Rachael Kee

We’re excited to share that #hackica26 on June 3 & 4 will be hosted at the SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking! Huge thanks for welcoming us 🫶🇿🇦
Learn more about them here: www.su.ac.za/en/
Follow us for more updates and announcements regarding the upcoming Hackathon.

Donate to Help Ninook Walk Again: Emergency TPLO Surgery Needed, organized by Rachael Kee Hi friends, family, and animal lovers everywhere. My name is Rachael… Rachael Kee needs your support for Help Ninook Walk Again: Emergency TPLO Surgery Needed

The cost of Ninook’s surgery ($6,400) has officially been raised solely by donations to my GFM! 🥳 Now only about $3,850 left in ER bills, follow-up care, & plane tickets to TX for surgery to raise. Thank you all, more than words can express. 🙏 Every share helps. ❤️‍🩹

www.gofundme.com/f/help-ninoo...

Comm Horizons @ UCD 2026: Communication in the Age of AI and Algorithms

Excited to announce the third annual Comm Horizons @ucdavis.bsky.social Conference:

Communication in the Age of AI and Algorithms

Featuring cutting-edge research and keynotes from Jeff Hancock and @angelhwang.bsky.social

Hope you'll submit and share! communication.ucdavis.edu/horizonconf2...

Beyond honored to speak as keynote for the Comm Horizons Conference at UC Davis!! Triple shout-outs to @richardhuskey.bsky.social, Jorge Peña, and @soojongkim.bsky.social Soojong Kim for organizing efforts. Please consider sending your work and attending the conference (+a short visit to Napa! 🍇🍷)

GenZ version of dplyr in R

Hadley Wickham made a GenZ version of dplyr 😂

hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

Thank you, Juergen. ❤️‍🩹

Please help if you can!

Thank you so much, Richard. ❤️‍🩹

If you don’t have the means to donate, even a quick share would mean the world to my pup & I. ❤️‍🩹 Ninook lost her ability to walk this weekend, but a simple (yet expensive) surgery can restore it. I got her when I started this PhD program & she motivates me to finish it. Thank you for your help.

Donate to Help Ninook Walk Again: Emergency TPLO Surgery Needed, organized by Rachael Kee Hi friends, family, and animal lovers everywhere. My name is Rachael… Rachael Kee needs your support for Help Ninook Walk Again: Emergency TPLO Surgery Needed

Hi everyone. A grad in my lab (@rachaelkee.bsky.social) could use your help. Her dog needs surgery. If you can, even a little help goes a long way gofund.me/0ebf78a49

Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics - Nature Neuroscience Yang et al. show that moments of failed attention we experience after sleep deprivation reflect brief ‘sleep-like’ episodes in the brain, corresponding to a brain- and body-wide event with altered bra...

Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cover for the book "Creating Communication and Media Research Labs: A Blueprint for Success". Edited by Chad Edwards, Autumn Edwards, and Patric R. Spence. Published by Palgrave Pivot.

🧵 What does it take to build a small, scrappy, and successful communication neuroscience lab? Our lab, @gongxuanjun.bsky.social, @rachaelkee.bsky.social, Allyson Snyder, Ziyu Zhao, and I put out heads together to answer this question. Here's what we came up with: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.

Thank you @jingjinghan.bsky.social for the wonderful invitation to visit. I learned so much talking with the faculty and students at Fudan University!

The next step is to examine the overlap of existing psychopathology and gaming disorder in the brain 🧠

Ask me how I know the school year started today.

