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Asst. Prof. @BUSPH_HLPM | Formerly: @APPCpenn @Yale postdoc | @PoliSciUMN PhD Pre-order my book, Anti-Scientific Americans!

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Matt Motta

9 months

I can't believe I finally get to say this. But, now that the virtual "ink" is drying… My book with Oxford Univ. Press "Anti-Scientific Americans" is scheduled for release in Fall '24 (exact date TBD)! This project means so much to me & I can't wait to share it with you.

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Very D. Muir and very mindful.

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ChatGPT can convert Stata code into R code, and vice versa 🤯

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My co-authors and I literally put the number at 25-30% back in Summer 2020. Several times! We worked around the clock to tell anyone who would listen. This isn't me saying: "we told you so!!" It's: "please, please consult social science when making health policy decisions."

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1. Stipends ARE taxed 2. We have jobs 3. Tuition waivers aren't taxed because they're not income (we never see a dime of it).

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3 years

Friends -- I'm so thrilled and humbled to say that I'll be joining @BUSPH next Fall as an asst. professor in the Dept. of Health Law, Policy, & Management. I'm so thankful for the time I spent in Tulsa & at OSU, and truly fortunate to return home to Boston.

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8 years

Mar-a-Lago is the center of a major national security controversy, which begs the question:

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6 years

My new research at @NatureClimate shows that scientific interest in young adulthood is associated with increased trust in climate scientists decades later in adulthood, irrespective of political ideology. Free to read here! 👇

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This semester, I've had students refer to "polls" as: "pools," "poles," and (my personal favorite) "Pauls." I'm used to it. But *nothing* in my pedagogical training prepared me for students referring to respondents sampled via random digit dial as... "RANDOS." 😂😬

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Matt Motta

2 years

NEW WP from J. Hwang, @decustecu , and I. We show that, consistent with the idea that some FB users express a latent demand for misinformation consumption, a naturally-occurring Facebook outage "transferred" search for misinformation to Google.

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Matt Motta

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I am thrilled to say that I will be joining @OSUartssciences as an asst. professor of political science, in Fall 2019. I am beyond thankful for wonderful friends and mentors at @APPCpenn , @YaleLawSch , & @PoliSciUMN , for their support over the years. So excited for what's next!

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Matt Motta

7 months

My book has a cover!! Coming to wherever you buy books (hardcover and paperback) on 9.16.24! 😁📚

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Matt Motta

6 years

Officially a Dr. now 😁

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1 year

Super excited to be awarded a @NSF grant to conduct multi-method strategic vaccine communication research, w/ @THCallaghan , @decustecu , @klunztrujillo , @ophiryotam , & @DrorWalter . I'm so, so thankful to be able to do this work. This means so much. 🙏🙏

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As someone *raised* on Weekend Update, I can't begin to put into words how special this is. Our research (w/G. Motta & @decusetcu ) was featured as a joke on @SNLUpdate last night. You can watch at the 2:15 mark in this YouTube Clip!

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Weekend Update: California’s Ebony Alerts, National No Bra Day - SNL

Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like dog owners questioning the rabies vaccine.Saturday Night Live. Stream ...

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Matt Motta

3 months

Friends! My book "Anti-Scientific Americans" is available for pre-order through Oxford University Press (paperback, hard cover, and e-book). I can't wait to share it with you 😄📚

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Matt Motta

3 years

So cool running into CHVRCHES (one of my all-time favorite bands!!) at my favorite coffee shop in Tulsa today! 🤩

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Matt Motta

3 years

Remember folks -- today is the deadline to submit to MPSA!

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Matt Motta

2 years

Wild peer review experience. Just had an R&R rejected, after... 1. Reviewers were satisfied w/initial revisions 2. Journal overruled 3. Appealed original decision 4. Sent back out for three new reviews 5. Rejected again Months lost, but not giving up! 😤

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Matt Motta

3 months

Hey friends! I'll be on @CBSEveningNews tonight to talk about the effect of 2024 election news on our mental health and the health of our democracy. CBS (WBZ 4, here in Boston) at 6:30pm Eastern!

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Matt Motta

7 years

My paper on the polarizing effects of the #MarchForScience was recently accepted for publication at PS (just ahead of the 2018 March!) I've posted an updated version of the paper on my website, with replication code and supplementary materials. [THREAD]

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Matt Motta

3 years

I got 20 peer-review requests in October (~1 per work day). I accepted 4 (20%). It's getting to the point where I spend ~1hr per month just *declining* requests, to suggest alternate reviewers. Is this normal? If not, what can I/we do to help fix this?

