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Cynthia McLeod, 👁️👁️
@cynhonestly.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Communication and Media at UCM... Studying Black Twitter x place/space x collective memory, politics and pop culture✨.

Howard Alum ♥️, UCL 🇬🇧, and UCSB🔆🏖 (she/they)
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I said I was on my last social media platform, so I guess that was a lie...

If you have any interest in:
✨ Digital culture
✨ Race
✨ Place/Space
✨ Community and identity

I'd love to connect with you!

@academic-chatter.bsky.social
#AcademicChatter
Thinking today about middle school me that went through Facebook friending every Cynthia, Cindy, Cyndy etc who had an interesting looking profile picture. Most of those were older women who still wish me happy birthday and congratulate me whenever I accomplish something.
November 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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(2/9) Black Twitter as “Master” Social Architects: Maintaining Online Community Boundaries Through the Production of Time and Place - Cynthia N. McLeod, 2025
doi.org/10.1177/2056...
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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🚨Special Issue Alert: Platforms, Publics, and Anti-Publics
(1/9) Introduction from our guest editors Zoetanya Sujon, Harry Dyer and Felipe Bonow Soares. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#academicsky #socialmediasky
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Call me doctor
June 4, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...
PRAMS Shuttered for Good
In the first weeks of the administration I wrote a number of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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really interesting new piece from the Atlantic on ED cultures online: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Because of the paywall, here's the tl;dr #icsfeed
The Pro-Eating-Disorder Internet Is Back
One of the thorniest content-moderation problems grows out of control on X.
www.theatlantic.com
December 18, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Full disclosure I haven't read the article yet, but I've been mulling a lot about the community aspect of ED and tradwife spaces on tiktok. I have some guesses why people join these spaces, but I've also been thinking that the community element must make it even harder to leave than Tumblr days.
We’re back to that old “thinspo” aesthetic, but now supercharged. ED content is normalized as a “community.” No one’s getting flagged or nudged toward help. Its might seem like old tumblr-core, but its much worse.
December 18, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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hi all! I run the “(Internet) Culture” custom feed, currently in beta testing! Use #icsfeed to join the conversation.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
December 16, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Yes, they relax me ❤️
November 27, 2024 at 12:48 PM
To what degree are you allowed to self plug with your students... I had so many students compliment me in our zoom yesterday and all I could think was "I'd love if you'd complete your evaluation.........." #academicsky
November 27, 2024 at 12:41 PM
Does anyone have a block list for those very generic engagement farming accounts? ie, "10 best ways to be productive" blah blah #academicsky
November 27, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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Preprint: a cross-cultural review of knots.

Using archaeo & anthro data, our study reveals the cultural evolution of knots across 10k years and 83 societies. With mathy methods, we show which knots are most common & how they shaped human innovation.

A knotted thread. 🧵🏺

osf.io/preprints/os...
June 10, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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Big things are happening at the Digital Democracy Centre!
Check out and share this call for a FULL PROFESSORSHIP with amazing conditions. 👀🤯

Best of all: you could become our new colleague!
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Unique professorship. Please share 🫶♾️

Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.

Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile.

📆: deadline February 17!

fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Professorship in Digital Communication with a Focus on Digital Society
Application Deadline: February 17, 2025.
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November 27, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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We are crowdsourcing tips for #ASA2025 submission for graduate students and first timers!

Drop your advice and wisdom here: forms.gle/W9c7jx3ccnP8...
Tips for ASA Submissions
We would like to crowdsource tips from SKAT section members for graduate students or first time attendees about preparing their extended abstract/paper submissions for ASA. The collected comments will...
forms.gle
November 13, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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Allow me to introduce myself! PhD candidate in literature with an emphasis on contemporary American lit, comics/graphic novels, and the intersection of literature and political action. I work on antiracist, feminist, queer, intersectional studies.
November 14, 2024 at 3:28 AM
I said I was on my last social media platform, so I guess that was a lie...

If you have any interest in:
✨ Digital culture
✨ Race
✨ Place/Space
✨ Community and identity

I'd love to connect with you!

@academic-chatter.bsky.social
#AcademicChatter
November 14, 2024 at 2:51 AM
I said I was on my last social media platform, so I guess that was a lie...

If you have any interest in:
✨ Digital culture
✨ Race
✨ Place/Space
✨ Community and identity

I'd love to connect with you!

@academic-chatter.bsky.social
#AcademicChatter
November 14, 2024 at 1:40 AM
Reposted by Cynthia McLeod, 👁️👁️
being an academic is not a good idea when you’re chronically ill and disabled yall. but alas here i am being said weapon
November 13, 2024 at 4:13 PM