I'm thrilled to be partnering with Ken Miles on launching Penn Center for Inclusive Innovation & Technology. We're actively fundraising and seeking partnerships in and outside of Philadelphia. Learn more here: giving.upenn.edu/inclusive-inno…

A new paper co-written by #PennSP2 ’s Dr.Desmond Upton Patton, a participant in last week's online health and safety session at the White House, explores how gang-affiliated Black youth use Twitter content to navigate grief. Annenberg School SAFElab at UPENN Penn Medicine
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First-of-its-kind study analyzes digital mourning practices of gang-affiliated youth sp2.upenn.edu/first-of-its-k…

Exciting news! Last week, Dr.Desmond Upton Patton was a listening session participant at the White House, discussing well-being and safety for youth online. Read more below!!!

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🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨

Congrats to lab members & affiliates: Nathan, Kauai, Desmond, Shana, and Aviv for publishing 'Digital mourning in tweets: Multimodal analysis of image-based grieving practices among gang-affiliated Black youth' in New Media & Society 👏

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Digital mourning in tweets: Multimodal analysis of image-based grieving practices among gang-affiliated Black youth - Nathan Aguilar, Aviv Y Landau, Kauai A Taylor, Shana Kleiner, Desmond U Patton, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

SAFELab, an initiative of Annenberg School and PennSP2, created an app for educators, law enforcement, and the press to better interpret the meaning of social media posts.
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The child survivors of Be’eri talk.

Listen to them. Don’t look away.

What an amazing boost of hope: hundreds of Jewish and Arab-Palestinian citizens gathered together in Haifa, a Jewish-Arab city in Israel, to send a clear message for partnership and for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

We have a peace movement in Israel: עומדים ביחד نقف معًا Standing Together🟣

Exciting opportunity at #ColumbiaUniversity School of Nursing! Seeking a Senior Informatics Specialist to join our innovative team, managing data science pipelines for research projects. Apply now: opportunities.columbia.edu/jobs/f733bd2f-…

Our lab member, Nathan Aguilar, will present at the next ColumbiaSocialWork Doctoral Seminar on October 23rd!

RSVP to hear him speak about his research: 'Silent Suffering: Understanding the Experiences of Black Caregivers of Violently Injured Men.' See below for event details!!!

We are thrilled to have Ken Miles as the Executive Director of the new Penn Center for Inclusive Innovation and Tech!

My faculty profile is now live! psyc.umd.edu/facultyprofile…

This is also a good time to share that I’ll be recruiting my first graduate student to start in Fall 2024 in the Clinical Psych PhD program @ UMD College Park. More info about my lab’s upcoming projects coming soon!

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Some tips for parents/caregivers on navigating social media this academic year: chop.edu/news/health-ti…

📢New paper alert📢 from TYCL on “Addressing Socioeconomic Determinants of Youth Suicidal Ideation: Lessons from a Youth Development Approach in India”
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#youth #mentalhealth #India

'No democracy, no academia'. An open letter in science, and a call for help from Israeli researchers to the international academic community

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Had a great time with the SAFElab at UPENN team. There are a lot of exciting things coming up.

Social scientists must address ChatGPT’s ethical challenges before using it for research penntoday.upenn.edu/news/social-sc…