Racial justice movements like Black Lives Matter mean that the candidate pipeline of young Black and Latino Americans to run for office in the US is fuller than ever, find @nazita.bsky.social, Moa Mårtensson and Kåre Vernby on @lseusablog.bsky.social.

Racial justice movements mean that the candidate pipeline of young Black and Latino Americans is fuller than ever | LSE United States Politics and Policy

Black and Latino Americans, especially those who are Gen Z, are more likely than white Americans to want to run for office.

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🚨 Science-y BS used to push bunk! Scienceploitation! Scientific authority cues increase the spread of misinformation www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... "...these cues are associated with an increase in sharing, especially when sharing low veracity content, and when users lean politically to the right."

Scientific authority cues increase the spread of misinformation | PNAS

Despite extensive efforts to curb misinformation, it continues to spread on social media platforms. Research indicates that people rarely share con...

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A new study found that climate misinformation spikes during natural disasters, spreads through coordinated networks, and is amplified across low-moderation platforms such as Telegram. misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/ampl...

Amplifying the storm: Climate disinformation dynamics during natural disasters on right-wing extremist Telegram channels | HKS Misinformation Review

Climate change amplifies natural disasters, posing an existential threat to our society. However, a digital storm is raging on right-wing extremist Telegram channels where climate disinformation works...

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the real discrimination is doing anything to fight discrimination, you see apnews.com/article/eeoc...

US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years

The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment ...

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New from @thcallaghan.bsky.social & I at @amjpublichealth.bsky.social: We show that GOP lawmakers are responsible for a sharp increase in anti-vaccine bill introductions across state legislatures from 2019-2023. Article + replication data: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/epdf/10....

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American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)

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Contesting repression in divided democracies: Can counternarratives reduce support for police violence? by Yanilda María González and Natán Skigin is now available in Early View. @natanski.bsky.social ajps.org/2026/07/20/c...

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

Excited to share our new study. Upshot: The more rightward White adults place Jesus on the ideological spectrum, the more solidarity they feel with other Whites. BUT it's the opposite for Black adults: the more conservative the Jesus, the less racial solidarity they feel. 1/6 doi.org/10.1093/socr...

We've added a new design to the library, rated likely: 👍 Adding Balanced News In a 6-month experiment from @jonathanstray.bsky.social et al. inserting news from credible, ideologically balanced outlets into feeds reduced partisan animosity. www.prosocialdesign.org/library/addi...

Adding Balanced News – Prosocial Design Network

Reduce partisan animosity.

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New article out with @poqjournal.bsky.social 🚨 Not Your Mama’s Ideology (But Close): Modest Generational Differences in Ideological Alignment in Postcommunist Europe Ph.D. candidate Matej Jungwirth ( @matejjung.bsky.social ) @lenkahrbkova.bsky.social & @celytadeas.bsky.social

B. F. Skinner tried to test his teaching machines on Black children in Harlem to prove the product's profitability. Now this: "The school district serves roughly 1,300 students, including 32 percent who identify as American Indian or Alaska Native and 79 percent who are economically disadvantaged."

Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher

Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.

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Here's a little something that might interest a number of you in my network, part of a forum in the Journal of Public Policy: www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... Many thanks to editor Josh Ryan and the commentators Samuel Bagg, Tara Grillos, Agustin Markarian, and Mary Scudder!

The power of #LocalJournalism covering a critical global story.

Mission Local@missionlocal.org · 4w ago

Hundreds of people in San Francisco marched from tech company to tech company on Saturday, blasting OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google for barreling towards an AI future. They rallied under a giant "Stop the AI Race" banner. missionlocal.org/2026/07/san-...

It's conference season, so I wanted to share the AI refusal statement I put at the end of my presentations and book talks. Feel free to use it!

🚨New paper🚨w/@comatbu.bsky.social colleagues on building resilience to #misinformation: Both fact- and technique-based inoculations work, & apprehensive threat (anxiety about being persuaded) is the key mechanism. Published #OpenAccess in Science Communication. Link in replies. #Commsky #Sciencesky

🧵 New paper out in JPSP: Morality Cut Both Ways. Can reading facts make you moralize an issue — or lose a moral conviction? We ran 6 studies, 4,464 participants. The results were surprising. 👇 #MoralPsychology #Attitudes. @icedteas.bsky.social 1/8

"Some of the most consequential misunderstandings today may emerge not from false information, but from partial truths that appear complete simply because the framework producing them remains invisible."

LSE Impact@lseimpactblog.bsky.social · last mo.

