Worst advice ever.

It is publication day! Sometimes people don't like hanging out intellectually with other people because it isn't safe. Or it feels unsafe. That's the paper. You can read the whole thing here for free (because open access)! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚨New WP🚨 Conspiracy believers often claim to "think for themselves", but do they really? No. They use social information as much as other participants in advice-taking tasks while *reporting* relying less on social information (N = 864 in 🇬🇧&🇵🇰). 👉 psyarxiv.com/3xv8s

If you use Wikipedia, you've seen pop-ups like this. If you're like me, you may have donated as a result. Wikipedia is an amazing website, and the appeals seem heartfelt. But I've now learnt the money isn't going where I thought...

PhD vacancies📢 We have 2 positions in communication science for projects on polarisation of climate change debate and politicisation of science communication. Come and work with Sanne Kruikemeier, me and the amazing Strategic Communication, Wageningen University group at Wageningen U&R wur.nl/nl/vacature/tw… Apply before Nov 2!

Thanks for having me M (Etai) and Josh (Josh Addison) at the Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy, and for the fascinating discussion on our conspiracy theory research. You can listen to the interview here: conspiracism.podbean.com/e/an-interview…

Resonating Icke in NL instagram.com/reel/Cj0Vi-Uq7…

Interesting exposition of how climate denial industries carefully build their case against green energy projects.

Trending in #Philosophy: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) Can the predictive mind represent time? 2) On the Duty of Scholars to Aid Their Persecuted Peers (Applied Philosophy) 3) Delusional algorithms 4) What Does It Mean for a Conspiracy Theory to Be a ‘Theory’? (Social Epistemology)

My paper on conspiratorial beliefs is now online: 'How conspiratorial beliefs spread, and how real conspiracies are covered up' #OpenAccess One of my motivations for writing this paper was to take the existence of real conspiracies seriously. Abstract 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…