Aamir Sohail
@aamirsohail.bsky.social
MRC AIM DTP PhD student based at the Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham.
https://sohaamir.github.io
https://sohaamir.github.io
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Excited to share our preprint on variability in patch leaving decisions! Check out the 🧵 below
🧪Preprint!
How foragers depart from optimal models can tell us a lot about how they compute their decisions.
A strong but underexplored departure is that foragers widely vary when they leave identical patches.
A 🧵
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
With
@emmavscholey.bsky.social @brainapps.bsky.social
How foragers depart from optimal models can tell us a lot about how they compute their decisions.
A strong but underexplored departure is that foragers widely vary when they leave identical patches.
A 🧵
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
With
@emmavscholey.bsky.social @brainapps.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Excited to share our preprint on variability in patch leaving decisions! Check out the 🧵 below
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🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation?
Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation?
Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵
November 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation?
Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation?
Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵
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Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7
The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7
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Great to see this out! Exciting work led by @shawnrhoadsphd.com on how we learn when actions affect ourselves and others 🧠
w/ @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @k-oconnell.com, Kathryn Berluti, & Lin Gan plus @thepsychologist.bsky.social & me @sdnl.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social
w/ @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @k-oconnell.com, Kathryn Berluti, & Lin Gan plus @thepsychologist.bsky.social & me @sdnl.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social
📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others
Nature Communications - When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial,...
rdcu.be
October 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Great to see this out! Exciting work led by @shawnrhoadsphd.com on how we learn when actions affect ourselves and others 🧠
w/ @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @k-oconnell.com, Kathryn Berluti, & Lin Gan plus @thepsychologist.bsky.social & me @sdnl.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social
w/ @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @k-oconnell.com, Kathryn Berluti, & Lin Gan plus @thepsychologist.bsky.social & me @sdnl.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social
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🚨 New preprint: What does the research landscape of behavioral reinforcement learning look like 🌍?
We developed an LLM-powered bibliometric analysis to characterize article clusters, investigate their connections, and examine the distribution of topics across the landscape.
osf.io/6c2va_v1
We developed an LLM-powered bibliometric analysis to characterize article clusters, investigate their connections, and examine the distribution of topics across the landscape.
osf.io/6c2va_v1
OSF
osf.io
October 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
🚨 New preprint: What does the research landscape of behavioral reinforcement learning look like 🌍?
We developed an LLM-powered bibliometric analysis to characterize article clusters, investigate their connections, and examine the distribution of topics across the landscape.
osf.io/6c2va_v1
We developed an LLM-powered bibliometric analysis to characterize article clusters, investigate their connections, and examine the distribution of topics across the landscape.
osf.io/6c2va_v1
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🚨 Last Minute Spots Now Available🚨
Last minute spots became available for this year's @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social Young Scientist Retreat🧠!
If you want to come to Hamburg next week register vie email:
📧sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de
Strongly Recommend!🙌
#Biopsychology #YoungScientists
Last minute spots became available for this year's @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social Young Scientist Retreat🧠!
If you want to come to Hamburg next week register vie email:
📧sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de
Strongly Recommend!🙌
#Biopsychology #YoungScientists
🚀 Young Scientist Retreat 2025 – Hamburg 🌍
📅 October 21–24, 2025
👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra (Google Form)
If this does not work, feel free to write sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de
Let’s connect, learn & grow together in Hamburg! 🌟
ysr2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists
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📅 October 21–24, 2025
👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra (Google Form)
If this does not work, feel free to write sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de
Let’s connect, learn & grow together in Hamburg! 🌟
ysr2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists
(more below)
October 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
🚨 Last Minute Spots Now Available🚨
Last minute spots became available for this year's @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social Young Scientist Retreat🧠!
If you want to come to Hamburg next week register vie email:
📧sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de
Strongly Recommend!🙌
#Biopsychology #YoungScientists
Last minute spots became available for this year's @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social Young Scientist Retreat🧠!
