Ryan Moore

Interested in learning more about the iSchool PhD program? Join us for one of our upcoming PhD info sessions, 10/28 bit.ly/3IYDWWg and 10/30 bit.ly/3Lpvq34

This should be in the museum of chart crimes

🚨 New Preprint! 🚨 “Detecting Synthetic, Doubting Authentic: AI Attribution Bias for Political Imagery” 📍 Link: osf.io/preprints/osf/… 🧵 During the 2024 U.S. presidential election, many #GenAI political images appeared. But did voters mistake them for authentic? (1/)

Out in Nature Human Behaviour 🔥 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).

I am very honored to have received the 2024 Emerging Scholar Award from @PsychScience @APSStudent. I want to take this opportunity to thank all my mentors and colleagues at @StanfordPsych and in the broader psych science community! psychologicalscience.org/news/2024-july…

@lindsaypopowski huge congratulations, Lindsay! Amazing!

feeling very honored/grateful/proud. I’ve got a lot of good people in my corner in the day-to-day, but a little external validation doesn’t hurt!

[Please RT] I’m recruiting PhD students to work with me at @UW! I’m looking for students passionate about developing new *social media algorithms*, both broadly and within the scope of this NSF grant: tinyurl.com/395yfphd More info: faculty.washington.edu/msaveski/ @UW / @UW_iSchool

✨New from @RyanMooreInfo me @peterforberg @jeffhancock in #CSCW2024. We take a mixed-methods approach to studying American's exposure to QAnon, finding those on the political extremes are most likely to be exposed, but with distinct types of consumers dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

Excited to present this work at #CSCW2024 @ACM_CSCW next week in Costa Rica! Please reach out if you’re interested in chatting. I’m especially keen to connect with folks who are working at the intersection of aging and tech.

Our NIMH-funded grant on teen social media use & mental health with innovative data & methods is looking for a full-time research coordinator! Come work with us on this cool project! Please spread the word 📢📢 hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365401

Have you ever worried that no one would respond to your message? Our #CSCW2024 paper proposes a commitment-based design in online groups to address this: arxiv.org/abs/2410.23267 (with @zhangyt0704 and @msbernst )

5 biggest challenges facing misinformation researchers science.org/content/articl… 1) Defining it 2) Everything is political 3) Harms hard to pin down 4) Companies own the data 5) The problem is global I would add (related to #3), what's the direction of causation? Do people use misinformation to justify a position they already hold (e.g., part of a community that embraces) or did the misinformation lead to the belief? (Guess: complex & shifting combo). by @kakape via @ScienceMagazine cc @Sander_vdLinden @STWorg @doritmi @DG_Rand @katestarbird @jonathanstea @ScienceUpFirst @MediaSmarts

One week until Election Day! If you're around the Stanford campus next Tuesday, join @rutheappel @ryanmooreinfo and me for our "Data Science & Democracy Day" presentation hosted by @StanfordData datascience.stanford.edu/events/seminar…

How many Americans encountered QAnon during the 2020 presidential election? As many as 9.5 million, according to research from @RyanMooreInfo @Ross_Dahlke @peterforberg and @jeffhancock published in #CSCW2024. But who was exposed? Read on: tinyurl.com/2x4ekrfe-cscw2…

1 thing I wish I could've added: moving to a more realistic “supply” of false news – skewing right, instead of balanced by slant – helps align findings from lab and field (shoutout @BernhardClemm). I wrote up a little extra supplement laying this out osf.io/r6wzs

We're hiring! Two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions available to start in Fall 2025: ischool.utexas.edu/about/jobs - Assistant Professor in Building Human-Centered, Ethical, and Responsible AI Systems - Assistant Professor in Cultural Heritage Informatics #higheredjobs

Can collaboration ameliorate our weaknesses in detecting misinformation? Our new @PNASNexus paper w/@angelaylee374 @RyanMooreInfo @CidDecatur Sunny Xun Liu & @jeffhancock suggests a promising collaborative approach to combat misinformation (1/10). doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…

🚨 Strengthening Americans’ Democratic Attitudes🚨 For the last 4 years, we crowdsourced and tested ideas for ⬇️ antidemocratic attitudes & partisan animosity. A 🧵 on all papers, published/IP @ScienceMagazine (🆕tinyurl.com/sdcsci🆕), @PNASNews (2x), @NatureHumBehav (2x).

Now out in Annals of @BehavioralMed. Health-focused lit tips caused undue skepticism of accurate news (vs generic & control). Prior misperceptions explain lots of variance in novel cancer news discernment & treatment effects are strongest in high-misperception group