Op-Ed: Why public health messaging should emphasize vaccine acceptance, not hesitancy
Research from IDSS affiliates Sinan Aral and Dean Eckles highlights how overstating or overemphasizing hesitancy can, by itself, keep others from getting vaccinated.
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Study: Covid-19 communications featuring racially diverse physicians can improve health outcomes for communities of color
Public health video messages featuring a racially diverse set of physicians were found to decrease knowledge gaps about Covid-19, says study from physicians, economists and MIT professors, including Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford (pictured) and IDSS affiliate Esther Duflo.
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Mass General-MIT Team Create an Online COVID-19 Testing Calculator for Schools and Businesses
A team from Massachusetts General Hospital and MIT, including IDSS affiliate Anette “Peko” Hosoi, has created an online tool to help organizations calculate the costs and benefits of different COVID-19 testing and mitigation strategies.
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‘Mercury Stories: Understanding Sustainability through a Volatile Element’
In the new book "Mercury Stories," IDSS core faculty member Noelle Eckley Selin and Henrik Selin examine sustainability through analyzing human interactions with mercury over thousands of years.
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The catalyzing potential of J-WAFS seed grants
Caroline Uhler, an IDSS core faculty member, is part of a research collaboration working on a J-WAFS-backed project to find the genetic foundations of plant tolerance to the stresses of heat and drought.
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Getting To The Bottom of GameStop
Sinan Aral, IDSS Affiliate and Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, joins a podcast discussion on the GameStop hearing and whether social media like r/WallStreetBets manipulated financial markets.
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Why didn’t the Massachusetts vaccine website work better?
One possibility is that the state system was cobbled together too quickly to permit adequate testing of software and servers, according to Stuart Madnick, IDSS affiliate and director of the cybersecurity center at MIT Sloan.
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Lonely, angry, eager to make history: Online mobs are likely to remain a dangerous reality
Sinan Aral, IDSS affiliate and author of “The Hype Machine,” said tech companies must rethink their business models, codes and rules if they hope to steer movements away from real-world harm.
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Gas or Electric? Thinking Algebraically About Car Costs, Emissions and Trade-offs
In this lesson, utilizing the carboncounter.com tool developed by the Trancik Lab, students apply the familiar formula y=mx+b to a relevant real-world scenario: buying a car.
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A machine-learning approach to finding treatment options for Covid-19
Caroline Uhler (IDSS, EECS, Broad Institute) and fellow researchers develop a system to identify drugs that might be repurposed to fight the coronavirus in elderly patients.
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