John Cook
@johnfocook
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A man called Cook. Author of Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change, founder of https://t.co/DrONUqxWuY.
Melbourne, Australia
Joined February 2017
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 and you can get the game directly from the App Store via
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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! (hoping posting this link doesn't get filtered).
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Am giving a free webinar this week with @350_Chicago on fine-tuning yoru BS detector to spot climate misinformation. Register at
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RT @skepticscience: Words cannot really do justice to express our sadness at losing our team member John Mason. ht….
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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
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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
desmog.com
DeSmog talks with AI researchers about the risks of widespread fake climate content and how to combat it.
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RT @MirjamNanko: Just published in @GEC_Journal: We investigate how climate contrarians and the fossil fuel industry obstructed US cap-and-….
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@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.
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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!
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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
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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
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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
nature.com
Communications Earth & Environment - An analysis of five million climate-themed social-media posts identified four distinct spikes in climate change misinformation, using a two-step...
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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
sustainabilityeducation.captivate.fm
Biography John CookJohn Cook is a Senior Research Fellow at the Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change at the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Austra...
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RT @SierraClubCan: Listen here: Jessica talks with @johnfocook who studies the cognitive #Psychology of #ClimateSc….
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RT @ThinkingPowers: There are so many misconceptions about consensus in science, starting with: What exactly is a consensus? And what’s up….
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RT @skepticscience: 🎉 The Conspiracy Theory Handbook is now available in 20 languages! 🌍✨ Thanks to our amazing volunteer translators, this….
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