Jacob Long
@jacob-long.com
Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of South Carolina | PhD from Ohio State | political communication, public opinion, some other stuff You might know me from my jtools, interactions, and panelr #rstats packages https://jacob-long.com
Been trying to compile notes of thanks received for my R packages and just noticed that one person complimented me on the package's "well-written vinaigrettes" 😂
# of articles published by leading social science journals in 2024: Journal of Comm. 36 Comm. Research 38 JMCQ 37 AJPS 90 APSR 127 Psych. Sci. 94 JPSP 102 Communication flagships... what we doin
How are my fellow comm researchers affording these $2K-$4K open access fees 🤔
Even affects stuff that isn't exactly "high art." This summer I decided I wanted to watch old eps of Roseanne. All official channels have really bastardized it: it's cropped (lot of weird compositions as a result), scenes are chopped up to cut time for syndication, and it has a horrific AI upscale
this is why i will never give up my circa 2010 dvd boxset of THE WIRE. i don't give a shit about high def for older tv shows, give me the original aspect ratio (need to get my hands on an old simpsons boxset for this reason as well)
Hello [testing my dad's old Canon FD 50mm f1.8 on my Fuji X-mount]
Picking an undergraduate methods textbook has me once again feeling that "I need to write a textbook" itch...
TIL that the "journey" part of the word "journeyman" has nothing to do with travel. I always associated it with veteran athletes who often bounced from team to team on short-term deals (you might say journeyed!). But turns out "journey" is just anglicized French for "entire day"
We are hiring for several positions this cycle: Assistant Prof in Sci Comm, Assistant Prof in Health Comm, Open-Rank in AI. I think this is a great place to work. More info here: sc.edu/study/colleg...
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What's your threshold for how long a journal submission can stay "with editor" after initial submission before you start asking questions?
Something that becomes clear whenever I'm engaged in the peer review process (either as author or reviewer), I care a lot less about capital-T Theory than most of my peers. Something I must have inherited from the political science side of my education...
I feel that Google Gemini should know that Google has in fact released the Pixel 10 series of phones, maybe especially when I ask it a question about said phones using a Pixel 10 Pro XL
I did a study that was really undermined by a failed manipulation. I look at the small number of past studies that did a very similar manipulation...and they just dropped the people who did not respond correctly to the manipulation check 🫣