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Candice Benjes-Small retweeted
Elon Musk boosting two regular fake news posters who have historically posted debunked videos neither are on the ground or verify. both have shared AI-generated videos in the past as real. they just share any garbage they come across to rack up views.
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Candice Benjes-Small retweeted
Replying to @NewsLitProject
@NewsLitProject doesn't have a Taylor Swift reporter, but they do let me pretend to be one.
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Candice Benjes-Small retweeted
GOP learns the hard way: Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker
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Candice Benjes-Small retweeted
If you’ve binged on TED talks or devoured Malcolm Gladwell’s insights, you should know there’s a major crisis on the underlying social science research - called the replication crisis, sometimes it’s just torturing the data until it spits out what you want to see, or in this case, it’s just made up / fraudulent data. Among the concepts that are being challenged: - **Priming:** Subtle cues influencing behavior without awareness. - **Ego Depletion:** Self-control as a finite resource. - **Social Priming:** Social cues affecting behavior unconsciously. - **Power Posing:** Dominant postures affecting hormones and decision-making. - **Grit:** Passion and perseverance as key predictors of success. - **Growth Mindset:** Abilities developed through dedication and hard work. - **Facial Feedback Hypothesis:** Facial expressions influencing emotional experience. - **Stereotype Threat:** Awareness of stereotypes affecting individuals' performance. This New Yorker article throws a spotlight on research from Dan Ariely, a big name in dissecting dishonesty, now caught in a storm over a recent paper. Def worth the read- newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

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Candice Benjes-Small retweeted
20 Jul 2023
On the one hand, we have a criminally corrupt unstable gibbering authoritarian rabid baboon who will plunge America, and the world, into chaos and instability. On the other, we have an older guy. I'm so torn about who to vote for.
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W&M Libraries is offering a paid, remote/hybrid internship for LIS students and recent graduates this fall! Please share widely; applications due 7/31. libraries.wm.edu/about/emplo…

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Huge thanks to @EamonTewell and colleagues at Columbia for sharing their Ask A Librarian internship materials with us.
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Candice Benjes-Small retweeted
23 Jun 2023
For those of you new to this media environment. The main sources of info are an army that lies about everything; a warlord who owns an infamous troll factory and lied about it for years; and the Kremlin. And Russia destroyed the media, so there aren't any good independent sources
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Core competencies for library instructors: consider foundational knowledge, applied knowledge, attitudes and values, logistics. #TILC2023
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Is information “seeking” really the dominant method now? Or is information presented to you? #TILC2023
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Have students pick the source they think most relevant, and then pair-share. Helps students learn “relevance” is very personal and iterative. #TILC2023
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Learning to make relevance judgments is a key component of information literacy development. #TILC2023
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What is “relevance”? Who gets to decide? Experts, or users? #TILC2023
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Branding workshops as “Extra skills to pay the bills.” #TILC2023
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Making it work: pivoting to an online keynote by Brittani Sterling. #TILC2023
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Candice Benjes-Small retweeted
the kind of writing residency i need is to be swallowed by a whale for several months, drafting my novel by the light of an oil lantern on the wreck of a ship inside the whale's belly, until my no good wooden puppet of a son finally comes to rescue me
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