One of the biggest design fails in Blackboard - and there are many - is that there are no emojis for the discussion forum. #academicsky

Anyone know how to send a fruit basket to every member state of the UN with a little card reading “We are so embarrassed”?

Sending extra love and light to friends and family who are part of the autism community. You are loved and valued, and you deserve support and treatment grounded in the best science. I am sorry that you are not getting that right now, but just know that we are standing with you.

Please stop with your logic and facts. We are running this country on meth and myths.

Paying for posts on Facebook and TikTok, sharing disinformation, manufacturing polls, preparing for question election integrity. The Moldova elections on September 28 are targeted for interference. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Do you really want to put the money from your cancelled Disney/Hulu subscription to good use? Support your local PBS station with a recurring donation.

A key historical note on the First Amendment that is missing from recent discussions. When U.S. founders wrote the First Amendment, they did so with the intent of preserving the right of the press (& people) to CRITICISM and the expression of OPINION, not merely the reporting of information. 👇

This was a great exchange regarding the challenges of GenAI to the many facets of research in communication & media that likely applies to many fields.

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Glad to be a part of this initiative.

"Outrageous incident" turns out, in fact, to be manufactured outrage by, checks notes, a right-wing individual. Twisted on so many levels, including the fact that people could have been hurt. The store had to close because of threats based on disinformation. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/19/v...

And that we could get an 11% rebate at Menards on that filter.

American journalism has serious problems. But how did we get here? @bzelizer.bsky.social’s new book 📚 How the Cold War Broke the News📚 uncovers the surprising roots of journalism’s decline and offers a plan to make it better. Pre-order now: bit.ly/4mqcr68

Watch that episode every Thanksgiving.

The special issue is edited together with @natalihelberger.bsky.social, @teachguz.bsky.social and @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social.

"Does news exist to serve society or to sell advertising?" - a question I commonly discuss with my students.

The FOMO is REAL!! @teachguz.bsky.social

🗞️ My conversation with Luciano Jiménez on the impact of AI on fake news and elections was published today in La Seguna! Read the full interview in Spanish below ⤵️

I can understand the anguish from losing someone you looked up to politically. What sits wrong with me now is that we see none of that from some of the same people whenever children are murdered in school. Maybe we all agree it should all end

You know what a good use for AI would be? Accurately identifying junk e-mail, but we don't even have that. Excuse me while I go e-mail multiple people from two weeks ago who got sorted in the junk folder.

Chicago Public Media has been awarded a grant through Press Forward Chicago to launch a first-of-its-kind immigration reporting hub! The grant will help us deepen our coverage of Chicago's immigrant communities and elevate reporting from local newsrooms. trib.al/lAlz12B

I know there has been a lot of confusion regarding who can get a Covid vaccine, how, and whether it is covered by insurance. If you are in Illinois, it appears to be business as usual. You can go to a pharmacy, no script needed. Our insurance, BCBS, covered it.

I subscribed and so should you.

Remember propaganda works because it aligns with your views. Seeing multiple posts on here regarding "the Chicago mayor deploying all of the city's salt trucks to form a blockade against ICE." No news organization in Chicago has reported this. Highly unlikely for multiple reasons.

If A.I. continues to speed or automate creative work, the total volume of cultural “stuff”—podcasts, videos, books, songs, articles, films, shows, plays, online personae, and so on—will increase. Will human-created content be able to cut through the noise?

Why we need the arts and humanities: Reason # 4 million. People think of film as a product, not a collaborative creative endeavor of human minds and bodies capturing a piece of lived experience. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

CFP for submissions on AI and the classroom: www.pdcnet.org/inquiryct/Ca... #teachlearnsky #edusky #genai #academicsky #CFP #highered #academia #academic #academicchatter #learninganddevelopment

Oh, FFS. Leave 👏 women 👏 alone. 😡

It's a crazy thought that the @icahdq.bsky.social submission system opens tomorrow. Welcome back from the break colleagues. ... #ica26 #commsky

My goal every semester.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

This is why the MSM also has dialed back its coverage of the shooter in the past decade or so.

This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.

Heartbreaking. As is every shooting.

"WGBH, the bellwether public TV station in Boston, has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series “American Experience” and announced that no new documentaries will be produced for the show until further notice." 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...

This photographer accidentally interrupted a match point at the U.S. Open, which led to a ten minute argument between a player and the umpire during which he just went back to his seat and starting taking pictures of said argument, and I think we all have a friend like that

Not surprising considering I've already been hit up by pro-AI lobbyists (which is weird given my research), and I assume they also will be doing the same to faculty and other institutions.

This is the type of therapy dog I need.

Well, that didn't take Google long. If you don't know what I'm talking about, Google "Taylor & Travis." 🎉

The hardest part about writing any syllabus is not being able to teach all the things. #academicsky

"Shocking," said no anthropologist, ever.

This is Watson. She doesn’t support testing cosmetics on animals unless it’s like this. 12/10 (TT: x.larajane)

"In July, five months after her death, we discovered that Sophie Rottenberg, our only child, had confided for months in a ChatGPT A.I. therapist called Harry." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...

“Is there language teaching we can do via chatGPT?” Folks, teaching language involves teaching culture. It is not just about how to pronounce a word or its definition.

I'm glad to see Illinois has banned the use of AI for certain purposes in mental health care. Humans and AI are not interchangeable. There are some situations in which human-to-human interaction is best, and the human element in mental health is vital. natlawreview.com/article/illi...

In doing so, said Yale professor also underscores why we need the humanities. Seriously, centering yourself as the center of the universe means you have not had adequate humanities education. Reason to require more science majors to take humanities courses.

I miss season 2 of the internet when Google actually worked and I didn't have to run baby animal pics through an Al checker and my washing machine wasn't texting me 2-factor auth codes

#academicsky the system is the fundamental problem; “evaluated by…quantitative indicators- number of research papers published, how often articles are cited by other research, university rankings, or by awards and other recognitions obtained.” www.wired.com/story/black-...

The lawyer would be me. Here is a link: www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...

Given the global scope of generative AI, a cultural approach to research and development is key. Read why in our newly published opinion in Communications of the ACM. cacm.acm.org/opinion/glob... #academicsky