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Part of the reason that Jesse Watters says incorrect stuff on TV all the time is he very obviously refuses to learn anything about anything.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/09/fox-biden-economy/

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A Texas A&M Regent says "McElroy’s hiring would derail the “purpose” outlined for the journalism program: “to get high-quality Aggie journalists with conservative values into the market.”

Tell me again how liberals are controlling university values? /s

A jaw-dropper on #conservative political interference in #Texas #HigherEd. From the Chronicle: https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-really-happened-in-texas-a-ms-two-high-profile-controversies-an-investigative-report-explains?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_7412679_nl_Academe-Today_date_20230804&cid=at

@academicchatter #tenure #AcademicFreedom #racism #journalism

Paragraph from referenced article: The investigation also confirmed the involvement of several members from the system-level Board of Regents. It included screenshots of a group chat in which one of the regents, Jay Graham, wrote that McElroy’s hiring would derail the “purpose” outlined for the journalism program: “to get high-quality Aggie journalists with conservative values into the market.” Graham said it would be conturary to the broader goal that Banks had allegedly endorsed of combining “arts and sciences together” to “control the liberal nature that those professors brought to campus.”

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Bloomsbury Academic has a new blog for educators and I have one of the first posts about The Gutenberg Parenthesis in which I assert we must bring the humanities to the study of the internet.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/bloomsbury-academic/blog/featured/what-s-next-for-the-internet-lessons-from-the-print-era/

Attn #aejmc23 — Does your research and/or teaching focus on fashion and culture? The Fashion Media program within SMU’s Division of Journalism in Dallas is launching searches for a tenure-track assistant professor and a non-tenure-track professor of practice, both beginning in August 2024. The fast-growing major emphasizes basic skills in journalism as well as the historical, cultural, and business aspects of fashion. Interested? Formal job call TK, but hit me up if you’d like to chat about it!

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This has to be my favourite #Barbenheimer meme for academics.
#AcademicChatter

Barbie looking all pink and fluffy on the left, labelled as Reviewer One, with Oppenheimer looking gritty and stern in black and white on the right, labelled Reviewer Two

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“Watching as professional crybabies like Ben Shapiro tried to get people to boycott 'Barbie' because one of the actresses in the film (Hari Nef, who played Doctor Barbie) is trans, and seeing that has absolutely no effect on the film’s success demonstrates that the Bud Light and Target controversies and capitulations only became big deals because Bud Light and Target responded to the outrage as though it were genuine.”

#Barbie
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https://www.readtpa.com/p/barbenheimer-takes-on-the-online

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A great study, inexcusable results. This picture of academic mental health in Media and Comm fields, worst among early career scholars, is real and casts a shadow over all the scholarship that emerges from them.

https://ecrea.eu/resources/Pictures/PaP%20Report%202023.pdf

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Let's be clear. Those "low value" degrees are all the degrees were you learn how power works. How knowledge is made. Where hierarchies and ideologies come from. And why all of that is considered "low value" and by whom.

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Please share - #job #sociology

My newly-expanding research lab at Swarthmore is hiring a post-doc and the application is open.

Happy to answer questions by email.

my ad with all the details: bit.ly/ClassPolsLabPostDoc
Swarthmore's ad & application portal: https://careers.swarthmore.edu/cw/en-us/job/495215/postdoctoral-research-fellow

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My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:

Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again:
When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?"
If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing!
But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else.
It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.

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🚨@ProPublica is looking for a visual journalist to produce photography for our groundbreaking investigations for the next 2 years
📸: Must have 3 years of photojournalism experience
🤩: Reports to @zellpic
💰: $75K + benefits
📅: DEADLINE: 8/8/23
https://boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4235199006

@nancybaym I don’t know much about the group/people behind this, but there’s been a touring exhibit on punk/new wave posters and artifacts: https://www.tornapart.graphics

I’m still not interested in Mastodon’s self-obsessed whining about other platforms.

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I've seen many of the reasons why #Elsevier is called #Evilsevier by virtually everybody.

But this really takes the cake:

https://www.designresearchsociety.org/articles/the-future-of-design-studies-journal

If you ever needed a single, 5min explanation of one of the many reasons why we need to replace academic journals,, this is the one.

Here are the other reasons:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634

@lscottspencer@mstdn.social To be clear, I hate that for this app! There’s a lot of good stuff here, but (what I can only assume is) a vocal minority that wants to police everything just feels so stifling.

One of the first comments I read here about #Threads reminded me why most people find this platform insufferable.

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