I think I like it because OF COURSE these are the kinds of people who work for Facebook.
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I think I like it because OF COURSE these are the kinds of people who work for Facebook.
I'm enjoying the book but the author is trying to walk a fine line and not always succeeding. I get that she is trying to seem relatable and excuse why she is still there, but after a few stories of comical mixups it seems less like she is a mislead idealist and more like she's a little dumb, maybe?
Pants across Toronto are wet this morning in fear of this spreading here.
Such a good list.
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
At #INC5_2, Chair Luis Vayas says: There is no more time to keep adding positions already stated... a real push to achieve our common goal is needed... We must deliver by 14 August 2025." #PlasticsTreaty @unep.org
As usual, the ENB indispensable for us following along from home. Having watched some of the webcasts, I propose that the phrase "worked tirelessly" be retired from the discussions. I bet a lot of those people are plenty tired.
In the margins of #PlasticsTreaty #INC-5.2, the GENis at "No Plastics in Nature: Turning the Tide Together" organized by WWF. The gathering will reflect on 5 years of progress against #PlasticPollution & look ahead to what’s needed from the treaty and beyond.
I'm spending the summer feeding newborn twins and I have never been more grateful for cosy museum content. youtu.be/bd6GRXPD0Fw?...
Between Musk & the Trump administration, Media Matters has been squeezed to the brink. In settlement discussions, lawyers for X demanded the organization hand over all its cash and shut down — all because MM reported ads appeared on X next to antisemitic content. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...
Toronto knows what’s up.
Left: Hugh Jackman in the male gaze Right: Hugh Jackman in the female gaze i mean like literally. one's a muscle mag for lads & the other is GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, for god's sake
Not many politicians in the UK tell the truth about farming or are brave enough to criticise the cakeism of the main farming unions. But Lee Waters MS does in this refreshingly honest speech. Almost every word of it applies to England as much as Wales. amanwy.blogspot.com/2025/07/we-n...
On the one hand, yes I buy the argument that modern camping has really weird patriarchal/colonial origins and overtones but on the other hand, academics, if you don’t want to go camping, you can just say so.
2025 Climate Communication Award Winners announced! 🏆 They are Elena Maydell, Massey University (New Zealand) and Inessa Love, University of Hawaii (USA) and Daniel Renz Roc, University of the Philippines Los Baños (the Philippines). Read more about them and their work: iamcr.org/awards/clima...
🌐✨ Meet the winners of IAMCR’s 2025 Decolonising the Digital Awards! From Indigenous language activism to feminist AI, these groundbreaking projects reimagine technology from the margins. 👉 Read more: iamcr.org/awards/decol... #IAMCR2025 #DecoloniseTheDigital #DigitalJustice
🎓🏆 Congrats to the winners of the 2025 Stuart Hall Award! Their work examines media witnessing, menstrual stigma (@xiaodongyan.bsky.social), and the politics of representation. Full story: iamcr.org/awards/hall2... #IAMCR2025 #StuartHallAward #MediaStudies
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I, too, recommend my podcast. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
Conservative opposition to climate change can be partially explained by a higher perceived threat to climate policy rather than to climate change itself. New research by Samantha K. Stanley, @zlevo.bsky.social, Kirsti M. Jylhä, and Iain Walker explains: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Publication alert! Thrilled to support this work in empirical testing and analysis of a novel greenwashing assessment tool. Lots of time went into this from the Spinning Climate Change working group. See @sahill.bsky.social's full post for more details and how you can use the tool yourself.
It's been a privilege to work with everyone at the Spinning Climate Change Working Group on this version of the framework. And it's available as an online tool as well! cssn.org/special-proj...
This version of the framework is more user friendly in its language, but also tested against legal standards that are applied by advertising standards councils globally. This opens up some really interesting questions about the limits of legal approaches compared to other sources of accountability.
But the original framework was based on existing definitions and it was always our hope to refine it using input from practitioners. We set out to test it by recruiting experts to apply it to cases and by comparing it against definitions already in use by advertising standards bodies, for instance.
