Your colleagues in the newsCheck out the top-reaching stories of academic impact in traditional media. Metrics draw from English-language print, broadcast and online global media outlets. | Top stories (Dec. 7-13) |
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Ashlee Humphreys testifies in Rudy Giuliani's civil defamation trial related to false claims he made about two former election workers in Georgia. Humphreys was cited in 168 stories for a reach of 17.9 million. Top outlets include the Associated Press, ABC News, PBS NewsHour, CBS News and many others.
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Following numerous recalls of over-the-counter eyedrops, Timothy Janetos discusses the Food and Drug Administration’s proposal to curb safety problems. Janetos was cited in 251 stories for a reach of 9.1 million. Top outlets include the Associated Press, Time, Quartz and PBS NewsHour.
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Daniel Dombeck creates virtual reality goggles for mice. The goggles map the brain’s response to various activities, allowing researchers to understand the neural circuitry underlying mice behaviors. Dombeck was cited in 219 stories for a reach of 7.5 million. Top outlets include Popular Science, IFLScience, Gizmodo and The Guardian.
*To allow time for data processing and validation, the reporting period for top stories and quantitative media metrics runs Thursday-Wednesday. |  |
| In the Spotlight | Read in-depth coverage of Northwestern work and research. |  From Scientific American Weinberg’s Magdalena Osburn leads a massive exploration of microbes living as deep as 1.5 kilometers below the surface of the Earth, revealing a division in survival strategies: “minimalists,” which have streamlined their lives by eating the same thing all day, every day; and “maximalists,” which are ready and prepared to greedily grab any resource that might come their way. Osburn tells Scientific American the study of these organisms could help us understand the potential for life on Mars. |  From WTTW With the winter solstice on Dec. 21, fluctuations in mood and behavior are frequently observed during this season. Feinberg’s Dorothy Sit offers advice on how to transition to the fall and winter gloom by building in healthy and rewarding activities. |  From National Public Radio Spotify introduced additional elements to its yearly Spotify Wrapped, which enables users to capture a summary of their listening patterns from the past year. Kellogg’s Brian Uzzi discusses on National Public Radio how Spotify Wrapped satisfies two competing human desires: wanting to be part of the group and, at the same time, wanting to be different from everybody when it comes to taste in music. |
| NU Voices | Read perspectives from Northwestern faculty in national media. |  From Wendy Pearlman, CNN “The role of colleges is to empower students with the knowledge, skills and freedom needed to understand and improve the world. Institutions of higher learning must provide spaces that are safe from violence and intimidation, not from ideas that are challenging or even distressing. Criticism of Israel will leave some feeling uncomfortable; confronting perspectives different from one’s own usually does. But that is, after all, what college is all about,” Weinberg’s Wendy Pearlman writes in CNN. |  From Andrew Koppelman, The Hill “The Texas Supreme Court has made clear that its state is not a safe place to become pregnant. That is the bottom line of its astonishing decision that reversed a lower court’s order protecting a woman who wanted to end a dangerous and futile pregnancy. … Texas is assuredly anti-abortion, but that doesn’t mean that it’s pro-life,” Northwestern Law’s Andrew Koppelman writes in The Hill. |  From Mohammad Hosseini and Kristi Holmes, The Korea Herald “Whether or not we personally use ChatGPT and other AI systems, our lives will be affected by them. We may wonder what we can do to be informed in this new age of AI. We can begin by advocating for information and media literacy and using technologies such as ChatGPT critically while keeping in mind the inherent biases and inequities that exist in these tools as well as the data used to train them,” Feinberg’s Mohammad Hosseini and Kristi Holmes write in The Korea Herald. |
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