How do audiences follow news on climate change?

This is the question at the heart of a report by @waqasejaz.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social based on survey data from 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇵🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

Read here: https://buff.ly/4jwvTNG
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Do ppl trust #GenAI as a source in #sciencecommunication?

Paper in @jscicom.bsky.social w/ #BKremer @liliannf.bsky.social @nielsmede.bsky.social:
jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

➡️Germans sceptical about #GenAI in #scicomm
➡️46% of population don't trust it
➡️Trust in GenAI linked to trust in science

💭 "Es sollte immer okay sein, sich eine Pause zu gönnen."

Mit annabelle habe ich darüber gesprochen, wie wir Nachrichten konsumieren können, ohne unser Wohlbefinden zu gefährden.

📖 Zum Interview: www.annabelle.ch/leben/politi...

Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
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Verdrängen öffentliche Medien wie die SRG private Medien, wenn es um Online-Nachrichten geht?
Unsere Studie zeigte: nein.
👇 Zusammenfassung der Resultate, Stand der Forschung - und Diskussion der Kritik an unserer Studie.
@markeisenegger.bsky.social @sfuerst.bsky.social

medien.epd.de/article/2560

How do autocrats stay in power?

Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇

New study with Nils Bienzeisler. Based on experiments in three controversies, we show that an attitudinal polarization of trust in science can be mitigated when scientists adopt the styles of honest brokers versus that of epistocrats when giving public policy advice, i.e.... (1/2).

Cheers to Vin, @bnbakker.bsky.social, Neil, and @ylelkes.bsky.social for this. Much needed.

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