It‘s such an important step forward to have these kinds of diamond open access journals hosted and funded by universities (or similar institutions) as a real alternative to all the established for-profit publishers!

Thanks for sharing! Completely agree, he is such a brilliant writer!

The result of this super cool work with Henrik Olsson, @abhishekr0y.bsky.social, @hdschulze.bsky.social, Stan Rhodes, and Alison Mansheim can now be found online - and we hope you like it as much as we do 😍https://www.nature.com/articles/s44260-025-00053-z- Core ideas also summarized below 🔽

Arne Stolp introduced a measure for capturing ideological bias expression … and I wrapped up the session with some thoughts about our current knowledge (and the gaps in our current knowledge) about motivated reasoning. Thank you to all of you for the great exchange!

Marlene Altenmüller demonstrated that motivated reasoning can also be found in the context of art perception and aesthetic judgments

Philipp Schmid presented evidence from a meta-analysis on the impact of exposure to health misinformation on belief in health misinformation, tapping into another hot topic of our times (unfortunately).

Kevin Winter talked about conspiracy beliefs and motivated reception in the context of the sustainability transformation. Such an important topic in the face of climate change!