Overlooked films shaped 2025 culture

Scholar power: 14.6%

Story's scientific field profile

Communication & Media Studies 53%, Sociology 35%, Psychology 12%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Sarah Brouillette	13%	14	14.6%

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52.0%

1.3 h

5

14.6%

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0.145

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Sarah Brouillette

@sarahbrouillette.bsky.social

Ah, 2025. Not the greatest. TBQH what keeps me going are my little projects--the opportunity to read and write. I got to engage with some great and important books this year. On Immediacy (and being Very Online):

Autofiction Writers of the World, Unite! - Public Books

Immediacy, here, is an aesthetics of ambivalent aspiration, within a hierarchically ordered and immobilizing class- and race-based cultural system.

www.publicbooks.org

December 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM

by Patrick Svensson

0%

Scholar power: 0.0%

Story's scientific field profile

Communication & Media Studies 53%, Sociology 35%, Psychology 12%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Patrick Svensson	0%	20	0.0%

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Scholar power

47.0%

0.9 h

2

0.0%

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0.07

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Patrick Svensson

@agrarsvennis.bsky.social

How I'm walking out of 2025

December 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM

Reposted by Richard Waite

0%

Scholar power: 0.0%

Story's scientific field profile

Communication & Media Studies 53%, Sociology 35%, Psychology 12%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Richard Waite	0%	31	0.0%

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49.0%

2.5 h

28

0.0%

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0.033

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NPR

@npr.org

The 2025 selection follows its predecessors, "brain rot" from 2024, "rizz" from 2023 and "goblin mode" from 2022.

Don't get angry, but the 2025 Oxford Word of the Year is 'rage bait'

The 2025 selection follows its predecessors, "brain rot" from 2024, "rizz" from 2023 and "goblin mode" from 2022.

n.pr

December 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM

by Siobhàn McHugh

31%

Scholar power: 31.5%

Story's scientific field profile

Communication & Media Studies 53%, Sociology 35%, Psychology 12%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Siobhàn McHugh	35%	9	31.5%

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Scholar power

45.0%

14.2 h

0

31.5%

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0.019

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Siobhan McHugh

@siobhanmchugh.bsky.social

Spot on article 👏 👏

This happens to be the topic of my keynote for @meccsa.bsky.social on 13 Feb (World Radio Day!): "Viva the Narrative Podcast: The Case Against Video".

Audio's demise has been (wrongly) predicted before 😀 We are not giving up!

Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 1d

“The absence of images isn’t some failure of technology. These mediums have grown from a deep love of sound and its imaginative possibilities. When I hear people say the future of audio is essentially television, it makes me feel they never knew what was exciting about sound in the first place…”

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens

December 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM

by Philip N. Cohen

18%

Scholar power: 18.2%

Story's scientific field profile

Communication & Media Studies 53%, Sociology 35%, Psychology 12%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Philip N. Cohen	10%	37	18.2%

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Scholar power

47.0%

11.9 h

5

18.2%

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0.016

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Philip N Cohen

@philipncohen.com

How I'm walking out of 2025

December 28, 2025 at 4:05 AM

by Constance Bantman

7%

Scholar power: 7.6%

Story's scientific field profile

Communication & Media Studies 53%, Sociology 35%, Psychology 12%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Constance Bantman	8%	10	7.6%

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Scholar power

45.0%

4.7 h

4

7.6%

Ranking score

0.013

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Constance Bantman

@constancebantman.bsky.social

One last (hopefully) hurrah for 2025 in France, where we’re now arguing over the death of Brigitte Bardot, once an impossibly beautiful woman and a talented artist… but also (above all?) an all-out racist and homophobe.

December 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM

Reposted by James A. Benn

3%

Scholar power: 3.2%

Story's scientific field profile

Communication & Media Studies 53%, Sociology 35%, Psychology 12%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 James A. Benn	12%	7	3.2%

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Scholar power

52.0%

3.9 h

1

3.2%

Ranking score

0.011

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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham

@mauracunningham.bsky.social

2025 Book Reviews in Review

Have you ever heard someone say “The days are long, but the years are short” about how it feels to raise children? That’s how 2025 has felt to me—kind of a slog on a daily basis, but I can’t believe that we’re now almost at the end. I decided against writing any sort of…

2025 Book Reviews in Review

Have you ever heard someone say “The days are long, but the years are short” about how it feels to raise children? That’s how 2025 has felt to me—kind of a slog on a daily basis, but I can’t believe that we’re now almost at the end. I decided against writing any sort of annual review summary or top-picks list for 2025.

mauracunningham.org

December 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce

1%

Scholar power: 1.7%

Story's scientific field profile

Communication & Media Studies 53%, Sociology 35%, Psychology 12%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Rosemary A. Joyce	3%	34	1.7%

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51.0%

12.1 h

48

1.7%

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0.011

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🐝🖖🏾⚖️📚🍿📺

@sonyaoldssom.bsky.social

Leaving 2025: [Exit Pursued By A Bear]

Entering 2026: I am fresh of spirit and resolved to meet all perils very constantly.

