Hey Folks who do social scientific research on language! I'm co-editing a special issue for Journal of Language and Social Psychology of registered reports. Please share! journals.sagepub.com/page/jls/cal... #commsky #psychsky

Do you think I am a human? I get asked this question a lot by computers...

The dystopian hellscape is here, let me introduce you to rentahuman.ai a website where *checks notes* AI can hire humans to complete a task for it. If you can make this make sense, I’m here…and intrigued…. #artificalintelligence #hmc

Don't mind me, I'm just over here trying not to be #Reviewer2 #Academiclife

TFW you’re not sure whether someone you follow is your third cousin or a friend you met once at camp.

I can’t believe I’m saying this… but here we are. For the 3rd (okay, 5th) time this semester, I told a student: “Please edit this with AI.” Ideas? Solid. Citations? On point. Prose? Needs polish. Hard way or easy way? I’m done with the hard way. #hottake #HigherEd #AIinEducation

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

“They came into the building understanding it was a daycare. They did not have a warrant. It is a violation of our rights. It is a violation of these children’s rights. They are terrorizing our community.” Trump’s ICE goons raided a damn daycare.

That is a reference to the 1951 animated short "Rabbit Fire," part of the Looney Tunes series. It is human season.

Is there anything a bath in an airport sink after you retrieve your checked bag with all the toiletries can’t fix? #rookiemistake #missedconnections #OCMC25

Stellar article and insights. “This is the algorithmic internet at work. It abhors an information vacuum and, in the absence of facts or credible information, gaps are quickly filled with rage bait, conspiracy theorizing, doomerism, and vitriol.”

Thought the analysis was too much for SPSS, so I turned to R for answers. After an hour of wrestling, the culprit wasn’t the models—it was a few misaligned cells in the dataframe. Data doesn’t lie… but sometimes it gaslights you. 🤪 #DataScience #R

The older I get, the more I understand entropy. #systems #sna

Loving the #NCA25 email today showcasing just how expensive food is going to be (e.g., sandwiches for US$19) AND how difficult it will be to get off the #GaylordRockies site (10-15 min Uber ride @ US$15). Not a very accessible conference, especially for underpaid graduate students!

“We removed bias from the AI.” Applicants: Sure you did. Watch what happened when we tested it. 👇

University proposes a 20% cut in travel budget. ...Just received my travel budget for the year and it's... 66% less than last year.

“We removed bias from the AI.” Applicants: Sure you did. Watch what happened when we tested it. 👇

Is there anything a nothing a good spreadsheet can't do? #wronganswersonly

We may have the chance to hire an outstanding researcher 3+ years post PhD to join Tarleton Gillespie, Mary Gray and me in Cambridge MA bringing critical sociotechnical perspectives to bear on new technologies. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

🚨 We are hiring at Penn State! My college (@bellisariograded.bsky.social‬) is hiring an Assistant Professor in Health/Science Communication (emphasis on social scientific approaches). I'm leading the search, so feel free to reach out with any questions. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

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...

Job Alert👇 School: University of Vienna Position: Tenure-Track Professorship in Interactive Communication www.aejmc.org/job-portal/u... #AejmcJobs #JobAd

A core problem in American health is inequality. The richest 1% live 12 more years than the poorest 1%. Racial disparities cause Black Americans to die 4 years sooner than White Americans. Now remember: Trump's policies which will *worsen* inequality. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-trumps...

🚨🚨 New paper with Alhammad and Ethridge in Corporate Communications. We explore how crisis responses authored by AI vs. humans are perceived. Author effects for credibility and org. reputation. But no effects for crisis response style. Here or DM me:https://doi.org/10.1108/CCIJ-01-2025-0005

"How about some paperwork to go with your paperwork!" -My job

I'm usually so on top of things like getting the early bird rate for conference registration. But not for #ICA25 this year. Geez, that's a $100+ mistake I won't make again. So silly...

I'm pleased/impressed to find that this quote attributed to the late Pope Francis (and dated just a few days ago) is authentic: "Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of Hell."