If you want to come to Hamburg next week register vie email:
📧sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de
Strongly Recommend!🙌
#Biopsychology #YoungScientists
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Really excited to share a review I contributed to, out now in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. We explore how foraging can offer a framework for studying brain and behaviour in natural contexts. It’s been a pleasure working with colleagues across species and disciplines on this. Check it out! 👇
Pleased to have this review out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. In it we discuss various aspects of the intersection between foraging behaviors and neuroscience, and offer some future directions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience
The study of foraging is central to a renewed interest in naturalistic behavior in neuroscience. Applying a foraging framework grounded in behavioral …
www.sciencedirect.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Really excited to share a review I contributed to, out now in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. We explore how foraging can offer a framework for studying brain and behaviour in natural contexts. It’s been a pleasure working with colleagues across species and disciplines on this. Check it out! 👇
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A Journal Club by Rodrigues and Sobrinho on our recent paper "Evidence for control of cerebral neurovascular function by circulating platelets in healthy older adults" in @jphysiol.bsky.social
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
September 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A Journal Club by Rodrigues and Sobrinho on our recent paper "Evidence for control of cerebral neurovascular function by circulating platelets in healthy older adults" in @jphysiol.bsky.social
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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📢 New preprint 📢
(with Daniil Luzyanin)
We use a new task to distinguish between the instantaneous and instrumental (goal-oriented) value of the same choice option in the brain using fMRI: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
(with Daniil Luzyanin)
We use a new task to distinguish between the instantaneous and instrumental (goal-oriented) value of the same choice option in the brain using fMRI: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
📢 New preprint 📢
(with Daniil Luzyanin)
We use a new task to distinguish between the instantaneous and instrumental (goal-oriented) value of the same choice option in the brain using fMRI: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
(with Daniil Luzyanin)
We use a new task to distinguish between the instantaneous and instrumental (goal-oriented) value of the same choice option in the brain using fMRI: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Following social isolation, adolescents show increased sensitivity to rewards during effort-based decision making and reward learning.
@livia-tomova.bsky.social @sjblakemore.bsky.social @emilyanntowner.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@livia-tomova.bsky.social @sjblakemore.bsky.social @emilyanntowner.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Acute isolation is associated with increased reward seeking and reward learning in human adolescents - Communications Psychology
This study shows that, following social isolation, adolescents show increased sensitivity to rewards during effort-based decision making and reward learning. Access to virtual social interactions duri...
www.nature.com
September 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Following social isolation, adolescents show increased sensitivity to rewards during effort-based decision making and reward learning.
@livia-tomova.bsky.social @sjblakemore.bsky.social @emilyanntowner.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@livia-tomova.bsky.social @sjblakemore.bsky.social @emilyanntowner.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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“Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science” www.cell.com/trends/cogni... new @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social piece with @connectedmindslab.bsky.social we highlight how a focus on young adults as a benchmark of ‘human’ behaviour has shaped cognitive science in several ways 👇
Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science
Cognitive science has made remarkable strides in understanding cognition and behaviour.
However, a critical issue persists. Most studies focus on PRIME populations – young
adults who are productive, r...
www.cell.com
July 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
“Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science” www.cell.com/trends/cogni... new @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social piece with @connectedmindslab.bsky.social we highlight how a focus on young adults as a benchmark of ‘human’ behaviour has shaped cognitive science in several ways 👇
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🙌Thank you for a great Symposium at #PuG2025 on using computational models and MRI to better understand dynamics of social learning! @hein-lab.bsky.social @jgutzeit.bsky.social Bianca Schubert and Lei Zhang! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🙌Thank you for a great Symposium at #PuG2025 on using computational models and MRI to better understand dynamics of social learning! @hein-lab.bsky.social @jgutzeit.bsky.social Bianca Schubert and Lei Zhang! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
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Excited to join Association for Psychological Science as an Editorial Fellow, to handle submissions and learn the publication processes at APS!
APS welcomes 10 researchers from across the globe to the second cohort of APS Editorial Fellows.
@pankhuri.bsky.social, @darwinguevarra.bsky.social,
@droswaldomoreno.bsky.social, @lei-zhang.bsky.social, @karolinehuth.bsky.social
@pankhuri.bsky.social, @darwinguevarra.bsky.social,
@droswaldomoreno.bsky.social, @lei-zhang.bsky.social, @karolinehuth.bsky.social
10 Early Career Researchers Join APS’s 2025 Cohort of Editorial Fellows
APS welcomes 10 researchers from across the globe to the second cohort of APS Editorial Fellows.
www.psychologicalscience.org
June 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Excited to join Association for Psychological Science as an Editorial Fellow, to handle submissions and learn the publication processes at APS!
