Yara Kyrychenko
@yarakyrychenko.bsky.social
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PhD candidate @Cambridge @TheAlanTuringInstitute | Hope to make human-technology interactions more constructive | intergroup conflict, AI & LLMs, misinfo, social media | yarakyrychenko.github.io
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yarakyrychenko.bsky.social
Thank you for all of your support Sander!!
yarakyrychenko.bsky.social
Excited to share that I’ve been shortlisted for the Women of the Future Awards in Artificial Intelligence! 🎉

awards.womenofthefuture.co.uk/our-alumni-c...
2025 - Women of the Future Awards
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profsanderlinden.bsky.social
Congratulations to @yarakyrychenko.bsky.social for being short-listed as a finalist for the Women of the Future Awards in AI! Yara is a massively brilliant scholar so proud 👏 🥳

"For eighteen years, the awards have shone a light on trailblazing women"

awards.womenofthefuture.co.uk/our-alumni-c...
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kobihackenburg.bsky.social
Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19  LLMs, 707 political issues.

We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more! 

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jayvanbavel.bsky.social
The combination of #artificialintelligence and #socialmedia poses a threat to democracy.

Our new paper explains how AI swarms can fabricate grassroots consensus, fragment shared reality, engage in mass harassment, interfer with elections, and erode institutional trust: osf.io/preprints/os...
yarakyrychenko.bsky.social
Excited to be part of the Riga StratCom Dialogue this year!
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danielequercia.bsky.social
Today at #TheWebConf: C3AI – Crafting & Evaluating Constitutions for AI

How should we actually write rules for AI?

C3AI provides a way to:
1. Design effective constitutions using psychology and public input.
2. Evaluate how well fine-tuned models actually follow the rules.
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profsanderlinden.bsky.social
Does communicating the scientific consensus on climate change inspire support for action? In a new meta-analysis of the GBM (n = 12,975) we find that scientific consensus increases support for climate action directly & indirectly across the political spectrum!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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profsanderlinden.bsky.social
Who is susceptible to misinformation? We looked at >60,000 people from 24 countries who took our MIST test. Key results: Gen Z are more susceptible & those on the extreme right (but they don't know it).

Led by the brill @yarakyrychenko.bsky.social & Fritz Götz

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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jay.bsky.team
Here’s my account on Flashes, a photo sharing app. All my followers can automatically find me as soon as they log in!

This is what we mean when we say Bluesky is open: your identity and followers belong to you. It took 30s to sign up for this new, independent app, and everything is there.
my profile page on flashes, a photo sharing app. recent photos i posted show up there in a grid display
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markfabian.bsky.social
Are you bored this weekend?

Can I interest you in some of the freshest thinking coming out of the academy today?

Try ePODstemology!

Our latest episode is Cambridge's Yara Kyrychenko on socially responsible AI.
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steveclimate.bsky.social
Great to see the Climate Change Committee (CCC) calling for public figures to “lead by example” on climate change, citing our research.

CCC says leading by example increases public buy-in and behaviour change @thecccuk.bsky.social

🚨So, we've made this new infographic showing how it works...
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janpfa.bsky.social
Out in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social

Can people tell true from false news?

Yes! Our meta-analysis shows that people rate true news as more accurate than false news (d = 1.12) and were better at spotting false news than at recognizing true news (d = 0.32).

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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tomcostello.bsky.social
Last year, we published a paper showing that AI models can "debunk" conspiracy theories via personalized conversations. That paper raised a major question: WHY are the human<>AI convos so effective? In a new working paper, we have some answers.

TLDR: facts

osf.io/preprints/ps...
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profsanderlinden.bsky.social
Absolute honor to receive the Vice-Chancellor's Research Impact Award. Thank you Prof Prentice & the whole panel. Our lab at Cambridge has been working many years empowering people to spot misinformation, reaching over half a billion people. Thanks for this recognition🙏 www.cam.ac.uk/public-engag...
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chrisbail.bsky.social
Tiktok boosted Republican messages 11.8% more than Democrat messages during the 2024 U.S. Presidential Race according to this new study that employed bots to view ~394,000 videos.
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markrubin.bsky.social
“There is no theory crisis in psychological science”

Few quotes…🧵
Numerous scholars believe that there is a crisis in psychology because of the “poor quality” of our theories. However, we believe that it is misleading to suggest that psychology is going through a “theory crisis” because the major shortcomings of theories in the field have been recognized for decades. More fundamentally, there is nothing temporary about the current state theory in the field. Theories in psychology and other social and behavioral sciences will always fall short of traditional scientific benchmarks because of the complexity of the topics that are studied and the problem of generality. In our view, the most recent recommendations for improving theory in psychology are limited in feasibleness. Following many scholars, we suggest that psychology should turn more to formal modeling to increase rigor and improve prediction. However, while models are potentially of great value to the field, they are not theories. Researchers need to accept the limitations inherent to the study of the complexity of social and behavioral phenomena and stop the unhelpful criticism of our field. They also need to recognize the cumulativeness of psychological theory and the enormous body of knowledge of psychological processes, structures, and effects that have been generated by research. Although theories in our field are often sketchy, they are indispensable in providing explanations for important phenomena, suggesting interventions and treatments for critical social and behavioral problems and facilitating the development of predictive models.
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orbenamy.bsky.social
🚨 My team is hiring an undergraduate intern (UK universities only) - a great opportunity, if I can say so myself!

Please share widely.

Want more info? See here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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profsanderlinden.bsky.social
In this new article in American Psychologist we respond to critics in detail and clarify two key points for the field;

(1) The prevalence of misinformation in society is substantial when properly defined.

(2) Misinformation causally impacts attitudes and behaviors.

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...