Congratulations to Annenberg's newest Ph.D. @sarahuang.bsky.social, who successfully defended her dissertation yesterday! She will be joining the faculty at UT Austin’s Moody College of Communication as an Assistant Professor. Join us in congratulating Dr. Huang!

A great way to help reduce the citation gap is to alter your own citation practices. We built a shiny app that makes it easy to check (and adjust) the gender balance of your references before submitting papers: dcosme.shinyapps.io/citation-gap...

“Why is my teen addicted to video games?” Our new study in JAMA Network Open shows that psychopathology is a key driver--not an outcome of gaming disorder! Depression, anxiety, ADHD, and social challenges may underlie gaming disorder. Treat the root, not just the game. 🎮🧠 #commsky #psychsci #gaming

We are looking for a Research Coordinator! Come to Penn to do research with us! my.spsp.org/Career-Cente...

Excited to ✨share✨ that our paper on ✨sharing✨ is published! Across 3 studies that build on one another, we show that perceived alignment with one's peers increases the likelihood of information sharing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Old and new faces at #ICA2025 in Denver!! Grateful to share my ongoing work in curiosity and health information-seeking Feeling inspired from all the cool health comm and comm sci work that’s happening :) AND officially the digital media coordinator for @icacsab.bsky.social, give us a follow 🤳

Join us today for a joint reception at 6 pm! 😎 We will have our Top Paper session today starting at 1:30 following by our business meeting at 4:30

Excited to share a snippet of my research in these past five years in this interview. Take a look if you are curious❓:

🎓 🎉 Congratulations to our 2025 Ph.D. and M.A. graduates!! www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

What motivates people to take action and share info about climate change? We tested 17 psychological interventions in a tournament—Discover the winners in our new paper! Out now in @pnas.org w/ @falklab.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social, & team. Thread ⤵️ 1/9 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We made it to Bluesky at last. Just in time to get ready for #ICA25

For the next month you will see me like this

Did a thing. She's a Doc now🎓

Check out Emily’s essay, “How Small Talk Opens up Deeper Connections” in The Wall Street Journal! Sebastian Speer, Laetitia Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, Lily Tsoi, Shannon Burns and Diana Tamir are also collaborators on the research behind this article. Check it out here: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

If you want to know more about the creative and amazingly brilliant Irish expat ✨Dr. Lydon-Staley✨(or how most of us call him, David) who I immediately clicked with despite never meeting in person for a year and got me into curiosity research -> Give this a read!!

🎤 Vice Dean Emily Falk (@falklab.bsky.social) was interviewed on a recent podcast to discuss her research exploring the brain systems that influence what we choose and why we choose, our behaviors and value systems, and the power of storytelling. Listen: healthy.ucla.edu/media/livewe...

Listen to Emily Falk's feature on the UCLA LiveWell podcast! healthy.ucla.edu/media/livewe...

Fascinating experimental paradigm by Dan,Hassin et al (2025) that starts to unpack the integrations of two sides of curiosity: Urge & Interest. High Urge and Low Interest Qs are preferred for immediate consumption, High-Interest Qs preference emerges with time www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm at #SRNT2025 in NOLA presenting our work using ❓curiosity-eliciting❓ nicotine messages to reduce nicotine false beliefs for priority U.S. smoking groups on Friday 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM at Churchill Exhibition Hall (preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...). Here's what we found 👇

In the midst of all the craziness, I’m actually having a grand time writing my dissertation. Can’t believe two months from now I’ll be defending it!! Drs, how long is your thank list???

Excited to get a signed copy in April!!

Can confirm that bluesky Discovery page is shockingly good 😱

Celebrating small wins that out curiosity study's one week follow-up had ~90% retention rate - now that's a wrap!