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2 years

Original Manuscript: ~9,000 words. Reviewer Response Memo: ~40,000 words. Living in constant fear that the piece will be rejected anyway: Priceless.

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1 year

Excited to present our mental health communication research w/ @amandayarnell via @HarvardChanCHC as part of "The Harvard Series" at Project Healthy Minds' World Mental Health Day. If you're in NYC, you can register for free at the link below!

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2 years

So excited (and very humbled!!) to say that @klunztrujillo and I won @WAPOR 's Robert M. Worcester prize for our work in @IJPOR_Journal on how internet access facilitates cross-national vaccine skepticism. Paper available at the link below! 👇

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How Internet Access Drives Global Vaccine Skepticism

Abstract. Counterintuitively, wealthier countries tend to be more vaccine skeptical than poorer countries. One possible explanation—the Online Accessibilit

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3 years

NEW from @decustecu and I at @PLOSONE : We provide new evidence that A. Wakefield's retracted 1998 study (alleging a link between MMR vax and autism) likely had a causal effect on vaccine hesitancy in the US. #scicomm [THREAD]

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Matt Motta

2 years

The weekend: *exists* Academic journals: "your article proofs are ready, and if you don't turn in your author corrections *literally* right now there's really no telling what awful things could happen your manuscript."

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1 year

Definitely one of the coolest experiences of my academic life. My sister and I are quoted in @USATODAY to discuss our work w/ @decustecu . I'm so grateful for those promoting our work, and helping draw attention to this important issue.

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TODAY @ProjHealthyMind 🌎 Mental Health Day: In a TikTok field exp. (reach >16M) @amandayarnell , @yuningliu712 , & I find that providing influencers w/scalable digital toolkits inc. evidence-based mental health video production.🧵

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Matt Motta

3 years

Folks! Have you done conjoint experimental research in political science applications? (E.g., voter behavior). If so, I want to cite you! Hit me with a brief description of your work, and a link if you don't mind!

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2 months

NEW WP. It's a Kamala-nomenon! We quantify the "vibe shift" in US politics following Pres. Biden's decision to drop out of the '24 race, in a pre-registered nat. experiment embedded in a nationally representative panel study. 🧵 Draft:

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Matt Motta

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We happened to be fielding a nationally rep. panel study at the time Pres. Biden dropped out of the race. We pre-registered a study design (still fielding) and will report back soon! With: @klunztrujillo @THCallaghan @ophiryotam @DrorWalter @decustecu

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3 years

NEW at @apr_journal : I provide new evidence that Republicans (and not Democrats, as is sometimes assumed) are more likely to endorse anti-vax. misinfo. This effect isn't new, and anti-expert attitudes may help explain why. #polisciresearch

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Matt Motta

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Journals dishing 🍽️ out rejections on Thanksgiving? Stuffing 🥙 my inbox with negativity, and squashing 🍠 hopes for publication? I could wine 🍷about it all day ... but I'm not going to let this make me feel like a turkey 🦃. Happy Thanksgiving, all! 😂🙏

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5 years

Given skepticism about seriousness of #COVID19 on the right, Newt's msg could have persuasive power. Several #scicomm studies find that ppl holding views at odds with sci. are more likely to change their minds when told to do so by like-minded sources. Some examples [THREAD]

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🚨NEWT GINGRICH🚨: I Am in Italy Amid the Coronavirus Crisis. America Must Act Now - “We should be planning for a worst-case pandemic and using the kind of intensity of implementation which served us so well in World War II.”

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Public Health Twitter! With Valentine's day just a few hours away, I wanted to take a page out of the @KHNews playbook and ask my brilliant @BUSPH MPH students to write Health Policy Valentine poems. Here’s a **mega-thread** of their work! #HealthPolicyValentines 💘💉😷⚕️

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3 years

This is dangerous, @Newsweek . Parent #COVID19 vaccine hesitancy is growing. False equivalences like this could make matters worse. Instead: we should talk more about the virus' long-run health risks for kids, and the effects of a prolonged pandemic on child development.

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4 years

NEW at @ps_polisci : Candidates with STEM backgrounds ran for Congress in record number in 2018. I profile their backgrounds, assess their electoral success, and provide a new publicly available dataset (link below). [THREAD]

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Matt Motta

1 year

Nerdy Halloween Costume -- 2023 Edition. "R Studio Fifty Four" 🕺 🪩 📊 📈

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Matt Motta

5 years

Today is my last day as a postdoc. I'm forever in debt to @APPCpenn for this incredible opportunity; to @cult_cognition for his generosity & guidance; and to the friends who made @Penn & @Yale feel like home. Thanks for making me a better scholar, and a better person.

