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ScienceCommunicator

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I live in the #UK & have been awarded with a British Psychological Society accredited PgD in the #science of #psychology by Brunel University (London)

I also have an honour's degree in the conservation of biology (awarded by Cumbria University)

l listen to & recommend \ share many science podcasts
#science #psychology #ClimateChange #corruption #music #democracy #empathy

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ScienceCommunicator, to uk
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The UK politician Nigel Farage is stirring up hate speech__whilst looking rather jolly & proud about it

“What do I have to offer you? Well I can promise you that I do know one thing. That a woman can’t have a penis! You won’t get any woke PC nonsense from me!” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/04/red-meat-and-milk-clacton-voters-on-nigel-farage-and-his-button-pushing-rhetoric

So the "one thing" Farage knows is how to stir up the "mob"

What an X investment banker.

ScienceCommunicator, to psychology
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Can fear motivate change? Sure it can.

Can love motivate change? No doubt it can.

Can music motivate change? Only if people listen.

Can death motivate change? Not for the departed. But, for the living, fear of death can either motivate change or cause people to "freeze" in horror.

What are you most scared off?

#psychology 💀

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https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-69055945

"Within less than a minute, I'm approached by a store worker who comes up to me and says, 'You're a thief, you need to leave the store'."

Sara - who wants to remain anonymous - was wrongly accused after being flagged by a facial-recognition system called Facewatch.

She says after her bag was searched she was led out of the shop, and told she was banned from all stores using the technology.

Facewatch later wrote to Sara and acknowledged it had made an error.

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@isotopp @finally

And if the police wrongfully arrested & imprisoned (e.g., temp. in a cell) an innocent person because they relied on AI facial recognition? 🤔

ScienceCommunicator, to Norway
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sued over deep-sea plans

says the government has breached the law ‘without adequately assessing the consequences' https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/23/norway-sued-over-deep-sea-mining-plans-wwf

ScienceCommunicator, to climate
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Alarm as a #German non-violent #climate activist group is charged with ‘forming a criminal organisation’ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/23/alarm-as-german-climate-activists-charged-with-forming-a-criminal-organisation

#JustStopOil #XR #protest #ClimateChange

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    @DrALJONES @SallyStrange

    The police aren't a protest group. Just saying. Surely a police force doesn't consist of people that never question authority? That would be blind allegiance.

    Police officers have to operate within a framework of social:

    1. Transparency

    2. Accountability.

    In that, if a police officer is observed using some form of force, that includes a non violent arrest, then citizens will know why the use of force, why an arrest, was necessary.

    If conditions 1 & 2 are met!

    ScienceCommunicator, to science
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    How Feelings Can Deliver Misinformation

    To convert feeling-based misinformation into reliable information, one must think consciously about whether the information was derived from reliable processes.

    https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/hot-thought/202103/how-feelings-can-deliver-misinformation

    #science #psychology #anxiety

    ScienceCommunicator, to Health
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    Brain (nervous system) dysfunction can be demarcated, for the sake of clarity, between genetically or cognitively caused

    E.g., the behaviour that is diagnosed as , can be a or cognitively caused phenomena. Although, medically, only the former should be diagnosed as schizophrenia

    As for the latter, mistaken beliefs such as hearing "god" in the mind (dualism) can cause behaviours that mirror schizophrenia, but, can be mitigated with education

    ScienceCommunicator, to politics
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    is the effect of too many homed people not being motivated to house the homeless.

    In other words, it's a policy problem. One, in part, solution, ban second homes! (I.e., to mitigate the housing shortage). But, many rich folk won't like that practical solution.

    The Global Story: : Is sleeping in public a crime?

    Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6dst

    Media file: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0hsyg4b.mp3

    ScienceCommunicator, to climate
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    Speak to people about , many of their responses are based on what they know something about & feel positive about. They believe, & or want others to believe, e.g., "sellers", that is the answer

    From my perspective, their implicit ignorance of & the state of ecosystems is explicit.

    Whenever l hear the mantra, paraphrasing "nuclear fusion is the "game" changer", l try to inform them of the many nature based solutions that they don't know about.

    Wen, to disability
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    Rishi Sunak to strip GPs of right to sign people off sick

    http://archive.today/2024.04.19-062257/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rishi-sunak-gps-sign-people-off-sick-ill-rr353jstv

    GPs face being stripped of the right to issue sick notes, as the prime minister says doctors are too readily writing people off as unfit for work. Specialist teams linked to the benefits system will instead assess the sick and decide how best to keep them in work.

    Be afraid, very afraid. Those will be the same private companies who have already stripped benefits with no due concern.

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    @fkamiah17 @Wen

    l would not say it's intentional cruelty (on average), it's apathy. Apathy causes cruelty

    Obviously, a person seeing their own Doctor provides a more personal & professional context for an accurate medical assessment.

    So, why are the Tories trying to "fix" something that's not broken?

    If they believe that too many people are wanting to try & live on benefit money, rather than work, they should look at the quality of work (e.g., working hours & pay).

    Improve employment

    ScienceCommunicator, to climate
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    There are people saying that it's not up to an individual to reduce their use because it's a society problem. But, that's misleading

    For a real world example. In cities such as copenhagen, 62% of inhabitants trips to work or school are by bicycle.

    For this to happen, for the bike lanes, etc, to be constructed. For the experience of bicycling in a city to be safe & convenient, the majority of inhabitants have to want it

    It doesn't take a government to enforce bicycling!

