Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares. 891835363
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenNico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 21/06/2026"The gender critical movement in the UK is scapegoating trans people for invented problems and using that as justification to erase them from public life. This is consistent with the 9th Pattern of Genocide: Denial and/or Prevention of Identity." 14517
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenFansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 18/06/2026“It was hard to get pitches placed about other shows, but editors still wanted the dragons. … What started as a hobby and became a job soon turned into a life raft I quietly resented.” @michejaw.bsky.social writes about the Game of Thrones media industrial complex from the inside:fansplaining.comHow I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DragonsRecovering from the Game of Thrones content mines. 0149
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenDean Leetal @deanleetal.bsky.social · 17/06/2026OK! Thank you <3 <3 It's "Ableism in the service of transphobia: J. K. Rowling as a case study" journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...journal.transformativeworks.org Ableism in the service of transphobia: J. K. Rowling as a case study | Transformative Works and Cultures 1114
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenDave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Our society has spent the entirety of teenagers' lives systematically destroying every alternative to online interaction, from youth-clubs to broadcast TV, and now wants to cut off their access to the one thing that was sold as replacing it all. 10357171
Reposted by Dr. EJ Nielsen🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 19/05/2026CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...glaad.orgTell the FCC that LGBTQ Stories Don’t Need a Warning Label | GLAADThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous... 11557995003
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenMichael Damian Thomas @michaeldthomas.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Fun fact! Land-grant public universities were opposed by the southern states and only happened due to the The Morrill Act of 1862 while they were off being the Confederacy. I WONDER WHY THE MODERN GOP HATES THEM NOW?!?! It is a DEEP MYSTERY! 5719158
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenAmy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Well well well looks like those art degrees aren't so useless after all 3165641978
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenChuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 02/05/2026amazing that our own small creations connect us directly to the moment of our universe erupting out of nothing and the unfathomable power of existence itself and yet we look at our drawings or stories and are like 'this is bad.' bud it is not bad it is the leading edge of a billion years of beauty 7591231
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenBrian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 02/05/2026The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident 5638851344
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenCommon Dreams @commondreams.org · 28/03/2026Nationwide General Strike Planned for May 1: No Kings Organizercommondreams.orgNationwide General Strike Planned for May 1: No Kings OrganizerIndivisible co-founder Ezra Levin announces nationwide general strike on May 1 in next No Kings mass action. 912267
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenDr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership. 4235561337
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Re: my last reposts “Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch. 571402550
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenCalvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 21/03/2026just a helpful hint to all you university administrators getting some bad press out there: this is what many zoomers see when they look at college now. if you don’t want to keep bleeding money, maybe consider not oppressing the constitutional rights of your faculty, staff, and students. 7722183
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenDr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social · 06/03/2026cstonline.net/cfp-edited-c...cstonline.netCfP: edited collection “Opening Sequences: The Narrative Architecture of TV Titles”. Deadline: May 04, 2026Opening Sequences: The Narrative Architecture of TV Titles This edited volume proposes the first critical anthology devoted to television title sequences as a distinct and influential mode of visual… 072
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenEd Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 06/03/2026The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5 121548876
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenThe Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 06/03/2026Do universities fail to protect researchers when their public-facing work receives backlash? @lauraclancy.bsky.social @hannahyelin.bsky.social take a closer look at academic labour, the risks of public engagement and the politics of visibility. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/1UkhPWs 066
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 17/12/2025Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT 14446892150
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/02/2026The worst figures on campus arguing that campuses had become overrun with wokeness were all best buddies with Epstein. Quelle surprise. www.salon.com/2026/02/19/j...salon.comJeffrey Epstein helped fuel the campus culture warsThe academics in the Epstein files aren’t all criminals, but they shared beliefs about whose work matters. 161178396
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenAAUP @aaup.org · 17/02/2026"In recent months, Texas universities have inflicted some of the worst repression of academic freedom we’ve ever witnessed at American colleges, with gag orders, speaker bans and arbitrary firings of dissenting faculty."insidehighered.comCensorship Is Bigger in TexasTexas officials apparently think Texas students are stupid snowflakes who must be protected from hearing controversial ideas. 04232
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenProf Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Unpopular opinion - there is no way to use GenAI ethically, and AI literacy should involve helping people to understand why (hint - stolen IP, devastating environmental impacts, exploitation of workers, loss of learning, writing and thinking skills) #AcademicSky #sociology 610231
