What a horrifying weekend of news. Too much.

Texas, let’s win this thing. #JasmineForUS #TexasTough

All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

here is my new article on mad men, real estate, the past, the future (open access!): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... this is part of an upcoming special issue of rethinking history on "memories of the future" edited by louis bayman and tim vermeulen

My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

'Superman' comic found in a California attic sells for record $9.12 million at auction

My book Theme Park Fandom is coming out in a much more affordable paperback edition. Pre-order here: www.routledge.com/Theme-Park-F...

Are you a fan of the 1978 film THE WIZ? I would LOVE to chat with you about your fandom for a book on THE WIZ. You only need to be 18 years old or older and love the film. DMs open and please share.

Call for papers for the edited collection, Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics: williamgrady.co.uk/cfp/ The volume aims to explore the vibrancy and diversity of the Western genre in comics from around the world. Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025

If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:

Would you take a mental health diagnosis class about superheroes, supervillains, and comic book characters? 🦸‍♂️ ⚔️ 🦹‍♂️ Well, I made one and write about it in my new open-access commentary 🙂 digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/jti/vol1/iss... #academicsky #edusky

Every single candidate Trump endorsed lost last night.

Tonight is an UNAMBIGUOUS correction of the national moment. Among other things, it demonstrates that STANDING UP FOR TRANS PEOPLE is morally AND politically correct ✊🏳️‍⚧️

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Library Of Congress Makes Collection Of Classic Film Magazines Available Online https://www.filmbuffonline.com/FBOLNewsreel/wordpress/2025/10/27/library-of-congress-makes-collection-of-classic-film-magazines-available-online/

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Excited to share that *Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop* is now available for pre-order from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social! This collection brings together an international group of scholars explores how K-pop reimagines narrative across media. www.bloomsbury.com/us/critical-...

Are you 18 or older with a fandom-related tattoo (or know someone who has one)? Please take 10 min to fill out this survey for my new book project on embodied fan identities and practices. Share widely! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Contact info: [email protected].

Brief pause from my social media hiatus for shameless self-promotion (and because I love our cover). My book w/ @mirandabanks.bsky.social is available for purchase at the UC Press website www.ucpress.edu/books/boom-t...

Way to go, @jimlee.bsky.social and DC Comics! Hopefully more publishers follow a similar stance going forward. bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-co...

The millennial takeover of the Democratic Party is imminent - round two!

Have you ever purchased makeup or beauty projects based on your fandom? If you are 18 years or older, please fill out this 10 minute survey for a research project on embodied fan identities. Share widely! Contact with any questions: [email protected]. utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Sinclair has said it will once again air JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!, and Nexstar likely will, too. But the last 10 days have shown why we are overdue for a massive reset in the network-affiliation relationship--or maybe the end of affiliates. Up now at @vulture.com www.vulture.com/article/jimm...

Understatement of the fucking year right here.

Do you watch TV? Please take this survey to help me understand what audiences think of TV production techniques. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/... Please share widely, and thanks in advance. #FanStudies #AudienceResearch

There's something oddly comforting in the Fall 2025 semester starting with a faculty-wide email, to which multiple professors replied-all to be removed from the list, followed by multiple faculty asking everyone not to reply-all, followed by multiple profs replying-all to be removed from the list. 🤌

Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

stop normalizing things I don’t want to be normal

NEW CFP ALERT 📣 Check out the details of our upcoming special issue on Music Fandom guest edited by @jenessawilliams.bsky.social & ‪@lucykbennett.bsky.social at the follow link: journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...! Deadline is 01/01/2026!

So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence. If true, then fucking yikes.

Hey @apnews.com, it would have been nice if you had actually included Loni Anderson's name in the notification you just sent out.

New #CFP! Seeking papers for a book about #StarWars & politics under #Disney, including #Rebels, #Andor, & #TheLastJedi. Coediting with @dilliwag.bsky.social. Deadline Sept 30. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

My pals at @vidiots.bsky.social created an interactive experience during the film breaking fakeout scene in their screening of Gremlins 2: The New Batch last weekend. It's even better than what I had hoped to do in 1990! 😁

WE COMPROMISED WITH THEM OVER AND OVER AGAIN FOR DECADES ALLOWING THEM TO MOVE THE OVERTON WINDOW ALL THE WAY TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS, ADAM

Yes! This was such a great conference for all the reasons @meesk.bsky.social mentions and more!

Out of curiosity I wanted to know how the massive LMS Instructure (company that runs Canvas) is using the massive amounts of data it collects on students. Oh. (This article is nominally not a press release?) www.forbes.com/sites/rayrav...

Heads up, you do NOT need to be affiliated with a college or university to get access to JSTOR! Here's how to sign up as an independent researcher! You can read up to 100 articles per month. You cannot download or print PDFs. All of this is FREE. support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/art...

Call me biased, but this was the coolest panel at the Hollywood Conference yesterday! 😜 I had the immense pleasure of getting to connect with fellow media studies scholars looking at contemporary superhero media, all in brilliant ways.

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

cringe and disturbing the degree to which american politics is currently influenced by grown ass adults who are still resentful about their SAT scores or something

Are you looking for a publisher for your manuscript in cultural history or heritage studies? We are setting up a new book series with Bloomsbury, titled Cultural History and Historical Culture.

It is SO satisfying when you stumble across someone's scholarship that ends up being the perfect fit for the gap in your own work! I'm really excited about this new project and can't wait to share it at the Hollywood conference on Friday.

They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before? That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators. My how times change ...

I am *begging* media outlets to stop responding to Dean Cain on all things Superman (or anything else, tbh). If you want to talk with former Supermen, there are over a dozen men who have played him across live-action film and TV, animation, and gaming whose voices can just simply flood out Cain's.

Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.