Conspiracy theories are everywhere and people don't understand how harmful they are. I made the original Conspiracy Chart over a year ago. An update was long overdue. This is the 2021 version.

The so-called 'freedom convoy' that has raised over $6m is a far-right project. If you look at the #FluTrucksKlan organizers and promoters, you'll find Islamophobia, antisemitism, racism, and incitements to violence. #freedomconvoy #flutruxklan #cdnpoli antihate.ca/the_freedom_co…

Honestly...? If you're spouting off about Canada being a "totalitarian regime" lead by an "authoritarian dictator", what you're actually spouting is: "I have no sense of world history, reality, or what big words mean!"

My good friend StatsCan crunched some numbers. Turns out, if you're arguing with someone on Twitter, and the say "I know my rights and freedoms" during said argument, there is a 86.4% chance they do not actually know their rights and freedoms.

Shchedryk by the great Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych #Ukraine

Nuclear weapons are unlike any other weaponry available. They are horrific. Their catastrophic damage reaches beyond points of impact. This is not an act of deterrence this is a threat. It's not alarmist to say the current nuclear world order and deterrence policies are at risk.

A reminder to my fellow experts: beyond the military strategies, character studies of leaders, economics, IR politics and nuclear discourse are people. Don't ever forget, at the heart of every conflict are real people being impacted by what we study. #StandWithUkrain #Ukraine

A recent safety report by Pfizer has been seized upon by misinformers. There’s nothing particularly new or scary about it, despite the #Pfizer #VaccineSideEffects hashtags circulating online. Let’s dig in on how this data has been misrepresented 👇 🧵[1/9] #ScienceUpFirst

The Russian invasion of Ukraine will cause a global food crisis. #Russia and #Ukraine provide 29% of global #Wheat exports. Most Ukrainian farmers won't be planting this spring, and sanctions will depress Russian grain sales. Wheat prices are already signaling the coming storm.

People don’t just wake up one morning convinced “globalists run the Internet.” 👁️ To get to that point, they need to travel down the rabbit hole. 🕳️ So what drives people towards conspiracy theories and extremism? #ScienceUpFirst 🧵[1/12]

For anybody worried about the "Swedish study" that apparently shows the vaccines change DNA, this whole thread from Edward Nirenberg 🇺🇦 is worth a read. He's also published a great blog post about it: deplatformdisease.com/blog/mrna-vacc… Too long? This is the key tweet ⤵️ #ScienceUpFirst

Thank you Russia at the United Nations for your letter dated March 16. Please see our suggested edits below. #StandWithUkraine #RespectTheCharter

We're hiring a 2-year postdoc for the NSF-funded project Indigenous-Led Ecological Restoration: Negotiating Colonial Structures. Details can be found at jobs.boisestate.edu/en-us/job/4966…. Deadline is April 25. Please spread the word and share with talented applicants!

An excellent thread on the #RussianWarCrimesInUkraine from one of my mentors Jonathan Leader Maynard

2 maps of the #GlobalPolycrisis caused by the conjunction of the #Pandemic, the #ClimateCrisis and the #UkraineRussiaWar. This is "take 3" of my chart, after input from many people. Note powerful interaction of authoritarianism and deglobalization on chart's right. 1/2

This is Cascade Institute researcher Mike Lawrence's chart, which identifies key feedbacks. Think of mine as showing a string of dominos falling over, and Mike's as showing "vicious cycles." Note: "+" means the two things go up or down together; "-" means they vary inversely. 2/2

As bad as this outage is in eastern Canada, imagine how much worse it would be if Rogers gets to control all of Shaw's internet infrastructure in the west. This is basically exhibit A in the case against industry consolidation.

When one company’s service outage takes down everything in a country from 911 calls to The Weeknd’s concert, that company has too much power. #Rogers

"We can't miss the forest for the trees here because literally the forest will burn down if we do." Dr. Leah C. Stokes [email protected] outlines why the climate benefits in the reconciliation bill are worth the compromise for public land leases for oil.

MIND. BLOWN.