And the Institute for Advertising Ethics, in the US. www.iaethics.org/green-shield
...Flip, in Germany. trusted.letsflip.de/pages/greenw...
For example, by Teyit, in Turkiye. en.teyit.org/insight/shed...
The original framework was published in Sustainability (an MDPI publication before we realised...) and we were so excited to see it adopted by journalists and advertiser's as a standard for assessing environmental claims and avoiding greenwashing. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Revised greenwashing assessment framework just published in ecology and society! I'm really proud of the work that the spinning climate change working group put into this one and wanted to share the paper and a couple of thoughts. ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss2/a... @cssn.org #CommSky #AcademicSky
🚨🚨Job Alert🚨🚨 Our dept has an opening for a 12-month full-time fixed term contact for a Lecturer in Media and Politics. The role will cover teaching in areas of global news media & war, research methods, & digital media. Deadline 30th June 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI734/l... (pls share) #commsky
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Justin McElroy is a treasure.
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^^ This is what I mean when I gripe about 'forecasting culture' - men just argue about who has access to the better crystal ball of AI power forecasts, but environmental justice groups etc are dripping sweat fighting against these huge developments. We can point to real, material problems here
“‘Forgive / the utter glut / of this,’ the counter’s / sour dishes, the heap / of sheets undone, / tufts of dog hair / floating where / the late sun hits. ” Read “Good Lord, These Muscadines,” a new poem by Caki Wilkinson:
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
I was really hoping that one of the lessons of this election could be that being a smug simplistic jerk is not a winning political strategy.
My own Election Day reminders: 1) We don't elect the prime minister so there is no such thing as "PM-elect". If you must, say "PM-designate" or "presumptive PM" OR, if it's Mark Carney, just say "Prime Minister", because he's literally still PM even after the results tonight. 1/n
I think grading masters essays today was the first time I felt really threatened by what AI is doing to my field. And now I'm torn between the impulse to defend the importance of what I and my peers know and think about in media and communication...and giving up to become a nature-friendly farmer.
Climate change litigation is gaining momentum – but does it deliver real change? @matigre.bsky.social and I have organized a small webinar with fantastic speakers on the implementation and impact of landmark climate change cases. 📅 April 24 📝 Do sign up here: events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...
This one is mine, but really recommend this whole special issue. Ranking Digital Rights is also in there talking about corporate accountability!
Thinking of coming up with a rule about trying to review when it's too nice out. Nothing makes me a mean reviewer more than thinking "I'm missing this beautiful day just to read this!?"
The Yonge and Blood bike lanes improved my experience in the city so much--saved me $$, made it nice to get around. I really hope they survive this whole farce.
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Maybe so, but asking people to wait until the end of the decade when much of the rest of the world never paid energy bills this high is a pretty tough pill to swallow.
I'm excited to see this special issue out in the wild! Writing about GARM while it was being sued out of existence was a challenge, but I'm happy that I could work with the great editors and reviewers at IPR to make it happen.
The UK energy system is simultaneously so exciting and so incredibly frustrating (prices set by the most expensive energy??)
Really ought to remember to just book the day after the last day of teaching for the semester off. So little got done today and I was so cranky about it the whole time. And it was nice out!
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Wow. What the hell.
Meanwhile.... bit.ly/4kHdAGj
Thanks for this little bit of good news.
Some needed good news, including the hope that the UK could actually have affordable energy.
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Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵
Cannot believe how long this has taken, but still excited to see the results.
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If you went to college/uni 1. What was your career goal when you started? 2. initial major? 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. what do you do know, professionally? 1. Maybe a lit prof? 2. Comp lit 3. Politics + enviro (with extra panic trying to go full env) 4. Prof in media/comms
I still think it ought to be possible to create something like a public, open-access social media site, just for the purposes of keeping up with people & tracking unfolding events.
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More feather dinosaurs please!
