This study demonstrates the importance of long-term & stable investments in science. Having funding today can be just as important as knowing if it will be around tomorrow because the science that helps us understand our world in meaningful ways can often require a lot of time and a lot of patience.

“We fundamentally believe that publishing less – but better – is essential for the health of the entire research system worldwide,” the authors of the report state.

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public" - Theodore Roosevelt

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

A bittersweet series about what we have lost, but also what we could regain if we lived in a country that supported basic research again.

In grad school someone asked if I was "learning how to lie with statistics" in class. Which... no 😭 My secret agenda as a scientist is to make people's lives better. Being science literate is more than understanding correlations, it's also understanding the ethics and training behind the science.

Our need to belong increases our dependence on social media feedback.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

OSU Comm is hiring an Assoc. or Full Prof. We are seeking someone to provide leadership for our undergrad journ program. The research focus includes journ, public opinion, audience analytics, science comm, or media economics, or other related topics. osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.

Excited to share my new work aimed at making algorithmic bias easier to study w/3 key contributions • Clear overview of how/where algorithmic bias arises • Workarounds as a concept for user adaptation • Framework for analyzing bias that is real, perceived, or absent 1/5 🧵🧪 doi.org/10.1007/s001...

✨NEW PREPRINT✨ Led by the fantastic ‪@hnxue.bsky.social‬, this study looked at shorts recommended to children on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Unsafe shorts had darker visuals, harmful content was framed as entertainment and harm-triggering content as ordinary. arxiv.org/abs/2507.12571

Who is most at risk for body esteem problems after being on social media? Our recent study found 36% of teens experience negative associations between social media use and body esteem (17% positive) - and high perfectionism was among the identified risk factors. doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

After 22 years of school, I am now the kind of doctor that isn't particularly handy in a medical emergency - but will talk your ear off about kids and tech. But really, a huge thank you to the family, friends, and teachers who nurtured and supported me along the way. Next stop is Columbus Ohio!