🤖 AI delegation fuels dishonesty Across 13 studies with 8,000+ participants, people were more likely to cheat when tasks were delegated to AI. LLMs also complied with unethical prompts far more than humans. 🔗 www.mpg.de/25409477/091... #SciComm #Ethics #AI #GenAI 🧪

Science Barometer Switzerland 2025 is out today! 🎉 Key findings: • 60% of Swiss trust science • 4 audience segments: Sciencephiles, Critically interested, Passive supporters, Skeptics • Video platforms & AI tools outrank radio/podcasts among the young More info: www.wissenschaftsbarometer.ch

New publication (4+ years in the making): “The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook”. shorturl.at/VE2fU We analyze the propagation of 1B+ posts across content moderation regimes, with @davidlazer.bsky.social @jatucker.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social @annenbergpenn.bsky.social

Ever wondered why scientists don't communicate more? 🤔 Finally got the real answer from @mss7676.bsky.social ! We covered: ✨ Why researchers hesitate 🎯 Reaching audiences 🔬 Building trust in science 🤖 AI in sci-comm Had so much fun I nearly forgot our pub quiz! 😅 #scicomm #sciencepodcast

Social media in climate change communication: State of the field, new developments and the emergence of generative AI by @mss7676.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Die Aufzeichnung unseres Lunchtalks mit @mss7676.bsky.social ist jetzt auf unserem YouTube-Kanal verfügbar. Im Gespräch ging es u.a. darum, wie #KI wissenschaftliches Arbeiten verändert, was das für die #Wisskomm bedeutet und welche Kompetenzen wichtig für AI literacy sind: youtu.be/w2R0PmmAA9c

Die Zusammenfassung unseres Lunchtalks mit @mss7676.bsky.social ist jetzt online. Wir sprachen über den disruptiven Einfluss von #KI auf #Wisskomm, über AI literacy, praktische Anwendungsszenarien und über intelligente Kennzeichnung. wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/blog/wie-sic... #Wisskomm

👀 "All eyez on AI: A roadmap for #ScienceCommunication research in the age of #ArtificialIntelligence #AI" 👀 📚 Literature review by @mss7676.bsky.social, @sophiavolk.bsky.social, D. Mahl & me - reflects on current trends & research gaps + proposes a research agenda 👉 jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

Außerdem freuen wir uns, dass @mss7676.bsky.social, @annetteless.bsky.social, @snatale.bsky.social und @mayameme.bsky.social bereits zugesagt haben – und uns mit Impulsen und Vorträgen durch die Tagung leiten und Diskussionen anregen werden!

How is AI reshaping #scicomm? A new special issue explores promises & pitfalls of gen AI, and its transformative impact on how science-related info is created & consumed. Image generated with OpenAI’s DALL·E based on article abstracts in the style of different art eras. jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

New Term - new ComAI Lecture hosted by @zemki.bsky.social & @unibremen.bsky.social Looking forward to welcome @mss7676.bsky.social and listen to his talk on „Science Communication and Artificial Intelligence: How AI is Changing Public Communication about Science“ 📍Bremen Press-Club Tue 15.04. 18:30

🚀 Besuch aus Zürich am RHET AI Center! Im März haben uns @mss7676.bsky.social, Daniela Mahl und @sophiavolk.bsky.social vom IKMZ der UZH Zürich besucht. Beim Workshop rund um #Wisskomm und KI ging es um AI Literacy, Machtstrukturen uvm. 📢 Hier geht's zum Nachbericht: rhet.ai/2025/04/02/n...

📢 Looking for #postdoc researcher on #sciencecommunication ➡️ researching communicators and/or effects ➡️ quantitative methods, e.g. surveys or experiments ➡️ 3-year position, can likely be extended ➡️ Deadline & more: see below It this appeals to you - do apply! If not: Pls pass it on! 🙏

Wir sprechen mit Mike Schäfer @mss7676.bsky.social über den Einsatz von #KI in der #Wisskomm. Es geht um die Fragen, wie KI Kommunikationsprozesse verändert, wie der Einsatz gut in den Arbeitsalltag integriert werden kann und wer für die Governance verantwortlich ist. ℹ️🎫 eveeno.com/wid-lunchtal...

