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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 13h

Open-rank faculty positions in Artificial Intelligence in Education and Organizations at Vanderbilt University. The faculty will work within our new college of connected computing and one of the five departments in Peabody College (including psychology!)

jobs.chronicle.com/job/37894746...

Open-Rank Tenure Line Position in Artificial Intelligence in Education and Organizations - Nashville, Tennessee job with Peabody College of Education and Human Development | 37894746

Vanderbilt University invites applications for two open rank tenure-track faculty positions in the area of AI and Education in Organizations.

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Dominique Brossard @brossard.bsky.social · Aug 12

Excited and humbled to have received the Sharon Dunwoody Excellence in Mentoring Award at the 2025 @comsher.bsky.social Convention!Thanks so much to the former students and colleagues who have nominated me, working and learning from all of you is what makes academic life worthwhile!

Dominique Brossard receives the 2025 Sharon Dunwoody Excellent Mentor Award

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Dietram A. Scheufele @dietram.bsky.social · Jun 30

"Scientists must compete in an attention economy in which they are just one of many voices, and in which ... algorithms now serve as ... gatekeeper."

Is #scicomm becoming its own wicked problem? With huge gratitude to my co-authors, excited to finally see this in "print" ...

#openaccess

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · Jun 10

The only way people seem able to navigate diet is to fixate on ONE THING that is the BAD THING.

That was wrong when it was sugar, HFCS, GMOs, gluten, lectins, meat, whatever. And of course it's just as wrong for seed oils.
www.eater.com/politics/883...

‘No Seed Oil’ Restaurants Seize the Moment

As the anti-seed-oil movement picks up steam, many restaurants are leaning on “no seed oils” as part of their messaging and marketing.

www.eater.com

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Dominique Brossard @brossard.bsky.social · Jun 9

@morgridgeinstitute.bsky.social CEO Brad Schwartz discussing biomedical research and regulatory processe at the Mount Horeb, WI, public library. #scicomm in action!

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · Jun 4

Ooo! Ooo! This should be a contest. Can you out-predict the Economist's SCOTUS AI model?

Winners get a subscription.

The Economist @economist.com · Jun 4

How might America’s Supreme Court rule in the biggest cases on its docket? We built an AI model to predict the possible outcomes. Find out how it works: https://econ.trib.al/v0WEoBE

Meet SCOTUSbot, our AI tool to predict Supreme Court rulings

Impending decisions will be a test of our model

econ.trib.al

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RHET AI Center @rhetai.bsky.social · May 26

👩‍🏫 Und Olaf Kramer wird zusammen mit @hendriks.bsky.social, Ayelet Baram Tsabari und @brossard.bsky.social Teil des Panels "𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀" sein.

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UW-Madison LSC @uw-lsc.bsky.social · Apr 24

Missed this weeks talk? You can find a full recording at the link below!

youtu.be/J1wb8hGiNsU

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · May 17

Weekend reads: MIT rescinds support of AI paper; should AI write science papers, anyway?; another pub steps in for paused NIH journal

How do retractions impact researchers’ career paths and collaborations? A Q&A with the study’s authors Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact facto…

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · May 15

Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact factors

Clarivate will no longer include citations to and from retracted papers when calculating journal impact factors, the company announced today. The change comes after some have wondered over th…

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Dietram A. Scheufele @dietram.bsky.social · May 13

“This is why I must step away from my work with two federal institutions … that offer guidance about how the Executive and Legislative branches can be stewards of knowledge and create structure to enable discovery, innovation, and ingenuity.”

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

time.com

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Social & Behavioral Sciences at NASEM @sbs.nationalacademies.org · May 6

"Governance should not be understood as an impediment to AI innovation but as an essential component of it." A new article in the National Academy of Engineering's The Bridge from @alondra.bsky.social discusses the value of policy and governance for AI systems. Read now: buff.ly/sFRy6qW

Bright blue lines connect at nodes, set against a black background.

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Apr 7

It's that season once again 🍂 ☀️ ❄️ 🌱 so please spread the word: Science, Technology, & Human Values are pleased to announce that we are taking proposals for Special Issues of the journal 📬 ⏰ The call closes 21 June 2025 - and you can find details in the form: forms.gle/6uYdQim9J1z5...

