Timothy Callaghan Sarah Gollust Matt Motta Julie Pacheco Agree, argued something similar in this Forefront post: Fox, A.M., Choi, Y., Feng, W., (2022). “Is Ideology Bad For Health? Why Political Partisanship Should Be Asked On Population Health Surveys,” Health Affairs Forefront, Jan 19, 2022

healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…

NEW WP from Timothy Callaghan, Jennifer Cornacchione Ross, PhD, David Yokum, and I (& more!)

1 in 5 Americans think they know a lot about Long COVID, despite low objective knowledge.

Meta-ignornace is assoc. w/opp. to ev.-based med. & health policy, & getting sick w/COVID-19.

osf.io/preprints/soca…

NEW in AJPH:

Julie Pacheco, Sarah Gollust, Timothy Callaghan, and I argue that the inclusion of Party ID in PH surveys (across many sectors) can enrich our understanding of health inequities and their political determinants.

ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/epdf/10.21…

Excited to be part of this partnership -- w/Active Minds, MTV, YouTube & Harvard Chan Center for Health Communication (@amandayarnell Yuning Liu) -- to study how evidence-based social media content can improve young people's abilities to emotionally support friends/peers.

apnews.com/press-release/…

Raw milk consumers aren't stupid.

I discuss with The Associated Press/NBC News why they're likely *motivated* by distrust in govt./sci. & viral fit. crazes to drink raw milk.

IMO: promoting pasteurization benefits (over raw risks) and policy bans can address this looming health threat.

The Finger. (Massachusetts)

I can’t top this

While I share concerns about privacy, misinfo., & addiction -- I talked w/nature about how a TikTok ban could not only stymie the promotion of sci. research, but those who use the platform to study social phenomena & disseminate evidence-based medicine.

nature.com/articles/d4158…

Lyme-causing bacteria have been found in fossilized ticks ~20M years old.

I discuss in Soc Sci & Medicine how this theory 'has legs' not only b/c it appeals to govt. distrust, but conveniently challenges the role of clim. change in spreading Lyme to new areas.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32085911/

Excited to announce publication of new @jhppl special issue on Polarization, Partisanship, and Health in the US

read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/49…

What Timothy Callaghan didn't mention is that we *did not* plan to wear the same socks and matching blazers to class this morning / tonight 😂🎉

That’s a wrap! Officially done with the Spring semester including my first semester co-teaching with Matt Motta !!!

Nice to see the coverage of our #preprint on trust in scientists in print nature News 😊 Thanks for sharing Ramit Debnath

Link to the preprint: osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Reminder: Our latest grant competition is still open! Short proposal is due by May 8th. Submission details: uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4V…

here’s to one last game Mike Gorman 🫡

New from me for Boston University -- I discuss awesome new work from Zander Furnas & Tim LaPira about partisan asymmetries in reliance on sci. research in the policymaking process, and what it says about the health of American governance.

bu.edu/articles/2024/…

Prospective PhD students have until Monday to decide where they want to study!

My new piece in Research & Politics with Dominik Stecuła may be informative. It shows that programs that pay their students better place more of them into tenure-track jobs. A brief 🧵 1/

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

No need for shades today cause Luke's got us 😎

Coverage of our work w/Dominik Stecuła & G. Motta in USA TODAY on how negative attitudes toward (human) vaccination may be spilling over to how Americans feel about vaccinating their pets, and the potential health policy consequences of canine vax. hesitancy.

usatoday.com/story/news/hea…