ReconfigBehSci. (2021, June 4). RT @EricTopol: Coverage of this report @FT by @hannahkuchler https://t.co/hOE20nyUbC https://t.co/QsOzxHdVCl [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1400889235813507072

Facebook Sided With The Science Of The Coronavirus. What Will It Do About Vaccines And Climate Change? (n.d.). BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 11 February 2021, from https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/facebook-coronavirus-misinformation-takedowns

Covid-19 pandemic was not planned by Rockefeller Foundation. (16:48:50.595211+00:00). Full Fact. https://fullfact.org/online/covid-19-pandemic-was-not-planned-rockefeller-foundation/

Carl T. Bergstrom. (2021, April 27). 6. In the right column, we are given weighted averages. But these are nonsense as well, because the data are not collected in a way that allow for meaningful comparisons. Most critically, THESE ARE TOTAL DEATHS, NOT VACCINE ASSOCIATED DEATHS. [Tweet]. @CT_Bergstrom. https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1387153003824648196

“Analysis | Fox News’s Dismissive Vaccine Coverage Is Particularly Dangerous for Its Relatively Old Audience.” Washington Post. Accessed July 19, 2021. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/16/fox-newss-dismissive-vaccine-coverage-is-particularly-dangerous-its-relatively-old-audience/.

This is such an important point. Donald Trump did such an excellent job speaking at a level a lay person could understand when downplaying the seriousness of the Covid-19 virus thus undermining the scientific and medical community voices, that many Americans are refusing to vaccinate. This puts the world at risk for future variants that might be much worse than the ones we have now. More academics simplifying knowledge will help stem the tide of fake news, political propaganda and truly harmful misinformation.

Erlich, A., Garner, C., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2021). Does Analytic Thinking Insulate Against Pro-Kremlin Disinformation? Evidence from Ukraine [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4yrdj

Matthew Gertz on Twitter: “These are all from the last day. Https://t.co/psMkSZf7PF” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved July 9, 2021, from https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1413121265284562951

S4C has a news app. This looks intriguing.

Website makes false claims about vaccines and miscarriages—Full Fact. (n.d.). Retrieved June 30, 2021, from https://fullfact.org/online/Covid-vaccine-miscarriage-false/

Telegraph suggests 9% of England dies each year—Full Fact. (n.d.). Retrieved June 29, 2021, from https://fullfact.org/health/telegraph-suggests-9-england-dies-each-year/

Covering Coronavirus: Fighting the ‘Infodemic’—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved June 28, 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Po9anfLrA

Covid-19 Conspiracies: How Can We Deal With Misinformation? (n.d.). Retrieved June 28, 2021, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/sunitasah/2021/01/07/covid-19-conspiracies-how-can-we-deal-with-misinformation/?sh=526aa35b2b3f

Lyons, Benjamin A., Jacob M. Montgomery, Andrew M. Guess, Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler. ‘Overconfidence in News Judgments Is Associated with False News Susceptibility’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 23 (8 June 2021). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2019527118.

Jigsaw. (2021, March 17). Distraction Helps Misinformation Spread. Thinking About Accuracy Can Reduce it. Medium. https://medium.com/jigsaw/distraction-helps-misinformation-spread-thinking-about-accuracy-can-reduce-it-a4e5d8371a85

Seth Trueger on Twitter: “oh no not again https://t.co/hi9q3WTGIg” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved June 26, 2021, from https://twitter.com/MDaware/status/1398304298145091585

Fact Check-COVID-19 vaccines are not ‘cytotoxic’ | Reuters. (n.d.). Retrieved June 25, 2021, from https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-vaccine-cytotoxic/fact-check-covid-19-vaccines-are-not-cytotoxic-idUSL2N2O01XP

Anti-vax doctor mocked for claiming that shots will ‘magnetize’ people. (n.d.). Global News. Retrieved 18 June 2021, from https://globalnews.ca/news/7934660/magnets-covid-vaccine-doctor-ohio/

Mills, M. C., & Sivelä, J. (2021). Should spreading anti-vaccine misinformation be criminalised? BMJ, 372, n272. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n272

The Troll Zoo. (2021, May 4). 3. As an example, this popular post amended the headline of a Guardian story, to say that Devi Sridhar had claimed that ‘coronavirus can infect camels’. Https://t.co/6lRPYNZgdQ [Tweet]. @TrollZoo. https://twitter.com/TrollZoo/status/1389547190863994882

Influencers say Russia-linked PR agency asked them to disparage Pfizer vaccine | Marketing & PR | The Guardian. (n.d.). Retrieved June 12, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/may/25/influencers-say-russia-linked-pr-agency-asked-them-to-disparage-pfizer-vaccine?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Tay, L. Q., Hurlstone, M. J., Kurz, T., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2021). A Comparison of Prebunking and Debunking Interventions for Implied versus Explicit Misinformation [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/48zqn