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenElise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 16/02/2026I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you. 331624565
Dr. EJ Nielsen @direjackalope.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I'm available for indexing academic volumes. Areas of specialization include fan studies, media studies, gender studies, visual culture, art history. DM if interested! Please share if you know someone who may need their monograph or edited collection indexed! 1106
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenAllenk_81 @allenk81.bsky.social · 08/02/2026FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month. 14040241485
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 29/01/2026All of these senators pushing "reforms" need to explain how they will enforce them given the fact that ICE is a lawless band of Klansmen that breaks the law constantly. 6691225
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/01/2026i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact 108101452906
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenMichael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 10/06/2025very generous of zoe, and as always, all agitprop i've drawn is available to print for whoever wants it drive.google.com/drive/folder...drive.google.comagitprop dump - Google Drive 3329138
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026I'm not sure Democrats in D.C. are aware that their base's rage against ICE has reached a level of blinding white-hot intensity. They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do. 27785641905
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenThomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory. 161153055807
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Don't call it a "bubble." OpenAI, Microsoft, & Alphabet are just fine with that term because they get to tell you that all the dot-com bubble or the railroad bubble or the whatever bubble was, was a shaking out the greats after an intense period of mania. This isn't a bubble. This is a time bomb. 38735
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 1534591235
Reposted by Dr. EJ Nielsen #BLM/#NMP/#ANTIFA🇲🇽 @sinnu1.bsky.social · 08/01/2026What he says… 10957431918
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenWIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe. 1021460510125
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenNick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 09/01/2026If you are cishet I NEED you to read this thread and do your best to understand the overlapping tragedies that Claire is describing here. 0172
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenEvan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Just look how gorgeous, how hopeful and uplifting good people and their art are!! Thanks to this artist, and people with spare cash go give some to marginalised creatives who are doing so much to get us all through!! 021
Reposted by Dr. EJ Nielsenjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/01/2026keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense 14491822506
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenDr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 07/01/2026London book talk on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! I'll be speaking on Thursday 5th May, 6pm, at @linneansociety.bsky.social More info and registration below. A free exhibition, "Wonder" is now on and ends the next day. 1/2 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMHeventbrite.co.ukHUMANS: A Monstrous HistoryMonsters aren’t fantasy. They built our ideas of race, gender, nations, and ‘normal.’ This is history through monsters. 44411
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenAAUP Texas A&M-College Station Chapter @tamu-aaup.bsky.social · 06/01/2026From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M! 12527541007
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenDr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social · 06/01/2026This looks like a fantastic new book (includes some chapters on fandom and participatory cultures too) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...link.springer.com#TrueCrime: Digital Culture, Ethics and True Crime AudiencesThe book considers the large and varied true crime community, outlining their at times contradictory needs and desires 022
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenK. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 02/12/2025This “trap” is often what admin wants. They put the onus onto individual instructors, tell them it’s their responsibility to meet the student/handle the situation, and they refuse to offer clear guidance/support. Then admin is insulated from blowback & the instructor bears the burden. 162
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/12/2025Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare. 2122811187
Reposted by Dr. EJ Nielsenonion person @junlper.beer · 01/12/2025the onion newspaper is worth it for the ads alone they always kill me 131677131
Reposted by Dr. EJ Nielsengwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 29/11/2025idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was 875410558
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenThe Onion @theonion.com · 13/11/2025"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services." theonion.comNot Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice ProcessWell, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t... 122370433
Dr. EJ Nielsen @direjackalope.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Excited to report that two new Cryptids have been sighted at my location. This is the best photo evidence we have collected so far. Research (and cuddles) are ongoing. 040
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenRachael P @plussone.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Helicopter view of Chicago #NoKings in Grant Park via @cbschicago.bsky.social 212865717
Reposted by Dr. EJ NielsenAndrew A. Gill @andrewagill.bsky.social · 16/09/2025It occurs to me how scared she looks & yet she's protecting her constituents. I'd much rather see Chuck Schumer scared & trying something than his cool, all is well shtick. Bravery isn't not being afraid, that's insanity. Bravery is beimg scared & saying fuck it we gotta do something anyway. 0133