From preprints to tweets: the professional benefits and potential perils of online presence

Panelists: Elizabeth Rose Mayeda (Epi) and Julian Londoño-Vélez (Econ)

Moderator: Patrick Heuveline (Soc)

Elizabeth Rose Mayeda (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Mayeda’s research focuses on identifying modifiable determinants of cognitive decline, dementia, and stroke in late life. Her research program has both applied and methodological themes. She focuses on describing and identifying mechanisms contributing to disparities in late-life cognitive and brain health and also leads work addressing methodological challenges in longitudinal studies of stroke, cognitive aging, and dementia risk. Her long-term research goals are to: (1) identify effective population-level strategies to prevent dementia and eliminate disparities in dementia and (2) develop research tools to strengthen causal inference in dementia research and lifecourse epidemiology.

Juliana Londoño-Vélez is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her work primarily focuses on inequality and redistributive tax and transfer policies, with a special interest in developing countries.

Patrick Heuveline is a Professor of Sociology at UCLA. He is also the Associate Director of the UCLA California Center for Population Research.

Workshop Description: Our panelists will discuss how to advertise yourself and your work online. Should you have your own website and, if so, what should be included (or not)? Should you post unpublished work as preprints and, if so, at what stage of development? Should you be active on social media and, if so, how much is too much?