Reposted by Nick BrodyJeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Colin Simmons is the first player in college football history with five sacks in a game he also got penalized in for pretending to whip it out at pee on the ground. 3174
Reposted by Nick BrodyDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm under no illusions about how things are or what the trajectory is. But I'm also excited for the future because that is where I will hang out with the people I care about and do the things I like doing, or haven't done before. Weird but telling that this holds less appeal for much richer people. 292002236
Reposted by Nick BrodyDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The sunny side of this delusion is the computer gives you a flying car and makes it so you don't have to work. The blackpill one is that it wipes us out via some cinematic method TBD. Two futures you don't actually have to live in. Both are abdications, and embarrassingly childish on their face. 82088207
Reposted by Nick BrodyDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending. 8460531069
Reposted by Nick BrodyDavid at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 16/09/2026How deep do Bo French's ties to the University of Texas go? How about his dad having a room in the football facility named after him? And his noxious run for office is financed by prominent Longhorn boosters. That and A LOT more, in today's FOIAball. www.foiaball.com/p/texas-coll...foiaball.comBo French insulted Texas fans. Longhorn boosters fund him.The school even had a room named after his dad. 415454
Reposted by Nick Brodyyour pal uly @uscocksman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026FUUUUUUUCK YOU TED CRUZ HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA EAT FUCKING SHIT YOU PIECE OF SHIT 1386
Nick Brody @nbrody.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Came here to make a joke about Emily Wilson, peer review, and toxic academia but I’m about ten hours late! 041
Reposted by Nick BrodyChase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Currently dying at the fact that the Washington State Department of Health department issued a warning to all visiting the state that our weed is VERY strong & not to be taken lightly. Be safe out there visiting soccer fans! (credit to @pgcornwell.bsky.social for sharing this hilarious nugget first) 18574217
Nick Brody @nbrody.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Wrote a short essay about something that happens more than you might expect. medium.com/@nbrody_5108...medium.comOMG Someone Just Asked Me About The Anxious Generation AgainLet me describe a surprisingly semi-regular occurrence for scholars who study communication and technology. You’re at school pickup or… 0102
Reposted by Nick BrodyShen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 06/05/2026Other people have noticed this phenomenon too but danah boyd put the best slogan to it: social media is now parasocial media. Social media hasn't been social for a long while—how long depending on the platform, depending on the milieu. It's not folks sharing equally, but broadcasting and receiving.journals.sagepub.comSocial Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms... 328478
Reposted by Nick BrodyChris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Hey Folks who do social scientific research on language! I'm co-editing a special issue for Journal of Language and Social Psychology of registered reports. Please share! journals.sagepub.com/page/jls/cal... #commsky #psychskyjournals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 063
Reposted by Nick BrodyRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 16/03/2026It speaks well of my timeline that I got about a 50/50 split of Michael B. Jordan From FNL posts and Michael B. Jordan From The Wire posts 924113
Reposted by Nick BrodyMike Masnick @masnick.com · 01/03/2026OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons. openai.com/index/our-ag... 2726101141
Reposted by Nick Brodyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/02/2026"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)nytimes.comOpinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is 15767871925
Reposted by Nick BrodyG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/01/2026Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this. 221131175035
Reposted by Nick BrodyZito @zeets.bsky.social · 24/01/2026The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie. 100163564716
Reposted by Nick BrodyBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them. 224115213330
Reposted by Nick BrodyThe Communication & Technology Division of ICA @icacat.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Attention graduate students! The 15th annual Communication & Technology / Mobile Doctoral Consortium is now accepting student proposals to participate at #ICA26 in Cape Town. Proposals are due 2 Feb. Please read the requirements closely. sites.google.com/view/2026ica... 013
Reposted by Nick BrodyBree McEwan @mcewan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026#Commsky Doctoral students! Consider applying for the Doctoral Consortium. Ideal timing is students at the proposal stage (does not need to be defended). 032
Reposted by Nick BrodyMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 21/01/2026There's one foolproof way to gauge whether someone is a millennial or a zoomer: Ask them how they learned the difference between Iceland and Greenland. If the answer is from D2: The Mighty Ducks, you're talking to a millennial. Otherwise, zoomer. 1421473187
Nick Brody @nbrody.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Really enjoyed this conversation with Nate about some issues that you might say are, uh, timely. 041
Reposted by Nick BrodyJacob @tullamore-jew.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon 165113832176
Reposted by Nick BrodyAri Cohn @aricohn.com · 02/11/2025If you're ever tempted to believe or cite Jonathan Haidt's moral panic crusade against social media, you should consider that he's now also part of Heritage's crusade to criminalize porn. 35443130
Reposted by Nick BrodySteve @iamtherealsteve.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Maybe legalizing gambling and then aggressively marketing it to every demographic possible, allowing them to buy sports networks, and putting it all on your phone was a bad idea I dunno 1356
Reposted by Nick BrodyBarry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Believing that em dashes reveal LLM usage just reveals that you don't read. 716411
Reposted by Nick BrodyJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/07/2025The double standard here is stunning. Universities are losing grants, student aid, and endowments for being "too woke." But churches (which also receive federal funds, eg, for school vouchers, food banks, and marriage promotion programs) are now allowed to openly endorse political candidates. 25553213
Reposted by Nick BrodyChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal. 1962489189138
Reposted by Nick BrodyJeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Articles like this should note that LAPD reported the fewest violent crimes since 2015, the fewest property crimes since 2014, and the fewest murders since 1966 through May. 1103
Reposted by Nick BrodyDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue. 594230405049
Nick Brody @nbrody.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Google's vision of tbr future if childhood is bleak AF 040
Reposted by Nick BrodyJoel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Oh ok that’s why it all went down that way and I’ve just got to be ok with it lol 11287
Reposted by Nick BrodyRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Pope Leo spotted on the 2005 World Series broadcast 14785001592
Nick Brody @nbrody.bsky.social · 07/05/2025It does not serve academics well to take a chicken little/luddite approach to the gen AI issue. College was never about learning how to write essays. It's about learning to think. It's about learning to relate to others. 120
Reposted by Nick BrodyJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025I just *profoundly* object to the framing in that article linked to in the OP: that all the students are doing it and no one cares and it's time to give up because the lazy cheating students don't actually want to learn anything. 1943236
Reposted by Nick BrodyDave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 05/05/2025ALL FLEETWOOD MAC SONGS THAT DO NOT FEATURE A STEVIE NICKS LEAD VOCAL ARE NOW TARIFFED AT 250% 517166301833
Reposted by Nick BrodyVikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 30/04/2025AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels. The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people 4514689771
Reposted by Nick BrodyTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Pouring out a little liquor today for the handful of women astronauts who survived years of onerous training, men, and men only to have the press make Katy Perry their equal. 254907874
Nick Brody @nbrody.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Really cool quiz in the NYT today put together by comm scholars Jeff Hall and Andy Merolla (neither on bluesky) based on their recent book. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comQuiz: How Healthy Is Your Social Life? (Gift Article)Research shows that our happiness depends on a complex web of relationships and interactions. Fifteen simple questions can assess yours. 150
Reposted by Nick BrodyChris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 30/03/2025I am really pleased to see our meta-analysis of media literacy interventions (160 studies!) has been published in HCR. Unsurprisingly, there is a lot of nuance. One piece of good news is that the interventions work longitudinally. Free download here: academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...academic.oup.comMedia literacy interventions: meta-analytic review of 40 years of researchAbstract. We conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis of 160 media literacy interventions from 1983 to 2023, finding overall positive effects. Effects were 33818
Reposted by Nick BrodyNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Comedy is legal again 1113181335