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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Would we let AI represent our political opinion to policy makers and vote on our behalf? Provocative and fun role play panel put on by Edmond & Lily Safra center for ethics & moderated by @lessig.bsky.social tonight

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Good morning, Boston! Last day of #APSA2026 and very proud of my undergraduate author, Nebras Alam, who will be presenting our pre-analysis plan for a pilot study of our new app. It lets people practice, difficult, political conversations using AI coaching. And it’s open source!

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The gold rain keeps falling! So very honored and excited for this Honorable Mention for my dissertation from @polcomm.bsky.social #APSA2026. Super grateful for all the support along the way, it really does take a village!

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Don’t get these in the mail every day! So very humbled and honored. And so grateful to everyone who supported me along the way. It really does take a village! Special thank you to my committee incl @drmann.bsky.social, and wonderful mentors @grailcenter.bsky.social. See you at #APSA2026!

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Really enjoyed chatting to comm prof @joshpasek.com about the psychological underpinnings of why we believe the things we believe. Hope you will like this conversation too!

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Buffalo here I come! Headed off for two weeks, computational social science training sicss.io/2025/rochest...

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Another memorable MPSA! Grateful for interesting panels, friendships new and old, and feeling the pulse of Chicago again. #MPSA2026

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Indiana friends! On April 30, we're hosting the Inaugural Annual Summit on Information, Technology, and American Democracy (www.cla.purdue.edu/.../center.....) at The Heirloom at N.K. Hurst in Indianapolis. The deadline to register is on April 26th. Please DM me if you want a comp code!

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Really enjoyed making this latest CAPTivated podcast episode, where we talked to Purdue sociology prof Marcus Mann about asymmetric #polarization and the qualitative differences of the centre-left and far right #media spheres.@drmann.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2569769/epis...

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EP 05 The Quasi-Religion of Right-Wing Media with Marcus Mann - CAPTivated

In this episode, Sage, Julius, and Hanna sit down with Purdue sociology professor Marcus Mann to discuss why polarization is the wrong framework for understanding our news media. Marcus explains that ...

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EP 05 The Quasi-Religion of Right-Wing Media with Marcus Mann - CAPTivated

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CAPTivated Podcast @captivatedpod.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

📄 Transcript now available! Prefer to read? Want to reference specific quotes? The full transcript for our conversation with Dr. @alicetiara.bsky.social is now live. Access the transcript here: captivated.buzzsprout.com/2569769/epis... #CAPTIvatedPodcast #PodcastRecommendations #AI #Podcast #AGI

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Listening to interesting talk by @joshpasek.com on motivated reasoning

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

“During times of war, it is critical that people have access to authentic information on the ground” Why just during wartime, one wonders?https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/03/x-says-it-will-suspend-creators-from-revenue-sharing-program-for-unlabeled-ai-posts-of-armed-conflict/

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X says it will suspend creators from revenue-sharing program for unlabeled AI posts of 'armed conflict' | TechCrunch

Creators who break the rules will get a three-month suspension, and if they continue to violate the policy, they'll be permanently banned.

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

What happens to democracy when no one covers the school board meeting? Our newest podcast episode about the death of local journalism, with epic local reporter @davebangert.bsky.social.

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Loved this conversation with Nicole Hemmer, historian of conservative media. Hope you’ll enjoy it too!

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Releasing first podcast episodes today! So excited to be sharing the amazing guests that are coming through the Center for Am Political History, Media, and Tech at Purdue and this intro by our director, Kathryn Cramer Brownell! Hope you'll enjoy these conversations as much as we did!

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Our podcast baby that we’ve worked on since the fall is ready to be born! Very excited.!!

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

We’ve been working on this podcast since the fall and are finally getting ready to release our first episones!

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Enjoyed the first day at SPSA2026!

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

#SPSA2026 SPSA Women are holding some great events on Friday, starting with #AI in the profession at 9.30 am.

