Michelle Riedlinger
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✨Here for the digital media and scicomm stuff
@qutdmrc.bsky.social
Voice technologies have been such an understudied area in the fields I work in. This report has inspired us to think more about them and I hope you find it interesting too.
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Exciting to see this
#AIandJournlism
report in print! Three years of hard work by
@tjthomson.bsky.social
and a dedicated team including
@phoebesophist.bsky.social
and
@cazuarina.bsky.social
. Join us for the launch on Monday (in person and online). Details here:
events.humanitix.com/report-launc...
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Alice Fleerackers (she/her)
10 months ago
How do academic controversies impact science journalism? We explore this question in a new paper, published yesterday in
@plosone.org
with Laura Moorhead,
@juancommander.scholcommlab.ca
,
@riedlinm.bsky.social
& Lauren Maggio.
#openscience
#scicomm
#journalism
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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T.J. Thomson
10 months ago
This evidence-based report focuses largely on the multi-modal aspects of generative AI and pays attention to AI and journalism across the domains of content, industry practices, and news audience perceptions.
@ryanjthomas.bsky.social
,
@riedlinm.bsky.social
,
@phoebesophist.bsky.social
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Silvia Montaña
10 months ago
Some reflections with colleagues
@nedwatt.bsky.social
and
@riedlinm.bsky.social
at
@theconvo-bot.bsky.social
on Meta's decision to end its professionally funded fact-checking model in its platforms and adopt the X crowdsourcing model with a new 'community notes'👇
theconversation.com/meta-is-aban...
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Meta is abandoning fact checking – this doesn’t bode well for the fight against misinformation
Numerous studies have shown that fact checking has helped reduce the spread of misinformation and disinformation online.
https://theconversation.com/meta-is-abandoning-fact-checking-this-doesnt-bode-well-for-the-fight-against-misinformation-246878
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Jerad Walker
11 months ago
This times a million! Regional accents are beautiful, and I firmly believe that on-air voices should sound like all of us. I've spent most of my career working for media organizations outside of the South and have zero regrets about keeping my South Georgia drawl.
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New edition of NPR’s ‘Sound Reporting’ shares tips on cultivating your unique voice
“Don’t try to change the way that you sound,” says "Weekend Edition Sunday" host Ayesha Rascoe. “If you grew up in Boston, you’re not going to sound like me."
https://current.org/2024/12/new-edition-of-nprs-sound-reporting-shares-tips-on-cultivating-your-unique-voice/
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Prof Sam Illingworth
11 months ago
🤖 AI mirrors human biases A new
@natureportfolio.bsky.social
study reveals large language models show 'us vs. them' biases, similar to human behaviour, but that data curation can reduce these tendencies.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#AI
#SciComm
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Generative language models exhibit social identity biases - Nature Computational Science
Researchers show that large language models exhibit social identity biases similar to humans, having favoritism toward ingroups and hostility toward outgroups. These biases persist across models, trai...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-024-00741-1
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Andreas M. Scheu
11 months ago
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...
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https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.icahdq.org/resource/resmgr/conference/2025/pc-cfp-sci-comm.pdf
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Brigitte Nerlich
11 months ago
Article by Emma Frances Bloomfield and others which sheds some light on why climate scientists are trusted less than other scientists, a topic that has fascinated me for years. "Digital Climate Rhetoric and the Corrupted Scientist Archetype"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Digital Climate Rhetoric and the Corrupted Scientist Archetype
Social media platforms are prominent arenas for the circulation of climate change discourse, both scientific and skeptical. Watts Up With That (WUWT) is a blog and Facebook community that is a cent...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17524032.2024.2436522
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“Doing a spring clean in prep for
#greyhoundrescue
and found this T-shirt again. It’s held up well, considering. Hard to believe it’s been 22 years.
@pcstnetwork.bsky.social
has been good to me.
#scicomm
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11 months ago
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📊 Reuters report (8 countries): Messaging apps (+19) & search engines (+12) bring us together, while social media divides us (-13). More think journalists (-29), news media (-27), and politicians (-55) divide us than any platform surveyed.
