Excited to share that my poetry book “Blue Nectar” - feminist Bhakti poems on divine bliss- is now available for purchase. Please go to bit.ly/BlueNectarEbook (ebook - $5) or bit.ly/BlueNectarPaper (paperback - $12) to purchase your copy. #academicsky #commsky #booksky #poetry #feminism #bhakti

Happy Navaratri and Rosh Hashanah greetings to all those who celebrate! May there be peace and happiness for all.

Freedom of speech is a fundamental right of every human being. Press freedom is the life blood of a democracy. Academic freedom is the foundation of education. #freedom #democracy #academicsky #commsky

Note to self - the first week of classes is stressful for all. Small boo-boos seem like big pains. Minor changes feel like big obstacles. Little things can trigger us to melt down. A little kindness, understanding, and flexibility can go a long way. #commsky #academicsky

First day of classes - Fall 2025!! Ready or not, here we go!! All the best for all students, faculty, and staff. We got this! 👏📚 The most exciting part is that no two classes are ever the same. And we as teachers are constantly learning by teaching. #commsky #academicsky

Excited for our CODE^SHIFT lab’s (yet another) Top Paper Award. This one is from the Activism Division of NCA for a paper on Gaza solidarity encampments in student newspapers. Grateful to my brilliant PhD advisee Shannon Burth for leading this project. #NCA2025 #newhouse #commsky #academicsky

#AEJMC folks going to SFO next week: do check out our #CODESHIFT lab’s sessions there. The #Newhouse reception is on Thurs at 6 pm in John’s Grill. Hope to see you all there! #AEJMC2025 #commsky #mediasky #academicsky

Two #postdoc #jobs at #SyracuseUniversity in #conflict #communication #advocacy #activism #commsky #academicsky www.sujobopps.com/postings/110...)

Congress eliminated public media funding. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together. Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq

Excited for our CODE^SHIFT lab’s multiple paper acceptances to the 2025 National Communication Association convention. See you in Colorado in November. Let’s go, #NCA2025! #commsky #academicsky

Due to the ongoing U.S. measles outbreak, a Texas man worried that his young son was at risk and took him to get vaccinated. The cost of the shot? $1,400.

This is a concentration camp

This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy.

After 104 days in a Louisiana immigration detention center, Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil has been released on bail.

Our first peer review requests are going out today! We'll continue to "massage" our language, but here's how we're codifying our "three caveats" for GPC reviewers - we don't enforce style guides, we don't police Englishes, and we don't ask for rote justification of samples. =)

A big relief to hit “send” on my (fourth) book manuscript. It is on “Equitable Media Literacies: Pedagogies and Practices for Healthy Civic Futures” - a timely and important topic. With my amazing coauthors: Paul Mihailidis, Patrick R. Johnson, Bobbie Foster, Shannon Burth & Melissa Tully!

Lovely time meeting and learning from you all at @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social @nibasaleem.bsky.social #ica25 #commsky #academicsky

Very proud of my recently hooded PhD advisee, @BenjaminTetteh! Benjamin is getting a Top Paper Award from the International Comm Division of #AEJMC! 👏🎉🎊🥳 His paper is on Ghanaian journalists’ (self) censorship practices. #journalism #news #media #ghana #africa #newhouse

Here are the list of CODE^SHIFT lab presentations at #ICA25 by current and recent members. Feel free to reach out via DMs. Happy to say hello, give high fives/hugs, discuss collabs, brainstorm strategies to overcome problems. #ChaiWithSrivi #ICA25 #AskMeAnything #commsky #academicsky

This new ICA journal is now accepting manuscripts. Check it out.

Come say hello if you’ll be at #ICA25 Denver! #commsky #academicsky I’ll be at the ICA Fellows mentoring session on Sat June 14 from 12-1:15 pm at Mt. Blue Sky (2nd floor, Grand Hyatt). Stay tuned for my full schedule shortly. #ica2025 #ica25 #mentoring #conference

Today the UMass Amherst Stand Together Organizing Team got in touch with all faculty at Massachusetts universities and colleges who signed our Stand Together letter and asked them to organize support on their campus to build a statewide Massachusetts Higher Education Compact.

This is awful. #mediasky #commsky #academicsky

After #Princeton, now #Harvard stands up for what is right. #Rutgers is building a coalition of Big Ten public schools. #UMass-Amherst is working on getting land grant universities united. United we are stronger. One step at a time. #highered #academicsky #commsky

Yay, Harvard! This is how you deal with the criminal in the Oval Office. Stand Up and fight! #Resist

To make discoveries, scientists need to master a pre-existing body of knowledge that is specialised and grows exponentially. This burden is why scientists that make transformative discoveries are increasingly interdisciplinary and lead large, collaborative teams. Collaboration is essential. ⚗️🧪🧫🧬🔬🔭📡

The loneliness epidemic is a byproduct of hypercapitalism. Hypercapitalism relies on intense competition, which can lead to social isolation, alienation, and loneliness. Collaboration is a core skill to teach & learn. #hypercapitalism #collaboration #codeshift #wisdomwednesdays #academicsky

The CDC has literally been gutted today. There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet. Thousand of scientists fired. Entire departments erased. 1/

NOT from the Onion

#GOATS: a living, crowdsourced defense for academia & science! Share ideas to fight global threats, a new way to protect knowledge & education. Contribute your expertise, whenever possible. #ScienceMatters #AcademicSky #ResearchSky

I heard this over and over again in the interviews I did for my book…the growth and then height of the “racial reckoning” asked major media institutions to deal with their own complicity in U.S. racism and it really upset a lot of people who saw themselves as righteous and objective

“The project is a protest against a government proposal to let AI firms train their algorithms on the work of creative professionals under a new copyright exemption.”

Thought I wouldn’t need to post this because it would make the rounds but I’m not seeing it in the TL so here’s a #GiftLink from the only coverage I’ve seen that Joy Ann Reid has been fired by MSNBC www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...

And this is how you do it.

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

The Empire crumbles. The systems fall apart. The center gives in. I become ashes. But, Clasped in my fist Are seeds I nurtured. In my little garden An oasis of care, Courage, kindness. They sprout. As mighty oaks Wide banyan trees. Truth witnesses As the Earth spins Love and Beauty dance.

The #framing of #DOGE coup conspirators as #kids #littleboys is problematic. It removes from their culpability. Whiteness (& white proximity) & wealth protects them. If #Black young men stole data from the #Treasury, they would have shot dead by cops by now. #BLM #Blacksky #Commsky #Academicsky

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Love @npr.org #academicsky #commsky This is what honest #journalism done with courage for the people and public looks like. This brought tears to me as a #media #professor.

All these bros conveniently forgetting that the U.S. government was instrumental in creating the Internet through NSF grants to universities and research hubs through the 80s and 90s.

happy first birthday to Bluesky, and what a year it's been! with every day, the need for an open network that puts people first becomes increasingly clear. we're glad to be building this with you. after all, the heart of a social network is the people.

I counted over 25 words that have dual uses in totally unrelated contexts, mostly statistics and biology (diversity, for example) …Which means whatever goon wrote this list has never had a class in statistics.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

When #nih #nsf funding pauses, it means jobs, visa status, publications, lives are at risk for so many. It is a matter for existence for research labs, of scientists, and all of us in higher ed. Univ admin & faculty - we should unite & resist. #research #funding #scientists #postdocs #grads

Check in on your junior colleagues, grads and postdocs. Speak up for them. This is the time to use your voice. #academicsky #commsky

Tenured profs: please use your privilege and voice. Be a leader. Use social media to speak up against anti-science policies. Take the initiative. Nobody is going to save us. We have to fight for our existence. Do not wait & watch. #science #nih #nsf #funding