Michelle Riedlinger

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! 🎉

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.

Great directing @snurb.info !

Michelle holding a copy of the Generative AI and Journalism report and T.J holding a box of reports.

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...

First class @cazuarina.bsky.social

Reaping the rewards of all that labour!

Screenshot of article in PLOS ONE titled "From impact metrics and open science to communicating research: Journalists' awareness of academic controversies"

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

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.

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...

Wow! I didn’t remember that there WAS a 1996 Australian @pcstnetwork.bsky.social shirt!

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."

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.

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...

🤖 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 🧪

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...

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...

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....

So glad you are here Ronnie. We’re picking up our new adopted rescue greyhound tomorrow…is this too much?…or not nearly enough?

“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”

The loyal and caring icon of style

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.

📊 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

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/...

Cartoon which mimics The Great Wave off Kanagawa, but the wave is made of research papers and the boat is full of lab coated researchers

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"

Cover of 2025 Kudelka calendar with a sketchy bird on it

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...

Easily imagining you saying, “Hello possums!”

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie.

M/C Journal ‘artificial’ issue cover image

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…)

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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! 💬✨

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