After today's drive between Toronto and East Lansing... I wish there was option to toggle weather radar on and off over Google Maps. Would it lessen the amount of snow? No, but it would be nice to know how how many lake effect bands one must conquer.

#Commsky Doctoral students! Consider applying for the Doctoral Consortium. Ideal timing is students at the proposal stage (does not need to be defended).

Attention graduate students! The 15th annual Communication & Technology / Mobile Doctoral Consortium is now accepting student proposals to participate at #ICA26 in Cape Town. Proposals are due 2 Feb. Please read the requirements closely. sites.google.com/view/2026ica...

Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social : What the CSCW community is well positioned to do: *recognize work of negotiating innovation *prepare people for increased capacity *map institutional constraints *co-create social structures that bring people together #cscw2025

Present here in this meaningful place in Dresden with @mcewan.bsky.social

It's difficult to understate the extent to which various aspects of society require the provision of accurate, trustworthy social data. Even private data collections rely heavily on government statistical agencies for calibration. The dangers of politicization here are far-reaching.

Inside the digital publishing industry, which I try to monitor closely, this is the big news. By Julia Alexander at Puck.

Ontario parents, pay attention to this: underfunding our universities means there may not be a spot for your kid when it’s time for them to go. We have the *lowest* per capita support of any province!! archive.ph/4qD1H

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

Confirmed. Out this fall. Preorder now. nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014906...

Thanks #ica25 for a very thoughtful panel thinking about how GenAI influences the research process.

Please join us for the Communication & Technology Reception Fri Jun 13 at 6pm in Centennial F (Regency 3). #ICA25

Kicking off #ICA25 with the 14th @icacat.bsky.social/Mobile Doctoral Consortium! Hoping to see some #commsky connections via the #ICA25 ( #ICA2025? Although I think the short version is preferred).

Please share: If you'll be at the International Communication Association conference in Denver next week, swing by the first annual ICA Neurodivergent Scholars Gathering on Saturday June 14, 6-7:30pm in Agate B+C Regency 3. We will have food, drink, rude but honest pens, and COMMUNICATION BADGES!

"59% of people no longer fully trusting political news online" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... You can find out more about this stat in our new public report on "The State of Generative AI Use in Canada 2025: Exploring Public Attitudes and Adoption Trends" socialmedialab.ca/2025/04/08/n...

My @iccit-utm.bsky.social colleague Brett Caraway will be on TVO tonight discussing data, surveillance and the U.S. border.

Includes fireside chat with @sunjooahn.bsky.social and VR demos following the talk!

Calling all @uoft.bsky.social students! SRI is hiring a #WorkStudy Digital Content Coordinator. Learn more about the role and apply through the CLNx portal: www.registrar.utoronto.ca/finances-and... #UofT #studentjob #studentwork

This is the big town near my hometown. Love to see it. ♥️

Researchers at Annenberg and @umdscience.bsky.social show that proposed NIH funding cuts lead to an estimated $16 billion in economic loss and 68,000 jobs lost nationwide. Learn about their project and view the interactive map here:

Also Meta's policies make interpersonal fact checking impossible. At least if you want to link to credible sources.

“How do you push back against a tidal wave?” wrote political communication expert Dannagal Young. Overloading people with news is a propaganda tactic used by authoritarians like Putin to distort reality. A communication professor explains: buff.ly/Ork4y6p Jennifer Mercieca @tamu.bsky.social #media

Ontario's Privacy Commissioner issues statement following @citizenlab.ca report detailing links between Ontario Police and Paragon Solutions -- vendor of mercenary spyware. Their office wasn't consulted by the OPP www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen to the timeline.

UploadVR's @heaney555.bsky.social has tested and confirmed that Meta's OpenXR middleware is indeed blocking non-Quest HMDs on PC and "currently only work for Quest Link and Rift headsets, not any other PC VR headset."

