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  1. Quote of the Day

    “Politics follows the lines of physics. Every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.” — John Avlon, “The Rise of Political Extremism and the Decline of Decency,” U.S. News (02010-04-08)

    #JohnAvlon #polarization #politics
  2. Canada: a place where policy still drives voting

    Clareta Treger examines whether political identities dominate policy preferences in Canadians’ political decision-making process. Her recent work finds…
    #Canada #identity #identitypolitics #ideology #polarisation #polarization #voterbehaviour
    europesays.com/canada/122697/

  3. [en] Americans more willing to engage with opposing opinions than generally presumed

    "Listening to someone who disagrees with you on a #controversial topic, but shares basic values, might not change your mind – but it could moderate an extreme position, reducing #polarization …"

    Prof. Michèle #Belot: "The question is whether people are then willing to engage with what they hear. Promoting common values is not a miracle cure, but our evidence indicates people being more willing to reconsider their views if they know the other person shares common values."

    "The main experiment surveyed a representative sample of roughly 2,500 Americans, soliciting views on three divisive issues: #abortion, #gun laws and #immigration ...

    news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/

    #echochamber #cornell #economics #research

  4. [en] Americans more willing to engage with opposing opinions than generally presumed

    "Listening to someone who disagrees with you on a #controversial topic, but shares basic values, might not change your mind – but it could moderate an extreme position, reducing #polarization …"

    Prof. Michèle #Belot: "The question is whether people are then willing to engage with what they hear. Promoting common values is not a miracle cure, but our evidence indicates people being more willing to reconsider their views if they know the other person shares common values."

    "The main experiment surveyed a representative sample of roughly 2,500 Americans, soliciting views on three divisive issues: #abortion, #gun laws and #immigration ...

    news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/

    #echochamber #cornell #economics #research

  5. "Long before most institutions fully understood the dangers of #online #radicalization, #antisemitic ideas were already finding new life in #conspiracy culture, political #extremism and ideological movements across the spectrum. Some mistook a decline in public acceptability for a decline in the hatred itself.

    Today, we are at another inflection point, but this one is far more urgent. #Antisemitism is no longer confined to the fringes, and its resurgence is part of a broader erosion of civic trust, shared facts and democratic norms. History has repeatedly shown that when antisemitism rises openly, it is rarely only a #Jewish problem. It is often a warning sign of a society becoming more vulnerable to extremism, #polarization and #intolerance more broadly."

    kansascity.com/opinion/readers

  6. "Long before most institutions fully understood the dangers of #online #radicalization, #antisemitic ideas were already finding new life in #conspiracy culture, political #extremism and ideological movements across the spectrum. Some mistook a decline in public acceptability for a decline in the hatred itself.

    Today, we are at another inflection point, but this one is far more urgent. #Antisemitism is no longer confined to the fringes, and its resurgence is part of a broader erosion of civic trust, shared facts and democratic norms. History has repeatedly shown that when antisemitism rises openly, it is rarely only a #Jewish problem. It is often a warning sign of a society becoming more vulnerable to extremism, #polarization and #intolerance more broadly."

    kansascity.com/opinion/readers

  7. Apply now for the hybrid PhD course "Far-Right Publics and Anti-Migrant Mobilisation" (7,5 ECTS), 4 May–30 August 2026, University of Gothenburg.

    Free of charge – even accommodation is provide for free during the on-campus week in Gothenburg 25-29 May.

    gu.se/en/socav/far-right-publi

    #phdcourse #doctoralcourse #migration #farright #mobilisation #radicalisation #polarization #EthnicNationalism #gbgftw

  8. Apply now for the hybrid PhD course "Far-Right Publics and Anti-Migrant Mobilisation" (7,5 ECTS), 4 May–30 August 2026, University of Gothenburg.

    Free of charge – even accommodation is provide for free during the on-campus week in Gothenburg 25-29 May.

    gu.se/en/socav/far-right-publi

    #phdcourse #doctoralcourse #migration #farright #mobilisation #radicalisation #polarization #EthnicNationalism #gbgftw

  9. Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 22/11/2025

    It’s Saturday again, so it’s time for the usual update of the week’s new papers at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published another five papers, which brings the number in Volume 8 (2025) up to 180, and the total so far published by OJAp up to 415.

