🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A tiny human (1?) is helping Mum sell things. While Mum is greeting customers and taking payments--all one-handed. Tiny Human is propped on her hip, blowing big raspberry kisses of thanks. Giggle-snorting when people blow kisses back. (1)

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

There is and it exploded at the beginning of the pandemic. Epistemic trespassing

Epistemic trespassing is ruining so many things.

Part of the erosion of acceptance of an 'objective' reality and mistrust of expertise.

Epistemic trespassers judge matters outside their field of expertise. Trespassing is ubiquitous in this age of interdisciplinary research and recognizing this will require us to be more intellectually modest. (Ballantyne, Nathan. Epistemic Trespassing. Mind. 2019 Apr; 128(510):1-29.)

🗳️When is the far right punished for extremism?

➡️ @laiabalcells.bsky.social @sergisme.bsky.social & E. vanderWilden show that normalization lowers the cost of extreme positions—moderates see them as less genuine www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Hello Bluesky! Alice here, ready to embrace this new digital realm after a long hiatus from all social media. The dragon rises. 🐉