🚀 #hackica25 registration is open! 🚀 Spots are limited—secure yours now: forms.gle/ssZFtZmfWYaC... 📅 June 11-12, 2025 📍 UC Boulder (shuttle from Denver available) No coding skills required! Join us to explore methodological & substantive challenges in communication science. See you there! 🍻

Well....we can't post news links on FB but I guess we still get fact checking in Canada?

But if you sing it like Olivia Newton John? Let's Get Phygital, Phygital! No?

The second installment in the @qutdmrc.bsky.social 360info election series is now out, @snurb.info and @vilkins.bsky.social explain how the rapid decrease in platform data availability is curtailing independent scrutiny of online political communication 360info.org/how-digital-...

Felt the same way when I got this email this morning. ICA's doing the best they can, but the fact that they have to? Awful.

I think I've now heard all three major Ontario parties running ads against working with Trump (or being soft on Trump).

Americans who rely on social media as their main news source are more likely to encounter conspiracy theories, according to a technology professor. Here are some tips for information literacy on #TikTok (and here): @anneo.bsky.social @uconn.bsky.social #misinformation

Over 650 political scientists who have dedicated our lives to the study of democracy & government, have signed this letter enumerating our deep concerns about this administration’s actions that undermine the Constitution and the rule of law. Please share. urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

Deadline tomorrow! We just need a summary and keywords to evaluation your submission so consider submitting and joining the amazing @icacat.bsky.social and #ICAmobile DC network!

My first article for The Conversation is live! The target audience is teens and young adults who get their news on TikTok.

Polar bear population decline due to climate change-induced food shortages, according to a new #UofT study @utsc.bsky.social 🐻‍❄️ uoft.me/bgg

PhD students whose work connects with Communication and Technology and/or Mobile Communication theories, methods, and topics are encouraged to apply to the Doctoral Consortium, an #ICA25 pre-conference to be held on Thurs June 12. Thanks! https://buff.ly/3USZB4A

Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

What will the end of Meta’s fact-checking program mean for Canadians? @spaikin.bsky.social asks, @mcewan.bsky.social (@iccit-utm.bsky.social), @erinkelly.bsky.social (Advanced Symbolics), @taylorowen.bsky.social (@mediatechdemocracy.bsky.social), and @carmilevy.bsky.social tonight at 8/11pm

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

I mean....Canada has generous science funding, excellent labs and unis offer a paid path to citizenship. It's a privilege to work here but I don't know if Canada wants to snap up US scientists.

Love that the guy who is supposedly so concerned about free speech is scrubbing public datasets.

Also, realizing that literally as Zuck was going on Rogan whining that Biden staffers had cursed and threatened Meta, he was in the middle of negotiating to pay Trump $25 million to be let "into the tent" two months after Trump promised to put him in prison for life. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/16/r...

Ads featuring fake CBC articles have inundated the social media platform X in recent weeks. The ads are designed to lure Canadians into a sophisticated scam that uses Russian internet infrastructure, CBC News has found. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Check out our new report about US voters in 2024!

With the repeal of the AI exec order, the Trump admin has rescinded an effort to regulate new tech for the public good, protect Americans against violations of their rights & liberties when AI is in use, and build the governmental muscle to ensure that AI serves all Americans. 1/4

Are you a senior/mid-career scholar who just got an #ICA25 acceptance? Consider adding yourself to the CAT/Mobile Doctoral Consortium mentor pool! forms.gle/p3hXXGWSCgLa...

PhD students whose work connects with Communication and Technology and/or Mobile Communication theories, methods, and topics are encouraged to apply to the Doctoral Consortium, an #ICA25 pre-conference to be held on Thurs Jun 12. https://buff.ly/3USZB4A

The Transportation Tomorrow Survey from 2022 that Minister Sarkaria and Doug Ford were hiding has been released. It shows cycling commute mode share is up 300% in Old Toronto since 2001. Now sitting at 11.3% in Old Toronto wards (4, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14), 10x bigger than "1.2%"!