This is the fourth year of a full-scale, brutal war in Ukraine that Russia started. And yet we are watching a wave of content rehabilitating Russia’s image for a global audience while Ukrainian films that expose Russian terror are being ignored.
“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.”
That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.
Republicans spent the last 24 hours trying to justify ABC pulling Kimmel based on reasons other than intimidation and threats from the Trump admin, then Trump goes full Col. Jessup & pisses all over the narrative & admits he ordered the Code Red because Kimmel hurt his feelings.
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.”
Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.
Female academics are much more affected by the birth of a child than are male academics.
Academic mothers are much more likely to...
◾temporarily leave the labor force
◾and, if they return, shift away from tenure-track positions.
scholar.harvard.edu/files/sdchen...
Storytelling as Psychological Warfare | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fric...
How the Extreme Becomes Mainstream | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fric...
🚩🚩🚩 SPECIAL ISSUE ALERT🚩🚩🚩
The Journal of Deradicalization invites submissions for a special issue dedicated to understanding the alarming global surge in antisemitism and how to prevent or counter this phenomenon.
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Abstract due: July 1, 2025
Paper Due: January 1, 2026
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Antisemitism terror attacks have been rapidly increasing in number and lethality in the recent years
Wanna know what Gandhi, Van Gogh and bin Laden have in common? Listen to a podcast episode I recorded with infOasis
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7sU1...
📺 YouTube: youtu.be/Y9sdbTvIUs8
🔗 infOasis website: www.inf0asis.com/podcast
‘Fight your Emotions’: Affective Injustice in Wartime trafo.hypotheses.org/58163
Given the Trump administration's deleting trans from federal stats, re-sharing my paper with @miambloom.bsky.social and @sophiamoskalenko.bsky.social, where we show the dangerous spillover into extremism from political marginalisation of the LGBTQ+ community! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Arie Kruglanski and I spoke to All About Psychology, an APA official podcast, about our new book, Psychology of the Extreme.
Available on Spotify or Apple Podcasts
Here’s a podcast episode I recorded with Arie Kruglanski and Dan Raviv about how fairy tales and early narratives shape the quest for significance.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNis...
someone has likely pointed this put but auschwitz wasn't in germany either
Rise of People’s Will, all that jazz…
www.amazon.com/Friction-How...
Call for applications: The @HFGuggenheim #EmergingScholarAwards recognize and support promising Ph.D. candidates in completing dissertations that examine a salient aspect of violence.
Apply by Feb. 1, 2025.
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Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist at The Washington Post, says her cartoon below was killed by Jeff Bezos, the paper’s owner. Bezos didn’t want the cartoon to become public because it shows him kneeling before Donald Trump.
You know what to do.
Just accepted at the European Journal of Social Psychology, Arie Kruglanski and my paper talks about the state of the field, the challenges it faces, and how we imagine Social Psychology can overcome them.
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I’m a psychologist, not an investigative journalist 🤷♀️
A very brief summary of the work we did with support from US DoD and NSF
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I will be live on a Chai Mitzvah Zoom on December 30th, at noon EST, presenting my research on Deadly Disinformation, identifying the socio-historical pre-conditions and the content features that make some disinfo narratives viral and deadly. Register here:
www.chaimitzvah.org/events/deadl...
Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it
Bingo!!!!!
