Event social card for "Understanding and Countering Public Health Mis/Disinformation," featuring speakers Adam Berinsky and Liz Hamel, scheduled for Tuesday, April 28th, 12–1:30 PM ET.

Next week, join us for a virtual event to learn about the current challenge of public health mis- and disinformation + what researchers can do to help counter these trends. @lizhamel.bsky.social (@kff.org) & @adamberinsky.bsky.social (@mit.edu).

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Intro next monday/tuesday

I'm teaching survey research courses online in the next few weeks. Sign up and/or spread the word!
Free one hour seminar. April 13
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Then a set of two (half) day courses. Not free (sorry!).
-Intro: April 20-21
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-Advanced: April 27-28
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I'm teaching survey research courses online in the next few weeks. Sign up and/or spread the word!
Free one hour seminar. April 13
tinyurl.com/v9vn9j85
Then a set of two (half) day courses. Not free (sorry!).
-Intro: April 20-21
tinyurl.com/2mas96tf
-Advanced: April 27-28
tinyurl.com/5467prx6

Updated AJPS AI Disclosure Policy for Authors
Last year, we introduced a set of policies concerning the use of AI at AJPS for both authors and reviewers. We have recently updated these guidelines. The current guidelines are presented in this Editor's Blog: ajps.org/2026/04/10/u...

Is there actually a way to stop misinformation? At our latest Food for Thought session, @adamberinsky.bsky.social explored this question and the answer isn’t as simple as we might hope.

New working paper: Rethinking Misinformation Interventions. The field has spent years searching for the one intervention that will solve misinformation. This search is the wrong approach — and our disappointment says more about our expectations than our tools. (1/5)
osf.io/preprints/so...

Come work with @devincaughey.bsky.social @arielrwhite.bsky.social Charles Stewart and me. Details below!

📰 Do the effects of partisan media fade quickly or accumulate over time?

➡️ Using multiwave experiments, M Baum et al. show a single exposure can have effects lasting up to a week, while cumulative effects are hard to detect www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Amen

America Is Used to Hiding Its Wars. Trump Is Doing the Opposite.

Political scientist @adamberinsky.bsky.social found that while Americans’ support for wars was affected by major attacks on the U.S., it mostly followed the domestic “ebb and flow of partisan and group-based political conflict.”
(@chashomans.bsky.social, NYT-unlocked)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/m...

Dictator YouTube video by Blazing Catfur

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Come work with @devincaughey.bsky.social @arielrwhite.bsky.social Charles Stewart and me. Details below!

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

true that

thanks both -- I would be curious what your students thought

Testing these ideas requires factorial designs powered for interaction effects, guided by theory about which mechanisms should combine. That's expensive and hard. But it's more productive than another decade of horserace competition for the “best” solution. (5/5)
Paper here: osf.io/preprints/so...

A measurement problem compounds the design problem. If an intervention makes people reject false claims but also reject true ones, current evaluation frameworks call that a success. Measuring truth discernment — the gap between belief in true and false content — gives a more honest answer. (4/5)

Instead of asking which intervention wins, I we should ask how different interventions work together. Borrowing public health's "Swiss cheese model": no single layer is airtight, but stacking imperfect layers with different strengths creates broader protection than any one approach alone. (3/5)

The replication crisis showed that most behavioral interventions produce small effects. But a small improvement, replicated reliably, means millions of people with more accurate beliefs. Our goal isn't a misinformation-free world. It's making things better at the margin. (2/5)

New working paper: Rethinking Misinformation Interventions. The field has spent years searching for the one intervention that will solve misinformation. This search is the wrong approach — and our disappointment says more about our expectations than our tools. (1/5)
osf.io/preprints/so...

Logo of Political Science Research and Methods featuring the initials "PSRM" in a stylized grey font on a black background.

#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social -

Dynamic persuasion: decay and accumulation of partisan media persuasion - https://cup.org/47EZO23

- Matthew Baum, @adamberinsky.bsky.social, @jdbk.bsky.social, Joohye Jeong, Zachary Markovich & Teppei Yamamoto

#FirstView

After the Takeover: Rebuilding Trust in Public Media Through Institutional Reform - Political Behavior We examine the dynamics of citizens’ trust in public media during government-led efforts to implement major media reforms in a highly polarized context using two cross-sectional experiments. After Pol...

New paper with Gabriela Czarnek, @dgrand.bsky.social and @adamberinsky.bsky.social out in Political Behavior! Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"Kash Patel, you're the next contestant on Kiss! That! Ass!"

<b>Robert F. Kennedy</b> St. Patrick’s Day parade photo found — 50 years later - The Boston Globe A local lawyer recently uncovered, with some help, a photograph of his chance encounter with the Kennedy in 1968.

St. Patrick's Day reminded me of this story that the Boston Globe ran in 2018 about a Photo that my Dad took of RFK in the 1968 South Boston St. Patrick's day parade

An insipid NYT trend piece based on a few anecdotes *and* a Trump sanewashing story, the crossover they said couldn't be done.

The joke’s on us because he *is* a former president.

My Canadian girlfriend

Big if true

New AJPS Correspondence and Corrections Policies From: Dan Reiter and Adam Berinsky, editors-in-chief This post describes new policies at AJPS regarding Correspondence and Corrections. Maintaining an accurate scholarly record is one of the most i…

The AJPS announces new policies on correspondence and corrections. Read the Editor's Blog here: ajps.org/2026/03/05/n...