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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“The U.S. Department of Defense funded the production and distribution of a strategy video game during its occupation of Iraq...There was never any attribution of the real video game maker, allegedly to enhance its credibility among its Iraqi users.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@lilymasonphd.bsky.social spitting truth:

From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The problem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of the foremost scholars of polarization in the world is telling us that polarization is the wrong concept to apply to the contemporary United States...so maybe don't do that

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens… and its pathology is not anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.”

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy.

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Muniba Saleem @nibasaleem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So grateful that the incredible amount of work (5+ years) behind this article was recognized! Shout out to my amazing co-authors: Ian Hawkins, Steve Rains, Dana Mastro, & @stewartcoles.bsky.social @ncacsc.bsky.social #NCA2026 #commsky

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Media MOSAIC Lab @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🎉 Congrats to @nibasaleem.bsky.social on receiving NCA’s Communication & Social Cognition Division Distinguished Article Award! Their meta-analysis examines 5+ decades of research on how media portrayals of minority groups shape intergroup attitudes. #NCA2026 #commsky

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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know those (rare) papers that really make you proud? In new piece out at APR, we show that #AffectivePolarization likely spills onto other types of non-political polarization - notably, PREFERENCES FOR CATS VS. DOGS (aka “affective PAWlarization”) paper: tinyurl.com/jn48bypp data: osf.io/4p2zu

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"For many Black scholars, academia is a burning house. If we cannot extinguish that fire, Black scholars will always bear a greater risk of being burned–& therefore have to insulate themselves against the risk more than others." @cydneydupree.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...

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Black academics face extra scrutiny. Our research shows its consequences

Scholars of colour told us they engage in strategies to make it harder for them to be dismissed as biased or lacking rigour, says Cydney Hurston Dupree

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a perfect example of what I call the weaponization of political ontology. Having a policy of avoiding political speech seems reasonable on its surface in certain situations, but it can be easily used to shut down disfavored speech. Manuscript in progress. bsky.app/profile/stew...

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 26/09/2026

I worked with Jake on this story for months, and it’s truly one of the best deep dives into how online sports gambling works that I’ve ever seen

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Jen Hoewe @jenniferhoewe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My book, Enjoyment Is Breaking News, will be released in one week! I’m very grateful for the positive reviews it’s received so far. Pre-order options from @mitpress.bsky.social are available here: lnkd.in/gXFi4H4s

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Thomas Talhelm @thomastalhelm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🚨 It's published! 🚨 This is the big one. 100 cultures, 12,000 people, 108 researchers. Why people (and our most-used surveys) get collectivism wrong and how to fix it. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.nature.com

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you saw this system anywhere else, you’d rightly call it apartheid.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

From 9% to 82% seems promising—good news here! I wonder what these numbers look like for the top communication journals.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Tomorrow in #CMN425 Entertainment and Politics we'll be talking about hybridity and intertextuality, so this news is timely. In fact, between this and the Trump admin's recent use of video games to spread anti-immigration propaganda, I'm instituting a new activity called "Fresh Hell of the Week."

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Macklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour After Onstage 'Free Palestine' Statements

Macklemore is being dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour after several venues allegedly said they would not allow a concert with the rapper to take place.

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Dr. Danielle Lupton @proflupton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My department is hiring a Tenure Stream Assistant Professor in IR with a focus on human security. It's a great position at a strong university with incredible benefits and good students. Please consider applying and sharing with your networks: apply.interfolio.com/188692

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And today Scheufele is posting like it’s just another day… about AI scholars contaminating academic publishing. I can think of some other things destroying the academy: fucking your students? being psychologically abusive to the ones you don’t want to sleep with? The hubris is wild.

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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Dietram Scheufele has moved to ASU but Dominique Brossard, who covered up Scheufele’s relationships with students, is still teaching 2 courses this semester at UW-Madison and supervising grad student research registrar.wisc.edu/course-searc...

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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My wife made the accurate point that “pass the trash”, ie moving abusive faculty to other positions while covering up their record, is the same thing the Catholic Church did with abusive priests

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.

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UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor

Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.

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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Meanwhile, the pending rules and challenges have created uncertainty. Voters are emailing voting rights groups asking about their right to vote by mail, and Democratic officials are assuring their voters that the rules haven’t changed — so far.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Even if the administration loses, the damage is already done, in that voters will go into this election season doubting how they should vote and not knowing if their vote will count. The chaos is the voter suppression.

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Yamil Ricardo Velez @yamilrvelez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Columbia Political Science is hiring in political methodology at the junior level, starting July 2027. Review of applications begins October 1. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/190515

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

There's something to be said here about race, "political knowledge," and which groups generally have more/less of it, depending on which face of the state we're talking about. I'd posit that knowledge of the criminal legal system and how media portrays that system is uniquely important right now.

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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Working on a dissertation in American political behavior and need money for survey research? Apply for a grant worth up to $15,000 from the Rapoport Family Foundation. They’re planning on awarding up to 15 grants this cycle. Deadline Oct. 21. www.rapoportfamilyfoundation.com/phdgrant

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 17/08/2026

Almost two years ago I set up #blackademics as part of #blacksky so that faculty of African descent had a place to be in community with one another. As the academic years begins I want to renew my call for us to be in conversation here, to use the space @rude1.blacksky.team has provided. 1/

