The Solar Death Ray claims it's latest victim! Or maybe she's just napping in the afternoon sun. Time will tell.

The princess is tired from fishing.

First catch with my new fishing pole. It's a cat-fish.

ANYWAY, did you know there's an extension you can put on Chrome that will connect with your local library system and when you go look at a book, say on AMZ, it will tell you if that book exists in the library system and if it's available?

It's literally called Library Extension.

Breakfast of champions: beef quesadilla, light on the cheese, heavy on the chili crunch.

Damn right!

Darcy doesn't care that I want to sit next to my wife, she just wants to know why I think she should move.

Tanuki looking pretty.

In honor of black inventors.

#BlackHistoryMonth

Mackie has been missing for hours and I look up while throwing stuff in the garbage and find him napping on top of the kitchen cabinets.

Fluffy spends more time in my bed like this than I do. Takes up more room too.

Tanuki feeling playful. She and Pumpkin come out of their cones tomorrow.

And it was before lunch on Monday too.

I've been there! There's a mill there too.

Another of our cats, Darcy, doesn't care about the bad luck that comes with being under a ladder, she implies that it's worse luck to cross her.

Our Darling cats: Pumpkin looking into the camera, and her dainty , but troublesome sister, Tanuki, lounging on a scratcher.

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The Debunking Handbook 2020 - Center for Climate Change Communication The Debunking Handbook 2020 summarizes the current state of the science of misinformation and its debunking. It was written by a team of 22 prominent scholars of misinformation and its debunking, and ...

When debunking, the Debunking Handbook recommends that we design our message to:

1. Lead with the fact, particularly if it's concise
2. Warn that a false claim is coming
3. Explain why the false claim is misleading
4. End with reinforcing the fact

See the handbook for more useful tips!

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They've also gamified inoculation theory, which can increase the effectiveness of prebunking as a public education strategy. Check out the brief games and their accompanying studies here:

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Need a coping strategy in the face of *waves arms around*? After seeing more misinformation accounts here, I've been doing a dive on #scicomm best practices. We scientists should triple down on this and dial up our prebunking and debunking efforts. Here's a 🧵 of strategies and resources: 🧪

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