“Don’t walk in” instead of “just walk out.”

Expect a lot more of these in 2026 as I hack through the dissertation.

I've joined LinkedIn! What a Christmas gift to give myself. Connect with me if you feel like it. www.linkedin.com/in/mathew-ia...

“Accepting this story of AI’s inevitability — or that of any technology — is a grave mistake for educators. Not only does it cede tremendous power to tech companies that are unaccountable to teachers, students, or school communities…” 1/2 kappanonline.org/teach-like-a...

It's always great when the conference comes to you.🍁

A spiritual sequel to the article I posted earlier this week about AI making up books.

Join the ICCIT on January 8th for a discussion with Professor Jeffrey Boase on his recently released book, "The Digital Bind: Constant Connectivity and the Reconfiguring of Family, Work, and Friendship." www.eventbrite.ca/e/iccit-book...

Finally, the overlap between my research and AI research. The Venn diagram isn't just two floating circles anymore! www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

End of year interview! 🗞️ I'm quoted in Dazed Media's coverage of the "performative male" & our digital fixation with fakes. A decade of researching the losing game of gendered "authenticity" in games has prepared me for this moment... 🛍️📚👩

I don't have a lot of faith in Canada's grocery code of conduct. Similar to housing affordability, we need major governmental oversight and intervention to fix food affordability in the country. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

It sounds like a very exhausting time to be a librarian. gizmodo.com/librarians-a...

🚨 𝐂𝐅𝐏 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭: 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫 & 𝐀𝐈 𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐚𝐭 𝐘𝐚𝐥𝐞 Theme: Workers Building, Using, and Resisting AI 📅 Date: April 29, 2026 📍 Loc: Yale University (In-person) 💰 Funding: Scholarships available for grad students & organizers! 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: Jan 18, 2026 Submit here: indl-na.sciencesconf.org

Was invigilating an exam at UTM yesterday and spotted this in a campus food court. I can't escape the automatic 'za.

Remember, you have until December 12th to claim compensation from Loblaws for their involvement with the industry-wide price fixing of bread in Canada. 🍞😠 www.canadianbreadsettlement.ca?lid=09cq2it0...

I reference this Canadian grocery monopoly diagram so frequently that I should print it out and hang it on my wall at this point.

The deadline for the Canadian Communication Association's 2026 conference is extended to Dec. 15. Happy to share the @alicetiara.bsky.social will deliver our keynote lecture. Hope to see many colleagues in Windsor in June.

Just submitted my abstract to CCA 2026.🍁 FYI the December 1st deadline is fast approaching! acc-cca.ca/index.php/co...

Inspired by lo-fi study beats and driven by my desire for peaceful winter ambience, Endless Winters is a simple hack of EarthBound that perpetually pans over a snowy landscape. Designed for original hardware, it functions as a installation piece that can be quickly installed using a SNES and a CRT.

What is a ‘performative male’ and how can you spot them? #UTM ICCIT assistant prof Kate Maddalena discusses with CTV News how the “performative male” meme highlights male behavior patterns and more 📰 https://bit.ly/43qogC0

Dating myself here, but this reminds me of old school Flash animation slop on Newgrounds or Albino Blacksheep. Although that had the excuse of being made by 15-year-olds drawing with a computer mouse. I guess Y2K really is back.

✨ Join the Jackman Humanities Institute’s Circle of Fellows in 2026-27! Apply for our Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellowship 🧩 Annual Theme: Doubles, Doppelgangers 📅 Deadline: Nov 25, 2025 | 4pm EST 🔗 Details & FAQs: uoft.me/vph26-27 #PublicHumanities #ResearchFellowship

AI-powered searches continue to co-opt and corrupt much more substantive, moderated sources of knowledge. www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

📣🧪📚 The CFP for EASST 2026 is now open!

📣🎮🍁 Attention Canadian video game nerds! The CFP for CGSA 2026 has been released.

The 5th annual DURF Jam has begun! ✨ itch.io/jam/durf-jam...

It seems like every day Adobe is shoving another AI feature into Acrobat's interface that is enabled by default. I can't even search for words in a PDF without an AI suggestion now.

