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lindsaypalmer.bsky.social
Professor at UW-Madison. I’m an antiracist, white cis woman who’s pansexual and a trans ally. I study press freedom and international news from a decolonial and feminist perspective. Author of The Fixers: the Underground Labor of International Reporting.
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Well, now I’m definitely going to see this movie. 🎥

Super excited for this event at UW-Madison! It’s great to be reminded that people on this campus have been fighting back against state violence and white supremacy for decades! humanities.wisc.edu/event/humani...

Choose resistance! #AcademicSky #ComSky #PolCom #PhDSky #HigherEd www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Check it out! Here is the #CfP for our 11th Journalism Studies Graduate Student Colloquium, ICA 2025, Denver, Pre-conference on June 11, 2025 in Denver, USA. The due date is February 25, 2025. Details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/journa... #ica25 #journalismresearch @icahdq.bsky.social

I hope he holds strong. We’re about to see corporate censorship of journalism at its ugliest—even if it happens retrospectively.

Showing my old CD collections to the kids & stumbled across my beloved 20th anniversary edition of The Wall! I bought this in 1999! #MusicSky

If this is true, this is one of the most disturbing things I’ve heard lately. It’s also a reminder that academia has long been entangled w/(and foundational to) racism in the United States. #AcademicSky

Hahaha!! So true. #AcademicSky #PhdSky

Hope!!!

I'm excited to announce a new 2-year postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins to advance research in historical & contemporary intersections of empire, migration, & racial hierarchy and help support our new major Critical Diaspora Studies. Pls share! apply.interfolio.com/162692

This one’s at the top of my reading list! What a timely study! #commsky

My new article w/Saumava Mitra & Soomin Seo argues for more self-reflexivity in ethnographic research on international journalism! Thanks to @leahellmueller.bsky.social @hwasser.bsky.social & Ruth Moon for a great special issue! #commsky #polcom #AcademicSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A peaceful scene to take you into the weekend! #CatSky #OrangeCats

Well of course faculty governance isn’t “working” for the fat cats who want all the power. Regent Sures (and his ilk) would probably also prefer to crown Trump the king of the world.

This should be required reading in any college class that looks at US/world politics, history, culture. Beautifully written column. #commsky #AcademicSky #HigherEd #PhdSky www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...

This is SO important right now. Fellow profs, please share this with your students! #AcademicSky #polcom #comsky #HigherEd

No reason why this should be surprising, but it did make me puke in my mouth a little.

I envy my 6-year-old, who thinks Trump is irrelevant. Much more important to make this potion. (Great news! It’s both edible AND potable!!!) 😭

Some folks talk online as if the Left(s) haven't made tons of social gains in the past 200 years and it's always strange to me. Power is contested. There are no permanent wins or permanent losses.

Such a crucial thread! English-language social media scholars based in the west—check your ethnocentrism at the door! #CommSky #polcom

Fascinating and timely research. Now I can recommend this whenever someone tries to tell me that *every* political party peddles misinformation. I love scholarship that identifies patterns! #CommSky #AcademicSky

Yes! Make BlueSky the #ica25 platform of choice!

This problem is near to my heart. Journos end up covering courts on hyper-local, state, national, or international levels. They need these skills, especially paired w/critical race/trans/feminist theory! #commsky #polcomm #journalism theconversation.com/fewer-journa...

Alternative modes of resistance? 😂 #journalism #mediafreedom #commsky #polcom

A grim outline of the growing tendency for university administrators to dismantle—or quietly ignore—long-standing governance processes that take the voices of faculty, instructional staff, and students into account. #AcademicSky #HigherEd prospect.org/education/20...

One of my favorite things about traveling is finding the local art house cinema & seeing something exciting. This time, it’s Nosferatu in Milwaukee’s (unfortunately named) Oriental Theater. (Nosferatu is not exactly”art house,” but it IS exciting!) 📽️ #filmsky #moviesky

Ooooo, this looks good! Such an important moment to publish this, too.

I’ve been feeling this so much lately!

Yes!! I hope ppl do this at @icajsd.bsky.social and @aejmc.bsky.social!

I’ll also say, I’ve run into this methodological gatekeeping not only in peer reviews, but also at conferences, meetings, etc. A quantitative scholar even told me once that he thought all qualitative students would benefit from taking a (required) statistics course. 🤦‍♀️

Does this sound familiar to my #qualitative colleagues in comm studies? “Despite decades of qualitative scholarship, these reviewers appear to still universalize quantitative/postpositivist norms to construct qualitative scholarship as inherently methodologically insufficient.” #commsky #polcomm

Reading rec letters for grad apps, & realizing there needs to be a “recommendation letter bingo.” Phrases like “a keen interest,” “academic journey,” & “she’s also a wonderful person” would get their own box! #AcademicSky #HigherEd

From the political cartoonist censored by the WaPo: “Owners of such press organizations are responsible for safeguarding that free press— and trying to get in the good graces of an autocrat-in-waiting will only result in undermining that free press.” anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

We broke down and got one of these hi-tech litter boxes & Tiger seems unfazed. #orangecats #catsofbkuesky #cats

I’ve got a chapter in this great new collection by @thorstenquandt.bsky.social and @karinwahlj.bsky.social! My chpt talks about how @pressfreedom.bsky.social, @rsf-inter.bsky.social & the international press Institute dealt with #mediafreedom violations in Covid. www.routledge.com/Journalism-a...

What is the point of winter “vacation,” when the return from that vacation leads to an avalanche of delayed work that is almost intolerably anxiety-inducing? Any rest and relaxation that I enjoyed has now dissipated in a puff of smoke. #AcademicSky #HigherEd