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Just 4 weeks until the abstract deadline for Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration - ciseconf.github.io/CISE_2025/
🗓️ 30th Sept-1st Oct
📍 Brown University
👥 Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb
👇 Speakers
Please submit & share!
🗓️ 30th Sept-1st Oct
📍 Brown University
👥 Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb
👇 Speakers
Please submit & share!
CISE 2025
ciseconf.github.io
June 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Just 4 weeks until the abstract deadline for Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration - ciseconf.github.io/CISE_2025/
🗓️ 30th Sept-1st Oct
📍 Brown University
👥 Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb
👇 Speakers
Please submit & share!
🗓️ 30th Sept-1st Oct
📍 Brown University
👥 Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb
👇 Speakers
Please submit & share!
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Day 2 of the first @chbh.bsky.social hackathon 🧠🤓 Thanks for a fun talk on your MATLAB journey @dagmarfraser.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Day 2 of the first @chbh.bsky.social hackathon 🧠🤓 Thanks for a fun talk on your MATLAB journey @dagmarfraser.bsky.social
Played a small part in this exciting interdisciplinary work led by Gabriella Rossetti, @christakou.bsky.social and others at the University of Reading.
It's finally published, so give it a read!👇🏼
It's finally published, so give it a read!👇🏼
Look at this beautiful paper.
We challenge the idea that systemic vascular health alone determines the vascular component of neurovascular function, by demonstarting a specific link between circulating platelets and the brain's neurovascular unit.
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
We challenge the idea that systemic vascular health alone determines the vascular component of neurovascular function, by demonstarting a specific link between circulating platelets and the brain's neurovascular unit.
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
Evidence for control of cerebral neurovascular function by circulating platelets in healthy older adults
Abstract figure legend Epidemiological evidence suggests a link between dementia and cardiovascular health, including the regulation of platelets. To investigate this relationship, we examined how pl....
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Played a small part in this exciting interdisciplinary work led by Gabriella Rossetti, @christakou.bsky.social and others at the University of Reading.
It's finally published, so give it a read!👇🏼
It's finally published, so give it a read!👇🏼
Enjoyed providing a gentle introduction to R as part of a workshop organised by @lei-zhang.bsky.social and CENTRE-UB
Materials available here which I aim to expand in future!
#R #openscience
Materials available here which I aim to expand in future!
#R #openscience
May 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Enjoyed providing a gentle introduction to R as part of a workshop organised by @lei-zhang.bsky.social and CENTRE-UB
Materials available here which I aim to expand in future!
#R #openscience
Materials available here which I aim to expand in future!
#R #openscience
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At this point in my #Pint25 talk I was regaling the audience, who understandably thought they had come to a science talk, with a brief diversion into the cultural influence of world religions on our perception of prosociality and wealth. Scientists do not operate in a vacuum! (Well arguably some do)
May 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
At this point in my #Pint25 talk I was regaling the audience, who understandably thought they had come to a science talk, with a brief diversion into the cultural influence of world religions on our perception of prosociality and wealth. Scientists do not operate in a vacuum! (Well arguably some do)
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🎓 Get PAID to co-create open-access teaching materials!
We're launching a funded initiative to make open science education more inclusive and accessible beyond elite institutions and the Global North.
Contribute a set of materials and earn €400. 🧵
We're launching a funded initiative to make open science education more inclusive and accessible beyond elite institutions and the Global North.
Contribute a set of materials and earn €400. 🧵
May 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
🎓 Get PAID to co-create open-access teaching materials!
We're launching a funded initiative to make open science education more inclusive and accessible beyond elite institutions and the Global North.
Contribute a set of materials and earn €400. 🧵
We're launching a funded initiative to make open science education more inclusive and accessible beyond elite institutions and the Global North.
Contribute a set of materials and earn €400. 🧵
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🧠 My second PhD paper out 🧠
What causal roles does the mPFC play in social influence and temporal discounting?
