Mathias Cederholm

Right-wing authoritarianism is linked to belief in the paranormal, independent of cognitive style New research suggests that people who endorse right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance are more likely to believe in the paranormal. This connection persists even when accounting for a person's tendency to rely on intuitive versus analytical thinking.

Right-wing authoritarianism is linked to belief in the paranormal, independent of cognitive style

Varför inte? Det var ju vid tidpunkterna de större trendskiftena inträffade.

Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review The process of peer review is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. This study uses mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, su...

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology.

We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

YouTube video by EU DisinfoLab 12 February 2026: Scroll, stop, verify. How the EU is bringing climate facts forward

Nearly 3 in 4 people say they’re frequently exposed to disinfo, but how can you spot it?

This webinar from @disinfo.eu shows how the EU’s #ClimateFactsMatter campaign gives people practical ways to spot disinfo, challenge it and push climate facts.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6X6...

Israel responsible for ⅔ of all journalists killed in 2025 Plus: Interest in climate news worldwide | Podcast listening surpasses talk radio in US | Leftist French politician surpassing traditional media Journalism Today. 26 Feb 2026 Research | Reporting | Fe...

Today's round-up about journalism worldwide has pieces on Israel being responsible for ⅔ of journalists killed in 2025, interest in climate news globally and podcast listening surpassing talk radio in the US.

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Why Science Communication Fails: How to Break Down Misleading Arguments and Inoculate Against Misinformation - The Great Simplification In this episode, Nate is joined by John Cook, a researcher who has spent nearly two decades studying science communication and the psychology of misinformation.

Gillar man kritiskt tänkande, debunking av klimatdesinformation och liknande så är här en riktigt gedigen poddintervju med John Cook. Verkligen värd att lyssna på.

www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/212-...

Invandrarna jobbar mer och mer, de är på sätt och vis mer lönsamma än inrikes födda är nu. Men regeringen fortsätter se dem som "problem", senast med den där "fem år utanför välfärdssystemet"-idén. Jag skrev litet om statistiken, ej betalvägg.

Tänker du på skiftet efter 1990-talet, det kring 2010 eller det kring 2018?

Invandrarna jobbar mer och mer, de är på sätt och vis mer lönsamma än inrikes födda är nu. Men regeringen fortsätter se dem som "problem", senast med den där "fem år utanför välfärdssystemet"-idén. Jag skrev litet om statistiken, ej betalvägg.

Poll of Polls, senaste 12 åren. Vilka mönster ser vi egentligen? Det första jag tänker på är att SD ätit upp halva det traditionella borgerliga blocket på högerfältet, regeringspartierna, som idag ligger på ca 24%.

Good summary of the main events of the last four years of war.

Really shows how brave Ukrainians are.

Elected officials’ Online Sharing of Misinformation: Institutional and Ideological Checks Elected officials occupy privileged positions in public communication about important topics – roles that extend to the digital world. In the same way that public officials stand to lead constructi...

A new analysis of ~500,000 Facebook posts from U.S. state legislators finds that Republican lawmakers are more likely to share content with low factual accuracy. This tendency appears to be even more pronounced among those representing more conservative districts.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

We Analyzed 300 Texas Accounts on a White Supremacist Dating Site. The Data Explains a Lot About Politics Right Now. About the state of extremism in the U.S.

We analyzed the data leak from White Date, a white supremacist dating site, with an eye for what it could tell us about Texas politics. We found that Texas users included multiple neo-fascist activists, as well as former and active duty military members, and more.

thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/24/3...

"The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump."

QAnon vs. Infowars, Part One | Mike Rothschild Get more from Mike Rothschild on Patreon

NEW: When a major QAnon promoter told his version of the early days of Q on Infowars, I couldn't resist responding with what actually happened.

Part one is free, part two will be next week for paid subscribers.

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Vad krävs egentligen för att Jomshof allmänt ska betraktas och bemötas som den islamofob, rasist och extremist han är?

”Olagligt förslag om uppehållstillstånd” DEBATT. Det krävs klarspråk om förslaget att dra tillbaka permanenta uppehålls­tillstånd – att det är olagligt. Det kommer att leda till processer mot Sverige i Europa­domstolen och EU-domstolen, skri...

