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HKS Misinformation Review @misinforeview.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Now live: “People are more susceptible to misinformation with realistic AI-synthesized images that provide strong evidence to headlines” by Sean Guo, Yiwen Zhong, and Xiaoqing Hu misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/peop...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Does AI improve or undercut academic scholarship? A new study finds that academics who use AI increased both the quantity & quality of their academic scholarship and it appears to reduces inequality (helping junior and non-english speaking scholars the most). arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02408

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Ullrich Ecker @ulliecker.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Why Misinformation Must Not Be Ignored Quite proud of this paper, which just received the journal's APA Editor's Choice award 😊 Big thanks to my coauthors Li Qian Tay, Jon Roozenbeek, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social, John Cook, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, and @lewan.bsky.social

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Social scientists should not use chat interfaces when using LLMs in their research: they are impressively inefficient, and obscure/impose important methodological decisions that require thought. THREAD🧵

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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Psychological inoculation is a very popular intervention against online misinfo, but it hasn't been tested using real-world outcomes in realistic scenarios. In a new paper just published in PNAS Nexus, this is what we did: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... Short version: It didn't really work.

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Josh Kalla @jkalla.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Want to add an LLM chatbot to your Qualtrics surveys? Here's a step-by-step guide showing exactly how to do this with AWS Bedrock joshuakalla.github.io/llm_persuasi...

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Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com · 13/04/2025

From some MIT Media Lab folks... "Results show that AI interaction significantly boosts participants’ accuracy in identifying real versus fake news content from approximately 60% to 90%." Though findings suggest AI interaction "may not produce lasting improvements that transfer to novel examples".

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Can dialogues with AI systems help humans better discern visual misinformation?

The widespread emergence of manipulated news media content poses significant challenges to online information integrity. This study investigates whether dialogues with AI about AI-generated images and...

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Sean Guo @seanguo.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Excited to share my first first-author paper! We found that providing alternative explanations to misinformation improved recollection during veracity judgements, measured by the P300 ERP. Thanks to my supervisor and colleagues for their help! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #phdsky #psych

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Providing an alternative explanation improves misinformation rejection and alters event-related potentials during veracity judgements

The continued influence effect of misinformation (CIE) occurs when misinformation affects memory and decision making even after correction. Here, we e…

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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Yes, they can hallucinate papers that don't exist, discuss results that seem to be imaginary, and can be confusing and inconsistent. But talking to tenured professors may still be helpful

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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

🚨New WP🚨 We examine news sharing on 7 platforms: 1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news 2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning 3)But low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE, even BlueSky! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Sean Guo @seanguo.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,537,491!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,537,491, Sean Guo ‪@seanguo.bsky.social‬, joined on Oct 16, 2023"

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Sean Guo @seanguo.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

How are y’all keeping updated with the latest postdoc openings? Any good site or feed recs? #phdsky

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

Perhaps unsurprising given I research misinfo interventions, but I strongly disagree with this article. If you thought that small tweaks were going to fix the misinfo problem, then yes, you'll be disappointed. But, come on, we all know there is no magic bullet. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/t...

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Even Disinformation Experts Don’t Know How to Stop It

Researchers have learned plenty about misinformation and how it spreads. But they’re still struggling to figure out how to stop it.

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Ullrich Ecker @ulliecker.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

Our review paper “Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation” is out today in Nature Human Behaviour! Truly a team effort by an international group of experts, led by the amazing Anastasia Kozyreva. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation - Nature Human Behaviour

Kozyreva et al. review evidence from individual-level interventions for fighting online misinformation featured in 81 scientific papers. They classify the interventions in nine different types and sum...

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Ullrich Ecker @ulliecker.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

I am advertising a postdoc position to work on a cognitive psych project on misinformation 👇 Please share! external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

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Prospective staff : Jobs at UWA : The University of Western Australia

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Sean Guo @seanguo.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Excited to share our new preprint on how different properties of AI-generated images impacts misinformation belief. All feedback and comments welcome :) Shout out to @brionyswire.bsky.social for providing great comments on the manuscript! osf.io/2p64a

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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

How many stories of “automated systems” and AI end up just being people in other countries paid peanuts to work remotely?