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Matt Motta

7 years

Crazy ad budget figures from #MplsMayor race: Tom Hoch: $214,182 on ad., for 20,097 first rank votes ($10.66 per frv) Ray Dehn: $50 on ad., for 18,809 first rank votes (<$0.00 per frv)

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7 years

Pretty alarming that POTUS' son sees members of the opposition party as sub-human...

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Eric Trump: Democrats are "not even people"

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4 years

NEW in @PolBehavior -- Paul Goren, @drbriannasmith , and I find that Basic Human Values are structured similarly for most Americans, and *give* structure to pol. ideology for most people. [THREAD]

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5 years

NEW PRE-PRINT (w/ @decustecu & @CFarhart ): Right-leaning media (RLM) discussed #COVID19 misinfo. more than mainstream outlets in early stages of the pandemic. RLM consumers were more likely to be misinformed, and view CDC warnings as exaggerated. [THREAD]

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Matt Motta

4 years

Vaccines can't end the pandemic if they sit in freezers. And they can't end the pandemic if people choose not to take them. That's why studying vaccine uptake is, in my view, an inherently political question. Just felt the need to say that.

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Matt Motta

5 years

Pretty surreal moment today, finding out that a piece I published in grad school will be included as an annotated "research report example" in the newest version of the very same research design textbook I used as a college student.

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We happened to be fielding a nationally rep. panel study at the time Pres. Biden dropped out of the race. We pre-registered a study design (still fielding) and will report back soon! With: @klunztrujillo @THCallaghan @ophiryotam @DrorWalter @decustecu

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7 months

Completely forgot that today is April Fool's Day. I thought that both manuscript and grant application rejections I got today were REAL. Nice try, Reviewers! 😅

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6 years

Hey #APSA2018 ! Want to know more about how cable news outlets talk about scientists, and how that might impact public opinion? I'll be presenting on this on Thursday at 4pm in the Marriott (Harvard Rm.) #scicomm [THREAD]

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Matt Motta

4 years

I don't watch much cable news. But, I'm watching so much of it this week that I'm seriously considering getting a reverse mortgage, and checking to see if I'm taking full advantage of my Medicare benefits.

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4 years

🚨 We're hiring at @OKstatePoliSci ! 🚨 One TT & one TAP position in American politics (open). See job descriptions below for more info. Happy to answer any questions you might have about the positions, our dept., or life in Oklahoma. 🤠 Please RT and share widely! #psjminfo

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3 years

NEW #APSA2021 WP from @decustecu & I: We show that Fox News talked about #COVID19 vax. more negatively than other cable news outlets. In turn, exposure to neg. coverage on Fox was associated w/increased vaccine hesitancy. #PolHealthComm [THREAD]

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4 years

NEW at IJPOR - I show that aggregate change in anthropogenic climate change beliefs is less the result of attitude change ("changing minds") and more the result of demographic changes in sample composition ("changing samples.") [THREAD]

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2 years

NEW at @Nature_NPJ : I argue that COVID vax hesitancy may be “spilling over” to other vax, thereby creating demand for anti-vax. policies (esp. in red states). I also discuss how to effectively study “politicized COVID vax. spillover” in future work.

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1 year

Folks! Measures of vaccine hesitancy are now available in the GSS 💉📊 I'm super excited to share a module that I helped design on vaccine attitudes/behavior for the 2022 GSS. Questions are listed below. Thanks so much, @GSS_NORC ! Happy to answer any questions you might have.

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We are excited to announce that NORC has officially released the 2022 cross-sectional data for the General Social Survey, available at . Check it out now! #GSSNORC

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Matt Motta

2 years

I got a completely serious peer review request from a reputable journal today (12/21). Due in 7 days. The only thing I'll be reviewing over the next week is my "naughty list." Which justtttt got a bit longer. 🎄☃️

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2 years

🎃 It keeps researchers up at night. 🎃 Reviewers hate to see it (without proper justification). Hope my extremely low-budget Halloween costume isn't too spooky for Twitter. 🎃👻🍬

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7 years

Really excited (and very thankful) for the opportunity to study the science of science communication at Penn!

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6 years

Just how deep is "negative partisanship" in the US? @stevenwwebster and I find that a substantial number of Americans wish physical harm on those with whom they disagree on climate-related issues. (CC: @APPCPenn ) Our new research at @monkeycageblog this morning👇

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Good Authority

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Many Americans think that climate change deniers ‘get what they deserve’ when disasters strike

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First day, new hires lunch at @BUSPH_HLPM with @RSayko_Adams & @Liz_McCuskey 😄 📸 -- @michaelulrich

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5 years

If only there was an academic discipline for researchers hoping to better understand the politicization of science...

