Dominique Brossard
@brossard.bsky.social
Professor and Chair, department of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Morgridge Institute for Research. #scicomm, #riskcomm and anything at the intersection of science and society
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"[T]he reliance on industry-controlled conceptualization and categorization of data by academic researchers undermines ... peer review and the replicability of what Meta claims are highly policy-relevant findings."
Glad our field is continuing these difficult but important conversations ...
Glad our field is continuing these difficult but important conversations ...
Reply to González-Bailón and Lazer: Industry control and conflicts of interest in social media research | PNAS
Reply to González-Bailón and Lazer: Industry control and conflicts of interest in
social media research
www.pnas.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"[T]he reliance on industry-controlled conceptualization and categorization of data by academic researchers undermines ... peer review and the replicability of what Meta claims are highly policy-relevant findings."
Glad our field is continuing these difficult but important conversations ...
Glad our field is continuing these difficult but important conversations ...
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This nicely reinforces findings from our recent @pnas.org piece in which we argue “that industry players like Meta make significant investments into long-term research streams … to absolve their platforms of responsibility for adverse effects on society or individuals.”
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
This nicely reinforces findings from our recent @pnas.org piece in which we argue “that industry players like Meta make significant investments into long-term research streams … to absolve their platforms of responsibility for adverse effects on society or individuals.”
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Let’s not be naive: We need to be very aware of industry influence in computational social science! Through control of data (and experiment) access the situation is even more problematic than in other industries, which makes the data access rights under DSA article 40 particular important!
1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
October 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Let’s not be naive: We need to be very aware of industry influence in computational social science! Through control of data (and experiment) access the situation is even more problematic than in other industries, which makes the data access rights under DSA article 40 particular important!
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#Disasters are becoming more frequent and severe, but research on #DisasterManagement remains limited and siloed.
A recent @IssuesInST.bsky.social piece advocates for researchers to work together to develop a unified U.S. #DisasterResearch strategy: buff.ly/KLvNNgz
A recent @IssuesInST.bsky.social piece advocates for researchers to work together to develop a unified U.S. #DisasterResearch strategy: buff.ly/KLvNNgz
September 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
#Disasters are becoming more frequent and severe, but research on #DisasterManagement remains limited and siloed.
A recent @IssuesInST.bsky.social piece advocates for researchers to work together to develop a unified U.S. #DisasterResearch strategy: buff.ly/KLvNNgz
A recent @IssuesInST.bsky.social piece advocates for researchers to work together to develop a unified U.S. #DisasterResearch strategy: buff.ly/KLvNNgz
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Open-rank faculty positions in Artificial Intelligence in Education and Organizations at Vanderbilt University. The faculty will work within our new college of connected computing and one of the five departments in Peabody College (including psychology!)
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37894746...
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37894746...
Open-Rank Tenure Line Position in Artificial Intelligence in Education and Organizations - Nashville, Tennessee job with Peabody College of Education and Human Development | 37894746
Vanderbilt University invites applications for two open rank tenure-track faculty positions in the area of AI and Education in Organizations.
jobs.chronicle.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Open-rank faculty positions in Artificial Intelligence in Education and Organizations at Vanderbilt University. The faculty will work within our new college of connected computing and one of the five departments in Peabody College (including psychology!)
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37894746...
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37894746...
Excited and humbled to have received the Sharon Dunwoody Excellence in Mentoring Award at the 2025 @comsher.bsky.social Convention!Thanks so much to the former students and colleagues who have nominated me, working and learning from all of you is what makes academic life worthwhile!
August 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Excited and humbled to have received the Sharon Dunwoody Excellence in Mentoring Award at the 2025 @comsher.bsky.social Convention!Thanks so much to the former students and colleagues who have nominated me, working and learning from all of you is what makes academic life worthwhile!
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"Scientists must compete in an attention economy in which they are just one of many voices, and in which ... algorithms now serve as ... gatekeeper."
Is #scicomm becoming its own wicked problem? With huge gratitude to my co-authors, excited to finally see this in "print" ...
#openaccess
Is #scicomm becoming its own wicked problem? With huge gratitude to my co-authors, excited to finally see this in "print" ...
#openaccess
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
June 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"Scientists must compete in an attention economy in which they are just one of many voices, and in which ... algorithms now serve as ... gatekeeper."