    The first paper to report this week is “Probing Anisotropic Cosmic Birefringence with Foreground-Marginalised SPT B-mode Likelihoods” by Lennart Balkenhol (Sorbonne Université, France), A. Coerver (UC Berkeley, USA), C. L. Reichardt (U. Melbourne, Australia) and J. A. Zebrowski (U. Chicago, USA). This paper was published on Monday November 17th in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics. It presents a way of using data from the Souh Pole Telescope (SPT) in the CMB-lite framework to constrain the level of cosmic birefringence.  The overlay is here:

    You can find the officially accepted version on arXiv here and the The Fediverse announcement is here:

    Open Journal of Astrophysics

    @[email protected]

    New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Probing Anisotropic Cosmic Birefringence with Foreground-Marginalised SPT B-mode Likelihoods" by Lennart Balkenhol (Sorbonne Université, France), A. Coerver (UC Berkeley, USA), C. L. Reichardt (U. Melbourne, Australia) and J. A. Zebrowski (U. Chicago, USA)

    doi.org/10.33232/001c.147459

    November 17, 2025, 8:43 am 1 boosts 0 favorites

    The second paper of the week is “Radio Observations of a Candidate Redback Millisecond Pulsar: 1FGL J0523.5-2529” by Owen. A. Johnson & E. F. Keane (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), D. J. McKenna (ASTRON, NL), H. Qiu (SKAO, UK), S. J. Swihart (Insitute for Defense Analyses, USA), J. Strader (Michigan State U., USA) and M. McLaughlin (West Virginia U., USA). This one was published on Tuesday November 18th 2025 in the folder marked High-Energy Astrophysical Phenomena and it describes a search for radio emission from a candidate “redback pulsar” J0523.5-2529 resulting in upper limits but no detection.

    The overlay is here:

    You can find the official version of this one on arXiv here. The federated announcement on Mastodon is here:

    Open Journal of Astrophysics

    @[email protected]

    New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Radio Observations of a Candidate Redback Millisecond Pulsar: 1FGL J0523.5-2529" by Owen. A. Johnson & E. F. Keane (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), D. J. McKenna (ASTRON, NL), H. Qiu (SKAO, UK), S. J. Swihart (Insitute for Defense Analyses, USA), J. Strader (Michigan State U., USA) and M. McLaughlin (West Virginia U., USA)

    doi.org/10.33232/001c.147516

    November 18, 2025, 8:42 am 1 boosts 0 favorites

    Next one up is “The role of turbulence in setting the phase of the ISM and implications for the star formation rate” by Tine Colman (Université Paris-Saclay, France) and 13 others based in France, Germany, Italy and the UK. This was published in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies on Tuesday November 18th. It descrtibes using a suite of stratified box simulations to explore the link between star formation, turbulence and the thermal state of the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM).

    The overlay is here:

    You can find the official accepted version on arXiv here. The fediverse announcement is here:

    Open Journal of Astrophysics

    @[email protected]

    New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "The role of turbulence in setting the phase of the ISM and implications for the star formation rate" by Tine Colman (Université Paris-Saclay, France) and 13 others based in France, Germany, Italy and the UK.

    doi.org/10.33232/001c.147517

    November 19, 2025, 8:19 am 0 boosts 0 favorites

    The fourth paper of the week is “A Bimodal Metallicity Distribution Function in the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II” by Alice M. Luna (U. Chicago, USA) and 8 others based in the USA, Korea and Canada. This was published on Wednesday November 19th in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. It decribes low-resolution Magellan/IMACS spectroscopy of 167 stars in the ultra-faint galaxy Reticulum II, revealing a clearly bimodal distribution.

    The overlay is here:

    You can find the official published version on arXiv here. The Fediverse announcement follows:

    Open Journal of Astrophysics

    @[email protected]

    New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "A Bimodal Metallicity Distribution Function in the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II" by Alice M. Luna (U. Chicago, USA) and 8 others based in the USA, Korea and Canada.

    doi.org/10.33232/001c.147696

    November 19, 2025, 8:37 am 0 boosts 0 favorites

    The fifth and final paper for this week is “Cool Gas in the Circumgalactic Medium of Massive Post Starburst Galaxies” by Zoe Harvey, Sahyadri Krishna, Vivienne Wild & Rita Tojeiro (U. St Andrews, UK) and Paul Hewett (U. Cambridge, UK). This was published on Thursday November 20th in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies.

    The overlay is here:

    The officially accepted version can be found on arXiv here. The Fediverse announcement is here:

    Open Journal of Astrophysics

    @[email protected]

    New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Cool Gas in the Circumgalactic Medium of Massive Post Starburst Galaxies" by Zoe Harvey, Sahyadri Krishna, Vivienne Wild & Rita Tojeiro (U. St Andrews, UK) and Paul Hewett (U. Cambridge, UK)

    doi.org/10.33232/001c.147836

    November 20, 2025, 9:02 am 1 boosts 0 favorites

    And that concludes the update for this week. I will do another next Saturday.

