Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 11hContinuing posting on making comics accessible for blind/low vision readers, this part of our comic shows 6 possible ways of translating just a single panel, to really illustrate how one size doesn’t fit all needs. Accessibility is messy & an artistic act itself! spinweaveandcut.com/mitcomic/ 13016
Reposted by Nick SousanisDeb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Some news: I’m (officially!) writing another book, tentatively titled TACTILE: MATTER, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE WORLD WE MAKE, working again my brilliant editor @armadilloproxy.bsky.social at @riverheadbooks.bsky.social. I wrote a bit more about it at my newsletter: buttondown.com/metafoundry/... 1113225
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026in relation to our panel on comics for blind readers today, the comic @emilybeitiks.bsky.social & I made for @technologyreview.com - we explored the challenges and potential of making comics accessible. Can see/listen to it here spinweaveandcut.com/mitcomic/ 4266
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Today! Interested in learning how comics can be made accessible to blind/low vision readers? Tune in to our panel at 2pmET/11amPT to learn more from @emilybeitiks.bsky.social Silvana Rainey, @comicnurse.bsky.social @pfanderson.bsky.social & me! Learn about what we’ve done & explore the exhibition!lib.umich.eduComics Beyond SightThis exhibit demonstrates that comics can be made accessible for those who are blind or have low vision. 2127
Reposted by Nick SousanisPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star. 282176618
Reposted by Nick SousanisMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Congrats on this getting going tomorrow @pfanderson.bsky.social!!! #GraphicMedicine www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...lib.umich.eduComics Beyond SightThis exhibit demonstrates that comics can be made accessible for those who are blind or have low vision. 2104
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Kiddo and I visited the world’s smallest movie theater today… Only realized today that we go by it regularly for years. No sign, no markings of any kind, just a literal hole in the wall! Learn about it here nypost.com/2026/08/01/u... 070
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Wonderful look at @angieforfl.bsky.social & her important work and campaign in this month’s @thenation.com. On banned books, starting her bookstore, Cafe Resistance “they banned the truth, so we put it right here in the community…” go go go! Read/listen here www.thenation.com/article/soci... 121
Reposted by Nick SousanisAngie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2 4768281109
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Tomorrow join @emilybeitiks.bsky.social, Silvana Rainey, @comicnurse.bsky.social & me for a virtual panel on accessible comics to launch a new iteration of the Comics Beyond Sight accessible comics exhibition at UMich. Should be an illuminating conversation & excited to see the show go forward!lib.umich.eduExhibit Opening: Comics Beyond SightHear from the exhibit creators, engage with the exhibit, and talk with tabling presenters. 1218
Reposted by Nick SousanisRick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026people keep telling me how terrific this interview is, so I’m reposting and thanking again @katecarp.bsky.socialdraftingthepast.comRichard Ivan Jobs and Steven Van Wolputte Figure It Out As They GoEpisode 110 of the Drafting the Past podcast 255
Reposted by Nick Sousanis Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We're live! On the @insidehighered.bsky.social podcast w @saracuster.insidehighered.com "How Faculty Can Be Agents of Change" www.insidehighered.com/podcasts/key.... Focusing on our book "Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times" @dukepress.bsky.socialinsidehighered.comEp. 215: How Faculty Can Be Agents of Change | Inside Higher EdIn their new book, Faculties: A Dialogue on In 064
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026What a fascinating class reading list to be on! Now I want to read all the books! Thanks, @eireannmor.bsky.social! 131
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Wow! What an impact @cathyndavidson.bsky.social & Hastac have had these 25 years! I did one of my first talks about planning to do my dissertation in comics at Hastac in Dec 2011 at UMich & that launched me into a lot of conversations I hadn't anticipated! Grateful... 2103
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Last week was Matt Madden week in my intro to making course, where we talk constraints & look at Matt's brilliant 99 Ways to Tell a Story, and then Ss add their own additional page to the book! Some sweet ones from this class! Popup! Fisheye, contrast, diff style each pane, swapped w/water bottle 25614
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Listening to this episode of @onthemedia.bsky.social on bike ride to class and while I should be long from stunned by what comes out of his mouth at this point, trump saying, they can write what they want but I don’t have to let them into the people’s house. If irony weren’t long dead…podcasts.apple.comThe White House on MutePodcast Episode · On the Media · September 25 · 50m 032
Reposted by Nick SousanisAndy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Today I saw the term "ai aren'tists" for the first time and I rather like that. 15017
Reposted by Nick SousanisLucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Oh ho ho, I'm joining the fine folks at @crucialcomix.bsky.social on October 11th for an artist talk about STAYING SANE WHILE DRAWING GREAT BIG GRAPHIC NOVELS. Sliding scale, nerdy spreadsheets and coping strategies guaranteed. See you there? www.crucialcomix.com/product/arti...crucialcomix.comArtist Talk: Lucy BellwoodThe adventure cartoonist shares strategies for staying focused while working on long-term, land-locked graphic novels. 36114
Reposted by Nick SousanisAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 5030791084
Reposted by Nick SousanisInternet Archive @archive.org · 29/09/2026What's on your bookshelf that the Internet Archive doesn't have? There's an app for that. Scan a book's barcode or ISBN to see whether the Internet Archive needs it for preservation and digitization. Scan your shelves. Save a book. help.archive.org/help/donate-... 🧵 14376215
