Please settle this important debate: What is the plural of "syllabus": syllabi or syllabuses?

Still time to sign up! THIS FRIDAY.

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

the suggestion that the libertarian movement has always been anti trump is infuriating, but also a sign that people may have a sense of which way the wind is blowing

Exact copies can be transformative, politician edition

I'm conducting a research study to learn more about video game players' attitudes toward generative AI. The survey will take approximately 10 minutes of your time. tinyurl.com/videogameAIs... #gaming #videogames #videogame

Delighted to talk about what the arts and humanities bring to the AI moment at UCF's Center for Humanities and Digital Research today, with @melstanfill.bsky.social. Our roadshow continues next week for @scmspedagogy.bsky.social, when we'll highlight AI's intersections with media industries.

Transformative work of the day:

dig if you will this picture

"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005... "Over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves"

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. Survey of Protest Movements 2. Intro to Oceans 3. Bible as Literature 4. World of the Celts 5. Existentialism

i was interviewed for this piece about bad fan behavior around Heated Rivalry slate.com/culture/2026...

Still time left to register for this! And if you HATE AI and don't want to talk about it, you'll be surprised how you'll enjoy and get out of this ;)

excited to see my article, "Waving the cancelling wand: Harry Potter fans and the cancellation of J.K. Rowling," with Guilherme Giolo and Simone Driessen, out in the world. and it's open access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

ICE phishing

Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."

today i am teaching Gramsci and hegemony vs coercion and heroically managing not to just show a bunch of current events videos.

If I could edit video I would juxtapose DHS propaganda with them brutalizing Minnesotans and set it to American Idiot.

Please join us on Friday, Feb. 13 @ 1pm Eastern for a book talk with @bridgetkies.bsky.social and @melstanfill.bsky.social on their new book "Teaching AI in Film and Media Studies." Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Found tied to the barricade.

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

lol lmao even

pro: i have prepared the syllabus for this new course with 16 hours to spare. con: new state surveillance policy is going to demand the syllabus 45 days out starting in fall, which will i'm sure go well.

Just found out that Participatory Culture Wars, which I co-edited with @simoned.bsky.social and @benlitherland.bsky.social, has been named one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2025! Great news to end the year on.

it's a weird time to be excited, but i am nevertheless excited to hold Professor Superstar: Fandom and Anti-Fandom of Academia in my hand. press.umich.edu/Books/P/Prof...

I keep thinking that I want to write about conspiracy thinking in fandom and that stranger things blowup alongside reading this article about Gaylors makes me tempted again

“.. In the last four months alone, immigration officers have fired on at least nine people in five states and Washington, D.C. All of the individuals targeted in those shootings were, like the woman killed on Wednesday, fired on while in their vehicles.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

The FBI sniper at Ruby Ridge was prosecuted by Idaho. The federal district court initially dismissed the charges but was overruled by the Ninth Circuit, allowing it to proceed. The case only ended when a new district attorney was elected and decided to drop it.

So @tobymorton.bsky.social is a national treasure and Hilton is fucking up royally with this nonsense. www.hiltonice.com cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social

reupping this one. what's your go to introductory "here's how fans interpret texts" piece, #FanStudies folks?

My author copies of Teaching AI in Film and Media Studies, with @bridgetkies.bsky.social, have arrived at last! It’s nice to have it in hand. And it’s still 20% off! www.routledge.com/Teaching-AI-...

Out now: Masculinities in Contemporary Science Fiction Television, for which I wrote about PICARD without somehow ever mentioning Raffi and Seven.... www.bloomsbury.com/us/masculini...

"Both Lil Nas X and Peter Theil identify as gay, though they have no relationship."

This war will destabilize the entire region and set off a global shockwave of anti-Americanism vs. no it won’t

Also this oldie but goodie:

Question: Hey so about boots on the ground: do you envision US Military having a presence in Venezuela Trump: if they're needed to protect the oil, yes I'm furious but also it really is refreshing that he's like "yep it's about the oil"

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

Maduro was a brutal repressive dictator who destroyed Venezuela. Trump did not have congressional or UN approval to engage in unilateral regime change. Trump's actions were illegal. All of those things can be true at the same time. Don't let them make this about Maduro.

The president of Venezuela must be held legally accountable for his crimes, which the Supreme Court forbids to happen for the president of the US, who recently pardoned the president of Honduras for similar crimes.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them

On the last day of this year, I’m proud to share the tool I’ve spent the better part of year co-creating with my RA to let anyone make what I call “redactive poetry” from legal documents. I’d be thrilled if you tried our Redactive Layering Technology (ReLaTe): www.tepski.tech/redaction

Together, we will establish goals to maximize our leadership team with more Associate Vice Provosts.

In these troubling times, it is necessary to disrupt our experts.