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Yiping Xia 夏逸平

@xiayp.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism, Texas A&M University Past: UNC CITAP, UW-Madison SJMC

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Shamelessly reposting my favorite thing I've ever written, which is about being trans and a Texas A&M alum, in light of that excellent Arkansas Times piece about being Black and gay at University of Arkansas: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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Texas A&M helped me thrive as a transgender person. Now, it's complicated.
A mostly good college experience is hard to square with the school that exists now.
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Feet in 2 Worlds @fi2w.org · 07/10/2026
What do immigrants imagine is possible for themselves and their city’s future? Fi2W is returning to our roots with our series City of Possibility, documenting how immigrants in New York build their own community spaces, develop economic opportunities, and create moments of joy.
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Returning to our Roots with City of Possibility - Feet in 2 Worlds
In 2026, as xenophobic attitudes, policies, and attacks continue to bear down upon immigrant communities, New York City is choosing a different path. Feet in 2 Worlds’ newest series, City of Possibili...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
hell yeah
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s Friday I’m in Love (with Churu)
A cat standing up to lick a snack that a human is holding
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Jiyoun Suk @jiyoun-suk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🌟 New Pub 🌟 If your computational social science study focuses on “most engaged” or top-liked content, you may be measuring what people publicly signal, not what they actually pay attention to. For political content, that gap is especially wide. First 50 copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/7M7FR...
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Rethinking digital trace inference in political communication: evidence from a simulated platform experiment
Digital trace data such as likes, shares, and comments are widely used to infer what captures attention in digital political communication. Yet these visible signals may not map closely onto underl...
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is hilarious because during the interview for my current job, they took me to Starbucks and bought me coffee
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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am SO DELIGHTED to announce that our brand new report: The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania is out today. datasociety.net/research-lib... TechCrunch has the scoop: techcrunch.com/2026/09/22/e...
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Everyone can find a reason to dislike data center construction | TechCrunch
Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Olivia Holdt that’s unbelievable
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🎃 Dustin Gore-Killer 🔪 @george-miller.org · 20/09/2026
Petition to refer to Spurs' women's team as "Tottenham Hotspur" and the men's first team squad as "Spurs Men."
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Koga>Gaupset>Holdt>Goal✅
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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Our students don’t deserve this. For those who don’t understand UT Austin admissions, most undergrads get in bc they were top 5% of their graduating class, from a Texas high school. Anyone calling for more white students is advocating for race conscious admissions - to help out white students.
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Caroline Stefko @cgstefko.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I mean, if you’re still posting “whatever will we do to occupy our time during the international break?” it’s just misogyny at this point, right? The women’s team can’t be playing this well and still get ignored by (more than?) half the fanbase. It’s so frustrating. Fix your stupid hearts.
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Last time I was here Uber “upgraded” my ride to a Waymo… Gave me quite a startle!
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I don’t get why chronically online guys like to mock Taylor Lorenz. Look in the mirror.
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Someone find Leo Marx, now that we have new hazardous concepts.
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I just muted r/coys. Wake me up when that guy is gone.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
i'm a casual tennis fan, but i passionately want shelton to beat zverev.
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A Tennis Star’s Ex-Girlfriend Accused Him of Domestic Abuse. Why Hasn’t the Tour Addressed It?
“Every day, I was crying.”
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Caroline Stefko @cgstefko.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/athletic/758...
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Tottenham would be in the Championship without Richarlison - he deserves a better ending
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Think Olivia Holdt should’ve come on much, much earlier
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Really rough second half so far
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Oh wow, he pleads no guilty
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Please enjoy this picture of Sundae
A golden British shorthair cat perches by the window, eyes wide open, paws hidden under belly
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
tfw you finally submit a peer review you've delayed forever due to its insufferable AI prose, then realize you will be asked to review the revised piece at some point...
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Also, I’m once again asking people to stop equating “fancy sentences generated by ChatGPT” with “good qualitative analysis”
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.
captimes.com
UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor
Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Yes, I could have refused to review (or opt out of the next round), but if other reviewers somehow let this piece be published as is, I would be so mad. It also comes short of cheating. There's real work behind it and if they stop filtering it through ChatGPT, there might be redeeming value.
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
tfw you finally submit a peer review you've delayed forever due to its insufferable AI prose, then realize you will be asked to review the revised piece at some point...
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My department is hiring! Four positions, details at the link. Happy to answer any questions. artsci.tamu.edu/comm-journal...
artsci.tamu.edu
Employment Opportunities
The Department of Communication & Journalism has a number of faculty positions for the next academic year.
