Deep dive by @davey.bsky.social + Bloomberg colleagues into the growing number of small businesses marketing products around conservative political identity and their relationship with the right-wing influencer universe on YouTube bit.ly/4oR7fcF

Who wants to explain to him this isn’t how science works?

1/ The FCC has no authority to police content for bias or balance. We—and more than seventy other organizations and scholars—warned FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. techfreedom.org/wp-content/u...

Finally got a chance to watch this excellent, short documentary by @willcarless.bsky.social on manosphere influencers with an interview by the always on point @milleridriss.bsky.social. Definitely recommend checking it out.

Just heard a woman walking down the street carrying a large Target bag waxing poetic about how mom and pops can’t possibly survive (in a part of the city where there are plenty of indie options). Ma’am. Put your big box bag down and step aside.

This is especially important: “We call upon our fellow institutions of higher education in the United States to declare their willingness to facilitate the immediate co-enrollment of Harvard’s international students, including formal acceptance of transfer for immigration purposes.”

If I was Harvard, I think I’d double down on the filing of lawsuits www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The National Science Foundation is awarding new grants at the slowest pace in at least 35 years. The funding decreases touch virtually every area of science — extending far beyond the diversity programs that the Trump administration says it wants to cut.

Student: Teacher, why do we learn? Socrates: For life! Freire: For liberation! Dewey: For democracy! Neoliberal EduWonks: To mitigate overhead costs for employers and increase future projections of GDP!

The countdown is winding down for the #IRMS2025 conference, so make sure to plan your schedule! You can STILL register to catch the pre-conference roundtables! www.theirms.org/conference

I’m finally out of my boot post surgery and can drive again. I thought it would feel better, but I looked around at, well everything, and the state of affairs in the “land of the free” still sucks, so…

Saying the quiet part out loud for the “win.”

🧵 on how the attacks on higher ed follow the authoritarian playbook. We need not speculate about what comes next: we know. We must take action

The “beginning” of the end for higher ed. Who could possibly have seen this coming when they corporatized a public good.

“First of many” = “consider this a warning and shut your face.” Let the slide into authoritarianism continue.

Oh good. A male supremacist “influencer” and alleged rapist/trafficker of women and his equally problematic but less prominent bro are coming home. What could possibly go wrong as he “coincidentally” heads to Florida.

I am shocked… said no one.

What. Is actually happening right now. So many checks and balances. 🫠 apple.news/AJZZqcMOsRYC...

Pardon me if I’m not feeling super pumped for President’s Day. I think I’ll celebrate by working on unspecified research.

Goal is to interrogate definitions and diversify perspectives of radicalization online. Keynote speaker will be Samuel Woolley (samwoolley.org), plus a fantastic featured panel with @beccalew.bsky.social @kvg.bsky.social @meredithpruden.bsky.social @kurtbraddock.bsky.social. Gonna be awesome!

I’ll be there. Hope to see all my friends and colleagues there too. Seriously, join us won’t you. There are a few more days to apply.

It was an honor to work on this project with my brilliant & KIND co-authors. Truly amazing researchers; even better humans. Thrilled to see it in “print” & echo @jolukito.bsky.social in desire for solidarity, thanks to @knightfdn.bsky.social & shout out to ECRs studying harmful content online.

I wish I could say this surprised me in the slightest.

😳

Jimmies Carter*

If the “officials” were the Brady Bunch, and the Brady Bunch were a dystopian hodgepodge of conspiracy theorists. 🫠

I’ve been teaching for 7 years now, and I’ve had a lot of amazing students in that time. But tonight a group of grad students almost brought me to tears when they turned up with a really thoughtfully curated gift basket for me on our last night of class. Speechless.

I was gonna say Pixies Doolittle, but that was 1989. I, therefore, give you…

Sigh. Someone needs to make a bingo card. Not me. But someone.

There’s still time to submit for the APSA award calls (thanks Leap Year for the extra day).

Last week I co-hosted a symposium on the Futures of Right-Wing Studies. To keep the conversation going we have lunched a listserv for scholars interested in studying right-wing movements, broadly conceived, in the U.S. or globally. Let me know if you care to join? ajbauer2 [at] ua [dot] edu

This week at CITAP: 📰New publication from @dfreelon.bsky.social, @meredithpruden.bsky.social, @xiayp.bsky.social, @malmer.com & more 🗣️Call for papers for the CITAP co-hosted ICA postconference: P³: Power, Propaganda, Polarisation & more!

@amaramarasingam.bsky.social hey there! Just wanted to check to see if you got my email? I’ve been having some email issues so wanted to be sure it isn’t floating around in the ether.

Man Who Shot Store Owner for Flying Pride Flag Was a Far-Right Conspiracist He posted anti-gay and antisemitic conspiracy theories, and followed and reposted Jordan Peterson and Matt Walsh https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ed4q/laura-carleton-pride-flag-shooting

No words.

Finally making the move from the thing formerly known as Twitter to BlueSky. Better late than never 🫠