Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
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We have a lovely new paper out, showing that even ignorant people can be very good at recognising who's knowledgeable based on minimal cues
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Author-Paid PublicationFees Corrupt Science and Should Be Abandoned
Thomas J. H Morgan & Paul E. Smaldino
As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...
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... Intergroup-related, emotional (positive/negative), and especially visual content amplify shares, comments, and reactions.
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Sharing, commenting, and reacting to Danish misinformation:...
Social media facilitate a competition for users’ limited attention by bringing various content together, from health advice to entertainment, and...
✏️ New paper in Nordicom Review ✏️
Studying Danish misinformation, we found that threat-related information is the most prevalent type - but it doesn't boost engagement. Instead...
📖 Available open access:
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New cultural evolution modelling paper with @bdecourson.bsky.social on @pnas.org!
"Weak individual preferences stabilize culture"
A quick 🧵
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at University of Amsterdam
Studying the intersection of AI, social media, and politics.
Polarization, misinformation, radicalization, digital platforms, social complexity.
Doctoral Researcher at @Karolinska Institutet | Studying social learning and social networks | Computational modeling
Exploring the intersection of culture, evolution, psychology and anthropology. We study how culture and evolution shape human behaviour and society
Professor of Computational Communication Science @univie.ac.at @compcommlab
Public sphere, complexity, networks, data science.
The Young Academy is a scientific academy for young talented researchers in Denmark. It was established in 2011 under The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
Postdoc interested in evolution/neurobiology/cognition/behavior of humans & other animals, currently studying digital media psychology with Alberto Acerbi
Chancellor’s Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Director Heritage Minds Lab. Philip Leverhulme Prize 2022. PI @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social. Researching the intersections between Heritage, Data, and the Politics of the Past
Postdoc at Aarhus University, studying political interactions @PEERPOL Project and @ROPH Project.
PhD on the causes and consequences of empathy between political opponents.
Personal page: https://leapradella.github.io/
Political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania. Prof: http://goo.gl/qAOlH9 538: http://goo.gl/1iwZJs
The American Political Science Association (APSA) is the leading professional organization for the study of political science.
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The Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies at Aarhus University connects and supports free, independent research across all scientific disciplines for scholars from across the world. Follow AIAS for frontier research, events & fellowships.
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Anthropologist @ Aarhus University, director @aiasdk.bsky.social
Danish/European, He/him.
The Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) is a leading research institute in Communication Science 📍 @FMG_UvA @UvA_Amsterdam
Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com
Professor of Communication & Political Science. NH to PHL. Improv comedian. Author: “Irony and Outrage” (OUP 2020), “Wrong” (JHU 2023). My views and mine alone.
WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/dgoldyoung/home
Research, writing, talks in audio media studies and digital audio culture: Audiobooks, podcasts, TTS/STT, headphones culture, listening publics, digital audio archives, writing with voices and reading with ears. Calm, quiet, pauses. Music, sound, and voice
Day job = Associate Prof. of Political Science at UC Berkeley. Tweets = personal views.
Associate Professor of Political Science and Statistics & Data Science at Yale. Pittsburgh native. 🏳️🌈
Dekan for Arts, Aarhus Universitet
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