Nicole M. Krause is a PhD student in the Life Sciences Communication department at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where she is also a member of the Science, Media, and the Public (SCIMEP) research group. Nicole’s work focuses on how people make sense of (mis)information about scientific topics, with a particular emphasis on finding ways to facilitate productive interactions among polarized social groups on controversial topics like human gene editing or artificial intelligence. Nicole can be found on Twitter as @nicky_krause.