“It's a very simple model,” Jevin West, a UW Information School associate professor, told PNAS. “But it does a great job of capturing the dynamics that we see in the real data,” such as surges of activity when a post goes viral.

#UWCIP #UniversityOfWashington #SocialMedia #Misinformation

In a recent Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences news feature, "How to mitigate misinformation," M. Mitchell Waldrop interviews @uwcip co-founder Jevin West about work with University of Washington colleagues to "develop a computer simulation that treats the spread of misinformation as a kind of contagion and that’s calibrated with real-world data on 10.5 million misinformation tweets during the 2020 election." https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2314143120

#UWCIP #UniversityOfWashington #Misinformation

University of Montana journalism professor Lee Banfield adapted "Calling BS," a popular University of Washington class co-developed by @uwcip faculty members @ct_bergstrom and Jevin West, and it's been a hit with students in Missoula.

“I blended UW’s more science-oriented focus with a journalism-literacy focus to create a new course,” Banville said. “But I kept the name, because ... well, because.”

https://www.umt.edu/news/2023/09/090523bull.php
#HigherEd #MediaLiteracy #UniversityOfWashington #UWCIP

Let’s GO HUSKIES!!! 🏈
💜💛💜💛💜
#UW #Seattle #UniversityOfWashington
#HuskiesFootball

“The problem is, we can’t reverse-engineer hallucinations coming from these chatbots,” @uwcip co-founder and University of Washington Information School associate professor Jevin West told CNN Business in a recent interview. “It might just an intrinsic characteristic of these things that will always be there.”

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/29/tech/ai-chatbot-hallucinations/index.html

#GenerativeAI #AI #ChatGPT #UWCIP #UniversityOfWashington

A new research report by the #UniversityOfWashington recommends that a successful #HighSpeedRail project needs "sustained community engagement" during the planning process, and emphasizes that "for commuters to prioritize rail transportation over air or other non-environmental ways of travel," speed and convenience can't be compromised. Read more in the article by Sarah Goh of @soseaemerald: https://southseattleemerald.com/2023/07/18/plans-develop-for-high-speed-rail-in-the-pnw/ #CascadiaRail #HSR #Cascadia #PNW

#UniversityOfWashington 📆 July 31, 2023 “This is just a small taste of what to expect with the #RubinObservatory in less than two years, when #HelioLinc3D will be discovering an object ☄️ like this every night." Any survey 🔭 will have difficulty discovering these faint 🌑 objects near its #sensitivity limit. https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/07/31/heliolinc3d/

#2022SF289 #AsteroidThreat

#UniversityOfWashington 📆 July 31, 2023 “This is just a small taste of what to expect with the #RubinObservatory in less than two years, when #HelioLinc3D will be discovering an object ☄️ like this every night." Any survey 🔭 will have difficulty discovering these faint 🌑 objects near its #sensitivity limit.

#2022SF289 #AsteroidThreat

@willjames of KNKX Public Radio reports: "Librarians in Whatcom County are working with UW to create a series of online quizzes designed to get participants thinking about the quality of information online and their own ability to tell true from false. One quiz, for example, involves a deal for a used truck that looks too good to be true."

https://www.knkx.org/education/2023-07-06/can-libraries-help-hold-our-information-landscape-together

#BellinghamWA #WhatcomCounty #WA #UWCIP #Libraries #MediaLiteracy #DigitalLiteracy #UniversityOfWashington

This July 12 program is for those with #early-onset #Alzheimer's (65 years or younger). It is run through the #UniversityofWashington's #Memory and #Brain Wellness Center and looks fantastic.

Register here by Monday 7/10: https://tinyurl.com/SOARKickoff"

#Seattle
#Dementia

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Microwave response of type-II superconductors at weak pinning

B. V. Pashinsky, Mikhail V. Feigel'man, Anton V. Andreev
SciPost Phys. 14, 096 (2023)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.14.5.096

#UW
#LandauInstituteforTheoreticalPhysics
#LPMMC #NSF
#RussianScienceFoundation
#UniversityofWashington
#UniversityofWashington

At the @uwcip, we’re pleased to be here on Mastodon and plan to share and boost news and insights from our team at UW Seattle plus researchers and communities we collaborate with across Washington state, the United States, and beyond.

Interested in our work and learning more?

🟣 Website: https://www.cip.uw.edu/
🟣 Newsletter and news archive: https://www.cip.uw.edu/news/cip-news-insights-newsletter/

#UWCIP #Seattle #UniversityOfWashington #Misinformation #InformationLiteracy #MediaLiteracy

How louder librarians make more money

#UWLibrariesUnion #UniversityofWashington #LibraryUnions #LibraryWorkers #SEIULocal925 #SEIU

🔗 https://www.dailyuw.com/opinion/how-louder-librarians-make-more-money/article_06b7fda4-dcf1-11ed-a122-3738d7b717fb.html

I went to the University of Washington campus last week, scouting the quad for a maternity shoot. This time of year the cherry trees there are in full bloom, but they don't last long.

The camellias are also in full bloom now, and some have even started to drop their petals.

Stairs: Fujifilm X-T4, Fujifilm 16-55mm f2.8

Cherry Trees: Nikon D850, Nikon 28-70mm f2.8

#Spring #CherryTree #Camellia #UniversityOfWashington #Photography #Fujifilm #Nikon

As my colleague at the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public, postdoctoral scholar Rachel Moran-Prestridge told Zadrozny, Tiffany Dover's employer was "operating under old assumptions that their role is to control the narrative, when really, they’re not in control of these narratives at all. PR just doesn’t understand how to operate in the world of misinformation.” [2/2] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/tiffany-dover-conspiracy-theorists-silence-rcna69401

#UWCIP #UniversityOfWashington #CrisisCommunications #PublicRelations

Cherry blossoms on the UW Quad amid our ongoing atmospheric river.

#UniversityOfWashington #CherryBlossoms #Seattle #SeattleWalks #WAwx

The detailed chandeliers that hang in the Suzzallo Library

📷 Fujifilm X-Pro 3
👁️ Fujinon XF 70-300
🌎 Seattle, WA

#seattle #suzzallo #library
#universityofwashington
#fujifilm #xpro3 #photography

University of Washington professors on using ChatGPT in the classroom - A student in the University of Washington’s Suzzallo, Library in Seattle. (UW Photo)

... - https://www.geekwire.com/2023/university-of-washington-professors-on-using-chatgpt-in-the-classroom/ #universityofwashington #openai #tech #gpt

My niece is doing college visits right now and went to UW yesterday, right in time for the cherry blossoms at the quad. Needed to remind myself of my own visit 5 years ago ❤️
#CherryBlossoms #uw #universityofwashington #Seattle #washingtonstate #pnw #nature #FlowersOfMastodon #photography #PhotographyOnMastodon #throwback

Lessons in virtual reality: What these computer science students built (and learned) in 10 weeks - Kenneth Ma, left, a member of the University of Washington team behind the PrezVR... - https://www.geekwire.com/2023/lessons-in-virtual-reality-what-these-computer-science-students-built-and-learned-in-10-weeks/ #universityofwashington #augmentedreality #virtualreality #oculusquest2 #microsoft #hololens #meta