If kids get their food stamps taken away becuase their parents are brainwashed by Fox News and Breitbart, that's "harm to kids" too. Maybe we need a Boomer Online Safety Act (BOSA) to address the harm of algorithmically recommending horrible content to adults? This is why privacy legislation helps.

Gather round my friends- It's time to announce our 2nd headliner for the 2025 FSNNA Conference It's DR. MEL STANFILL!! They're a media studies scholar & associate prof (University of Central Florida) & will be leading a roundtable session on Oct. 25th titled " #Fandom Is..."

Proofs for Teaching AI in Film and Media Studies with @melstanfill.bsky.social submitted. See you all on publication day!

We will align stakeholders to strengthen disruptive innovation.

Transformative work of the day, I would love to get back to IP law edition

25% of Drs in US are foreign grads. Many are on an H1B visa. This will hit health systems hard especially rural hospitals and hospitals in underserved areas that sponsor these visas through waiver programs. The old cost was about 5000$ a year. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Congrats to SIG member @melstanfill.bsky.social whose new book FANDOM IS UGLY won the NCA's annual book award!

My friend Laura is urgently seeking a new home for two sweet kitties in/near Charleston, SC. If you have any leads or could share her post, I'd really appreciate it.

thanks for the rec of (2025 National Communication Association Diamond Anniversary Book Award-winning book) Fandom is Ugly!

that's my student!

In these difficult times, it is essential to establish our initiatives.

i guess this got announced today . . . Fandom Is Ugly won the National Communication Association Diamond Anniversary Book Award www.natcom.org/nca-awards/2...

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_...

Together, we will adopt initiatives to maximize our leadership team with more Assistant Deans.

ah, well

come copyedit for @journal.transformativeworks.org !

now that i have a minute, here's what we found: slash remains the most popular kind of fanfic, but is less dominant in younger cohorts (63% preferred it most among 18-24 year olds, 71% in 35-54, and 72% in55+). 1/

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

Together, we will support experts to strengthen our leadership team with more Assistant Deans.

Wow, first time I've seen him underwater in this poll with white people. He has negative disapproval across every possible cohort.

in other news, the API issues with Strategic Bot have been resolved.

you don't even need an LLM to impersonate an administrator. a basic JavaScript bot like @uni-strategic-bot.bsky.social will do.

These are the Trump Administration’s demands on UCLA, in addition to a 1.2 billion dollar fine, as reported by the LA Times today. I must note again that the Trump Administration’s attempt to use title vi to enforce conservative agenda items is flagrantly illegal.

📣 #TWC is excited to announce the publication of #TWC46, our annual general issue! This issue, however, holds some new and exciting features. Dig in at this link: buff.ly/EHJTStO

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Today in unhelpful AI suggestions

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

it’s early but it seems like maybe this is relevant again (wrote it last week fml)

I’m not going to belabor this, but the bullet case engravings refer to memes popular on 4chan and discord. The engraved arrows are not antifa, but a reference to the game helldivers. It seems like bait to me.

my article with @rouselaurenc.bsky.social, "Quantifying fandom: Identity, romance, and platform preferences on archive of our own," is out today in New Media & Society! now we know how fandom demographics relate to their practices in a broader way. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/KNQFQ...

The fact that the Trump administration is making an example out of arguably the most famous Jewish academic in the US right now should show how absurd it is to claim that this assault on higher education is really about protecting Jews.

Phrasing, people 😂

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

doubt it convinces anyone but i like the pro-solar framing that it's better at converting energy than corn. fuck corn, we're kicking corn's ass now

Another professor in Texas is fired, this time after a selectively edited video of a talk he gave was posted on X, with the bogus claim that he was inciting violence www.texastribune.org/2025/09/10/t...

The people who cover politics cover the sport of politics as distinct from government. To them a very successful political influencer *is* more important than a state legislator. They’ve heard of him before. (Because this is bluesky so it helps to be explicit — this is bad)

Unsurprisingly, the thing Noah Smith is saying is obviously not true. Look at reports on the reaction to the assassination of MLK... "glee, satisfaction and weeping in equal parts" (www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/r...) as the Smithsonian notes "some actually celebrated" (nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...).

In a suit filed earlier today by three fired FBI officials, Patel and Bongino are portrayed as being so obsessed with social media that it could “risk outweighing more deliberate analyses of investigations."

Take it from some who teaches about drone strikes, “I shed no tear for that guy” and “this is bad, it shouldn’t have happened” can be normal reactions to have simultaneously. Opposition to political violence isn’t about personal sympathy for an individual target per se, it’s about society.

makes one wonder to what extent the pervasive "don't celebrate" makes whatever occasional celebration may occur seem more extensive than it is.

This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.

In 2014, Anita Sarkeesian canceled an event at Utah State after a credible assassination threat because the school’s response was that Utah allows guns on college campuses. People have warned about this kind of violence for years. But they weren’t the people the powers at be wanted to protect.

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

Pro-tip for faculty who are more trusting than me: any time anyone tells me to do something verbally, I always send an email to them right after saying "For my memory, just to recap our conversation a few minutes ago, you asked me to do X. Please let me know if I misunderstood." Paper👏trail👏ALWAYS!👏

Guess how many articles about this topic have been written in 2025, since Trump started demanding political retribution against universities who taught the wrong thing or allowed students to protest the wrong thing

well, apropos of recent news stories about how professors are objects of interpretation and negative feels . . . Professor Superstar now has a cover. press.umich.edu/Books/P/Prof...

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

getting fired from your job because some dipshit student who missed their calling in the Stasi filmed you talking about gender in a class about gender