Alabrese, Eleonora; Capozza, Francesco; Garg, Prashant - 2025
posts from 98,000 scientists (2016-22), we uncover substantial political expression. Online experiments with 4,000 U … neutral scientists are seen as the most credible. Strikingly, political expressions result in monotonic penalties: Stronger … posts more greatly reduce the perceived credibility of scientists and their research and audience engagement, particularly …