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Peter Jacobs
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climate science (paleo, modern, future); public understanding of science (consensus, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience)

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6951-7126
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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 1d
1, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Arguably 2 but I'll be generous and say no for that one.

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pjacobs.bsky.social Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 1d
These will be increasingly useful in helping people understand some common cognitive pitfalls. Enjoy.

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 1d
These will be increasingly useful in helping people understand some common cognitive pitfalls. Enjoy.

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 2d
I'll stop injecting Lab Leak conspiracism critiques into everything when everything stops being Lab Leak adjacent.

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 2d
I suspect"Inscrutable" is a category error that unnecessary anthropomorphizing creates. If you could see the full "reasoning" by every member of the system involved rather than just *hearing about* a subset you'd probably see something more like evolutionary trial & error w/words than coherent plans

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Dr. Jonathan Schroden @jjschroden.bsky.social · 2d
“You don’t have to go far in Congress to have a sort of confrontational view of Elbridge Colby, but boy, he just blew her up right from the beginning,”

www.thedailybeast.com/gop-senators...
GOP Senators Blast Pentagon’s ‘Contemptuous’ No-Answers Briefing
Elbridge Colby, the undersecretary of defense for Policy, riled almost everyone.
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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 2d
Fair to say that the massive amounts of Russian and American money swirling around the white collar, business, NGO worlds for the past 20 years contributed to this situation or would it be like this regardless?

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 2d
Find you someone who loves you like the New York Times loves the sartorial preferences of right-wingers.
Nyt headline: spains preppy conservatives are having a moment, loafer-wearing young Spaniards, often called Cayetanos, are flexing their countercultural muscles after eight years of left-wing government Young Spanish men wearing normal looking clothes, button up dress shirts tucked into khaki slacks with loafers