These stores were always more of a marketing stunt for Loblaws than a real business venture. I'm not surprised to see them go. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The physical infrastructure of the Internet is so fascinating. I was talking to my students this morning about how we tend to imagine technology through big metaphors like "the cloud," but at the end of the day, it's all wires and boxes.

Stumbled into a PizzaForno vending machine on my way back from a wedding in Barrie last month. Most of these machines have disappeared from downtown Toronto, but they're still deploying them in more rural areas of Ontario.

📢🍁📚 The call for papers for the Canadian Communication Association's annual conference is live! Submissions are due December 1. Great to see this event is continuing on in 2026 even though Congress is on hold for that year.

Congratulations to ICCIT Professor Julie Yujie Chen for being awarded a @utm.utoronto.ca Annual Research Prize. This award recognizes outstanding early career faculty members from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. www.utm.utoronto.ca/research-inn...

Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI. 🔗 www.404media.co/librarians-a...

I'm happy to announce the launch of 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝑵𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓? - an interactive resource that provides post-jam guidance to game jammers! I worked with @jimmunroe.net at GAIN to create this toolkit, which provides advice for jammers interested in commercial, artistic, or experimental development paths.

So much of the value of Wikipedia is that it's rigorously reviewed and updated by humans. Leaning on AI would lead to an erosion of current standards. www.404media.co/jimmy-wales-...

I'm pleased to announce that I will be serving as a graduate fellow with the Centre for Culture and Technology for the 2025-2026 academic year! 📚✨ www.cultureandtech.utoronto.ca/programs#gra...

"...[H]ikers use artificial intelligence to help them discover a route, only to discover that the trail is not safe. 'Since about one year ago, many people have begun to think everything on ChatGPT is correct...[i]t is not a tool for mountain advice, for routes, or for planning.'"

What's up, fellow docs? Today, I defended my PhD on Twitch livestreaming & the platform of playing-at-home! Waves of thanks to all who got me over the finish line: my valiant committee, my pals & anyone who let me watch them play a game 🎮 (1/2)

🧙📚✨ I'm still working on my silly Little Free Library RPG, and now it's available in Portuguese! Thank you to Freddy Pavão for providing the translation. mammothisland.itch.io/spellbinder/...

If you haven't heard, the next meeting of the Canadian Communication Association will be held from June 2-4, 2026 at the University of Windsor. Great to hear that we're moving forward independently when Congress is on hiatus.

My faculty is hiring... again! The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto is looking for an Assistant Professor (Tenure Steam) in Knowledge Systems, Infrastructures, Communities, and Cultures. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Your periodic reminder that there is a Labour & Technology Scholars starter pack! Message me if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/UMaa7T3

I feel like I've been posting nothing but jobs lately, but it's that time of year! My faculty is hiring an Assistant Professor in Public AI and Cultural Institutions. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

The ICCIT is hiring! Our faculty is inviting applications for an Associate or Full Professor position in Organizational Studies, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2026. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

Our dept @iccit-utm.bsky.social is hiring an associate or full prof of organizational studies! ICCIT is a great place to teach and research. I adore my colleagues and our brilliant, ambitious students. More details here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa... @utoronto.ca @uoftmississauga.bsky.social

UofT’s ischool is running a search for an assoc prof - Public Memory & Public Histories universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

Big new job posting at the Faculty of Information. We're hiring an Assistant Professor (Tenure Stream), Digital Curation and Cultural Heritage. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Sort of expected there would be some maple-washing shenanigans. It's always been tricky to determine if grocery items are truly produced in Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

I've written about the dangers of dynamic pricing in grocery stores, but airlines have always been the most predatory and opaque about their price tags. www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...

It'll be a difficult transition, but I think this is ultimately the way to go. www.cbc.ca/radio/costof...

Join us July 31 and August 1 for the free, online @civicsoftech.bsky.social conference with keynotes from Audrey Watters and Chris Gilliard; hands-on resistance workshops; community case studies and non-profit work; classroom practice; and youth and caregiver voices. Read more about the conference: