The war in Iran will directly help fund Russia's war efforts, as they can sell their oil much more expensively.
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The war in Iran will directly help fund Russia's war efforts, as they can sell their oil much more expensively.
www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
Oh, the grand old duke of york
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This is a constitutional nightmare for the US - Monday morning, some worker in a dock has to decide whose word is the law of the land: the president (apply a tariff) or the Supreme Court (do not). This is way beyond tariffs.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Great example of the Streisand effect: The FCC intervened to block James Talarico's interview with the brilliant @colbertlateshow.bsky.social.
The result is a classic effect of highlighting what you want to hide and instead increasing its exposure. See USA Google Trends for Talarico below
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. Itβs dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Great paper, @scondes.bsky.social! Congrats :)
Excited to share our new paper in Memory & Cognition!
Consensus isnβt always what it seems. Repeated claims can create an illusion of consensus-making people feel as persuaded by a single echoed source as by independent corroboration.
so... in his mind the morality of a worthy winner of the Nobel is 'unless you give me a peace prize, I'll attack'?
Maybe he cheated on his partners because he didn't get a 'dad of the year' mug one year?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Greenlanders would much rather join the EU than the US. This fact deserves a broad global audience, useful correction of the idea that Europe is a decaying museum.
![Screen shot from the show Andor. Someone says to Mon Mothma βThey [meaning the Empire] donβt even bother to lie badly anymore.β Mon replies βI suppose thatβs the final humiliation.β](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ny5w2k6brb2kdubxnevke6li/bafkreibrxbmhwrnkwo2ztnczubpnzpup3uf6dpyhs7mk2uxpeoeynhjo2q)
Screen shot from the show Andor. Someone says to Mon Mothma βThey [meaning the Empire] donβt even bother to lie badly anymore.β Mon replies βI suppose thatβs the final humiliation.β
This one is resonating today. #Andor
Regardless of what you may think of Maduro, by-passing congress and international law/community to attempt regime change and extract oil/resources may embolden Russia and encourage China to do the same to Taiwan. Classic spheres of influence and 'might is right'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSH7...
This is brilliant news! Congrats, @davidyoung-psych.bsky.social! I'm really proud of our paper and absolutely delighted that you won the Anne Treismann award for this!
Congrats, Nils :)
π Congratulations to Nils Mallock, who successfully defended his PhD thesis today!
The thesis, "Pathways to Political Violence and Peaceful Protest in Conflict-Affected Environments," explores why some individuals choose violence for political purposes, despite high personal risks and costs.
Fantastic news! Congratulations, both :)
π Congratulations to our 2025 LSE Excellence in Education Award winners! Pictured here are our colleagues Dr Sakshi Ghai and Chris Roberts, together with Prof Emma McCoy & Prof Alex Voorhoeve.
Learn more and see all winners: buff.ly/Dq57XPt
In a CogSci paper, we showed that given motivation and insight, deliberate silence can be epistemically relevant and strengthen belief in a hypothesis.
This interview with Farage is an example of that principle www.youtube.com/shorts/2BdHV...
Link to paper: escholarship.org/uc/item/57h4...
Spotted the Tottenham bus before the game in East London - wild to bring it on the pitch and park it there for 90 minutes π
Now that Trump is telling Republicans to vote for the release of the Epstein files, I fully expect the following to represent the disclosure π
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwtz...
My article about state resistance to transnational #disinformation is out now in
@ejir.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
Taking #Taiwan's resistance to #China's disinformation as its empirical focus, the article offers 4 contributions to #InternationalRelations:
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Congratulations on a great paper!
Fact for the day: paracetamol does not cause autism
This is a brilliant department and sounds like a very exciting position!
LSE's Department of Methodogy is searching for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. Applicants from across the social sciences are very welcome!
Please reach out if you would like any more details.
This seems a tremendously sad return to McCarthyist-style patrolling of thought and expression
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
New paper with Jon Roozenbeek and David Young where we present a Bayesian framework for the wilful rejection of interventions, such as inoculation against misinformation
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
He probably also fired his bathroom scale for fake weight figures π
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Phenomenal result!!! Back-to-back European Champions π€―π₯³
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