Center for Health Communication, UDel @UDelCHC

I successfully defended my dissertation proposal and am officially ABD!🥳 I’m SO EXCITED to start collecting data now!! Major thanks to my committee @ablakes4 @jpcrowls @bradleyjbond and Kami Silk for all of their helpful suggestions, comments, and guidance on this project.

Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022 pewrsr.ch/3pc9pXn At last, new data!

Empirical reality is a very strong intervention as it occasionally has the power to change attitudes and beliefs.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjs_DC

2 years ago

I’m haunted by this South Carolina Republican, Rep. Neal Collins, realizing that the anti-abortion bills he supported are now forcing women and girls to carry nonviable pregnancies at risk of sepsis, death, and loss of the uterus. All these outcomes were inevitable and predicted.

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Schools are going to need masks, tests, isolation and quarantine, ventilation, and vaccination to control COVID and keep kids in school. To pretend COVID will control itself is an abject failure of logic and leadership. Want a reasonably smooth yr? Use. All. The. Tools.

Out and about today to get out the vote!! Go #PaDems! Go @JoshShapiroPA @AustinDavisPA! Go @JohnFetterman! Go @RepConklin @PaulTakac_PA @ZeiglerForPA!! We Are! Love, State College, PA. ❤️❤️❤️

Congratulations to #UDEL's School of Nursing being named a Center of Excellence in #Nursing #Education by the @NLN: ow.ly/pKoZ50K2waX #NetDE #UDisThePlace #eduDE #NursingEducation

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Allie White @alliewhiite

2 years ago

Hi friends! I'm recruiting #LGBTQ 18-25 years olds for a pre- #dissertation survey. Please share with your LGBTQ+ networks, & LGBTQ+ folks, please take my survey! As a thank you for participating, you can win a $25 #Amazon gift card! #netflix #hulu #prime delaware.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_78…

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New paper by @jdfoote from my research collective!

Community Data Science Collective📈 @comdatasci

2 years ago

Online communities are deeply interconnected and interdependent. @jdfoote argues that systems theory can help us to study interdependencies, and that online platforms have the sort of data that is enabling really exciting new research. blog.communitydata.science/a-systems-appr…

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New study in Health Comm with @UDelaware colleagues @ablakes4, Silk, @dannagal, and @JennyLambe on how people's uncertainty about #COVIDー19 influences both the way they seek info. (if at all) and their precautionary behaviors (e.g., social distancing). tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New in AJPH: Researchers find COVID-19 disparities in hospitalization rates, mortality rates, and vaccination coverage among Hispanic populations across 27 large cities in the US doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2… @usama_bilal @Alinasmahl @mariana_mlazo @adiezroux @amdonate

A significant portion of packaging for cannabis edibles looks like kid-friendly food products, or are specifically designed to appeal to young people. New study by @Andy_SL_Tan et al says this presents a risk of accidental ingestion by youth. See more: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

"We never had a central idea of how we cover the astounding, atypical, and, in some instances, even jaw-dropping developments that we’ve seen in the United States, socially and politically, in the last five to seven years. " @jelani9

Brian Stelter @brianstelter

2 years ago

>> @jelani9: "We need to seriously think about not only what the best practices are for covering authoritarian politics, but what we need to be educating students about, in terms of how they approach the subject matter." cjr.org/podcast/jelani…

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📢NEW PUB @UDelaware doctoral students Michele Boehm & @alliewhiite test @ablakes4 and my Ideological Health Spiral model and find that state-level stay-at-home orders increase the extent to which COVID knowledge translates into self-efficacy beliefs... link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New Report: Here’s How We Can Improve Brain Health blog.aarp.org/new-report-her… #health #brain #brainAwarenessWeek #brainawarenessweek2022 @dana_fdn @AARP @FuchsWriter @kalltucker @LindaSearing @paula_span @drsanjaygupta

@UDelCHC @ablakes4 It is actually very helpful for one of my kids. We watch a series together and watch one episode each night before bed. Helps him wind down from the day!

Love working with Erin Maloney and our amazing research team at @UDelaware. This project (now out in Health Comm) tracked COVID misperceptions in early days of the 2020 pandemic. @ablakes4 @jpcrowls, Kami Silk, @JennyLambe Free eprints available here: tandfonline.com/eprint/KPW6GFC…

Really excited to share our work on coping with hate speech at @icahdq and at the top paper panel for @ICA_IPC to boot! Shoutout to all coauthors Denes, @ablakes4, Webber, Geary, DelGreco, Guest, Hamlin, & Whitt for the ton of work that went into this project.