Shae Johnson

Reluctant social media user. Oxford comma defender. Mother of pre-schoolers. Working at the intersection of science comms, misinformation and tribal identities.

[Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu]

The latest filing by Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation suit against Fox https://t.co/T31Q2BW8ha nails something critics have long argued for.

Fox is not a news organization. It's something else.

But what is this thing? I will try to answer that.

Next slide, please. 1/

[Shae Johnson @kshaejohnson]

@nutsci Perfection

[Helena Bottemiller Evich @hbottemiller]

It's beyond any horror you can imagine, and yet it keeps happening over and over and over so we have to imagine it so we might find the will to stop it.

[Shae Johnson @kshaejohnson]

@DrNeurosaurus I'm just trying to imagine what "look American" actually, you know, looks like, and I'm ending up at star-spangled tank tops or cowboy hats. Were you wearing your Sam the Eagle costume again, Eugenia? :)

[Shae Johnson @kshaejohnson]

I can't be the only one who's noticed that The Atlantic has a lot to say about "intensive parenting" for never actually explaining what it is. 🙄

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Intensive parenting is unhealthy, but that hasn’t stopped its spread. @ehaspel has a prescription for how society could leave it behind for good: https://t.co/F21mKOmXhj

[Shae Johnson @kshaejohnson]

@EyePatchGuy @HarbourSeal @hannibalsexwife @TrashPandaJedi Daily Show is the definitive word on this, my friend: https://t.co/68Pwiukg4D

[Shae Johnson @kshaejohnson]

@tankgrrl @mem_somerville @Wegmans Yep, my thought was sticker/decal - even a printout of a favorite movie/game/tv character. :)

[Shae Johnson @kshaejohnson]

Everyone knows the only correct way to make the three sign with your hand involves the thumb, index finger and middle finger. (I.e., not like this dude 👇) https://t.co/yukCutK5ca

[Shae Johnson @kshaejohnson]

@EyePatchGuy Hey, she made it past "thing that... eat" which is generally all my brain can handle by 10 pm. Respect.

[Shae Johnson @kshaejohnson]

@RSButner My husband was recruited to his current job through there, but it was a very niche situation -- highly technical field, but an unexpected industry seeking his particular skillset. My own experience has been similar to yours.

[Emily Oster @ProfEmilyOster]

This is all pretty amazing. From kid standpoint, and RSV vaccine would be... well, really, really good.

[Shae Johnson @kshaejohnson]

@nikkiusher Gameplay videos seems to satisfy my 4yrold - it requires some up front work to identify content-safe streamers. But when I just can't handle catching another Bugsnack on demand, I have a playlist of family-friendly streamers I load up.

[Whitney R. Robinson @WhitneyEpi]

🧵1/ How one epidemiologist decided to keep sending her children to in-person group childcare during a pandemic, and what happened

[Shae Johnson @kshaejohnson]

@RSButner It's easier than ever to interrogate the sources, to identify who they identify as experts. It also makes "synthesizers" more visible - people who are not necessarily doing the clinical trials but who are steeped in the data and can communicate it (@ProfEmilyOster comes to mind).

[Shae Johnson @kshaejohnson]

@RSButner Those rolodexes are developed through, as you noted, skillsets and personal networks and activities which are unrelated to the expertise. (Ultimately a newsroom diversity issue.) Online comms is magnifying an existing issue around influence, but also offers new tools to address.

[Yo-Yo Ma @YoYo_Ma]

For this last day of a long winter.

"Here Comes the Sun" by @GeorgeHarrison, performed with @JamesTaylor_com.
https://t.co/vSIQG14tO2

[Shae Johnson @kshaejohnson]

I don't make the rules, folks.

[Shae Johnson @kshaejohnson]

Well that's a headline. https://t.co/UxhCIXORTy

[Military Times @MilitaryTimes]

Marine veteran sentenced for smuggling guns to Haiti to train army, become president https://t.co/xgQhNiOkSz

[Shae Johnson @kshaejohnson]

When my kids refuse to eat anything unless it comes out of a pouch, I just tell myself they're practicing to be astronauts.