This was a really fun collaboration with one of the first friends I made in grad school. Definitely give this handbook a read!!

Enjoying Stranger Things during the holiday season? Have you thought about why some stories are more successful than others? Our new preprint investigates this question by studying the character networks in the narratives:

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Our department is hiring! Assoc. or Full professor of Journalism. See our job ad here:

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Feel free to DM me with questions. Ohio State and the School of Communication is a great place to work. High quality people and high quality research. Please share!

Thanks to @nature.com for inviting Todd Rogers and I to talk about our favorite topic: writing/speaking to engage!

Below we comment on a recent article that found:
- if you want people to mindlessly agree - use jargon
- if you want people to actually understand - speak simply

Ohio State University is hosting a reception at the upcoming International Communication Association conference. @icahdq.bsky.social

The Role of Framing, Race, and Symbolic Racism in Policy Support Two experiments examined the role of issue presentation and race on attitudes toward police (Study 1, N = 820) and election (Study 2, N = 1405) reform in the United States. Across both studies, it ...

Race and racialized attitudes are central to many policies. We find that racial dynamics negatively influence perceptions of policies that disproportionally impact communities of color.
#commsky new pub by@hcshulman.bsky.social, Lanier Holt, myself & Rachel Wade
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yes! SoC alum please consider attending!

You mean to tell me that Chicago gets to claim Michael Jordan, the first Black President AND the first American Pope? Good lord you ain't going to be able to tell them NOTHING.

Welcome to Save The U.S. National Science Foundation A Girl Looking at a Physics Model TAKE ACTION Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation. Our mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation in various scientific fields. NSF funding is critical to this work. Join us in our endeavor to ensure a sustainable future for scientific exploration and discovery.

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!!

Has a take action toolkit with:

1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points

Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.

www.savensf.com

Harvard University Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.

Harvard rolled out a new website alongside its rejection of the admin’s terms. Some people have been working very hard! Kudos.

www.harvard.edu

Five things to know if your federal grant is terminated If you want to appeal the decision, know the rules that govern terminations, as well as the specific rationale given in your notice, science policy experts say.

Really helpful, practical article on 5 tips if your federal grant is terminated.

Summarizes from a AAAS webinar that had 2,000+ attendees.

Appreciate that it has lots of links for specific agencies too!

Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.

www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

Go to Waffle House at midnight. Order the hashbrowns—scattered, smothered, covered. Sip a burnt cup of coffee. Download the 5 Calls app. Call your representative between bites. Record a voicemail. Push back against corruption. Remind them who they work for. Read the Constitution.

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New research published in @jmcquarterly.bsky.social led by @austinhubner.bsky.social. We examined whether a celebrity influencer or expert would be more influential in the context of a health (vaccine) or social issue (police reform). #CommSky 1/4 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Excited to share new work out of #teamfluency led by Rachel Wade. This experiment shows that making medical forms about family health history easier makes people want to engage more with their family health history.

short forms = better. Way to go Rae!!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

What a great trip to #NCA2024!
Highlight no. 1: supporting my wonderful coauthor @karasfort.bsky.social as she presented our paper at the Comm and Social Cognition Top Paper panel!

You are always welcome 😊

Team picture

A very fitting first post!#teamfluency at #nca24

The best of times!

The Communication and Social Cognition Division is going to do a trial run using BlueSky at #nca24 this year! If you want to stay in the loop, you can follow the account below. We'll see how it goes, but I'm excited!

Have you heard about Moral Media’s eighth meeting being held April 11-13, 2025 in Buffalo, NY? If not, here is more information: moralmedia.org/annual-meeti...

What Our Media Choices Say About Us | Now at Ohio State In this episode of Now at Ohio State, two experts break down why we choose the shows we choose, why we like the characters we like and what those choices mean.

Why do we choose the media we choose? Check out The Ohio State University colleagues mattgrizz.bsky.social and Sara Grady and the latest podcast, online at www.osu.edu/impact/now-a....

Hoping that this is where everyone went! I think it is fitting that my first post (??) shares a new article examining perceptions of women in science.
Key takeaway: Women were perceived as more competent, but this was mediated by perceptions of likability. Excited to keep exploring this!

Reminder: sharing someone’s post at this early phase of network effects also shares their presence on this platform.