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

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

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...

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

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/...

Sam Altman: I see humans achieving omnipotence using dark matter by… 2030 maybe? That’s if OpenAI is given a quadrillion dollars Theo Von: Yeah Altman: Or, we may become a race of slaves, genetically modified to be harvested by robot spiders. That’s if OpenAI doesn’t get the money Von: Right

LET'S GO!!!!! she deserves it!!!!!!! 🎉

This is a canary in the coal mine. Humanities programs are highly endangered, even the departments with reputations for discipline-defining job placement are treading water. What’s tragic about the University of Chicago case is that cuts are almost certainly elective and ideological.

another season of job applications, another stack of them due on yom kippur

googled the name of one of my articles and the AI result made up a fake study that it could "likely" be about. super cool!

new publication out today! this paper came from a chapter of my dissertation on restoring voting rights to incarcerated people in the US. in it, i examine the success of DC’s Restore the Vote through the mechanism of public commenting. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer." —Zadie Smith

well i guess im officially back on the job market since I sent my first app of the season out today

a fantastic time but now nursing the social interaction hangover of a lifetime lol #ica25

4th? or maybe 5th? day of #ica25 and i’m still mixing up my hyatts

sipping on chocolate milk in the back row of the sunday 9 am panel barely keeping it together #ica25

had a dream last night that Marc Maron played me in a reenactment of something and dream me was so excited I was clicking my heels in the air ugh what a beautiful dream

3:30 am shout out to all my colleagues at #ica2025 getting our asses handed to us by jet lag!!! it’s noon somewhere!!

didn’t know it when i booked it but apparently my first flight on the way to #ICA2025 is an inaugural one lol

my husband recently took a >8 hr flight and he watched just one (1) movie: a documentary about yacht rock. he could not wait to tell me everything he learned and he wants to watch it again but this time with me so i can learn too. anyway he's my soul mate.

walked into the cafe with my headphones on listening to bjork. took off my headphones and they're playing bjork in the cafe.

i love secret lives of mormon wives nothing says Smashing The Patriarchy like a baking competition where the husbands rate the wives’ cooking

“when the kids are saying riz do they mean horizontal? if i had a twitter i would tweet that” - my husband

ive had my 2nd sinus infection of 2025 this past week and my brain has been in such a fog that every single convo w my husband has been like this: me: there's a word im thinking of you know it I know it tell me what it is before i pass out him: this is making me suffer in ways you can't imagine

would pay myself any sum of money to get something done today

It was a pleasure having you with us in Vienna, @academiuhhh.bsky.social! Thank you for the fantastic presentation 🤩🗣️ and best of luck to the entire INEQNEWS team 🗞️ with all your projects 🍀 We're happy to host you anytime!

have to give a HUGE thank you to @dbetakova.bsky.social and the whole @polcomvienna.bsky.social for the warm welcome this week!! thank you for sharing your desk space and listening to me talk about the ineqnews project ❤️ you are all welcome at my desk anytime!!!

ok!!!! do I know anyone who knows anyone who researches/works with journalists writing about big tech companies and the politics of tech & journalism???

Ridicule! As! Praxis! Be a hater!

suggesting to my research team that we all do ketamine therapy together in denver like in secret lives of mormon wives

oh yeah i do remember reading in history that this is exactly how they stopped fascism last time

OK, I'll bite. Who's Joe Biden?

never let anybody tell u that evil does not exist

Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”

Soft news meets Agenda Setting Shout out McCombs n Shaw 1972!!!

If you haven't had a chance to make a donation yet, it's not too late. When we say #FreeBlackMamas, we’re saying that we don’t need cages; we need care: bit.ly/freeblackmamas2025

"So the fact that the city of Troy is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a beautiful giant wooden horse..."

its so sad that trump's mind for bullying is wasted on him because "The Dems are World Class Losers!!!" is unfortunately soooooo funny

Highly recommend following the work of the Southern Environmental Law Center who have tracking this and other polluting data center projects in the South www.selc.org/topic/data-c...