@jevinwest

Assoc. Professor @UW_iSchool, Co-founder of Center for an Informed Public @uwcip. I study misinformation in science & society. Book:

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Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

@CT_Bergstrom and I wrote a general-audience book on how to spot and refute misinformation, especially the kind wrapped in data.

Coming Aug. 4th, available here: https://t.co/b0P3ny9w67

[Shahan @shahanmemon]

Honored to be quoted alongside my advisor @jevinwest in the latest @Nature news article by @dcastelvecchi! It’s exciting to contribute to the conversation on @SakanaAILabs’s AI scientist and automating science in general. Check it out here: https://t.co/JjPpC76nS8

A full commentary is coming soon.

Sharing one of the preliminary results related to popularity bias in cited references with AI generated papers disproportionately citing highly cited papers (~26000 citations per paper on average) in comparison to human written papers (~7500 citations) — an observation that was recently made by @jimmykoppel as well.

#AcademicTwitter #Science @SciencePlusAI #ScienceOfAIMediatedScience

[Shahan @shahanmemon]

🧵@jevinwest and I recently wrote a commentary: "Search engines post-#ChatGPT: How generative artificial intelligence could make search less reliable."

We discuss 6 critical issues as search engines transition from "helping" you find the answer to "answering" your question.

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https://t.co/3tPBgvu9Qe: new non-partisan, non-profit effort to detect manipulated media https://t.co/kj8iyy8FFm via @GeekWire

[toddbishop @toddbishop]

New nonpartisan AI nonprofit @truemediadotorg, led by Oren @Etzioni and backed by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp (@gc), is making a political deepfake detector https://t.co/nQ4DM5CEYd via @GeekWire

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The Misguided War on the SAT https://t.co/mYZTwzWfTD

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Ironic that Ioannidis led a study on extremely productive authors, which "has become worryingly common across scientific fields." From my count he has published more than 150 papers in the last 2 years. That is about a paper every 5 days. https://t.co/3Lw610Hcvm

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Silicon Valley hype oozes from this video (eg, ‘understanding of science’, ‘reasoning capabilities’, ‘reads 200k papers’) but the re-graphing tool is pretty nice. If it can do that consistently and reliably, worth trying out. https://t.co/q1OZx52RnK via @YouTube

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Press Forward Will Award More Than $500 Million to Revitalize Local News https://t.co/mIQC33NSN0

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Frightening how easy disinformation has become: https://t.co/lfWPyyhpjK via @YouTube

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Have large language models developed analogical reasoning skills? Maybe, but our simple experiments demonstrate otherwise: https://t.co/X8RDQQEwmg

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Congress escalates push for disinformation researchers’ private documents https://t.co/kkHymOzjX3

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Suspensions of prominent accounts minimally impact platform engagement https://t.co/oTRMBz6KqN via @OSFramework

[Tom Hope @Hoper_Tom]

🧐Can language models generate new scientific ideas?
Introducing contextualized literature-based discovery (C-LBD):
1. (L)LMs are given specific contexts/motivations + retrieved *inspirations* from papers💡
2. Goal is to generate text with novel hypotheses.
New preprint: 🧵⬇️

[Calling Bullshit @callin_bull]

Science published a hopelessly credulous news story entitled "Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common" about one of the worst preprints we've seen in years.

This is some next-level bullshit. Over at Mastodon, a full thread: https://t.co/9CfIxS30y8

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Searching the web for science: how small mistakes create big problems https://t.co/TAQTtok8fh

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The chatbot era: Better or worse off? My two cents, as it relates to misinformation. https://t.co/UE3FvNY7dK via @seattletimes

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Utah’s social media for kids law could be coming to a state near you https://t.co/tUXwCZjAwT via @voxdotcom

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Can Humans Find Common Ground? Sure. Just Start With Sea Slugs. https://t.co/wEhEi2HyKk

[Consensus @consensusapp]

"I’ve wanted to type questions into a search bar and, in seconds, read the consensus from decades of scientific research. Such a tool is already in development and is called Consensus." @DKThomp

AI is redefining search. Sign up at https://t.co/zh713NqPWq

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