Black and white headshot of Jocelyn (Yachen) Xie

Very excited to welcome our newest lab member, Jocelyn (Yachen) Xie! Jocelyn is broadly interested in cognition and media narratives, especially in how moral judgment and decision-making affect people’s preferences and evaluations of media content and characters cogcommscience.com/members/

Image of labubu doll labeled labubu next to image of spiky labubu doll labeled lakiki

::slowly stands while clapping::

flyer for “AIxCOM – International Conference on AI-Empowered Communication and Global Innovation.” Host: Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong. Dates: 18–19 September 2025. Venue: Benjamin & Anny Kwok Conference Room, 4/F Yip Kit Chuen Building, CityUHK. Highlighted bullets in yellow: Cutting-edge AI issues across GenAI, VR, Games, and Neuroscience. Flagship communication journal editors. Elected and former ICA presidents. Industry leaders from Amazon, Meta, Google, and Alibaba. Three columns of circular headshots with names, titles, and affiliations labeled “Keynote Speakers”: • Ingrid Bachmann – ICA President Elect, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. • Peng Hwa Ang – Former ICA President, Nanyang Technological University. • Michael Latzer – University of Zurich. • Junhao Hong – State University of New York at Buffalo. • Natalie Pang – National University of Singapore. • Nicole Ellison – Editor in Chief, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. • Jörg Matthes – Editor in Chief, Communication Theory, University of Vienna. • Richard Huskey – Associate Editor, Journal of Communication, UC Davis. • Nuri Kim – Associate Editor, Human Communication Research. • Tammy Lin – Associate Editor, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, NCCU Taiwan. Right column lists editors and scholars from China: Xiaohong Guan (CAS academician, IEEE Fellow), Zhengrong Hu (News and Communication Research), Yan Sui (Modern Communication), Taofu Zhang (Journalism University), Hailong Liu (International Press), Changfeng Chen (Global Media Journal, Chinese). Row of “Industry Leaders” headshots: George Chen (The Asia Group, CityUHK), Bryan Ha (AWS/Amazon), Yannick Mahé (Meta Greater China), Raymond Tsang (Alibaba Cloud), Di Yao (Google Shanghai), Grace Shao (AI Proem).

📱One scroll can change your day. What guides your scrolling?

I’m keynoting at the CityU Hong Kong International Conference on AI-Empowered Communication and Global Innovation. I’ll share our lab’s NeuroAI for sequential media selection. If you’re there, say hi!

www.cityu.edu.hk/com/Page.asp...

How I wish I wrote abstracts vs how I write abstracts…

Still thinking about the fun I had and how much I learned at #ica25!

Amazing works were presented at our Top Paper sessions (Part 1) Congrats to these presenters!!🎉

Very happy to see that @overbye.bsky.social’s fantastic work on detecting bias in human-in-the-loop algorithms was awarded a top paper in @icacsab.bsky.social this year. Incredibly interesting, rigorous, and timely research! #ica25

And that’s a wrap for us at #ICA2025! Thank you to all the presenters, attendees, and our amazing officers for working year round and making this happen.
See you next year at @icahdq.bsky.social 2026 at Capetown☀️

Amazing works were presented at our Top Paper sessions (Part 2)Congrats to these presenters!!🎉

In a new piece, Dr. Robin Nabi and I discuss the space between fear-based bans and full digital freedom: The Digital Middle. (See link below)⬇️
There is a middle ground but it is up to each parent to evaluate where there child is at and what is best for them
#commsky #psychsky

Metastability demystified — the foundational past, the pragmatic present and the promising future Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Metastability is a concept from dynamical systems. In the brain, it is thought to reflect the balance between the cooperative and independent functioning of brain...

Our review on Metastability has been published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience - you can view it here rdcu.be/d3bh9. Fantastic collaboration involving experts from the UK, the US, Spain, Australia and Portugal.

Presenting at #ICA25 😴📱

#Smartphones are often seen as #sleep disruptors - but the relationship is complex. Using data donated from iPhones & Apple Watches, we uncovered how smartphone use and sleep reciprocally affect each other.

🗓 Sunday, 12–1pm,
📍"Mobile Methods", Centennial G (Regency 3)

Thank you!!

Rachael Kee Rachael Kee is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at UC Davis working out of the Cognitive Communication Science Lab. In 2023, she graduated with a double major in Psychology and Communi...

& here is my graduate student profile from UC Davis: communication.ucdavis.edu/people/racha...