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UO researchers found that air pollution warnings distributed by U.S. government agencies might not be protecting children enough from wildfire smoke. Learn more about the study 🔗 news.uoregon.edu/kids-risk-pare…

Lightning Strikes in Slow Motion #lightning #lightningstrike #slowmotion ratioscientiae.com/random-science…

Including numeric information about climate consequences in social media posts increases how often people engage Dave Markowitz shootsreinhard

"The cumulative global incidence of long COVID is around 400 million individuals, which is estimated to have an annual economic impact of approximately $1 trillion—equivalent to about 1% of the global economy."

Why do more numerate people tend to make better decisions under risk? My ✨ new paper in Scientific Reports ✨ offers an explanation in terms of pre-decisional information search and processing, using computational modeling. nature.com/articles/s4159… 👇 Thread below 1/8

For graphs too, simple is better: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Rent prices increase substantially when Airbnb enters an area. In neighborhoods with high Airbnb activity, "rents are estimated to have increased by 7%, while increases in transaction prices are estimated at 17%" Evidence from Barcelona

Credit to U.S. FDA for moving up the timeline for #COVID19 vax updates. Yet the map below shows why this was still a policy failure. An update that comes AFTER this much spread, can’t be considered a success. We have to acknowledge Covid isn’t behaving like the flu.🤷🏽‍♂️

The Center for Science Communication Research is hosting its Fall 2024 Coffee and Donuts event this Thursday (10/3) from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Stop by Allen Hall for a donut and learn more about the Science Communication Minor and the SCR Small Grants Program!

Is it better or worse to communicate with numbers given high levels of innumeracy and math anxiety? In a new Scientific American piece with Dave Markowitz, we argue that people often appreciate numeric data University of Oregon UO Journalism & Comm scientificamerican.com/article/number…

NEW PUB ALERT!! Research on climate change solutions journalism published in Environment & Behavior. Special thanks to my co-author Dr. Alex Segrè Cohen and my PhD advisor Dr. Nicole Dahmen for their support and guidance! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

relevant to #SMDM24. "Findings reveal that numbers have persuasive power—but they need to be employed with care to compel action." great work as always Ellen Peters scientificamerican.com/article/number…

Published! The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action - The Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lance… The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change World Health Organization (WHO) Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum. @diarmidcl.bsky.social

BREAKING: ‘Will I Am’ just dropped a new single called “Yes She Can”. Hint: “She” is Kamala Harris. Everyone in America needs to hear it:

Currently attending one of my favorite conferences: the Society for Judgement and Decision Making SJDM, Society for Judgment and Decision Making. Check out this amazing pic we snapped at a gathering last night of 12 former presidents of the society! I feel very lucky to call most of these star scholars friends.

Come join us!