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maddyjalbert.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington. Social Psych PhD at USC. I study misinformation correction and how people make judgments of truth. Otherwise probably in the mountains. She/her
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NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 25 days ago • 14 comments

NSF froze payments to researchers. State AGs said it was unconstitutional for exec branch to pause congressionally mandated funds. Judge issued restraining order. Payments resumed. But some inconsistencies in what the NSF has said (thread): www.statnews.com/2025/02/02/n...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

I am one of these NSF postdocs. NSF has frozen everyone’s access to their salaries and research stipends (that were already awarded) with no information about when they might be expected to be unfrozen. It still appears like we are expected to continue doing our work though.

submitted 29 days ago • 40 comments

Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.

submitted 29 days ago • 126 comments

Join us in congratulating HCDE Professor Kate Starbird on receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). This prestigious honor recognizes her groundbreaking research on the dynamics of misinformation and disinformation online.

submitted 43 days ago • 5 comments

Excited this piece with @malar0ne.bsky.social and Luke Williams is now out! In this work, we find that the presence of biomedical credentials (e.g. Dr., MD., scientist, nurse) in a user's social media profile increases perceptions that the user has expertise on the topic of COVID-19 vaccination.

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

A Just Asking Questions Effect for spreading false information. This thread is an overview of my lab’s research that I presented at Psychonomics this morning. #psynow24 TLDR: Getting people to generate their own false answers leads them to believe that info. 1/

submitted 97 days ago • 10 comments

Just published a Nature comment highlighting a few of the rumors our UW team expects to see going into the Nov 5 election — from rumors that falsely frame election errors as impactful and intentional to rumors about "non citizen voters" and "suspicious behaviors". www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 129 days ago • 12 comments

In a new article now out in Collabora: Psychology, @rmpillai.bsky.social and I find that the mere repetition of information increases estimates of its consensus, a finding we refer to as an “illusory consensus effect.”

submitted 132 days ago • 2 comments

TODAY at 3PM ET! Join @lkfazio.bsky.social, Mubashir Sultan, and @maddyjalbert.bsky.social as they discuss the latest research on #misinformation during our Science for Society webinar. Register: member.psychologicalscience.org/events/event...

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment

NEW Science for Society on October 16! Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social, Mubashir Sultan, and Maddy Jalbert @maddyjalbert.bsky.social will review the current research on #misinformation, how it is spread, and how to reduce its impact. member.psychologicalscience.org/events/event...

submitted 155 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re interested in why weird works, but would rather listen than read? Well, @maddyjalbert.bsky.social and I were interviewed for the Sound Politics podcast. www.npr.org/podcasts/125...

submitted 183 days ago • 0 comments

A special collection of Perspectives on Psychological Science, addressing lessons from the covid pandemic. It was a pleasure to co-edit this with Dolores Albarracin.

submitted 197 days ago • 0 comments

I have a new post out with @irahyman.bsky.social discussing the connection between the new political “weird” discourse (which we’re referring to as “weird-checking”, aka fact-checking but for weirdness instead of truth) and social psychology principles of social norms and consensus.

submitted 199 days ago • 2 comments

Behavioral science policy recommendations early in the pandemic were *largely correct*. Our global collaboration of 80+ experts covers 747 studies (average sample size over 16,000!) & supports 16 of 19 claims. Many lessons for science & policy. Out today in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 443 days ago • 3 comments