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Jane Shawcroft

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Assistant Professor in the School of Communication - Ohio State University.

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Erez Yoeli @erezyoeli.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Trust in science is falling, but: - it remains high - the drop is no larger than for other institutions - the reduction is concentrated amongst the political right www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Have people stopped trusting science? The data tell a surprising story
Some say there’s a global crisis of trust — but research reveals where the real problems lie.
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Candice Odgers @candiceodgers.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Scary stories about teens sell. The data tells a different story. After decades studying adolescent mental health, here's what I found: This isn't an anxious generation. It's a resilient one. Let's start treating them that way. go.ted.com/candiceodgers
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What we're getting wrong about teens and tech
For years, the warning has been: smartphones are destroying a generation. But developmental psychologist Candice Odgers says that decades of data on teens tells a different story — violence, alcohol u...
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
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 authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/
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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"
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Children and Screens @childrenandscreens.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
What are the risks of using #DigitalMedia as a regulating tool for addressing the big emotions of young children? Find out from panelist Peter Reschke, PhD, at the next #AskTheExperts webinar “Meltdowns to Mindfulness" on April 22 at 12pm ET via Zoom ➡️ bit.ly/4txsUc1
Promotional image for the #AskTheExperts webinar "Meltdowns to Mindfulness: Self-Regulation in a Digital World" from Children and Screens. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, April 22 at 12pm ET via Zoom. The featured speaker is Peter Reschke, PhD, an Associate Professor at Brigham Young University. His expertise is in using digital media for child and family regulation. A headshot of Dr. Reschke is included.
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Jane Shawcroft @jane-shawcroft.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
This study demonstrates the importance of long-term & stable investments in science. Having funding today can be just as important as knowing if it will be around tomorrow because the science that helps us understand our world in meaningful ways can often require a lot of time and a lot of patience.
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 21/10/2025
“We fundamentally believe that publishing less – but better – is essential for the health of the entire research system worldwide,” the authors of the report state.
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Less is more: academic publishing needs ‘radical change,’ Cambridge press report concludes
Academic publishing needs “renewed focus and collective action” to embrace new approaches and ensure the future of the industry, concludes a report from Cambridge University Press, released last we…
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public" - Theodore Roosevelt
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 20/10/2025
An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
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OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch
No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
A bittersweet series about what we have lost, but also what we could regain if we lived in a country that supported basic research again.
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Jane Shawcroft @jane-shawcroft.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
In grad school someone asked if I was "learning how to lie with statistics" in class. Which... no 😭 My secret agenda as a scientist is to make people's lives better. Being science literate is more than understanding correlations, it's also understanding the ethics and training behind the science.
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Mitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Our need to belong increases our dependence on social media feedback.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2025
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
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Matthew Grizzard @mattgrizz.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
OSU Comm is hiring an Assoc. or Full Prof. We are seeking someone to provide leadership for our undergrad journ program. The research focus includes journ, public opinion, audience analytics, science comm, or media economics, or other related topics. osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...
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Associate Professor or Professor in Journalism - School of Communication
Screen reader users may encounter difficulty with this site. For assistance with applying, please contact hr-accessibleapplication@osu.edu. If you have questions while submitting an application, pleas...
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.
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Hannah Overbye-Thompson @overbye.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Excited to share my new work aimed at making algorithmic bias easier to study w/3 key contributions • Clear overview of how/where algorithmic bias arises • Workarounds as a concept for user adaptation • Framework for analyzing bias that is real, perceived, or absent 1/5 🧵🧪 doi.org/10.1007/s001...
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Jane Shawcroft @jane-shawcroft.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
✨NEW PREPRINT✨ Led by the fantastic ‪@hnxue.bsky.social‬, this study looked at shorts recommended to children on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Unsafe shorts had darker visuals, harmful content was framed as entertainment and harm-triggering content as ordinary. arxiv.org/abs/2507.12571
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Catching Dark Signals in Algorithms: Unveiling Audiovisual and Thematic Markers of Unsafe Content Recommended for Children and Teenagers
The prevalence of short form video platforms, combined with the ineffectiveness of age verification mechanisms, raises concerns about the potential harms facing children and teenagers in an algorithm-...
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Jane Shawcroft @jane-shawcroft.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Who is most at risk for body esteem problems after being on social media? Our recent study found 36% of teens experience negative associations between social media use and body esteem (17% positive) - and high perfectionism was among the identified risk factors. doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...
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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 25/06/2025
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
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Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
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Jane Shawcroft @jane-shawcroft.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
After 22 years of school, I am now the kind of doctor that isn't particularly handy in a medical emergency - but will talk your ear off about kids and tech. But really, a huge thank you to the family, friends, and teachers who nurtured and supported me along the way. Next stop is Columbus Ohio!
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