A fun challenge to lead this project throughout my PhD! So grateful to my colleagues for making this happen 🚀

This is how many folks treat Disney Studies—the literal Mickey Mouse degrees—right now.

Popular media is one of the most powerful and influential forces on the planet, yet it is so often viewed as unimportant.

You can't understand how the world works unless you understand how Mickey Mouse works.

The College Affordability Crisis is Real, but the Media is Looking at the Wrong Schools Sturges Hall (Photo by Keith Walters ’11) Opinion By Costas Solomou, Vice President, Enrollment Management Published by the Office of Enrollment Management When Yale University released its Committee ...

"the colleges that dominate the headlines are not the colleges that most Americans attend

their core mission: to serve students from all backgrounds, at a price families can actually afford, prepare graduates for real careers and meaningful lives."

www.geneseo.edu/enrollment-m...

I just got the TYRL2. A friend has them and she loves them.

Great paper! Really enjoyed reading it. Well done :)

BREAKING: For the 11th time, Republicans have blocked Democrats from paying TSA.

Republicans have been given ELEVEN chances to send TSA agents their paychecks, but they refuse.

Home | Communication Science Futures Communication Science Futures is a conference aimed at addressing pressing issues and opportunities in the interdisciplinary, social...

Hey y'all! Very pleased to announce that we'll be hosting Communication Science Futures again in East Lansing later this year. The conference in 2024 was a blast, and we're looking forward to running it back!

Keynote speaker: James Pennebaker
Submission deadline: June 5th.

→ commscifutures.com

💯! excited to read this one!!!

🚨 New Preprint Alert 🚨

Communication science has no shortage of data. But what do we do with all of it?

Experience sampling, sensors, digital trace, location aware observations are growing in popularity and scale.

1/ 🧵PROCESS Model 4 is the wrong tool to test mediation in an experiment. The c’ path turns prediction into description and prevents falsification. New preprint with @chriscarpenter.bsky.social and @beccafraz.bsky.social at osf.io/preprints/ps... explains why.

So sorry for your loss!

10 hour study with me at Columbia showing lunch

Her in the library

DHS illegally arrested me please help Text against image of her knees

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

New preprint with @psmaldino.bsky.social on the evolution of similarity-biased learning: osf.io/preprints/so...

This mathematical treatment both simplifies and extends our previous simulation treatment of the subject: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Congratulations!!!

Excited to share our latest work in Acta Psychologica (with @mattgrizz.bsky.social and Emily Moyer-Guse) on the influence of character depth on affective disposition processes (ADT) across five unfolding acts of a story (pre-registered). Results show... (1/2)

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

I'm a Nordic model social democrat because well it's proven to work in several countries with decades of evidence. Maybe we should tax the rich and provide services. Just an idea.

Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.

Depressed? Anxious? Lonely?

What if mental health doesn’t just result from media use, but shapes how we choose media?

In a new preprint, Valerie Klein, @gongxuanjun.bsky.social @aeden.bsky.social and I and I test this using a computational decision-making model: doi.org/10.21203/rs....

🧵Thread

a video game screen shows a man playing a game with a score of 1003/105 Alt: a video game screen shows a man playing a game with a score of 1003/105

I’m basic and like the original starters but when pressed i like Dracovish.

honestly respect for the ad that’s just like “pokemon are cool.” they are cool

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

Why Rage Bait Works and How Curiosity Can Help Us Stop Doomscrolling To provoke outrage is the point of rage bait. Research in communication is starting to explain how rage bait hacks the way our brains decide what we choose to read, watch and even click and swipe onli...

The worse content makes us feel, the more likely we are to keep consuming it.

Our brains prioritize negative and exciting content, especially when we’re in a bad mood.

Curiosity offers a way out by nudging us toward new, more rewarding, choices.

lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/rage-bait-cu...

@saramgrady.bsky.social @larawolfers.bsky.social (I dont know if they have bsky accounts but Susanne Baumgartner and Sindy Sumter) @morganellithorpe.bsky.social

OII | Summer Doctoral Programme Researching the internet or technology? This annual programme brings together outstanding doctoral students from across the world for a fortnight of study.

Are you a doctoral student exploring the social dynamics of the internet and digital technologies? Applications are now open for the Oxford Internet Institute's Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP) 2026!

Learn more and apply: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/study/summer...

goddamnit, your email found me.

Postdoc Opportunity at Northwestern University! Check this out. Apply by Jan 16, 2026👉comap@northwestern.edu

Super helpful! Will be using this in my class next semester as our introduction to the topic! <3

Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

I was going to send you this - Kevin Kryston has a few papers on this type of normative influence, but this one is closest to what you are looking for.