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
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!
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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
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)
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💫 New paper!
@elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social, @theresmatthiess.bsky.social
& I are happy to see our new paper published in open access with the @ejprjournal.bsky.social
Do group-targeted campaign pledges pay off electorally?
We test this with a preregistered survey experiment in Germany.
“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.
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...
This effect, however, weakens if polling uncertainty is clearly communicated to voters.
Using a survey experiment conducted in Austria, we show that visualizing party-specific margins of error significantly increases vote intentions for parties polling just below the threshold.
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/...
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
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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...
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.
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 ...
Decriminalizing same-sex relationships and its impact on social media discussions in Asia
Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02485-6Legal reforms decriminalizing same-sex relations in Asia led to modest normative changes, reflected in reduced online moral judgement and improved offline perceptions of neighbourhood safety, particularly among younger populations.