How does #Disinformation affect public trust in science? Can healthy scepticism be good? A debate with Sonia Seneviratne, Mike S. Schäfer and former Swiss Chancellor Walter Thurnherr. Welcome to our first contribution of our focus week on trust. Article: ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

🔍 Who are the users of alternative scientific media? 🔍 New study published in Science Communication. Lead by the wonderful Lena Zils, and together with @juliametag.bsky.social, @nielsmede.bsky.social and @mss7676.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1075...

Social media in climate change communication: State of the field, new developments and the emergence of generative AI New article online first in @dialoguescc.bsky.social by @mss7676.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Wir haben Besuch! Heute waren @mss7676.bsky.social, Daniela Mahl und @sophiavolk.bsky.social vom IKMZ von der Uni Zürich beim RHET AI Center zu Gast. Gemeinsam haben wir uns in einem Workshop unsere Forschungsansätze vorgestellt und Ideen ausgetauscht zu #Wisskomm, Zielgruppen, #AIliteracy und mehr

Veeeeeeery much looking forward to having you, dear @tobiasdienlin.com! 🙏🥳

Georgia was about to retire coal plants. Then came the data centers. Utilities nationwide are falling back on fossil fuels to meet huge energy demand. Written by @ejreports.bsky.social . grist.org/energy/georg... #Georgia #Coal #Energy #Climate #Data

We present: A new instrument to measure people’s science literacy. #OpenAccess in #ScienceCommunication: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 📢 It’s a 14-item #survey scale in English, German, French and Italian covering three key dimensions of science literacy: civic, media and cognitive literacy 💡

"We’ve arranged a society on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology, and this combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is going to blow up in our faces. (...)" Carl Sagan. ⬇️ Diese Petition! ⬇️ @mss7676.bsky.social

Petition against budget cuts in #sciencejournalism at #SRF! Switzerland needs strong science journalism to deal w/ issues like #AI, #publichealth, #climatechange & #disinformation - esp. as many media houses cut science journalism Sign petition under openpetition.eu/!sciencejour... - & pass it on!

What are the effects of communicating #uncertainty in #sciencecommunication? ▶️epistemic uncertainty increases credibility w/o affecting attitudes ▶️consensus uncertainty & technical uncertainty negatively impact attitudes but not credibility #Metaanalysis here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

📊 See how your country ranks: We developed a #ShinyApp @posit.co that lets you do the analyses for single countries and run some tests not presented in the paper: www.tisp-manylabs.com/explore-tisp... (8/13)

🗳️ However, trust levels differ depending on people’s #political orientation: In Western countries, people with right-wing political views have less #trust in scientists than those with left-wing views. But in most countries, political orientation and trust in scientists were unrelated. (4/13)

Here are the main #results: 🤝 Most people in most countries have relatively high #trust in scientists: Average trust level was 3.62 on a scale from 1 (very low) to 5 (very high). Majorities perceive scientists as qualified (78%), honest (57%), and concerned about people’s well-being (56%). (3/13)

Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣 It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social (1/13)

Trust in science, trust in ChatGPT? How Germans think about generative AI as a source in science communication, by Mike S. Schäfer @mss7676.bsky.social, Bastian Kremer, Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social, Liliann Fischer @liliannf.bsky.social / @jscicom.bsky.social jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

Does public #trust in scientists suffer or grow when they #advocate for #climate policies? ✊ We tested this during the referendum on the #Swiss Climate Protection Law on 18 June 2023 – which was preceded by a statement by 252 scientists supporting the law 🗳️ Paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers 1. Spinoza

Do ppl trust #GenAI as a source in #sciencecommunication? Paper in @jscicom.bsky.social w/ #BKremer @liliannf.bsky.social @nielsmede.bsky.social: jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi... ➡️Germans sceptical about #GenAI in #scicomm ➡️46% of population don't trust it ➡️Trust in GenAI linked to trust in science

Excited to share my first Bluesky post! 🌟 It’s a teaser for our #ICA25 #SciComm preconference on #ScienceCommunication Research, happening June 12, 2025 in Denver, CO. Looking forward to your Extended Abstracts by January 24! 🔗 #CfP: cdn.ymaws.com/www.icahdq.o...

