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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

did a quick count yesterday: in the last 13 months i’ve published 6 papers (all first, second, or solo authored) 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

sorry but what is even the point of submitting to/attending a conference if you are going to have an AI chatbot present your research?

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

so what if my fantasy darts league is consuming my every thought so what

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

this is so funny lmao looking forward to my free time from 10:30-11:00 pm at #ica26

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

every time i add a senior scholar i dont know on linkedin, i say "fuck it we ball" in my head

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

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

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

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.

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GoalieLax @goalielax.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

linkedin needs a thumbs down reaction badly 👎

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

rip aaron swartz you wouldve loved journal editors getting together and deciding submission fees is how we combat AI in academia

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

should i be worried about how big ive been having to make the font on my laptop lately just to see it................

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

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

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

lmao some of the #ica26 reviews i’m receiving are straight up copy and pasted from chatgpt how cool what a slay. for example:

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

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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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

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

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

i cant believe people used to tell me college professors make a lot of money

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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.

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

this new lily allen album is pretty good you guys heard about this?

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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...

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1 in 10 Dutch citizens are likely to ask AI for election advice. This is why they shouldn't | AlgoSoc

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

the actual good people of florida dont deserve this

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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 🤙

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

shout out to "All in all," gotta be one of my absolute least favorite transition phrases

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

why is my code taking 1000 years to run smh

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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

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Local News Impact Consortium | Researching information and news by for and about local communities

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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.

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Through a content analysis of local news census research, we find that most studies stick to a single context (usually state), traditional media, and limited documenting. We also present this map that shows where studies have (and have not) been conducted. Most of the US lacks an ecosystem analysis.

Heat map of the United States using different colors to show where local news census research projects have been conducted.

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

In this study, we look at what we call "local news census" research, which attempts to map, measure, and assess the health of a geographically-bound local news system. Primarily produced through white papers and research reports, these studies give a snapshot of a locale's current news offerings.

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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...

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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...

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

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

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

stopped me in my tracks seeing a linkedin bio that read “Aspiring Grad Student” 🫩

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

This work is part of the INEQNEWS project at @imec-smit.bsky.social and funded by an ERC-grant. 🇪🇺

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Wrapped up from our Discussion: Scholars should consider implementing this scale when analyzing news audiences, given its demonstrated functionality at identifying a previously invisible group: those who are alienated by the provision of news as they understand and experience it.

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

We also find that greater feelings of alienation are associated with negative outcomes. Despite consuming more news than their counterparts, people who believe news is not made for them also selectively avoid more news, get more knowledge questions incorrect, and believe more misinformation.

Coefficient plot from the manuscript titled "Regression Coefficients where News is Not Made for Me is an Independent Variable" with 5 plot boxes with the following titles: "(i) Total News Consumption," "(ii) News Avoidance," "(iii) Overall Current Affairs Knowledge," "(iv) Autoregressive Knowledge," and "(v) Misinformation Beliefs." There are pink lines for UK results and teal lines for Brazil results. There is a research note at the bottom of the figure.

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Using a panel survey in Brazil & UK, we see that people who feel the most alienated from news tend to be younger, lower SES, have lower news self-efficacy, greater interest in soft news, and have more attention problems. These findings highlight the overwhelming relentlessness of news cycles.

Coefficient plot from the manuscript titled "Linear Regression Results with News is Not Made for Me as DV" with variables on the y-axis and coefficient estimates on the x-axis. There are pink lines for UK results and teal lines for Brazil results.

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

The News is Not Made for Me scale is an 8-item scale that investigates the growing gap between news providers and audiences as well as audience inequality gaps related to news use and benefits. It gets at what we call "agnostic" features of news - such as pace, language, and access.

A screenshot of a table from the manuscript. A purple header is labeled "Item" followed by the 8-items of the scale and a research note on alternating gray and white rows.

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

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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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

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

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

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.

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