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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 31/08/2026
I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Do I have this right? Spurs: - hired someone whose vibes are all wrong and character questionable - gave him control/influence/whatever over transfers - the guy shipped out all the players with the best vibes, throwing a few of them under the bus in the process 🤷‍♂️
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I understand this feeling. Relief at a human-bad essay instead of a machine-bad essay. I can work with human-bad! Machine-bad is an insult to my humanity.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026
"for all the people “celebrating” this as a win “against” Meta, you’ve been fooled. Meta just cut a deal to put itself in charge of how social media works going forward. this is Meta taking a “please regulate me Daddy” approach to the government, & getting exactly what it really has been asking for"
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Those hacks sure are obsessed with children’s literature classes (see my uni’s scandal)
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I gotta say the AI-powered bots on here are less sophisticated than the Russian sockpuppets on Twitter back in the day.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
One of the most terrifying videos of a natural disaster I have ever seen. No one in the video had a chance to survive.
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Louise Matsakis @lmatsakis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Amazon is officially shutting down Mechanical Turk next month. It feels like the end of an era. I've written about the platform on and off for close to a decade. We wouldn't have the AI tools we do now if it weren't for the low-paid, largely invisible labor of MTurkers
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Stephanie Edgerly @stephedgerly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
New study w/ Ayse Lokmanoglu, Christopher Dobmeier, and Nathan Walter in @jmcquarterly.bsky.social. We asked U.S. adults what "news" means to them and found six distinct schemas--including one built almost entirely on negative feelings, not topics or outlets. @medillschool.bsky.social
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The Meanings of News: How U.S. Adults Think About the Word “News” - Stephanie Edgerly, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, Christopher M. Dobmeier, Nathan Walter, 2026
This study explores the immediate, top-of-mind meanings audiences hold about “news.” Inspired by recent audience-centric approaches in defining news, we adopt a...
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"How Climate Change Comes to Matter" by Candis Callison
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Still sad about Cuti leaving. If they sell Richarlison I might just be completely done with this club. (I do realize the majority of the fanbase want both gone or see both as “gone” lol.)
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I’m open to watching Spurs Men’s team again at some point during youknowwho’s tenure, but emotionally that ship is sailing fast with the Romero and Spence sales…
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/08/2026
holy moly the comments on this about dealerships
was trying to buy a car--a Ford, as it turns out--last year. I was prepared to pay cash but with effectively a small bonus to reflect the lost financing wins for the dealership. Two dealerships ghosted me, one didn't even try to sell me a car when I visited the dealership in person, one threatened me with physical violence when I walked out after they insulted me for wanting to pay cash, and the last (which was actually a minimally acceptable sales experience) threatened baselessly to repossess my car if I didn't give their sales team a 5-star review. And that's just the Ford dealerships. Toyota didn't know where their inventory was and couldn't answer basic questions about the car. Lexus refused to sell me a car (what?). Mini has taken on way too much BMW in their sales experience.
I'm not a regular car buyer, about once every 7-ish years on average, but I was astonished how bad it's gotten, and that's starting with a very, very low baseline expectation.Mazda dealership basically kidnapped my wife a few years back when she went without me. They took her keys to get the value of the trade-in and wouldn't give them back.
She had to threaten to call the police to get her keys back.
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After the threats of physical violence from the sales manager, I started a shouting match on the sales floor to get my keys back, including recounting in detail what they'd threatened to do to me. I was happy that I saw a couple of people walk out.
The behavior amazes me from a pure sales perspective, but then I remember criminals are dumb and car salesmen are maybe a half step above criminals.
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Lincoln City. That’s better.
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Every time I fly American, there would be some innovative issues that cause delays/cancellations 🤷‍♂️
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New: Four Texas A&M professors are suing in Houston federal court over its policy prohibiting discussions of race, sexuality and gender in the classroom ~ www.chron.com/texas/articl...
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Faculty sue Texas A&M over limits on teaching race, gender and sexuality
Texas A&M is the second state university to be sued over limits on teaching gender, sexuality and race.
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Hoping Spurs will announce some Big Loans so that my men’s team this season will be more exciting than, uh, Leyton Orient (with Yusuf Akhamrich).
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I don’t agree with everything written in the “Cape Town Declaration,” but that former presidents’ “response” is … pointless.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
“____ is privilege, not a right” is their go-to BS now
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Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
hell yeah that’s some bombath!
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