I always bring a clipboard when I'm in charge.

Drop your crime fighting Catholics.

Somebody let me know when Jamie’s run on Jeopardy is over. I can’t watch the daily bloodbath anymore.

I just read something that described Quantum Leap as having a "seemingly outlandish premise," and I just don't think the writer understands that he was always hoping his next leap would be the leap home.

I do not recommend DINOSAURS on Netflix, which is marketed as an informative documentary but is actually a generated, speculative horror movie. I still love Morgan Freeman, though.

"We have a great view of the moon out window two. Looks a little smaller than yesterday." 🌔❤️

Watching NASA's live broadcast is bringing back all my space camp fantasies...

Seems extremely relevant and important :)

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

Just so we’re clear, I don’t support threatening to destroy entire civilizations, and I don’t think that should be a controversial position to take.

I am watching HGTV and they are looking at houses in … Cabot Cove. Guys, it’s real?! 🇨🇦🍁

Actually this piece is about romance, but since I just published my last article there, and since this one's much more industry- than textually-focused (romance and AI, with quantitative data), it's not the best fit. But I do love JPRS and all the volunteer-run, open-source journals like it. :)

The 21st century academic dilemma: it's increasingly hard to find a journal that doesn't cost money to publish in.

My unsolicited advice to academics is: Celebrate everything. Got good peer reviews back? Doesn't matter that the essay isn't published yet. Celebrate. Department voted for your tenure? Celebrate now, and again after the trustees vote. Life's short, academia's hard, celebrate every milestone.

I’m the product of birthright citizenship one generation ago.

Didn’t see you at all this time, but several of us ended up in an impromptu Shelley Stamp fan club meeting one night. 😉

Media scholars friends, if you were interviewed by a journalist about Heated Rivalry, would you drop the article link below? I am collecting articles that specifically approached academics for expert context.

One thing I love about (my sector of) SCMS is when first-timers observe with delight that the Q&A is constructive, not hostile, and that people are nice. #scms26

Since some of you at #SCMS26 have asked, no, Scrappy Jack isn’t here. He thought the conference was too cat-forward last year, so he’s at home with his bestie having old man races around the kitchen island.

There’s this book called Fandom Is Ugly that some people have been talking about… 🤷🏻‍♀️

Still bummed my attempts to get you to my university didn't succeed. We would so benefit!

Academic friends with grad students: Are we still recommending bland-ass CVs without columns and interesting formatting? When I'm on a search committee, I get cranky about non-bland CVs, but am I a dinosaur?

Democracy dies under algorithms?

Name a single professor who actually likes Grammarly. I'll wait.

Horrifying

Wait, they're really asking you to pay admission to an event honoring yourselves??

I’ve read it, and it’s fantastic. It’s also incredibly timely — What happens to academics when academia becomes the enemy of culture and the state?

I’m not saying there are no uses for chatbots. But there are dumb uses that make us dumber as humans. And AI companies tend to pick those for their ads.

AI companies are embarrassingly bad at suggesting uses for their own products. This was in an OpenAI promo email I got. if your prompt contains the thing you’d just write, you don’t need AI to write for you. Good grief.