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Dr. Kahneman’s research debunked the notion of “homo economicus,” the “economic man” who was considered a rational being who acts out of self-interest. Instead, people rely on intellectual shortcuts that often go against their own best interest. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

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Daniel Kahneman, Nobel-winning economist, dies at 90

He found that people rely on shortcuts that often lead them to make wrongheaded decisions that go against their own best interest.

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Fibre Bundle @fibrebundle.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

where are the other Phd students here on #bluesky? #phdsky #academia ? 😭 I can't be going through this alone

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

In case you missed it last week, here's a recording of my talk "Misinformation: Why is it a problem and what can we do about it?" See what we found in our giant collaborative megastudy testing 9 different online misinformation interventions! shorensteincenter.org/new-event/mi...

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Misinformation: Why is it a problem and what can we do about it? | Shorenstein Center

This event was part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School and the NULab at Northeastern Univ...

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Christopher Madan @engra.me · 08/03/2024

This was shared quite a bit as a preprint, and now it's published! (and #OA) “What will you do after?”: Lessons from Academia and the World Beyond I am glad QJEP appreciated the benefit of publishing this at a psych society journal (rather than an HE one) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

Making sure everyone has read Kate Wagner’s absolutely terrific — like a genuinely all-time, Grantland, SBN-in-its-heyday, talk about it 10 years later-style joy to read — F1 article that was mysteriously removed from the Road & Track website shortly after publication web.archive.org/web/20240301...

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Behind F1's Velvet Curtain

If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever.

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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

At a time when scientific misconduct is making headlines, the truth is that errors in science are largely brought to light by unpaid volunteers. I wrote about a new program that wants to shake up those incentives and pay sleuths cold, hard cash for finding mistakes. www.chronicle.com/article/want...

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Wanted: Scientific Errors. Cash Reward.

At a time when scientific misconduct is making headlines, a new program hopes to encourage the detection of mistakes with cold, hard cash.

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Apologies for the malfunction. I'm now able to handle abstract-length titles. Please refrain from using abstract-length titles though.

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Sean Guo @seanguo.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Always assumed that younger generations get better with tech, and never thought we would be hearing about students getting worse at basic computer skills like where a file is stored (!) Wonder how this affects future media and misinfo consumption? www.theverge.com/22684730/stu... #psychology

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Students who grew up with search engines might change STEM education forever

Professors are struggling to teach Gen Z

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 01/02/2024

A potential downside of addressing misinformation: "efforts like warning about the threat of misinformation can prime general distrust in authentic news, hinting toward a deception bias in the context of fear of misinformation being salient." policysky sociology cogsci polisky 🛟medsky

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action. The people who share the most are usually the most extreme—hardcore users, fans, and partisans! www.nngroup.com/articles/par...

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Participation Inequality: The 90-9-1 Rule for Social Features

In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

I always work this paper into my undergrad classes. They appreciate it, acknowledge that pattern in their behavior, then change their behavior :) psycnet.apa.org/record/2006-...

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Sean Guo @seanguo.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Super realistic AI lego sets! (Apart from the text)

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Christoph Strauch @cstrauch.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Predictions of eye movements when viewing images should work well for all. Do they? We studied this with gaze data from >2,000 participants collected in the Nemo museum Amsterdam! Out in Communications Psych t.ly/Y1-Ty tldr: models do well, especially if you are a psychology student More:

a heatmap of fixations on the image smoothed over with a gaussian kernel.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

“So the most important thing that I say in this short book is this: Disinformation is not an accident. It's a lie”, says Lee McIntyre in a great conversation on misinformation and disinformation at the MIT museum.

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Sean Guo @seanguo.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

To any misinformation researchers out there: do you read or rely on any cog sci or neuro papers about learning and memory? For example, how relevant is the classic AB-AC memory updating paradigm to correcting misinformation?

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Sean Guo @seanguo.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Hi #PsychSciSky! Does anyone have any advice on attending a conference that doesn't really match your research topics? Eg. Given I'm interested in cognitive mechanisms of memory and neuroimaging, would there be much value in attending a social psych conference?

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Sean Guo @seanguo.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Hello #HiSciSky #PsychSciSky #Neuroskyence ! I’m Sean, a PhD candidate currently studying how misinformation impacts our memory and beliefs using #EEG

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