Wadman, M. (2021). Antivaccine activists use a government database on side effects to scare the public. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abj6981

Prof. Christina Pagel on Twitter: “SHORT THREAD: I was on Sky News earlier where I explained why I thought test 4 (new variant test) for the next stage of the roadmap had not been met, because of B.1.617.2 (the so called ‘Indian’ variant of concern). 1/5 https://t.co/0O3dL2saOR” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved May 17, 2021, from https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1392927819504701441

GDELT Summary: Television Explorer: hydroxychloroquine AND (Station:CNN OR Station:FOXNEWS OR Station:MSNBC) AND PublicationDate>=3/1/2020. (n.d.). Retrieved May 14, 2021, from https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/summary/summary?d=iatv&t=summary&k=hydroxychloroquine+&ts=custom&sdt=20200301000000&fs=station%3ACNN&fs=station%3AFOXNEWS&fs=station%3AMSNBC&svt=zoom&swvt=zoom&ssc=yes&sshc=yes&swc=yes&stcl=yes&c=1

Shahsavari, S., Holur, P., Wang, T., Tangherlini, T. R., & Roychowdhury, V. (2020). Conspiracy in the time of corona: automatic detection of emerging COVID-19 conspiracy theories in social media and the news. Journal of Computational Social Science, 3(2), 279–317. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-020-00086-5

BigQuery + UDF = Identifying The Earliest Glimmers Of Covid-19 – The GDELT Project. (n.d.). Retrieved May 14, 2021, from https://blog.gdeltproject.org/bigquery-udf-identifying-the-earliest-glimmers-of-covid-19/

A Timeline Of Infection, Death And Vaccination Count Mentions In The News During Covid-19 Using The Global Numeric Graph – The GDELT Project. (n.d.). Retrieved May 14, 2021, from https://blog.gdeltproject.org/a-timeline-of-infection-death-and-vaccination-count-mentions-in-the-news-during-covid-19-using-the-global-numeric-graph/

Announcing The Global Numeric Graph – The GDELT Project. (n.d.). Retrieved May 14, 2021, from https://blog.gdeltproject.org/announcing-the-global-numeric-graph/

Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH. (2021, April 20). I was very pleased to see Levitt resign yesterday from the science advisory board of the anti-vaxx group PANDA. Previously Sikora had resigned. This press release mentions other resignations. Anyone know if the 3 GBD authors finally resigned? Here’s PANDA’s views on vaccines: Https://t.co/wVZX7XujZ3 [Tweet]. @GYamey. https://twitter.com/GYamey/status/1384476491317227525

Tucker Carlson May Be America’s Biggest Public-Health Problem. (n.d.). Retrieved May 13, 2021, from https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-may-be-americas-biggest-public-health-problem?ref=author

Nurit Nobel. (2021, April 19). Meanwhile, in Europe... 🦗 [Tweet]. @nuritnobel. https://twitter.com/nuritnobel/status/1384121792122425345

Garimella, K., Smith, T., Weiss, R., & West, R. (2021). Political Polarization in Online News Consumption. ArXiv:2104.06481 [Cs]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06481

Ahmed, S. T. (2020). Managing News Overload (MNO): The COVID-19 Infodemic. Information, 11(8), 375. https://doi.org/10.3390/info11080375

Robert Saunders on Twitter. (2020). Twitter. Retrieved 1 March 2021, from https://twitter.com/redhistorian/status/1326802784168124416

Greene, C., & Murphy, G. (2020). Individual differences in susceptibility to false memories for COVID-19 fake news. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rvec8

Greene, C., & Murphy, G. (2020). Can fake news really change behaviour? Evidence from a study of COVID-19 misinformation. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qfnm3

Kim, E., Shepherd, M. E., & Clinton, J. D. (2020). The effect of big-city news on rural America during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(36), 22009–22014. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009384117

Harford, T. (2021, May 6). What magic teaches us about misinformation. https://www.ft.com/content/5cea69f0-7d44-424e-a121-78a21564ca35

Strasser, M. A., Sumner, P. J., & Meyer, D. (2021). COVID-19 news distress in youth: A systematic review protocol. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nkxqr

Adam Kucharski on Twitter: "Interesting visualisation of COVID-related data sharing. (2021, March 26). Ttps://t.co/lOc1mzeiHt via @OYCar https://t.co/Im9SWlCA3Q [Tweet]. @AdamJKucharski. https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/1375350545393840130

