Rachael Kee
@rachaelkee.bsky.social
PhD Student, University of California, Davis. 🐄 Department of Communication. Cognitive Communication Science Lab. 🧠🗣️
I study neurobiological 🧠 explanations of sleep 💤 + media📱/ comm 🗣️ relationships
I study neurobiological 🧠 explanations of sleep 💤 + media📱/ comm 🗣️ relationships
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Donate to Help Ninook Walk Again: Emergency TPLO Surgery Needed, organized by Rachael Kee
Hi friends, family, and animal lovers everywhere. My name is Rachael… Rachael Kee needs your support for Help Ninook Walk Again: Emergency TPLO Surgery Needed
www.gofundme.com
The cost of Ninook’s surgery ($6,400) has officially been raised solely by donations to my GFM! 🥳 Now only about $3,850 left in ER bills, follow-up care, & plane tickets to TX for surgery to raise. Thank you all, more than words can express. 🙏 Every share helps. ❤️🩹
www.gofundme.com/f/help-ninoo...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-ninoo...
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We’re excited to share that #hackica26 on June 3 & 4 will be hosted at the SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking! Huge thanks for welcoming us 🫶🇿🇦
Learn more about them here: www.su.ac.za/en/
Follow us for more updates and announcements regarding the upcoming Hackathon.
Learn more about them here: www.su.ac.za/en/
Follow us for more updates and announcements regarding the upcoming Hackathon.
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
We’re excited to share that #hackica26 on June 3 & 4 will be hosted at the SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking! Huge thanks for welcoming us 🫶🇿🇦
Learn more about them here: www.su.ac.za/en/
Follow us for more updates and announcements regarding the upcoming Hackathon.
Learn more about them here: www.su.ac.za/en/
Follow us for more updates and announcements regarding the upcoming Hackathon.
The cost of Ninook’s surgery ($6,400) has officially been raised solely by donations to my GFM! 🥳 Now only about $3,850 left in ER bills, follow-up care, & plane tickets to TX for surgery to raise. Thank you all, more than words can express. 🙏 Every share helps. ❤️🩹
www.gofundme.com/f/help-ninoo...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-ninoo...
Donate to Help Ninook Walk Again: Emergency TPLO Surgery Needed, organized by Rachael Kee
Hi friends, family, and animal lovers everywhere. My name is Rachael… Rachael Kee needs your support for Help Ninook Walk Again: Emergency TPLO Surgery Needed
www.gofundme.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
The cost of Ninook’s surgery ($6,400) has officially been raised solely by donations to my GFM! 🥳 Now only about $3,850 left in ER bills, follow-up care, & plane tickets to TX for surgery to raise. Thank you all, more than words can express. 🙏 Every share helps. ❤️🩹
www.gofundme.com/f/help-ninoo...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-ninoo...
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Excited to announce the third annual Comm Horizons @ucdavis.bsky.social Conference:
Communication in the Age of AI and Algorithms
Featuring cutting-edge research and keynotes from Jeff Hancock and @angelhwang.bsky.social
Hope you'll submit and share! communication.ucdavis.edu/horizonconf2...
Communication in the Age of AI and Algorithms
Featuring cutting-edge research and keynotes from Jeff Hancock and @angelhwang.bsky.social
Hope you'll submit and share! communication.ucdavis.edu/horizonconf2...
Comm Horizons @ UCD 2026: Communication in the Age of AI and Algorithms
communication.ucdavis.edu
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Excited to announce the third annual Comm Horizons @ucdavis.bsky.social Conference:
Communication in the Age of AI and Algorithms
Featuring cutting-edge research and keynotes from Jeff Hancock and @angelhwang.bsky.social
Hope you'll submit and share! communication.ucdavis.edu/horizonconf2...
Communication in the Age of AI and Algorithms
Featuring cutting-edge research and keynotes from Jeff Hancock and @angelhwang.bsky.social
Hope you'll submit and share! communication.ucdavis.edu/horizonconf2...
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Beyond honored to speak as keynote for the Comm Horizons Conference at UC Davis!! Triple shout-outs to @richardhuskey.bsky.social, Jorge Peña, and @soojongkim.bsky.social Soojong Kim for organizing efforts. Please consider sending your work and attending the conference (+a short visit to Napa! 🍇🍷)
Excited to announce the third annual Comm Horizons @ucdavis.bsky.social Conference:
Communication in the Age of AI and Algorithms
Featuring cutting-edge research and keynotes from Jeff Hancock and @angelhwang.bsky.social
Hope you'll submit and share! communication.ucdavis.edu/horizonconf2...
