so what if my fantasy darts league is consuming my every thought so what

this is so funny lmao looking forward to my free time from 10:30-11:00 pm at #ica26

every time i add a senior scholar i dont know on linkedin, i say "fuck it we ball" in my head

so stop??????????

i dont mean to be whatever but it just really feels like in 2026 i should be able to travel wherever without having to keep my phone on airplane mode the whole time. just let me use my phone its the future i should be able to do this. and do not tell me about travel sim cards.

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

losing my mind at the AI generated pro-veganism poster i just saw. no problem to destroy the environment to generate a slop pic of farm animals but god forbid i eat a piece of cheese

linkedin needs a thumbs down reaction badly 👎

rip aaron swartz you wouldve loved journal editors getting together and deciding submission fees is how we combat AI in academia

should i be worried about how big ive been having to make the font on my laptop lately just to see it................

lmao some of the #ica26 reviews i’m receiving are straight up copy and pasted from chatgpt how cool what a slay. for example:

excited to share my work in South Africa this year!!!! especially excited that (along with a few papers) my team’s panel session on measuring inequalities in journalism studies has been accepted - hope to talk about this with everyone in Cape Town! :)

International Communication Association@icahdq.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🎉 Today's the day! Notifications for #ICA26 are now being sent out via email! Please be patient & be sure to check your spam folder too. You can also check your results by logging into the ScholarOne website and clicking the Messages tab. buff.ly/Lm6odET

my not that hot take is that we are already in the 2nd american civil war and we are currently witnessing the battle at minneapolis

i cant believe people used to tell me college professors make a lot of money

reverse frankfurt school. wonder if theyll take researchers who criticize israel or if this is only for scholars with research palatable to german institutions

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

doesn't bode well that "what concrete contributions have you already made to the field" is being asked in assistant professor job interviews. seems like an obvious enough question but makes it clear that ABDs prob not seriously considered. previously early career positions now more mid-career.

this new lily allen album is pretty good you guys heard about this?

As a scholar I rarely offer electoral guidance. But today I do: DO NOT USE AI CHATBOTS AS YOUR VOTE ADVICE APPLICATION AHEAD OF (THE DUTCH) ELECTIONS Full of errors, bias and lack of transparency. @ernesto-deleon.com @favstats.eu @theoaraujo.bsky.social and🙋unpack why algosoc.org/results/1-in...

idk how to explain it but cuomo threatening to move to florida is giving bobby newport threatening to move sweetums to mexico except the outcome is still good for new yorkers

the actual good people of florida dont deserve this

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 9mo ago

My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”

waited 8 months for a journal decision just for 1 out of the 2 reviews to be about a paper that wasn’t even mine 🤙

shout out to "All in all," gotta be one of my absolute least favorite transition phrases

my co-author and i going back and forth trying desperately to meet “gender balance” for our panel proposal that is almost entirely made of women

(Gerbner & Gross, 1976)

why is my code taking 1000 years to run smh

Out now in Journalism Studies! As the crisis of local news supply has deepened in the US, local news ecosystem research has attempted to address this. In this paper, @reginalawrence.bsky.social and I conducted meta-analytical work looking at this research subfield. 🧵 doi.org/10.1080/1461...

Conceptualizing Local News “Ecosystems” in the United States: An Assessment of Local News Census Research

Research on the state of local news has grown as the crisis in local news has deepened across the United States. This paper reports an analysis of 40 studies published between 2010 and early 2025 t...

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Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 11mo ago

National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC

stopped me in my tracks seeing a linkedin bio that read “Aspiring Grad Student” 🫩

New week, new school year, new publication! In this paper, @antoniskalog.bsky.social, @patyrossini.bsky.social, & I develop a scale to measure how audiences feel alienated by the provision of news and what implications this has for inequalities. 🧵 Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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