Faculty Juliet Pinto & alum Lola Xie coedit w/ Stephen Mainzer "Communicating Resiliency & Efficacy in a Digital Age: Mediated Communities." Coauthoring chapters are alum @clctroy.bsky.social & Bingbing Zhang & PhD candidate @rachel901pttrsn.bsky.social. bookstore.emerald.com/communicatin...

Had a wonderful time meeting with different universities for JobHub and connecting with friends and colleagues at #AEJMC25 Wrong poster but hey close enough 😅Chinatown and the beach were wonderful too! Safe travels home everyone ☺️

Working from home

"I’ve learned that public health is not all about the numbers. There’s a lot you can’t see in data," says Puyat. "You always have to consider the population you’re working with and what their unique context is. It’s about understanding people and being empathetic."

I, for one, am tired of [gestures broadly]. I have grown weary of [points in all directions simultaneously].

CHATTANOOGA…. Their protest focused on Trump slashing food bank funds… www.facebook.com/share/14esHB... Cutting food for the poor while enriching the oligarchy is anything but pro-life. #GreedOverPeopleGOP

Universities claim “We take misconduct seriously.” Then why does the same abuse happen, at the same schools, over and over? The data tells a different story: buff.ly/3W5dVb2 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾‍🔬 👩🏼‍🔬 👩🏾‍🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd

America’s largest newspaper chain, Gannett, will stop publishing diversity data and has removed mentions of diversity from its corporate site

Good luck to everyone working to meet the #AEJMC deadline this evening! Looking forward to JobHub and warm weather in San Francisco this year ☺️🌉🌴

Let me tell you about me, about an actual human being who is being affected by the current administration. I was born in Tennessee. I was my parents first child. I’m the oldest of three. I moved to Setauket, NY when I was seven and grew up there.

Another way to publicize the importance of scientific research is through campus media--reach out and engage 🧪 www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025...

Funding opportunities for #eatingdisorders research are far and few between compared to other mental and physical illnesses, and there may be even less now due to NIH cuts. If you study eating disorders in any discipline I would love to connect and collaborate—let’s continue this important work.

If you are a #masscomm scholar please consider voting for Matt Haught for AEJMC vice president. He has been a dear friend and mentor for years, and I am confident in his abilities as a strategic leader. He is kind, innovative, and has a clear vision of growth and success for this organization!

I am at the GA State Capitol this morning to highlight the importance of public health and specifically the CDC.

Providing all the clarification requested to my IRB analyst which means tedious, specific background information on how eating disorder professionals are licensed and certified

Sent my committee the last revised version of my dissertation, submitted IRB materials, AND I just submitted a manuscript I’ve had on the back burner since August. It’s been a very productive week!

No more freedom of the press, a first amendment right, so it seems

I love all my friends saying things like, “I wish I could make a career off being petty and making diss tracks” after the halftime show, and I’m out here like, “Have you considered academia?”

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

The entire tech industry right now

The words “barriers” and “women” will get you flagged? My work is specifically about inequity in healthcare, mental illness, and pregnant women! Vulnerable populations! I had been searching the NIH and NSF for any grant that could help continue my work pre-inauguration. What now?

“Now, however, searching for some terms leads to a dead link or to pages that have been stripped of key details, or the search yields a suggestion to explore another topic instead. For instance, a search for the word “abortion” suggests that the user “also try: adoption.””

Crazy that United States public health guidance will now rely on something called the Wayback Machine

CDC has removed STI treatment guidelines.

These are very worrisome times

This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x

Any #qualitative #masscomm scholars have any opinions about Nvivo vs MAXQDA software for analyzing qual data? Specifically wondering if one is better than the other for transcribing/coding participant interviews 📝👩🏼‍💻

Still laughing about how last week, I (a qual scholar) told my adviser (also a qual scholar) that I don’t make code books in advance and “the codes are just the friends we make along the way”

Several people I collaborate with have been anticipating NIH grants for public health/eating disorder research, in addition to my anticipated application for funding for such a vulnerable population. The effects of this will harm researchers and populations we aim to help with our studies.

Girl, is your P value less than 0.05? Because you’re significant to me.

Truly wild time to be a social media researcher. Are my data points gone? Are they back? Are they going to disappear again tomorrow? Downloading them today just in case but aaaaaaaaaa

Me putting a cookie in my purse at every on campus event so I can bring it home to my toddler lol

Read a paper last week that I had downloaded in 2022 😅 I get to them eventually!

This is horrifying and heartbreaking and frankly under discussed in conversations about #ai #digitalhealth #healthcommunication #mentalhealth #youthmedia

Every time I’ve attended @aejmc.bsky.social it’s been such a lovely and welcoming atmosphere. Academia can be lonely and discouraging, but I felt especially included colleagues and conference organizers in Philly this past August. Looking for more #AEJMC buddies here too!

Happy New Year! May your new year be filled with groundbreaking ideas, plenty of rest, and lots of acceptance emails.

Resolutions

My apple watch sending me a notification to open tiktok while I’m working on my dissertation is evil work 😆I’m editing very nonchalantly but still! I don’t need further distractions lol

Any luck?

Me right now trying to finish my (55+ page) dissertation proposal before the holidays

Getting “what does this mean?” in edits from my adviser (or anyone) is always humbling but in the best and funniest way

No one has ever “enjoyed” Outlook, I fear.

Is anyone else just *not interested* in using AI for their writing? All accuracy and morality aside, I just don't want to. I want every last word I put on a page to have flowed out from my own body. Maybe I'm romanticizing it, but I just can't see it any other way.

Research from @kspoon.bsky.social & ... "“People don’t want to be in a workplace if they feel disrespected, if they feel like their work isn’t valued, if they feel like they’re not seen,” she notes. “And I do think that in many, many academic workplaces, that is the experience that women have.”"