"Det krävs klarspråk om förslaget att dra tillbaka permanenta uppehålls­tillstånd – att det är olagligt. Det kommer att leda till processer mot Sverige i Europa­domstolen och EU-domstolen"

www.svd.se/a/d4nXOw/att...

Tråd med frågor.

The Sift: ‘Equal time’ rule debate - The News Literacy Project First Amendment debates over ‘equal time’ rule, science influencers combating misinformation online, amateur sleuths in Nancy Guthrie case, and AI slop of puppies.

📺 Should all broadcasters who make use of public airwaves be forced to give all political candidates in an election equal time on air? Why or why not?

👆🏾 Just 1 prompt educators can use for having a discussion about the "equal time" rule.

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Regeringen vill ha hårdare krav för bidrag till invandrare Den som kommer till Sverige måste antingen uppfylla krav på en viss inkomst eller vänta i fem år för att få tillgång till stora delar av välfärdssystemet. Det föreslår regeringen och Sverigedemokrater...

Litet lustigt att man som "svensk" ska få tillgång till allt i välfärdssystemet efter att i 20-25 år redan ha fått barnomsorg, barnbidrag, skola, sjukvård och allt möjligt. Men de som inte fått detta ska det minsann vara "hårdare krav" på.

www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

Svår men viktig läsning om den misogyni många flickor möter på sociala medier som TikTok och Instagram.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

USA är helt enkelt inte en demokrati längre.
Ny forskningsartikel av V-dem:s Staffan Lindberg.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Läsvärd tråd.
"Here's the problem, though. If you stand up to tanks in the streets, everyone will agree you're a Brave Hero. But if you stand up to the small things -- stopping the train before it really gets started -- you will be coded as *annoying*, as uptight, as moralistic, as uncool."

Is it hypocritical for news publishers to complain about tech companies’ platforms — but still be on them? Or is it just an acknowledgement that their interests sometimes align?

Sleeping with the enemy …

Canadians Love a Conspiracy Theory - Macleans.ca The country’s conservatives have embraced American right-wing rhetoric. Our democracy is in danger.

Canada’s conservatives have embraced American right-wing rhetoric. Our democracy is in danger, writes Lucan Way. macleans.ca/politics/can...

How to Become an Algorithmic Problem José Marichal, author of You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem: Renegotiating the Socio-Technical Contract, joined the Tech Policy Press podcast.

As AI technologies proliferate, a growing number of people are asking what it means to live in a world dominated by algorithms and automated systems—and what gets lost when those systems optimize human behavior at scale. @josemarichal.bsky.social wrote a book to answer their questions.

Exploitation of data voids in AI response is *not* for the most part a training problem, it's a runtime search issue and is I think way more addressable than people think. As a matter of fact the UI/UX approaches to this problem in search could work here too.

Frågan är om Skåne, än en gång, går före i en utveckling som sedan kommer till övriga landet också.

Skåne var ju SDs första starka fäste och sågs länge som partiets "hjärtland". Men nu är partiet lika starkt i stora delar av landet samtidigt som det tappar påtagligt i Skåne.

Expressed as a ratio, these figures mean that there are six former Christians for every convert to Christianity in the United States. The balance is especially lopsided for Catholicism (which loses 8.4 people through religious switching for every convert to the religion). But Protestants also lose more people than they gain through switching, by a ratio of 1.8 to one.

Using surveys from 117 countries and territories, we analyzed data from adult respondents and compared the religion they say they were raised in (as children) with their current religious identity (as adults).9 To capture switching that has occurred in more recent years, we use data from adults ages 18 to 54. Religious switching is more common earlier in life, though it can happen at any age. We found that for every adult in that age group who says they joined a religion after having been raised without a religion, 3.2 moved in the other direction – they left religion altogether after having been raised in one. As a r

I've read many stories about the number of adult Catholic baptisms. For perspective, it may be helpful to keep in mind how many have shed religious identity. In the US, there are 8.4 former Catholics for every 1 new Catholic. Globally, there are 3.1 former Christians for every 1 new Christian.