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Discovering this amazing podcast series www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8zp... put on by @monasloane.bsky.social - this one on the impact of AI on libraries, with @ericklinenberg.bsky.social among others. Interesting insights into how much we've invested into digital spaces rather than physical ones.

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

New research by @steverathje.bsky.social et al Epistemic Fragility in Large Language Models: Prompt Framing Systematically Modulates Misinformation Correction WGemini 2.5 Pro had 74% lower odds of strong correction than Claude Sonnet 4.5, highlighting epistemic fragility arxiv.org/pdf/2511.22746

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Really enjoying this podcast right now. Reflections from a Canadian who’s lived in both #America and #China, on the differences between the two. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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America vs. China

Podcast Episode · Search Engine · 10/31/2025 · 57m

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Leaving Vancouver with a belly full of great conversations, mountain views and gratitude. Thank you #APSA2025

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 24/05/2025

It is important to resist the normalization of these travesties. If or when we get to "yawn, not another one..." we will have truly lost it all.

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

When GenAI frames answers in terms of questions and help people think, rather than just providing answers, people learn more. Fascinating episode on how to design beneficial #AI. podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/y...

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Echo Chambers of One: Companion AI and the Future of Human Connection

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Amazing thread explaining a mechanism behind shifting political honesty norms

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 10/04/2025

What can we conclude? Words matter. When politicians resort to intuition and “gut feeling” rather than evidence, this has flow-on consequences. 31/n

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 10/04/2025

In our most recent study, which just appeared in Nature Human Behaviour with Segun Aroyehun as lead author (doi.org/10.1038/s415...) , we drew a wider historical arc and examined the rhetoric in all speeches given on the floor of Congress between 1879 and 2022. 16/n

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Computational analysis of US congressional speeches reveals a shift from evidence to intuition - Nature Human Behaviour

This research explores the linguistic traces of evidence-based reasoning and intuitive decision-making in congressional speeches from 1879 to 2022. The analysis suggests that evidence-based language h...

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 22/04/2025

What we’ve launched today is the first step for how we’re going to evolve verification. The initial set of trusted verifiers includes news orgs who’ve agreed to take on the task of verification for their journalists. In the future, this set will expand, as well as how apps can choose to use them.

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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I keep reading and hearing that, while Trump's net favorability is negative, his approval ratings on immigration are positive. Thanks to @gelliottmorris.com for looking under the hood on this. Turns out Americans *really* don't like Trump's immigration policies.

net support for various immigration policies in polls conducted between january 9 and feb 28, 2025; it's -37 for "deport undocumented immigrants who have lived in the US for more than 10 years", -36 for "deport undocumented immigrants who are parents of us citizens by birth", -18 for "deport undocumented immigrants who have not broken laws in the us except for immigration laws"... etc... the two policies with net positive approval are +11 for "an executive order declaring an emergency at the US-Mexico border, promising to deploy troops, construct additional border barriers, an implement mass deportations" and +81 for "deport undocumented immigrants who have been accused of committing violent crime"

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Fascinating episode on media theorist Neil Postman’s insights on the influence on different media types on society podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/y...

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The Man Who Predicted the Downfall of Thinking

Poddavsnitt · Your Undivided Attention · 2025-03-06 · 59 min

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Nicole Micheroni @nicolemicheroni.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

Email from DHS revoking parole, unnamed recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 1

Email from DHS revoking parole, unknown recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 2

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Super interesting on the impact of the attention economy on our children

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Looking forward to present my paper on "Mechanisms behind political use of disinformation: case study evidence from Europe" today at #MPSA2025! 1.30 pm on the 7th floor, Burnham 5. Come join!

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Hanna Sistek @sistek.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Attending #MPSA2025 and studying dem backsliding, or something having implications for it, like #disinfo? Join us for an impromptu HH at chicagoathletichotel.com on 12 S Mich Av on April 3rd at 6 pm! Cool bar area upstairs. Last year's event was a hit! @MPSAnet @alicemalmberg.bsky.social

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