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Emma Hoes @emmahoes.bsky.social · 4d

🚨 New paper 🚨

Sexually explicit deepfakes 🤖 hurt politicians on almost all fronts...

This is the case ***even*** when people realized the image wasn't real 🤯, and effects are stronger for male 👨 than female 👩 candidates

Link to preprint: tinyurl.com/pnnkhfks

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Emma Hoes @emmahoes.bsky.social · Jul 28

This is a working paper. Feedback very much welcome! @sachaltay.bsky.social

Emma Hoes @emmahoes.bsky.social · Jul 28

What about debriefings in Misinformation Research?

✅ Only specific debriefings reduce belief in false info
⚠️ Both slightly reduce belief in true info
🧠 Only specific boosts perceived learning
🟢 Only general reduces manipulation & frustration
🔍 Both increase transparency

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Emma Hoes @emmahoes.bsky.social · Jun 27

On this hot, sunny day in Madrid 🌞 during EPSA - happy to see this out in Nature Human Behavior 🚀

We show that, with the right incentives, social media cán do good!

Sacha Altay @sachaltay.bsky.social · Jun 27

🚨 Now out in Nature Human Behaviour 🚨

We show that following the news on WhatsApp or Instagram (N = 3,395 🇫🇷🇩🇪) increases current affairs knowledge, participants’ ability to discern true from false news stories, awareness of true news stories, as well as trust in the news.

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Fabrizio Gilardi @fgilardi.bsky.social · Apr 17

Just published in @pnas.org

@emmahoes.bsky.social and I find that people are far more concerned about AI’s immediate harms than about speculative existential risks. Doomsday talk raises concern about catastrophic outcomes but doesn’t reduce worry about today’s risks

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Emma Hoes @emmahoes.bsky.social · Apr 17

🚨New paper out in @pnas.org with @fgilardi.bsky.social !

Existential AI risks do **not** distract from immediate harms. In our study (n = 10,800), people consistently prioritize current threats - bias, misinformation, job loss - over sci-fi doom!

💥👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Emma Hoes @emmahoes.bsky.social · Mar 11

Reminder to apply for the EUI Alumni Conference (also open to EUI PhDs and fellows)! Deadline is this Friday, March 14th. Looking forward!

EUI Alumni Association @eui-alumni.bsky.social · Feb 6

🎓Delighted to announce that the 2025 annual EUI Alumni Association will take place on 11th of June on "Reimagining the Role of Academia in Challenging Times" - The call for proposals is open to EUI Alumni and the EUI community! @eui-eu.bsky.social

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Emma Hoes @emmahoes.bsky.social · Mar 3

Looking forward to be presenting joint work in progress with @klueserthan.bsky.social and @sachaltay.bsky.social on ‘The Hidden Politics of Social Media’

Álvaro Canalejo-Molero @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social · Mar 3

🎉 The lineup for the Spring 2025 Brown Bag Seminar at PolSem – @uniluzern.bsky.social is set!

🗺️This year, we are opening up to external presenters for the first time, and it has been a great success.

Excited to host them and looking forward to the discussions ahead! Check the calendar below 👇

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Emma Hoes @emmahoes.bsky.social · Feb 27

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Emma Hoes @emmahoes.bsky.social · Feb 27

A car attack in Munich just days before the election-was it a game-changer? Politico speculated it could boost the AfD, but the results tell a different story. Our research on the Utrecht attack shows why voters often rally around incumbents instead: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Prominence over proximity? Terror attacks’ impact on party preferences | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Prominence over proximity? Terror attacks’ impact on party preferences - Volume 16 Issue 1

www.cambridge.org

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Emma Hoes @emmahoes.bsky.social · Feb 14

Thanks for the feedback! That’s exactly one of the things I was wondering, whether it is possible to append PID and other information to the survey URL in case participants are forwarded to another platform/directed back to the survey?

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Emma Hoes @emmahoes.bsky.social · Feb 13

Are you happy with questionpro? Discovered anything you cannot do that was possible with Qualtrics?

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Emma Hoes @emmahoes.bsky.social · Feb 13

Any tips/recommendations are welcome!

P.S. Is Qualtrics pricing itself out of the academic market purposefully, you think?

Fabrizio Gilardi @fgilardi.bsky.social · Feb 13

Fellow academics: what are your experiences with renewing Qualtrics contracts (institutional or individual)? We’re seeing absolutely outrageous price increases.

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Benjamin von Wyl @benjaminvonwyl.bsky.social · Feb 10

Social media fragmentation: do online platforms drown democracy in noise? feat. @hannesbajohr.de & @emmahoes.bsky.social
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/democrac...

Social media fragmentation: do online platforms drown democracy in noise?

With artificial intelligence set to potentially flood the internet with content, is it all over for a harmonious digital public sphere?

www.swissinfo.ch

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Emma Hoes @emmahoes.bsky.social · Feb 7

To my fellow former or current EUI members —> The EUI Alumni Association is now also on BlueSky 👋 @eui-alumni.bsky.social

Make sure to follow and apply for the Alumni Conference on the Role of Academia in Challenging times on June 11th in beautiful Florence 🌞

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EUI Alumni Association @eui-alumni.bsky.social · Feb 6

🎓Delighted to announce that the 2025 annual EUI Alumni Association will take place on 11th of June on "Reimagining the Role of Academia in Challenging Times" - The call for proposals is open to EUI Alumni and the EUI community! @eui-eu.bsky.social

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Emma Hoes @emmahoes.bsky.social · Jan 30

“[…] the tech panic isn’t based on evidence. It’s based on vibes.”

Refreshing read, this piece in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot

Is screen use really sapping our ability to focus and lowering our IQs? The scientists who have actually analysed the data give their verdict

www.theguardian.com

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Polcom Vienna @polcomvienna.bsky.social · Dec 11

Exciting news ✨ The new Vienna Doctoral College for Digital Humanism has 5 open PhD positions, one of them based in our very own POLCOM group. Thinking of applying, or know someone who might be interested? All info can be found 🔗 t.ly/836lz

Sophie Lecheler @solecheler.bsky.social · Dec 11

⭐ CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 5 open PhD Positions at the newly founded Vienna Doctoral College for Digital Humanism, funded by the WWTF, @univie.ac.at , Technische Universität Wien and WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business).

All information here:
t.ly/836lz

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Emma Hoes @emmahoes.bsky.social · Dec 7

With the exception of the last one, literally everything I had to read long time ago for a BA minor in political philosophy

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Emma Hoes @emmahoes.bsky.social · Dec 4

Perhaps this one could be of interest too: osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

osf.io

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Maël Kubli @maelkubli.bsky.social · Dec 2

🚨 New publication alert in PSRM! 🚨

Our latest paper examines gender bias in media coverage of elections and the factors influencing it.

Read more: doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

With @fgilardi.bsky.social y.social & @gessler.bsky.social

Advocacy campaigns and gender bias in media coverage of elections | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core

Advocacy campaigns and gender bias in media coverage of elections

www.cambridge.org

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Fabrizio Gilardi @fgilardi.bsky.social · Nov 24

Regarding monetization, this article may be relevant:

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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · Nov 20

A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter

mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science - Mike Young Academy

Scientific Twitter is about to find its true successor. And it is not X. This, our latest release, shows that the Bluesky network of scientists is growing — and growing.

mikeyoungacademy.dk

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Nov 19

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉

We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

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