I've started a few months ago, on *that* other website, a thread of the novels that I have read this year. Given the Xdodus, reposting it here. Feel free to comment & add suggestions on what to read next! Always on the lookout for great books

📌 Neue Episode vom #Podcast #KritischesDenken Im Gespräch mit Prof. Mike Schäfer (@mss7676.bsky.social) vom @ikmz.bsky.social der Uni Zürich über seine Forschung im Bereich #Wissenschaftskommunikation. youtu.be/mGDfsEqlbG8 oder auf unserer Homepage (kritisches-denken-podcast.de) #wisskomm #KI

New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years. Trust in news declined in just over half of countries. It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown. A thread:

Dialogues on #ClimateChange invited me to write on #socialmedia communication about climatechange for the inaugural issue 👉https://lnkd.in/eZdsHV7a (open access) I discuss the #shortvideo revolution, #influencers as new #intermediaries, impacts on #climatejournalism, #darkplatforms, #GenAI etc.

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research. A Place of Joy.

Good news, Altmetric has now started watching BlueSky for mentions of publications. And by the way, provides an easy comparison between this and the old site for a recent preprint of mine which I posted simultaneousl at both. Numbers speak by themselves !

🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE ALERT 🚨 Working on disinformation and (generative) AI? I am editing a special issue with Aqsa Farooq as part of our EDMO work. 🗓️ Deadline: December 31, 2024 Please share 🫶🏼 #disinformation #academicsky #commsky #polcom #csssky edmo.eu/edmo-news/ca...

Very good piece, worth reading. Misinformation researchers should be added to the growing list of those who are under attack (climate science, virologists, ...). Worth keeping in mind that this is no accident. The notion of "truth" employed by populists quite explicitly rules out evidence...

"Tech platforms seem more eager than in the past to stay out of the political tug of war over information ...“The platforms have stepped back from these issues”" @brendannyhan.bsky.social says. www.ft.com/content/bfb4...

😍 oder ⚡? Wie nah oder wie unabhängig sind die Medien von der Politik? Es gibt in der Forschung vier Dimensionen, bei denen man das messen kann: 1) Eigentümer:innen 2) Journalist:innen 3) Berichterstattung 4) Nutzung und Wahrnehmung des Publikums Ein paar Zahlen und Resultate zur Schweiz. 1/

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Are climate scientists less trusted than scientists in general? 🤔🌍 Yes, we find evidence of a significant trust gap between climate scientists and scientists in general. 👇🧵 osf.io/preprints/os...

A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

New #preprint! We surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries to find out: Where do they come across information about #science? How do they #communicate about it? We also tested country factors like #AcademicFreedom and #PressFreedom and identified interesting patterns 🔎 ➡️ osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵 1/10

3 Keynotes from Casey Mock (Center for Humane Technology), Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI, ELLIS Tübingen) and @mss7676.bsky.social (Uni Zürich) 6 Problem Pitches and 6 Panels with 16 talks are behind us.

🚨NEW PODCAST🚨 #GenerativeAI & #ScienceCommunication: Opportunities & Challenges 1st episode of COALESCE's new podcast "#SciComm Conversations", hosted by Achintya Rao You can find the episode in your podcast app of choice or (incl. transcript) under coalesceproject.eu/2024/03/19/s...

Am 6. November 2024 feiern wir 10 Jahre #Wissenschaftsbarometer. Anlässlich des Jubiläums blickt Beiratsmitglied Mike Schäfer @mss7676.bsky.social auf die ehemaligen Schwerpunkte Replikationskrise und #KI in der #Wisskomm zurück: wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/blog/der-bei...