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Now live: “People are more susceptible to misinformation with realistic AI-synthesized images that provide strong evidence to headlines” by Sean Guo, Yiwen Zhong, and Xiaoqing Hu misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/peop...

Does AI improve or undercut academic scholarship? A new study finds that academics who use AI increased both the quantity & quality of their academic scholarship and it appears to reduces inequality (helping junior and non-english speaking scholars the most). arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02408

Why Misinformation Must Not Be Ignored Quite proud of this paper, which just received the journal's APA Editor's Choice award 😊 Big thanks to my coauthors Li Qian Tay, Jon Roozenbeek, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social, John Cook, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, and @lewan.bsky.social

Social scientists should not use chat interfaces when using LLMs in their research: they are impressively inefficient, and obscure/impose important methodological decisions that require thought. THREAD🧵

Psychological inoculation is a very popular intervention against online misinfo, but it hasn't been tested using real-world outcomes in realistic scenarios. In a new paper just published in PNAS Nexus, this is what we did: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... Short version: It didn't really work.

Want to add an LLM chatbot to your Qualtrics surveys? Here's a step-by-step guide showing exactly how to do this with AWS Bedrock joshuakalla.github.io/llm_persuasi...

From some MIT Media Lab folks... "Results show that AI interaction significantly boosts participants’ accuracy in identifying real versus fake news content from approximately 60% to 90%." Though findings suggest AI interaction "may not produce lasting improvements that transfer to novel examples".

Can dialogues with AI systems help humans better discern visual misinformation?The widespread emergence of manipulated news media content poses significant challenges to online information integrity. This study investigates whether dialogues with AI about AI-generated images and...arxiv.org

Yes, they can hallucinate papers that don't exist, discuss results that seem to be imaginary, and can be confusing and inconsistent. But talking to tenured professors may still be helpful

🚨New WP🚨 We examine news sharing on 7 platforms: 1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news 2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning 3)But low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE, even BlueSky! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Perhaps unsurprising given I research misinfo interventions, but I strongly disagree with this article. If you thought that small tweaks were going to fix the misinfo problem, then yes, you'll be disappointed. But, come on, we all know there is no magic bullet. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/t...

Even Disinformation Experts Don’t Know How to Stop ItResearchers have learned plenty about misinformation and how it spreads. But they’re still struggling to figure out how to stop it.www.nytimes.com

A typology of successful misinformation interventions: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation - Nature Human BehaviourKozyreva et al. review evidence from individual-level interventions for fighting online misinformation featured in 81 scientific papers. They classify the interventions in nine different types and sum...www.nature.com

Our review paper “Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation” is out today in Nature Human Behaviour! Truly a team effort by an international group of experts, led by the amazing Anastasia Kozyreva. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation - Nature Human BehaviourKozyreva et al. review evidence from individual-level interventions for fighting online misinformation featured in 81 scientific papers. They classify the interventions in nine different types and sum...www.nature.com

I am advertising a postdoc position to work on a cognitive psych project on misinformation 👇 Please share! external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

How many stories of “automated systems” and AI end up just being people in other countries paid peanuts to work remotely?

Dr. Kahneman’s research debunked the notion of “homo economicus,” the “economic man” who was considered a rational being who acts out of self-interest. Instead, people rely on intellectual shortcuts that often go against their own best interest. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Daniel Kahneman, Nobel-winning economist, dies at 90He found that people rely on shortcuts that often lead them to make wrongheaded decisions that go against their own best interest.www.washingtonpost.com

where are the other Phd students here on #bluesky? #phdsky #academia ? 😭 I can't be going through this alone

In case you missed it last week, here's a recording of my talk "Misinformation: Why is it a problem and what can we do about it?" See what we found in our giant collaborative megastudy testing 9 different online misinformation interventions! shorensteincenter.org/new-event/mi...

Misinformation: Why is it a problem and what can we do about it? | Shorenstein CenterThis event was part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School and the NULab at Northeastern Univ...shorensteincenter.org

This was shared quite a bit as a preprint, and now it's published! (and #OA) “What will you do after?”: Lessons from Academia and the World Beyond I am glad QJEP appreciated the benefit of publishing this at a psych society journal (rather than an HE one) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Making sure everyone has read Kate Wagner’s absolutely terrific — like a genuinely all-time, Grantland, SBN-in-its-heyday, talk about it 10 years later-style joy to read — F1 article that was mysteriously removed from the Road & Track website shortly after publication web.archive.org/web/20240301...

Behind F1's Velvet CurtainIf you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever.web.archive.org

At a time when scientific misconduct is making headlines, the truth is that errors in science are largely brought to light by unpaid volunteers. I wrote about a new program that wants to shake up those incentives and pay sleuths cold, hard cash for finding mistakes. www.chronicle.com/article/want...

Wanted: Scientific Errors. Cash Reward.At a time when scientific misconduct is making headlines, a new program hopes to encourage the detection of mistakes with cold, hard cash.www.chronicle.com