💥New | Information literacy needs to be more than fact checking ✍️ Anupama Saini #InfoLit #FactChecking #Experts

Really engaging panel at #IAMCR2026 on #AI governance in educational & public institutions. I presented work on the governance-practice gap, arguing that AI literacy is increasingly shaped outside formal institutional frameworks, within platformised environments. (1/2)

Boy this was a long road, but glad it's finally out! @dgrand.bsky.social @robbwiller.bsky.social @arechar.bsky.social (along with Michael N. Stagnaro, James N. Druckman, not tagable)

Nature Human Behaviour@nathumbehav.nature.com · last mo.

Representativeness and response validity across nine opt-in online samples

Periodic reminder that publishing papers is not the goal in and of itself. The paper is a mechanism for sharing what you have learned--sharing processes and outcomes that others should be aware of/should think about too. 1/3

Louise Seamster@louiseseamster.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m reading another post about “I just wrote 10 papers and a grant and three books in a week with AI, academic work is over" and I’ll just say I’m still waiting to find the post from an academic that describes the time they spent happily **reading** AI-generated content vs spewing it out.

"We’re unlikely to lecture people away from using AI systems for news, and we’re equally unlikely to get platform companies to carve out huge exceptions for news; but we may be able to bend the systems and infrastructure that will underpin this landscape in the direction of the public good."

Gina Chua@ginaskchua.bsky.social · last mo.

What does an AI-intermediated future look like for news and public information? My theory, and thoughts about what do about it, in my latest post for the Tow-Knight Center at CUNY. A sort of season 1 recap of the whole substack. You're welcome. restructurednews.substack.com/p/whats-it-a...

"limitations of GDP make clear that economics alone cannot capture what human wellbeing looks like. With this in mind, the proposed indicators, championing the social sciences, include peace, human rights, planetary stability, health, work, education, security, and social cohesion."

LSE Impact@lseimpactblog.bsky.social · last mo.

💥New | The UN is advocating for a GDP alternative, can social science provide one? ✍️Megha Sud, Calder Tsuyuki-Tomlinson & @anna-abraham.bsky.social #GDP #SocialScience #EconSky @sciencecouncil.bsky.social

Join us at the 12th Annual Conference of The International Journal of Press/Politics, hosted at the National University of Singapore, 18-20 Nov 2026! Don’t miss your chance to share your research with leading scholars in the field! Submit your abstract: tinyurl.com/IJPP2026 Deadline: 26 June 26

When governments pass legislation recognizing marginalized groups, does public discourse actually follow? We tested this across 4 countries and 7 years of data. The answer: yes, but only under the right conditions. Work with Preetika Verma and YiTing Chen at @cnmnus.bsky.social

Nature Human Behaviour@nathumbehav.nature.com · 2mo ago

Decriminalizing same-sex relationships and its impact on social media discussions in Asia

Nearly half of @reutersinstitute.bsky.social DNR respondents say they prefer getting news from sources that don’t have a particular point of view. But can public demand for impartial news survive platforms and polarization? Read my chapter here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...

Fraud detection critical to online health research, study finds Useful study by my UCR colleague @drswole.bsky.social and collaborators for a variety of fields that use online surveys with hard(er) to reach populations. (Study link in the story) 🛟 sociology polisky policy 😷 idsky

Fraud detection critical to online health research, study finds

While online research is a useful way to reach people who may not take part in in-person studies, researchers are increasingly concerned that fake, automated, and duplicate survey responses can reduce...

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People behave differently toward male versus female-labelled AI agents. It shows that biases in human-AI interaction come both from the technology and from users projecting existing social stereotypes onto machines. @tahayasseri.bsky.social @cuihaosabrina.bsky.social for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

Gendered AI design reflects and reinforces society’s biases - LSE Impact

When AI tools are designed with a gender, they don't just encode gendered values they also encourage users to engage with them in biased ways.

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What happens when you ask an AI chatbot for political information? In experiments with ChatGPT, Grok, and DeepSeek, we show that even implicit demographic and ideological cues embedded in AI chats shape the news and frames users receive. Study here: osf.io/preprints/so... @zachdickson.bsky.social

What if polling organizations aren’t just passive recorders of political sentiment but also shape the agendas of other policy institutions? Qian Zhang @peterenns.bsky.social and I ask this question in @psjeditor.bsky.social (open access) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library

Polling organizations, like other policy actors, must prioritize certain issues. We argue that, for normative and financial reasons, pollsters prioritize issues that are viewed as important by other ...

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“I think [GenAI] will accelerate conversations around what the design of school systems will look like to best embrace more holistic learning for students, opposed to just knowledge transfer...” I hope these companies realize they entering into conversations that have been happening for 50+ years.

‘All or Nothing’ Approach to AI ‘Risks Shutting Down Innovation’

The head of learning initiatives for Google Deepmind says debates about use of new technologies should focus on how to embrace more holistic teaching methods.

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