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Anybody in PR/advertising in NYC and know where this Publicis dinner is taking place?

"We are also hosting a dinner in New York on Tuesday, where former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will share insights with about 40 global CEOs."

:ExtinctionRebellion:

#uspol #advertising #pr #publicis #research #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #resistance #fedihelp #activism

fortune.com/2025/03/14/publici

Fortune · Publicis New York CEO Carla Serrano and the downside of Trump’s war against allBy Diane Brady
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Last week, Aix Marseille University in France offered funding to American scientists who feel like their work is being censored. It’s already seeing great interest from researchers at NASA, Yale and Stanford, and the program may extend through more universities across Europe. “We are witnessing a new brain drain,” Éric Berton, Aix Marseille University’s president, said in a press release. Here’s more from @emanuelmaiberg for @404mediaco

404media.co/nasa-yale-and-stan

404 Media · NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider 'Scientific Exile,' French University Says“We are witnessing a new brain drain.”

Join us for the book launch of 'Transforming Development in Education: from coloniality to rethinking, reframing, and reimagining possibilities'.

A crucial time given the widespread changes to the global education and development architecture.

When: Tuesday, 18 March 2025 at 9 am EST | 3 pm CEST

norrag.org/book-launch-transfo

@academicchatter #AcademicChatter #Research #Education #Books

Mastodon #research 🚀

I’ve officially completed my studies and want to share some insights from my thesis on user activity on Mastodon!

Using API data and a user survey, I analysed what drives user activity. Key findings were:

📌 Instance size & active engagement (tooting, interacting) are the strongest predictors of user activity.
📌 Governance structures & technical infrastructure play supportive but less decisive roles.

Here’s a graph with the correlation results from the user study:

"The #internet is a living, breathing space - constantly growing, changing, and, unfortunately, disappearing. Important #articles get taken down. #Research papers become inaccessible. Historical records vanish. When content disappears, we lose pieces of our shared #knowledge. That’s where the Wayback Machine comes in. With the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool, you have the power to help preserve the web in real time."

blog.archive.org/2025/03/13/wa

blog.archive.orgWant to help preserve the web? Save Page Now! | Internet Archive Blogs

I'm thinking of creating a sort of pledge/agreement to use with both academic collaborators as well as grad students, where we (the collaborating team or the student and I) would pledge to never use generative AI in our work.

That would mean I would not collaborate with other researchers who want to use these tools, and I would not supervise students who want to use these tools.

I'm curious to hear thoughts on this.

I'm proud to share a research article our research team recently published. It examines health insurance and non-medical challenges Vietnamese Americans faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Disaggregating data unmasks disparities within different populations. We wouldn't see this if we included this group within the broader Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander umbrella.

mdpi.com/1660-4601/22/2/189

MDPIExamining Health Insurance and Non-Medical Challenges Among Vietnamese Americans in Texas During the COVID-19 PandemicWhen COVID-19 data on Asian Americans are available, they are frequently aggregated, concealing community-specific concerns. Consequently, there is limited COVID-19 literature on Vietnamese Americans. In this study, we investigated the association between health insurance coverage and non-medical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, in Vietnamese Americans in Texas. The NIH Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Common Survey 2 was administered electronically in English and Vietnamese and contained 23 questions about non-medical drivers of health, COVID-19 vaccination, and research participation. Vietnamese American adults in Texas were recruited between September 2021 and March 2022 via partnerships with community organizations. Responses were compared and analyzed using logistic regression. Of 217 respondents, 23 (11%) were uninsured. Of the uninsured participants, 43% lost health insurance coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic. Uninsured individuals had significantly higher odds of experiencing non-medical challenges, including obtaining housing (OR = 6.10, p < 0.001), food (OR = 6.41, p < 0.001), and medications (OR = 3.45, p < 0.05) than insured individuals. Uninsured individuals had a significantly longer time-lapse since seeing a healthcare provider (ordinal OR = 0.20, p < 0.05) than insured individuals. Thus, lack of insurance is strongly associated with non-medical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic among Vietnamese Americans in Texas. Disaggregating data can address non-medical drivers of health, advancing equity for marginalized communities.

We're In This Together!

Renegade Research is on a mission to help people manage and recover from #MECFS and #longCOVID. It is a non-profit 501c3 decentralized organization pioneering #patient and #caregiver-led #research with a focus on ME/CFS, longCOVID and other infection associated chronic illnesses.

Remission Biome is a project of Renegade Research.

✅️ Learn more: renegade-research.org and remissionbiome.org

How ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its Investigations

When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify “woke” themes in a database of grants, AI helped them tell a vital accountability story about science funding and Ted Cruz.
propublica.org/article/using-a

ProPublicaHow ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its Investigations
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