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
What causal roles does the mPFC play in social influence and temporal discounting?
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting
The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is involved in economic and social decision-making in humans but the specific functions of its subregions are not clear. This study shows that the dorsal mPFC is ca...
journals.plos.org
April 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
🧠 My second PhD paper out 🧠
What causal roles does the mPFC play in social influence and temporal discounting?
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
What causal roles does the mPFC play in social influence and temporal discounting?
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Deadline extended to 28th April!! Summer School in Computational Social Cognition with fantastic keynotes by Matthew Rushworth, @dianatamir.bsky.social and @davidamodio.bsky.social. Come & learn more about computational modelling, make new friends, & explore the UK's 2nd largest city 🙂👇. Please RT!
🌟 Join us for the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition! Amazing line-up of keynote speakers and instructors, new topics, and only £480 with 4 nights accommodation, social events and meals included! 🌟
www.compsoccog.com
www.compsoccog.com
🚨 SUMMER SCHOOL!
Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025.
Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social, and David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social .
👇
Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com) and RT!
Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025.
Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social, and David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social .
👇
Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com) and RT!
April 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Deadline extended to 28th April!! Summer School in Computational Social Cognition with fantastic keynotes by Matthew Rushworth, @dianatamir.bsky.social and @davidamodio.bsky.social. Come & learn more about computational modelling, make new friends, & explore the UK's 2nd largest city 🙂👇. Please RT!
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🎉 New paper out in #ScientificReports! We studied how younger & older adults integrate self- and other-related values during decisions. Huge thanks to the amazing team! 🙌 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #prosocial #aging #DDM @anrei.bsky.social
Adult age differences in the integration of values for self and other - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Adult age differences in the integration of values for self and other
www.nature.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
🎉 New paper out in #ScientificReports! We studied how younger & older adults integrate self- and other-related values during decisions. Huge thanks to the amazing team! 🙌 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #prosocial #aging #DDM @anrei.bsky.social
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1/n 🆕📄: How do children learn to adapt to different environments when making repeated choices? And what do cognitive immaturity and probability matching have to do with it? Our new article explores how kids & adults differ in probability learning across statistical task structures: mpib.berlin/R3RFy
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
April 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
1/n 🆕📄: How do children learn to adapt to different environments when making repeated choices? And what do cognitive immaturity and probability matching have to do with it? Our new article explores how kids & adults differ in probability learning across statistical task structures: mpib.berlin/R3RFy
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The second fMRS symposium (Sept 2025) is now open for early registration and abstract submission. Hosted at Bangor Uni, situated in beautiful north Wales, not to be missed if you're into measuring dynamic neurophysiology/neurotransmitters and cutting-edge MR spectroscopy methods. shorturl.at/Q1A5p
Functional Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Symposium II: 31st August – 2nd September 2025
To be held in Bangor Gwynedd, in lovely North Wales. This year the fMRS symposium will be held jointly (one after the other) with the 9th GABA and Edited MRS symposium. We therefore invite all inte…
pgmm03.uk
April 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The second fMRS symposium (Sept 2025) is now open for early registration and abstract submission. Hosted at Bangor Uni, situated in beautiful north Wales, not to be missed if you're into measuring dynamic neurophysiology/neurotransmitters and cutting-edge MR spectroscopy methods. shorturl.at/Q1A5p
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Crowdsourced factchecks really only work with balanced communities, but these are increasingly self-selected by platform.
— @lewan.bsky.social at "Fake News and Democracy in the Digital Age" with Club Alpbach London.
#London #misinformation #fakeNews #media #platforms
— @lewan.bsky.social at "Fake News and Democracy in the Digital Age" with Club Alpbach London.
#London #misinformation #fakeNews #media #platforms
April 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Crowdsourced factchecks really only work with balanced communities, but these are increasingly self-selected by platform.
— @lewan.bsky.social at "Fake News and Democracy in the Digital Age" with Club Alpbach London.
#London #misinformation #fakeNews #media #platforms
— @lewan.bsky.social at "Fake News and Democracy in the Digital Age" with Club Alpbach London.
#London #misinformation #fakeNews #media #platforms