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Nancy Baym is an American scholar and senior principal research manager at Microsoft Research, formerly a professor of communication studies… more

Nancy K. Baym
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Communication & Media Studies 34%
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Sometimes a nice evening out with a strong cocktail, a good dinner, and your best sweetie
really does make it all ok.
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Reposted by Nancy K. Baym, Richard Waite, Alan McNally

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Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.
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by Nancy K. Baym

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How about if all the stellar journalists who have walked or been let go in the last year start a new news organization. I’ll subscribe.
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by Michael Zimmer — Reposted by Nancy K. Baym

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Congrats to @aramsinn.bsky.social and
@jesgilbert.bsky.social! Their wonderful book "The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance" won the 2025 AoIR Nancy Baym Book Award. 1/2
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2025 Nancy Baym Book Award |
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by Nancy K. Baym

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On a different topic, I threw away 25 years of teaching evals today. The most recent were 13 years old. LOL.
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by Robert B. Reich — Reposted by Nancy K. Baym, John Marston, Gerald Friedman , and 1 more

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"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor
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Reposted by Nancy K. Baym, Shibley Telhami, Stephan Lewandowsky , and 24 more

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The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents.

In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
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Reposted by Nancy K. Baym, Cas Mudde, Anna O. Law , and 36 more

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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
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Reposted by Nancy K. Baym, Jonathan Portes, Philip Nel , and 3 more

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I’m seeing a lot of inaccurate info about the Anthropic settlement being passed around as fact, so here’s a good basic explainer from the Author’s Guild that I highly recommend reading so you understand it better if you’re potentially part of the class: authorsguild.org/news/what-au...
What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement  - The Authors Guild
Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...
authorsguild.org
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by Nancy K. Baym

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😮😮😮
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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · Sep 3
Psst... hey buddy, you wanna buy The Smiths? www.morrisseycentral.com/messagesfrom...
MESSAGES FROM MORRISSEY - MORRISSEY CENTRAL
MESSAGES FROM MORRISSEY
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Reposted by Nancy K. Baym

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Psst... hey buddy, you wanna buy The Smiths? www.morrisseycentral.com/messagesfrom...
MESSAGES FROM MORRISSEY - MORRISSEY CENTRAL
MESSAGES FROM MORRISSEY
www.morrisseycentral.com
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by Nancy K. Baym

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It was so reassuring to learn a few weeks ago that he is universal laughing stock and it wasn’t just that I didn’t get the appeal.

by Nancy K. Baym

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Interesting moment in language use to see so many wondering if “it” has happened. When I was a kid, “it” could refer to many things, not just that one.
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by Nancy K. Baym

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“I can’t believe they’re still building buildings with nightmare stairs,” I said to the businessman in front of me as we struggled up scary stairs in my nightmare.
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by Nancy K. Baym

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Happened in 2019 and I still think about it all the time.
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by Nancy K. Baym

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That happened to me a few years ago and it was a major life highlight. Congratulations.
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by Nancy K. Baym

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Love a well defined rainbow
left end of a rainbow with each color vibrant arches down from a grey sky in front of a hillside covered with trees and disappears into the water of a lake in the foreground
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I remember someone who shall remain nameless saying (roughly) if his business didn’t get all music publishing moved to the blockchain by 2020 they’d failed.
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by Nancy K. Baym

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Today in sunrises…
Through dense fog you can make out a round glowing sun above a ridge of trees and reflected in the lake below. It’s nearly monochromatic and kind of eerie.
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by Nancy K. Baym

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I have the black and white record store version framed in my entry still.
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Reposted by Nancy K. Baym, Meredith Broussard, Monika Dommann , and 3 more

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@histoftech.bsky.social Am obit of interest that you might have seen already. Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...
Stephanie Shirley, Who Created a Tech World for Women, Dies at 91
www.nytimes.com
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by Nancy K. Baym

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It’s a wonderful book!
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by Nancy K. Baym

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Very amused to spend 48 hours in Canada and find myself staying in the same hotel as Mark Carney. Big of him to show up for me like that.
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by Nancy K. Baym

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A small peace offering
First sunrise over wooded New England hills reflected in a calm still lake below a moss covered boulder cascading toward the water.
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by Nancy K. Baym

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If you have the capacity to support a wonderful woman and her wonderful wife (with whom I’ve had the joy of working) in a very difficult time, please join me in helping Fobazi and Elena. Thank you @ysabel.bsky.social for pulling this together for them.
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · Aug 7
Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena

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Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
gofund.me
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by Nancy K. Baym

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😳🙄😧😮😮😮😲😲😲😲😲
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Reposted by Nancy K. Baym, Eamon Tewell, Meredith Farkas

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Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena

gofund.me/c8485b58
Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
gofund.me
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by Nancy K. Baym

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Yeah there have been too many bad flooding events in recent history
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by Nancy K. Baym

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among other things
a sign that says " what is even happening " next to a dumpster
Alt: an animated dumpster on fire floats through a flooded landscape passing a sign that says "what is even happening"
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