#DigitalMedia
🔗 Report
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What do people want? Views on platforms and the digital public sphere in eight countries
Our research explores how people use platforms for news and information about politics, while also remaining sceptical of the information they see there.
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-do-people-want-views-platforms-and-digital-public-sphere-eight-countries?utm_source=Reuters+Institute+for+the+Study+of+Journalism&utm_campaign=a68c8bad14-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_11_27_11_32&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-a68c8bad14-460473444
12 months ago
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Sander van der Linden
12 months ago
New paper in
@science.org
finds across 8 studies & multiple platforms, time periods, & definitions of misinformation that (a) misinfo evokes more outrage than trustworthy news & (b) people are more willing to share outrage-evoking misinfo without clicking on it
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Why am I only hearing about the Riedlinger Fasnet (Carnival) now? “In addition to the tripe feast and plenty of fool's singing, various fool artists recite the misfortunes of many well-known Riedlingers during the year in rhyme form…
www.gole.de/gole/fasnet/...
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Gole Übersicht der Riedlinger Fasnet
https://www.gole.de/gole/fasnet/?navid=417763417763#anchor_6124b4bb_Accordion-Fasnetsverbrennen
12 months ago
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Tom Stafford
12 months ago
I'm sure this Science story on how systematic reviews are threatened by paper mills is good, but the illustration by Sara Gironi Carnevale is great saragironicarnevale.com Story:
https://www.science.org/content/article/systematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril
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Timothy Caulfield
12 months ago
Rage & lies win. Sigh. Study: Misinformation exploits outrage to spread online
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- "misinformation sources evoke more outrage than do trustworthy sources" - outrage facilitates spread of misinformation - more willing to share rage misinfo"without reading it first"
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Captain Quoll
12 months ago
Anyway, on that note, I’ll be working on various bits and pieces in my gallery because that’s all I really want to do and you should definitely buy my calendar.
www.kudelkashop.com/product/2025...
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Axel Bruns
12 months ago
Delighted to announce the launch of M/C Journal issue 27.6: ‘#artificial’, edited by Angelique Nairn and Lorna Piatti-Farnell. A real bumper issue, as you might imagine from the theme. #mcjournal (Should be very much of interest to #AANZCA24 delegates as well…)
journal.media-cultur...
#artificial’,
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Woke up to this news on the other side of the world (not quite but...33.9323° S, 18.8587° E)! 🎉 Have you got a story about using Research GenAI tools or
#RGAI
? 🚀✍️ Get in touch—we’d love to hear from you! 💬✨
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12 months ago
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Bit late to post, but wow—what a time at
#DiscSciComm24
! Surrounded by brilliant, inspiring
#SciComm
stars and soaking up the magic of Cape Town and Stellenbosch. Coming away with more questions and counting down the days to
#ICA26
in Cape Town.
www.discoveryscience.co.za
12 months ago
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Tama Leaver
about 2 years ago
It was ... cathartic being interviewed for this story: A year after Elon Musk bought Twitter, X is now a 'worthless' platform some say is no longer safe for activists
www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11...
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mr dog
about 2 years ago
Ospreys! Everyone loves ospreys. That's why I'm getting in on the osprey zeitgeist with this adorable cartoon.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Are you overwhelmed with all the things? Why not take a moment to enjoy this story of a baby osprey ...
Right now the world is terrible for everyone (except baby osprey enthusiasts)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/27/are-you-overwhelmed-with-all-the-things-why-not-take-a-moment-to-enjoy-this-story-of-a-baby-osprey-instead
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Lisa M.P. Munoz
about 2 years ago
I recreated the the famous Draw a Scientist exercise using AI prompts for both scientists and engineers. Learn what I discovered in this new post for the Society of Women Engineers:
alltogether.swe.org/2023/10/ai-i...
Spoiler in image below 👇
#WomeninScience
#WomeninSTEM
#AI
#scicomm
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Axel Bruns
about 2 years ago
My
@qutdmrc.bsky.social
colleagues Sam Vilkins, Tariq Choucair, and I have an article in
@theconversationus.bsky.social
🇦🇺 this morning, about polarisation and the Voice referendum.
theconversation.com/new-polling-...