    #arxiv250303305v4 #arxiv250616462v2 #arxiv250622287v3 #arxiv250815435v2 #arxiv251007928v2 #astrophysicsOfGalaxies #cosmicBirefringence #cosmicMicrowaveBackground #cosmologyAndNongalacticAstrophysics #diamondOpenAccess #diamondOpenAccessPublishing #highEnergyAstrophysicalPhenomena #interstellarMedium #openAccess #openJournalOfAstrophysics #polarization #redbackPulsar #reticulumIi #spectroscopy #theOpenJournalOfAstrophysics #turbulence #ultraFaintDwarfGalaxy

  10. Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 22/11/2025

    It’s Saturday again, so it’s time for the usual update of the week’s new papers at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published another five papers, which brings the number in Volume 8 (2025) up to 180, and the total so far published by OJAp up to 415.

    The first paper to report this week is “Probing Anisotropic Cosmic Birefringence with Foreground-Marginalised SPT B-mode Likelihoods” by Lennart Balkenhol (Sorbonne Université, France), A. Coerver (UC Berkeley, USA), C. L. Reichardt (U. Melbourne, Australia) and J. A. Zebrowski (U. Chicago, USA). This paper was published on Monday November 17th in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics. It presents a way of using data from the Souh Pole Telescope (SPT) in the CMB-lite framework to constrain the level of cosmic birefringence.  The overlay is here:

    You can find the officially accepted version on arXiv here and the The Fediverse announcement is here:

    Open Journal of Astrophysics

    @[email protected]

    New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Probing Anisotropic Cosmic Birefringence with Foreground-Marginalised SPT B-mode Likelihoods" by Lennart Balkenhol (Sorbonne Université, France), A. Coerver (UC Berkeley, USA), C. L. Reichardt (U. Melbourne, Australia) and J. A. Zebrowski (U. Chicago, USA)

    doi.org/10.33232/001c.147459

    November 17, 2025, 8:43 am 1 boosts 0 favorites

    The second paper of the week is “Radio Observations of a Candidate Redback Millisecond Pulsar: 1FGL J0523.5-2529” by Owen. A. Johnson & E. F. Keane (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), D. J. McKenna (ASTRON, NL), H. Qiu (SKAO, UK), S. J. Swihart (Insitute for Defense Analyses, USA), J. Strader (Michigan State U., USA) and M. McLaughlin (West Virginia U., USA). This one was published on Tuesday November 18th 2025 in the folder marked High-Energy Astrophysical Phenomena and it describes a search for radio emission from a candidate “redback pulsar” J0523.5-2529 resulting in upper limits but no detection.

    The overlay is here:

    You can find the official version of this one on arXiv here. The federated announcement on Mastodon is here:

    Open Journal of Astrophysics

    @[email protected]

    New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Radio Observations of a Candidate Redback Millisecond Pulsar: 1FGL J0523.5-2529" by Owen. A. Johnson & E. F. Keane (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), D. J. McKenna (ASTRON, NL), H. Qiu (SKAO, UK), S. J. Swihart (Insitute for Defense Analyses, USA), J. Strader (Michigan State U., USA) and M. McLaughlin (West Virginia U., USA)

    doi.org/10.33232/001c.147516

    November 18, 2025, 8:42 am 1 boosts 0 favorites

    Next one up is “The role of turbulence in setting the phase of the ISM and implications for the star formation rate” by Tine Colman (Université Paris-Saclay, France) and 13 others based in France, Germany, Italy and the UK. This was published in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies on Tuesday November 18th. It descrtibes using a suite of stratified box simulations to explore the link between star formation, turbulence and the thermal state of the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM).

    The overlay is here:

    You can find the official accepted version on arXiv here. The fediverse announcement is here:

    Open Journal of Astrophysics

    @[email protected]

    New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "The role of turbulence in setting the phase of the ISM and implications for the star formation rate" by Tine Colman (Université Paris-Saclay, France) and 13 others based in France, Germany, Italy and the UK.

    doi.org/10.33232/001c.147517

    November 19, 2025, 8:19 am 0 boosts 0 favorites

    The fourth paper of the week is “A Bimodal Metallicity Distribution Function in the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II” by Alice M. Luna (U. Chicago, USA) and 8 others based in the USA, Korea and Canada. This was published on Wednesday November 19th in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. It decribes low-resolution Magellan/IMACS spectroscopy of 167 stars in the ultra-faint galaxy Reticulum II, revealing a clearly bimodal distribution.

