Marc Tibber

The role of epistemic trust and epistemic disruption in vaccine hesitancy, conspiracy thinking and the capacity to identify fake news Epistemic trust ‐ defined as readiness to regard knowledge, communicated by another agent, as significant, relevant to the self, and generalizable to other contexts–has recently been applied to the fi...

Hello Bluesky friends & colleagues. I don’t normally post about my papers but thought it fitting that my first message draws attention to why I am here and not on X. A study we’ve just published on conspiracy thinking, fake news & epistemic trust: journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

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Hello! Lovely to see you here! X

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Exploring potential benefits of social media in an autistic adults population. If you are an #autistic adult living in the UK pl consider taking part in our study on online masking & authentic self-presentation & its relationship to autistic wellbeing. @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social

28.11.2024 07:36 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

half face of a blonde woman with green/blue eyes and messy hair (face is half cause I m still not sure how to navigate this space but excited to see many great folks here)

Hello to all new followers
First gen academic, 11 years in the UK
I research, teach & train on neurodiversity and mental health
Passionate about creative community based participatory methods
Funded on a/preventing depression in #adhd #autistic students b/interpersonal therapy with autistic adults

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Makes me think about how has shaped today's ideas about technology (utopian & distopian) & the inevitability or otherwise of developments we've seen.

19.11.2024 10:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Currently reading this really interesting book, which explores how a digital utopianism was born from a bizarre & (arguably) unlikely movement in 60s counterculture to adopt WWII / cold war practices & technologies based on the metaphor of the network (think Gregory Bateson & Buckminster Fuller).

19.11.2024 10:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wondering if there is a way to avoid. Would that necessarily require some form of control / censorship, & hence you are back in the same space, just different controllers? Genuinely a question rather than a statement of belief.

19.11.2024 10:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Is it possible to create a different space / way of communicating on Bluesky (or similar), or is a pull towards an attention economy (& everything that brings) an inevitable consequence of scale?

19.11.2024 10:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

X users jump to Bluesky - but what is it and who owns it? - BBC Sounds The social media is picking up one million new users every day at its current rate.

Trying to figure out what Bluesky is:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

18.11.2024 19:07 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hello world.

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