We're hiring! Two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions available to start in Fall 2025: ischool.utexas.edu/about/jobs - Assistant Professor in Building Human-Centered, Ethical, and Responsible AI Systems - Assistant Professor in Cultural Heritage Informatics #higheredjobs

👵Although LLMs are often considered as equally beneficial to all, we find that many of today’s LLMs (both open- & closed-source) lean heavily toward the younger generation, which further marginalizes older adults—an already disadvantaged group. Check out our #EMNLP2024 paper ⬇️

🚨 Strengthening Americans’ Democratic Attitudes🚨 For the last 4 years, we crowdsourced and tested ideas for ⬇️ antidemocratic attitudes & partisan animosity. A 🧵 on all papers, published/IP Science Magazine (🆕tinyurl.com/sdcsci🆕), PNASNews (2x), Nature Human Behaviour (2x).

Now out in Annals of SBM. Health-focused lit tips caused undue skepticism of accurate news (vs generic & control). Prior misperceptions explain lots of variance in novel cancer news discernment & treatment effects are strongest in high-misperception group

Can collaboration ameliorate our weaknesses in detecting misinformation? Our new PNAS Nexus paper w/Angela Y. Lee Ryan Moore Cid Halsey-Steve Decatur Sunny Xun Liu & jeff hancock suggests a promising collaborative approach to combat misinformation (1/10). doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…

1 thing I wish I could've added: moving to a more realistic “supply” of false news – skewing right, instead of balanced by slant – helps align findings from lab and field (shoutout Bernhard Clemm). I wrote up a little extra supplement laying this out osf.io/r6wzs

How many Americans encountered QAnon during the 2020 presidential election? As many as 9.5 million, according to research from Ryan Moore Ross Dahlke 🔑 @peterforberg and jeff hancock published in #CSCW2024. But who was exposed? Read on: tinyurl.com/2x4ekrfe-cscw2…

One week until Election Day! If you're around the Stanford campus next Tuesday, join Ruth Appel @ryanmooreinfo and me for our "Data Science & Democracy Day" presentation hosted by Stanford Data Science datascience.stanford.edu/events/seminar…

5 biggest challenges facing misinformation researchers science.org/content/articl… 1) Defining it 2) Everything is political 3) Harms hard to pin down 4) Companies own the data 5) The problem is global I would add (related to #3), what's the direction of causation? Do people use

Our NIMH-funded grant on teen social media use & mental health with innovative data & methods is looking for a full-time research coordinator! Come work with us on this cool project! Please spread the word 📢📢 hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365401

Have you ever worried that no one would respond to your message? Our #CSCW2024 paper proposes a commitment-based design in online groups to address this: arxiv.org/abs/2410.23267 (with Yutong Zhang and Michael Bernstein )

Excited to present this work at #CSCW2024 ACM CSCW next week in Costa Rica! Please reach out if you’re interested in chatting. I’m especially keen to connect with folks who are working at the intersection of aging and tech.

✨New from Ryan Moore me @peterforberg jeff hancock in #CSCW2024. We take a mixed-methods approach to studying American's exposure to QAnon, finding those on the political extremes are most likely to be exposed, but with distinct types of consumers dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

[Please RT] I’m recruiting PhD students to work with me at University of Washington! I’m looking for students passionate about developing new *social media algorithms*, both broadly and within the scope of this NSF grant: tinyurl.com/395yfphd More info: faculty.washington.edu/msaveski/ University of Washington / @UW_iSchool

I am very honored to have received the 2024 Emerging Scholar Award from Association for Psychological Science APS Student Caucus. I want to take this opportunity to thank all my mentors and colleagues at Stanford Psychology and in the broader psych science community! psychologicalscience.org/news/2024-july…

Out in Nature Human Behaviour 🔥 Can people tell true from false news? Yes! Our meta-analysis shows that people rate true news as more accurate than false news (d = 1.12) and were better at spotting false news than at recognizing true news (d = 0.32).

🚨 New Preprint! 🚨 “Detecting Synthetic, Doubting Authentic: AI Attribution Bias for Political Imagery” 📍 Link: osf.io/preprints/osf/… 🧵 During the 2024 U.S. presidential election, many #GenAI political images appeared. But did voters mistake them for authentic? (1/)

This should be in the museum of chart crimes

Interested in learning more about the iSchool PhD program? Join us for one of our upcoming PhD info sessions, 10/28 bit.ly/3IYDWWg and 10/30 bit.ly/3Lpvq34