Oh hi! Just me, my buddies, & our CIESJ Faculty awards for sustainability (digital climate communication & sustainability policy) with @carlylubicz.bsky.social & @riedlinm.bsky.social. Cheers to the @qutdmrc.bsky.social team who worked on this report; particular thanks to @antmandan.bsky.social 🥹🙏

A new article by me in @theconversation.com about forthcoming research with fab colleagues @snurb.info, @riedlinm.bsky.social, @phzerosounds.bsky.social, @timothyjgraham.bsky.social, and @antmandan.bsky.social. Looking forward to presenting this at the #AANZCA2025 conference this week! 🎉

QUT Digital Media Research Centre@qutdmrc.bsky.social · 10mo ago

PhD researcher Kate FitzGerald has a new article out in The Conversation today looking at generative AI chatbots and conspiracy theories.

Voice technologies have been such an understudied area in the fields I work in. This report has inspired us to think more about them and I hope you find it interesting too.

ADM+S Centre@admscentre.org.au · last yr.

Voice technologies are being rapidly integrated into AI systems, raising new questions & intensifying old ones, across everyday life. This paper surveys the history & current developments, highlighting emerging responses in real-world settings. apo.org.au/node/331920 #AI #VoiceTech #Authenticity

Exciting to see this #AIandJournlism report in print! Three years of hard work by @tjthomson.bsky.social and a dedicated team including @phoebesophist.bsky.social and @cazuarina.bsky.social. Join us for the launch on Monday (in person and online). Details here: events.humanitix.com/report-launc...

How do academic controversies impact science journalism? We explore this question in a new paper, published yesterday in @plosone.org with Laura Moorhead, @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca, @riedlinm.bsky.social & Lauren Maggio. #openscience #scicomm #journalism journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

This evidence-based report focuses largely on the multi-modal aspects of generative AI and pays attention to AI and journalism across the domains of content, industry practices, and news audience perceptions. @ryanjthomas.bsky.social, @riedlinm.bsky.social, @phoebesophist.bsky.social

Some reflections with colleagues @nedwatt.bsky.social and @riedlinm.bsky.social at @theconvo-bot.bsky.social on Meta's decision to end its professionally funded fact-checking model in its platforms and adopt the X crowdsourcing model with a new 'community notes'👇 theconversation.com/meta-is-aban...

Meta is abandoning fact checking – this doesn’t bode well for the fight against misinformation

Numerous studies have shown that fact checking has helped reduce the spread of misinformation and disinformation online.

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This times a million! Regional accents are beautiful, and I firmly believe that on-air voices should sound like all of us. I've spent most of my career working for media organizations outside of the South and have zero regrets about keeping my South Georgia drawl.

New edition of NPR’s ‘Sound Reporting’ shares tips on cultivating your unique voice

“Don’t try to change the way that you sound,” says "Weekend Edition Sunday" host Ayesha Rascoe. “If you grew up in Boston, you’re not going to sound like me."

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🤖 AI mirrors human biases A new @natureportfolio.bsky.social study reveals large language models show 'us vs. them' biases, similar to human behaviour, but that data curation can reduce these tendencies. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #AI #SciComm 🧪

Generative language models exhibit social identity biases - Nature Computational Science

Researchers show that large language models exhibit social identity biases similar to humans, having favoritism toward ingroups and hostility toward outgroups. These biases persist across models, trai...

nature.com

Excited to share my first Bluesky post! 🌟 It’s a teaser for our #ICA25 #SciComm preconference on #ScienceCommunication Research, happening June 12, 2025 in Denver, CO. Looking forward to your Extended Abstracts by January 24! 🔗 #CfP: cdn.ymaws.com/www.icahdq.o...

Article by Emma Frances Bloomfield and others which sheds some light on why climate scientists are trusted less than other scientists, a topic that has fascinated me for years. "Digital Climate Rhetoric and the Corrupted Scientist Archetype" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Digital Climate Rhetoric and the Corrupted Scientist Archetype

Social media platforms are prominent arenas for the circulation of climate change discourse, both scientific and skeptical. Watts Up With That (WUWT) is a blog and Facebook community that is a cent...

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“Doing a spring clean in prep for #greyhoundrescue and found this T-shirt again. It’s held up well, considering. Hard to believe it’s been 22 years. @pcstnetwork.bsky.social has been good to me. #scicomm”

📊 Reuters report (8 countries): Messaging apps (+19) & search engines (+12) bring us together, while social media divides us (-13). More think journalists (-29), news media (-27), and politicians (-55) divide us than any platform surveyed. #DigitalMedia 🔗 Report

What do people want? Views on platforms and the digital public sphere in eight countries

Our research explores how people use platforms for news and information about politics, while also remaining sceptical of the information they see there.

