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E. Rosalie (Info_Rosalie on 🐤)
@erosalie
Public health, nat sec, infodemiology
Disasters & information (public health + nat sec) | Johns Hopkins alum | @COVID19Tracking alum | Mapping medical misinfo 💉 | info ecosystems | FIMI
170 Posts
On the increasingly extreme nature of partisan groups in the US
Recently, I spoke with a friend who came to the US to visit his family. He lives in Europe and has for most of his adult life though he is still fond of the US. He called me after he left and immediately struggled to communicate his disbelief over how extreme partisan ideology had Lab Notes - No. 12 - December 11, 2023
Newsletter out. If we've just found each other, Lab Notes is the newsletter from the Information Epidemiology Lab (InfoEpi Lab), which exists at the intersection of public health, national security, and information disorder. Do people truly not understand that a preferred name is very similar to a nickname? I struggle to understand people who professionally use a preferred name (it's not a nickname when it's being used professionally) and who are also frankly having a temper tantrum at the idea that By Jonathan K. Pokorski, University of California, San Diego and Debika Datta, University of California, San Diego Water pollution is a growing concern globally, with research estimating that chemical industries discharge 300-400 megatonnes (600-800 billion pounds) of industrial w By David Mednicoff, UMass Amherst College and university campuses across the U.S. have seen polarization and unrest since the Israel-Hamas war began with the Hamas attack on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023. Students and faculty have held protests and rallies, argued on social me Enough moderate Republicans oppose abortion pill restrictions in a funding bill to tank it. But conservatives say they'll oppose the bill if they're removed. Will Speaker Johnson jam his own fellow anti-abortion conservatives or throw the moderates his majority depends on under th By Chris McKay Google recently unveiled new initiatives utilizing AI to tackle the proliferation of misinformation online and empower users with tools to assess content credibility. These efforts highlight the company's ongoing attempts to balance open access to information with p Infoswamp (noun):
1. An online environment where misleading, false, and manipulated information thrive because platform design enables unreliable sources, grifters, and bad actors to outperform all other voices. 2. Infoswamps are online information environments where data suggest a bias in favor of By Gregory F. Treverton, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Hamas took more than 200 people hostage during its deadly rampage in Israeli border towns on Oct. 7, 2023. Among the hostages are children and the elderly. While four of them have been released , the fate o I just asked Chat-GPT to give me a title
I am henceforth known as E. Rosalie, First of Her Name, Sovereign of the Data Realms, Architect of Analytical Arts, Chart Whisperer, Graphs' Guardian, Protector of the Information Isles, and the Unraveler of Statistical Enigmas. By Mathew Barlow, Professor of Climate Science, UMass Lowell Leer en espanol The world watched in July 2021 as extreme rainfall became floods that washed away centuries-old homes in Europe, triggered landslides in Asia and inundated subways in China. More than 900 people died in th What's Affected by Shutdown?
Infighting among House Republicans has driven the government to the brink of a potentially protracted shutdown starting Oct.1. Even if the bill had passed the House, the sharp cuts and border provisions it contained made it toxic in the Senate. The possible impacts include long lin Texas to SCOTUS (2022): "Unborn children" should have legal rights, so we're criminalizing abortion after six weeks. Also, Texas (2023): We can't be liable for working conditions that caused a stillbirth at SEVEN MONTHS gestation bc the "unborn" have no rights. Decoding X
I figured it's time I do more than drag conspiracy theory communities. Allow me to help you interpret the meaning here. The Storm will be the torrent of lawsuits from unpaid Twitter bills when the people he owes see this nonsense. #Xitter #XOut #Twitter #QAnon May have to check this out By Madeleine Greenberg On July 21, Alabama Republicans blatantly ignored a federal court order and enacted a congressional map with only one majority-Black district when two are required. This flagrant defiance is almost certain to result in a court-appointed special master redraw