    The overlay is here:

    You can find the official published version on arXiv here. The Fediverse announcement follows:

    Open Journal of Astrophysics

    @[email protected]

    New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "A Bimodal Metallicity Distribution Function in the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II" by Alice M. Luna (U. Chicago, USA) and 8 others based in the USA, Korea and Canada.

    doi.org/10.33232/001c.147696

    November 19, 2025, 8:37 am 0 boosts 0 favorites

    The fifth and final paper for this week is “Cool Gas in the Circumgalactic Medium of Massive Post Starburst Galaxies” by Zoe Harvey, Sahyadri Krishna, Vivienne Wild & Rita Tojeiro (U. St Andrews, UK) and Paul Hewett (U. Cambridge, UK). This was published on Thursday November 20th in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies.

    The overlay is here:

    The officially accepted version can be found on arXiv here. The Fediverse announcement is here:

    Open Journal of Astrophysics

    @[email protected]

    New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Cool Gas in the Circumgalactic Medium of Massive Post Starburst Galaxies" by Zoe Harvey, Sahyadri Krishna, Vivienne Wild & Rita Tojeiro (U. St Andrews, UK) and Paul Hewett (U. Cambridge, UK)

    doi.org/10.33232/001c.147836

    November 20, 2025, 9:02 am 1 boosts 0 favorites

    And that concludes the update for this week. I will do another next Saturday.

    #arxiv250303305v4 #arxiv250616462v2 #arxiv250622287v3 #arxiv250815435v2 #arxiv251007928v2 #astrophysicsOfGalaxies #cosmicBirefringence #cosmicMicrowaveBackground #cosmologyAndNongalacticAstrophysics #diamondOpenAccess #diamondOpenAccessPublishing #highEnergyAstrophysicalPhenomena #interstellarMedium #openAccess #openJournalOfAstrophysics #polarization #redbackPulsar #reticulumIi #spectroscopy #theOpenJournalOfAstrophysics #turbulence #ultraFaintDwarfGalaxy

  11. 🇬🇧🧑‍💻⛽️🔥 Close to the anniversary of the Southport misinformation spread and riots episode, I wrote about attempts made over the past year, by people in the same ecosystem, to gaslight and conspiracise a "vindication vibe" out of their utter humiliation, and the need for an "information battle station".

    📑 sohandsouza.substack.com/p/sim

    #Southport #UK #riots #misinfo #disinfo #infoDisorder #conspiracism #factCheck #OSINT #SOCMINT #farRight #polarization

  12. 🇬🇧🧑‍💻⛽️🔥 Close to the anniversary of the Southport misinformation spread and riots episode, I wrote about attempts made over the past year, by people in the same ecosystem, to gaslight and conspiracise a "vindication vibe" out of their utter humiliation, and the need for an "information battle station".

    📑 sohandsouza.substack.com/p/sim

    #Southport #UK #riots #misinfo #disinfo #infoDisorder #conspiracism #factCheck #OSINT #SOCMINT #farRight #polarization

  13. Recommended book: The Disunited States - Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won't Work. Ryan D. Griffiths. Examines the growing interest in a national divorce between #RedState America and #BlueState #America. Discusses how current #polarization in America is a problem, but it is one that needs to be worked out through dialogue rather than a bloody #civilwar. Brings expert analysis on the topic of #secession, & how it works #globally #democracy global.oup.com/academic/produc

  14. 10 types of #misinformation and #disinformation Be smart. How to recognise disinformation: Designating #scapegoats Evoke strong #emotions (fear and anger) Causing #polarization #Impersonating an 'expert' Spreading #conspiracytheories with no clear evidence #Trolling to evoke a lot of reactions

  15. The defining characteristics of modern #political discourse—deep #polarization, escalating interpersonal #conflicts, & the constant need to establish oneself as the #AntiEstablishment figure—were more or less inevitable because of the speed of #Internet #communication, the inherently adversarial & mostly #anonymous characteristics of #online chatter,& the #isolation that comes w/staring at a screen all day.
    #propaganda #Trump #Trumpaganda #radicalization #BigTech #broligarchy #technocracy #USpol