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4 years

I *wrote* this article 😂 (But, seriously, socially mediated efforts to apply friction to slow the dissemination of misinformation are a great thing!).

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2 years

Conferencing #MPSA

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Co-author: "So, how are those robustness checks coming?" Me:

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NEW WP: @klunztrujillo , @_Jon_Green , @davidlazer , and I provide panel, correlational, & experimental evidence that #COVID19 vax. hesitancy "spills over" to undermine confidence more generally. Come see us at #APSA2022 ! Palais 517B, Friday from 4-5:30 (and online!)

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NEW @PRQjournal : @klunztrujillo , @THCallaghan , @ssylvester82 and I demonstrate the effectiveness of a psychologically-informed #scicomm strategy for reducing vaccine misinformation. #scipol

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NEW WP from @decustecu @LandrumAR & I: In a pre-reg. exp, we find that messages highlighting the climate-induced health risks of mosquito-borne illness (like Dengue Fever) increase climate change mitigation policy support among climate skeptics.

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Now published in @HCeditorialteam ! Via a naturally-occurring experiment, @decustecu , J. Hwang & I show that demand for misinformation on Facebook is both steady and transferrable to other platforms. 50 free copies available here! 👇

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NEW WP from J. Hwang, @decustecu , and I. We show that, consistent with the idea that some FB users express a latent demand for misinformation consumption, a naturally-occurring Facebook outage "transferred" search for misinformation to Google.

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This is alarming. As @klunztrujillo @_Jon_Green @davidlazer J. Lin, A. Safarpour, and I show in a WP (link below), negative views toward #COVID19 vax may be "spilling over" to erode support for routine vaccination; especially on the ideo. right.

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Grrr... Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row by @DrewQJoseph via @statnews “This is alarming and should be a call to action to all of us” "MMR coverage is as low as it’s been in a decade." #VaccinesWork

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Don't have a ton of down time this #MPSA -- but was able to sneak away to the Field museum today for a few hours! Super cool. 🦖 🦕

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NEW WP: I offer a conceptual framework (& empirical tests) for using conjoint experiments to overcome key limitations of traditional factorial designs, in application to misinformation correction. [THREAD] #PolHealthComm #SciComm #PolComm

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New research at @socscimed : @THCallaghan , ssylvester82, and I on Dunning-Kruger effects and the endorsement of anti-vaccine policy attitudes in the U.S. You can access an early view of the article here. 👇 [THREAD]

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New WP from @klunztrujillo @davidlazer @_Jon_Green @jennifer_lin16 and I: observational, longitudinal, & experimental evidence that neg. #COVID19 vax. attitudes are "spilling over" to erode support for vax. more generally; often in highly partisan ways.

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Working with political ad data, I've seen lots (maybe thousands?) of ads over the years. This is easily one of the best. 👇

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NEW PREPRINT. News that mRNA cancer vax. are undergoing clinical trials raises an important q: Like vaccination against #COVID19 , could cancer vax. become pol. polarized? In a pre-reg. svy & RCT, I argue that the ans. is "yes." [THREAD] #PolHealthComm

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NEW at @nature 's @SciReports , w/ @THCallaghan . Many Americans endorse folk theories about medicine. Those who do are less deferential to sci. expertise. We also develop/validate a new short-form "medical folk wisdom" scale. [THREAD]

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2 years

Super cool local coffee shop. Timothée Hôrtons or something? Wish we had these in America.

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Matt Motta

6 years

In a working paper, I sentiment-score over 65,000 minutes of cable news coverage from 2009-2017. I find that Fox News tends to talk about scientists and college professors in more negative contexts than CNN or MSNBC.

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NEW WP from @decustecu , Gabby Motta (my sister!), & I. Some suggest that a growing number of Americans refuse to vax. their pets. We quantify the widespread prevalence, correlates, and health consequences of “canine vaccine hesitancy.” 🧵

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Two years later — finally got a physical copy of my dissertation in the mail! (Matching lecture outfit is purely coincidental).

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5 years

Mornin’ #APSA2019 🏃😄

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6 years

With the #WHO naming vaccine skepticism & hesitancy a top health threat, it's important to understand *why* some people reject vaccine science. @THCallaghan , @ssylvester82 , and I offer one potential explanation in @Newsweek (via @ConversationUS ) 👇

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Why Anti-Vaxxers Think They Know Better Than Experts

Over a third of Americans feel they know as much or more than scientists or medical doctors about the causes of autism.

