Sara Grady

Professor, Department Chair of AI and Society The Department of AI and Society at the University at Buffalo, invites applications from outstanding scholars with excellent leadership abilities for the position of Department Chair. The Department of...

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Institution: University of Buffalo
Rank: Professor and Chair
Area: AI & Society
Deadline: January 9, 2026
Link: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58816

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Institution: University of Georgia
Rank: Professor
Area: Health Communication
Deadline: December 1, 2025
Link: www.ugajobsearch.com

There Is Only One AI Company. Welcome to the Blob As Nvidia, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft forge partnerships and deals, the AI industry is looking more like one interconnected machine. What does that mean for all of us?

AI companies, funders, and government are all intertwined in one big heaping trillion dollar blob. Here's what it means. www.wired.com/story/ai-ind...

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.

A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

POSTDOC POSITION in social psychology at Cornell
@cornellpsych.bsky.social! We will begin reviewing apps Dec 1st. Please repost!
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@spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social @aplssc.bsky.social @spssi.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings

“Big tech has made their choice”

www.404media.co/google-has-c...

A screenshot of the article title "Disconnect to Recharge: Well-Being Benefits of Digital Disconnection in Daily Life" and the abstract.

📬 Pub alert

Do effects of digital disconnection interventions translate to well-being benefits in *daily life*?

Our new ESM study concludes: yes but no... kinda 👽🔋
@klingelhoefer.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social

Out now in Communication Research
doi.org/10.1177/0093...

As I mentioned at my talk today for the @stanfordaaup.bsky.social teach-in, over 4,500 federal grants have been terminated at over 600 institutions. Those grants are valued at~$8B, with ~$3.5B being stolen from universities when those grants were terminated. The type of grants terminated varies +

This morning federal agents arrested two hard working immigrants on my street because they didn’t have their papers on them, and tried to arrest my neighbor because his green card was in his house rather than on his person.

We are now a “show me your papers” state, and it is outrageous. Get angry.

Lina Khan to co-chair NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team | TechCrunch Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.

A message to Wall Street and the tech industry? "Lina Khan to co-chair NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team" techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/l...

I eyeballed it. Okay, turns out it's nearly *half* of Senators got fewer votes than Mamdani.

Canada’s new budget aims to lure U.S. researchers to relocate Spending plan also calls for smaller research spending cut than feared

Canada makes pitch for US researchers to relocate with $1.7bn in new funding. My story for @science.org 🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...

This is a really helpful bird’s eye for #healthcomm #scicomm interested folks

Our meta-analysis of 60 studies which was published in @mediapsychmep.bsky.social was covered by @spspnews.bsky.social
Representation in Media Can Deepen or Undo Prejudice | SPSP spsp.org/news/charact...
@stewartcoles.bsky.social @rcgd-isr.bsky.social

Had an absolutely wonderful time chatting with @andyluttrell.bsky.social about tv, movies, sports, games (and of course brains) and what it’s all about.

A very casual hang if you’re new to this, but some really insightful questions get at the heart of why researching entertainment even matters

meme from Pen15 of Steve Buscemi (middleaged dude) trying to pass as a high schooler saying "how do you do fellow kids"

Possibly the best week in my wonderful Communication & Pop Culture class: analyzing how and why their favorite songs became trendy, from audio cues to normative aesthetic structures to business practices and memeification. I feel a playlist coming on...

We are hiring! We are looking for two post-docs in our interdisciplinary research group “SCEPTIC” at the University of Oldenburg, 4+years, on the dynamics and drivers of (dis)trust in digital environments, more info below 👇

OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them

techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Have international students in your sphere? ICE wants to limit grad student visas to 4 years (and limiting their timelines in a variety of other ways), then they get kicked out. Commenting is open until Sept 29 (and you can comment anonymously). www.regulations.gov/document/ICE...

Job alert: I'm hiring a postdoc for my lab at CU Boulder starting Fall 2026!

We study person perception, stereotyping & prejudice, and intervention science using behavioral & neuroimaging methods.

Link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Review starts Nov 1 and continues until filled.

It is as if our government has decided that there is no crime in the country worth pursuing other than immigration enforcement.

as I understand it, our journo position is broadly construed, so CCing @jessicahullman.bsky.social in case you know folks interested! ☝️

Associate Professor or Professor in Journalism - School of Communication Screen reader users may encounter difficulty with this site. For assistance with applying, please contact hr-accessibleapplication@osu.edu. If you have questions while submitting an application, pleas...

#OhioState is hiring -- can you help us find an established journalism scholar? Deadline is 10/1 osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j... #commjobs #ICA26

Communication always be happening on multiple levels

If RFK Jr. will not resign, he must be impeached and removed, for the sake of the nation's health and safety.

Science and health and risk communication coming to the front, a CDC infectious disease director’s resignation letter is chock full of 🔥 after the Covid vaccine announcement x.com/dr_demetre/s...

Back to School: Ohio Students Running into New Challenges Thanks to SB1 - Columbus Underground Ohio college students are navigating the ramifications of the state’s new higher education law that bans diversity efforts, prohibits faculty strikes, and regulates classroom discussion.

No diversity, no equity, no inclusion! columbusunderground.com/back-to-scho...

There’s a thin line between staying as informed as you should and making yourself anxious in a way that is completely unproductive and every single day the news is trying very hard to push you over into the latter

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