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Out today, our team's paper @gpir-sage.bsky.social "Reformulating and Reassessing Solidarity’s Downstream Effects: New Panel Evidence on People of Color During the 2024 Presidential Campaign" w/ @lindatropp.bsky.social , #SethKGoldman, #TatisheNteta journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Oh look, another shitty AI tool that nobody asked for, delivering a factually inaccurate “fact-check.” Add to the pile of examples for students on why they shouldn’t use AI.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I really wanna pick up Orbitals, but it looks a little too advanced for my usual co-op partner (my 7yo). With it taking advantage of GameShare over NSO, would be cool to find people to play with. I’ve just never really used the Switch(2) as an online multiplayer console.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Exactly this. Saw it all the time in the military, too. If Black people (or anyone who’s not a cishet white Christian man) advance, it’s because of lowered standards. If they don’t advance, it’s proof of their inferiority. There’s literally nothing you can do to prove your worthiness.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/08/2026

I normally block people like this, and I'm not weighing in on whether he plagiarized because I don't know, but you're telling on yourself that you think white people don't plagiarize or have poor scholarship and simply don't get caught because nobody looks. They only look at the uppity N****

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

New publication from me and Laura Cervi. We met in Berlin in the summer of 2024 and argued about if and how politics was being done on TikTok, then Biden stepped down, Charlie XCX tweeted "kamala is brat," and we decided to study what happened next... www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SKRTW...

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Kamala is Brat: TikTok and the Affective Politics of Memes

In this article, we examine TikTok memes about former Vice president Kamala Harris that circulated through the digital registers of the Charli XCX-inspired “Kamala is Brat” trend. By analyzing the ...

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Election coverage is just ESPN for people whose political interest is *too* high. It’s just entertainment to serve a strong political gratification. Gonna discuss this as usual this semester in #CMN425 Entertainment and Politics.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

At long last we have created the Terminator from the classic sci-fi film Do Not Create the Terminator

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 04/08/2026

The Center for Scientific Integrity is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the 2026 Ctrl-Z Award. Named for the universal keyboard shortcut for “undo,” the Ctrl-Z Award this year honors @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social and @katelaskowski.bsky.social for choosing transparency over reputation.

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Today in Science and science: Ice age hunters’ penchant for female mammoths, a detailed vagal map, and more

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

How does anyone expect instructors to put together our Fall 2026 syllabi when we don’t know when Nintendo is gonna drop the Ocarina of Time remake?

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Alexander Agadjanian @agadjanian.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Two very interesting papers on how minorities respond to exclusion (having IDs not represented in info + categories presented to them). Somewhat different treatments and outcomes, and diff populations, but I think very parallel in spirit -- one account of mobilization, the other demobilization

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hey #Rstats #Rmarkdown hive mind: trying to do something that should be simple but I can't seem to figure it out: How do I make all the tables align to the left when I knit my PDF?

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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

📢 New online first article! Is narrative engagement really a single experience? This meta-analysis synthesizes 52 studies (N = 12,705) using the Narrative Engagement Scale (NES) to examine the structure and psychological functions of narrative engagement.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 31/07/2026

Autopsies of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests often conclude that movements produced tough-on-crime backlash. My new study in Work and Occupations finds a different kind of movement outcome: BLM changed how local reporters cover cops and jails. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Beyond Police Stenography: How Disembedding Enables Critical Crime News Work

Prior research finds that crime journalists reproduced criminal justice organization standpoints through close working relationships with law enforcement. How do crime reporters relate to police sources today? Drawing on interviews with 58 journalists across 40 local newsrooms in 24 U.S. states, I find that disembedding from law enforcement organizations restructures many reporters’ source relationships, creating conditions under which some journalists enact a distinct professional identity through occupational activism. I argue that the critical crime journalist role is distinguished by a commitment to alternative sourcing practices, structural framing, and reinterpreted objectivity. Informants connect critical orientations to repeated exposure to official dishonesty and the influence of Black-led social movements against police violence. Critical crime journalists amplify civilian and prisoner voices and engage in contextual reporting, treating coverage as a vehicle to shift how readers understand criminalized people and the criminal justice system more broadly. These findings extend scholarship on occupational activism into crime journalism and identify pathways into this form of empirical and expressive occupational activism.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Yeah, the entire point of recognizing something as a social construct is to point out that we can always construct something different instead. Which means it’s not fate/nature/the gods, but something WE can act on. It politicizes the thing. Which (some) people will hate.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 28/07/2026

Now that all of my dissertation papers have been accepted, I'm making a thread that puts all the papers in the same place! I interviewed local crime journalists to learn more about how the decline of local news, digital publishing, and changing attitudes towards criminal justice affect their work.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 28/07/2026

New job market paper 🚨 Local newsrooms are cutting crime coverage—but not homicide, which nearly every journalist I interviewed considers too important to skip. So why did so many journalists recount open newsroom disagreements over homicide coverage? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Which deaths count? Debating homicide coverage amidst newsroom scarcity

Past research documents disparities in which homicides receive news coverage and how victims are portrayed, yet the organizational processes producing these patterns remain understudied. This paper asks how crime journalists navigate homicide coverage under resource scarcity—and why widely voiced concerns about the racialized consequences of coverage fail to resolve disagreements about equitable practice. Drawing on interviews with 58 crime journalists across 40 local newsrooms, I find that homicide coverage generated the most sustained professional disagreements in the data. Journalists agreed homicides were newsworthy and shared a vision for ideal coverage, but resource constraints often made it unrealizable. Participants invoked competing moral frameworks organized around two concerns: that selective coverage risks symbolic annihilation of primarily Black victims whose deaths go publicly unacknowledged, and that universal episodic coverage risks territorial stigmatization of communities where violence is concentrated. Because scarcity forecloses the coverage that would avoid both harms, it transforms professional discretion into a choice among ethically unsatisfactory alternatives. Some journalists responded by abdicating discretion entirely, endorsing universal coverage because they distrusted selective judgment. These findings illuminate why the coverage patterns that criminologists have identified as harmful persist even among practitioners who recognize and contest them.

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