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🚨New in Nature Computational Science @NatComputSci! 🚨 Do large language models (LLMs) exhibit social identity biases like humans? (co-lead by @tiancheng_hu, together with @steverathje2, Nigel Collier, @Sander_vdLinden, and Jon Roozenbeek) 1/ nature.com/articles/s4358…

🚨@tiancheng_hu, @YaraKyrychenko, @steverathje2, @nigelhcollier, @Sander_vdLinden and colleagues show that LLMs exhibit social identity biases similar to humans. @CambridgeLTL @CSDMLab @Cambridge_Uni @Gates_Cambridge nature.com/articles/s4358…

Sharing this feels vulnerable but meaningful. 💛 In this piece for @Nature, I reflect on having 3 children during my PhD - why I’d do it all over again, but also why academia shouldn’t make it this hard for parents to thrive.🍼🎓@Momademia 🔗nature.com/articles/d4158…

Combining PhD life at @Cambridge_Uni @CambPsych with having three children would never have been possible without the unwavering support of my incredible supervisor, @Sander_vdLinden. 🙏 I’m so grateful for the understanding and encouragement he’s shown me over these past years.

Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg worried that choosing to have children during her graduate studies might signal a lack of career dedication go.nature.com/4eE3CRz

Thank you to Jon Roozenbeek (@Kingspsychol, @warstudies, @CSDMLab) for delivering an excellent talk on 'The Psychology of Misinformation' for our annual University of Strathclyde Psychology Public Engagement Lecture last night @StrathThemes

🚀 Exciting news! In our latest preprint, led by the brilliant @BiddlePsych, we reveal that actively open-minded thinking (AOT) is a game-changer for spotting #misinformation 🔍. Even better, we can boost AOT through #inoculation 💉!

Misinformation Decided the US Election project-syndicate.org/commentary/202… "Polling data show that Donald Trump’s supporters were deeply misinformed about most of the campaign’s defining issues." "If the answer is that more than half of the electorate wants to be misinformed, America – and indeed human civilization – is in serious trouble." by @delong via @ProSyn #ScienceUpFirst

Misinformation really does spread like a virus, suggest mathematical models drawn from epidemiology theconversation.com/misinformation… "Foreign disinformation has grown in sophistication and scope since the 2016 US election." "...a combination of interventions can be effective in reducing the spread of misinformation." by @Sander_vdLinden @drg1985🙏via @ConversationUK

Listen to @Cambridge_Uni's @Sander_vdLinden on @BBCNews discussing #ElectionMisinformation in US #election2024 & the critical need for #Prebunking it. More on this work from Mitchell Linegar, Sander, @BetsySinclair1 & @CaltechLCSSP's @rmichaelalvarez: youtu.be/oa4DL-q1_YU?fe…

Prebunking guide

Comparing misinformation to a virus is both accurate and useful in preventing its spread | Sander van der Linden In response to a recent article in The Skeptic, Sander van der Linden argues there is value and validity to a misinformation-as-virus analogy skeptic.org.uk/2024/11/compar…

Great talk with @Sander_vdLinden and must watch for anyone interested in misinformation, disinformation and combating it. Maybe or maybe not with a hint of some political stuff happening soon...