The widely respected European ECREA conference is coming to Denmark later this month. This is the first time the conference is being held in Scandinavia, and more than 1,300 participants are expected to attend. It’s Europe’s largest media and communication conference, and it’s being hosted by Aarhus University.

Mistrust of scientific expertise can have far-reaching consequences for public health. We have recently seen an anti-vaccine movement that has resulted in a measles outbreak and girls who refused to have the HPV vaccine. Now we are confronted with COVID19, where scientific expertise once again needs to stand its ground. A new research network will investigate how mistrust of science expertise arises and spreads online.

New research shows that deception is a more complex social phenomenon than we thought. Deceiver and deceived show higher levels of speech and movement coordination than in truthful conversations. Instead of just focussing on the deceiver future research should include the social life of deception: the way deceiving behaviors resonates and spread across interlocutors. This is the conclusion of a new academic article co-authored by Riccardo Fusaroli, an associate professor at the Interacting Minds Centre and at the School of Communication and Culture.