I’m delighted to announce the @crankyuncles game - teaching resilience against misinformation - is now available free on iPhone & iPad! More details about the game at https://t.co/TtJ529X0Dn and you can get the game directly from the App Store via https://t.co/DUbHeVyER7

Have moved to BlueSky and am posting there about critical thinking and my research into misinformation - but popping back to X briefly to post my BlueSky account so find me there! https://t.co/IHZHuT3hIq (hoping posting this link doesn't get filtered)

Looking for something to do this evening?

Am giving a free webinar this week with @350_Chicago on fine-tuning yoru BS detector to spot climate misinformation. Register at https://t.co/1C53zoRp0n

Words cannot really do justice to express our sadness at losing our team member John Mason. https://t.co/NvBp6m0Ba8

Deeply sad to say that our much loved and valued @skepticscience team member John Mason passed away last week. Amazing & tireless story teller and climate communicator. He will be deeply missed

Spoke to @StellaLevantesi about AI & climate misinformation: certainly AI is a threat in amplifying misinformation but I also discuss how we're using AI to develop solutions to misinformation

Just published in @GEC_Journal: We investigate how climate contrarians and the fossil fuel industry obstructed US cap-and-trade policy. Disproportionate access to key hearings and FFI lobbying played a major role. Full study: https://t.co/fyxiXvFxxC @TravisCoan1

@RobSchneider @RealJamesWoods The major take-home from this research is that 40% of climate misinformation tweets are ad hominem attacks & 20% are conspiracy theories. The majority of climate misinformation involves discrediting climate actors & eroding public trust in climate science.

We also found misinformation spikes instigated by influencers, both contrarian influencers promoting misinformation & convinced influencers who provoked misinformation backlash. Never thought I'd coauthor a climate misinformation paper mentioning @RobSchneider & @RealJamesWoods!

We found spikes in climate misinformation coincided with external events - usually political events like climate legislation going through Congress or a COP summit, but also extreme weather events like Hurricane Ian

We used the taxonomy from our 2021 paper where we developed the CARDS model for detecting misinformation claims. There are 5 categories of misinformation: it's not real, it's not us, it's not bad, solutions won't work, experts aren't reliable https://t.co/E9tCEzTlLI

Just published a paper in @CommsEarth where we use the CARDS machine learning model to detect climate misinformation in 5 million climate tweets, finding over half of misinformation tweets involve personal attacks @MarkAndrejevic @liyuanfang @TravisCoan1

Had a great in-depth conversation with @StefanTSiegel from @HSGStGallen for his Sustainability Education Podcast on the psychology of climate misinformation & its similarities with myths about sustainability education

Listen here: https://t.co/VGnK5EtP1Q Jessica talks with @johnfocook who studies the cognitive #Psychology of #ClimateScience denial. John founded Cranky Uncle & @skepticscience. You can also read some climate facts here: https://t.co/YqNKuBDagu #ClimateAction #Podcasts

There are so many misconceptions about consensus in science, starting with: What exactly is a consensus? And what’s up with all the confusion? I ask these questions & more in this conversation with @johnfocook. https://t.co/8bcCtxoxNy While you’re there, please subscribe!

🎉 The Conspiracy Theory Handbook is now available in 20 languages! 🌍✨ Thanks to our amazing volunteer translators, this essential guide is making helpful pointers to identify conspiracy theories readily available across the globe. https://t.co/NXorZIN86g

I’m #PhDone (after a few revisions!) #scicomm #climatecomm @Mason4C