The #ICA Science Communication Interest Group debuted strongly in Cape Town. Looking forward, however, @johnbesley.bsky.social & Jenni Metcalfe also encourage more focus on connecting research to the needs of practitioners and communities. #scicomm doi.org/10.22323/430...

International Communication Association meeting in Cape Town, South Africa: a promising start and a practitioner challenge for science communication

The new Science Communication Interest Group (SCIG) of the International Communication Association (ICA) met for the first time on June 5–8, 2026, in Cape Town, South Africa. Presenters shared a diver...

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Fabulous #ECC2026 / #ECREA2026 panel on polarisation in climate change debates, also involving my @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleagues Carly Lubicz & sam vilkins Liveblog here:

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European Communication Conference, Brno, 7-11 Sep. 2026

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Congratulations to the project “The Advantage of Big Team Science: Lessons Learned From Cognitive Science,” which received🏆2026 SIPS commendation! It offers a synthesis of strategies for successfully navigating the BTS landscape, including logistical, ethical, and epistemological challenges.

Macht der Ton die Musik? @nielsmede.bsky.social und @sophiavolk.bsky.social haben untersucht, wie Hochschulkommunikation mit Kritik und Angriffen umgeht. Außerdem im #Wisskomm-Forschungsrückblick: Erkenntnisse zur Watchdog-Funktion des Journalismus 👇 www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/warum-es-wat...

Warum es Watchdog-Journalismus schwer hat: Neues aus der Forschung

Vor welchen Herausforderungen stehen Journalist*innen, die die Wissenschaft kritisch unter die Lupe nehmen? Und wie gehen Hochschulkommunikator*innen mit öffentlichem Backlash um – von legitimer Kriti...

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New @nature.com collection on #trust in #science! A little anecdote from my conference travels opens the editorial – and in @helenpearson.bsky.social’s feature story I share my thoughts on what surveys (don’t) tell us about a “crisis of trust in science” and implications for #science #communication💡

Helen Pearson@helenpearson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: Is there a 'crisis' of public trust in science? It can feel that way — with attacks on research in the US and growing rejection of vaccines. I investigated for @nature.com - and found some surprises. My feature article is out today and a short🧵here www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social) Do opinion polls shape election results? Using both cross-national data and a survey experiment, the answer we find is yes - though it depends on how we communicate polling results. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

In the second panel of day 2 on #ICA26 @nielsmede.bsky.social presents his @ddc-sdu.bsky.social * TrygFonden study in which we looked at science-related harassment- and the role of counterspeech for how bystanders perceive such attacks in 🇩🇰🇩🇪🇺🇲🇬🇧

Was bedeutet Wissenschaftsbezogener Populismus? Im Interview erklärt @nielsmede.bsky.social von der @w-u-r.bsky.social, was das Konzept beinhaltet, wie man solche Einstellungen messen kann und warum wir sie ernst nehmen sollten. www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/antiwissensc... #Wisskomm

„Antiwissenschaftliche Ansichten können systemische Folgen haben“

Wissenschaftsbezogener Populismus ist ein Nischenphänomen – aber ein lautes. Warum wir es ernst nehmen sollten und wie man es erforschen kann, erzählt Kommunikationswissenschaftler Niels Mede im Inter...

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New paper🎈: Lessons Learned from Big Team Science Projects in Cognitive Science in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... We share practical, experience-based strategies for running large-scale collaborations - from project structure to ethics, funding, & AI use.

Plenary Session 1 #EUA2026AC Universities and democracy: rethinking relationships of trust 🎙️ Maximilian Conrad, @haskoliislands.bsky.social 🎙️ @nielsmede.bsky.social, Wageningen University & Research 🎙️ Sijbolt Noorda, University of Amsterdam 🎙️Daciana Pop, @esuonline.bsky.social

📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v16 & the V-Dem Institute Democracy Report 2026 💾 The V-Dem Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d... 📰 The Report "Unraveling The Democratic Era?”: v-dem.net/publications... 📈 Explore the new data with the V-Dem Graphing tools: v-dem.net/graphing/gra... #PoliSky #PoliSciSky 1/3

Wow, what a surprise at @etmaal2026.bsky.social: I received @nefca.bsky.social's Young Scholar Award 2026. I am honored and grateful to the jury — and for all the colleagues I’ve worked with. The work this award recognizes was not a solo run, but a series of highly enjoyable #team efforts with you 🫶

"Drawing on a 20.3-million-query audit of ChatGPT, we map systematic biases in the model's representations of countries, states, cities, and neighbourhoods. From these empirics, we argue that bias is not a correctable anomaly but an intrinsic feature of generative AI”. ht: Dagmar Monett

The silicon gaze: A typology of biases and inequality in LLMs through the lens of place - Francisco W. Kerche, Matthew Zook, Mark Graham, 2026

This paper introduces the concept of the silicon gaze to explain how large language models (LLMs) reproduce and amplify long-standing spatial inequalities. Draw...