Is #scicomm becoming its own wicked problem? With huge gratitude to my co-authors, excited to finally see this in "print" ...
#openaccess
Is #scicomm becoming its own wicked problem? With huge gratitude to my co-authors, excited to finally see this in "print" ...
#openaccess
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The only way people seem able to navigate diet is to fixate on ONE THING that is the BAD THING.
That was wrong when it was sugar, HFCS, GMOs, gluten, lectins, meat, whatever. And of course it's just as wrong for seed oils.
www.eater.com/politics/883...
That was wrong when it was sugar, HFCS, GMOs, gluten, lectins, meat, whatever. And of course it's just as wrong for seed oils.
www.eater.com/politics/883...
‘No Seed Oil’ Restaurants Seize the Moment
As the anti-seed-oil movement picks up steam, many restaurants are leaning on “no seed oils” as part of their messaging and marketing.
www.eater.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The only way people seem able to navigate diet is to fixate on ONE THING that is the BAD THING.
That was wrong when it was sugar, HFCS, GMOs, gluten, lectins, meat, whatever. And of course it's just as wrong for seed oils.
www.eater.com/politics/883...
That was wrong when it was sugar, HFCS, GMOs, gluten, lectins, meat, whatever. And of course it's just as wrong for seed oils.
www.eater.com/politics/883...
@morgridgeinstitute.bsky.social CEO Brad Schwartz discussing biomedical research and regulatory processe at the Mount Horeb, WI, public library. #scicomm in action!
June 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
@morgridgeinstitute.bsky.social CEO Brad Schwartz discussing biomedical research and regulatory processe at the Mount Horeb, WI, public library. #scicomm in action!
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Ooo! Ooo! This should be a contest. Can you out-predict the Economist's SCOTUS AI model?
Winners get a subscription.
Winners get a subscription.
How might America’s Supreme Court rule in the biggest cases on its docket? We built an AI model to predict the possible outcomes. Find out how it works: https://econ.trib.al/v0WEoBE
Meet SCOTUSbot, our AI tool to predict Supreme Court rulings
Impending decisions will be a test of our model
econ.trib.al
June 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Ooo! Ooo! This should be a contest. Can you out-predict the Economist's SCOTUS AI model?
Winners get a subscription.
Winners get a subscription.
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👩🏫 Und Olaf Kramer wird zusammen mit @hendriks.bsky.social, Ayelet Baram Tsabari und @brossard.bsky.social Teil des Panels "𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀" sein.
May 26, 2025 at 7:50 AM
👩🏫 Und Olaf Kramer wird zusammen mit @hendriks.bsky.social, Ayelet Baram Tsabari und @brossard.bsky.social Teil des Panels "𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀" sein.
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April 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Weekend reads: MIT rescinds support of AI paper; should AI write science papers, anyway?; another pub steps in for paused NIH journal
Weekend reads: MIT rescinds support of AI paper; should AI write science papers, anyway?; another pub steps in for paused NIH journal
How do retractions impact researchers’ career paths and collaborations? A Q&A with the study’s authors Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact facto…
retractionwatch.com
May 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Weekend reads: MIT rescinds support of AI paper; should AI write science papers, anyway?; another pub steps in for paused NIH journal
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Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact factors
Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact factors
Clarivate will no longer include citations to and from retracted papers when calculating journal impact factors, the company announced today. The change comes after some have wondered over th…
retractionwatch.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact factors
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“This is why I must step away from my work with two federal institutions … that offer guidance about how the Executive and Legislative branches can be stewards of knowledge and create structure to enable discovery, innovation, and ingenuity.”
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
“This is why I must step away from my work with two federal institutions … that offer guidance about how the Executive and Legislative branches can be stewards of knowledge and create structure to enable discovery, innovation, and ingenuity.”
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"Governance should not be understood as an impediment to AI innovation but as an essential component of it." A new article in the National Academy of Engineering's The Bridge from @alondra.bsky.social discusses the value of policy and governance for AI systems. Read now: buff.ly/sFRy6qW
May 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"Governance should not be understood as an impediment to AI innovation but as an essential component of it." A new article in the National Academy of Engineering's The Bridge from @alondra.bsky.social discusses the value of policy and governance for AI systems. Read now: buff.ly/sFRy6qW
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It's that season once again 🍂 ☀️ ❄️ 🌱 so please spread the word: Science, Technology, & Human Values are pleased to announce that we are taking proposals for Special Issues of the journal 📬 ⏰ The call closes 21 June 2025 - and you can find details in the form: forms.gle/6uYdQim9J1z5...
forms.gle
April 7, 2025 at 1:25 AM
It's that season once again 🍂 ☀️ ❄️ 🌱 so please spread the word: Science, Technology, & Human Values are pleased to announce that we are taking proposals for Special Issues of the journal 📬 ⏰ The call closes 21 June 2025 - and you can find details in the form: forms.gle/6uYdQim9J1z5...
Always exciting to be in the beautiful @nationalacademies.org building and see the amazing, important work they do at the intersection of science and policy! Honored to be a member of one of their Advisory Committees
May 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Always exciting to be in the beautiful @nationalacademies.org building and see the amazing, important work they do at the intersection of science and policy! Honored to be a member of one of their Advisory Committees
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Important. Politicians may be getting a “false negative” reading of the state of politics from media and social media that monetise polarisation. This sort of thing and more citizen participation can help.
@eurcorrespond.bsky.social
www.europeancorrespondent.com/article?s=Ri...
@eurcorrespond.bsky.social
www.europeancorrespondent.com/article?s=Ri...
Read European Journalism now! — The European Correspondent
The European Correspondent is the place where you read about the climate crisis, migration, digitisation and much more – with an European angle!
www.europeancorrespondent.com
May 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Important. Politicians may be getting a “false negative” reading of the state of politics from media and social media that monetise polarisation. This sort of thing and more citizen participation can help.
@eurcorrespond.bsky.social
www.europeancorrespondent.com/article?s=Ri...
@eurcorrespond.bsky.social
www.europeancorrespondent.com/article?s=Ri...
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... and thank you to alumna Holly Cho for a powerful reminder of what #scicomm is all about in a keynote that I hope a lot of people will read:
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lsc.wisc.edu
May 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
... and thank you to alumna Holly Cho for a powerful reminder of what #scicomm is all about in a keynote that I hope a lot of people will read:
lsc.wisc.edu/wp-content/u...
lsc.wisc.edu/wp-content/u...
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🧪 Data update on NSF grant terminations
Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for...
54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381)
75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M)
The next generation of scientists is being targeted.
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF
Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for...
54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381)
75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M)
The next generation of scientists is being targeted.
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF
May 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
🧪 Data update on NSF grant terminations
Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for...
54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381)
75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M)
The next generation of scientists is being targeted.
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF
Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for...
54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381)
75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M)
The next generation of scientists is being targeted.
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF
'As the DOJ questions journals, how can we reasonably promote “competing viewpoints” in science?'
heterodoxacademy.substack.com/p/as-the-doj...
heterodoxacademy.substack.com/p/as-the-doj...
As the DOJ questions journals, how can we reasonably promote “competing viewpoints” in science?
We need to focus on doing better science, not filling quotas.
heterodoxacademy.substack.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
'As the DOJ questions journals, how can we reasonably promote “competing viewpoints” in science?'
heterodoxacademy.substack.com/p/as-the-doj...
heterodoxacademy.substack.com/p/as-the-doj...
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“As long as COVID and President Trump are the two most easily retrievable examples of what misinformation correction looks like, we have a problem.”
Always great talking to (and getting pushback from) @kakape.bsky.social …
Always great talking to (and getting pushback from) @kakape.bsky.social …
Trump’s team, often accused of spreading misinformation, slashes misinformation research
Hundreds of grants axed in a field where the United States was a global leader
www.science.org
April 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
“As long as COVID and President Trump are the two most easily retrievable examples of what misinformation correction looks like, we have a problem.”
Always great talking to (and getting pushback from) @kakape.bsky.social …
Always great talking to (and getting pushback from) @kakape.bsky.social …
Taught by @wiscobirder.bsky.social and open to all!
Want to start your own podcast, host your own radio show, or delve into the world of audio production? Check out our new online, asynchronous summer course, LSC 360: Science Podcasting & Radio!
Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/04/30/l...
Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/04/30/l...
Explore science podcasting in LSC’s new summer course
University of Wisconsin-Madison students, alongside professionals from across the nation, have the opportunity to enhance their science communication skills through a variety of courses in Life Scienc...
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May 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Taught by @wiscobirder.bsky.social and open to all!