New paper from @bethlhoffman.bsky.social & me using YouTube comments to analyze how people respond to abortion storylines I was surprised by how much people engaged in meaningful discussions, especially when they roasted shows for being unrealistic 😅 www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...

Frontiers | “Have the writers actually read abortion law?”: using YouTube comments to explore audience responses to entertainment TV abortion plotlines

IntroductionComment sections on social media websites such as YouTube provide a unique venue to observe contemporaneous audience interpretation and discussio...

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My quote of the day All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction. Clarence Darrow

New publication in @sagepub.com American Journal of Health Promotion! We examined public awareness of Freedom House Ambulance Service after its portrayal on #ThePitt. A fascinating example of entertainment media sparking real-world learning 🧵⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Public Awareness of Freedom House Ambulance Service After Viewing the Pitt - Beth L. Hoffman, Kate Leshniowsky, Ore Fawole, Sylvia Owusu-Ansah, 2026

Purpose To conduct an exploratory, descriptive trends analysis related to The Pitt’s Freedom House Ambulance Service (FHAS) storyline. Design Multi-method exam...

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Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

Catherine Frieman@cjfrieman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth

"Pro-Life" event in Pittsburgh... a misnomer as women w/o science-based healthcare are more likely to die from complications of childbirth. Please support true Pro-Life actions like getting vaccinated - keep up over NFL draft. secure.actblue.com/donate/maddo... @realclaudetaylor.bsky.social

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Last night’s movie screening and panel discussion at the Heinz History Center (cohosted by Pitt Public Health) about Freedom House Ambulance Service was amazing, but the highlight for me was being able to share with John Moon our research looking at the impact of The Pitt Freedom House storyline.

One of our core missions is to push back against medical misinformation with evidence-based outreach. @bethlhoffman.bsky.social & @janelleanthro.bsky.social received a Research! America micro grant to train students in medical professions : www.researchamerica.org/press-releas...

Research!America Congratulates Recipients of the 2025-2026 Civic Science Award and Microgrant Programs - Research!America

Research!America is proud to congratulate the recipients of its 2025-2026 Civic Engagement Microgrants and Public Engagement Content Awards.

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New Viewpoint out today led by Emaad Khan with yours truly as mentoring author in @jama.com Pediatrics: "Federal Funding Cuts Threaten US Pediatric Health.": jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The ‘Board of Peace’ started World War 3 so fast.

🚨New paper out in @jhealthcomm.bsky.social! 🚨 We developed and pilot-tested an edutainment-based curriculum to help future healthcare providers address health misinformation using motivational interviewing (MI). A 🧵

Thanks for highlighting our study!

Healthcare in Europe@healthcare-europe.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📺 TV depictions of out-of-hospital #CardiacArrest may mislead viewers about who is most likely to need cardiopulmonary #resuscitation (CPR) and where it’s needed, new research led by @bethlhoffman.bsky.social, and published in @ahajournals.bsky.social reveals. #CPR

📺🫀 New study out in Circulation: Population Health & Outcomes! We analyzed how out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and Hands-Only CPR are depicted on scripted U.S. television: www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... 🧵👇

Here is the CBS Sunday Morning piece for which I was interviewed about findings from my book Coverage Denied. Health insurance barriers ration health care by inconvenience, imposing hurdles to get prescribed care with administratively burdensome appeals many can’t navigate. youtu.be/SRPOoPDN-7w?...

State of denial: How insurance companies impact health care today

YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning

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This is one of our favorites!

Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again. “Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.” We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

There is nothing an American president could do worse for his own people than starving the poor right before Thanksgiving. Except for, I don’t know, lying about a plague and getting a million of his own citizens killed. Oh wait, let’s also not forget the time that he:

Grateful that I had the opportunity to consult on the @learcenter.bsky.social's latest study, which looked at the impact of The Pitt's organ donation and end-of-life care storylines on viewers: www.mediaimpactproject.org/thepitt.html

Life & Death in The Pitt

For nearly 25 years, our Hollywood, Health & Society program has served as a free and trusted resource to the entertainment industry, providing accurate information and access to experts for...

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@pgh-health-science.bsky.social @sarahross1.bsky.social @jaketomson.bsky.social @90for90.bsky.social PA Judicial Elections are one of the Last Lines of Defense in the US www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

PA Judicial Elections are one of the Last Lines of Defense in US

It may not be intuitive, but the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is one of the last remaining lines of defense against autocracy in the US. The three Supreme Court Justices up for retention, Christine Dono...

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@pgh-health-science.bsky.social is working to get billboards up in the Pittsburgh area to educate about this issue. Please donate to maddogpac.com/cart if you want to help. apnews.com/article/penn... supreme court battles move to Pennsylvania, where 3 Democratic justices hope to keep seats

State supreme court battles move to Pennsylvania, where 3 Democratic justices hope to keep seats

Republicans and Democrats have begun pouring money into an election this November for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

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The Pitt won Outstanding Drama Series at the #Emmys, and R. Scott Gemmill dedicated the award to healthcare workers: "Respect them. Protect them. Trust them.” 🏆 www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Thrilled to share my latest manuscript with the amazing @stephherold.bsky.social where we analyzed comments posted in response to abortion plotline TV clips on YouTube. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reading the comments: An exploratory quantitative analysis of YouTube comments in response to abortion plotlines on fictional television programs

Previous research has found that exposure to abortion plotlines on fictional television programs may influence viewers’ knowledge about abortion, and …

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UPMC removed and altered dozens of prominent web pages last week related to LGBTQ+ health care, diversity, equity and inclusion and racial health disparities. Via @ChrissySuttles www.axios.com/local/pittsb...

Scoop: UPMC pulls diversity, LGBTQ+ content from website

Western Pennsylvania's largest hospital system removed or altered dozens of webpages this week.

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Without evidence, RFK Jr said, "autistic children will never pay taxes...hold a job..play baseball...write a poem... go out on a date, & many of them will never use a toilet unassisted." This is false. People with Autism do these things, & are in no way lesser citizens. #PublicHealthMalpractice

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RFK is committing #PublicHealthMalpractice.

I am beyond honored to be the recipient of this year’s Bernard D. Goldstein Undergraduate Public Health teaching award. I want to extend my sincere, heartfelt gratitude to my amazing students, who give me hope and joy in these unprecedented times.

It makes my blood boil that we have a vaccine that prevents cancer and an HHS secretary that is behind lawsuits against said vaccine, but trying to experience a little joy with this news. Also, a great reminder of why it is beyond dumb to slash NIH funding: apple.news/AaIWRG51tRzS...

U.S. government researchers present ‘phenomenal’ new data on HPV vaccines — STAT

CHICAGO — A clinical trial run by the National Cancer Institute seems to confirm that a single dose of the vaccine used to prevent infection with the human papilloma virus is just as effective as two ...

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Happy #Caturday from Mother Nature and kittens Lava, Wildfire, Tsunami, Lightening, and Thunder

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

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🚨 With federal funding dwindling, we’ve created a starter pack of funding bodies offering #grants for #research🔬 📣 Repost & 💙 to connect #researchers with #funding 💵 💶 💷 #ResearchFunding #NIH #ERC #AcademicSky #MedSky #AcademicChatter #ECRChat #NewPI #academia #science #StandWithScience #eloquenti