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, February 17). The global infodemic has driven trust in all news sources to record lows with social media (35%) and owned media (41% the least trusted; traditional media (53%) saw largest drop in trust at 8 points globally. Https://t.co/C86chd3bb4 [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1362022502743105541

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA. (2021, April 14). With all due respect to @NateSilver538, he is not an expert on the psychology of vaccine confidence. He is a poll aggregator and political pundit. He is not an infectious disease specialist, epidemiologist, vaccinologist, virologist, immunologist, or behavioral scientist. Https://t.co/HBrI6zj9aa [Tweet]. @celinegounder. https://twitter.com/celinegounder/status/1382299663269761024

West, J. D., & Bergstrom, C. T. (2021). Misinformation in and about science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(15). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1912444117

Covid: Red states vaccinating at lower rate than blue states—CNNPolitics. (n.d.). Retrieved April 12, 2021, from https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/10/politics/vaccinations-state-analysis/

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Adam Finn. ‘There Are Some News Outlets & Politicians Incorrectly Reporting and Criticising Respectively MHRA for Advising against Use of OxAZ in under 30s. Neither MHRA nor EMA Have Done This. JCVI Have Expressed a Preference for Alternative Vaccines for Healthy under 30s in the UK Context’. Tweet. @adamhfinn (blog), 8 April 2021. https://twitter.com/adamhfinn/status/1380031766703058944.

Bioengineer.org reports on the low cost and eco friendly aspects of "electronic skin" in comparison to smart devices, making is an interesting possible alternative.

Read more at:

https://bioengineer.org/electronic-skin-promises-cheap-and-recyclable-alternative-to-wearable-devices/

SYFY Wire reports on the functionality and comfort of the "wearable skin". They state that smart watches are functionally nice, but it is not optimal to have such a large mass on your body. This device matches or exceeds the functionality of this device while also being many times smaller.

Read more at:

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/scientists-sticky-electronic-skin-for-wearable-devices

Science Daily reports about the multi-functionality and comfortability of the device. They state that it could be more accurate and functional than smart watches, while also cutting back on the worlds electronic waste.

Read more at:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201110081604.htm

Nanowerk News reports on the multifunctionality of the device, saying it would be able to be worn as a bracelet, ring, etc. They also make light of its ability to turn heat into electricity using thermoelectric generators, something that could revolutionize smart devices.

Read more at: https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news2/newsid=57267.php

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Covid-19 vaccine wars: Developing the AstraZeneca vaccine was a triumph, but then things went wrong. (2021, March 26). The BMJ. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/03/26/vaccine-wars-developing-the-astrazeneca-vaccine-was-a-triumph-but-then-things-went-wrong/

Nick Barrowman. (2021, March 26). Throughout the pandemic, a widespread inability to reason counterfactually has been on display. For example, some people apparently think lockdowns don’t work. They seem unable to imagine the situation had there not been a lockdown. Lockdowns are costly, but they work! [Tweet]. @nbarrowman. https://twitter.com/nbarrowman/status/1375240312264740870

Rosen, M. L., Rodman, A. M., Kasparek, S. W., Mayes, M., Freeman, M. M., Lengua, L., … McLaughlin, K. A., PhD. (2021, March 26). Promoting youth mental health during COVID-19: A Longitudinal Study spanning pre- and post-pandemic. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/n5h8t

Levy, N. L., & Ross, R. M. (2020). The cognitive science of fake news [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3nuzj

Carl Bergstrom: “People are using data to bullshit.” (2020, August 1). The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/aug/01/carl-bergstrom-people-are-using-data-to-bullshit

Carl T. Bergstrom on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved 19 February 2021, from https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1357799981977985025

tagesschau.de. (n.d.). Entwicklung von Impfstoffen: Komplett verdrehte Aussage. tagesschau.de. Retrieved March 2, 2021, from https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/merck-impfstoff-immunitaet-105.html

Szumowska, E., Czarnek, G., Dragon, P., & Keersmaecker, J. D. (2021). Multitasking and correction of false information. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/w5v4z

James Hamblin. (2021, March 17). Whenever you vaccinate millions and millions of people, some will inevitably die shortly after. Others will get blood clots. Others will crash cars, or fall down stairs. None of this is newsworthy until there’s reason to believe these things are connected. [Tweet]. @jameshamblin. https://twitter.com/jameshamblin/status/1371993047261667329

Epstein, Z., Berinsky, A., Cole, R., Gully, A., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. (2021). Developing an accuracy-prompt toolkit to reduce COVID-19 misinformation online. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/sjfbn

Reuters. ‘New Zealand to Resume Taking Refugees a Year after Covid Border Closure’. the Guardian, 5 February 2021. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/05/new-zealand-to-resume-taking-refugees-a-year-after-covid-border-closure.

