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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One side effect of studying film and television is that my dreams have become more sophisticated. Sometimes the results are fun. Other times, there's a horrifying twist ending I didn't see coming. #filmstudies #film #horror

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SCMS Critical Media Pedagogies SIG @scmspedagogy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Please join us for our first virtual roundtable of the school year "Pedagogies of Care" on September 18 @ 1pm ET / 10am PT. This will feature contributors to the JCMS Teaching Media dossier Pedagogies of Care in an Age of Anxiety. Sign up below! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Message in a bottle for @sepinwall.bsky.social: a colleague of mine at GA Tech is looking for some of your HitFix recaps and interviews for a book on The Leftovers. Any chance you could help? Please DM me and I'll put you in touch 🤞🏻📬

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I saw a squirrel fall out of a tree today. It landed with a thud, looked embarrassed, then scampered back up.

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SCMS Critical Media Pedagogies SIG @scmspedagogy.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Roundtable includes: Stephanie Brown, Brianna J. Cox, Misty D. Fuller, Nicholaus Gutierrez, Amanda Konkle, Derritt Mason, Chelsea Wessels, and is moderated by Jennifer Blaylock and Lisa Jacobson.

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

More Fairuza Balk appreciation: there's something about how she moves her mouth that reminds me of Cole Escola. Now I really want to see them together in a stage production of The Craft—and maybe also Return to Oz! #spookyseason #Halloween #witchy

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Just rewatched The Craft. Can we get Fairuza Balk on Yellowjackets ASAP? @emilystjams.bsky.social?

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

"Color Protocols," edited by Carolyn L. Kane and @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social, explores how color intersects with problematic histories of racial encoding in linguistic, visual, and algorithmic media: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255350...

A copy of "Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media" edited by Carolyn L. Kane and Lida Zeitlin-Wu on a plain background

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Pop Quiz: Is this a photo from The Guardian or a still from One Battle After Another? #PTA #OneBattleAfterAnother

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

When they said small government, I didn't think they meant autocracy.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

They are literally canceling culture

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2025

condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

My favorite thing about Georgia Tech students might be how they give each other feedback. There's a consistently high level of honesty, sincerity, and mutual respect. It gives me a much-needed spark of hope for the future. #teaching #peerreview #GATech

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Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Margarita Vaysman & I have been working on this for the past 5 (!) years, but it's finally done- the online version is up and the hardcover should be out later this month! Welcome to the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, feat. 41 chapters and beautiful cover art: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 🎉

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Abstract. Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

My body is like, "Phew, it's been a long semester! When's Thanksgiving break again?" It's Day 2. #academia #teaching

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

Quote from a story on changes at the U of Chicago that notes they are "pausing" doctoral eduction in Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

If you had "deploying military forces against civilians in your own country" on your authoritarianism bingo card, well, go get your dauber. What's that, LA? You already marked that square in June? #WashingtonDC

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Clara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

For my fall course prep, I've been rereading our teaching dossier on ungrading. Let me shout out Part I again, edited primarily by @jennblaylock.bsky.social and secondarily by me. We really wanted to make something thoughtful, honest, and above all USEFUL—so please read and share with abandon!

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Spending this 4th of July traveling between Germany and the Netherlands, two countries I once called home and gladly would again.

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Still thinking about #NECS2025 in Lisbon last week. It was an honor to present on the panel "Socialism Goes Global: Cold War Geopolitics Beyond Europe" with @cheryldueck.bsky.social, Deniz Göktürk, and Balázs Varga. More in Montpellier? [Photo credit: @nwbaer.bsky.social]

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

After exploring the beautiful city of Lisbon with Maggie @hennefem.bsky.social, I'm ready for #NECS2025 to begin!

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Watching #nokings from afar (East Germany) and sending all the love and solidarity 💗

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

This is a longshot, but: @inkookang.bsky.social, I'm a TV scholar writing about The Americans, and I'm trying to locate a terrific article you wrote in 2016 about the 4th season for the now defunct MTV News. Any chance you (or someone else) could send it to me?

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

This is outrageous, and we should be appropriately outraged. How can I tell my students it's not OK to copy-paste hallucinated AI slop when it appears to be MAHA's MO? #teaching #AI #plagiarism #ethics

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White House Health Report Included Fake Citations

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

"It’s tragic and appalling that PBS and WNET are willing to become collaborators with the sinister forces trying to muzzle free speech"—Art Spiegelman Sure, let's deport advocates for peace for their "anti-Semitism" while censoring the guy who wrote THE graphic novels about the Holocaust.

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Criticism of Trump Was Removed From Documentary on Public Television

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NPR @npr.org · 19/05/2025

Whether you get your forecast from an app on your phone, a website or a meteorologist on TV, most of the underlying information comes from the federal government. By @rhersher.bsky.social

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Where does your weather forecast come from?

Whether you get your forecast from an app on your phone, a website or a meteorologist on TV, most of the underlying information comes from the federal government.

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

It's grading season, and maybe you have realized you want to rethink how you do assessment. Well...part two of the double-issue on ungrading in North American film and media higher ed classrooms that @lisawj.bsky.social and I co-edited, is now up: quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/teach... Check it out!

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Watching #Sinners today, my brain went: "Yeah, but Smoke is the real Michael B. Jordan, right?" Just like Sarah was the real Tatiana Maslany.

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Part II of our JCMS teaching dossier on ungrading is here! Check out my intro, "Risky Business." Thanks, as ever, to my wonderful co-editor @jennblaylock.bsky.social! I'll shout out some of our terrific contributors in the comments below. quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/teach... #ungrading #teaching

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The full 2 part issue of Teaching Media on Ungrading is out! Shepherded by @jennblaylock.bsky.social and @lisawj.bsky.social. Check it out if you need an anti-dote to the New Yorker article discourse! (though, my entry in the issue *is* a little cranky). quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/teach...

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Jean Ketterling @jeanketterling.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The second issue of the ungrading two-parter has been published (edited by @jennblaylock.bsky.social and @lisawj.bsky.social ). It includes my piece on using ungrading to incentivize risk-taking and experimentation among first-time game makers 🎮 in a WGST class. quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/teach...

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

"Each project taught me to design communication rather than just produce it." More gems from my first-year multimodal composition students. #teaching #teachingwriting #ungrading

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

From a student's reflective essay: "I began to see revision as a creative process rather than a punishment." 🥹 #teaching #teachingwriting #ungrading

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects

A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

No one will ever read my research as meticulously as my institution reads my expense reports. #AcademicSky #AcademiaSky

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

My Disney princess "I want" song is about a job with a less than 4/4 teaching load, some conference funding, and possibilities for advancement or at least renewal, in a location with decent public schools that's less than 2 hours from a major airport. A girl can dream.... #AcademicSky #AcademiaSky

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

For anyone who needs a boost

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

It's official: students on my campus have had their visas revoked. I've heard reports of plainclothes agents. Even at this "apolitical," STEM-focused institution, my students and colleagues are not safe. Ideas about what I can do? My job is contingent but I've got plenty of privilege.

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