Mel is a PhD student working with Dr. Brooke Welles and Dr. Briony Swire-Thompson. They are broadly interested in social media, data science, public health, science communication, and design. They have a Bachelor's degree in math and computer science and a minor in art history from Indiana University. At Netsci they are studying how online aesthetic movements can be appropriated, specifically the Cottagecore to Tradwife Pipeline on Tumblr." and my bio on the Comm lab to "I am a Network Science PhD student at Northeastern University. My research focuses on the aesthetics of online communication, and I'm broadly interested in social media, data science, public health, science communication, and design. Currently I work with the Communication Media and Marginalization (COMM) Lab and the Psychology of Misinformation (PoM) lab, and I am advised by Dr. Brooke Foucault Welles and Dr. Briony Swire-Thompson.