Climate Scientists: we really need to focus on using less electricity from fossil fuels. Tech Industry: Sure, but hear me out… what if instead we used much, much more electricity?

Are any generative AI companies even trying, like at all, to stop students from using their products to cheat?

The best part of this project was getting to engage with frameworks in anthropology, epistemology, ethics, and technology studies that are mostly absent from mainstream research in cognitive science. To study psychology & technology, we need to read more widely. 6/

The Fox Football music director is having fun. The music as they cut to commercial was “Head Like a Hole” by NIN. They played just enough to get to the first line, “God money, I’ll do anything for you.” 😂

I’m pleased to report that I will be joining the faculty in the School of Communication Studies at the University of Tennessee next year as an Associate Professor. Go Vols!

For the past few years I've been encouraging undergrads to write for a "naive but interested" reader/viewer/listener. I want them to explain what terms mean (and demonstrate that they understand) as well as develop skills in expressing ideas.

Machiavelli: It is better to be feared than loved, but you must absolutely avoid being *hated.* So many forget that last part.

Open the pod bay doors, Charlie Brown

KPOP Demon Hunters is a movie about the importance of effective public health communication in this essay I will...

Me at the #NCA2025 opening reception last night

I'm at #NCA25 and will be at the #NCA2025 graduate fair in the Aurora Ballroom at the Ohio State booth (#55) from 2-3. If you're interested in pursuing an M.A. or Ph.D., stop by any time 1-4 to chat with faculty & students!

The maximum acceptable level of risk for an "AI-powered toy" targeted at young children is absolutely too low for use of an off-the-shelf commercial LLM to EVER be a reasonable choice. gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...

Quick #nca25 #nca2025 reminder: Bring one dollar bills to tip the bartenders at conference receptions. Or if you’re feeling generous, five dollar bills.

Do I add this to my CV as an invited lecture? 🤔

In Grok we don’t trust

Super interesting test of single blind vs double blind review. @angiefagerlin.bsky.social

Attention graduate students! The 15th annual Communication & Technology / Mobile Doctoral Consortium is now accepting student proposals to participate at #ICA26 in Cape Town. Proposals are due 2 Feb. Please read the requirements closely. sites.google.com/view/2026ica...

🚨 Only 24 hours remain to vote in the 2025 ICA Election! Members can vote online; polls close on 21 October. Make your voice count! 🌍 🔗 buff.ly/v5Zde4w

Our article titled, "Validation of an efficacy of lying scale" is now in an issue. If you want a self-report scale that measures people's belief that lying is effective, we've got you. There's a bonus finding about superdiffusers. Click here for a free copy: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EGJWP...

Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!" Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...)

I know there is a lot going on but this went online last night and I am very proud it’s real. If you might be excited to find out how at every turn this nation could have prevented our current political moment by listening to Black people you can even preorder it before we get to designing the cover

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“The right boundary for thinking about a problem rarely coincides with the boundary of an academic discipline, or with a political boundary.” -Donella H. Meadows, “Thinking in Systems”

#OhioState is hiring -- can you help us find an established journalism scholar? Deadline is 10/1 osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j... #commjobs #ICA26

Guys today is a red-letter day for bad survey questions. Look at this lovely double negative that just rolled in!

"No president has the legitimate authority to impose such a review. Established by Congress in 1846 as a unique and independent agency, the Smithsonian Institution is not, and has never been, under the authority of the Executive Branch."

My brain when abbreviations overload:

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

I hate that BlueSky is following the Twitter model and labeling harmful content. Posts that violate the community standards need to be removed. Users who violate them repeatedly need to be deplatformed. A label does absolutely nothing except inform everyone that BlueSky will do absolutely nothing.

Academic whiplash: I received an email with a desk reject from one journal and an email with an R&R from another journal. The emails arrived one minute apart.

Pretty grim kicker on an overall bleak outlook on the future of UNC www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...

They've already told us everything we need to know... www.jezebel.com/since-no-one...

Of course they are.

New Pub: "Predicting when social media use is associated with loneliness using the hyperperception model" in Comm Quarterly We used our hyperperception model to predict what kind of social media experiences are associated with loneliness. We found that when 1/ www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PGVPM...

Coding for a systematic review: 5% of the studies included suck up about 75% of the time it takes to finish, and most of that time could be saved if people reported results in a way that was straightforward.

Is research into ego depletion and terror management progressing or degenerating? Smart people will disagree because: “The smarter you are, the better you are at constructing a narrative that supports your beliefs, rationalizing and framing the data to fit your argument or point of view.” #MetaSci

In light of the Epstein discourse, I want to remind everyone that the person most likely to sexually abuse a child is a man in that child’s family.

Always some rich asshole who acts like their Vaclav Havel because they're getting yelled at by trans people on the internet

"So, how Global does my paper need to be? We get this a lot, and the short answer is that "if it's from the Globe we call home, it's interesting to GPC." Our focus on Global is less about a narrow view on work from specific regions but more a recognition that journals need truly Global engagement!

New Article "Validation of an Efficacy of Lying Scale" Need a measure of the extent to which your participants think that lying is effective? We've got your covered. A well-validated, four-item measure is now available. Free copies here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EGJWP... #CommSky

Special Issue Alert from HCR – Now Available! Theme: Communication and the Self: Past, Present, and Future Guest Editors: Dr. Markus Appel and Dr. Amanda Holmstrom Read here: academic.oup.com/hcr/issue/51/3 #HumanCommunicationResearch #HCRSpecialIssue

Though much remains uncertain (e.g. outcomes of lawsuits re: canceled grants), it is clear that U.S. gov funding for science — especially science that intersects w/ concerns about human flourishing — is going to be significantly diminished in coming years. Here are a few things we can do to help:

I love this so hard

Stripping immigration status from thousands of people who’ve lived here for years is a really gross way to keep manufacturing a crisis and justify even more harm

When I tell you this upcoming season is good. It’s good. #foundation

Thrilled to say ~3 weeks after #ICA25, we've received more than 10 submissions to @gpccomm.bsky.social and we've got more than 100 followers on Bluesky alone. Y'all are making this work! We're accepting papers (4000 & 8000 words) covering all of @icahdq.bsky.social: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gpcomm

What a gutting reminder that #MeToo didn’t produce any structural change to our criminal justice system. Convictions are still rare, even in cases where the evidence is overwhelming. These are the same old failures hurting new victims. My heart aches for the survivors.

This is not a bad rule of thumb:

Feeling very seen 😒