Communication in the Age of AI and Algorithms
Featuring cutting-edge research and keynotes from Jeff Hancock and @angelhwang.bsky.social
Hope you'll submit and share! communication.ucdavis.edu/horizonconf2...
Comm Horizons @ UCD 2026: Communication in the Age of AI and Algorithms
communication.ucdavis.edu
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Beyond honored to speak as keynote for the Comm Horizons Conference at UC Davis!! Triple shout-outs to @richardhuskey.bsky.social, Jorge Peña, and @soojongkim.bsky.social Soojong Kim for organizing efforts. Please consider sending your work and attending the conference (+a short visit to Napa! 🍇🍷)
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November 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Please help if you can!
If you don’t have the means to donate, even a quick share would mean the world to my pup & I. ❤️🩹 Ninook lost her ability to walk this weekend, but a simple (yet expensive) surgery can restore it. I got her when I started this PhD program & she motivates me to finish it. Thank you for your help.
Hi everyone. A grad in my lab (@rachaelkee.bsky.social) could use your help. Her dog needs surgery. If you can, even a little help goes a long way gofund.me/0ebf78a49
November 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Please help if you can!
If you don’t have the means to donate, even a quick share would mean the world to my pup & I. ❤️🩹 Ninook lost her ability to walk this weekend, but a simple (yet expensive) surgery can restore it. I got her when I started this PhD program & she motivates me to finish it. Thank you for your help.
Hi everyone. A grad in my lab (@rachaelkee.bsky.social) could use your help. Her dog needs surgery. If you can, even a little help goes a long way gofund.me/0ebf78a49
Donate to Help Ninook Walk Again: Emergency TPLO Surgery Needed, organized by Rachael Kee
Hi friends, family, and animal lovers everywhere. My name is Rachael… Rachael Kee needs your support for Help Ninook Walk Again: Emergency TPLO Surgery Needed
gofund.me
November 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you don’t have the means to donate, even a quick share would mean the world to my pup & I. ❤️🩹 Ninook lost her ability to walk this weekend, but a simple (yet expensive) surgery can restore it. I got her when I started this PhD program & she motivates me to finish it. Thank you for your help.
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Hi everyone. A grad in my lab (@rachaelkee.bsky.social) could use your help. Her dog needs surgery. If you can, even a little help goes a long way gofund.me/0ebf78a49
Donate to Help Ninook Walk Again: Emergency TPLO Surgery Needed, organized by Rachael Kee
Hi friends, family, and animal lovers everywhere. My name is Rachael… Rachael Kee needs your support for Help Ninook Walk Again: Emergency TPLO Surgery Needed
gofund.me
November 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Hi everyone. A grad in my lab (@rachaelkee.bsky.social) could use your help. Her dog needs surgery. If you can, even a little help goes a long way gofund.me/0ebf78a49
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Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics - Nature Neuroscience
Yang et al. show that moments of failed attention we experience after sleep deprivation reflect brief ‘sleep-like’ episodes in the brain, corresponding to a brain- and body-wide event with altered bra...
www.nature.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🧵 What does it take to build a small, scrappy, and successful communication neuroscience lab? Our lab, @gongxuanjun.bsky.social, @rachaelkee.bsky.social, Allyson Snyder, Ziyu Zhao, and I put out heads together to answer this question. Here's what we came up with: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🧵 What does it take to build a small, scrappy, and successful communication neuroscience lab? Our lab, @gongxuanjun.bsky.social, @rachaelkee.bsky.social, Allyson Snyder, Ziyu Zhao, and I put out heads together to answer this question. Here's what we came up with: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.
September 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.
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Thank you @jingjinghan.bsky.social for the wonderful invitation to visit. I learned so much talking with the faculty and students at Fudan University!
Huge thanks to Dr. Richard Huskey for visiting us in person and engaging with our students! @richardhuskey.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Thank you @jingjinghan.bsky.social for the wonderful invitation to visit. I learned so much talking with the faculty and students at Fudan University!
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The next step is to examine the overlap of existing psychopathology and gaming disorder in the brain 🧠
🎮 New study: Teen gaming addiction may stem more from pre-existing mental health issues (like anxiety & depression) than from video games themselves.
It is not just about the joystick, but it’s about what’s going on in the mind. 🧠
Read more: news.ucsb.edu/2025/022004/... #commsky #psychsci #gaming
It is not just about the joystick, but it’s about what’s going on in the mind. 🧠
Read more: news.ucsb.edu/2025/022004/... #commsky #psychsci #gaming
Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues
A new study out of UCSB's Media Neuroscience Lab indicates that gaming disorder (AKA video game addiction) likely develops from a player's preexisting mental health conditions.
news.ucsb.edu
September 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The next step is to examine the overlap of existing psychopathology and gaming disorder in the brain 🧠
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Ask me how I know the school year started today.
