Anyone else catch the Hulu push notification about a price increase? Boy howdy who planned that one was not reading the room. Anyways, we just gained $1200 / year back in the fam budget.

How it started // How it’s going

Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead. We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.

RESCHEDULED! Nancy Long’s talk — on nostalgia and art education — will now happen *THIS FRIDAY 26th at 1pm EST 🎨 Over 20 years as an #art #educator, Nancy reflects on how #nostalgia helps her connect with students. But also, how does nostalgia help her creative process? 🎟️ RSVP at tv.nostagain.ca

Reading papers is a basic skill (and dare I say duty?) of scientists, and I include medical doctors in that group. Keeping abreast of the literature is a foundational part of our professions. There aren’t good shortcuts. In any case, reading papers regularly is fun. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s...

This moment is disturbing even in the mundane: I’ve started taking screenshots of historical sources I’m using in research from the national park service, the smithsonian, and the national archives, just in case they get taken down. It’s now a part of my process and takes time I have to plan for.

A good reminder for how we try to do things at @gpccomm.bsky.social - we're here to help! Sometimes that might mean a rejection with feedback, but our passion isn't rejection but rather, scholarship. We're proud to represent @icahdq.bsky.social =) Submit now, at: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gpcomm

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

So many of our colleagues winning plaudits with #NCA25 in Denver. We'd love to see them over at @gpccomm.bsky.social. We accept 4K and 8K length studies that present an original observation or analysis, and we're open to humanities and social science perspectives: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gpcomm

Shot in 1863, "Scourged Back" was a key image in abolitionists' anti-slavery campaigns during the American Civil War. McPherson & Oliver/National Gallery of Art

It should be obvious to those without malintent, but views here represent my own as a unique human and not those of my employers.

The distance between getting fired/suspended for speech and getting arrested for speech is vanishingly small, and pushback in full is necessary right now to stop the slide

This is really good.

Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"

Robert Redford will be remembered as much for the vast universe of American independent film he supported as for the movies he made. Here are our favorite Redford movies, from “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” to “All the Presidents Men” (of course):

I keep thinking of this demo kiosk, which I saw in Toys R Us as a kid. I think it used a Wideboy Famicom dev kit to hook to the TV set. The GB console here is just a controller basically I think

Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic. Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956

Nice! Our teams had three papers accepted at #HICSS in Maui for January 2026: @amperjay.bsky.social , Harper, R., & @bowmanspartan.bsky.social (2026), Initial Validation of the Teleoperator-Avatar Robot Interaction Scale (TARX).

So fucking creepy and soviet.

Column by Philip Kennicott: The painting “Immigrants Crossing the Border Wall Into South Texas” was included on a list of Smithsonian artworks, exhibitions and programming that the Trump administration considers woke or anti-American.

Not to interrupt production at the takes factory but they should probably identify and catch the actual killer before we decide what it all means.

This week? We're off to #MediaPsych25 in Duisburg-Essen to present several on-going and in-progress studies. One that I'm really geeked about is ongoing analysis of VR usage trends among cohorts in the US & UK. Short version: usage is dipping significantly over time: docs.google.com/presentation...

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

I expected things to get very stupid, but I’m not sure I expected things to get this stupid this quickly.

"I told you about the time that I put on the giant pair of khakis and pretended that I was tiny. I was very upfront about it!"

Speaking as an author, reviewer, editor, & colleague, ya *gotta stop it* with blasting every single manuscript for not including every feasible alternative explanation/additional analysis/next study. To me, all this says is "The paper has great heuristic provocativeness." <-- this is a good thing.

"Maybe it's something I ate. What's the opposite of oysters ... apples?"

The submission are rolling, and we're so happy to hear from the world. We've also got our call in more than a dozen languages! View at docs.google.com/document/d/1... Interested in offering a translation? Hit us at [email protected]. =)

Home office, 2.0.

What's a good cover letter for a manuscript? Just read a fab one: ✅ Summarized the paper + unique contribution ✅ Mentioned prior engagement (ICA regional event + other workshopping) ✅ Made a connect back to the journal's aims ✅ Very short =) Submissions? Live at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gpcomm

Unserious, folks. We are governed by the completely unserious.

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Not so bad for two kids from Jefferson County MO, amirite? Along with longtime colleague Karen E. Shackleford we've co-edited the 2nd edition of @oxfordacademic.bsky.social's Handbook of Media Psychology: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

That's great. Curious when Pirro feels that same about the J6 insurrection. Unless those somehow magically weren't officers anymore.

Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.

Unserious, folks. You have placed in charge people who are Remarkably Unserious.

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

New School logo dropped. Fresh look, for today and tomorrow. =) #satire

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

In case this matters, I would like anyone who did this or anyone considering doing similar to know that this repainting meant a lot to my gay teenager.

Fun milestone - we've got our first Revise manuscript back to the office. Of around 25 submissions so far, we've invited five back for Revise and Resubmit. Want in on this? Submit your work at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gpcomm Looking at you, #ICA and @icahdq.bsky.social fam. =)

Still setting up my new office, but the most important corner is now complete. =) #GameOn

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.

Very cool, and Go Orange! #NewhouseImpact

Yup. I love that the show de force just *happens to be* in places where we can get lots of public attention and news coverage. As for places where crimes might happen (as there are in every city)? Nah, we're not patrolling there. It's like sending the Army to patrol the StL Arch - it's cop cosplay.

Another reason why we, as institutions, need to stop complying in advance. Bad actors are going to aggress against us no matter what we do or say. Stand for truth, or fall over.