Kristine Nowak
@kristineno.bsky.social
Communication Professor on the AAUP executive board at UCONN. I study CMC, Virtual Reality and HCI. Also mom to 2 kids and a crazy rescue dog. I enjoy travel, beaches, and all sorts of hijinks
Yep. Now what?
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Yep. Now what?
This doesn’t help them learn! I give students my notes and tell them to rewrite them in their own words. Thinking about it in their own words and connecting it to existing knowledge is how they learn
Professors, are you OK with this in your classrooms?
"20-year-old dropouts built AI notetaker Turbo AI to 5 million users." This app does more than just "note taking."
techcrunch.com/2025/10/23/2...
"20-year-old dropouts built AI notetaker Turbo AI to 5 million users." This app does more than just "note taking."
techcrunch.com/2025/10/23/2...
20-year-old dropouts built AI notetaker Turbo AI to 5 million users | TechCrunch
Rudy Arora and Sarthak Dhawan, two 20-year-old college dropouts, are behind Turbo AI, one of the fastest-growing AI notetaker tools.
techcrunch.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This doesn’t help them learn! I give students my notes and tell them to rewrite them in their own words. Thinking about it in their own words and connecting it to existing knowledge is how they learn
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The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance. Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.
The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...
www.wired.com
November 13, 2024 at 1:05 AM
The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance. Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.
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We are hiring 11 Doctoral Researchers (100%) in the DFG-RTG "The Experience of Stories in the Digital Age". Uni Wuerzburg, Germany. Disciplines: Communication, Psychology, Computer Science. Topics: VR / XR, storytelling robots, influencers, misinformation. More: go.uniwue.de/rtg3087jobs Please share
September 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
We are hiring 11 Doctoral Researchers (100%) in the DFG-RTG "The Experience of Stories in the Digital Age". Uni Wuerzburg, Germany. Disciplines: Communication, Psychology, Computer Science. Topics: VR / XR, storytelling robots, influencers, misinformation. More: go.uniwue.de/rtg3087jobs Please share
Present here in this meaningful place in Dresden with @mcewan.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Present here in this meaningful place in Dresden with @mcewan.bsky.social
The trifling is supposed to be pleasant??
"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week."
--Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless
--Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless
August 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The trifling is supposed to be pleasant??
Seems like a useful resource!
Since it's Tenure-And-Promotion-To-Associate letter writing season, a few years ago I compiled a set of materials that I found useful in crafting my letters. They might be useful to you too, perhaps.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Tenure and Promotion Letters - Examples and Guidelines - Google Drive
drive.google.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Seems like a useful resource!
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For anyone on the Communication job market this year S. Rutherford McEwan has put together an excellent spreadsheet for 2025-2026 openings. Highly recommend checking it out (whether you're applying or hiring):
docs.getgrist.com/rHppfvPrMDQd...
#commsky #academicsky #communication
docs.getgrist.com/rHppfvPrMDQd...
#commsky #academicsky #communication
Comm Job Spreadsheet 2025-2026 - Grist
A modern, open source spreadsheet that goes beyond the grid
docs.getgrist.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
For anyone on the Communication job market this year S. Rutherford McEwan has put together an excellent spreadsheet for 2025-2026 openings. Highly recommend checking it out (whether you're applying or hiring):
docs.getgrist.com/rHppfvPrMDQd...
#commsky #academicsky #communication
docs.getgrist.com/rHppfvPrMDQd...
#commsky #academicsky #communication
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Join us for our talk with #CAISfellow @elizabethahintz.bsky.social, University of Connecticut: "The Blue Pill, Red Pill, & Black Pill: Understanding Triadic Discursive Interplay and Animating Meanings of Violence in Online Incel Forums"
🗓️July 16 | 🕜 1:30-2:30 PM
www.cais-research.de/en/event/lun...
🗓️July 16 | 🕜 1:30-2:30 PM
www.cais-research.de/en/event/lun...
July 11, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Join us for our talk with #CAISfellow @elizabethahintz.bsky.social, University of Connecticut: "The Blue Pill, Red Pill, & Black Pill: Understanding Triadic Discursive Interplay and Animating Meanings of Violence in Online Incel Forums"
🗓️July 16 | 🕜 1:30-2:30 PM
www.cais-research.de/en/event/lun...
🗓️July 16 | 🕜 1:30-2:30 PM
www.cais-research.de/en/event/lun...
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Don't do any of this.
June 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Don't do any of this.
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If you work at a public university, your emails are likely FOIA-able.
If you mix your personal & work email accounts, it may make your personal email FOIA-able.
If you mix your personal & work email accounts, it may make your personal email FOIA-able.
tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.
Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
www.whitehouse.gov
May 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
If you work at a public university, your emails are likely FOIA-able.
If you mix your personal & work email accounts, it may make your personal email FOIA-able.
If you mix your personal & work email accounts, it may make your personal email FOIA-able.
Yes. This is how our university now handles travel
“we used to have a person who was paid to do this but now we have an online system which doesn’t work so every single employee of the university does this on top of their actual job”
May 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Yes. This is how our university now handles travel
I am searching for an email from a month ago. This will take about 5 hours and I will probably forget why I needed it before I find it. Living the dream!