  16. The defining characteristics of modern #political discourse—deep #polarization, escalating interpersonal #conflicts, & the constant need to establish oneself as the #AntiEstablishment figure—were more or less inevitable because of the speed of #Internet #communication, the inherently adversarial & mostly #anonymous characteristics of #online chatter,& the #isolation that comes w/staring at a screen all day.
    #propaganda #Trump #Trumpaganda #radicalization #BigTech #broligarchy #technocracy #USpol

  17. The defining characteristics of modern #political discourse—deep #polarization, escalating interpersonal #conflicts, & the constant need to establish oneself as the #AntiEstablishment figure—were more or less inevitable because of the speed of #Internet #communication, the inherently adversarial & mostly #anonymous characteristics of #online chatter,& the #isolation that comes w/staring at a screen all day.
    #propaganda #Trump #Trumpaganda #radicalization #BigTech #broligarchy #technocracy #USpol

  18. The defining characteristics of modern #political discourse—deep #polarization, escalating interpersonal #conflicts, & the constant need to establish oneself as the #AntiEstablishment figure—were more or less inevitable because of the speed of #Internet #communication, the inherently adversarial & mostly #anonymous characteristics of #online chatter,& the #isolation that comes w/staring at a screen all day.
    #propaganda #Trump #Trumpaganda #radicalization #BigTech #broligarchy #technocracy #USpol

  19. The defining characteristics of modern #political discourse—deep #polarization, escalating interpersonal #conflicts, & the constant need to establish oneself as the #AntiEstablishment figure—were more or less inevitable because of the speed of #Internet #communication, the inherently adversarial & mostly #anonymous characteristics of #online chatter,& the #isolation that comes w/staring at a screen all day.
    #propaganda #Trump #Trumpaganda #radicalization #BigTech #broligarchy #technocracy #USpol

  20. (1/2) Ep 45: Our Media Firewalls #WisdomWithWes
    youtu.be/QQ4VdbTpbjY?si=Bmgpyf

    Reflections on how all of us need “media firewalls” to protect our minds from polarizing and potentially upsetting information, media messages and gossip all around us.

    #WisdomWithWes #wellness #health #DigitalDiet #polarization #ConCW #HealOurCulture

    More episodes of my “Wisdom With Wes” videos series are available in this YouTube

  21. (1/2) Ep 45: Our Media Firewalls #WisdomWithWes
    youtu.be/QQ4VdbTpbjY?si=Bmgpyf

    Reflections on how all of us need “media firewalls” to protect our minds from polarizing and potentially upsetting information, media messages and gossip all around us.

    #WisdomWithWes #wellness #health #DigitalDiet #polarization #ConCW #HealOurCulture

    More episodes of my “Wisdom With Wes” videos series are available in this YouTube

  22. Good news in our preprint about #polarization:

    Demand for BIPARTISAN #news analysis was strong!

    People in the #US preferred fact-checking teams that engaged in #AdversarialCollaboration at least as much as copartisan and/or professional teams.

    Follow the manuscript or authors on #GoogleScholar: scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=

    If you prefer a link directly to our preprint: doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/gp9w7

    #journalism #socialMedia #decisionScience #collectiveIntelligence #socialPsychology #politicalPsychology #epistemology #xPhi

  23. #book2read: Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets by #JeffHorwitz via #ReneeDiResta in #InvisibleRulers

    a.co/d/0hQY1WNB

    #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #ConCW #SocialMedia #polarization #politics #BigTech #Facebook #Meta

    Added to my Wakelet collection of books related to my “Conspiracies and Culture Wars” inquiry project:
    wakelet.com/wake/l6ZSu_zmkAdTM

    For more on this and related topics, see:
    medialiteracy.wesfryer.com/con

  24. #book2read: Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets by #JeffHorwitz via #ReneeDiResta in #InvisibleRulers

    a.co/d/0hQY1WNB

    #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #ConCW #SocialMedia #polarization #politics #BigTech #Facebook #Meta

    Added to my Wakelet collection of books related to my “Conspiracies and Culture Wars” inquiry project:
    wakelet.com/wake/l6ZSu_zmkAdTM

    For more on this and related topics, see:
    medialiteracy.wesfryer.com/con

  25. #introduction

    I am a political communication #polcomm scholar at the U of Amsterdam, interested in the dark side of politics - #NegativeCampaigning, #Incivility, #Polarization, #PoliticalViolence, and #DarkPersonality.
    Interested in #MetaScience and more specifically on #PeerReview practices.
    Currently Associate Editor at the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties (JEPOP) and the Journal of Social and Political Psychology (JSPP).
    #Eurovision enthusiast, co-human of Elsa the cat 🐈