Advice for boosting mental immunity from one of the fathers of psychology, William James
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Free speech, fact checking, and the right to accurate information
True to his campaign promises, on 20 January 2025, US President Donald Trump signed a broad range of Executive Orders, the scope of which ranged from renaming the Gulf of Mexico to βGulf of Americaβ t...
My latest column just appeared in Science, entitled "Free speech, fact-checking, and the right to accurate informationβ. (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) I use one of President Trumpβs first executive orders to unpack the terrain between misinformation and claims to free speech 1/n
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We live in the information age, but it's often difficult figuring out what to trust. That's why the Mental Immunity Project and other organizations like @newslit.org exist. One of the most important ways to get better at navigating the sea of information is by learning #NewsLiteracy skills.
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A cutout shows a teen looking at their phone. Text bubble alongside read:
- Teens are navigating the most complex information landscape in history.
- News literacy can help them learn to identify credible information
NATIONAL NEWS LITERACY WEEK
Presented by News Literacy Project, the E.W. Scripps Company and USA Today
Feb. 3-7, 2025
For a future founded on facts, visit NewsLiteracyWeek.org
π’ National #NewsLiteracyWeek in partnership with @ewscrippsco.bsky.social & @usatoday.com begins TODAY!
β¨ Whether you're an educator or not, you can make a difference in young people's lives by empowering them to identify credible information.
π Get involved & share: newsliteracyweek.org
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Next week is National News Literacy Week! The News Literacy Project (@newslit.org) will be hosting free webinars throughout the week. Visit their website to learn more. Let's spread the word about the importance of news literacy!
newslit.org/news-literac...
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Our latest Substack post, a short essay by @drandyno.bsky.social went up today, read it here: open.substack.com/pub/mentalim...
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YouTube video by News Literacy Project
National News Literacy Week 2025
News Literacy Week is only 2 weeks away! youtu.be/rot7HZ8842E?...
Follow @newslit.org to learn more
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This is a clip from our video on how to recognize pseudoscience by @thinkingpowers.bsky.social
Watch the full video here: youtu.be/4fvmNmtZP20?...
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Quote from our collaborator Sander van der Liden, PhD @profsanderlinden.bsky.social
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How disinformation spreads on social media.
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The internet isn't going to let up, are you?
Visit mentalimmunityproject.org to enhance your resilience to misinformation!
#simpsonsmeme #meme #criticalthinking #learning #misinformation
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Do Minds Have Immune Systems: Our academic paper answering the question
Here's our press release about our theoretical psychology paper on cognitive immunology: open.substack.com/pub/mentalim...
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Celebrating Progress in 2024 & Preparing for More in 2025
Our year in review and plans for 2025
As the year draws to a close, the Mental Immunity Project (MIP) is taking a moment to reflect on what we...
MENTALIMMUNITYPROJECT.SUBSTACK.COM
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As we approach the end of 2024, please consider donating to the Mental Immunity Project. You can do so here: donorbox.org/mental-immun...
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For a concise overview of our recently published paper by @drandyno.bsky.social @lukehj.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social go here: www.growkudos.com/publications...
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Our latest Substack post, an essay from our director Andy Norman, was posted today. Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/mentalim...
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To some people, the concept of mental immunity makes them uncomfortable. The analogies we use make people think about vaccine mandates and top-down control of information. The fact of the matter is this: improving your mental immunity is your own choice, we're just working to help you do so.
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Want to become part of a movement focused on cultivating better thinking and immunity to false facts and bad ideas? Check out our Mental Immunity Pledge! The pledge is designed based on our 10 Principles of Mental Immunity and is meant to foster shared commitment to these ideals of clear thinking.
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Today's invitation to reflect...
Feel free to comment what comes to mind!
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Lee McIntyre explains how "so much of belief is social" on Harvesting Happiness Podcast.
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We're a coalition of young activists and organizations fighting for safer social media and online platforms for kids, teens, and young adults.
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I write about Lifestyle Health on Substack, run comms for the Mental Immunity Project, and am a master's student in precision health at UChicago. Find me on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-johnson-019b71163/
Journalist, writer, unlicensed epistemologist. Brookings and The Atlantic. Please be sane, BlueSky.
Writer of fiction and philosophy. I explore how understanding evolution can change our worldview. (Hint, eugenics was dead wrong.) evphil.com.
US-Brit now in Vienna π¦πΉ. Ex-FBI and Secret Service. Peace Corps πΊπ¦. Slava Ukraini! Still not a podcaster.
Neuroscientist: consciousness, perception, and Dreamachines. Author of Being You - A New Science of Consciousness.
Climate Refugee, Distinguished Professor and Stephen H. Crocker Chair of Education & Psychology
@USCRossier, Member of National Academy of Education. Co-author of
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βHow did you assess the quality of that reason?β | ED of Street Epistemology International yet posts are mine | Implementor
Publisher Skeptic Magazine | Host The Michael Shermer Show | Skeptic columnist: http://michaelshermer.substack.com | NEW BOOK Conspiracy: http://amzn.to/3Eza8Lf
Cultural historian and postdoctoral researcher at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). Studies uses of migration history in public debates today. PhD was about the cultural evolution of witch-hunting
I'm Prof of Speech @Dartmouth and a stutterer. How does that work? Very well, actually! I've also been researching inoculation theory for 20+ years in politics, health, sport, satire, education, science, and more. #OCD https://sites.dartmouth.edu/jcompton/
Historian, Earth Scientist, Writer, Public Intellectual. Loves: Chocolate, Red Wine, Skiing. Hates: Beets
Associate Professor, Dept of Communication, Cornell University. Bit partial to information ecosystems.
Reporting on false claims, journalism, and how unreliable information spreads online. Subscribe to our newsletter, Reality Check: https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com.
We're a non-profit empowering changemakers, educators & communities through cooperation, science & systems thinking. A more prosocial world starts here. https://prosocial.world
Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Bristol. Homepage: https://www.lewan.uk
Researching belief revision
Philosopher, martial artist, dog lover. Author of ON DISINFORMATION: HOW TO FIGHT FOR TRUTH AND PROTECT DEMOCRACY