You've got one week left to submit your application for our Health/Sci Comm Assistant Professor position here in @bellisariograded.bsky.social, so please share with anyone who might be interested!

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

We've finally got some hard numbers on AI's energy demand from a major tech company: Google says a median prompt to Gemini uses 0.24 watt-hours of electricity. 🧵 @technologyreview.com www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/21/1...

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

@chrisskurka.bsky.social, @clctroy.bsky.social, Yin Yang, & @jessgallmyrick.bsky.social are among the coauthors of "'It Is in the Air': Seeking & Scanning for Information About Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Among Young-Adult Men Who Have Sex w/ Men in the US." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We have a JOP article about how swifties ~randomly denied tickets to the eras tour due to website allocation errors changed their views on related policies www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

🚨 We are hiring at Penn State! My college (@bellisariograded.bsky.social‬) is hiring an Assistant Professor in Health/Science Communication (emphasis on social scientific approaches). I'm leading the search, so feel free to reach out with any questions. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

For anyone on the Communication job market this year S. Rutherford McEwan has put together an excellent spreadsheet for 2025-2026 openings. Highly recommend checking it out (whether you're applying or hiring): docs.getgrist.com/rHppfvPrMDQd... #commsky #academicsky #communication

Want to join us @univie.ac.at? Our department @ipk-univie.bsky.social is hiring a tenure-track professor in interactive communication, with a special focus on human-AI communication. 📆 Apply until September 17! 👀 More information here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... #AcademicSky #CommSky

Next up at our Political Divisions event at the Penn State Consortium on Moral Decision-Making was @chrisskurka.bsky.social, talking about passive "news finds me" approaches to media consumption & how they relate to democracy-relevant outcomes. How we relate to media matters youtu.be/GaY-mfwBWbI?...

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website! Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

The truth sandwich is baloney! New paper out. We show that the “truth sandwich” correction format (in which false information is bookended by factual information) does not enhance corrections. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Terrible Friday news dump.The wealth of expertise. The decades of scientific progress. The emerging and urgent challenges we were focused on tackling. It is all so short-sided and cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

We're hiring! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30219 The Cornell Department of Communication is hiring an Assistant Professor in Science, Environment, and Risk Communication! Applications received by September 15, 2025, will be given full consideration.

Now out @hcr-journal.bsky.social: we find evidence of overconfidence, but decomposition analyses show assoc. b/w OC & behavioral correlates are accounted for by deficits in actual discernment ability rather than lack of metacognitive insight academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...

This is very, very bad. A new state law will likely force the closure of hundreds of low-enrollment programs at Indiana University. The cutoff is 15 graduates/year for undergrad majors, 7 for Masters programs, and 3 for PhD programs, averaged over 3 years. wfiunews.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/h...

A big congratulations to Dr. Megan Norman on successfully defending her dissertation today! With advisor @jessgallmyrick.bsky.social and committee members @chrisskurka.bsky.social, S. Shyam Sundar, and Stephanie Madden.

Congratulations to Dr. Jiaqi (Agnes) Bao, who passed her dissertation defense today! With chair/advisor @jessgallmyrick.bsky.social and committee members @chrisskurka.bsky.social, Fuyuan Shen, and S. Shyam Sundar.

Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federally supported health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction of NIH IDC to 15%) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants). scienceimpacts.org

THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

Congressional committees & think tanks increasingly cite scientific articles over time, but Democrats & (especially) liberal think tanks cite science more; partisan overlap is low & stable www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

New study estimates that the Trump administration's 90-day funding freeze for USAID's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief would result in ~60 thousand HIV deaths across 7 countries. www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...

Study finds that social media posts presenting scientific findings with more uncertainty are significantly less likely to be shared. This creates a challenge, since embracing uncertainty can actually boost accuracy and trust! academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... #ScienceSky #scicomm

NEW | Analysing a story about an academic and smartphone bans… THE ANATOMY OF A SMEAR Comparing two news stories about an academic's view on school smartphone bans reveals just how easy it is to twist the narrative. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/4-the-anat...

"Compared with a white driver traveling the same speed, we find that racial or ethnic minority drivers are 24 to 33% more likely to be cited for speeding and pay 23 to 34% more money in fines." New in Science; high frequency location data from Lyft in Florida www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Search terms that NIH staff should use include: Media literacy (!!!) Disinformation Social media Misinformation Social distancing Lockdown Masks The guidance instructs staff that "it is most important to identify studies that would appear to be attempts to manipulate public opinion".

We've been tracking unlawful NIH grant terminations for 3 weeks. Spread the word👇! Fellow PIs: what can you do upon termination? ✅ Email PO + document questions ✅ Submit FOIA ✅ Advocate to your OCG/OSP for appeal + litigation ✅ Consider outside litigation ✅ Donate to state AGs + legal orgs 1/🧵

The power of on-screen representation 😻🐈‍⬛

1/x My NIH grant that would collect data to help *prevent suicidal thoughts and behaviors* among LGBTQ+ people was terminated today, along with many other LGBTQ+ focused grants. These terminations make no sense scientifically. Here's why:

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

Here's a call for a PostDoc in the Department of Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich for those who are interested!

Come work with me! We are nice people. 🤓

Bellisario PhD candidates Megan Pietruszewski Norman, Jiaqi Agnes Bao, Triwik Kurniasari & faculty @chrisskurka.bsky.social co-author "Posting environmental risk: Communicating with numerical and nonnumerical messaging across information modalities." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just learned from my students taking @rmcelreath.bsky.social online "Rethinking" course about the brewsy history of the t-test. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

leaving this here: "The bill, known as SB 1, would also establish post-tenure reviews, ban strikes by full-time faculty, and require colleges to publish a syllabus with the instructor’s professional qualifications and contact information for every class." www.highereddive.com/news/ohio-se...

“Why do I need NOAA? I’ve got a weather app.” Is equivalent to asking “Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.” www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...

A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates

CALL FOR EDITOR @aejmc.bsky.social 's journal Mass Communication and Society is seeking a new editor. Application deadline: April 18 2025 Transition period: Starts Jan 2026 Full term: Jan 2027 - Dec 2029 See full call here: mcusercontent.com/ce0fbe6f5841...

Imagine if a cyberattack did this. It would be an act of war.

If anyone needs something to do on their lunch break, one of my dissertation students has a short study on students' and researchers' perception of p-values: uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_....

The spread of misinformation and disinformation top the WEF short-term global risk report for 2025. www.weforum.org/publications...

If you are ready to advocate to your representatives (or friends and families) about the economic value of NIH funded research, you can check your state at www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH. No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts. And no indication how long the pause will last. With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.

The FDA wants front-of-package nutrition labels required on packaged foods. The labels would tell consumers if the product has Low, Medium or High levels of saturated fat, sodium and added sugar.

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers. See what changes are in store for your county. By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith

During the pandemic, I ran a joke terror management theory study and wrote a joke paper about it. Was too nervous to post it previously. But then again, nothing matters, so here it is! bit.ly/ChopikTMT

The alcohol-cancer link is in the news due to the Surgeon General warning. Back in 2020 I participated in a National Cancer Institute workshop on this topic where we discussed what's known and what still needs to be learned. Here's the report from that workshop: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...