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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026

Trump: "It's interesting -- China makes the windmills, but try finding a wind farm in China. There is no such." (China has the largest wind power capacity in the world!)

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 15h

How many Cardinals hats is too many Cardinals hats? This and many more on today's episode of "clean up the damned closet."

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Lena Frischlich @lenafrescamente.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I do very well remember how I freaked out about this question when I was submitting my PhD 🤣

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Haha! Nah, bad shadowing off the caliper. Also? Stop telling the world my secrets 😂😂😂

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Miss the good ol' days when I could let the spiders surf the internet and give me specific and relevant information. Y'all how did we manage to make the basic Google search *worse?* When I query a search, I don't want to be queried with an AI slop grenade. I just want to know if the bar is open.

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The thread has been so lost, and I'm nearly enraged that we've forgotten the mission of knowledge: learn, struggle, reassemble, repeat. Increasingly, our students and ourselves are so damned focused on "one shot, get it right" and the end result? Hamburger Helper instead of burgers.

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

New shoes for BMO! In last night's Onondaga Community College ATC103, we went to work on getting the Jeep a new set of tires and sensors. Learned quite a bit about the many different systems involved in something seemingly as "basic" as tire mounting.

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Working as a professor with a global research agenda and many partners - both industry and academic - off-campus, Outlook's "external sender" flag is just about the worst warning I've ever received. It'd be the rough equivalent of telling me that my coffee is hot, always.

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Curious who suffers more from banal/generic/vague AI application materials in academia: aspiring PhD students looking for admissions, or graduating folks looking to score their first faculty job? Honest question.

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Some photos from last week's chat at my 2x alma mater, University of Missouri-Saint Louis (BA, '03; MA, '04). I was invited to give a talk about how my degrees in Communication from UMSL set me up for a 20+ year research career as a media psychologist. Write-up: blogs.umsl.edu/news/2026/10...

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Communication alum Nick Bowman delivers lecture on the psychology of video games - UMSL Daily

Bowman, who is now a professor at Syracuse University, studies the cognitive, emotional, physical and social demands of interactive media

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APA Style @apastyle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

report means and standard deviations to one decimal place (as group measures, they are more stable than individual scores)." Guidance about reporting p values is also in that section as well as in Section 7.14 (in the paragraphs about probability notes in tables and figures).

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APA Style @apastyle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Report correlations, proportions, and inferential statistics such as t, F, and chi-square to two decimals. When reporting data measured on integer scales (as with many questionnaires),

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APA Style @apastyle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Although you're right that there is no "right" answer for every case, we do have general guidelines. Section 6.36 of the Publication Manual (7th ed.) says that "when properly scaled, most data can be effectively presented with two decimal digits of accuracy."

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Okay y'all ... I have my PhD stats seminar in about four hours. What are your takes on reporting out to xxx decimals for social sciences? I'd say wrong answers only but I'm unconvinced that there is a right answer (even @apastyle.bsky.social is a bit vague here): apastyle.apa.org/instructiona...

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

After the RetroGameCon, spent my Sunday evening with a Torque-Meister. =) Glazed? Glazed.

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Morning, folks! If you're around Syracuse today, check out RetroGameCon and my 1:30 talk, "Nostalgia and Well-Being: The Psychology of Pixels & Places." A few teasers, below. Bring the family, and lets chat games. =)

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Y'all my research resonates with so many 𝗉̶𝖾̶𝗈̶𝗉̶𝗅̶𝖾̶ AI agents. It makes me very 𝗁̶𝖺̶𝗉̶𝗉̶𝗒̶ disappointed with the state of academia. Sincerely the AI emails of inquiry just ... won't ... stop.

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The best part of this class, besides working with my hands? You'll know pretty darn fast if you did it right ... or did it wrong. ;p

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F1 Car Loses Wheel on Track

ALT: F1 Car Loses Wheel on Track

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As part of my growing second career? Tonight we're "taking our homework to shop class" as we see if my Onondaga Community College ATC103 class can get five new shoes mounted and balanced on our 2020 Jeep Wrangler 2D. =)

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Heading to #CSCW this October? I'm geeked to make my debut on a Social VR panel with so many good friends and new colleagues. We're on Monday 12 October at 4:30 pm, Salon A-C. Let's rap on Social VR -- and you can even hear me grouse and grumble about why it's not working very well. =)

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 24/09/2026

I would like tech companies to understand that just because I have signed up to use your software, that no, I do not want to automatically be subscribed to your product newsletter. Say less. Please stop spamming me. Just push code that works. Sweet jiminy christ on a flying biscuit just STFU

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Global Perspectives in Communication (GPC) @gpccomm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

EEP! Our editor @bowmanspartan.bsky.social realized that it's been quite some time since we released a journal accountability report. Simply put, we've gotten busy - a good problem to have! Below? A few quick notes on how we're looking so far in 2026.

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Star Trek Report

ALT: Star Trek Report

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I see this a lot as a grad director or what my students think they need for jobs is nowhere near the reality of what they need for jobs. But when I give that feedback, the advice is quickly rejected as privilege.

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Precisely. I think we are far too quick to accept perceived norms as rules. And those perceived norms hardly ever match reality. I mean, certainly, if you publish five books, you'll probably be a good case for tenure, but it's not because you published five books.

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

But I do think it's an important conversation to have, because so often we witness bad behavior, pointed out, and then promptly do nothing about it. It's baffled me for 20 years and it's made me a bit unpopular in some circles. But then again, I used to own a St Louis Rams Tony Banks jersey ...

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And as somebody who's currently on a tenure committee and has served in the past, my appetite for "counting the numbers" is just not there. And I think people would be surprised at the sophistication of external reviewers and spotting bad trends. All to say: we have control over this.

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

But I would also say that there's the narrative around how much you need to publish versus the reality around how much you need to publish. I think for some reason people just don't want to talk about this because they're afraid of reprisal.

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I mean sure. I'm just saying that one of those is an ongoing more general publication? I think when we conflate extreme edge cases to push an ongoing problem we end up confusing both.

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

But it's also a crisis completely on our control. When folks do stuff like this, they get dragged pretty badly. But I think we have to be careful about confusing bad actors with crises. For instance, hiring committees could actually read the papers people have published. They just don't.

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's not a crisis. One person's shit behavior is ... one person's shit behavior. And they're pinched. We need to quite using "evidence of a bad actor" as "evidence of all bad actors." My neighbor once embezzled seven figures from a bank. It doesn't mean that I'm about to do it.

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The scholars who dump their slop onto editors, do they know they are slowly destroying their chances at having a good reputation in their field?

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think I'm figuring out that it's not the AI I'm frustrated with. It's the person handing me their AI slop in such a confidently awful manner. It's the willingness to sign our names to absolute dreck & to not be concerned a lick about accuracy or clarity. It's your efficiency causing me labor.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Unpopular opinion: Please stop with the Publication Alerts. As we learned from The Simpsons, red sirens are rarely good things. Fine to simply say "Here's our new paper on xxx and yyy such thing." Don't need to make it akin to the Emergency Broadcast System. Signed, ~ a boomer in my soul

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Global Perspectives in Communication (GPC) @gpccomm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We're at @ecreaeu.bsky.social all week in Brno and we've got So. Many. Board. Members presenting and engaging the conference, including Editor-in-Chief @bowmanspartan.bsky.social. Keep an eye out for our team, and *please do feel free* to ask about the journal! academic.oup.com/gpc/pages/ed...

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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief Nick Bowman, PhD Syracuse University Editorial Board Nicole Allen Utah State University, United States Albert Anani-Bossman University

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm glad to know that my research "resonates" with so many chatbots applying to graduate school this cycle. (that's a clue, y'all. truly you're not fooling anyone with the AI)

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Some time back, I sat down with Good Housekeeping to talk through some of the state-of-the-research around a question that so many parents ask: "Is it okay that my kid(s) play video games?" The answer is "Yup." Read the article for more! www.goodhousekeeping.com/relationship...

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The Research-Backed Reasons I'm Fine With My Kid Playing Video Games

We should be looking at video games as something that’s actually good for our kids.

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Dear *all students looking to learn about graduate programs* - you really, really, really have to stop using AI to generate your "email where I ask questions about your program." It's a bad first look ... and it make me want to have my robot answer your robot. Just talk to us. Human to human.

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

PhD candidates/new grads: Postdoc opportunity with me focused on political economy and tech. See details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32502

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Cornell University, Department of Communication

Job #AJO32502, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My answer? Desk reject. Explain why. Allow them a chance to tell me that I've got it all wrong and have a dialogue.

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

THAT. That right there. It's like when you convince yourself that a restaurant in town really did change their recipes and then after a few bites its ... yeah that didn't happen.

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Seriously y'all can we just quit with the robot-writing? As a journal editor, you're taking *so much of the joy* out of reading human science. You've smoothed it out into a series of banal and often inaccurate claims. So rarely do I read a paper with AI content that is very good, in any event. =/

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's that time of year when all of the chatbots reach out to PhD programs to learn how to earn their PhDs.

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