    ScienceCommunicator, to climate
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    #climate zombie culture (part 1)

    In a village on planet Earth.

    I live in "ground zero" of an ecological crisis in the making. A typical conversation with a typical local person__involves them expressing the complete nonsense they, apparently, really believe in. Worse than a simple misunderstanding. E.g., their implicit scientific ignorance, causes them to be offended & explicitly arrogant. They don't like the "experts" who "think" they know better than them.

    #ClimateDiary #climateCrisis

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    @NegativeInf @Showroom7561 @climate

    The scale of an individuals effect, depends on how many other people do "it".

    As one example, if l was say "No thanks! I've brought my own non-plastic bag" to the retailer asking if l want a (plastic) bag, that action didn't stop that plastic bag from being manufactured.

    But, if 90% of people stopped using the retailers plastic bags, that retailer would order less plastic bags.

    Scale this up on a population level (& do the math).

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    @NegativeInf @Showroom7561 @climate

    The scale of an individuals effect, depends on how many other people do "it".

    As one example, if l was say "No thanks! I've brought my own non-plastic bag" to the retailer asking if l want a (plastic) bag, that action didn't stop that plastic bag from being manufactured.

    But, if 90% of people stopped using the retailers plastic bags, that retailer would order less plastic bags.

    Scale this up on a population level (& do the math).

    ScienceCommunicator, to Israel
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    Sam Harris, to paraphrase "of course, #Israel has made some terrible mistakes, but, we have to destroy #jihadism just as we destroyed #Nazisism"

    Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content: #362 - Six Months of War

    Episode webpage: https://samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/362-six-months-of-war

    Media file: https://assets.samharris.org/episodes/audios/3f6d455e-e1ba-4507-85ff-8a599b1dbc6d/Making_Sense_362_Douglas_Murray__Josh_Szeps_subscriber.mp3

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    @pleaseclap

    The general problem is people wanting to believe, what they want to believe, & disregarding the rest. Also known as a confirmation bias.

    In fact, if people were scientifically trained, that would mitigate their biased, unreasonable beliefs.

    As for your reply, the problem there was that you reacted to the paraphrased quote, rather than taking the time to listen to the podcast, the context, which should of meant you understood what Sam meant by "destroyed" (during WWII)

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    @pleaseclap

    "The general problem is people wanting to believe, what they want to believe, & disregarding the rest. Also known as a confirmation bias."

    Add to that the propaganda (disinformation. AKA lies) spread by those that want you to believe, what they want you to believe. And then spread by mistake (misinformation), by those that, typically, want to believe in the, implicit to them, false information.

    ScienceCommunicator, to climate
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    #Democracy is far more than voting every so often. As one person, you can't change society, or sustain a policy, if the majority of people in the society don't agree with you ?__& or, for example, aren't aware that a change is needed.

    Democracy is a numbers system. Change enough minds that #ClimateChange is a serious threat, & the government will listen (if they want to stay in power)

    But, that influence goes both ways. Some politicians & industry workers influence people using #greenwash

    ScienceCommunicator, to science
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    Spray oxytocin up a woman’s nose __a research participant (a way to get the neuropeptide past the blood-brain barrier and into the brain), and she’ll find babies to look more appealing.
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31170723-behave

    Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

    #science #neuroscience #biology #psychology #book

    ScienceCommunicator, to random
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    Well, everything was working fine until one of the "cogs" in the machine broke a tooth. That broken tooth damaged the next cog, & so on a so fourth.

    This is a metaphor. That first damaged "cog", was a sociopath, that harmed the next "cog".

    Care & honesty, the two are not mutually exclusive, is the oil & mechanics that prevents the "machine" from breaking down

    That "machine" is civilisation

    ScienceCommunicator, to science
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    Think you know your cannabis "strains"? No you don't!

    #Science Vs: #Cannabis: I Get High With a Little Help From … Science

    FYI, cannabis edibles are definitely healthier than smoking, anything, inc. cannabis. "Smoking" is inhaling #AirPollution

    Episode webpage: https://gimletmedia.com/science-vs/

    Media file: https://chrt.fm/track/15E3G4/traffic.megaphone.fm/GLT5500500334.mp3?updated=1712341499

    ScienceCommunicator, to science
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    Testosterone levels rise, reaching the brain. If this occurs because someone is challenging you, you head in the direction of aggression. If an identical rise occurs because days are lengthening and mating season is approaching, you decide to fly a thousand miles to your breeding grounds. And if the same occurs because of puberty, you get stupid and giggly around that girl who plays clarinet in the band. The context dependency is remarkable https://archive.org/details/Behave

    #science #books #neuroscience

    ScienceCommunicator, to geopolitics
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    A "Free" Market (FME) is, comparably, an ignorant idea. An ideology that is postulated by those that don't know & or don't care about mitigating or social inequity. Fundamentally, the FME is the idea that owners, share holders, investors, should be "free" to choose how to manage their business, their finances. Free to invest in eco degrading activities & (as they do). First & foremost, free to pursue profits, free to be motivated by greed, not need

    ScienceCommunicator, to climate
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    Could you work doing a job, that you knew was doing wrong?

    The Conversation Weekly: quitting: the people leaving their because of

    Episode webpage: https://theconversation.com/climate-quitting-the-people-leaving-their-fossil-fuel-jobs-because-of-climate-change-226246

    Media file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/60087127b9687759d637bade/e/65fc18c0e60d00001643ff81/media.mp3

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