Rees, April, and Catherine Thornton. ‘COVID-19 Vaccines Do Not Make Women Infertile’. The Conversation. Accessed 7 February 2021. http://theconversation.com/covid-19-vaccines-do-not-make-women-infertile-153550.

Krupenkin, Masha, Kai Zhu, Dylan Walker, and David M. Rothschild. ‘If a Tree Falls in the Forest: COVID-19, Media Choices, and Presidential Agenda Setting’. SSRN Scholarly Paper. Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network, 22 September 2020. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3697069.

A Wall Street Journal experiment to see a liberal version and a conservative version of Facebook side by side.

La nouvelle est arrivée hier.

xabaar (Arabic) v. -- report (a new one).

bi -- the.

agsi v. -- to arrive, to arise.

na -- as (?).

démb ji -- the past; yesterday 📆, long ago.

World Health Organization (WHO). (2020, November 23). Media briefing on #COVID19 with @DrTedros https://t.co/un2spGWT2a [Tweet]. @WHO. https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1330905359175671808

Colin D’Mello CTVNews. (2020, November 25). BREAKING: CTVNews has learned McKinsey & Company was paid $1.6million to help create the COVID-19 command tables, and $3.2 million to help with the school re-opening strategy. Https://t.co/F3FQtG8ftW #onpoli [Tweet]. @ColinDMello. https://twitter.com/ColinDMello/status/1331625704501424129

Mazumdar, S., & Thakker, D. (2020). Citizen Science on Twitter: Using Data Analytics to Understand Conversations and Networks. Future Internet, 12(12), 210. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12120210

https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/12/12/210

Marc-André Argentino. (2020, November 7). If you are interested in QAnon, QAnonCasualties is a must subreddit to read regularly and to get to know what is happening in QWorld from those closest to QAnon adherents. Https://t.co/qj05EFOxa6 [Tweet]. @_MAArgentino. https://twitter.com/_MAArgentino/status/1325144053479075840

Channel 4 News. (2021, January 17). “It’s working in mainland China with 1.4 billion people. It doesn’t depend on being an island.” A pandemic adviser to the New Zealand government says achieving zero cases isn’t about the size of a country, but about “strong leadership”. Https://t.co/SSpc8DjZXi [Tweet]. @Channel4News. https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1350834342709358593

Onishi, N., Méheut, C., Francini, A., Victor, D., Minder, R., & Schuetze, C. F. (2020, December 1). France has kept schools open without driving up infections, and other news from around the world. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/world/france-has-kept-schools-open-without-driving-up-infections-and-other-news-from-around-the-world.html

ReconfigBehSci. (2020, December 5). RT @bhrenton: On average, one person in the U.S. died of Covid-19 every 43 seconds last week. On this morning’s @CNNnewsroom, @Christi_Paul… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1335906973750059009

Bellovary, Andrea, Nathaniel A. Young, and Amit Goldenberg. ‘Left- and Right-Leaning News Organizations’ Negative Tweets Are More Likely to Be Shared’. PsyArXiv, 24 February 2021. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2er67.

u/hamilton_ian. (2021). The effect of the news. r/BehSciAsk. Reddit

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, January 15). RT @MaartenvSmeden: The infamous retracted Hydroxychloroquire Lancet article? Cited.... 883 TIMES https://t.co/Zinyel2d8i [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1351111003283578883

Fukuyama, Barak Richman and Francis. “How to Quiet the Megaphones of Facebook, Google and Twitter.” Wall Street Journal, February 12, 2021, sec. Life. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-quiet-the-megaphones-of-facebook-google-and-twitter-11613068856.

Yahoo UK reports about the functionality of the self-healing wearable electronics, inquiring that the technology could possibly replace smart watches.

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https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/self-healing-electronic-skin-could-223822914.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9zY2llbmNlYWR2YW5jZXMuYWx0bWV0cmljLmNvbS9kZXRhaWxzLzkzODMyODQwL25ld3M&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEF88g-xGZJ5dhvIPitZ8Wbq67df9SIfeVNBhoXeErbgGBHxl6Tuvci_pz_HM_DKqWtWWnjEL3UQy6A7rn0c0oLQcQpX-XlBLR-w03ZrmQiSQnxYbg9n9pLmwlWcFsXx6RRMJYFwLPkuF45h2sMwCb8DW_i7enteMpSgORfDPUDj

Taylor, J. (2021, February 17). Treasurer says Facebook has ‘damaged its reputation’ with Australian news ban. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/18/facebook-to-restrict-australian-users-sharing-news-content

Longoni, C., Fradkin, A., Cian, L., & Pennycook, G. (2021, February 16). News from Artificial Intelligence is Believed Less. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/wgy9e