Brendan NyhanWhat would you say if you saw it in another country? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/us/politics/trump-2024-cnn-town-hall.html
Lisa Fazio
@lkfazio
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Associate professor at Vanderbilt University, studies how adults and children learn true and false information, she/her
Ayanna K ThomasThe SPARK Society wants to increase the visibility of #Black, #Latino/a/e, and #Indigenous scholars by pairing them with a nominator for their Psychonomic Fellow application!
Check the opportunity out if:
1. You are a fellow and can serve as a nominator
2. You know someone who should be nominated
3. You want yourself to be nominated and would like Spark to assist.
Jay RosenThe Harvard Crimson reports:
Harvard Misinformation Expert Joan Donovan Forced to Leave by Kennedy School Dean.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/2/2/donovan-forced-leave-hks/
"Sources Say Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf is forcing out online misinformation expert Joan M. Donovan from her role at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and ending her research project, according to three HKS staff members with knowledge of the situation."
Harvard Misinformation Expert Joan Donovan Forced to Leave by Kennedy School Dean, Sources Say | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf is forcing out online misinformation expert Joan M. Donovan from her role at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and ending her research project, according to three HKS staff members with knowledge of the situation.
"Years of outcomes have shown that private companies will always put profit above lesser concerns such as justice and accessibility."
Great article on private school vouchers from
@Lyzl
https://open.substack.com/pub/lyz/p/when-public-money-becomes-private
Kate StarbirdDoes anyone have a citation and/or terminology that distinguishes between the targeted communities of a disinformation campaign: e.g. (1) a targeted-vector community that as infiltrated and then used to spread disinformation; vs. (2) a targeted-victim community that a campaign smears and demonizes as part of their efforts to motivate the targeted-vector community and achieve desired political/other outcomes?
Neil Lewis, Jr."You'd think graduate programs would be trying to outdo one another with the quality of the mentorship they offer. But then you'd be forgetting that the lifeblood of a science program isn't happy trainees—it's grants...grant money is a tangible and necessary fuel for university science departments, while mentorship can neither be quantified nor spent on a shiny new endowed provost." 😂
https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-aren-t-trained-mentor-s-problem?utm_campaign=SciMag&utm_medium=ownedSocial&utm_source=LinkedIn
https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-aren-t-trained-mentor-s-problem?utm_campaign=SciMag&utm_medium=ownedSocial&utm_source=LinkedIn
LadyFluffyOrca
Jess CalarcoWriters: You should never be ashamed to scrap a draft and start over. Because even if none of the original words you wrote end up in the final version, the process of writing those original words is what led to the better idea that sparked the new draft.
Jonathan Peelle
J. Nathan Matias 🦣How can we achieve faculty parity in US higher education our lifetime?
Taking so much away from a strategic planning convening @NeilLewisJr and I are co-organizing with Travis York and our partners in good trouble at the AAAS this week— together with folks at the @knightfnd, @SloanFoundation, the @DorisDukeFdn, @RWJF, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, APLU, and the AAU.
Grateful also to be in a room with peers who are asking *how* and not *why*?