M.A. & Ph.D. | Associate professor at Washington State University | media psychology and public health researcher
Pullman, WA
Joined December 2013
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Nicole O'Donnell retweeted
Everyones complaining that no one wants to make real art anymore and then you turn around and arrest the one guy who does
Guest lectured in a psychology of happiness class this week and talked with students about the ambient guilt they feel about consuming endless short-form videos. No end in sight. “This content just sort of happens to people, like a food-borne illness.”
Nicole O'Donnell retweeted
typically great piece but this section in particular stopped me in my tracks
Spent a few weeks earlier this year roaming a Hollywood almost entirely reoriented around the production of “microdramas,” which are kind of like soap operas except they’re short and completely demented and optimized for your phone. Started as one kind of sad story and ended as another, differently sad kind of story. You can read it now in @NYTmag nytimes.com/2026/10/06/magaz…
Nicole O'Donnell retweeted
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
Nicole O'Donnell retweeted
The public needs your help in identifying the NYT staffer who vetoed The Sopranos because it started in 1999
Nicole O'Donnell retweeted
Boston Globe western Massachusetts lesbian bar COVID dialogue story low-key the piece of the year if not the decade
Nicole O'Donnell retweeted
"Just legalize sports betting, who cares" was one of the most wrong opinions I've ever had. We need a draconian snapback where it becomes something you can exclusively do in-person in Vegas and maybe at a racetrack in Atlantic City.
DraftKings developed an AI model to identify users most likely to lose money so that it could target them with promotions. When employees then developed a model that would have assigned “risk scores” based on users' likelihood to develop compulsive/addictive behaviors, the company sidelined it. nytimes.com/2026/09/19/busin…
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Finally finding my way back home!! Let’s pack the stands and beat the brakes off of Arizona. GO COUGS!!! @WSUCougarFB
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You couldn’t waterboard this out of me if I ever did this.
A woman says a TikTok video that was labeled as showing Gastonia, North Carolina, tricked her into driving to the city, but the snowy mountain scene she hoped to see was actually filmed in Switzerland. cnn.it/3u0E7q0
Nicole O'Donnell retweeted
Thats enough content creation for today
The Richard Gere gerbil rumor won’t die. Why? Did a movie star really show up at a hospital in the 1980s with a rodent in his rectum he’d inserted for sexual pleasure?
The Hollywood Reporter presents ‘GERBIL,’ a new podcast series by investigative reporter Allen Salkin, who spent six years examining documents and interviewing Hollywood players, doctors and everyone involved to answer everything -- including why it matters more than ever.
First two episodes available NOW on all podcast networks, with new episodes every Thursday.
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Nicole O'Donnell retweeted
How do I boycott Ed Sheeran when my previous consumption of his work was zero
Nicole O'Donnell retweeted
Evening viewing recommendation? On the Criterion Channel watch LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS (1982) in our Girl Bands! collection. 🎸 ❤️🔥 bit.ly/46qLc5k
Nicole O'Donnell retweeted
THE SHARDS is a great book; THE SHARDS is one of the worst TV shows I've ever watched theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
