Hey, media studies folks! Just a reminder that today is our (official) deadline for chapter proposals for Atomic TV. Send us those ideas, friends! CFP: tinyurl.com/3f4f9axy #AtomicTV @scms-tv.bsky.social @tv-radio-history.bsky.social @warstudiessig.bsky.social @misig-scms.bsky.social

Hey, guess what? @utexaspress.bsky.social is having its annual summer sale. What a great time to pick up ✨Gold Dust on the Air✨as your summer beach read 😅. Grab some other UT Press books while you're at it! 40% off print and 50% off ebooks with the code UTXSUMMER. utpress.utexas.edu/9781477329276/

Hey, media studies folks! Sending out a reminder as our proposal deadline approaches. We hope you'll consider submitting a proposal for our edited collection on #AtomicTV! tinyurl.com/3f4f9axy @tv-radio-history.bsky.social @scms-tv.bsky.social @misig-scms.bsky.social @warstudiessig.bsky.social

I've been seeing a lot of Waymo driverless cars around LA, and today I had to change lanes in front of one, and I was hesitating for a moment, wondering whether this thing was going to recognize my blinker and let me in. It did. But I had to ask a robot permission to change lanes today, you guys. 🫩

Listen, when you're walking around Los Feliz and the universe leads you to the House of Pies, by gum you abide. 🤩

Ahh yes, the age-old research trip packing conundrum: hot climate, but frigid archives/libraries/venues. Strategizing modular layers + suitcase physics is a delicate science. #ArchiveFever

We're finally actually putting some art on the walls in our new place, so I got to unwrap this beauty. Original lobby poster for Summer Stock (MGM, 1950). My favorite parts are the little creases and details in the corners. #MediaArchaeology

LA friends! I'll be in town for most of May for research. Would love to see some folks if you're around!

I ordered the DVD set of the FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON miniseries so I could have some of the special features, and my word, what a holographic monument to the golden age of collector's edition DVD sets. 😂 #MediaArchaeology

I'm rewatching FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, but did not realize that the episode I downloaded to watch on the plane was all about the Apollo 1 fire that killed 3 astronauts trapped inside the module during testing. Great airplane watching. 😬 I'm sure my seatmates thought I was a horrible ghoul.

I'm off to Vegas for the Broadcast Education Association conference. It's part of the big NAB Show, which is kind of a trip. Doing a panel on teaching TV History in the Streaming Era with Nora Patterson and Kyra Hunting! Also gonna carve out time for the Punk Rock Museum and the Neon Museum. ✨

Listen, children...they used to mail you the internet. #MediaArchaeology Josh Johnson FTW, as usual. @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social

So of course the day after everyone leaves town from #SCMS26, it's 79F and sunny in Chicago. As usual, March weather in the Chi is straight petty. 😂

A million thanks to everyone who made #SCMS26 happen, including SCMS staff and committee members, hotel staff, vendors, etc. Your labor is visible and appreciated!

Awesome to see everyone at #SCMS26! Thanks for the exciting work, the commiseration, and the care in times of uncertainty.

Last panel slot! Local folks who don't have to get to the airport gotta take it over the finish line. Let's do this. 👍 #SCMS26

One more plug for our roundtable at 5:15pm! #SCMS26

Once again sharing my annual advice for conference-going: Be sure to eat a vegetable every once in a while. It's easy to get to Day 3 feeling like garbage and then realize you've only eaten granola bars and bar food. Eat a plant when you can. (And drink water and not just coffee!) #SCMS26

Sharing photos of your pets supervising you as you pack for the conference is absolutely service to the field, full stop. #SCMS26 #SCMS2026

Super pumped for our roundtable "TV and Catastrophe: Revisiting Classical Questions." We're in the Friday night slot, so I won't be sad if you bring a cocktail. #SCMS26 #SCMS2026 #TVStudies

CFP, hot off the presses! Stacy Takacs and I are co-editing a book on Atomic TV, and we hope you'll consider submitting a chapter proposal. #TVstudies #atomicTV #TVhistory @scms-tv.bsky.social @tv-radio-history.bsky.social @misig-scms.bsky.social @warstudiessig.bsky.social bit.ly/4lRzbwH

Hey, SoCal friends/colleagues! Looks like I'll be in LA for most of May for research. Would love to see some folks while I'm there! (I'm also available to visit classes, give talks, etc., if you want to subject yourselves & your students to my particular brand of nerdery.) #ArchiveFever #TVhistory

In which journalist, critic, and all-around badass @moryan.bsky.social reads Grammarly to absolute filth for being slop merchants and robber-barons. Read it, if only to see a work of takedown beauty, written by an actual human.

Dear hivemind: What are you cooking/baking these days that you really love? I have a tendency toward feckless doomscrolling, and cooking has been one thing that helps me refocus toward tangible action. What are you making these days that especially brings you joy, nourishment, peace, etc.?

So pumped to be doing an SCMS roundtable titled “TV and Catastrophe: Revisiting Classical Questions” with Kelly Kessler, Aniko Bodroghkozy @anikob.bsky.social, Samantha Janes, and Emily Saidel! #SCMS26 #SCMS2026 #TVstudies #TVhistory

Crowdsource request: Hey, film & TV savvy people! I'm doing a trivia session during our new student welcome event tomorrow, and I'm still writing the questions. If you've got a good trivia question related to film & TV (or media more broadly), sound off in the replies!

Hello, colleagues! I'm putting together a proposed #SCMS26 panel on Television and Catastrophe. (I know at least one of you has to be working on Chernobyl, right?) Hope you'll consider sending me a topic proposal! See my call for panelists here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #SCMSTV #TVSIG

Hello, colleagues! I'm putting together a proposed #SCMS26 panel on Television and Catastrophe. (I know at one of you has to be working on Chernobyl, right?) Hope you'll consider sending me a topic proposal! See my call for panelists here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #SCMSTV #TVSIG

Tomorrow is the last day of the @utexaspress.bsky.social spring/summer sale, so grab your reads now! What a great opportunity to get ✨Gold Dust on the Air✨ at a sweet discount 😉👍📺. utpress.utexas.edu/9781477329276/

The time has come. I am finally watching THE THORN BIRDS. Required viewing for research on miniseries, especially surrounding the gendered dimensions of "prestige" TV and book adaptation. Here we go!

I'm having serious FOMO about not applying to Console-ing Passions or the very exciting inaugural Hollywood Conference this year. Ya girl needed a serious break and had to stop herself from applying, but OMG THE FOMO. Hope it's going great, @lucimarz.bsky.social! #HWC2025

I'm rewatching Feud: Bette & Joan, and I forgot how good it is + how many great actors are in it. I haven't made it all the way through Feud: Capote vs. the Swans bc it didn't quite grab me, but this original Bette and Joan season is like the sweet spot in the Ryan Murphy Industrial Complex for me.

Precarious scholar? Are you thinking of submitting to #SCMS2026 but no institutional support for membership? Co-chair, grad rep, or on an SCMS committee? Apply for a 2025/26 SCMS membership fee waiver from the PLO! Deadline August 1st! More here: conta.cc/4lrwcdk

If you're on Academia[dot]edu, heads up that they've started making AI-generated "podcasts" of the work that's uploaded there. It's enabled by default. You have to opt out. Don't play the file. (It believe it's not actually generated until you play it). Just opt out. www.academia.edu/settings#ai-...

UHHHHH READ THE ROOM, HULU

And guess what? @utexaspress.bsky.social is having its annual Spring/Summer sale, so you can get ✨Gold Dust on the Air✨ (and other UT Press books while you're at it) for a nice discount. 40% off print/50% off ebooks with code UTXSPRING. utpress.utexas.edu/9781477329276/ 👀

Have any of you ever volunteered for Lasagna Love? I'm considering signing up (to cook/deliver) but would love to hear from folks I know who have done it.

We are pleased to announce the results of our TV SIG Board election! Our new First Year Board Rep will be Ben Kruger-Robbins. Our new Grad Student Rep will be Olivia Stowell. Congrats to both! Let's also enthusiastically thank all of our candidates for their willingness to serve. 📺 #SCMSTV #TVSIG

A reminder that voting is underway for our TV SIG Board election! We're electing 2 positions this year: First Year Board Rep and Graduate Student Rep. (Check your email for further details and the link to the voting portal.) Voting will close on Friday, May 16th. #SCMSTV

Hey, guess what? @utexaspress.bsky.social is having their annual Spring/Summer sale! What an amazing time to grab yourself some fun summer beach reads, like ✨GOLD DUST ON THE AIR✨! 🏖📘😉 Use the code UTXSPRING for 40% off print books and 50% off ebooks. utpress.utexas.edu/9781477329276/

Always fun to see student papers that cite so many of my brilliant friends and colleagues. I do not always successfully resist the urge to write, "OMG I just saw her at a conference and she's awesome." 🤓

Voting is now open for our TV SIG Board election! We're electing 2 positions this year: First Year Board Rep and Graduate Student Rep. Voting will close on Friday, May 16th. (Check your email for the link.)

I've been so pumped to see so many colleagues posting about amazing things they're doing & receiving much-deserved recognition for! Also want to acknowledge that behind the milestones, cool events & honors is SO MUCH work, and often frustration, inequitable workloads, & unseen labor. I SEE YOU. 💚

Shameless new pub alert! Check out my article "A ‘Solution to an Ongoing TV Problem’: The Rebooted Limited Series as Quality TV Format" in the latest issue of New Review of Film and Television Studies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

12 days after I first had flu symptoms, I'm still not 100%. Acute flu-like symptoms mostly gone, but still don't feel great, still have a cough, and still just exhausted. I have so much to catch up on, but just doing the grocery shopping this morning wore me out. That #SCMS25 flu, y'all. 🥴

Reminder to send me those self-nominations by tomorrow! #SCMSTV #TVSIG

Send me your self-nominations! (Or if you know someone who would make a great board member, encourage them to self-nominate!) #SCMSTV #TVSIG

This year's conference bug was apparently the flu, because OMG 🤒. Influenza A over here. (I masked in Denver but didn't the past 2 years, and that bit me in the ass this time.) Still loved seeing y'all though! #SCMS25