Social media – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Currently reading Bedeker (2026): “Navigating the university PedTech Wonderland: a Freirean critique of technology-enhanced learning in higher education”

mglessmer — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:17:09 +0000

I have been thinking a lot about what platform to host our MOOC on and how that decision locks us into a lot of things, for example to certify completion of the course and with that requirements to use quizzes and peer-review, but also more generally the ways in which participants can interact, can navigate […]

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Currently reading Shreedhar et al. (2026) on “Tell don’t ask: how to use social media to mobilise local collective climate action”

mglessmer — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:49:59 +0000

Shreedhar et al. (2026) is a really important study on climate action and social media strategy: When you want to get people to do something (for example sign up for a talk), it’s much better to tell them to do it (“do not stand by idly!”) than to ask them for support, and it is […]

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LTHE Chat 343: How to teach for sustainability. Our blog post and summary of the discussion

mglessmer — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:38:03 +0000

On Wednesday, Robert Kordts (awesome colleague and my co-teacher on the last Teaching for Sustainability academic development course) and myself tried a new-to-us format: A “Learning and Teaching in Higher Education” chat on Bluesky! The format is simple: We wrote a blog post (see here on their website, or read on below) and prepared six questions […]

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Currently reading Shiffman & Wester (2025): “Scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful, and have switched to Bluesky.”

mglessmer — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:53:52 +0000

I have complained a lot about how I miss the old Twitter that was such an important tool for me a decade ago, and most importantly during the pandemic, and how I have been looking for, and into several different, alternatives. And here is a paper that confirmed my impression that science Twitter has moved […]

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Reading about going public with SoTL

mglessmer — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:13:51 +0000

I am still trying to read up on SoTL for a project I am working on, but keep getting side-tracked (but at least this time it is by a SoTL book. After a super quick detour from the book to an article it cites, on my favourite topic still, social media, that is…. :-D). So […]

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Does disclosing intention make it less likely that we act on it? No answer (yet), but a lot of reading…

mglessmer — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 13:14:14 +0000

Today I fell into this really weird rabbit hole on intentions and self-completion. My interest was first sparked by an article by Gollwitzer et al. (2009) on “When intentions go public: Does social reality widen the intention-behavior gap?”, where they find that disclosing intentions, if the disclosure is noticed by other people, can make it […]

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Currently reading: “The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media.” Hund (2023)

mglessmer — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:40:41 +0000

I found the book “The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media.” by Hund (2023) in something I read recently, and somehow the title spoke to me. Despite having been a fan for a long time (and blogging quite a bit about research on, and practice of using, social media), I’ve been using […]

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Employees on social media — whose voice do we hear? Reading two cool studies

mglessmer — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 14:35:00 +0000

Social media has become a bit of a dumpster fire on most channels that I have been using, but even so I have a hard time letting go. I like the aspects of cultivating a big network, self-expression (btw, I wrote a blog post on some interesting research on that here) and professional branding. But […]

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Reading more about academics and social media

mglessmer — Thu, 23 May 2024 15:43:34 +0000

Clearly I am not completely done with Social Media yet, so much to read, so much to think about… I just read Mahon & Bergin (2024)’s “‘Sharing’, Selfhood, and Community in an Age of Academic Twitter”, which in the beginning describes an experience of X/Twitter that I can recognize: The urge to share new publications […]

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Social Media is dead, long live Social Media! Currently reading about a Social Media Entry Model for teachers (Machado et al., 2024)

mglessmer — Tue, 14 May 2024 19:25:47 +0000

Ok, so I just published two blog post, last weekend and today, on how I have lost interest in social media. And then I came across an article on a “Social Media Entry Model” for teachers to enhance student learning outcomes, by Machado et al. (2024), and here I am again… Curious enough to read […]

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