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A single pink rose lies on a gray stone tombstone, with a blurred person standing in the background.
September 10, 2025

Death on the web

Cause of death often lies buried amid content on crowdfunding platforms, web-based obituaries and memorial websites. With AI assistance, gathering and combining this mortality data with medical records could help power research and public health.

By Paul Govern
Green sugar cane field with vehicle tracks in the foreground and a cluster of high-rise buildings on the horizon beneath a cloudy sky.
April 11, 2023

COVID on Twitter: town vs. country

A natural language processing analysis of 407 million tweets from May 2020 to January 2022 captures the rural-urban divide regarding COVID-19.

By Paul Govern
Illustration of social media and chat connections, with profile silhouettes, speech bubbles, and colored message bars scattered across a blue gradient background.
April 21, 2022

When science spills onto social media

Vanderbilt researchers report that social media posts can offer insights into how the public feels about genome editing, with stances varying across platforms and differing from those of academics and policy makers.

By Paul Govern
VUMC clinicians are seeing a connection between how much time children spend in front of screens and a host of adverse health conditions.
January 26, 2022

Smartphone app supports EHR efforts in low-income countries

A smartphone app developed at Vanderbilt is assisting health care efforts in low- and middle-income countries.

By Paul Govern
Close-up of a person holding a smartphone, with floating chat-message icons above the device.
September 21, 2020

Throwing weight around on the internet

What users mention in online weight loss forum tracks with how much weight they lose.

By Paul Govern