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Given skepticism about seriousness of #COVID19 on the right, Newt's msg could have persuasive power.

Several #scicomm studies find that ppl holding views at odds with sci. are more likely to change their minds when told to do so by like-minded sources.

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This piece from Adam Berinsky finds that politicians who take stances contrary to their partisan interests can convince like-minded partisans to reject misinfo. related to public health.

web.mit.edu/berinsky/www/f…
And this piece from @SalilBenegal & @condorcetsd on how GOP elites who speak out on climate change can decease the partisan gap in climate change acceptance.

link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Bolsen, Palm, & Kingsland find a similar pattern of effects with respect to climate change and communication from GOP/military elites:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
As do @RobertJRalston, @jsspindel, and I in a working paper.

And if these individual studies aren't enough, check out this fantastic review on the nature/origins of misinformation from @d_j_flynn, @BrendanNyhan, & @JasonReifler

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
As well as this one from Jenn Jerit and @yzhao0406

jjerit.com/images/JeritZh…
Public views about #COVID19 have clearly become quite partisan (e.g., see this work from @gelliottmorris).

When Republican elites who sound the alarm on coronavirus, they might help reverse this trend.

economist.com/graphic-detail…
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Helmy Haja Mydin
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My fellow Malaysians 🇲🇾

Pls RT if you can.

I want this message re #COVIDー19 to go out.

Many of the people in power are too afraid of making the difficult but right decisions. They are thinking as politicians, not as leaders.

#SocialDistancingNow
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This is a thread about why it is absolutely essential that we get people out of jails, prisons, & immigration detention during the #COVIDー19 pandemic. It will include information & demands for how to #StopCOVID19inJails .

The health of people inside & all of us depends on it.
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Lee Constable
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Scicomm researcher: The fact is that telling people more facts doesn't change their mind.

Scicommer: Ok... But I think this piece I'm writing to debunk pseudoscience will help.

SR: NO IT WON'T BECAUSE LISTEN TO THE SCICOMM FACT I JUST TOL- oh... oh dear...

#scicomm
I'm a scicommer with much respect for both scicomm researchers and fellow scicommers. It's ok for us to laugh at ourselves everyone!

Don't come here to get defensive about your piece that debunks pseudoscience please 😂 or do! Up to you mate 😘
Interesting to note: Scicommers familiar with scicomm research seem to get this tweet and laugh at the complexity and paradoxes of their field.
Those more unwilling to accept this seem to be research scientists who do scicomm but aren't familiar with relevant scicomm research.
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I Am SciComm
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Monday, first topic: the journey to #scicomm.
There are plenty of ways to be involved in scicomm, as shown by the variety of hosts for this account.
I’ll discuss how I went from research to #scicomm, but I am curious about you.
What is your primary occupation?
If #scicomm is your primary occupation, which background do you have ?
If research is your primary occupation, what kind of #scicomm/outreach are you mostly involved in?
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