Come next Saturday (6/1) is the crazy “run-the-loop” full #marathon#race held at #UniversityOfWashington’s historic #DrumhellerFountain: one loop is 192.37 meters, so the full course requires running 219 loops! Race starts at 5:30am 😟 and we're supposed to flip the direction every hour!
The cherry trees on the UW campus are at about peak bloom. As much as I like the trees (and I love the trees!), I like even more the fact that so many people come every year to see them; they stand around smiling and taking pictures of each other with the trees all around them, and it gives me hope to see humans so thoroughly enjoying naturally beautiful things.
In a @lawfare op/ed, @uwcip director @katestarbird writes: "As we navigate this multifaceted and sustained assault on disinformation researchers, it’s important to take stock of the implications for our country and, most immediately, the upcoming 2024 elections."
When the University of Washington's popular "Calling Bullshit" course, co-developed and co-taught by @uwcip faculty members Jevin West and @ct_bergstrom, was first offered in spring 2017, the course filled in one minute when registration opened at midnight.
“The people in the records office told us it was the fastest they’d ever seen any course fill,” Bergstrom said in a September 2023 UW Arts & Sciences article. “The demand was there.”
In a recent Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences news feature, "How to mitigate misinformation," M. Mitchell Waldrop interviews @uwcip co-founder Jevin West about work with University of Washington colleagues to "develop a computer simulation that treats the spread of misinformation as a kind of contagion and that’s calibrated with real-world data on 10.5 million misinformation tweets during the 2020 election." https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2314143120
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