I loved this so much that I read it twice and made my partner talk about it with me. Will use it in future to insert discussion of emperors' mothers, wives and aunts arranging murders into any and all discussions of the Roman empire.
"AI managed by Meta" Date joined and Verified September 2023?!?! www.instagram.com/himamaliv Who asked for this, and how is this even "social"? h/t @o.simardcasanova.net
Perhaps now is a good time to plug that I’ve been writing about the complicated histories of the verified badge (…series still ongoing obviously). Part one: datasociety.net/points/a-wor...
Including the interview with @katecrawford.bsky.social - and the terrific idea of AI as a “metabolic technology”
Relocating to the UK from Canada, the way national parks work here has been a real depressing education. Hope this is a step in the right direction.
Well this was depressing AF www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
Check your inbox: it’s City Hall Watcher #309! Guest contributor @damienmoule.bsky.social on what REALLY causes Toronto traffic. It isn’t bike lanes. Behind the paywall, I’ve started charting the line-by-line changes in the proposed 2025 police budget. toronto.cityhallwatcher.com/p/dont-blame...
If you watch something today please take time to watch my thoughts on the crisis facing Canadian democracy. We are in deeply uncertain times and parliament is failing to step up beyond dumbed down partisanship. Democracy is not meeting the crisis of the time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHPL...
Oh no. Can we try donations and premium subscriptions first? I will pay money not to go down that road again.
IAMCR is here! #Commsky #AcademicSky
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this kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most american cities
The 🌍 commitment to #BeatPlasticPollution is undeniable. #INC5 has moved us closer to a #PlasticsTreaty. As ongoing divergence remains in critical areas, #INC5 has adjourned to allow for more time for these areas to be addressed. Read the final outcomes from Busan ➡️ www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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*chews nails* It's a lot of high stakes environmental negotiations for one month.
Well, the research is also my job, but you get the idea.
Trying to both do my job, which is teaching heavy at this time of year, and keep up with research and the plastic treaty is just a really big ask, atm.
FYI as more trolls arrive: @righttobe.bsky.social is doing a FREE bystander intervention training on 12/4 for those seeing online harassment. The description emphasizes journalists, but @emilymaynot.bsky.social says it's for ANYONE. Please do check it out! righttobe.org/events/bysta...
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@enb.iisd.org does indispensable work. Great way to keep up with developments in Busan. #PlasticsTreaty
Oh wow, now that #INC5 and the plastic pollution folk are here on Blue sky I can finally deactivate my Xitter. Freedom!
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Appalling behaviour by Saudi Arabia. A reminder that the COP President is accountable to every nation not to an obstructionist petrostate. #COP29
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I am still wrapping my head around Google's announcement to stop political advertising in the EU in 2025. The decision to stop is allegedly due to regulation's broad definition of what a political ad is. But this is problematic. [1/2] #commsky #polcom #csssky #polisky blog.google/around-the-g...
The Spinning Climate Change working group at the CSSN made an online version of our framework for identifying green washing in environmental statements and claims! It helps guide you through yes/no answers to identify greenwash in action. Take a look at the link: cssn.org/special-proj.... #GreenSky
💥💥💥 BREAKING: BFFP-CIEL one-stop shop Streamlined comparison for Delegates to work with the 🪑 Non- Paper & 📃 Compilation Draft Text of the #PlasticsTreaty READ: www.ciel.org/wp-content/u...
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Today I realised what time I had to leave for the train 8 minutes before I had to leave,while still wearing my pyjamas. I made it. On the way back I missed the announcement that the platform had changed and missed that train. Big day for messing up transit logistics.
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This is great! And as a reminder (for a question I get a lot) you can and should cite preprints where you use them. The 10 rules contained in here apply to all citable objects - yes you can cite more than just things that look like a scientific paper.
anyway, I was very late to discovering this excellent @doctorvive.bsky.social piece about some of the challenges of summarizing science for policy action, but I've been thinking about it as I try to do science communication/translation: sometimes precision can get in the way of the message
Santos sued by its own shareholder in world-first greenwashing case