every day i’m sent into a new frenzy by some grifter on linkedin

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

i own two phones at this point - one belgian, one american - and one or both of them is always on airplane mode. why

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 👎

rather than idk paying reviewers for their labor, the idea is to give taylor & francis and sage more money? iconic

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................

This is just a snippet of the commands (more were included in the email) but regardless, *peer* reviewing should be done by peers, not by AI

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! :)

(i am not a historian)

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

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

This paper was a long effort informed by so many kind and wonderful scholars, especially those affiliated with the Local News Impact Consortium and the Local Journalism Researchers' Workshop (@duke-dwc.bsky.social & UNC Hussman School) so thank you all so much :')

www.localnewsimpact.org

We also analyzed the three primary metaphors researchers use to describe their own studies: Ecologies, infrastructures, and ecosystems. These are evocative but often used interchangeably and imprecisely. The lack of clarity and conceptual slippage of these terms should be addressed by the subfield.