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Dartmouth 🌲 calls in riot cops to forcibly arrest my colleague and friend Annelise Orleck, knocking her to ground

There Is One Major Element Missing From the Debate on Kids and Social Media | Opinion newsweek.com/there-one-majo…

Gun violence among young people is often driven by social media, #PennSP2 ’s Dr.Desmond Upton Patton explains in Newsweek. He outlines resources to help adults deescalate conflict, ways to involve youth as experts, and healthy online alternatives. SAFElab at UPENN
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'Without strong ethical guidelines, informed by youth and communities, AI technologies like the ones I co-build can turn into just another way to over-police youth of color' --Dr.Desmond Upton Patton in Newsweek

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There’s a lot of debate over the impact social media has on kids. But one major thing is missing from the conversation, writes PennSP2 Prof. Dr.Desmond Upton Patton in Newsweek. newsweek.com/there-one-majo…

There is a lot of debate over the impact social media has on kids. So why aren’t we talking about the role it plays in the #1 cause of death for children and teens? check out my new op-ed in Newsweek: newsweek.com/there-one-majo…

I'm a bit busy & overwhelmed, but I'm going to try to pull together a free webinar on the crisis counseling for folks experiencing police violence based around this article I wrote (focus will be abolitionist and on college campuses). doi.org/10.17744/mehc.…

Any university that allows snipers on the roof of campus buildings in response to a nonviolent student protest is not place of higher learning.

Are social media's effects inherently negative?

🤳 In this talk, our clients Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn and Dr.Desmond Upton Patton examined how social media and AI can be applied to elicit joy, spark imagination, and promote health and liberation: bit.ly/3PD3kRg

Annenberg’s health communication faculty work together to discover solutions to improve public health, from educating smokers on the health harms of nicotine to correcting misinformation about vaccines: bit.ly/4d1nT3O Andy SL Tan Communication Neuroscience Lab

Last week JAMA Network released an article on the imbalance of the public health need and funding of gun violence research by Therese Richmond, Stephen Hargarten and Frederick Rivara. Read more here:
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Our short film, titled 'Life of Abundance' will be screening here. Register below!!!!

umm, was that an earthquake?

We want to understand what supervisors do to promote the well-being of their research team members and how effective they perceive those strategies to be. If you supervise at least 1 person, it would be great to hear from you: bit.ly/VTRTS. The survey takes 5-10 min.

I was recently interviewed by my school about my research.

I taught Kelly Clarkson about the biases encoded in a medical device called a “pulse oximeter!” Pulse oximeters measure your oxygen saturation levels. But studies have shown they are three times as likely to lead to overestimated oxygen sat. levels in patients with darker skin.

Congratulations to Shani Buggs, PhD, MPH, DocJoRich, and the entire Collective whose leadership continues to inspire so many people in this field! health.ucdavis.edu/vprp/news/head…

Job alert: We're seeking an expert researcher to shape and build a research agenda on the racial dimensions of the future of work as part of our Labor Futures team. If you’re passionate about building connections between advocacy and research, apply now!
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In the 2024 Albert M. Greenfield Memorial lecture hosted by Penn Nursing, Desmond Upton Patton and Courtney D. Cogburn discussed how social media and AI might foster well-being.
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