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I love having a co-author who can provide the theoretical framing to turn my weird data from a dark corner of the internet into an interesting argument.

Screenshot of a paragraph from a special issue abstract where my co-author and I argue that Mormon groups on Gab illustrate how both Mormonism and the far-right platform rely on balancing the familiar and the strange to be successful.

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I am not sure what I was expecting when I started looking for Mormon* content on Gab, but “we should get the missionaries on this platform” wasn’t it.

Let’s be honest: I’d much rather be at my department’s writing retreat today (with free lunch, to boot!) and that my kid be going to (definitely not free) summer camp. All that said, I’m deeply grateful that a professor’s schedule is flexible enough that I can respond to a sick kid pretty easily.

🔗 linkblog: How anti-vaccine activists and the far right are trying to build a parallel economy'

I think academia undervalues teaching and that teaching-focused faculty deserve more status, recognition, and compensation. Yet, I’m still suspicious of the new BYU-Idaho president’s comments on the need for “a faculty free of the obligations of research.”

upcoming research talk on DezNat for Bainbridge Latter-day Saint fireside series

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