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Carol Jasper

@drcaroljasper.bsky.social
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Social psychologist concerned about inequality, misinformation, conspiracy theories, and online subcultures. Ethical vegan. Often targeted by trolls; Never bothered by them. Views always my own. She/her/doorknob depends who you ask.

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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 21h
It’s madness that, legally, Esther Rantzen could not choose assisted dying to alleviate her suffering, whilst, in the US, Christa Pike has survived her Government’s initial attempts to kill her by lethal injection.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Far right extremism pays well. Why? Because there are millions of disenfranchised people who think ’Restore’ is the answer. Ask yourself what the hell is wrong with our society when the answer to anything is Rupert Lowe? We’re doomed unless we stop allowing politicians to grift.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is the sort of investigative journalism completely absent from the current, mainstream legacy media. Holding to account those who hold egregious views. A network of racism, eugenics, and hard right politics underscoring the tragic story of Professor Jason Arday. This is well worth a read 👇
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Subtext: Young black upstart fakes his way into uni because ‘we’ all know that’s that only way ‘they’ deserve it. It’s not considered possible ‘they’ might EVER belong in a privileged position. By right, or by ability. Because, somehow, ‘we’re’ superior, because we possess lower levels of melanin.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Ain’t climate change a bitch Jeremy?
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Precisely! Caring deeply about our research is what makes us keep going, because it certainly ain’t the money or the ease of life!
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Or, let’s frame this differently, there’s no contemporary justification for bludgeoning baby birds, of a protected species, to death. That’s the bottom line.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Article is paywalled but the quote resonates. There’s no singular intelligence, rather there are intelligences. Processing information is not limited to facts, it’s far more complex. There is no knowledge without experience; that’s unequivocal. AI is not knowledgeable. It has information.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
New paper out: www.stir.ac.uk/news/2026/ju... Coming soon to various news outlets. It’s been quite a day of interviews… But putting veganism into the mainstream? I’m all over that! 🌱 And I’m completely prepared for the headlines: Woke, liberal vegan lefty stealing our Sunday roast 🫣
stir.ac.uk
Nostalgia and family traditions are major barriers to adoption of plant-based diets, Stirling study finds | About | University of Stirling
Nostalgia and family traditions are major barriers to adoption of plant-based diets, Stirling study finds
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is the only result that I’m considering.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
‘Mon the revolution!
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Gotta do ‘something’ to stay relevant in the age of popularity grifters cosplaying as ‘serious’ politicians right? Conservatives = Reform lite.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Great analogy for the impacts of social and wealth inequality in this piece. We allow people to fall off cliffs and pay exorbitant amounts of money to patch them up instead of investing in a fence to stop them falling off 👏
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage is finished. The circus of dirty tricks and back handers is over. The pound shop Trump has neither the bombast nor the financiers to dominate the political system. He’s a shoddy, cheaply bought, morally bereft little man who is a stain on our democracy. Enough now. We deserve better.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It’s hotter. It’s definitely hotter. It isn’t a hoax. This isn’t a drill.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
If more people were prepared to make an actual, discernible difference - our countries would be vastly different. Well said lad.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Candidates suggested things like: Melting Nigerians for pothole replacement or they displayed Nazi flags, Islamophobic and racist content (colour me surprised) on social media but leading a double life as a hard-core gay porn star… Tice “when you stand 500 candidates - you’ll get the odd person…”
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Now we just need the media to play ball and stop relentlessly promoting Farage and demonising all or any of the leadership to the left…
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Reward for campaigning for Brexit? Where’s our ‘reward’ for Brexit?
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
What he said: “MAGA is the last breath of the confederacy.”
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Greens win their first ever Scottish constituency. So far, none for Reform. Their vote share might be up, but come on Scotland, keep voting hope over hate, surely… Well done Lorna Slater MSP 💚
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It’s not hard people: England - local elections Scotland and Wales - National parliamentary elections. And folk wonder why many Scots crave independence 🤦🏻‍♀️ I’ve just read a post referring to Scotland/Wales as regions. And add a note to apologise for doing so when they could have corrected it!
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Our participatory research zine paper is finally live! Our main finding being that media representation can prevent autistic women and non-binary people seeking diagnosis because they don’t recognise themselves in the narrow stereotypes portrayed. Read more 👇🏻 #autism www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/16...
mdpi.com
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
“Purely personal” When Harborne donated to Boris Johnston, his company was awarded a huge Government contract. He’s donated 2/3 of Reform’s donations so far and backed Brexit. These are not neutral patterns of donation or support, they’re inherently political. Who gives away £5m for nothing?
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Is this supposed to be manly?
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
#stvleadersdebate All men. Even the host is male. We did so well in a Scotland for so long with several female leaders in various parties. So it’s very disappointing to watch 7 men, all but one white, argue over power and status. #patriarchy
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
So JB protests against scientific censorship, that he can’t evidence to the court actually happened to him, continues to complain about suppression of science regarding vaccine efficacy, and then appears to censor a scientific article which concerns vaccine efficacy findings? Sounds about right 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
It’s quite literally unbelievable that this man is leading US public health. He is a rampant conspiracy theorist who is endangering children’s lives to satisfy his own ideological beliefs. It’s indicative of just how broken the system is when cranks like RFK Jr are given unfettered access to power.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I went to the Isle of Bute this weekend. A tiny island, they housed 125 Syrian asylum seekers and were better for it. Those displaced people built businesses, and bonds with with community despite hardship, disconnect, cultural a difference and trauma. #reform stick that right up ye.
