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asbjorndyrendal

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Professor, Religionswissenschaft. Mostly study conspiracy beliefs, sometimes in conjunction with religion.

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asbjorndyrendal, to random Norwegian
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Skal ut på tur. Må vel finne noe lesestoff til flyet som ikke har "terrorism" i tittelen og/eller navn og symboler fra siste germanertid på coveret.

mrundkvist, to random
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plans:

  • Open day at research library, visit basement stacks, hear talks
  • Dinner with Chinese visitors
  • Annika Norlin & Jonas Teglund gig
  • Guide Engineer Association's members among the ancient monuments of Lovö, picnic
  • Play boardgames

What are yours?

asbjorndyrendal,
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@mrundkvist Read a book. Choose which one to read next. Maybe a nap.

asbjorndyrendal, to random Norwegian
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Sol gjør trolla brunere.

"... we test if media platforming fuels agreement with extreme right views. … exposure to uncritical interviews on TV channels like Sky News or on online platforms like YouTube increases agreement with extreme right statements and perceptions that a larger share
of the population shares these views."

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/urhxy

asbjorndyrendal, to random Norwegian
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There's too much research on conspiracy theories, even on interventions, to post on. But this was something else.

"we leverage recent
developments in generative artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver well-argued, person-specific debunks to a total of N = 2,190 conspiracy theory believers. … Across two experiments, we find robust evidence that the debunking conversation with the AI reduced belief in conspiracy theories by roughly 20%."

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/xcwdn

asbjorndyrendal, to random Norwegian
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This was a good long read on a quiet morning. "An anatomy of the British war on woke". (h/t @david_colquhoun )

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/03063968231164905

mrundkvist, to books
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I don't know what you people are reading, but in this P.J. Farmer novel here, aliens have just fed LSD chewing gum to Sir Richard Francis Burton and Alice in Wonderland, and they're fucking.

asbjorndyrendal,
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@mrundkvist "To your scattered bodies go"?

I remember that one vaguely. Hidden in layer 2 on one of my shelves of old SF.

asbjorndyrendal, to random Norwegian
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Just ordered a smallish trove of books from a publisher that also owns a journal I've reviewed for, and the 30% reviewer discount feels like actual compensation.

Now I just need to get the same for the publishers of a collection of too expensive books that I don't really need.

asbjorndyrendal, to random Norwegian Bokmål
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Got this today. Read it in one sitting.

asbjorndyrendal, to random Norwegian Bokmål
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Nå begynner det å ta seg opp litt med vind, men det overdøver ikke musikkanlegget ennå.

asbjorndyrendal,
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Nå vil jeg nesten gå så langt som til å si at det innimellom blåser litt.

asbjorndyrendal,
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Ikke lyst nok til å se hvordan det ser ut ennå, men ut fra lydnivået og det jeg ser har vi vært heldige med vindretningen. Ikke veldig mye verre enn ved litt vanlig ruskevær. Og snøen har vi knapt sett noe til.

asbjorndyrendal, to random Norwegian
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Not surprising, but I can't remember seeing it investigated before:

"In one experiment, one cross-sectional survey, and one time-separated survey (total n = 721), we show that psychological entitlement is associated with general conspiracy theory endorsement, COVID-19 specific conspiracy theory endorsement, and conspiracy theorizing as an overarching cognitive style."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224545.2023.2292626

mrundkvist, to blogging Swedish
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Been for 18 years today!

https://aardvarchaeology.wordpress.com/2023/12/16/eighteen-years-of-blogging/

asbjorndyrendal,
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@mrundkvist Impressive!

asbjorndyrendal, to random Norwegian
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We started a Nordic research network on conspiracy theories, funded by (some of) our universities. But Facebook doesn't allow us to link to the current webpage.

Let's test how it goes in the Fediverse.

https://connorresearchnetwork.one

asbjorndyrendal,
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Works like a charm.

Happily, the call for papers to the conference in May is on a uni page that Fb hasn't blocked. Yet.

https://konferens.ht.lu.se/connor/call-for-papers/

asbjorndyrendal, to random Norwegian
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Den første uttalelsen var ille nok, men så kom tilsløringene, samspillet med NHO, "inkuriene".

Det er sånne drypp der stadig mer blir avslørt og tilliten renner bort, litt mer for hver gang, som ofte ender med at handlinger får konsekvenser.

Så får vi se om Erna og Sindre har endret noe på den dynamikken. Noen burde gå (her også), spørsmålet er om det skjer. Og selvsagt om det er noen som helst sjanse for at det ville forandre noe.

https://www.universitetsavisa.no/akademisk-ytringsfrihet-anne-borg-nho/veldig-godt-skrevet-anne-sa-tydelig-bade-kan-og-bor-du-vaere/394312

asbjorndyrendal,
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Ikke uenig.

https://www.khrono.no/mener-anne-borg-bor-ga-av-styret-ved-ntnu-har-et-stort-ansvar/832576

asbjorndyrendal, to random Norwegian
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Vurderer et skilt på døra til det (snart) nye hjemmekontor/biblioteket. Fra før henger det igjen et "Institutt for akvakultur" til den gamle vaskekjelleren. Vurderer å ha noe a la "Center for Weird Studies" til bibliotek/kontoret, men hva ville fungert bra på norsk?

mrundkvist, to academia Swedish
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Hey academic leaders in the humanities,* I have a pro tip for you. If you want as many journal papers as possible for your department, then just give productive people a salary. You will get way, way less bang for the buck in terms of publications if you invest in developing applications for multi-year projects with ten members and apply for big grants. But then you have other priorities too, don't you -- like funding the university infrastructure.

asbjorndyrendal,
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@mrundkvist mostly true. Not completely, and contemporary policies tries to make it mostly untrue. (To the detriment of most of us.)

asbjorndyrendal, (edited ) to norge Norwegian
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Er det noen vgs-lærere her på Mastodon som kan hjelpe meg med å få elever til å besvare denne undersøkelsen?

https://nettskjema.no/a/352942

(Si i så fall fra også, helst på asbjorn.dyrendal@ntnu.no. Dette er nemlig trinn 1 i en treleddet undersøkelse der vi vil se på effekten av utdanningsopplegg, spesifikt om konspirasjonsteorier. Derfor er det oppfølgingsundersøkelser i ulike trinn til deltagere, om de har sånne opplegg eller ikke.)

asbjorndyrendal, to random Norwegian
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På et eller annet tidspunkt blir nok dette til et trivelig rom.

Kjellerbod under forvandling fra vedbod til bibliotek.

mrundkvist, to random Swedish
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Dear Jim Morrison, I don't understand why this girl gotta love her man, nor in what way the world depends on her, nor how this will lead to immortality kthxbai

asbjorndyrendal,
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@mrundkvist Does it in any way depend on indians scattered on dawn's highway?

mrundkvist, to scifi Swedish
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Jack Vance's 1965 coming-of-age novel "Emphyrio" mentions "the Star Wars" (ch. 5) in an enumeration of calamities that have befallen the city of Ambroy through the centuries.

asbjorndyrendal,
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@mrundkvist first Vance novel I read. (Or at least owned.)

mrundkvist, to random
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I'm 51 and I've lived at nine addresses. What about you?

asbjorndyrendal,
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@mrundkvist 57. At least 14.

asbjorndyrendal, to random Norwegian
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Interesting and timely: "Previous literature on conspiracy beliefs has an important
gap, as it has almost completely excluded conspiracy beliefs
relating to LGBTQ+ people. The purpose of the present research was to develop and validate a specific tool to measure the Gender Ideology and LGBTQ+ Lobby Conspiracies
Beliefs."

https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/bjso.12678

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