English people are in bliss because there is nothing to talk about *except* the weather

Job! Creative Manchester Research Associate (Maternity Leave Cover) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRV865/c...

There's been chat about @zephoria.bsky.social's intriguing piece about parasocial media (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...), and I loved Towards a Post-Social Media Studies by @pettertornberg.com and Richard Rogers (osf.io/preprints/so...) - two articles worth reading together.

🎥 Watch our brilliant course leads introduce the Digital Methods Summer School at @manchester.ac.uk and give an insight into the range of digital approaches participants will explore @lukaszszulc.bsky.social @draamattheis.bsky.social @lscholz.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?si=ceE...

Is Google having a problem? This is the second time my top results are like this...

Job announcement: Three Lecturers in Digital Media and Culture at the University of Manchester Details, including the full job description and person specification, are available here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

This Wikipedia page needs updating... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infowars @bencollins.bsky.social

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

Sign me up for the floating course!

This made me smile

We all know to use the truth sandwich when refuting falsehoods, but researchers asked if it is more effective than a bottom-loaded correction. It isn't. It's not less effective either, tbf, but there's definitely stuff to learn about how good sounding ideas propagate. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

I'm still obsessed with Angine de Poitrine. #anginedepoitrine

I posted about Angine de Poitrine but misspelt their name. They would not care.

if you've seen this posted a few times in the last few days and you still haven't clicked through then stop what you're doing and click through but you might not get back to what you were doing for quite some time oh and read the comments

"the creation of X was an indisputable attempt to turn a mainstream platform into a propaganda machine that supports authoritarian projects in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, among others" 🔥 from my colleague @jcmagalhaes.bsky.social

There are bigger problems but my flight to Israel to go and my wife and daughter over Easter/Passover was cancelled and I'm gutted

I just got served this 6 week old reel on Instagram. I rushed to fonts dot google dot com and it is still true. Tiny nice thing to see. www.instagram.com/reel/DUEw0jY...

+1 (though I'd be surprised)

I recently read an explainer on how LLMs work. It was great. It described how the probabilities of the next work were calculated. I'm pretty sure it was by a comm scholar because I remember thinking that this was impressively technical. But I can't remember who wrote it or where I read it. Help?

Geopolitics are complicated

105 minutes without checking the news.

Today I shall mostly be migrating

I'll be giving a talk titled "You've got a friend, until they block you: The management of personal ties in the digital age" hosted by the Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media, The University of Manchester, on 25/9/25 at 3pm. If you're in the area, please come!

New special issue, "Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy," edited by #CPRN is now published in Social Media + Society! journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec... w/ @lutzid.bsky.social, Lemi Baruh, Kelly Quinn, @masurphil.bsky.social, Carsten Wilhelm (comparativeprivacy.org)

How does the professionalization of Trust & Safety shape global content moderation practices? We compare Community Guidelines using the typology of harms from TSPA to identify policy priorities and exclusions, available #openaccess in New Media & Society: doi.org/10.1177/1461...

You can rationalize it however you want but staying on twitter is a terrible choice. It is not the “town square.” It is the world’s disease-ridden dump. You don’t need to be there to think critically or write relevantly or stay abreast of current events.

The best time to quit X was two years ago, the second best time is now...