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Nancy Baym
@nancybaym.bsky.social
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30+ years of digital media research. Wrote a few books. Dog, lake, and mountain lover, embroiderer, taker of nature snapshots, campervan enthusiast, sweet on music. She/her.

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Nancy Baym is an American scholar and senior principal research manager at Microsoft Research, formerly a professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas. She was a member of the founding board and former president of the Association of Internet Researchers, and serves on the board of several academic journals covering new media and communication. She has published research and provided media commentary on the topics of social communication, new media, and fandom. .. more

Communication & Media Studies 34%
Sociology 16%
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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 2d
Had no idea the joy an empty dog food bowl could bring.

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 2d
One nice kind of happiness is when your 14 year old dog who’s been very unwell with one thing after another for 10 months has kicked it all and is eating enthusiastically again.

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 3d
Sometimes I like to check the Rockd app as if it were social media and yep, still sitting on precambrian rock, nothing has changed.

Reposted by Nancy K. Baym

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 3d
Yay, our glorious @mediaarchaeologylab and her fearless leader @loriemerson appear in @FastCompany this week! Come visit us sometime.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91483774/these-historic-computing-labs-teach-kids-what-technology-was-like-before-phones-social-media-and-the-cloud

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 5d
when you wake way too early but then realize you’re thinking about dunking ceramics in buckets of glaze and not about work so you mind a lot less

Reposted by Jean Burgess, Nancy K. Baym

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jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 6d
some exciting news:

announcing CREATOR & INFLUENCER STUDIES, the first open-access peer reviewed journal dedicated to creator and influencer culture research. I'm honoured to be named as one of the journal's inaugural associate editors.

submissions open Feb 12.
the cover of academic journal Creator & Influencer Studies. It's a purple gradient and the journal name appears in white font.

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 9d
This is great! Congratulations.

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 9d
Outside is the best side

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 9d
Well I already do that!

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 9d
Insta ad algorithms are convinced I should become a certified Forest Therapy Practitioner and, ya know, maybe they’re right.

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 10d
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Best In Show - God Loves a Terrier
YouTube video by Darren Williams
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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 10d
Catherine O’Hara made me laugh so hard so many times. Too soon.

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 11d
Update: Blacksmithing is absolutely not the thing for 2026.

But now I will forever appreciate hand forged things far more.
nancybaym.bsky.social Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · Dec 31
Signed up for a blacksmithing class because why not. Maybe banging hot metal with heavy tools is just the thing for 2026.

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 11d
😬😬😬😬😳😳😳😳😬😬😬😬😮

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 11d
But wait there’s more… we’re told the neighbor pried the mountain lion jaws apart, freed her dog’s head, and then stared the lion down and threw rocks at it until it left.

I will not be messing with my neighbor.

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 11d
Neighbor across the street emailed to alert us that a mountain lion attacked her dog when she let him out last night.

(dog is injured but will recover, lion is… gonna try our dog next?)

I’d still rather live among animal predators than government ones.

Reposted by Stefan Reis, Jingfeng Xiao, Flavio Lehner , and 5 more

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 13d
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What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos
Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.
eos.org

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 13d
Some sunrises DELIVER
sunrise. in foreground is a hill with twinkling city lights behind it. The sky is orange and red and pink with rays of light beaming upwards and a yellow stripe above the horizon where the sun will soon appear.

Reposted by Shibley Telhami, Rosemary A. Joyce, Peter Holmes , and 4 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d
Waltz: "Denmark has ignored Greenland from a defense standpoint and they have ignored the Greenlandic native iniut people ... if you get a cancer diagnosis in Greenland right now, it's darn near a death sentence. Denmark has not invested in the way it should've over the years."

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 15d
“is”

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 16d
“It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror.“ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Nancy K. Baym

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 16d
Shutting the government down because the president’s thug army keeps murdering American citizens for no reason seems pretty reasonable, IMO!

Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Nancy K. Baym, Alfie Kohn

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 16d
If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 16d
Deepest gratitude to the people of Minneapolis.

Reposted by Nancy K. Baym

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 20d
social media is a thousand indoor kids calling each other cowards for not individually waging physical combat revolution against the largest military in the world

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 24d
HIGHLY recommend!
loriemerson.net Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 24d
thanks to some sleuthing by European pals, with some relief I can report that copies of the second printing of #othernetworks should be available in Europe in about 4 weeks! hooray and phew! shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...

Reposted by Nancy K. Baym

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 24d
thanks to some sleuthing by European pals, with some relief I can report that copies of the second printing of #othernetworks should be available in Europe in about 4 weeks! hooray and phew! shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 25d
It’s the slogan for interpreting social media

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 26d
Why yes I did just write “authenticity, schmauthenticity” in something destined for publication and no I don’t think I’ll edit it out.