Wendy Matsumura

Feeling extra fired up today. Ready for the fight.

25.01.2025 21:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Write a story about Trump knowing his AG pick is a pimp.

27.12.2024 00:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Infant Mortality Increases Across US Following Dobbs Decision The Dobbs decision was associated with a 7% absolute increase in overall infant mortality—equivalent to 247 excess deaths—and a 10% increase among infants with congenital anomalies, corresponding to 2...

Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs.

Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this?

#PHEthx

17.12.2024 18:29 — 👍 11774    🔁 5283    💬 35    📌 509

ABC to Pay $15 Million to Settle a Defamation Suit Brought by Trump The outcome of the lawsuit marks an unusual victory for President-elect Donald J. Trump in his ongoing legal campaign against national news organizations.

“Debra OConnell, the Disney executive who directly oversees ABC News, dined with Mr. Trump’s incoming chief of staff, Susie Wiles, in Palm Beach last Monday, according to two people briefed on their interaction.”

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/b...

15.12.2024 14:55 — 👍 196    🔁 77    💬 42    📌 17

Facts, frames, and (mis)interpretations: Understanding rumors as collective sensemaking The communicative solution to pervasive misinformation is not better facts, but better frames.

Our team still studies “collective sensemaking” during breaking news events. What we see with MH17 and Jan6 are attacks on the sensemaking process itself… not just a distortion (like those described in this article) but a denial of service attack on sensemaking. www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/r...

14.12.2024 16:24 — 👍 694    🔁 206    💬 21    📌 30

Working on MH17 data, then PhD student Ahmer Arif described denial of sensemaking: it felt like staring at static on an old TV or being forced to wear headphones pumping in static noise constantly, you couldn’t make sense of anything, it made your head hurt, the healthy thing to do was quit trying.

14.12.2024 16:48 — 👍 395    🔁 52    💬 12    📌 3

Thought-experiment on egregious DOD nomination:

—If you got onto 2pm airline flight and heard that pilots had been drinking at 10am, would you stay on the flight? (FYI: FAA rule is minimum 8 hours 'bottle to throttle')

—Airline flight puts couple hundred lives at risk. SecDef can affect millions

09.12.2024 22:13 — 👍 197    🔁 39    💬 6    📌 2

Grim stuff. This is who Trump wants to put in charge of the military. www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...

02.12.2024 14:09 — 👍 2709    🔁 703    💬 111    📌 24