Adriana Mihai

PhD, CESIC, University of Bucharest | Innovating Governance, Vienna

[Adriana Mihai @litnmedia]

We need better decision-making frameworks when choosing COVID-19 measures. Here is our freshly published paper arguing for multi-criteria decision methods on pandemic responses, with an example application on mitigation strategies in Romania 👇https://t.co/aQtFsQeN0V

[Adriana Mihai @litnmedia]

Have you ever suspected editorial bias in quite well-known academic journals? Double-blind peer review over, but the handling editor has been silent for almost three months. Any advice on how to handle that?
#AcademicTwitter

[Adriana Mihai @litnmedia]

thank you.

[Kurt Kohlstedt @KurtKohlstedt]

We interrupt your regularly scheduled doomscrolling to bring you a joyful deer prancing across a beach at sunrise 🦌 🌅

[Adriana Mihai @litnmedia]

@AgathaChocolats What do you mean by 'capitalist'?

[Adriana Mihai @litnmedia]

Where research pays better, there is more competition and more men are chosen. Where the research is poorly paid, the competition is lower, so there are more positions available for women. Poorly paid research means less prestige, fewer outreach possibilities, less power.

[Friedlind Riedel @friedlindriedel]

Female researchers in Europe in 2015. Just wow! There is so much to see here.
Thank you @milos_agathon for creating this important map.

[Adriana Mihai @litnmedia]

@RobertLepenies @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter every couple of months, usually before some official papers on thesis progress needed to be submitted at the univ (Romania)

[Adriana Mihai @litnmedia]

Great thread with a brief update on what research is saying regarding countering misinformation with fact-checking ☑️

[Rasmus Kleis Nielsen @rasmus_kleis]

100% true no amount of fact-checking will give people in intensely polarized US “a common ground of reality on which to stand” as @Sulliview wrote Aug 29. But since many seem to jump from that to idea fact-checking doesn’t work, public service announcement RE"backfire effect” 1/9

[Adriana Mihai @litnmedia]

In the wake of the pandemic, 'vulnerable categories' have mostly included those groups directly affected by the virus. But there's a huge group too few have cared about, directly affected by various mitigation measures: the poor. Where's the equity in crisis management?

[Robert Lepenies @RobertLepenies]

Where are all the people who insisted that we’re living in the golden age of global poverty eradication just a few months ago? And why aren’t they tweeting about the impact of Covid on the poor right now? 🤔

[Adriana Mihai @litnmedia]

@RobertLepenies Very good question. https://t.co/deG1ZndZRE

[Adriana Mihai @litnmedia]

@vladcostea Same here, I have some mild symptoms though, so I called my ENT doctor, described everything, and she sent me to get tested. If it's not Covid, it's tonsilitis that needs some prescription meds, so for me, the test is useful for an accurate diagnosis and treatment.

[Adriana Mihai @litnmedia]

Communicate uncertainty.

[Abel Gustafson @AbelGustafson]

In #scicomm, does communicating uncertainty have negative effects?

Our review [now out in @SciPublic] finds that in most cases, the answer is NO.

🚨 But there is an important exception where it is clearly harmful:

uncertainty in the form of DISAGREEMENT/CONFLICT.

[thread]
1/x

[Stephen Hopkins @phil_lol_ogist]

If you could end COVID-19 today by sacrificing one era of English literature, what would you choose and why the 18th century?

[Professor Paul Cairney @CairneyPaul]

Writing a paper on UK coronavirus policy (https://t.co/e2Zhw6RPJq) and it is taking much longer than usual. One vague explanation is that I have rarely felt so uneasy about writing. Every policy change would seem profound on its own, but the cumulative effect is overwhelming.

[Adriana Mihai @litnmedia]

Interesting, so there is an explanation. "We have begun the dreaded third quarter of isolation, when — yes — things get weird" https://t.co/0rZSOPyAXw

[Adriana Mihai @litnmedia]

@DavidMair4 All mentioned above plus risk analysts who can model all data coming from epidemiologists, economists, sociologists, etc.

[Adriana Mihai @litnmedia]

@RobertLepenies True. It's not instrumentalized yet politically. And there are no significant divisions in terms of policy and discourses for now. I think this will change in some months though...

[Adriana Mihai @litnmedia]

Many are struggling these days in lockdown with stress, demotivation, anxiety, boredom, loneliness, depression. The romantic genius striving in isolation is a myth. For real people, this is a useful article. Step by step through #COVIDー19 https://t.co/IADnH6v6hq

[📈 Len Kiefer 📊 @lenkiefer]

Updated: Initial jobless claims as number 1/2

[Adriana Mihai @litnmedia]

Great endeavour, I hope there will be as many people as possible answering, including from countries with different responses to the pandemic, from Sweden to Austria, Romania, etc. Share and get involved #COVID19

[Manos Tsakiris @manos_tsakiris]

How do we take political decisions during turbulent times? Take part & share our study as we are trying to reach as many citizens. English version @GorillaPsyc : https://t.co/30HeiMCkD5 | EU languages : GR|DE +AU/CH |IT|FR|PL|SI 👇| @RHULPsychology @RHULSocialSci @Warburg_News

[Adriana Mihai @litnmedia]

https://t.co/F8XiF5Uol7 "Optimizing public health during this pandemic also requires knowledge from the social and behavioural sciences." Great synthesis on threats and risk perception, cultural and social norms, science communication and decision-making by @jayvanbavel et all