Happy to share our new paper (w. @zaritaylor.bsky.social)! We propose the concept of Entertainment Laundering, capturing how online entertainment activities (e.g., TikTok's interactive filters) can playfully whitewash racist content through gamification. Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

Our new paper (w. @foucaultwelles.bsky.social ) shows how Asians online created new vocabularies for subversive humor and "everyday activism" that defy both Western propaganda and Asian hypernationalism. Link: doi.org/10.1080/1071...

Jan. 16, 2025: A SpaceX Starship rocket explodes over the Caribbean. Suddenly, dozens of planes in the area must scramble to get out of a newly designated FAA "debris zone." Their passengers are now unwitting participants in a test run gone wrong. (THREAD)

A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration. doi.org/10.1126/scia... 🧵 Thread—>

Our (@yidon.bsky.social, @foucaultwelles.bsky.social) new paper about "TikTok refuge" is out on @icsjournal.bsky.social. We argued that American TikTokers' self-labeling as refugees is a stylish roleplay, trivializing refugee exigency and diluting refugee discourses. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

hot off the (virtual) press in @transstudies.bsky.social: a collaboration with @pranavgoel.bsky.social, @crazybrokeasian.bsky.social, and @diesagar.bsky.social on information flows in US local & national news about transgender people (spoiler alert: it’s complicated) doi.org/10.57814/557...

Sharing our new paper (w. Pratiti Tagore & @foucaultwelles.bsky.social) on #CSCW2025. We developed a framework categorizing online self-disclosure of experiences of racism based on psychological distances. Our empiricals suggest an overlooked population of bystanders. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Kentucky opened its 2026 ACA marketplace window shopping this week – and again, residents are seeing big premium spikes because of expiring tax credit enhancements. A typical 60-year-old couple making $85,000 is facing a $23,700 increase in annual premiums. (1/4)

Sharing my newest publication on New Media & Society titled r/23andMe and my pictures: Platform racial spectacles as collective racial identity formation, in which I proposed a concept to theorize the image-sharing behaviors of DNA test results on social media in relation to race.

"One higher education observer said that universities breaking from established accrediting agencies is akin to restaurants turning away government food inspectors. Watch out for what will be served afterward." Good op-ed from Ned Barnett. @aaup.org www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...

I will be presenting our paper on the effects of receiving different types of responses on the change of hatefulness tomorrow on behalf of our lovely team members @robinlange.bsky.social and @JoeWalther! Check it out if you are interested in this topic! #ica25

I will be presenting my work on the phenomenon of sharing images about DNA test results on social media at #ica25 tomorrow morning (details in the picture). Drop in if you are interested in the troubling synergy between digital media, racial discourses, and genetic commodification.

😬 I am going to start thinking of metaanalyses as the science equivalent of mortgage-backed securities. Can be excellent as long as someone is carefully monitoring the stuff they're made of, but not so much otherwise.

Go Shane!!!

More from inside NIH: Per a source with knowledge, for all internal research (of which there is like $10 billion worth or so), ALL purchasing shut down as of yesterday. That means gloves, reagents, anything involved with lab work, which means a lot of that work will stop.

I will be presenting our paper (collab. with my great advisor @foucaultwelles.bsky.social) on how Asian online communities invented new words for satirical identity work tomorrow (very early 🥲) morning at #NCA2024. Feel free to drop in if you are interested in learning a few funny neologisms.