May 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I am searching for an email from a month ago. This will take about 5 hours and I will probably forget why I needed it before I find it. Living the dream!
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BREAKING:
"Given these circumstances, we have decided not to hold another ICA conference in the United States during this administration and have delayed our contract with Chicago until May 2029."
#ICA25
"Given these circumstances, we have decided not to hold another ICA conference in the United States during this administration and have delayed our contract with Chicago until May 2029."
#ICA25
May 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
BREAKING:
"Given these circumstances, we have decided not to hold another ICA conference in the United States during this administration and have delayed our contract with Chicago until May 2029."
#ICA25
"Given these circumstances, we have decided not to hold another ICA conference in the United States during this administration and have delayed our contract with Chicago until May 2029."
#ICA25
This is a great resource. I had students play games in class and they were surprised at how poorly they did at identifying fake stories
A curated list of educational games to test your ability to identify deepfakes and develop digital literacy skills. deepfakestracker.org/digital-lite...
Digital Literacy Games – deepfakestracker.org
Digital Literacy Games – A curated list of educational games to test your ability to identify deepfakes and develop digital literacy skills. Creating Disinformation Games Cat Park Players are challen...
deepfakestracker.org
May 1, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This is a great resource. I had students play games in class and they were surprised at how poorly they did at identifying fake stories
Yes! Inverse correlation does not mean what he thinks it means
FFS, a "direct correlation" and an "inverse correlation" are OPPOSITES. There is no such thing as a "direct inverse correlation." That's like saying something is a positive negative number.
This man is an ignoramus.
This man is an ignoramus.
April 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Yes! Inverse correlation does not mean what he thinks it means
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SAVE THE PENGUINS.
STOP TRUMP’S TARIFFS.
STOP TRUMP’S TARIFFS.
April 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
SAVE THE PENGUINS.
STOP TRUMP’S TARIFFS.
STOP TRUMP’S TARIFFS.
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In short, were the university to choose to defend itself, some simple arithmetic suggests that — at least financially — it could. Easily.
It’s not too bold to predict that every university president will face a similar choice in the coming months.
It’s not too bold to predict that every university president will face a similar choice in the coming months.
Yale can 💯 afford to defend academic freedom, and its educational and research mission www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...
Opinion | Universities Can Afford to Fight Trump (Gift Article)
Every university president will face a choice similar to Columbia University’s in the coming months.
www.nytimes.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
In short, were the university to choose to defend itself, some simple arithmetic suggests that — at least financially — it could. Easily.
It’s not too bold to predict that every university president will face a similar choice in the coming months.
It’s not too bold to predict that every university president will face a similar choice in the coming months.
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I urge faculty members to join the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). We have few organizations that represent us and offer us collective power. #Yale has a new chapter. You can start one if your campus doesn't have one yet. And you can join now too.
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March 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I urge faculty members to join the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). We have few organizations that represent us and offer us collective power. #Yale has a new chapter. You can start one if your campus doesn't have one yet. And you can join now too.
www.aaup.org/membership/d...
www.aaup.org/membership/d...
I’m very disappointed by the support our senator has given to cabinet members @whitehouse.senate.gov
March 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I’m very disappointed by the support our senator has given to cabinet members @whitehouse.senate.gov
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“My opponent calls me ‘woke’ but he never says what that means. I wonder why he wants our eyes closed, and what he wants them closed to. I wonder what he’s afraid we’ll see if we look around. Well my eyes are wide open and I’m fully awake. I say the time for us to be fooled by rich thieves is over.”
March 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
“My opponent calls me ‘woke’ but he never says what that means. I wonder why he wants our eyes closed, and what he wants them closed to. I wonder what he’s afraid we’ll see if we look around. Well my eyes are wide open and I’m fully awake. I say the time for us to be fooled by rich thieves is over.”
Great example of AI hallucination I am going to use in class
February 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Great example of AI hallucination I am going to use in class
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“If you believe in the eighteenth-century view of the mind, you will look and act wimpy,” @george-lakoff.com wrote in 2008. Is there a better way to describe how Democrats have mostly responded thus far to Musk's assault on democracy?
The power to stop Musk will come from the people. That's why Democrats must frame this coup to the public in a way that demands our attention and action. And they also have to do something they hate. They have to repeat the message until it sticks to brains.
New from me in FrameLab.
New from me in FrameLab.
How Democrats Can Counter Musk’s Coup with Repetition
The importance of repetition
www.theframelab.org
February 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“If you believe in the eighteenth-century view of the mind, you will look and act wimpy,” @george-lakoff.com wrote in 2008. Is there a better way to describe how Democrats have mostly responded thus far to Musk's assault on democracy?
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The Communication and Technology (CAT) Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) seeks nominations for the Herbert S. Dordick Dissertation Award. Deadline: 1 Mar 2025. https://buff.ly/3MX1hGS #ICA25
January 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The Communication and Technology (CAT) Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) seeks nominations for the Herbert S. Dordick Dissertation Award. Deadline: 1 Mar 2025. https://buff.ly/3MX1hGS #ICA25