​It turns out "decluttering" a bookshelf is just a high-stakes peer-review process where 50% of my library is currently getting "rejected" by my vacuum cleaner. 📉🗑️ ​Happy holiday break to everyone currently choosing cleaning over coding! 🐣☕️ ​ #SpringCleaning #ResearchBreak #CatinABox

Skipping the pranks for a "Signal vs. Noise" reality check. 📈 ​Did you know this phrase was formalized in 1948 by Claude Shannon, the "father of info theory"? He proved that as long as your signal is stronger than the background noise, you can communicate with zero errors. 🧬Now AI is the new noise.📻

Before radio, "broadcasting" was a farming term! 🚜 It meant scattering seeds widely by hand. 🧺 In the 1920s, engineers "borrowed" the word to describe sending radio signals in all directions instead of point-to-point. 📡 #ScienceTrivia #MediaHistory #Etymology

Before the internet, there was Richard Dawkins. 🧬 In 1976, he coined "meme" in The Selfish Gene to describe how ideas spread like viruses. 🦠 From biological evolution to "Dancing Baby" GIFs, the meme is the ultimate unit of #InfoEcology.💻 #MemeHistory #DigitalMedia #AcademicSky #CulturalEvolution

Researching @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social why underground journalism & pirate radio are vital resistance in an AI-noise world. 📻🏴‍☠️ In info ecology, the loudest voices aren't always the most important. 🌿🛰️ #AcademicSky #MediaStudies #DigitalResistance

World’s smallest "country" born from pirate radio? 🏴‍☠️ In 1967, Paddy Roy Bates occupied a WWII fort for Radio Essex to stay outside UK law. ⚓️ Thus, the Principality of Sealand was born—a symbol of media resistance. 🛰️ #ScienceTrivia #PirateRadio #Sealand

Forever chemicals have reached the ends of the Earth go.nature.com/4sCL2kK

#AcademicSky Canada, you're looking pretty good on that Academic Freedom index. (certainly compared to others) But is room to improve. Let's get into that top grouping! academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Why does "underground" media still matter in the age of AI? 📻🏴‍☠️ ​ ​I’m exploring how counterculture media survives—and thrives—amidst digital shifts. It’s about more than just broadcasting; it’s about protecting the ecology of our information. ​​ #MediaStudies #DigitalResistance #InfoEcology

A great start of the last day of #smad2026 conference in #FrankfurtamMain at @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social and today we have a great presentations starting with Towards FAIR Metadata for Social Media Corpora #SocialMediaAccessDays

My liveblogging from the Social Media Access Days in Frankfurt has started. Two sessions today, beginning with an interesting paper on the #AVERA project… #SMAD2026

Zweiter Tag #socialmedi#access days an der @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social Bislang für mich sehr ertragreich: Anregungen, Informationen und Namen für mögliche zukünftige Projekte.👍

have fun at the datasprint and see you all later at @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social!

New platform, same itchy "early adopter" energy. ⚡️ I'm a researcher @uj.edu.pl currently tuning into the frequencies of pirate radio, counterculture, and the ways AI is reshaping our information ecology. 📻🏴‍☠️ #AcademicSky #MediaStudies #PirateRadio