Aerial photograph of Radcliffe Observatory and completed works

New bench in situ

Landscaped lawns and level access

Radcliffe Observatory

South landscaping at the Radcliffe Observatory is now complete 🌿

A new shared space at the heart of the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, made possible by the Stephen A. Schwarzman Foundation.

Work continues on Phase 1, including a new East Wing entrance and step-free access.

One of my favorites paper got published 🤓 It covers a lot of ground and it’s the best summary of my views on misinformation and what to do about it. Give it a read :)

🔓 osf.io/preprints/ps...
👉 doi.org/10.1177/1461...

Aerial view of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford with a freshly mown lawn featuring intricate curved stripe patterns around the circular building.

Ground-level view of striped grass patterns on the lawn beside the Radcliffe Camera, showing alternating light and dark green lines stretching across the grass.

A lawn mower on the striped grass outside the Radcliffe Camera, highlighting the precision-cut pattern with people and historic college buildings in the background.

The lawn outside the Radcliffe Camera had a trim today 🌱

No, it’s not AI.

Designed and carefully cut by James from our University Parks Estates team.

📷 Instagram | Jimigk13

QR code link to the preprint on the final slide is an impressive level of organisation! You can read 'Between Concern and Epistemic Vigilance' here osf.io/preprints/so...

We now have Felix Simon presenting three-country research with @reutersinstitute.bsky.social colleagues on how audiences react to AI-generated misinformation, and the strategies they use to mitigate risks.

Interesting use of deliberative interviews to see how people reflect on example cases.

Good morning #PSA26 :-) We're about to kick off with a panel on Mapping the Misinformation Crisis, with papers on disinformation and misinformation

ICYMI: our report on younger news audiences was published yesterday. Key findings in the thread below.

New report on young audiences out today with Craig T. Robertson, @mitalilive.bsky.social, and @richardfletcher.bsky.social, based on over a decade of Reuters Institute research. Key findings and links to the report in this thread.

group of young people sitting on stone steps, focused on their smartphones. Below the image, text reads: "March 2026. Understanding young news audiences at a time of rapid change. A new report by Craig T. Robertson, Amy Ross Arguedas, Mitali Mukherjee and Richard Fletcher."

Today we published a report on younger news audiences. Authored by Craig T. Robertson, @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social and @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it's based on DNR and other surveys

Full report
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/understandin...
Seven findings in thread

Yesterday, I hosted a panel on AI and Society as part of the Reuters Institute’s conference on AI and news. We had a fab cast with Natali Helberger (UvA), Max Kasy (Oxford), Keegan McBride (TBI) and Carina Prunkl (Inria & Oxford), and an impossibly large set of questions.

New UK state funding of up to £12m for local media The Government will pay up to £12m funding to local media outlets over the next two years to support innovation and help fill "news deserts".

A historic moment for local journalism in the UK: direct state funding is finally happening. I’m especially glad to see:
- up to £12m going to local media through a new fund;
- my research for @publicinterestnews.org.uk cited along the way.

pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/r...

To mark the start of our campaign to Save the UPP we recreated a photo from the early days of the cinema. Thanks to everyone who braved the wind to join us, including our young supporters from East Oxford Primary School and @anneliesedodds MP.

Sign our petition: www.change.org/p/save-the-u...

Campaign launched to save Oxford's oldest cinema Ultimate Picture Palace needs a longer lease to fund renovations but there are no plans to extend it.

Today we launch our Save the UPP campaign to persuade our landlord Oriel College to let us stay where we belong. Please sign our petition here: ✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-u...

Thanks very much to BBC South Today for telling our story: 👀 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#BBCsouthnews @bbcoxford

Swiss voters reject cuts to licence fee According to a first vote projection, the Swiss have clearly rejected a proposal to reduce funding for Swissinfo's parent company.

Swiss voters reject cuts to licence fee: www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-po...

The sky is not falling; high-quality platforms (Prolific, Verasight, CR Connect) have low rates of apparent bots. osf.io/preprints/ps... But also not zero; vigilance is very much needed!

🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social):

We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys.

Short version:
It mostly doesn’t.

w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social

URL: osf.io/preprints/os...

GenAI and News Report 2026: We want your ideas We are re-running our annual Generative AI and News report which looks at how people use generative AI in their everyday lives, and what they think its impact will be on different areas of society,…

🚨✨I want your input for the next survey of GenAI use for information and news!

Please fill out the super quick survey here buff.ly/kFDRLqw

Details in the thread!

Last week the story was that TikTok censored anti-Trump/ICE/Pretti videos after the U.S. ownership change. We investigated with a large set of US TikTok data and found some interesting results, short thread...

Bottom line: We found no systematic evidence of political censorship on TikTok post-restructuring at this point. A server outage better explains the data. But the story isn't over, and platforms need to provide the public more transparency.

🤖 | NEW REPORT: Where do AI tools like ChatGPT get their news from? How biased are they towards certain outlets? And how transparent are they about commercial relationships with publishers?

Our new IPPR report answers those questions.

Read here: www.ippr.org/articles/ais...

Short announcement before the data get too old: ccsmainz.github.io/platformnews/. With 571 news outlets on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram across 46 countries, matching the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social DNR. Computational analyses on topics, platformization, diversity, etc. Feedback welcome.

United Kingdom The UK is characterised by well-established public service and commercial news providers which have historically dominated both on broadcast and in print and are also the biggest brands online. Digita...

According to our Digital News Report data (collected by YouGov), 12% used X for news "in the last week" in 2025. We don't ask about people's most important outlet/social network for news.

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...

The digital news media environment does not only reproduce old class structures. It reinforces them

That is the key finding in new paper led by @antoniskalog.bsky.social analyzing social inequalities in offline and online news use across 6 countries over 10 years www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Publishers expect traffic from search to fall by 43% in the next 3 years. This is one of the findings of our new report on media trends. Authored by Nic Newman, it's based on a survey of 280 media leaders.
Full report
buff.ly/Dh2JIuT
7 findings in thread

In a new article with @richardfletcher.bsky.social and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social, we examine inequalities in news use in high-choice digital media environments. Drawing on ten years of survey data from six countries in Europe and the US, we compare offline and online news consumption patterns.🧵

The whistleblower, for his part, worked to amp up the pressure. He told me he had shared the document with other reporters, putting me into a competitive crunch. He asked when I thought I would publish. I asked him if he could point me to any current or former coworkers of his who could help me understand the document better. “Not really,” he said. By this point, alarm bells were starting to ring. I wondered if the employee badge the whistleblower had shared with me might have been AI-generated. While AI systems are notoriously unreliable at identifying their own outputs, Google Gemini can detect SynthID watermarks embedded in images that it produces. I uploaded the badge to Gemini and asked if Gemini had made it. “Most or all of this image was edited or generated with Google AI,” it said.

The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age of AI www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...

I guess StackOverflow is done.

Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.

My Nieman Lab prediction for 2026: The AI bubble may pop but people’s use of AI for information won’t and it's better if we start taking this seriously.