Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The OG had flying monkeys. I am still terrified of them. 000
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026One of us was the hit of the fall festival and was asked by multiple strangers for a picture. Hint: it wasn’t me! 🍁🐶 000
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Annual farmers’ market treasure. This one is a foot in diameter. 011
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 08/08/2026My dog turned 20 and we had a belated amateur photo shoot 110
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I think we might be onto a million-dollar idea here. 001
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Romance writers wanted! Please share your thoughts on AI for a research project being conducted by Bridget Kies of Oakland University. Soliciting published and unpublished authors for interviews. More info: bridgetkies.com/romance-and-... #romance #romancelandia #romanceauthors 0814
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 20/06/2026AU in which you're a wayward center whose coach has sent you to army boot camp to learn some discipline, and I happen to be running it 000
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Here's the full list of events for the @aadl.org's Big Gay Read this year. Join me on July 15 to talk about how Big Data and AI are changing Hollywood and queer stories. And catch @chucktingle.bsky.social himself this weekend. 0263
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Since 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. 060
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 23/02/2026AI 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. 100
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 06/02/2026I'm conducting a research study to learn more about video game players' attitudes toward generative AI. The survey will take approximately 10 minutes of your time. tinyurl.com/videogameAIs... #gaming #videogames #videogame 12329
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 11/01/2026After a long foray into AI’s impacts on higher ed and media industries, I’m getting back to my roots in fan studies. 050
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 20/12/2025I have cried my way through the final 12 minutes of White Christmas. Guess it‘s officially the holiday season now. 030
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Today's the day! TEACHING AI IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES, with @melstanfill.bsky.social, is officially out from @routledgebooks.bsky.social! Full contents in replies. www.routledge.com/Teaching-AI-... 823
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 25/10/2025I don’t know how I’ve gone this long without seeing The Third Man, but I finally did and it’s so good! That final scene … 000
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 06/10/2025I’m not trying to brag, but today I had one of the best classes in 20 years. 020
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Why do I have an entire folder called Slide Templates on my computer and spend hours making beautiful slides? Because this is what I get after SEVEN attempts to have Copilot generate slides with visual design based off my lecture notes. 000
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 05/10/2025When you're working on a presentation about the current state of copyright and AI... 000
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 28/09/2025When your approach to learning is straight from Andrew Sarris’s playbook, I guess cinema gonna cinema. 010
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Proofs for Teaching AI in Film and Media Studies with @melstanfill.bsky.social submitted. See you all on publication day! 071
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Copyediting time! Teaching AI in Film and Media Studies, co-authored with @melstanfill.bsky.social, is coming soon. 061
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Who is making decisions about the messaging of the DNC’s donation asks? I don’t need a political mom guilting me into donating, thanks. 000
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Michigan friends and #murdershewrote fans, join me at @schulerbooks.bsky.social in West Bloomfield on August 2 for a book signing! 000
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 02/07/2025The time I turned in two book manuscripts on the same day! 020
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Thank you to the Rochester Hills public library for having me speak about Murder, She Wrote and the cozy mystery last night, and extra special thank you to the many friends and colleagues who showed up. I was blown away by the turnout! 020
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 06/05/2025When this comes up in your feed only an hour after you gave a talk about Murder, She Wrote and grandma….. 030
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 26/04/2025At least this time all the comments called out this “technological salvation” for how stupid it is. 010
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 26/04/2025We already have this. It’s called Google docs or Word 365, but what extra gets me is that in the demo video the student just clicks “accept” on all the prof’s suggestions without reading them. Yes, yes, a superb model of education! I hate ed tech. 020
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 21/04/2025The Wheel of Time S3 finale is a dud of a story that’s not a finale and, bizarrely, features a Zoobilee Zoo character in stripper platform stilettos that’s totally out of sync with the rest of the production design. What happened here? 100
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Sometimes you take selfies with other people’s books bc you know they won’t. @nyupress.bsky.social @uofmpress.bsky.social @melstanfill.bsky.social 162
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Fandom, the Next Generation is two years old now, but still nice to see it in the wild. 010
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 05/04/2025The book selfie is one of my favorite parts of conferencing. Murder, She Wrote is out now for a bargain price from Wayne State UP. 3141
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 03/04/2025He would like to know if there are any panels on Lassie. #SCMS25 2110
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Today in my AI learning community: pre-bunking as a strategy to combat misinformation...plus cats. 020
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 01/02/2025My film history students are learning about how radical New Queer Cinema was as a movement that coincided with the late AIDS epidemic. I sent them to the CDC as an authority on AIDS data. 130
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 31/01/2025It’s me, your local author of a bunch of stuff I didn’t write 000
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 08/01/2025These survey results are a reminder to talk to your students in the early weeks of the semester, even if you don't want them to use AI in your course (especially then!). I'm updating my recommendations on "the talk" and syllabus policies. Stay tuned for that. 010
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 07/01/2025From the terrible site. Are people really still having students turn in paper and marking it up excessively in red pen? And posting to gripe about it? This is terrible pedagogy all around. 110
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Good morning, film studies BlueSky! I got an "article" sent to me from someone I don't know from a listserv I don't subscribe to that is about how "identitarian social justice" in the film industry is discriminating against white, male, able-bodied men. In reality, this was Cannes this year: 020
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 13/12/2024I’ve never posted a book stack before, but my winter reading list is so eclectic and weird that I had to. 020
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Just signed a contract with Routledge for TEACHING AI IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES co-authored with @melstanfill.bsky.social! Each chapter explains how AI intersects a topic in film and media studies with discussion questions, assignments, and readings. Here's a cute robot to celebrate! 0122
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 01/10/2024Sneak peek at my workshop on how generative AI works - this Thursday at 3pm. Hope to see you there for a lively discussion of establishing nuanced, meaningful course policies. 010
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 17/01/2024Buckle up. Tomorrow’s auteur theory day in my Media Authorship and AI seminar. 010