessons I didn’t learn from election day - good post on why we should be skeptical about many claims about the results and what they mean for American politics ericneyman.wordpress.com/2024/11/14/s...
Seven lessons I didn’t learn from election day
I spent most of my election day — 3pm to 11pm Pacific time — trading on Manifold Markets. That went about as well as it could have gone. I doubled the money I was trading with, jumping …
ericneyman.wordpress.com
November 15, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Seven lessons I didn’t learn from election day - good post on why we should be skeptical about many claims about the results and what they mean for American politics ericneyman.wordpress.com/2024/11/14/s...
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Susceptibility to conspiracism is monotonic & it is conditioned on winning & losing.
Knowledgeable folks more susceptible to motivated reasoning.
Elites/influencers can be asymmetric in effects!
e.g. below from: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
also see: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Knowledgeable folks more susceptible to motivated reasoning.
Elites/influencers can be asymmetric in effects!
e.g. below from: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
also see: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Are Republicans and Conservatives More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories? - Political Behavior
A sizable literature tracing back to Richard Hofstadter’s The Paranoid Style (1964) argues that Republicans and conservatives are more likely to believe conspiracy theories than Democrats and liberals...
link.springer.com
November 16, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Susceptibility to conspiracism is monotonic & it is conditioned on winning & losing.
Knowledgeable folks more susceptible to motivated reasoning.
Elites/influencers can be asymmetric in effects!
e.g. below from: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
also see: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Knowledgeable folks more susceptible to motivated reasoning.
Elites/influencers can be asymmetric in effects!
e.g. below from: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
also see: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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1/ X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology.⬇️
November 16, 2024 at 10:40 AM
1/ X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology.⬇️
I am heartbroken that we don’t not have the collective political will to stop genocide. 💔
"What is happening in Gaza is genocide".
Very hard indeed to argue with this.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Very hard indeed to argue with this.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We are witnessing the final stage of genocide in Gaza | Arwa Mahdawi
Omer Bartov is an Israeli-American professor of Holocaust and genocide studies. He has issued a grim warning on Gaza
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2024 at 11:19 PM
I am heartbroken that we don’t not have the collective political will to stop genocide. 💔
I love this chart because the colors they chose for the intervals are the colors that match my synesthesia 🥰
November 16, 2024 at 10:39 PM
I love this chart because the colors they chose for the intervals are the colors that match my synesthesia 🥰
Across the globe cities are focusing on expanding urban tree cover to improve human health.
November 16, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Across the globe cities are focusing on expanding urban tree cover to improve human health.
Good news from scientists.
Good news for once!
We’ve found a 300-year-old coral that’s so big it’s visible from space. It’s now considered the world’s largest. Best of all: it’s not yet harmed by climate change & global warming.
It’s being called a beacon of hope. Let it also be a call to action! #DoSomething 🧵
We’ve found a 300-year-old coral that’s so big it’s visible from space. It’s now considered the world’s largest. Best of all: it’s not yet harmed by climate change & global warming.
It’s being called a beacon of hope. Let it also be a call to action! #DoSomething 🧵
Scientists discover world’s largest coral—so big it can be seen from space
Exclusive photos reveal a sprawling, 300-year-old coral near Solomon Islands, recently discovered by the National Geographic Society’s Pristine Seas expedition team.
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 16, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Good news from scientists.
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"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
Ursula K. Le Guin .
Ursula K. Le Guin .
November 15, 2024 at 3:09 PM
"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
Ursula K. Le Guin .
Ursula K. Le Guin .
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Instagram is all videos now and I miss the days when my photography had a fighting chance of being seen. So here’s an Oregon waterfall from a few years ago.
November 15, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Instagram is all videos now and I miss the days when my photography had a fighting chance of being seen. So here’s an Oregon waterfall from a few years ago.