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We strive to make complex science and health issues applicable and understandable to the public. #Scicomm #Healthcomm
University of Florida
Joined September 2015
Please welcome Dr. Austin Hubner! Her research program focuses on how individuals perceive & evaluate information attributed to different scientific experts as well as the social transmission of science-related messages.
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Our final Spring '25 Journal Club is this Friday in Weimer 3208 at 10:30! Join us for a discussion of "Biodiversity via YouTube: Source effects and narrative perspective" (Ruzi et al. 2025).
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Next week, join us for our Spring Science Journalist in Residence public talk, "From Spiders to Space: How Journalism Reveals the Wonder of Scientific Discovery". đź“Ť Pugh Hall Ocora đź“… April 9, 4:00 PM (Reception at 5:00 PM)
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UFCJC's Benjamin Johnson was the featured speaker for an expert panel, “Numbers Are Not Neutral,” part of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies “WGS At Work” series. https://t.co/ddAvmdTMhz
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Please join us this Friday at 10:30 in Weimer 3208 for our next STCC Journal Club. We will discuss the article "Narratives of Regret: How Anticipated Regret and Counterfactual Thinking Can Promote COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions in Unvaccinated Adults" (Myrick and Bilandzic 2025)
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This week's Journal Club topic is: "Do LLMs write like humans? Variation in grammatical and rhetorical styles". Join us in Weimer 3208 for discussion and coffee this Friday at 10:30am!
pnas.org
Large language models (LLMs) are capable of writing grammatical text that follows instructions, answers questions, and solves problems. As they hav...
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Please join us this Friday at 10:30 in Weimer 3208 for our next STCC Journal Club! We will discuss the article "Climate Anxiety, Wellbeing and Pro-Environment Action: Correlates of Negative Emotional Responses to Climate Change in 32 Countries" (Ogunbode et al., 2022)
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How can "strategic messaging campaigns encourage pro-environmental behaviors"? This week's STCC Journal Club topic is Environmental Campaign Themes for Coastal Residents. Join us at 10:30am in Weimer 3208! https://t.co/Zq8cXUN93c
tandfonline.com
Strategically designed messaging campaigns that encourage pro-environmental behaviors (PEB), such as collecting plastic debris along coastlines, can motivate individuals to address the escalating p...
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Our Journal Club topic this week is (Re)plotting Melanoma Narratives. Join us in Weimer 3208 this Friday for discussion at 10:30am!
tandfonline.com
When stories have undesirable endings, readers often engage in replotting, meaning they imagine alternative plotlines that could change the unwanted ending. Recent research has found that both the ...
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Join us for Journal Club this week at 10:30am in Weimer 3208 for a discussion about Climate Misinformation on YouTube from research by de Nadal!
tandfonline.com
Climate change is becoming a new front in the culture wars, with YouTube as one of its key arenas. Centered on an “Alternative Influence Network” orbiting Spain’s right-wing populist party Vox, thi...
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Can't wait to welcome @BenjiBacker to @UF Thurs 2/6 for our annual #Climate Communications Summit, devoted this 10th year to bridging the climate divide. Join @UFJSchool, @FLClimateInst, @maxchesnes, @SadieRyan & more. Free and open to public. Register:
jou.ufl.edu
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This year marks CJC's 10th annual Climate Communications Summit! Join us Thursday, February 6th as we explore this year's theme of trust—and how to overcome the climate divide. Registration at https://t.co/vt0DjTJULQ
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The best way to meet #SciComm and #HealthComm faculty and curious students is to join STCC Journal Club! Join us each week for discussion and refreshments.
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Join us this Friday at 10:30am in Weimer 3208 for our weekly STCC Journal Club discussion! This week's topic is Equivalence Framing in Message Construction with an article from our own Assistant Professor Jiawei Liu!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Alternative messages that present logically equivalent information, often referred to as equivalence frames, have been shown to influence readers' opinions on public issues. While equivalence...
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STCC Office Hours are open this semester from 10-11am each Wednesday! Visit Weimer 3208 for collaborative brainstorming amongst faculty, staff and students!
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At his public talk, Christian highlighted the excitement and challenges in reporting on space travel, including SpaceX’s recent Starship launches. (2/2)
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Last week, we hosted our Fall ’24 Science Journalist in Residence, Christian Davenport from the Washington Post. Throughout his visit, he met with UF students, faculty, and administrators to share his expertise on journalism and the space industry. (1/2)
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This week @UFJSchool is hosting our Science Journalist in Residence @wapodavenport. We invite you to Atlas Lab tomorrow at 4PM for a public talk on "Reporting the New Space Age"!
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