It's amusing how those in denial about human-caused climate change quickly resort to ad hominem attacks against our website and team when somebody links to science-based content on skepticalscience.com. So, here is a thread with information about who we are and what we do. 1/n
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#2 Our welcome page gives a good overview of who we are, what we do and why - sks.to/welcome
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#3 The review of our activities in 2020 contains mentions of publications, presentations, conferences, teaching and fun stuff our team was involved with during the year - sks.to/sks2020
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#4 The same goes for the reviews of the years 2019, 2018 and others you can easily find on our homepage - sks.to/sks2019 & sks.to/sks2018
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#5 Individuals and teams across the globe translate selected content into other languages - skepticalscience.com/shining-spotli
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#6 The Story of Skeptical Science presented at the annual EGU and AGU meetings in 2020 provides more information - sks.to/egu2020-display
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#7 "How we work: Getting input from scientists" contains examples of blog posts which came about due to direct interactions with the scientists actually carrying out the research or being knowledgable about a topic in general.
skepticalscience.com/how-we-work-ge
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#8 Each week on Wednesdays we publish a New Research collection assembled from many journals' RSS-feeds - with the help of some automation - by Doug Bostrom. As an example, here is the collection for week 7, 2021 which included 144 articles:
skepticalscience.com/new_research_2
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#9 Over the years, we've collected many recorded talks on sks.to/talks. As explains in her blog post, these recordings are a helpful resource for anybody who'd like to know more about countering (climate) science misinformation - sks.to/talks-resource
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#10 Since April 2015 we've been offering our MOOC - "Making sense of climate science denial" in collaboration with . This year's self-paced run is available until Dec 14 - sks.to/denial101x
More information - skepticalscience.com/halfway-point-
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#11 The blog post "From tweet to updated rebuttal - a little saga" is a pretty good example for "how we work", namely that we strive to update our content once we are made aware of errors in e.g. our rebuttals.
skepticalscience.com/from-tweet-to-
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#12 The year 2021 was another busy - and cranky! - one for our team. You can read about the many activities in the review blog post for the year at sks.to/sks2021
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#13 On February 2, 2022 we launched one of our biggest translation projects to date: the multilingual version of the game with Dutch and German as the first available languages.
sks.to/crankyml
🧵- twitter.com/skepticscience
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The free game 'Cranky Uncle', which makes you more resilient against misinformation, is now available in Dutch & German!
sks.to/crankyml
iPhone: sks.to/crankyiphone
Android: sks.to/crankyandroid
Browser: sks.to/crankybrowser
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#14 We are collaborating on creative projects like the Disinformation101 poster which is already available in English (#flicc), German (#plurv), Dutch (#ploks) and Portuguese (#efest). More translations are in the works - find them all at sks.to/flicc-poster
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#15 We create resources like animated GIFs of myth deconstructions to help with the debunking of climate-related misinformation:
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The paper "Deconstructing climate misinformation to identify reasoning errors" (sks.to/criticalclimate) by @johnfocook, @davekinkead & @Reasondisabled inspired the creation of a new graphics resource category for myth deconstructions as animated GIFs.
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#16 Members from our team participate in scientific conferences to share knowledge and gain new insights like did at this year's #EGU22 general assembly in Vienna, held as a hybrid conference.
sks.to/egu22-diary
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#17 Our mission keeps evolving and now includes 'discourses of climate delay' and 'solutions denial'. Why? Traditional climate science denial as a means to delay climate action is losing steam while the two new tactics are gaining traction. For more: sks.to/docdsd
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#18 We sometimes get questions regarding specific papers. Here is a blog post as an example of what might eventually get published as a result of such questions:
skepticalscience.com/from-email-bag
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#19 In order to correct some common misunderstandings about scientific terms, we publish articles like this explainer about the #ScientificConsensus available at sks.to/consensus-expl.
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#20 At the beginning of 2023 it's time to look back at what happened in 2022, which saw the release of the multilingual version of the Cranky Uncle game and a lot more as detailed in the review blog post for the year at sks.to/sks2022
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