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk

New paper in @science.org finds across 8 studies & multiple platforms, time periods, & definitions of misinformation that (a) misinfo evokes more outrage than trustworthy news & (b) people are more willing to share outrage-evoking misinfo without clicking on it www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Why am I only hearing about the Riedlinger Fasnet (Carnival) now? “In addition to the tripe feast and plenty of fool's singing, various fool artists recite the misfortunes of many well-known Riedlingers during the year in rhyme form… www.gole.de/gole/fasnet/...

I'm sure this Science story on how systematic reviews are threatened by paper mills is good, but the illustration by Sara Gironi Carnevale is great saragironicarnevale.com Story: https://www.science.org/content/article/systematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril

Rage & lies win. Sigh. Study: Misinformation exploits outrage to spread online www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... - "misinformation sources evoke more outrage than do trustworthy sources" - outrage facilitates spread of misinformation - more willing to share rage misinfo"without reading it first"

Anyway, on that note, I’ll be working on various bits and pieces in my gallery because that’s all I really want to do and you should definitely buy my calendar. www.kudelkashop.com/product/2025...

Delighted to announce the launch of M/C Journal issue 27.6: ‘#artificial’, edited by Angelique Nairn and Lorna Piatti-Farnell. A real bumper issue, as you might imagine from the theme. #mcjournal (Should be very much of interest to #AANZCA24 delegates as well…) journal.media-cultur...

Woke up to this news on the other side of the world (not quite but...33.9323° S, 18.8587° E)! 🎉 Have you got a story about using Research GenAI tools or #RGAI? 🚀✍️ Get in touch—we’d love to hear from you! 💬✨

Peta Mitchell@petamitchell.bsky.social · 2y ago

Super excited about our successfully funded #ARC Discovery #DP25 application on GenAI and the future of academic writing and publishing, led by @riedlinm.bsky.social, with Jake Goldenfein, @jeanburgess.bsky.social, & Aaron Snoswell. Get ready to hear lots more about Research GenAI or #RGAI from us!

Bit late to post, but wow—what a time at #DiscSciComm24! Surrounded by brilliant, inspiring #SciComm stars and soaking up the magic of Cape Town and Stellenbosch. Coming away with more questions and counting down the days to #ICA26 in Cape Town. www.discoveryscience.co.za

It was ... cathartic being interviewed for this story: A year after Elon Musk bought Twitter, X is now a 'worthless' platform some say is no longer safe for activists www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11...

Ospreys! Everyone loves ospreys. That's why I'm getting in on the osprey zeitgeist with this adorable cartoon. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Are you overwhelmed with all the things? Why not take a moment to enjoy this story of a baby osprey ...

Right now the world is terrible for everyone (except baby osprey enthusiasts)

theguardian.com

I recreated the the famous Draw a Scientist exercise using AI prompts for both scientists and engineers. Learn what I discovered in this new post for the Society of Women Engineers: alltogether.swe.org/2023/10/ai-i... Spoiler in image below 👇 #WomeninScience #WomeninSTEM #AI #scicomm

My @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleagues Sam Vilkins, Tariq Choucair, and I have an article in @theconversationus.bsky.social 🇦🇺 this morning, about polarisation and the Voice referendum. theconversation.com/new-polling-...

New polling shows 'no' voters more likely to see Australia as already divided

Exclusive polling shows that those who see Australia as a divided nation are far more likely to vote “no” than those who see it as united.

theconversation.com

"[T]his project lays the social scientific foundation for a meaningful and sustained infrastructure for overdue societal conversations.” #scicomm #engagement #polarization

LSC faculty awarded USD 1.5 million to bridge science-society divides

A new, $1.5 million research grant from the John Templeton Foundation (JTF), led by UW -Madison LSC professors and Morgridge Research Institute Investigators Dietram Scheufele and Dominique Brossard, ...

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So proud to be associated with the ADM+S www.admscentre.org.au/statement-of...

New article out today from me @snurb.bsky.social & @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleagues where we outline an extensible method stack for tracing link sharing practices on Facebook, to study the nature of problematic content throughout the platform https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051231196880

📜 Thinking outside the (poster) box 🧑‍🔬 Vicky Howe 📔 Leafing through Biology (Blog) 🔗 leafingthroughbiology.wordpress.com/2023/09/28/t... FEEDS: #PlantScience #SciComm #AcademicPublishing

Thinking outside the (poster) box

Science posters should be conversation-starters, not journal articles printed on A0 paper. It's time to get more creative with our poster making.

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