I'm happy to share a report Thomas Bergeron and I been working on with the Media Ecosystem Observatory. Our findings reveal that, despite the rise in social media attention on wildfires, coverage fails to connect these events to climate change. 1/2 Check it out: meo.ca/work/canada-wi…

🚨Does elite ideological polarization lead to mass ideological polarization? My latest article in European Journal of Political Research (EJPR journal) provides **limited** evidence that it is the case. Let's break it down 🧵

New paper out w/ Eric Merkley in Political Behavior! Link to paper : link.springer.com/article/10.100… Short thread below

Now officially forthcoming at the University of Toronto Press! 🥳

Partisans often seem unwavering in their support for a politician/policy, even when faced with opposing evidence. But recent studies show that partisans can be persuaded. So how can both be true? My new British Jnl Poli Sci paper explores this Q: doi.org/10.1017/S00071…

Prof Yamil Ricardo Velez, w co-authors Patrick Liu and Scott Clifford, published a working paper in the American Government and Politics section of APSA Preprints entitled, "When Information Affects Attitudes: The Effectiveness of Targeting Attitude-Relevant Beliefs." Details below:

🚨New article with Melissa Baker out at Politics and the Life Sciences on the dynamic and conditional effects of Big-5 traits on COVID-19 attitudes and behaviours 🧵👇1/ cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Can ChatGPT change your mind? I wrote for Tech Policy Press about what we find + where AI persuasion research should go from here: How will trust in AI evolve? What can it really persuade us on? Will it reach resistant audiences? techpolicy.press/can-chatgpt-ch…

This new article by the Citizen Lab's Gabby Lim (et al) in Tech Policy Press examines the growth of economic power in the hands of private firms “incentivized to serve the surveillance state and further a new kind of space military-industrial complex.” Read it here: