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PhD candidate, Harvard Chan. Health Comm, media, tech.
Public Health Feed 🛟: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:egtk4i4s3a2cykq3pa5nrkqr/feed/aaaarylo7rb2
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#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky 🛟 Go Massachusetts !! Towns adopted tobacco endgame regulations prohibiting the sale of cigarettes and nicotine products to anyone born in 2004 or later. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Advocates see an ‘endgame for tobacco’ in Massachusettswww.washingtonpost.com Six communities in Massachusetts have recently adopted rules to create what advocates call a “nicotine-free generation.”

Eactly this. How many times have health education and health information been allegedly "democratized"? By the internet. by web 2.0. by Twitter. By facebook. By massively open online classes. by electronic health records. what else am I missing?

When companies/individuals pitch AI tools to make a resource like healthcare or education “more accessible to people who otherwise couldn’t afford it,” that = supporting and working to entrench a two-tier system they can exploit for profit.

from the archives, a horrible timelapse short that really captures the constant threat of bananas turning on you. featuring an ungodly mix of shephard tones, and surprisingly no mice #art #animation #video

horrible #timelapse #animation capturing bananas' menacing nature. ready to go bad at any secondyoutube.com

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The Supreme Court just blew up four decades of precedent today, in a decision that will make it harder for executive agencies to protect the environment, public health, worker safety and more. www.axios.com/2024/06/28/s...

Supreme Court guts agency power in seismic Chevron rulingwww.axios.com The ruling on the doctrine will weaken the impact of statues for a wide array policy areas.

I really like the idea of this new feature. So I cooked up a quick Public Health on BlueSky starter pack.

Public Health on BlueSky: Starter Packbsky.app Join the conversation

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Great critique: "These articles fall into a genre we’ll call 'science opinion,' where non-experts pontificate...abt the pandemic virus & our response to it. This is distinct from science journalism...where experts in translating sci to the general public report on technical developments."🛟🧪sociology

“The New York Times” Is Failing Its Readers Badly on Covidwww.thenation.com A pair of shoddy opinion pieces proves that the paper is letting its audience down and undermining the fight to improve our knowledge of the virus.

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#HealthPolicy #PublicHealth prof friends - I currently start our core course with 3 films - Health Care: America v. the World, The Power to Heal, and The Healthcare Divide (students choose 2 to discuss). Is there a better/newer one for comparing health systems? Please and thank you! 📊🩺🛟

Reposting for feeds. Submit a performance piece or print piece for the APHA annual meeting this year, brought to you by the AJPH Student Think Tank Tags: #SciArt #EpiSky Public Health #SciComm 🩺

I'm organizing a performance event/gallery at the 2024 APHA annual meeting. It's a great opportunity for anyone attending to meet other likeminded folks using arts to build community around health outside of academia. Attached Doc explains more. Direct link to submit here: bit.ly/ArtSubmissio...

Public Call for Art AJPH 2024 Student Think Tankdocs.google.com Forging Radical Hope An Art Show at the APHA 2024 Annual Meeting The 2024 American Journal of Public Health Student Think Tank is hosting a public health-inspired art show at the 2024 APHA Annual Mee...

Just a plug of the @markrubin.bsky.social 's science feed directory. A few public health adjacent feeds: Food Studies: bsky.app/profile/did:... Health Policy Sky: bsky.app/profile/did:... ImmunoSky: bsky.app/profile/did:...

BlueSky Science-Related Feedsdocs.google.com Sheet1 Name (Click to visit feed),Tags,Contact to ask to be added to contributor list <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ftnzzw4cnon2pzpw7i5m2xu7/feed/aaaiqnkwsgsz6">#AI&HCI</a>,#HCI, #Artific...

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A timeline of New York's destruction of public health.

Reposting for feeds Tags: 🧪 🩺 🛟 #scicomm

New from NIH researchers, experimenting with H5N1 versus a common pasteurization approach, found "small but detectable quantity of HPAI A(H5N1) virus to remain infectious in milk after 15 seconds at 72°C if the initial titer is sufficiently high" www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

In hilarious and wonderful news, a short story/poem/fanfic I wrote about a nonbinary character in The Fast & The Furious is now part of a Lambda Literary Award winning anthology. It is honestly the publication I am most proud of. I wrote it when I needed to process some frustration through absurdism

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I went back to look at the COVID and masking debates from 2020. @mmolteni.bsky.social and Adam Rogers' piece from July 2020 in Wired is just terrific. The NY Times' piece by Zeynep Tufecki that boils this down to "it was Fauci's fault" looks foolish by comparison. www.wired.com/story/how-ma...

How Masks Went From Don’t-Wear to Must-Havewww.wired.com Public health messaging and science have to work hard to stay in sync during a crisis. During the Covid-19 pandemic, they haven’t always succeeded.

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We have also made a companion zine that goes with this issue! It is filled with patterns and tips and is free to print, share, and reuse! hcommons.org/deposits/ite...

We are THRILLED to announce the publication of our latest special issue ✨ Making Research Tactile: Critical Making and Data Physicalization in Digital Humanities ✨ We'll be posting to links to each piece but check out our awesome table of contents: dhandlib.org/2024/04/29/m...

Making Research Tactile: Critical Making and Data Physicalization in Digital Humanities Special Issue ← dh+libdhandlib.org

Play With Your Datahcommons.org A zine associated with dh+lib's special issue on data physicalization. Contains patterns and tips for making data physicalizations. (8.5 x 5.5 - print as a booklet with binding/flip on the left or sho...

Anyone around here interested in graduate students in a health literacy class assessing health communication materials their clinic/organization uses? Reach out to me here for more info if so Tags: #MedSky Public Health #scicomm #academicsky

I'm directing a special podcast miniseries as part of the American Journal of Public Health student think tank this year. And Episode 1 is out! We're highlighting student voices and learning how they're using community and creativity to build change and hope. Tags: 🛟 #academicsky #phdsky

AJPH Podcast: Pitching the Future of Public Health (Part 1) with Kathleen Pattiwww.youtube.com Welcome to "Forging Radical Hope," a special podcast series from the American Journal of Public Health 2024 Student Think Tank. In our first episode, we explore the future of public health with insightful pitches from our esteemed guests. Part 1 features Kathleen Patti, an MPH student at the University of North Florida, who shares her visionary ideas on the future of sexual health education. Kathleen emphasizes the importance of enhancing interpersonal communication and understanding personal boundaries to improve sexual health outcomes. Don't miss this thought-provoking discussion on the future of public health. Follow the AJPH Student Think Tank on LinkedIn for more student highlights and to continue the conversation: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ajph-student-think-tank/. You can check out some of the resources Kathleen mentioned here: https://amaze.org/ https://flhealthyyouth.org/ Music by Quincas Moreira.

Reposting Public Service Loan Forgiveness for the public health feed 🛟

For public health people (well, all of #academicsky really if your students end up in gov/non-profit work), APHA is hosting a free webinar on Public Service Loan Forgiveness! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Public Service Promise Webinar with APHA. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.us06web.zoom.us Join Public Service Promise for a FREE expert-led webinar with Susan Polan, Associate Executive Director for Public Affairs and Advocacy, American Public Health Association (APHA). The webinar, for AP...

My latest musings on networked health literacy: you can't separate accessibility from health literacy, especially online. It's a health equity issue, a health comm issue, and has the added benefit of helping your message spread farther. Tags: 🧪 🩺 🛟 #academicsky #phdsky #scicomm

Integrating Health Literacy and Web Accessibilitywww.linkedin.com Increase the reach and impact of your health communication videos by integrating health literacy and accessibility

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Happy 1 year of the Blacksky feed 🎈. Thanks for 10M views. Thanks for the 100K people who've used the feed. Thanks to the thousands who use the feeds daily. Thanks to the people who share the feed. Even thankful for the press mentions (as long as you spelled the name right). Shout out to y'all.

Launch Blacksky · bluesky-social/feed-generator@3935863github.com

Would love to hear how these ideas do/don't resonate with folks doing scicomm or healthcomm online. What makes communication with online networks different from a one-on-one, the classroom, or offline community settings? Reposting for feeds I always forget to tag: 🧪 🩺 🛟 #academicsky #phdsky #scicomm

Excited to present a new piece in Journal of Health Communication, with @homozygoat.bsky.social and others: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/A4TF6... We combined media studies theory and practical experience to provide recommendations for working with the networked nature of communication online.

Genuinely curious here about sci/health comm folk's current thoughts on generative AI. I'm pretty concerned that we're going to repeat the same problems that took hold in social media, where a hierarchical, centralized approach to communication doesnt cut it Tags: 🩺 🛟 #academicsky #scicomm

We can't rely on corporate regulation, and government regulation is likely to be glacially slow. To me, this begs the question: is there a way for public health communicators to use AI to promote critical health literacy skills? Or do we need to be playing a different game altogether?

Can AI Enhance Critical Health Literacy? This NYT article highlights how easy and fast it is to make AI-generated messages with a particular voice, reflecting specific political sensibilities. Archive link and more thoughts in the thread below. Tags: 🩺 🛟 #academicsky #scicomm

See How Easily A.I. Chatbots Can Be Taught to Spew Disinformationwww.nytimes.com Ahead of the election this year, the results suggested how easy it could be to create divisive content online, on either side of the political spectrum.

I say this all the time, but all roads somehow lead back to raw milk in the US

"Since March 25, when the bird flu virus was confirmed in U.S. cattle for the first time, weekly sales of raw cow’s milk have ticked up 21% to as much as 65% compared with the same periods a year ago." This is why we can't have nice things.

Raw milk sales spike despite CDC's warnings of risk associated with bird fluwww.pbs.org From 1998 to 2018, the CDC documented more than 200 illness outbreaks traced to raw milk, which sickened more than 2,600 people and hospitalized more than 225.

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hi scientists 🧪 i'd love to hear your thoughts on bluesky! • what groups/people in science aren't here yet, that you want to see? • what can bluesky do to make it a better place for science comms? • what external tools do you use that should integrate bluesky support? • anything else!

Commuication doesn't happen in a vacuum. Different technologies enable your communication. People interact with them in multiple contexts. They move across online and offline channels. Search Engines offer one window into how health literacy practices might adapt to these considerations.

When I learned to use health literacy best practices, our examples missed a key feature: their network context. Here, I integrated actionability with SEO practices. They play well together & show the need for network thinking in health communication Tags: 🧪 🩺 🛟 #academicsky #phdsky #scicomm

Engage and Inform: 5 SEO Practices for Actionable Measles Messagingwww.linkedin.com Transform your health messages with SEO savvy and networked health literacy know-how! Use these 4 pro tips to maximize the reach of your health communication.

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A pandemic-era requirement for hospitals to report COVID-19 and flu data to CDC has ended But citing "value of these data for patient safety and public health," agency is telling hospitals it "strongly encourages ongoing, voluntary reporting" www.cdc.gov/nhsn/covid19...

Reminder from CDC's influenza report this week A remnant of pandemic-era authorities is set to go away "Effective May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report hospital admissions, hospital capacity, or hospital occupancy data to HHS" www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/i...

A doctor in New Hampshire recently suffered a case of mistaken identity, leading to harassment, threats, and review bombing. In my latest newsletter, I look at the lessons to learn from how his mployer responded and how the misinformation spread 🧪 🩺 🛟 #academicsky #phdsky #scicomm #healthliteracy

Untangling Networks of Misinformation: A Hospital's Response to Mistaken Identitywww.linkedin.com Through the story of Dr. Andrew Spector, unpack the challenges and solutions of fighting health misinformation on social media