#Shakespeare

Actor Kyle MacLachlan Pursued By Bear (the name of his winery)

Some days (years) the bear gets you - sometimes you get the bear!

December 28, 2025 at 3:53 AM

by Andrew Leigh

6%

Scholar power: 6.1%

Story's scientific field profile

Communication & Media Studies 53%, Sociology 35%, Psychology 12%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Andrew Leigh	3%	46	6.1%

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46.0%

11.0 h

1

6.1%

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0.009

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Reposted by Adrian Daub

1%

Scholar power: 1.9%

Story's scientific field profile

Communication & Media Studies 53%, Sociology 35%, Psychology 12%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Adrian Daub	6%	10	1.9%

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46.0%

3.1 h

5

1.9%

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0.007

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In Bed with the Right

@inbedwiththeright.bsky.social

To close out 2025, we at @inbedwiththeright wanted to take a moment to thank all our listeners and to look back on a super fun and busy year. Between the main feed and the Patreon (please subscribe to our Patreon!), we will have put out a full 68 episodes in 2025 by the time the 31st rolls around!

December 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM

by Katrina Navickas

3%

Scholar power: 3.8%

Story's scientific field profile

Communication & Media Studies 53%, Sociology 35%, Psychology 12%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Katrina Navickas	4%	10	3.8%

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47.0%

6.1 h

3

3.8%

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0.007

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Katrina Navickas

@katrinanavickas.bsky.social

How I'm walking out of 2025

December 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM

by Richard Waite

0%

Scholar power: 0.0%

Story's scientific field profile

Communication & Media Studies 53%, Sociology 35%, Psychology 12%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Richard Waite	0%	31	0.0%

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Scholar power

49.0%

16.2 h

4

0.0%

Ranking score

0.006

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Richard Waite

@waiterich.bsky.social

“What did 2025 feel like?”

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 16h

And we have a Pop Tarts mascot grilling Pop Tarts, must be tough to see in those things

December 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM

by Christian E. Weller

1%

Scholar power: 1.3%

Story's scientific field profile

Communication & Media Studies 53%, Sociology 35%, Psychology 12%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Christian E. Weller	1%	18	1.3%

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Scholar power

55.0%

18.0 h

3

1.3%

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0.006

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Christian Weller

@profcew.bsky.social

2025 was a dumpster fire but also a year of very insightful and heartfelt conversations and experiences with decades-long friends. I’ll take that.

December 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM

by Brad R. Humphreys

7%

Scholar power: 7.9%

Story's scientific field profile

Communication & Media Studies 53%, Sociology 35%, Psychology 12%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Brad R. Humphreys	4%	43	7.9%

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46.0%

20.5 h

0

7.9%

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0.005

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Brad "Pencil Necked Geek" Humphreys

@bradhumphreys.bsky.social

Accurate.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22h

Here's our 20th most-read piece of 2025.

An Accurate Organizational Chart of Your University

Our 20th most-read article of 2025. - - -In accordance with our informal tradition of updating documents every thirty years, whether they need it ...

buff.ly

December 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM

by James Goodwin

1%

Scholar power: 1.5%

Story's scientific field profile

Communication & Media Studies 53%, Sociology 35%, Psychology 12%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 James Goodwin	1%	26	1.5%

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Scholar power

47.0%

17.3 h

6

1.5%

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0.004

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James Goodwin

@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social

How I’m walking out of 2025

December 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM

Reposted by David Peetz

1%

Scholar power: 1.5%

Story's scientific field profile

Communication & Media Studies 53%, Sociology 35%, Psychology 12%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 David Peetz	3%	26	1.5%

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46.0%

11.5 h

9

1.5%

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0.004

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Byron C Clark

@byroncclark.bsky.social

"far-right groups have seized on cultural production – from clothing brands to top 40 music – to normalise their ideas, in a process that researchers say has hit new heights in the age of social media."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...