Interesting review documenting the rise in scholarship on visual misinformation, how it is more persuasive than text misinformation, and how #GenAI is both increasing visual misinformation content and being used to combat it. (!) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1080/1520...

"It’s going to be used to remove books from collections that are about queerness or sexuality or race or history. "

Our meta-analysis of 60 studies which was published in @mediapsychmep.bsky.social was covered by @spspnews.bsky.social Representation in Media Can Deepen or Undo Prejudice | SPSP spsp.org/news/charact... @stewartcoles.bsky.social @rcgd-isr.bsky.social

Excited to share my latest work with/ @snsoroka.bsky.social! How are Black Americans depicted in U.S. television news? We examine three decades of television content to answer this question and find for the most part, coverage has remained relatively unchanged. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

"These results highlight the critical roles of the local contextual factors that can direct the roles of populist attitudes. Interestingly, higher populist attitudes and worse local conditions were not necessarily correlated with lower COVID-19 prevention policy support."

"The advent of large language models have made this type of content relatively easy to churn out on demand, and the majority of the review articles we receive are little more than annotated bibliographies, with no substantial discussion of open research issues."

ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/... The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.

We love the American National Election Studies (@electionstudies.bsky.social). This is going to be such an incredible resource for so many scholars and researchers. Can’t wait to check it out, and grateful for this amazing public good that colleagues at Michigan and Stanford help produce! 🙏🏾

"The AI Con reminds us that the fight over AI is not only about technology. It’s also about language, labor, and the stories we choose to tell about the future, which we can humanize rather than surrender to the myriad ways mass automation dehumanizes." lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

The AAPOR Task Force on 2024 Pre-Election Polling has released its final report today. aapor.org/wp-content/u...

Excited to share my new publication in Comparative Political Studies📝 "Gendered Xenophobia? Gendered Interpretation of Immigration and Labor Market Vulnerability" +Grateful to my advisors, colleagues, grant fellowships, editors and reviewers for their support and feedback! doi.org/10.1177/0010...

Out now: key data from the third wave of the Worlds of Journalism Study. 75 countries, >32,350 journalists, >300 researchers, seven years of successful collaboration. Many thanks to all who contributed to this project! www.worldsofjournalism.org/reports-wjs3/

#OpenAccess from our latest issue - Food or vote: the effects of Confucian values on support for democracy - https://cup.org/4o6epJW - Weilin Xiao & Yanwei Zhang #jjps

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

Clicking through to links from AI search results is more common among those that trust the responses. This could suggest that people are using links to find more information rather than check whether AI is accurate - but hard to be sure and probably varies case by case.

Americans’ views about religion in public life are shifting: - Growing shares say religion is gaining influence. - Growing shares have a positive view of religion's role in society. - Growing shares feel conflict btw their religious beliefs and the mainstream. New Pew report: pewrsr.ch/3J3oE2s

“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

"voters are attentive to information beyond partisanship in that the patterns of blame attribution and sympathy are structured primarily by the vaccination status and stance of the deceased individual."

By Mark Carrigan from *Checks notes* 2023.... #AcWri #AcademicPublishing

AI Accountability is a joint effort. Just look at how the legal, social, political, and media forums were networked in holding the Dutch SyRI system accountable. Full analysis here: www.ai-accountability-review.com/p/networked-...

Despite limited federal data due to the shutdown, ISR’s Surveys of Consumers continues offering critical insights into the U.S. economy. In a new Q&A, ISR's Joanne Hsu explains why consumer sentiment has remained stable and what to watch moving forward. Read more: myumi.ch/Mk574

#OpenAccess from August 2025 - Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views - cup.org/4mmVIAL "exposure to uncritical interviews increases agreement with extreme statements and perceptions of broader support in the population" - @dianebolet.bsky.social & @florianfoos.bsky.social

Support for dismantling DEI didn’t happen overnight. It’s the outcome of narratives recoding CRT as a threat to white Americans. My article (w/ @meredithdclark.bsky.social) in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social examines how this strategy became sentiment. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2025.2556104

🗃️ From May: Google Scholar launched in November 2004 with the goal of making it easier to access scientific knowledge. But did it live up to this aim or simply create new problems? #GoogleScholar #AcademicChatter

Read the full article, available now: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...

Do different survey modes affect respondents' discomfort? As live-video surveys become commonplace, Okon et al. shed light on what this means for data collection. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸 How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data. www.science.org/content/arti...

YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Labels can impact politics. My paper @apsrjournal.bsky.social "What Happens When You Can't Check the Box?" shows when Middle Eastern & North African (MENA) Americans are excluded from identity categories, they assert MENA identity when answering relevant political questions. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Truth is Out There! www.ualberta.ca/en/newtrail/... via @ualbertalaw.bsky.social Nice piece on my recent book. 🙏 My advice on avoiding harmful bunk: 1) Don’t be too cynical 2) Watch for emotional triggers 3) Read beyond the headline 4) Beware of “sciencey” language 5) Avoid the Galileo gambit

"these Facebook groups served as digital spaces for AH content by playing a dual role: (1) disseminating information on COVID-19 and AH for both laypeople and experts and (2) providing spiritual connections and commercial content to alleviate anxiety during the pandemic."

New in PNAS with @seanjwestwood.bsky.social and @ylelkes.bsky.social: Why depolarization is hard: Evaluating attempts to decrease partisan animosity in America @prl.bsky.social @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

#NewPaper is out! With #NucleoMEPOP coauthors Claudia Lagos and @karengheza.bsky.social, led by the amazing Isabel Pavez in @jmcquarterly.bsky.social ❤️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Thread below 👇

Today's ACIP meeting may use VAERS data to make false claims about vaccine injury. To help sort out what's true from what's false, @stecula.bsky.social and I updated an explainer we wrote several years ago for @us.theconversation.com. theconversation.com/vaccine-deat...

Americans who say there's a lot of discrimination against people who are: In US illegally 57% Transgender 48% Gay or lesbian 37% Black 36% Muslim 34% Hispanic 34% Jewish 30% Immigrants in US legally 29% Women 22% Asian 21% Religious 17% Older 16% Evangelical 13% White 12% Men 10% Atheist 7%

I am pleased to share the latest issue of The International Journal of Press/Politics, which features Special Issue articles from the 2023 #IJPP conference, University of Edinburgh & several open access articles. Link journals.sagepub.com/toc/HIJ/curr...

Missed it in august! But this (with @sumitra.bsky.social) also is out at @bjpols.bsky.social We map how religious beliefs and identities affect the endorsement of falsehoods, and use an experiment in India to test. More to do on the contextual drivers of misinfo, but this is a start. Check it :)

New study examines how people evaluate online ads as "political": source cues, message strength (i.e., persuasive intent), and uncongenial messages. All addressed by the politically relevant media model (PRMM) and why asking if a media text is "political" may not be the best measure.

I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai "CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"

New paper on algorithmic gatekeeping & news engagement out at JOC! Lucien Heitz, @masurphil.bsky.social, @judith-moeller.bsky.social, @vanatteveldt.com & me ran a 1-week long field experiment to test if we can nudge people to read (and learn from) environmental news. doi.org/10.1093/joc/...

For the first time, a special issue of @poqjournal.bsky.social devoted to #qualitative research! The 2025 special issue: Qualitative Research: Advancing the Social & Behavioral Sciences - Articles using a quality approach to study the vulnerable, sensitive topics & QDA bit.ly/POQQRissue

ICYMI: If you’re working or are planning on working with Google Trends Data for research, make sure to read this article by @floriankeusch.bsky.social & co-authors. They explore common pitfalls, incl. construct validity and reliability, and show how to improve data quality to enhance robustness.

Fab researchers at the National Literacy Trust launched new research asking: What does AI mean for the future of literacy? New findings offer insight into how young people & teachers use genAI & whether literacy skills can support a more critical approach More: literacytrust.org.uk/ai-and-literacy

Why did COVID-19 memes turn politicians into both heroes and clowns? In our new study of jokes from five European countries, we show how pandemic humor made leaders look powerful — yet, just as lost as the rest of us. Read how politics became a spectacle through humor: doi.org/10.1177/1367...

💥New: Can we measure trust in scientific publications? ✍️ @jacoates.bsky.social‬ #AcademicSky #OpenScience #PeerReview blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Young adults almost always online Japan 85% Spain 70% S Korea 68% Turkey 64% US 61% Argentina 59% Israel 57% UK 53% Canada 49% Brazil 47% India 28% Greece 27% Nigeria 15% https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/09/08/most-adults-across-24-countries-are-online-at-least-several-times-a-day/