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Jon Schuldt and colleagues received a Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability research grant to conduct a national public survey to determine if a prolonged and severe pandemic or crisis can change public support for conservation.

Neil Lewis, Jr., and colleagues published a new paper in Behavioral Science and Policy, "Developing and Delivering Effective Anti-Bias Training: Challenges and Recommendations." They reviewed the literature on bias training from across the social sciences and identified five broad challenges that hinder training effectiveness, and propose recommendations to address those challenges (as well as discuss which agents within organizations may be best suited for implementing the recommendations).

The Wall Street Journal  quoted Natalie Bazarova in the article "Everyone Is a Live-Streamer in Covid-19 Era."

Lee Humphreys was appointed Director of the new Qualitative and Interpretive Research Institute, part of Cornell's Center for Social Sciences.

NiemanLab explored J. Nathan Mattias's new Wikipedia study showing that thanking new users for their good work makes them more likely to stick around.

J. Nathan Matias was quoted by the L.A. Times in an article about fighting hate on Reddit.
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-07-08/reddit-hate-harassment-moderators-gain-ground
And the American Psychological Association quoted him in an article about researchers mobilizing to study impact of COVID.
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2020/06/covid-researchers

Money.com cited research on social media managers by Brooke Duffy and Becca Schwartz '16. Brooke is also quoted.

Neil Lewis, Jr., Sahara Byrne, Amelia Greiner Safi, Jeff Niederdeppe, Jon Schuldt, and Andrea Stevenson Won received a Cornell Engaged Grant. They will collaborate on a project examining whether mobile research laboratories effectively engage underrepresented populations in social science research.

Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed Katherine McComas to the fourth New York City Panel on Climate Change, an independent group of 20 scientists who will synthesize climate study data and advise city policymakers.

Neil Lewis Jr., Jonathon Schuldt, Hwanseok Song, Ph.D. 19, et al. published an article on environmental justice in MethodsX.