Mike Wagner
William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea, Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, U of Wisconsin-Madison. Director, Center for Communication and Civic Renewal. Inflated sense of karaoke ability. 10/10 Room Rater.
- Spouse: “Hey, wasn’t Wilson Juggins hosting SNL tonight” Me: …
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- Prof. Ankur Desai made this same point a few weeks ago during our teach in on campus.
- “Five former National Weather Service directors have taken the unusual step of signing onto an open letter warning that cuts to the organization by the Trump administration may soon endanger lives.” Gift link: nyti.ms/3YrIw3Q
- The 2025 writers laying it on thick with Sovereignty winning the Kentucky Derby followed closely by Journalism.
- Presenting Dr. Jisoo Kim & her dissertation committee. So very proud of my lucky number 13th Ph.D. advisee! Dr. Kim is off to the other UW, the U of Washington, where she joins the tenure-track faculty in the fall. The Huskies are getting a terrific scholar, teacher, & colleague! @uwsjmc.bsky.social
- Besides killing innovation, this action on NSF puts 8 decades of freely available, consistent, rigorous, & widely used time-series evidence about who we are, what we do, what we want, & what we know at risk of never being collected again. The ANES and GSS are at risk. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Shared a bit about our grant termination and the consequences of other canceled grants at UW-Madison. pbswisconsin.org/news-item/mi...
- It's hard to find the words. NSF just terminated the grant for Journeys, a mentoring workshop that tried to tackle underrepresentation of women in international relations. Future scholarship will be the worse for it. But this photo from our last gathering will motivate me to keep fighting.
- So sorry, Jessica.
- I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.
- Friday Night Massacre of accurate information. A devastating day for the USA as tens of millions of dollars of grants seeking to combat the spread of false information were terminated. We have a federal govenrment that does not consider the verifiable truth a priority. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
- I am very sorry to hear of this indefensible decision. Solidarity to you.
- Friday Night Massacre of accurate information. A devastating day for the USA as tens of millions of dollars of grants seeking to combat the spread of false information were terminated. We have a federal govenrment that does not consider the verifiable truth a priority. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
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- One might!
- This is not a drill. Existential threats to both higher education & 🇺🇸 democracy. And already devastating for my colleagues, their students, & research on our campus.
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- Each semester is a slow descent to Waluigi.
- Excellent story in @dailycardinal.bsky.social about or teach-in on Wednesday night. College journalists are doing very good work covering this moment. www.dailycardinal.com/article/2025...
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- Give me time, John. Give me time. (But thanks! I sincerely appreciate this kindness)
- Our turn, Wisconsin.
- Sounds like they want D.iverse viewpoints E.quitable viewpoints I.nclusive viewpoints
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- Proud of this terrific conversation between experts and students about how we understand and navigate this moment together.
- Thanks to the 100+ students who came to our teach-in tonight that discussed the threats and hardships our university, faculty, staff, & students are facing from the executive branch. Great, engaged questions from the students. Grateful to the faculty experts who shared their experiences & evidence.
- Adding the brilliant and kind Ankur Desai to the panel to talk about what is happening to research about climate change.
- Join me as I'll be part of a discussion of misinfo & higher ed @ucfreespeech’s 7th annual #SpeechMatters conference w/ @UW’s @chriscoward, @UCIrvine’s @simone_schamber & Connie Moon Sehat (Discourse Labs)! 🗓️ Tune in April 10: uci.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- I gave twice! Once, in honor of our amazing graduate students and once in the memory of a much-missed colleague and friend, the late Jim Baughman.
- It’s an anxious time at best for universities, but I’m putting my money where my mouth is and supporting @uwsjmc.bsky.social for #DayOfTheBadger you can support our amazing students here: dayofthebadger.org/campaign/jou...
- @michaelmirer.bsky.social met a former classmate of yours, Daniel Fastenberg, who talked to me for Reuters for a SCOWIS story. He says hi.
- Kudos to former AG Brad Schimel for conceding his loss to Susan Crawford in the SCOWIS race. And for stopping audiences members who were falsely shouting voter fraud. Important for leaders to lead even in defeat. m.youtube.com/watch?v=PEmI...
- Pour one out for Chris Knight. It’s a moral imperative. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/m...
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- I knew I liked him!
- Forward! (The WI state motto)
- The first issue @booker.senate.gov discusses after breaking the record for longest senate floor speech: the long-term, own goal, catastrophic consequences of cutting university funding of innovative research on quantum computing, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, etc.
- Historic senate speech from @booker.senate.gov get to C-Span to see history.
- Soon we will learn whether Wisconsin election law allows you to hit the reset button after you illegally offer to pay people for voting and then say that you didn’t really mean you’d pay people for voting when you said you’d pay people for voting, but you meant you’d pay them to sign a petition.
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- The vaunted No Backsies statute being put to the test.
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- The “no backsies” rule of violating Wisconsin election law being put to the test.
- Context for below electionlawblog.org#:~:text=In%2...
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- He kept living in Madison, lived on my street, after leaving for Illinois. Will miss him. I’m sorry for your loss.
- Bob lived on my street here in Madison, even after leaving my dept. at UW-Madison for Illinois years ago. He will be terribly missed by his neighbors & by the country he sought to inform and engage with his scholarship & public writing. Lovely remembrance from @nicholsuprising.bsky.social 👇🏼
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- John.
- Yeah, I’m not apoplectic. Just reporting.
- 29 articles/books. But not the article that described Meta’s collaboration with academics studying the 2020 presidential election.
- Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions. Authors, search your name here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
- So here’s that one: www.science.org/stoken/autho...
- Free speech except for anyone we don’t like. If that 👇🏼is real & Americans let this happen, the country I grew up in, was educated in, got married in, earned a Ph.D. in, welcomed children in, taught 1000s of students in, conducted rigorous research in, tried to contribute to democracy in, is gone.
- With all of the attention on the dismantling of the research infrastructure that helped make the U.S. a superpower, let’s remember that most world-class researchers spend tons of time teaching the next generation. Here’s a podcast I was interviewed 4 abt my teaching. idc.ls.wisc.edu/2025/03/06/e...
- We are running out of time. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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- I’m so sorry.
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- This is some welcome good news. Congrats!
- Enjoyed talking with CityCast about the threats local tv news faces. Special bonus that the convo was produced by a former student! madison.citycast.fm/podcasts?utm...
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- Because of? Not seen anything like that.
- Local consequences for all the DC firings. A recent UW-Madison PhD dedicating his work to keep kids from smoking is out of a job at the FDA. There are literally thousands of these stories. Dedicated expert loses job; public health to suffer. www.channel3000.com/news/it-cert...
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