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Asheley Landrum

@asheley.bsky.social
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Assoc Professor of Media Psychology & Science Communication @ Walter Cronkite School @ Arizona State University #scicomm #mediaLiteracy #mediapsych #trust www.asheleylandrum.com

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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I don’t fault peer reviewers for not checking each citation. I do, however fault the authors for not noticing them (or caring). the-decoder.com/over-100-fak...
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Over 100 fake citations slip through peer review at top AI conference
An analysis of nearly 5,000 accepted research papers from the AI conference NeurIPS 2025 uncovered more than 100 fabricated citations - despite review by multiple experts.
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
“Conspiracy theories…can be understood as the political equivalent of dark-matter theories. They emerge in situations where some movement or action seems unlikely or bizarre unless you can posit some unseen element in the story, some hidden force exerting influence.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/o...
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Opinion | Conspiracies Are Real. The Theories Can Be Traps.
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
“After a brief dalliance with literacy, humanity is returning to its oral roots.” apple.news/AWWQ7HSErTTi...
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Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics? — Vox
It could come by the end of this sentence or, on a good day, the fifth paragraph.
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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 19/06/2025
I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12
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The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. It tries to provide guidance to ...
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Vaccines: because “community immunity” sounds way cuter than “preventable outbreak.” Vaccines aren’t just personal protection—they’re community care. They stop preventable diseases, protect the vulnerable, and keep our healthcare system from getting overwhelmed. Immunity is a team sport.
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I hope he doesn’t move to ban vaccines outright… www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
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Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I used to love using em-dashes. Now, they are seen as a signature of AI-generated text. So, I’m embarrassed to use them. The end.
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Hot takes belong on social media, not in scientific journals. Science thrives on rigor, nuance, and evidence—not speed, speculation, or snark. #scicomm
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
👏👏👏
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Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Kathleen Hall Jamieson has convinced me we should try to start saying "convergent evidence" instead of "scientific consensus." Going to take a while to change, but I explored it in my column this week. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Convergence and consensus
In these days of political instability, geopolitical tensions, and social discontent around the world, there are continued threats to the principles, conduct, and findings of science. This assault on ...
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
In 2017, I was unbelievably lucky to be one of the first science of science communication postdocs at @appc.upenn.edu . Our main project covered #popefrancis and #climatechange. I was recently invited to speak about this work with @npr.org to honor Pope Francis www.npr.org/2025/04/21/n...
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Pope Francis focused on climate change as the planet continued to get hotter
Pope Francis called on the world and 1.4 billion Catholics to confront climate change. He brought attention to the issue but it's not clear he changed many minds.
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Fun at ASU+GSV with Mi-Ai Parrish!
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/04/2025
I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Join us at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication ! We have an opening for a tenured faculty position (associate or full) in Media Law and First Amendment issues. #jobs #media #communication #faculty #cronkite #arizona #asu jobs.chronicle.com/job/37789047...
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Senior faculty position in Media Law and the First Amendment - Phoenix, Arizona (US) job with Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication | 37789047
ASU invites applications for a tenured associate or full professor to teach and conduct research related to media law and First Amendment.
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I did a podcast! The Ongoing Transformation podcast interviewed me about #misinformation about #science and our work on the @nationalacademies.org report #sciencemisinfo #sciencecomm issues.org/misinformati...
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Misinformation?
Misinformation about science makes it hard to make policy, buy groceries, or even live. How can we fix it?
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
“People largely learn of what the government is doing through the media — be it mainstream media or social media. If you overwhelm the media — if you give it too many places it needs to look, all at once, if you keep it moving from one thing to the next — no coherent opposition can emerge.”
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Our building had an emotional support donkey visit. How was your week?
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Anyone have a high school kid interested in media? Consider telling them about #CampCronkite !! cronkite.asu.edu/community/hi...
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Camp at Cronkite
High schoolers get a head start at #CampCronkite! Explore our immersive summer programs for high school students.