Reposted by Nick SousanisTiffany Babb 🔜 NYCC @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Did you know that twice a year, The Comics Courier, a newspaper 🗞️ filled with the best comics criticism around is available through Kickstarter? If this sounds like something you'd like, click that Notify Me on Launch button on our pre-launch page to up to date! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...kickstarter.comComing soon: The Comics Courier, A Comics Criticism Journal [Issue 5]A newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism edited by Tiffany Babb 01913
Reposted by Nick SousanisKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Jack Smith says he stands by his decision to bring charges against Trump in the classified documents case. "If asked whether to prosecute a former President based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that President was a Republican or a Democrat." 593092803
Reposted by Nick Sousanisarpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026read my review of a comic that is itself a comic 12010
Reposted by Nick SousanisImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026fucking reallythehill.comEducation Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ studentsThe Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati… 672171720
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I love it when my reading interests collide, as Alan Moore & Swamp Thing turn up rather unexpectedly in the final chapter of @rowhoop.bsky.social’s important look at the symbiotic interconnected nature of life in Togetherness! 393
Reposted by Nick SousanisAlex Segura @alexsegura.com · 27/09/2026Here's a gift article of the @nytimes.com piece by @georgegustines.bsky.social on our KNOW YOUR RIGHTS comic book! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/a...nytimes.comA New York City Comic Book Offers Tips on Rights and ICE Encounters 0147
Reposted by Nick SousanisJer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Posting this @nsousanis.bsky.social mini comic about AI and creative work for no particular reasonspinweaveandcut.comFall 2025 Syllabi! 2158
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Kids and I love this book and already recommended it to students last week, glad it’s back in print! 3137
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Sometimes, they unpave paradise and put in a playground! Thanks for this @sunsetdunes.org Pirates Cove playground was pretty cool! 180
Reposted by Nick SousanisÁlvaro Pons @alvaropons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Un sensacional hilo de @nsousanis.bsky.social que solo se puede resumir con una tira de Nancy! 12910
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026people took care of Tamagotchis, but they couldn't feel pain either (or think or...) 1132
Reposted by Nick SousanisAlex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released. 7337801261
Reposted by Nick Sousanis Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'm excited to join the other 2025 McGraw Prize in Higher Education winners Frederic Bertley, Joe Wolf, and Rapelang Rabana at 12pm on Oct 6 for “Optimizing Learning for a Volatile World,” a dynamic Zoom panel moderated by 2014 McGraw Prize winner Chris Lehmann: upenn.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 022
Reposted by Nick SousanisJordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Thanks to @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social for the paper copies of the comic we made together. You can read it online here: www.jordancollver.com#/hiv-aids/ 0155
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I amassed a rather unintentionally crazy thread of cool things that can only be done in comics, showing a few things I use in talks/classes and some great prompts from others. 'Twas fun, and a good use of this forum. Thanks all! 0154
Reposted by Nick SousanisClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 271468750
Reposted by Nick SousanisColin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“Street Smarts For Republicans”, by Matt Groening, 1995. 015360
Reposted by Nick SousanisJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The Dartmouth provost's decision to stop writing by substituting AI-assisted text production is a great opportunity to have the kinds of conversations every institution should be having about AI use in higher education. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...insidehighered.comDartmouth’s provost has stopped “writing.”Dartmouth’s provost raises a tension we should examine. 17822
Reposted by Nick SousanisDavid Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.forbiddenstories.orgThe Deportation Project MapBetween 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De... 3822401169
Reposted by Nick SousanisJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026One student, reacting to this news about AI, echoed the same terms as a senior colleague: “either there’s an honor code or there isn’t.” Just as AI blurs the lines between fact & slop, for too many students it’s bringing unnecessary confusion to that critical question. 312321
Reposted by Nick SousanisYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026every fuckin morning 840957
Reposted by Nick SousanisProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵 412113776071
Reposted by Nick SousanisRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades 554902878
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026in my talk today, as an example of the strange things you can do in comics given their sequential but also spatial/simultaneous nature, I included this gonzo panel from 1950s Batman, which I just love in all its weirdness! Yes, I have more intentionally clever examples, but something about this... 18414119
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My talk is in an hour (830am PT/1130amET) and I’m still pretty sure it’s open to the public! The link to join is at my site! (If I’m wrong, join anyway, and don’t make too much of a ruckus so they let you stay! :) ) 2123
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is such a fun book - we love it! Glad to see it back in print and at my comic shop last week! 041
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026so I'm giving a virtual talk on comics tomorrow morning 830am PT/1130am ET for CT State's Common Read program – & I think, it's open to the public. I meant to post earlier, but if you are so inclined, details on my site here (down below my new syllabus): spinweaveandcut.com/comics-in-ed...spinweaveandcut.comComics in Education Minicomic as Syllabus! 1135
Reposted by Nick SousanisRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful. 47371683222