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dr courtney tabor
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postdoc VU Brussel news & politics 🦋 views are unfortunately my own even though they should be everyone’s 🦋 out of office until 12/31/9999
linkedin needs a thumbs down reaction badly 👎
January 27, 2026 at 11:23 AM
rip aaron swartz you wouldve loved journal editors getting together and deciding submission fees is how we combat AI in academia
January 27, 2026 at 10:02 AM
should i be worried about how big ive been having to make the font on my laptop lately just to see it................
January 20, 2026 at 10:39 AM
lmao some of the #ica26 reviews i’m receiving are straight up copy and pasted from chatgpt how cool what a slay. for example:
January 14, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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! :)
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January 14, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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
January 14, 2026 at 1:31 PM
i cant believe people used to tell me college professors make a lot of money
December 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
reverse frankfurt school. wonder if theyll take researchers who criticize israel or if this is only for scholars with research palatable to german institutions
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...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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.
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
this new lily allen album is pretty good you guys heard about this?
October 30, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Reposted by dr courtney tabor
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...
1 in 10 Dutch citizens are likely to ask AI for election advice. This is why they shouldn't | AlgoSoc
algosoc.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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
October 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
the actual good people of florida dont deserve this
My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”
October 27, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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 🤙
October 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
shout out to "All in all," gotta be one of my absolute least favorite transition phrases
October 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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
September 30, 2025 at 7:51 AM
(Gerbner & Gross, 1976)
September 30, 2025 at 7:25 AM
why is my code taking 1000 years to run smh
September 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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...
doi.org
September 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Reposted by dr courtney tabor
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
August 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
stopped me in my tracks seeing a linkedin bio that read “Aspiring Grad Student” 🫩
August 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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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August 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
LET'S GO!!!!! she deserves it!!!!!!! 🎉
Murray Edelman Lifetime Distinguished Career Award

🌟 Regina Lawrence, University of Oregon
August 19, 2025 at 7:09 AM