Check out "The persuasive potential of AI-paraphrased information at scale," an open-access article exploring "AIPasta," written by a team of @cip.uw.edu researchers led by @dashsaloni.bsky.social with co-authors @yiweixu.bsky.social, @maddyjalbert.bsky.social and @emmaspiro.bsky.social ⤵️

Excited to announce that my paper "The persuasive potential of AI-paraphrased information at scale" with my wonderful collaborators @yiweixu.bsky.social, @maddyjalbert.bsky.social, and @emmaspiro.bsky.social has been published at PNAS Nexus! Link: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Hi friends, the Spark Society's NSF funding has been terminated. We are dedicated to continuing our work and hope we can rely on you for support.

I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.

NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NSF froze payments to researchers. State AGs said it was unconstitutional for exec branch to pause congressionally mandated funds. Judge issued restraining order. Payments resumed. But some inconsistencies in what the NSF has said (thread): www.statnews.com/2025/02/02/n...

I am one of these NSF postdocs. NSF has frozen everyone’s access to their salaries and research stipends (that were already awarded) with no information about when they might be expected to be unfrozen. It still appears like we are expected to continue doing our work though.

Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.

Join us in congratulating HCDE Professor Kate Starbird on receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). This prestigious honor recognizes her groundbreaking research on the dynamics of misinformation and disinformation online.

Excited this piece with @malar0ne.bsky.social and Luke Williams is now out! In this work, we find that the presence of biomedical credentials (e.g. Dr., MD., scientist, nurse) in a user's social media profile increases perceptions that the user has expertise on the topic of COVID-19 vaccination.

A Just Asking Questions Effect for spreading false information. This thread is an overview of my lab’s research that I presented at Psychonomics this morning. #psynow24 TLDR: Getting people to generate their own false answers leads them to believe that info. 1/

Just published a Nature comment highlighting a few of the rumors our UW team expects to see going into the Nov 5 election — from rumors that falsely frame election errors as impactful and intentional to rumors about "non citizen voters" and "suspicious behaviors". www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In a new article now out in Collabora: Psychology, @rmpillai.bsky.social and I find that the mere repetition of information increases estimates of its consensus, a finding we refer to as an “illusory consensus effect.”

TODAY at 3PM ET! Join @lkfazio.bsky.social, Mubashir Sultan, and @maddyjalbert.bsky.social as they discuss the latest research on #misinformation during our Science for Society webinar. Register: member.psychologicalscience.org/events/event...

NEW Science for Society on October 16! Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social, Mubashir Sultan, and Maddy Jalbert @maddyjalbert.bsky.social will review the current research on #misinformation, how it is spread, and how to reduce its impact. member.psychologicalscience.org/events/event...

If you’re interested in why weird works, but would rather listen than read? Well, @maddyjalbert.bsky.social and I were interviewed for the Sound Politics podcast. www.npr.org/podcasts/125...

A special collection of Perspectives on Psychological Science, addressing lessons from the covid pandemic. It was a pleasure to co-edit this with Dolores Albarracin.

I have a new post out with @irahyman.bsky.social discussing the connection between the new political “weird” discourse (which we’re referring to as “weird-checking”, aka fact-checking but for weirdness instead of truth) and social psychology principles of social norms and consensus.

Behavioral science policy recommendations early in the pandemic were *largely correct*. Our global collaboration of 80+ experts covers 747 studies (average sample size over 16,000!) & supports 16 of 19 claims. Many lessons for science & policy. Out today in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...