🎉🧵It's time to celebrate! Brown Information Futures Lab marks its second anniversary this summer. Two years of innovation, impact, and tackling the global information crisis with support from Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH and Brown University School of Public Health.

Are we living in an alternate universe where Democrats aren't currently in power?

“I have concepts of a plan” about to be my go-to when my bosses ask for updates on a project

Why we need professional journalists: JD Vance rep tells @wsj about Anna Kilgore, a Springfield OH woman whose cat went missing in August, so Kris Maher drives to her house. She found the cat in her basement and apologized to her Haitian neighbors.

🧵New research from Brown Information Futures Lab, launched today with Climate Week NYC & The Rockefeller Foundation, reveals a massive gap in how we talk about climate change online 🌍💔— only 3.1% of posts and news headlines mention its impact on health. #ClimateAction go.brown.edu/ifl-online-cli…

On Oct 8, join IBES & Climate Solutions Lab Watson Institute for "Climate Action and the 2024 Election: Science, Policy, and Disinformation," a panel ft. Carrie Nordlund Dr. Kim Cobb @bsky.app/kimcobb StefanieFriedhoff Chris Rea. Attend in-person or via livestream. Learn more: events.brown.edu/event/293910-c…

We had a great lunchtime discussion today on the impacts of the election on climate, highlighting the challenges we face in communication, policy engagement and combatting misinformation. Thanks to Dr. Kim Cobb @bsky.app/kimcobb, Professor Chris Rea and StefanieFriedhoff for a great panel.

On the final panel of the day, StefanieFriedhoff talks about the importance of communicating uncertainty as part of public communications during outbreaks. And the importance of sharing evidence for the public health action taken during that period of uncertainty. #h5n1

The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.

Wow. This is how news becomes propaganda. It’s begun. Pay attention.

Scenes from the May 9th Cutter Symposium on "Medical Information and Misinformation - The Role of Epidemiology" with speakers Issa Dahabreh, StefanieFriedhoff, and Alfredo Morabia. Faculty, researchers, students and staff enjoyed the insightful lectures and conversations after!