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New polling shows 'no' voters more likely to see Australia as already divided
Exclusive polling shows that those who see Australia as a divided nation are far more likely to vote “no” than those who see it as united.
https://theconversation.com/new-polling-shows-no-voters-more-likely-to-see-australia-as-already-divided-214713
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Dietram A. Scheufele
about 2 years ago
"[T]his project lays the social scientific foundation for a meaningful and sustained infrastructure for overdue societal conversations.” #scicomm #engagement #polarization
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LSC faculty awarded USD 1.5 million to bridge science-society divides
A new, $1.5 million research grant from the John Templeton Foundation (JTF), led by UW -Madison LSC professors and Morgridge Research Institute Investigators Dietram Scheufele and Dominique Brossard, ...
https://lsc.wisc.edu/2023/10/05/lsc-faculty-awarded-usd-1-5-million-to-bridge-science-society-divides/
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So proud to be associated with the ADM+S
www.admscentre.org.au/statement-of...
about 2 years ago
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Daniel Angus
about 2 years ago
New article out today from me
@snurb.bsky.social
&
@qutdmrc.bsky.social
colleagues where we outline an extensible method stack for tracing link sharing practices on Facebook, to study the nature of problematic content throughout the platform
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051231196880
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Computational Communication Methods for Examining Problematic News-Sharing Practices on Facebook at ...
Social media, in general, and Facebook in particular, have been clearly identified as important platforms for the dissemination of mis- and disinformation and r...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051231196880
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Marc Somssich
about 2 years ago
📜 Thinking outside the (poster) box 🧑🔬 Vicky Howe 📔 Leafing through Biology (Blog) 🔗
leafingthroughbiology.wordpress.com/2023/09/28/t...
FEEDS: #PlantScience #SciComm #AcademicPublishing
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Thinking outside the (poster) box
Science posters should be conversation-starters, not journal articles printed on A0 paper. It's time to get more creative with our poster making.
https://leafingthroughbiology.wordpress.com/2023/09/28/thinking-outside-the-poster-box/
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Dr Anna Lawrence
about 2 years ago
The RGS journals have joined the fun! 🌍🌎🌏 Introducing: Area
@areajournal.bsky.social
Transactions
@tibg.bsky.social
The Geographical Journal
@thegj.bsky.social
Geo: Geography and Environment
@geoopenaccess.bsky.social
Soon to be posting the latest geographical scholarship... #geo #geosky
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Chloe Hill
about 2 years ago
Are you a scientist who would like your research to have a policy impact? Are you curious about how science is integrated into the policymaking process? Then join the #Science4Policy feed to learn more 👇! #SciSky #SciComm #PhDSky #Geoscience #AcademicSky 🧪
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Batman or halo
about 2 years ago
NEW: Today at Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new AI virtual assistant, along with more than two dozen different AI chat bot "personalities" played by celebrities including Snoop Dogg and Kendall Jenner. Meta is hoping they appeal to younger users:
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Meta Is Using Snoop Dogg, Paris Hilton, and Tom Brady to Get You to Like AI
Social media giant Meta unveils new AI chat bot characters played by celebrities and influencers like MrBeast and Kendall Jenner.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/meta-ai-chat-bot-characters-snoop-dogg-1234833287/
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Claes de Vreese
about 2 years ago
🫳All major online platform signatories of the Code of Practice on Disinformation (Google, Meta, Microsoft and TikTok) have delivered their second set of reports on the implementation of the Code of Practice Polcom commsky disinformation
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/code...
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Code of Practice on Disinformation: new reports available in the Transparency Centre
All major online platform signatories of the Code of Practice on Disinformation (Google, Meta, Microsoft and TikTok) have delivered a second set of reports on the implementation of the Code of Practic...
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/code-practice-disinformation-new-reports-available-transparency-centre
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It’s hard to wrap an elephant.
about 2 years ago
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