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

No matter how cool the videos look, the important thing about this robot "poised to move into our homes so it can help with the daily chores" is actually 10+ paragraphs into the article: It is controlled by a Norwegian guy in the basement!

If you've published an article validating a new scale, but fail to publish the actual items, I hope you have a terrible day.

1/12 NEW report from @ElonUniversity’s Imagining the Digital Future Center finds experts have negative views about how the co-evolution of humans and AI will affect humans’ … capacity to think deeply imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-... #AI #GenerativeAI #AIresearch

It's wild how much a really harsh manuscript review can paralyze progress on a good piece. Working on something I should have picked up a long while ago--and the unfair reviews are still just kicking my rear. #academicsky

CAT is pleased to announce that we are (finally) leaving X, FKA Twitter, on April 15. If you're following CAT updates on X, follow us on BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/icac... or Mastodon: mastodon.social/@ICA_CAT We will also always post CAT content on The Link, @icahdq's member platform.

Five of the six Southwest Kansas counties reporting measles cases have seen kindergarten vaccination rates drop, one showing a 24% dip over a four-year period. Via @kansasreflector.com: lawrenceks.news/3YeJcZU

I'm looking for a postdoc to work on justice-oriented audit frameworks. Closing date April 30, 2025. pls share widely

Calling for all #orgcomm, public relations, and strategic comm colleagues. I am co-organizing a preconference at the IAMCR conference in Singapore. We are interested in the interplay of technology, corporate power, societal responsibility, & strategic communication. lnkd.in/gNVr63v3

For people who are concerned about crossing the US border, The Verge and Wired both have useful discussion and advice: www.theverge.com/policy/63426... www.wired.com/2017/02/guid...

PSA: Delete your DNA from 23andMe right now. It just declared bankruptcy. And California’s attorney general has issued an unusual “consumer alert” about how to protect your privacy. Instructions and details in my @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/4kUsBEF

➡️ New on Reboot Democracy, @lrainie.bsky.social writes about new research that shows that while many Americans are fearful in important ways about AI – particularly generative AI and LLMs – the user base is exploding. rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/love-ha... @thegovlab.org @burnescenter.bsky.social

Huggy Rao and I define leadership "clusterfucks" as decisions that are made and implemented by people who are plagued by: Impatience Illusions Incompetence The Trump tariffs are classic example of this disease

"AI technology appears to outperform humans. But a closer look reveals that these games are rigged. The competitions do not actually ask machines to perform human tasks; it’s more accurate to say that they ask humans to behave in machine-like ways as they perform lifeless simulacra of human tasks."

TFW you missed the window where the #ICA25 schedule was leaked/posted so you don't know when you present. #nerdproblems

The University of Kansas will close its Lawrence, Edwards and Leavenworth campuses Tuesday, Feb. 18, because of winter weather. Details at alerts.ku.edu

People really want to believe that AI is decimating software jobs, because it feels like poetic justice, but fortunately or unfortunately that narrative is nonsense (so far). 🧵

𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙄𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙋𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨: The Call for Papers for our Special Issue on "𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘖𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦" is now open. All details, including paper submission guidelines, are available at the following link: tinyurl.com/p86fzebc 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟴, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, says the National Science Foundation has given money to thousands of "Woke DEI" studies. Researchers say that's misrepresenting science and disparaging important research.

I Love Headings They Make Reading Easier They Make Writing Easier But, Sometimes I Have too Many. Oh Well

Generative #AI has become more integrated into personal communication—helping with everything from wedding vows to thank-you notes. Professor Mor Naaman & @cornellbowers.bsky.social Associate Professor Malte Jung discuss how AI-outsourced sincerity is frowned on: bit.ly/4158XxX @informor.bsky.social

I was wondering this...check out this screenshot from a convo with DeepSeek yesterday:

Cool new queueing experience where I've moved from position 2 to position 4 in the queue (it's telling me this live) whilst holding. Good to know that I'm really not at all important to this federal funding agency (as if the declined funding was not sufficient to solidify that) ... 😂