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Dominique Brossard @brossard.bsky.social · May 8

Always exciting to be in the beautiful @nationalacademies.org building and see the amazing, important work they do at the intersection of science and policy! Honored to be a member of one of their Advisory Committees

At the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

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David Mair @davidmair4.bsky.social · May 8

Important. Politicians may be getting a “false negative” reading of the state of politics from media and social media that monetise polarisation. This sort of thing and more citizen participation can help.

@eurcorrespond.bsky.social

www.europeancorrespondent.com/article?s=Ri...

Read European Journalism now! — The European Correspondent

The European Correspondent is the place where you read about the climate crisis, migration, digitisation and much more – with an European angle!

www.europeancorrespondent.com

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Dietram A. Scheufele @dietram.bsky.social · May 2

... and thank you to alumna Holly Cho for a powerful reminder of what #scicomm is all about in a keynote that I hope a lot of people will read:

lsc.wisc.edu/wp-content/u...

lsc.wisc.edu

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 8

🧪 Data update on NSF grant terminations

Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for...

54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381)
75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M)

The next generation of scientists is being targeted.

#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF

Office of the Director (OD) $4
Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) $5
Biological Sciences (BIO) $15
Engineering (ENG) $25
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) $34
Geosciences (GEO) $34
Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) $35
Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) $41
STEM Education (EDU) $590

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Dominique Brossard @brossard.bsky.social · May 2

'As the DOJ questions journals, how can we reasonably promote “competing viewpoints” in science?'

heterodoxacademy.substack.com/p/as-the-doj...

As the DOJ questions journals, how can we reasonably promote “competing viewpoints” in science?

We need to focus on doing better science, not filling quotas.

heterodoxacademy.substack.com

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Dietram A. Scheufele @dietram.bsky.social · Apr 30

“As long as COVID and President Trump are the two most easily retrievable examples of what misinformation correction looks like, we have a problem.”

Always great talking to (and getting pushback from) @kakape.bsky.social …

Trump’s team, often accused of spreading misinformation, slashes misinformation research

Hundreds of grants axed in a field where the United States was a global leader

www.science.org

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Dominique Brossard @brossard.bsky.social · May 2

Taught by @wiscobirder.bsky.social and open to all!

UW-Madison LSC @uw-lsc.bsky.social · Apr 30

Want to start your own podcast, host your own radio show, or delve into the world of audio production? Check out our new online, asynchronous summer course, LSC 360: Science Podcasting & Radio!

Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/04/30/l...

Explore science podcasting in LSC’s new summer course

University of Wisconsin-Madison students, alongside professionals from across the nation, have the opportunity to enhance their science communication skills through a variety of courses in Life Scienc...

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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · Apr 24

Our cover this week.

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Dietram A. Scheufele @dietram.bsky.social · Apr 28

"LSC was the nation’s first department of agricultural journalism ... and now we are the first to launch a PhD program in science communication."

The end of an era in @uw-lsc.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @brossard.bsky.social for all her work positioning LSC at the very top of our field ...

Q&A: Dominique Brossard on her experience being LSC department chair

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · Apr 26

Excited to spend today at the Science Communications Conference at St. Olaf College.

@brossard.bsky.social starts us off "Communicating science is very important but it's also very hard"

When thinking about "trust in science" what do we mean, trust in whom, in what context, to do what? 1/

Dominique Brossard in front of slide reading

Trust in "science"

but trust in whom? In what context? To do what?

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Dominique Brossard @brossard.bsky.social · Apr 25

Excited to be on the beautiful St Olaf College campus for a #scicomm conference! Thanks for having me!

Science Communication Conference program

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UW-Madison LSC @uw-lsc.bsky.social · Apr 24

We are excited to announce that this Saturday, LSC Professor and Chair @brossard.bsky.social will be presenting on "Trust in Science: Where Are We and Where Do We Go From There" at St. Olaf College's Science Communications Conference

Learn more at: wp.stolaf.edu/news/the-ins...

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