Oh hi! Just me, my buddies, & our CIESJ Faculty awards for sustainability (digital climate communication & sustainability policy) with @carlylubicz.bsky.social & @riedlinm.bsky.social. Cheers to the @qutdmrc.bsky.social team who worked on this report; particular thanks to @antmandan.bsky.social 🥹🙏

A new article by me in @theconversation.com about forthcoming research with fab colleagues @snurb.info, @riedlinm.bsky.social, @phzerosounds.bsky.social, @timothyjgraham.bsky.social, and @antmandan.bsky.social. Looking forward to presenting this at the #AANZCA2025 conference this week! 🎉

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

🤖 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 🧪

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...

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....

“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”

📊 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

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/...

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/...

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

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"

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...

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’,

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! 💬✨

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

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...

Ospreys! Everyone loves ospreys. That's why I'm getting in on the osprey zeitgeist with this adorable cartoon. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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

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-...

"[T]his project lays the social scientific foundation for a meaningful and sustained infrastructure for overdue societal conversations.” #scicomm #engagement #polarization

So proud to be associated with the ADM+S www.admscentre.org.au/statement-of...

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

📜 Thinking outside the (poster) box 🧑‍🔬 Vicky Howe 📔 Leafing through Biology (Blog) 🔗 leafingthroughbiology.wordpress.com/2023/09/28/t... FEEDS: #PlantScience #SciComm #AcademicPublishing

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

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:...

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:

🫳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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