Syrians integrating into Scottish culture poster
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Really tough being vegan and missing out on so much tasty food… Just some guac with arbol chilli on rye with che*se, red onion, tomato, cress, and a Dijon mustard vinaigrette… #vegan #crueltyfreefood #brunch
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Brainwashing isn’t a thing. No one coerced him. People are, however, motivated to believe someone like Farage if it aligns with their own views. Brainwashing implies we are passive agents. And we’re not, we have agency and we are not powerless to resist.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Spicy vegan protein banger brunch. Hash browns, sausages, smoked tofu, sautéed pepper and onion with paprika Our dogs look pretty interested, it’s almost like vegan alternatives can be amazingly tasty too… #vegan #veganbrunch #veganfortheanimals
Dogs looking at a plate of food
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I’m increasingly convinced this was the playbook. Tapping into the religious fervour of many Americans. Giving them voice and appearing to enshrine the same values. And they believed it. They believed he was really God fearing. Because they wanted to, not because there was a shred of evidence.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Windfall profits should be taxed. Profiteering from War and destruction is egregious. Our farmers may run out of CO2 which means they won’t be able to gas their pigs and chickens to death. Also utterly egregious. Every cloud… www.theguardian.com/environment/... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
theguardian.com
$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds
Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I just submitted my first ever single author paper on a subject I’m wildly passionate about: misogyny in education. It isn’t a level playing field in science. It isn’t a level playing field in society. There are great actors for change in both domains. But it is not equal. It is not fair. #stem
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Here I am worrying about how best to teach my undergraduate students to think critically, to analyse their sources, to read, to investigate, and to develop into pro social, psychologically literate citizens who can change the World, and yet here is also the President of the United States…
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
To be hounded in this way is horrific, but indicative of some progress perhaps in that lessons were learned from the genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia and that there is significant resistance albeit contested and, in this case, actively persecuted. Let that sink in: For highlighting egregious harms.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Not content with being King of America. He’s now also apparently their saviour and blessEd redeemer. Once that ‘liberal’ Pope bows the knee to him, it can all be his. And still he proceeds unchecked. The ‘greatest’ democracy in the World crumbled by a demagogue who demonises sense and ration.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Plot twist: He conceded. Even the backing of Trump and Putin, 2 of the most powerful men in the World, didn’t secure victory, not when the people turned out in droves to exercise their right to choose. Louder for those at the back, you gotta vote if you want change. Oh and don’t invite Vance…
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
What happens in the White House if ‘their’ guy Victor Orban is defeated? The ultra-right will claim the election was rigged; and then use it as pressing evidence they need to ensure they can rig their own elections.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Oligarchs and plutocrats. Same as it ever was. We’re still being convinced to place our faith in leaders who are either siphoning wealth for themselves. Or enabling the wealth of other elites. Or both. Heaven help anyone stands for office who isn’t a billionaire’s puppet. The media destroys them.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
How my celebrations started at finally submitting my 32 page senior fellowship application. And how they are going…
Cava and two glasses on a table 
Dog  also on the table
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Well this brings a whole new meaning to the narcissism arc. Just a reminder: exaggerated sense of self, reduced ability to empathise or understand the feelings of others, fragile self esteem coupled with arrogance. Grandiosity, entitlement… Any thoughts?
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Let’s not do this. Not to tofu - the food of the vegan Gods 🌱 The cutesy acronyms: TACO, TOFU they minimise what he does and the horrors he is inflicting. Let’s call it what it is - fascism and threatening genocide - because he tore up Obama’s working deal and thought he could bomb it his own way.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Tell you what though: Those bureaucrats or ‘Eurocrats’ in the EU tend not to invade other countries illegally, target educational, medical, and civilian institutions, commit egregious war crimes, or suck up to plutocrats and dictators. So yeah. If I had to choose… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
JD Vance backs Orbán's re-election bid in Budapest visit and hits out at EU
US Vice-President JD Vance intervenes in the campaign to give Orbán a ringing endorsement in Budapest.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Check on any flerfers you know. They are not ok. The images from the Artemis mission are incredible. And decidedly spherical.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Even Grok would struggle to make this up! ‘President of the Free World’, King Trump, cursing and threatening destruction because he’s not getting his own way. Iran are playing him like a fiddle. If it wasn’t horrifying in so many ways it would be amusing. But this is terrifyingly unfunny.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Earlier I posted👇 One guy, with whom I agreed, blocked me, possibly because I replied that my post wasn’t about skin colour, but about misdirection of the politically disengenous Farage. Another was exercised because I didn’t want to provide statistics etc on a topic of HIS choice… #notallmen
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
It’s much the same in the UK with Farage: Only one in five of his voters have a university degree, and one third have a household income of £25k. Farage attracts people who don’t have lavish lives and are motivated to take his direction on whom to blame. They feel ‘heard’ and ‘seen’ and love him.
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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I made ma’amoul biscuits. These are made throughout the Middle East by Muslims, Christians, and Jewish folks. Imagine. A biscuit finding that which unites us and not that which unties us… #vegan #lovenotwar #celebratedifference #ma’amoul
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