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Dr. Srivi Ramasubramanian (PhD), she/her

@drsrivi.bsky.social

SU Newhouse Prof & Endowed Chair 🍊; Editor, Comm Monographs. Director: CODE^SHIFT (Collab for Data Equity, Social Healing, Incl. Futures, & Transformation). Media Literacy, Community Engaged Research, Global Media, Youth. Views my own. See: drsrivi.com

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Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d ago

It was never going to stop with Jason Arday. Our resident Bluesky creeper Ben Ryan is now turning his attacks onto Jason Arday's students--no doubt the fact that the student is a Black woman has nothing to do with Ryan and Wright's apparent concern for "academic rigor"

Post See new posts Conversation Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter Cambridge Said Jason Arday Was an ‘Aberration.’ So Why Was the Shaky PhD Thesis He Approved Sealed Until 2031? Substack link: https://benryan.substack.com/p/cambridge-says-jason-arday-was-an @SwipeWright and I obtained a Cambridge PhD thesis—one of questionable academic rigor—that Dr. Arday examined and that was put under a new, five-year embargo just after the scandal about Dr. Arday broke. The PhD thesis of a student in Cambridge’s Faculty of Education—in which the late Jason Arday held a professorial chair, in the sociology of education, until he resigned hours after Cambridge on Aug. 5 announced it was investigating him—has been put under what British and Canadian academics have told Colin Wright and me is a remarkably long embargo, shielding it from public view until 2031. Crucially, among the panelists who reviewed the thesis was Dr. Arday himself. The thesis, which we have obtained and which we review in this Substack, raises important questions about whether the Faculty of Education, including Dr. Arday’s own contributions, let down the basic standards of higher education.Written by Damilola Folayan, the thesis is entitled Of, but not in: A poetic exploration of how Black women students respond to the coloniality of Oxbridge—referring to the portmanteau of Oxford and Cambridge. It garnered her a coveted Cambridge PhD in 2025. Following what’s known as an autoethnographic style, it is in essence an epic poetry-slam interpretation of the plight of Dr. Folayan and three other black women at Oxbridge and their experiences navigating, with considerable ambivalence, these historically, and still overwhelmingly, white elite institutions. The sprawling thesis unabashedly thumbs its nose at the rigors and demands of academia even as it demands in return an elite PhD and all the rights and privileges pertaining thereto.
Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋@jinxungoh.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Also being part of this team was a truly wild and amazing experience. Scholars who wrote some of the foundational books/ articles on Asian Americans wanna hear what I think??!! Truly humbling to be in presence of greatness

The academic advisory committee for The Asian American Foundation: Russell Jeung (chair), Jin Goh, Vinay Harpalani, Taeku Lee, Pei-Te Lien, Jackson Lu, Mike Nguyen, Harvey Nicholson, Srivi Ramasubramanian, Neil Ruiz, Karen Umemoto, Paul Watanabe
AAUP chapter @UT Austin@utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 3d ago

Chaos and authoritarianism at UT Austin. Faculty have just days to show how their courses meet vague requirements of breadth and foundationalism. Proposals will be reviewed by an unspecified entity. No guarantee at all that those who review the proposals have expertise in the field.

Austin American-Statesman@statesman.com · 4d ago

UT courses on slavery, race, sexuality and environmental history are among those that could stop counting toward UT's core. bit.ly/4gPuxgu

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 2d ago

OpenAI is now facing more than 50 consumer harm and wrongful death lawsuits alleging that extensive use of ChatGPT resulted in psychological harm, physical injury, and even the deaths of users and/or those around them. futurism.com/artificial-i...

OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits

OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.

futurism.com

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2d ago

The NIH Director confirms they are giving away biomedical research money used to develop treatments and cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens, to the Department of Defense. Outrageous.

Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD @NIHDirector_Jay NIH funds should be used to improve the health of Americans. Far from siphoning money away from research, this partnership between @NIH and @DeptofWar focuses on research projects that will drive discoveries to improve the health of American citizens and members of the military. Led by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, all work will be 100% aligned with our public health mission.
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2d ago

NEW: Romanian prosecutors indict social media influencer Andrew Tate on charges of trafficking minors, sex with a minor, and money laundering. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Romanian prosecutors indict Andrew Tate on trafficking minors and money laundering

The agency said on Friday that Tate and his brother coerced a victim by pretending to be in a loving relationship and then forcing her to produce pornographic material for an online webcam business.

nbcnews.com

Shobita Parthasarathy@shobitap.org · 3d ago

Dietram Scheufele is a major science communication scholar. What strikes me (as it has in past cases, including those at Michigan) is how academia--faculty and administrators--simply *do not want to know* about bad actors, especially when they are famous. Explains why ASU has turned a blind eye too.

Chokely Carmichael🥋@stewartcoles.bsky.social · 3d ago

UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.

Dannagal Goldthwaite Young@dannagal.bsky.social · 3d ago

Yup. Talk to anyone in political and science communication. These were not nice people. And the hostile environment they (especially Dietram) created for these young promising scholars (as documented in these news articles) is shameful as fuck. He should not be advising or teaching anyone.

Neil Stenhouse@nstenhouse.bsky.social · 3d ago

I was an assistant professor in Dietram Scheufele and Dominique Brossard’s department. I didn’t see evidence of sexual relationships with students but I saw a whole lot of the hostile environment described in this article. The students deserved so much better than these fucking assholes.

Neil Stenhouse@nstenhouse.bsky.social · 3d ago

I was an assistant professor in Dietram Scheufele and Dominique Brossard’s department. I didn’t see evidence of sexual relationships with students but I saw a whole lot of the hostile environment described in this article. The students deserved so much better than these fucking assholes.

Chokely Carmichael🥋@stewartcoles.bsky.social · 3d ago

UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.

Chokely Carmichael🥋@stewartcoles.bsky.social · 3d ago

UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.

UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor

Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.

captimes.com

Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · 3d ago

I think I can speak for the entire political communication section of APSA when I say “fuck you Dietram Scheufele. None of us will collaborate with you or cite your research ever again.”

Chokely Carmichael🥋@stewartcoles.bsky.social · 3d ago

UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.

Dr. Srivi Ramasubramanian (PhD), she/her@drsrivi.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Happy to share that my next book “Equitable Media Literacies” is now ready for pre-orders 🙏 #commsky #academicsky #edsky #bookannouncement #book #medialiteracy #equity #socialjustice #education

Equitable Media Literacies: Pedagogies and Practices for Healthy Civic Futures

Interrogating three core assumptions made within the field of media literacy—that media literacy practices empower individuals, support communities, and contribute to engaged citizenship within a demo...

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