I was given a few seconds on @CBCTheNational last night to push back on simplistic narratives surrounding the PPC and its effect on the outcome of #Elxn44. I want to expand on these concerns 🧵1/

cbc.ca/player/play/19… A lot of people are making strong claims about the effect of the PPC on Conservative Party fortunes by simply adding the PPC vote to the Conservatives. Not so fast... 2/

📢 New report out by @PeejLoewen and I for the @ppforumca on understanding and mitigating science-based misinformation. Check it out 👇 1/

https://twitter.com/ppforumca/status/1418292341606125573

We couldn't cover everything we wanted to, but we do hope this piece is still useful for scholars, students, and practitioners in getting a lay of the land of the fast changing and growing field of misinformation research 2/

👀 Awesome to see my article with @PeejLoewen online at @NatureHumBehav (!) In it we highlight the tremendous importance of anti-intellectualism in the public's response to #COVID19 in 🇨🇦 Check it out! 👇 1/

nature.com/articles/s4156… I wrote a blog post for @nature Portfolio's "Behind the Paper" channel that goes into some of the background of the article and highlights the key findings 2/

socialsciences.nature.com/posts/anti-int…

🚨📢"Anti-Intellectualism and the Mass Public’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic" (with @PeejLoewen) now coming soon to Nature Human Behaviour!🤯Check it out!👀 1/

osf.io/agm57/ Lot of cool stuff in this paper. We show that anti-intellectualism (AI) was strongly associated with COVID-19 risk perceptions (-), social distancing compliance (-), COVID-19 misbeliefs (+), and news attention (-) as the pandemic unfolded in 🇨🇦 beyond effects of ideology 2/

🚨New pre-print 🚨by @PeejLoewen and I out of the @MediaEcosystem project on how prospective economic cost reduces social distancing expectations. We think this is an important one. Bear with me for a long-ish thread 👇1/

#SocSciResearch #Covid_19

osf.io/yht9v/ Citizens have been asked to take a variety of costly actions to protect themselves and others (i.e. social/physical distancing). This behaviour is essential in the absence of #TestAndTrace and a mass produced vaccine. How sustainable is this? We need more research 2/

🚨New pre-print 🚨by the @MediaEcosystem team on anti-intellectualism and information preferences during the #COVID19 pandemic. Check it out! 👀👇#SocSciResearch #scicomm 1/

osf.io/agm57/ Building on work by @AlbertsonB2 and @sgadarian, we expect that individuals will have preference for both expert information related to #COVID19 and #COVID19 news in general. But, that these effects will be weaker among those with higher levels of anti-intellectual sentiment 2/

Not yet settled. See here for instance, where I validate a Lexicoder-based tone measure using vector autoregression for analyses meant to detect partisan media bias in economic news dynamics. I find the opposite. 1/

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

https://twitter.com/MattGrossmann/status/1247853017111638016

Ditto here in a working paper with @alan_jacobs1 @jsmatthews99 and @HicksTM. Again the aim was to validate the tone measure, but this time for analyses on class bias in news media responsiveness. News media lead, rather than follow sentiment 2/ osf.io/preprints/soca…

Presenting more dissertation work today at #APSA2019 (4pm, Marriott Harding). I argue that we need to pay more attention to the information environment to understand why public attitudes often diverge from consensus expert opinion. Another thread 👇 [1/13] #SocSciResearch Many citizens learn about hard or technical political issues through the news media. However, we know that pathologies in news production generate superficial content that emphasizes novelty and drama. The news media may not often convey info about expert consensus [2/13]