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‘Public trusts university-based scientists more than others’. Public Attitudes to Science survey finds faith in government and private-sector researchers has fallen. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

‘Public trusts university-based scientists more than others’ - Research Professional News

Public Attitudes to Science survey finds faith in government and private-sector researchers has fallen

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📣 In our next research seminar, @nielsmede.bsky.social from @w-u-r.bsky.social will talk about 'Public opinion and communication about science: Global evidence from a 68-country survey'. 📅 Friday, 23/1/2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CET) 📌 Online & at CWTS www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Public opinion and communication about science: Global evidence from a 68-country survey

For science communication to achieve informed citizenries and meaningful public engagement with science, it is instrumental to analyse how people perceive scientists and communicate about science. How...

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Looking forward to visiting @unileiden.bsky.social and speaking in the research seminar series of @cwtsnl.bsky.social this Friday. Come to CWTS or join online! 👇

CWTS | Leiden University@cwts.nl · 8mo ago

📣 In our next research seminar, @nielsmede.bsky.social from @w-u-r.bsky.social will talk about 'Public opinion and communication about science: Global evidence from a 68-country survey'. 📅 Friday, 23/1/2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CET) 📌 Online & at CWTS www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Interesting paper in incentice effects, with nice descriptives like this one that shows that surveys are alive and kicking

The Review of Economic Studies (REStud)@reveconstudies.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"Survey incentives can worsen bias! Randomized incentives help detect & account for nonresponse bias. Methods using both incentives & reminders outperform existing approaches." New paper by Dutz, Huitfeldt, Lacouture, Mogstad, Torgovitsky & van Dijk www.restud.com/selection-in... #EconSky #REStud

Join our Replicability Project: Health Behavior! We have 55 replication studies underway, our target is 65-70. We are only recruiting for secondary data replications--i.e., using existing data to test the original question. Here's a list of studies we think could be feasible. If interested...

Replications Sourcing Sheet

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New Paper in @computationalcommunication.org The Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020-2022 with the most wonderful co-autohors @buehling.bsky.social & @maxzehring.bsky.social >> 2020-2022 >> 715 channels & 229 public groups >> 5,641,026 messages >> Manually curated >> Open for researchers

In line with the 'credibility revolution', we are thinking about research designs that allow us to get closer to causal effects. Those who use surveys have often turned to survey experiments. At the same time, survey response rates have dropped considerably. Below are the figures for the ESS.

Fake DOI-like strings are increasingly common. Learn how to check whether a DOI is valid, how prefixes work, and more. https://tinyurl.com/599yk8yv #metadata #research #funders #librarians #community

🧵 1/ 🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE! w/ @caropradier.bsky.social @benzpierre.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social @ipoga.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social We studied 43k authors and 264k citation links in U.S. economics to ask: 👉 Why do some papers cite others? 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Fake expert and pseudo-scientist labels are increasingly used in science and public debates to delegitimize actors or claims, often in the context of misinformation 📰 In our newest publication in Communication Theory we explore what such terms actually mean. 👇

📰 Quantitative research on science communication requires suitable data. When it comes to academic press releases, that data is scarce. In a new paper, we introduce a dataset of more than 500,000 press releases published on @eurekalert.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

An open dataset of EurekAlert! press releases for science communication research - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - An open dataset of EurekAlert! press releases for science communication research

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📢 Call for Papers! Theme: “Dark Side” of social conversations around science Join us for the #ICA2026 preconference hosted on 2 June 2026 in Stellenbosch. ✅ No registration fee (limited to 60 participants) 🗓 Submission deadline: 2 Feb 2026 Details & submit: www.imidibaniso.co.za/ica-pre-conf...

Trust in science is increasingly being studied across the globe—which is good news. However, expanding geographic coverage alone isn’t enough. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

🎉 The PolComm Database Dashboard is live! The database content is now available in an interactive dashboard: a milestone since launching submissions at #ICA25 in Denver. Explore this resource here 👉 politicalcommunication.org/resources/

@matthewfacciani.bsky.social, co-author of our latest study on science communication behavior in 68 countries, just published a blog post with a great summary of the main results. Check it out! ⬇️

Matthew Facciani@matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 11mo ago

How do people around the world encounter science, and what shapes those encounters? Our new global study found that social media now carries much of the world’s science content, but local culture, infrastructure, and curiosity still determine how people engage. #ScienceSky #scicomm

How do people around the world encounter science, and what shapes those encounters? Our new global study found that social media now carries much of the world’s science content, but local culture, infrastructure, and curiosity still determine how people engage. #ScienceSky #scicomm

How the World Talks About Science

Our new international study finds that science communication looks very different depending on culture, media systems, and access to technology.

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Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/

AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…

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