Dominique Brossard

Congratulations Nan, well deseerved!

2) In this thread, I map the history and main strands of scholarship on the topic, key concepts, agreement, and disagreements in #STS, science policy studies, and related fields. FYI @brossard.bsky.social @dietram.bsky.social @thehonestbroker.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social

Religious values and confidence in science: Perceived tensions and common ground While confidence in science is high compared to other institutions, many Americans question whether scientists share their values, including religious ones. Narratives surrounding science and religion...

[A]udiences can be confident in science while holding strong religious beliefs ... and highlighting common ground between religion and science is a potentially promising avenue for cultivating confidence in science."

Somehow missed this important work by @freiling.bsky.social and colleagues ...

Fewer Wisconsinites got the flu shot this year. Some blame Trump. Dane County's vaccination rate is above average, but the statewide decline comes as a new strain raises worries.

Thanks to @erinmcgroarty.bsky.social for chatting with me about vaccine hesitancy! In these turbulent times, we need good reporting more than ever @captimes.com
captimes.com/news/health/...

Reply to González-Bailón and Lazer: Industry control and conflicts of interest in social media research | PNAS Reply to González-Bailón and Lazer: Industry control and conflicts of interest in social media research

"[T]he reliance on industry-controlled conceptualization and categorization of data by academic researchers undermines ... peer review and the replicability of what Meta claims are highly policy-relevant findings."

Glad our field is continuing these difficult but important conversations ...

This nicely reinforces findings from our recent @pnas.org piece in which we argue “that industry players like Meta make significant investments into long-term research streams … to absolve their platforms of responsibility for adverse effects on society or individuals.”

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Let’s not be naive: We need to be very aware of industry influence in computational social science! Through control of data (and experiment) access the situation is even more problematic than in other industries, which makes the data access rights under DSA article 40 particular important!

#Disasters are becoming more frequent and severe, but research on #DisasterManagement remains limited and siloed.

A recent @IssuesInST.bsky.social piece advocates for researchers to work together to develop a unified U.S. #DisasterResearch strategy: buff.ly/KLvNNgz

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.

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...

Dominique Brossard receives the 2025 Sharon Dunwoody Excellent Mentor Award

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!

"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

‘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.

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...

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

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

Winners get a subscription.

👩‍🏫 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.

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

youtu.be/J1wb8hGiNsU

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…

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

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…

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

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

“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.”

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

"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

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...

At the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

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

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!

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...

... 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...

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

🧪 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

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.

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

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

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

“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 …

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

Our cover this week.