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Many Americans believe that the flu vax. is unsafe. What can science communicators do to counteract misinformation? Today at @ConversationUS , @decustecu , K. Haglin, and I summarize several communication strategies, and weigh their effectiveness #scicomm

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Countering misinformation about flu vaccine is harder than it seems

Vaccination rates for children in some parts of California are down, despite a law that narrowed exemptions. Here’s a look at why people refuse to listen to evidence when it comes to the flu vaccine.

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This Midterm election has been dubbed "the year of scientists running for Congress." In a working paper (link below), I profile the social, scientific, and political backgrounds of the ~200 candidates with STEM backgrounds running for Congress in 2018. 👇

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NEW at PGI: Anti-vax beliefs are more than just views about sci/med. For many, they're a form of social identity. @THCallaghan , @klunztrujillo , @ssylvester82 and I study the health policy consequences of "Anti-Vax. Social Identity" (AVSID). [THREAD]

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Kansas City is red ❤️ Niners fans are blue 😭 Conspiracists think that "Deep State Taylor Swift" 🎶 Wants to vaccinate you 💉💝 #HealthPolicyValentines

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2 years

Not gonna lie, Dad's birthday present is pretty fun for me too. 😄 BOS-NYY. Sunday Night Baseball. Go Sox!!!

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How do you all allocate time to conduct peer-reviews? For me... ~ 1.5 hrs: reading/note-taking ~ 1.5 hrs: drafting ~ 0.5 hrs: proofreading ~ 10 hrs: staring into the void as I fail to log in w/the new and/or redundant EdMgr credentials the journal made for me

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Working paper on polarizing effects of @ScienceMarchDC on science attitudes is up on my website. Comments welcome!

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NEW: Do most Americans believe that climate change is human caused? In our article at Climatic Change, D. Chapman, @decustecu , K. Haglin, and I show that minor diff. in q. construction can have a major impact on how we interpret opinion. CC: @APPCPenn

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I can’t come up with a post-stratification joke, so I guess I’ll weight.

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NEW @polcommjournal : @decustecu & I show that negative #COVID19 vaccine coverage on Fox News (and exposure to it) is associated w/elevated levels of vaccine hesitancy. See this 🧵 for more info! Free to download at the link below! 👇

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The Effects of Partisan Media in the Face of Global Pandemic: How News Shaped COVID-19 Vaccine...

Some might expect the promise of ending a global pandemic via vaccination to interrupt conventional partisan media effect processes. We test that possibility by bringing together sentiment-scored C...

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NEW #APSA2021 WP from @decustecu & I: We show that Fox News talked about #COVID19 vax. more negatively than other cable news outlets. In turn, exposure to neg. coverage on Fox was associated w/increased vaccine hesitancy. #PolHealthComm [THREAD]

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Motion to call the vaccine's mRNA-encoded viral proteins "Dolly-peptides."

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Dolly Parton was one of the major funders for Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine, which has proved to be nearly 95 percent effective in early data

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Interesting new text analysis suggests Trump employs "rhetoric of tyranny;" trading talk of democratic staples for conflict and strength.

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Unlike all previous U.S. presidents, Trump almost never mentions democratic ideals

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From a talk I'm giving over the next couple weeks: #COVID19 concern and rising case rates were correlated at the outset of the pandemic. But they've become increasingly decoupled as the pandemic wears on. Polling data from @FiveThirtyEight Case data from @CDCgov

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Happy Election Day! Enjoyed chatting with Dr. Mendez & @koconews about the polls, OK politics, the impeachment inquiry into Pres. Trump. You can check it out on KOCO's nowcast (before the next live airing). CC: @OKstatePoliSci @OkstateCAS

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Staying at the (allegedly haunted) Congress Plaza in Chicago. On the 13th floor. And my stay cost $666. I am not making this up. #mpsa2019

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4 years

Thanks, Twitter, for your interest in the Ocean State! Now that we're in the national spotlight, here's a few important things you should know about us Rhode Islanders. #calamaricomeback [THREAD]

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Antibiotic resistance is a major public health concern. Our new #MPSA2019 paper (4/6 at 1:15, loc. TBD) shows that many Americans are *not* willing to adjust their antibiotic use habits to help fix it. w/ @CeCAR_UGOT , @krissylunztrujilo , @THCallaghan , & @ssylvester82 . #scicomm

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We ( @THCallaghan , @ssylvester82 , and I) are thrilled to say that our paper at @socscimed on Dunning-Kruger Effects and anti-vax policy attitudes has been awarded the @ElsevierAtlas award, and will soon be permanently un-paywalled! We are truly thankful.

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