VIRAL BUZZ: RUMOR AND ITS DISRUPTIONS IN PANDEMIC UNCERTAINTY

Viral Buzz: Rumor and Its Disruptions in Pandemic Uncertainty

Building on theory and research on rumor dynamics, I examine how the search for and acquisition of information during a time of medical crisis relies on the politics of plausibility and the politics of credibility.In this, I examine how the content and the source of information affects the spread of uncertain knowledge during periods of disaster, r

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Seryl-tRNA Synthetases in Translation and Beyond

For a long time seryl-tRNA synthetases (SerRSs) stood as an archetypal, canonical aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRS), exhibiting only basic tRNA aminoacylation activity and with no moonlighting functions beyond protein biosynthesis.The picture has changed substantially in recent years after the discovery that SerRSs play an important role in antibio

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