Another memorable MPSA! Grateful for interesting panels, friendships new and old, and feeling the pulse of Chicago again. #MPSA2026

My presentation on Tuesday of ConvoLab hannasistek.github.io/projects.html, my newest research project, ended up in the Purdue Exponent! www.purdueexponent.org/campus/event...

Indiana friends! On April 30, we're hosting the Inaugural Annual Summit on Information, Technology, and American Democracy (www.cla.purdue.edu/.../center.....) at The Heirloom at N.K. Hurst in Indianapolis. The deadline to register is on April 26th. Please DM me if you want a comp code!

Really enjoyed making this latest CAPTivated podcast episode, where we talked to Purdue sociology prof Marcus Mann about asymmetric #polarization and the qualitative differences of the centre-left and far right #media [email protected] www.buzzsprout.com/2569769/epis...

Really enjoyed making this latest CAPTivated podcast episode, where we talked to Purdue sociology prof Marcus Mann about asymmetric #polarization and the qualitative differences of the centre-left and far right media spheres. www.buzzsprout.com/2569769/epis...

📄 Transcript now available! Prefer to read? Want to reference specific quotes? The full transcript for our conversation with Dr. @alicetiara.bsky.social is now live. Access the transcript here: captivated.buzzsprout.com/2569769/epis... #CAPTIvatedPodcast #PodcastRecommendations #AI #Podcast #AGI

Boston here I come!

Listening to interesting talk by @joshpasek.com on motivated reasoning

“During times of war, it is critical that people have access to authentic information on the ground” Why just during wartime, one wonders?https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/03/x-says-it-will-suspend-creators-from-revenue-sharing-program-for-unlabeled-ai-posts-of-armed-conflict/

What happens to democracy when no one covers the school board meeting? Our newest podcast episode about the death of local journalism, with epic local reporter @davebangert.bsky.social.

Loved this conversation with Nicole Hemmer, historian of conservative media. Hope you’ll enjoy it too!

Releasing first podcast episodes today! So excited to be sharing the amazing guests that are coming through the Center for Am Political History, Media, and Tech at Purdue and this intro by our director, Kathryn Cramer Brownell! Hope you'll enjoy these conversations as much as we did!

Our podcast baby that we’ve worked on since the fall is ready to be born! Very excited.!!

We’ve been working on this podcast since the fall and are finally getting ready to release our first episones!

Enjoyed the first day at SPSA2026!

#SPSA2026 SPSA Women are holding some great events on Friday, starting with #AI in the profession at 9.30 am.

Good morning New Orleans! #SPSA2026

#SPSA2026 here I come!

Discovering this amazing podcast series www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8zp... put on by @monasloane.bsky.social - this one on the impact of AI on libraries, with @ericklinenberg.bsky.social among others. Interesting insights into how much we've invested into digital spaces rather than physical ones.

New research by @steverathje.bsky.social et al Epistemic Fragility in Large Language Models: Prompt Framing Systematically Modulates Misinformation Correction WGemini 2.5 Pro had 74% lower odds of strong correction than Claude Sonnet 4.5, highlighting epistemic fragility arxiv.org/pdf/2511.22746

Really enjoying this podcast right now. Reflections from a Canadian who’s lived in both #America and #China, on the differences between the two. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

My talented postdoc colleague Sage Goodwin and her co-author’s take on the Kimmel debacle. theconversation.com/even-as-jimm...

Leaving Vancouver with a belly full of great conversations, mountain views and gratitude. Thank you #APSA2025

Vancouver here I come! #APSA2025

It is important to resist the normalization of these travesties. If or when we get to "yawn, not another one..." we will have truly lost it all.

Quite eye opening episode on the history of OpenAI and where the field is going podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/h...

When GenAI frames answers in terms of questions and help people think, rather than just providing answers, people learn more. Fascinating episode on how to design beneficial #AI. podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/y...

Proposed US funding changes

Amazing thread explaining a mechanism behind shifting political honesty norms

What can we conclude? Words matter. When politicians resort to intuition and “gut feeling” rather than evidence, this has flow-on consequences. 31/n

In our most recent study, which just appeared in Nature Human Behaviour with Segun Aroyehun as lead author (doi.org/10.1038/s415...) , we drew a wider historical arc and examined the rhetoric in all speeches given on the floor of Congress between 1879 and 2022. 16/n

Steven Levitsky on America's Path To 'Competitive Authoritarianism' : Fresh Air www.npr.org/2025/04/22/1...

What we’ve launched today is the first step for how we’re going to evolve verification. The initial set of trusted verifiers includes news orgs who’ve agreed to take on the task of verification for their journalists. In the future, this set will expand, as well as how apps can choose to use them.

Powerful episode about the difficulty of regulating new technologies. podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/y...

Breaking News: Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising technology, a federal judge ruled.

I keep reading and hearing that, while Trump's net favorability is negative, his approval ratings on immigration are positive. Thanks to @gelliottmorris.com for looking under the hood on this. Turns out Americans *really* don't like Trump's immigration policies.

Fascinating episode on media theorist Neil Postman’s insights on the influence on different media types on society podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/y...

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

Super interesting on the impact of the attention economy on our children

Looking forward to present my paper on "Mechanisms behind political use of disinformation: case study evidence from Europe" today at #MPSA2025! 1.30 pm on the 7th floor, Burnham 5. Come join!

#MPSA2025 here I come!

Attending #MPSA2025 and studying dem backsliding, or something having implications for it, like #disinfo? Join us for an impromptu HH at chicagoathletichotel.com on 12 S Mich Av on April 3rd at 6 pm! Cool bar area upstairs. Last year's event was a hit! @MPSAnet @alicemalmberg.bsky.social

So much gratitude to all the work that @gmcclendon.bsky.social put into organizing the Rebecca Morton conf on experimental political science, and for the generosity of hosting us all in her home. Such a wonderful opportunity to get to know other scholars. I’m leaving NYC feeling nourished.

Good morning, New York!

Well attended poster session at Rebecca Morton’s conf on experimental political science at NYU. So good to be back in town!

These vagabond shoes Are longing to stray Back in The Apple for Rebecca Morton’s conf on experimental political science. Yay!

Fascinating episode about the future of #AI podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/f...

NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated. 🧪