
I am an Associate Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington. I co-founded the Center for an Informed Public. I study the Science of Science and worry about the spread of misinformation. My laboratory consists of the millions of scholarly papers and public posts about science. I develop knowledge discovery tools to facilitate and study science, with a particular interest in how sociological and economic factors drive and slow the evolution of science.
Announcements
- Looking forward to seeing students and colleagues back on campus this Fall.
- Learn to call bullshit wrapped in data and statistics: Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World.
- I am always looking for students and postdocs to join the lab. Please feel free to email me and we can discuss open positions.
Publications
- Combining interventions to reduce the spread of viral misinformation. (2022) Nature Human Behavior. PDF and accompanying Perspective.
- Auditing Google's Search Headlines as a Potential Gateway to Misleading Content: Evidence from the 2020 US Election. (2022) Journal of Online Trust and Safety. PDF
- Misinformation in and about science. (2021) Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. PDF
- How do you solve a problem like misinformation? (2021) Science Advances. PDF
- The chatbot era: Better or worse off? (2023) Seattle Times. HTML
Presentations
- American Physical Society. Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public (March 16, 2023)
- Jeju National University. Navigating Misinformation in the ChatGPT Era (May 3, 2023)
- International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2). Mærsk Tower, Copenhagen, Denmark (July 18, 2023)
News
- The New York Times. Spiders Are Caught in a Global Web of Misinformation. (Aug. 25)
- Science. Detecting Bullshit. (March 22)
- Seattle Times. You can fake anything on the internet. (March 16)