September 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Ask me how I know the school year started today.
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Very excited to welcome our newest lab member, Jocelyn (Yachen) Xie! Jocelyn is broadly interested in cognition and media narratives, especially in how moral judgment and decision-making affect people’s preferences and evaluations of media content and characters cogcommscience.com/members/
September 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Very excited to welcome our newest lab member, Jocelyn (Yachen) Xie! Jocelyn is broadly interested in cognition and media narratives, especially in how moral judgment and decision-making affect people’s preferences and evaluations of media content and characters cogcommscience.com/members/
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::slowly stands while clapping::
September 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
::slowly stands while clapping::
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📱One scroll can change your day. What guides your scrolling?
I’m keynoting at the CityU Hong Kong International Conference on AI-Empowered Communication and Global Innovation. I’ll share our lab’s NeuroAI for sequential media selection. If you’re there, say hi!
www.cityu.edu.hk/com/Page.asp...
I’m keynoting at the CityU Hong Kong International Conference on AI-Empowered Communication and Global Innovation. I’ll share our lab’s NeuroAI for sequential media selection. If you’re there, say hi!
www.cityu.edu.hk/com/Page.asp...
September 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
📱One scroll can change your day. What guides your scrolling?
I’m keynoting at the CityU Hong Kong International Conference on AI-Empowered Communication and Global Innovation. I’ll share our lab’s NeuroAI for sequential media selection. If you’re there, say hi!
www.cityu.edu.hk/com/Page.asp...
I’m keynoting at the CityU Hong Kong International Conference on AI-Empowered Communication and Global Innovation. I’ll share our lab’s NeuroAI for sequential media selection. If you’re there, say hi!
www.cityu.edu.hk/com/Page.asp...
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How I wish I wrote abstracts vs how I write abstracts…
August 21, 2025 at 3:25 AM
How I wish I wrote abstracts vs how I write abstracts…
Still thinking about the fun I had and how much I learned at #ica25!
We’re always amazed at the impact you can make in just 3 minutes. Thank you to CSAB for hosting an incredible showcase of groundbreaking work. All the presenters inspired us. A special shoutout to @musamalik.bsky.social for his standout paper on global morality! #ica25
July 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Still thinking about the fun I had and how much I learned at #ica25!
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Amazing works were presented at our Top Paper sessions (Part 1) Congrats to these presenters!!🎉
June 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Amazing works were presented at our Top Paper sessions (Part 1) Congrats to these presenters!!🎉
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Very happy to see that @overbye.bsky.social’s fantastic work on detecting bias in human-in-the-loop algorithms was awarded a top paper in @icacsab.bsky.social this year. Incredibly interesting, rigorous, and timely research! #ica25
June 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Very happy to see that @overbye.bsky.social’s fantastic work on detecting bias in human-in-the-loop algorithms was awarded a top paper in @icacsab.bsky.social this year. Incredibly interesting, rigorous, and timely research! #ica25
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And that’s a wrap for us at #ICA2025! Thank you to all the presenters, attendees, and our amazing officers for working year round and making this happen.
See you next year at @icahdq.bsky.social 2026 at Capetown☀️
See you next year at @icahdq.bsky.social 2026 at Capetown☀️
June 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
And that’s a wrap for us at #ICA2025! Thank you to all the presenters, attendees, and our amazing officers for working year round and making this happen.
See you next year at @icahdq.bsky.social 2026 at Capetown☀️
See you next year at @icahdq.bsky.social 2026 at Capetown☀️
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Amazing works were presented at our Top Paper sessions (Part 2)Congrats to these presenters!!🎉
June 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Amazing works were presented at our Top Paper sessions (Part 2)Congrats to these presenters!!🎉
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In a new piece, Dr. Robin Nabi and I discuss the space between fear-based bans and full digital freedom: The Digital Middle. (See link below)⬇️
There is a middle ground but it is up to each parent to evaluate where there child is at and what is best for them
#commsky #psychsky
There is a middle ground but it is up to each parent to evaluate where there child is at and what is best for them
#commsky #psychsky
June 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Our review on Metastability has been published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience - you can view it here rdcu.be/d3bh9. Fantastic collaboration involving experts from the UK, the US, Spain, Australia and Portugal.
Metastability demystified — the foundational past, the pragmatic present and the promising future
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Metastability is a concept from dynamical systems. In the brain, it is thought to reflect the balance between the cooperative and independent functioning of brain...
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December 15, 2024 at 10:34 AM
Our review on Metastability has been published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience - you can view it here rdcu.be/d3bh9. Fantastic collaboration involving experts from the UK, the US, Spain, Australia and Portugal.