Plot twist — we’re back! Mark your calendars for #litleics26, coming your way in March. As always, all events are FREE! 🥳

It would be super cool to go back to 2014, find a rando and ask them whether a fall in EU coal use for power generation of 60% in 10 years feels possible or even likely ember-energy.org/data/electri...

This thread communicates better than many a graduate seminar that I have attended.

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Pennsylvania plastic producer held accountable for nurdle/preproduction plastic pollution into local river system. insideclimatenews.org/news/0409202... #plasticstreaty

My aspirational/delusional maternity leave reading pile. #CommSky #AcademicSky

Pants across Toronto are wet this morning in fear of this spreading here.

Such a good list.

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

At #INC5_2, Chair Luis Vayas says: There is no more time to keep adding positions already stated... a real push to achieve our common goal is needed... We must deliver by 14 August 2025." #PlasticsTreaty @unep.org

As usual, the ENB indispensable for us following along from home. Having watched some of the webcasts, I propose that the phrase "worked tirelessly" be retired from the discussions. I bet a lot of those people are plenty tired.

In the margins of #PlasticsTreaty #INC-5.2, the GENis at "No Plastics in Nature: Turning the Tide Together" organized by WWF. The gathering will reflect on 5 years of progress against #PlasticPollution & look ahead to what’s needed from the treaty and beyond.

I'm spending the summer feeding newborn twins and I have never been more grateful for cosy museum content. youtu.be/bd6GRXPD0Fw?...

Between Musk & the Trump administration, Media Matters has been squeezed to the brink. In settlement discussions, lawyers for X demanded the organization hand over all its cash and shut down — all because MM reported ads appeared on X next to antisemitic content. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...

Toronto knows what’s up.

Left: Hugh Jackman in the male gaze Right: Hugh Jackman in the female gaze i mean like literally. one's a muscle mag for lads & the other is GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, for god's sake

Not many politicians in the UK tell the truth about farming or are brave enough to criticise the cakeism of the main farming unions. But Lee Waters MS does in this refreshingly honest speech. Almost every word of it applies to England as much as Wales. amanwy.blogspot.com/2025/07/we-n...

On the one hand, yes I buy the argument that modern camping has really weird patriarchal/colonial origins and overtones but on the other hand, academics, if you don’t want to go camping, you can just say so.

2025 Climate Communication Award Winners announced! 🏆 They are Elena Maydell, Massey University (New Zealand) and Inessa Love, University of Hawaii (USA) and Daniel Renz Roc, University of the Philippines Los Baños (the Philippines). Read more about them and their work: iamcr.org/awards/clima...

🌐✨ Meet the winners of IAMCR’s 2025 Decolonising the Digital Awards! From Indigenous language activism to feminist AI, these groundbreaking projects reimagine technology from the margins. 👉 Read more: iamcr.org/awards/decol... #IAMCR2025 #DecoloniseTheDigital #DigitalJustice

🎓🏆 Congrats to the winners of the 2025 Stuart Hall Award! Their work examines media witnessing, menstrual stigma (@xiaodongyan.bsky.social), and the politics of representation. Full story: iamcr.org/awards/hall2... #IAMCR2025 #StuartHallAward #MediaStudies

I, too, recommend my podcast. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

Conservative opposition to climate change can be partially explained by a higher perceived threat to climate policy rather than to climate change itself. New research by Samantha K. Stanley, @zlevo.bsky.social, Kirsti M. Jylhä, and Iain Walker explains: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Publication alert! Thrilled to support this work in empirical testing and analysis of a novel greenwashing assessment tool. Lots of time went into this from the Spinning Climate Change working group. See @sahill.bsky.social's full post for more details and how you can use the tool yourself.

Revised greenwashing assessment framework just published in ecology and society! I'm really proud of the work that the spinning climate change working group put into this one and wanted to share the paper and a couple of thoughts. ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss2/a... @cssn.org #CommSky #AcademicSky

🚨🚨Job Alert🚨🚨 Our dept has an opening for a 12-month full-time fixed term contact for a Lecturer in Media and Politics. The role will cover teaching in areas of global news media & war, research methods, & digital media. Deadline 30th June 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI734/l... (pls share) #commsky

Justin McElroy is a treasure.

^^ This is what I mean when I gripe about 'forecasting culture' - men just argue about who has access to the better crystal ball of AI power forecasts, but environmental justice groups etc are dripping sweat fighting against these huge developments. We can point to real, material problems here

“‘Forgive / the utter glut / of this,’ the counter’s / sour dishes, the heap / of sheets undone, / tufts of dog hair / floating where / the late sun hits. ” Read “Good Lord, These Muscadines,” a new poem by Caki Wilkinson:

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

I was really hoping that one of the lessons of this election could be that being a smug simplistic jerk is not a winning political strategy.

My own Election Day reminders: 1) We don't elect the prime minister so there is no such thing as "PM-elect". If you must, say "PM-designate" or "presumptive PM" OR, if it's Mark Carney, just say "Prime Minister", because he's literally still PM even after the results tonight. 1/n

I think grading masters essays today was the first time I felt really threatened by what AI is doing to my field. And now I'm torn between the impulse to defend the importance of what I and my peers know and think about in media and communication...and giving up to become a nature-friendly farmer.

Climate change litigation is gaining momentum – but does it deliver real change? @matigre.bsky.social and I have organized a small webinar with fantastic speakers on the implementation and impact of landmark climate change cases. 📅 April 24 📝 Do sign up here: events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...

This one is mine, but really recommend this whole special issue. Ranking Digital Rights is also in there talking about corporate accountability!

Thinking of coming up with a rule about trying to review when it's too nice out. Nothing makes me a mean reviewer more than thinking "I'm missing this beautiful day just to read this!?"

The Yonge and Blood bike lanes improved my experience in the city so much--saved me $$, made it nice to get around. I really hope they survive this whole farce.

I'm excited to see this special issue out in the wild! Writing about GARM while it was being sued out of existence was a challenge, but I'm happy that I could work with the great editors and reviewers at IPR to make it happen.

The UK energy system is simultaneously so exciting and so incredibly frustrating (prices set by the most expensive energy??)

Really ought to remember to just book the day after the last day of teaching for the semester off. So little got done today and I was so cranky about it the whole time. And it was nice out!

Meanwhile.... bit.ly/4kHdAGj

Some needed good news, including the hope that the UK could actually have affordable energy.

Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵

Cannot believe how long this has taken, but still excited to see the results.

If you went to college/uni 1. What was your career goal when you started? 2. initial major? 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. what do you do know, professionally? 1. Maybe a lit prof? 2. Comp lit 3. Politics + enviro (with extra panic trying to go full env) 4. Prof in media/comms

I still think it ought to be possible to create something like a public, open-access social media site, just for the purposes of keeping up with people & tracking unfolding events.

More feather dinosaurs please!

I loved this so much that I read it twice and made my partner talk about it with me. Will use it in future to insert discussion of emperors' mothers, wives and aunts arranging murders into any and all discussions of the Roman empire.

"AI managed by Meta" Date joined and Verified September 2023?!?! www.instagram.com/himamaliv Who asked for this, and how is this even "social"? h/t @o.simardcasanova.net

Perhaps now is a good time to plug that I’ve been writing about the complicated histories of the verified badge (…series still ongoing obviously). Part one: datasociety.net/points/a-wor...