The body of #ICA26 isn't even in the ground and already #CTICC is resetting for the next convention. See you at #ICA27!

The ice cream with @icahdq.bsky.social presidents continues to be such a....cool event, and a highlight of #ica26. #ScholarDadJokes

Scenes from trying to get into the #NTU party at #ica26

Here's the "Orphan Scbolars" article brought up in the #ICA26 opening plenary: The Orphan Scholars: Communication Research in the Middle East and North Africa - Shahira S. Fahmy, 2026 share.google/HaZoWTfPpXmK...

Starting off #ICA26 with my last round of co-organizing the @icacat.bsky.social and @icamobile.bsky.social doctoral consortium. Another great year of students and mentors!

"How do we cite the grandmother?" is a beautifully apropos statement to open #ICA26

The energy in London today was palpable.

1/2: Today's theme... youtu.be/UO0N7j9yI10?...

Took advantage of a #LHR layover to go see #DarkOfTheMoon. It was sublime, and left me happy-wrecked. Hopefully we get a cast album soon!

I've been wrestling with my Rx insurance about covering a prescription written by my Dr. After two months of me calling (because #CVS #Caremark never calls me back), they just told me they wouldn't cover my prescription even with a prior authorization. Knowing that 2 months ago would've saved time

What a great time to remind ourselves of Nina Simone's #MississippiGoddamn, as it hits just as hard/true today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25...

Most of #academia right now, following privatizing yet another critical function.

I just showed up to an end of your event where other faculty mentioned #canvas has been hacked. But since I uploaded final grades yesterday, I couldn't stop myself from busting out laughing.

1) #ICA2026 Young Scholars Lunch in Cape Town! 🌍 Calling all members of the #MediaPsych division (DGPs) and #MiRezFo (DGPuK)—and anyone interested in our field! Join us for a casual Young Scholars Lunch at ICA. 🧵

Obama's Presidential Center has been announced in the most epically awesome way/timing ever. Take a look!

Got a chance to watch @clifflampe.bsky.social talk to Katie Couric about the rapid rise of conspiracy theories around this year's WHCD. You, too, can catch his informed and astute interview, which starts around the 1:01h mark: katiecouric.substack.com/p/live-with-...

I don't always use #Outlook; but when I do, it lets me down again.

Everyone I talked to who attended said likewise. Take a look at the good things going on at #MichiganStateU and #CAS

TIL: Looking through financial records for my employer, historically our dorms have been been over-capacity...by a lot. (2020-2020 were COVID years) I can't imagine saying "Students first" out one side of my mouth, while saying "Occupancy was at 116% of capacity" out of the other.

I'm sitting in a *very* international meeting of scholars; and we're having a deep discussion of "salami slicing." I had no idea this idiom translated so well and is so widely used.

It's new music day from @azpeacemakers.bsky.social. I'll have nothing but #HellToBreakfast in my ears for the next 3< weeks.

My only Christmas wish for this year. #Shiny www.instagram.com/onceweweresp...

Right now, the world's on🔥, and I'm grasping for hope where I can. Thus, I'm riding the high of even an implication of a new #Firefly. These teasers are enough to sate me. www.instagram.com/reel/DVZQrMT...

Me, starting to plan #ICA26 excursions: www.reddit.com/r/funny/comm...

Me, EVERY time Delta for es me to connect in #ATL

#FirstMonday to stop new issu3s after it's May 2026. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

That's the last time I take my meteorological advice from a groundhog. 🤬

Unexpected teaching moment. In class today, we had to stop to teach college students how to insert and save to a USB drive. That was...unexpected. I didn't expect everyone to be cloud-based so quickly.

My employer forced me to update my password today, as they do every six months. And so, as I do every six months they make me do this stupid thing, I share this @wired.com article reminding them their stupid policy actually makes accounts less secure. www.wired.com/2016/03/want...

My Oklahoma feed today is great. It snowed in Norman--measurably--but since few students down there have snow attire, most of the photos are students walking around in blankets and snuggies.

So much of this looks amazing; but that MGM didn't trade out the lion in their title card for Battle Cat is a travesty of a wasted opportunity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs2m...

This is a more accurate metric of impending bad weather than the Waffle House Index

I received some really good rejections from @icacat.bsky.social. Like, yeah, I wish those work had been accepted; but the reviews were detailed, long, topical, and mostly all provided constructive points on how to improve the works. Thanks, good reviewers! And see y'all in #CapeTown #ICA26

My new retirement strategy may be my 2nd grade book order.

Have you ever seen such a beautiful sight

I always love Coffee Hound; but their seasonal sleeve is wonderful.

SNL predicted it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMi...

That's it! Deadline for #ICA26 submissions are closed. For those scholars who made the deadline, those who missed it, and those who didn't even know it was happening: You're doing a good job and your hair looks nice. Looking forward to seeing you all at @icahdq.bsky.social in Cape Town!

@adrianmeier.bsky.social turned me on to "jingle" and "jangle" fallacies while at #MediaPsych, giving me some verbiage for things we talk about more frequently. There's a fuller look at these phenomena here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Americans will go to any lengths to have to avoid using the metric system. "How big is Hurricane Melissa? Well, it's approximately one central-Illinois wide."

TIL the word "tsundere," meaning someone who initially presents a harsh, cold, or hostile exterior but gradually reveals a warmer, softer side over time. This felt like it would have been a useful word to know long ago.

Periodic reminder of the Media Bias Chart; and the importance of not using non-news sources to consider the news. Thanks, @adfontesmedia.bsky.social!

Please join the Communication & Technology Division for the #ICA26 Welcome Meeting and Q&A. If you have questions about submitting to #ICA26 or just want to meet members of the executive committee, please join us! Wed Oct 15, 1400 UTC or Fri Oct 17, 0800 UTC tinyurl.com/CATOct2025 to join

This seems like a big pile of bullpucky, administrative nonsense, and possibly retributional action on behalf of Cleveland State University.

1/3: Here's the thing that's too nuanced to be discussed in the agora. Science relies on open dialogue and rigorous testing of ideas. You have an alternate hypothesis? Great! Test it and show the evidence to peers. That can be paradigm shifting, and adds to our intellectual diversity.

That's quite the chart annotation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"a growing trend of young women writing frustrated pop hits about love and dating." Ah yes. "Young women" pop artists have long been known for the absence of songs about love and dating in their discographies. Thank heavens the drought is over. Seriously, @npr.org ?

"[W]e felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive." But which ones, Disney? Which specific ones were insensitive, and in what ways? Without being specific, the statement here is toothless and inept.

@icamobile.bsky.social always does such a tremendous job of adding value and going beyond the 5 days of the convention to help its members. Good details on their division's activities in the upcoming months.

I'm not much into country music; but Jenna Davis' "FBI" isn't a terrible summation of my research agenda: www.youtube.com/watch?v=thn7...