Comm peeps (or anyone in higher ed) who review grad school applications, I am wanting to create a panel talking about how to handle the influx of applications in which the statements of purpose are written by AI. Anyone interested, let me know!
The schedule for making the flu vaccine is strict. Using WHO data (the WHO we just left), vaccine strains are selected at the March FDA mtg that was just canceled. Vaccine manufacturing then begins in June, raising serious doubts the vaccine will be ready next fall.🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
Iowa trying to remove comm courses from general education requirements & restrict curricula for all gen ed courses. Whether you live or work in Iowa or not, please reach out to Iowa representatives in both House and Senate to tell them this is not okay. www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/...
Looking for Google alternatives? For maps, MapQuest still exists and uses Gulf of Mexico! Also, for browsers and search engines, there is Duck Duck Go and Ecosia. Ecosia plants a tree for every search done!
If the agency ( #CFPB ) goes away, “a lot of people who don’t have a lot of resources are going to be hurt,” says @adamrust.bsky.social, the Director of Financial Services for the Consumer Federation of America
list of banned keywords
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
Wild. Top is the NBC upload, bottom is the one aired as the live feed
New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill"
www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
Aww what a sweet face, I’m so sorry 😢
Dobby wonders what took so long? Yes, the judgment is real 😂
Folks—and I'm looking especially at you, catless cat-appreciators out there—your daily dose of joy, right here 👇
go.bsky.app/SiMsaGS
This is concerning.
Dobby is perturbed by what he is seeing on the news.
I’ve begun a starter pack featuring members of Communication Scholars for Transformation. If you’d like to follow comm professors working to improve diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging within the field and beyond, check them out! Certain to be rich discussions. #DEI go.bsky.app/KfMpyoH
First post on this thing feels as strange as my first Twitter post. Awkward. Yet hopeful.
Today's higher ed must-read. It's no coincidence that, as newly-emboldened Right-wing groups swagger around gleefully in the wake of Trump's election, FIRE is moving to displace the AAUP and subvert its role as defender of academic freedom. Joan Scott shows us why we shouldn't fall for it:
Love Albert
same girl, same
The introductory communication course I teach. They have to do two major presentations.
I am loving the results of encouraging students to do more on the ground research for their presentations by interviewing people on campus and in the community with expertise and knowledge.
Yes! They finally appeared, which is great.
Accessible meaning easy to understand? Because I don’t see captions.