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Last night, I spoke with 12 News here in Phoenix about #factchecking and #socialmedia youtu.be/7Y2wc7i1dnI
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Media expert discusses future of social media including TikTok ban and Facebook fact-checking
YouTube video by 12 News
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
So… an article we published on science curiosity and political information processing was inappropriately cited in a @naturecomms.bsky.social article 👇🧵
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
As the pandemic collided with a US presidential election, I felt like I was watching a slow-motion car crash. COVID-19 vaccine attitudes polarized (as we expected)—and then that polarization spread to childhood vaccinations. The fallout is still unfolding. #scicomm #science&politics
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I was interviewed on @abc15arizona.bsky.social about Meta’s decision to get rid of fact checking. Most of my points got cut. Here’s what I think 👇
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Had a blast returning as an alumnus of the SFIS Winter School at Saguaro Lake Ranch.
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Inspired by a random reel on Instagram, I asked #ChatGPT to write a roast of #Phoenix. 👇
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Anyone else suspicious that like 90% of accounts on Bluesky are bots?
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Improving access to high-quality scientific information can fill information voids that exist for topics of interest to people and reduce exposure to and uptake of misinformation about science. Read more in our report: nap.nationalacademies.org/27894 #scicomm #medialiteracy
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Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science
Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I read somewhere that publishing more than 7-10 papers per year is called “excessive publishing” and is “bad for science”. If we were limited to submitting 5 papers per calendar year, would that ultimately be better for science (or worse)? I have some ideas, what are yours? #scicomm
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
"Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they're dangerous.” Mitch McConnell
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I liked this quote: “Journalism schools need to find more ways to collaborate across disciplines in 2025 to expand the skill set journalism students learn beyond reporting and storytelling, and get students in other majors to think critically with us about information…”
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Yale School of Public Health @yalesph.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
How do we know that autism is not linked to vaccines? Short answer: Massive studies have not found a link between autism and vaccines. Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️ 🧵1/8 @kkjetelina.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social @enirenberg.bsky.social
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I was thinking the same thing, @bostonjoan.bsky.social
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Before @bsky.app really commits to the “skeet” terminology, they need to remember this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrpS...
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Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz - Aww Skeet Skeet
YouTube video by Radial by The Orchard
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Our new study is out!!
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Our new study is out! We examine messaging about the co-constitutive risks of climate change and Dengue. #onehealth #onehealthcommunication @mattmotta.bsky.social #climate #climatechange dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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Combating climate-induced health threats through Co-Constitutive Risk (CCR) Messaging: A One Health communication approach
Author summary Our research explores the potential of co-constitutive risk messaging (CCR), a method within our One Health Communication framework, to influence public support for both immediate actio...
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
“For the past 50 years or so, the cognitive elite has been withdrawing from engagement with the rest of American society.” How the Ivy League Broke America - The Atlantic
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
If it quacks like clickbait, it probably is. #medialiteracy #factchecking archived link: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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DocumentCloud
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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Are you interested in political trust but think 'actually, it's a bit more complicated than that'? You'd be right! In a draft paper, we use original data from 13 surveys across 11 countries & 52 focus groups w/ 311 participants in 8 countries, arguing that trust, mistrust, & distrust are distinct:
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
We wrote a thing! @lieselsharabi.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dati... #medialiteracy #sciencecomm
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SIFTing Through Relationship Misinformation on Reality TV
How two researchers used media literacy strategies to trace relationship misinformation back to its source.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 29/11/2024
Every academic right now
A version of the kermit vs darth kermit meme where good kermit tells the online academic that they should grade, while darth kermit tells them they should eat more pie.
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
IMHO all authors of a paper should have seen and become familiar with the data. One benefit of collaboration is “checking each other’s math” to avoid publishing errors.
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This 👇👇👇 #scicomm
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Being rich doesn’t mean you are above seeking power. Proximity to govt leaders offers influence, access to new arenas, and chances to push personal ideologies. Power and influence can be just as valuable as money. #politics #democraticbacksliding
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Black pants and beignets don’t mix.(but still worth it) #NCA24
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Who’s going to #nca24? I see a lot of familiar faces on the plane!
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Why are my social media feeds trying to make me care about Mike Tyson again?
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
#icymi my friend and collaborator Liesel Sharabi and I wrote a piece on relationship misinformation on entertainment media. My favorite part was tracking down the origins of a misinformative claim made on #nakedattraction. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
Just because a media org says it’s the #1 Trusted News Source doesn’t make it so. In fact, it might even be a propaganda machine created by a religious cult from China. Ya never know! #MediaLiteracy #wikipediaThat
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Asheley Landrum @asheley.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
Hello world #sciencecomm #ASU #Cronkite
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