Stephan Lewandowsky

UK confirms Russia poisoned Navalny in prison with rare toxin UK and partners are today exposing the tragic circumstances surrounding Alexei Navalny's death and have confirmed there was poison found in samples from his body.

"UK confirms Russia poisoned Navalny in prison with rare toxin"
www.gov.uk/government/n...

Indeed.

International Roundtable on Computational Social Science: Jana Lasser "Collective moderation of hate, toxicity, and extremity in online discussions" Welcome to the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Jana Lasser, University of Graz and Complexi...

Join us on Thursday, 12 February, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with
@janalasser.bsky.social

🔹 Collective moderation of hate, toxicity, and extremity in online discussions 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

🚨New preprint! 🚨
"Boosting metacognition in entangled human-AI interaction to navigate cognitive-behavioral drift"
arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01959

Happy to see this new work coming to the surface alongside @cabels18.bsky.social @lorenzspreen.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social and @stefanherzog.bsky.social
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@profsanderlinden.bsky.social

Of interest to: Cornelia Betsch 🖖 Philipp Schmid @@profsanderlinden.bsky.social Julie Leask AO Unbiased Science
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Welcome To JITSUVAX ERI Training - JITSUVAX ERI Training Book your ERI training now JITSUVAX Training is an exciting new social enterprise from the creators of the Empathetic Refutational Interview (ERI). The ERI is a four-step vaccine conversation framework designed specifically for health workers. It makes vaccine conversations easier and more effective. Our innovative ERI training teaches health workers how to: identify and correct […]

... that is continuing to provide training in the ERI technique to health workers in the UK and beyond. The aim is to create a lasting legacy of our research: jitsuvaxtraining.com/. In case you are wondering, for a small start-up we are doing well. Keeping fingers crossed.
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One inevitable but sad aspect of research funding is that at some point, it's over and it's time to say good-bye to the team and the project. But not in this case! We were fortunate enough to be able to set up a not-for-profit spinout, with the assistance of the University of Bristol, ...
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We can move the needle on vaccine uptake using empathy and affirmation followed by refutation of misconceptions. (The MI, the motivational interview works equally well for uptake but the ERI has the edge in self-reports, shown below):

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.. and we showed how effective the technique is in the field in Romania. The article is here: www.nature.com/artic... . Headline result shown below:


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... also known as ERI. The empirical underpinning of the ERI was published here: doi.org/10.1037/hea0... ...
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Inoculating against anti-vax messaging through empathy Vaccine hesitancy can be overcome through personalised, empathetic conversational approaches.,,,European Commission

Nice writeup of our now-finished JITSUVAX project: cordis.europa.eu/art... The main output of the project is the empathetic refutational interview...
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Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.

He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.

Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

“Be sceptical of peer-reviewed papers,” @DrJBhattachary says, because editors have conflicts (many are professionals), reviews are anonymous (mostly open), and reviewers are selected by editors (on merit and expertise).
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UPDATE! Blame Movie: Awards, Theatrical Release, US Premiere! - Nature.Health.Global “Blame” is a documentary movie by the Oscar-nominated, Sundance Festival award winning Swiss Director Christian Frei. The film focuses on three scientists,

Hot News from @naturehealthglobal.bsky.social Re. the documentary Blame: Nominated for major award, released in theaters in Germany/Switzerland, & US PREMIERE at the Sedona Film Festival in April 2026!!! 🧵

naturehealthglobal.org/update-blame...

An important argument: Internet platforms must be held accountable for their actions, and US attacks against EU transparency and accountability regulations, equating them to "censorship", are ironic given the Trump administration’s own vast record of censorship.

Probably one of the most important questions facing UK today. Where are all the headbangers who frothed about "sovereignty" whenever someone spoke with a French accent during the Brexit convulsions?

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Some really striking numbers in this new survey showing the flip in European public opinion about America.

But bear in mind this is only Western Europe. In Eastern Europe, it has been harder to take the blinders off peoples' eyes.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Calls to halt UK Palantir contracts grow amid ‘lack of transparency’ over deals Opposition MPs urge Labour to pause public contracts with the US tech firm after attempts to examine deals blocked

Pressure building on govt to come clean about Mandelson's role in bringing US spy-tech firm Palantir into the heart of our NHS.

The fingerprints of Mandelson and his lobbying firm are all over these deals.

The rot goes to the heart of this Labour govt

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Kaitlan Collins Schools Trump and His Goons After Smile Rant The CNN host replayed footage of the president, JD Vance, and Megyn Kelly.

A must watch, Kaitlan was superb! Kaitlan Collins Schools Trump and His Goons After Smile Rant www.thedailybeast.com/kaitlan-coll... via @thedailybeast

Commission preliminarily finds TikTok\'s addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act Today, the European Commission preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design.

EU tech law

EU Commission preliminary finding that TikTok has breached Digital Services Act re 'addictive design' ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Fight! Fuck Bezos. The Washington Post can and must rise again.

NEW: Trump's coup is almost complete. And the attack on the press is a central piece of it. Bezos's gutting of the Washington Post cannot be allowed to be just another blip in the news cycle.

We are all going to have to fight for a free and independent press.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Top of the photo in white text reads: "BREAKING OVER 680 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MEMBERS, INCLUDING 10 NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES, ENDORSE IMPEACHING RFK JR." Below that in black text is a statement reading: "We, the undersigned Members of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, writing in our private capacities, endorse the Articles of Impeachment introduced in the House of Representatives on Dec 10, 2025 by Representative Haley Stevens." Below that is the red "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE " logo. Below that is a link in white text reading: "standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr".

BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
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Just how much censorship is the Trump Administration doing? This tracker answers that Q. The results are wildly at odds with the Trump regime and conservatives' long-standing accusations of censorship by, uh, "the left", big tech, the EU, Canada, etc.. trumpcensorship.com ht @lewan.bsky.social

Gosh, post 2/9 of the thread below had a link that required authentication, here is the direct link to the piece: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Internet platforms must be held accountable for their actions Multiple independent research institutions have recently and repeatedly sounded the alarm that democracy is in retreat worldwide. In the United States, a British academic has painstakingly recorded mo...

The above link mangled itself through some authentication thing in my browser. Correct link is www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

ugh.

So where is the censorship if not in the DSA? It's in the USA.

The Trump administration has censored free speech in 236 actions as of today trumpcensorship.com/

Who would have thought.
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That does not mean there aren't reasons to critize the DSA, for example because it does not specify what is harmful content because that's largely left up to the EU member states doi.org/10.1080/1360..., some of whom have stricter rules than others. And that can be problematic.

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