'We were given an order to kill everyone we see.'

Russian soldiers made calls from the battlefield near Bucha to relatives back home. The Ukrainian government was listening. masha froliak and I received thousands of those candid and damning intercepts.

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We are officially changing our name to be the PSA Diversity Equity and Inclusion Caucus so we can better serve all underrepresented groups in the PSA community! New logo too! Related resources will be gradually updated to reflect this change.

her: sorry my boyfriend gets a little silly when he’s drunk

him: maybe moral claims are just expressions of non-cognitive attitudes

her: you see what i’m dealing with

Attended an outstanding talk entitled “Thinking Critically About Pandemic Misinformation” by Dr. Cailin O’Connor at today’s RIT Fram Signature Lecture. Dr. O’Connor is a UC Irvine Professor and co-author of “The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread” RIT

🧵 Why does group discussion lead to polarization? Why do people prefer to pay selective attention to opinions similar to their own? Why does exposure to neutral or even contradictory evidence sometimes strengthen pre-existing opinions? 1/n

Same conference, more cool work: How does group polarization arise? Cailin O'Connor offered three insightful models of how polarization might come about, all involving feedback loops driven by trust dynamics. (1/)

I’ve said this before, but ecological politics today isn’t about ‘saving the planet’ or ‘solving the climate crisis’ as we used to be told. It isn’t even about staying within 1.5C of planetary heating. That’s over. It's gone. 1/4

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Cailin O'Connor Rate your colleague on this scale please

Fantastic! Congrats Angela!!

Please folks - no more specific, bananas recommendation systems. Was just asked to rank order the worst traits of a colleague I don't know well. Is he more likely to exaggerate to get his way, or to behave unethically, or have difficulty starting projects? I don't know!

YES! I just SUBMITTED my book 'Modeling Scientific Communities' for review. If you want to READ it now and/or give FEEDBACK, let me know!!

Heyyy, if you're going to be in Rochester this fall come on by

More people need to be talking about Jackson, Mississippi. The city ran out of bottled water to give residents yesterday. It’s the largest city in Mississippi. It’s 80% Black. Their water system is failing because of years of neglect. This is environmental racism.

If you make fun of my messy car, don't come crying to me when you need 350 hot empty water bottles.