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Stéphane Prud’homme
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CEO Whisperer & Adjunct Professor of practice in YUL 🇨🇦 & HKG 🇭🇰 • PhD Candidate 🇲🇴 Influential narrative, Disinformation, Propaganda, Democracy; MBA Marketing & Economics 🇨🇳🇺🇸; MA Credibility & Crisis Mgnt 🇨🇦 • Founder @CredibilityInstitute.com‬ • Eng Fra 中文
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Stéphane Prud’homme @stepru.com · 21d
Neuroscience, positive and constructive communication, and dialogue. And most of all, brain synchrony.
Fascinating!
matthewfacciani.bsky.social Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 21d
New neuroscience research shows that when people try to persuade, their brains sync less and cover fewer ideas. But when they enter a discussion to learn or compromise, their brains diverge in ways that foster creativity, understanding, & shared solutions.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/good...
Good Conversations Don’t Require Everybody to Agree, Neuroscience Shows
Brain imaging is illuminating the patterns linked to productive, positive dialogue, and those insights could help people connect with others
www.scientificamerican.com
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In Grok we don’t trust
November 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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A bit scary at first with AI actual hallucinations.
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12d
Why would someone pay $20k for a robot controlled by a human in a remote location to do things more slowly and clumsily when the median wage for a maid or housekeeper is $33k per year, which is typically spread across 10-20 households?
October 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Reposted by Stéphane Prud’homme
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A major front of the current information war: getting your facts, frames, propaganda, disinformation, etc. into the AI systems that create so much of the content we see and are rapidly becoming the de facto “ground truth” of the internet.
October 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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At various stages of the mission the Russian bombers were escorted by fighter jets from foreign countries, the ministry was cited as saying.
October 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Neuroscience, positive and constructive communication, and dialogue. And most of all, brain synchrony.
Fascinating!
matthewfacciani.bsky.social Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 21d
New neuroscience research shows that when people try to persuade, their brains sync less and cover fewer ideas. But when they enter a discussion to learn or compromise, their brains diverge in ways that foster creativity, understanding, & shared solutions.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/good...
Good Conversations Don’t Require Everybody to Agree, Neuroscience Shows
Brain imaging is illuminating the patterns linked to productive, positive dialogue, and those insights could help people connect with others
www.scientificamerican.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Modern humans evolved defenses against lead, new research suggests, allowing them to build more complex and robust societies. https://scim.ag/48zZcvJ
Did lead poisoning doom Neanderthals?
Modern humans’ tolerance for the toxic metal may have helped them outcompete our closest evolutionary cousins
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October 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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#Italy: last night, a bomb exploded under journalist Sigfrido Ranucci’s car, thankfully causing no injuries. RSF firmly condemns this attack — one of the most serious against an 🇮🇹 reporter in recent years — and calls on the authorities to protect Ranucci and bring those responsible to justice.
October 17, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Peter Howitt’s Nobel-recognized Theory of Creative Destruction, developed in collaboration with Philippe Aghion & Joseph Schumpeter.
reporter.mcgill.ca/peter-howitt...
@nobelprize.bsky.social
McGill Alumnus Peter Howitt awarded 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics for work on innovation and growth - McGill Reporter
McGill alumnus Peter Howitt is named co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
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October 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Microplastics are brought into the wilderness on hiking shoes and gear, study shows.
The particles may contain any number of 16,000 plastic chemicals, of which many, such as BPA, phthalates and Pfas.
fyi @plasticpollutes.bsky.social
via @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Microplastics are brought into the wilderness on hiking shoes and gear, study shows
Research comparing Adirondack mountain lakes in New York suggests foot traffic is significant source of pollution
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Humans inhale as much as 68,000 microplastic particles daily, study finds
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Humans inhale as much as 68,000 microplastic particles daily, study finds
Particles are small enough to burrow into lungs, says report, with health impacts ‘more substantial than we realize’
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Professor Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social at MNSBC, a must watch.
October 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Have you read Mark Bray's @mark-bray.bsky.social book?
I bought it yesterday.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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China is no more a developing country
via @apnews.com
apnews.com/article/chin...
China gives up developing-country benefits to boost WTO in face of Trump tariffs
China has announced it will no longer seek special treatment as a developing country in World Trade Organization agreements.
apnews.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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I bought Mark Bray's @mark-bray.bsky.social book en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa:.... Can't wait to read it.
October 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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That's crazy and outrageous! Death threats for a book published in 2017!
@mark-bray.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Well done! Enjoy Spain, the US are crazy!
mark-bray.bsky.social Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · Oct 10
Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.
October 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The 'Iron Lady' of Venezeula, an opposition leader who is currently in hiding, has been lauded by the Nobel Committee.
Who is Maria Corina Machado, 2025 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize?
The 'Iron Lady' of Venezeula, an opposition leader who is currently in hiding, has been lauded by the Nobel Committee.
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October 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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So this just arrived. On sale October 28.
October 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Is the universe really one big black hole?
via @newscientist.com
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Is the universe really one big black hole? — New Scientist
According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density – given that the universe contains a lot of relatively empty space, could ...
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October 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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iPadOS 26 is making me think about dumping my MacBook Air
@romansempire.bsky.social This is what I just did yesterday 😂 No more MacBook, just an iPad now.
apple.news/A4mA_cgZcQIa...
iPadOS 26 is making me think about dumping my MacBook Air — Macworld
At WWDC25, Apple’s Craig Federighi called iPadOS 26 the “biggest iPadOS release ever,” and he’s not exaggerating.
apple.news
October 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Unlike Jesus, I have returned.
amandasmith.bsky.social Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · Oct 6
The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay
October 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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A 2024 study found that ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence.

Learn more on #WorldAnimalDay: https://scim.ag/42nMvQJ
October 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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andycraig.bsky.social
Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.

“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.
Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector
The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...
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October 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Trump casts shadow over Nobels as prize-awarding body warns academic freedom at risk
via @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump casts shadow over Nobels as prize-awarding body warns academic freedom at risk
US president has proposed measures that Royal Swedish Academy of Science VP says will ‘have devastating effects’
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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I don’t boycott Netflix because Musk says so. Enough is enough!
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Oct 3
Musk is trying to get his acolytes to cancel Netflix “for the sake of your children” because it has an already-cancelled animated show with a trans character.
October 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM