Laramie Taylor

My son is 26. When he was in high school, our phone number was the only one we gave his school-- never his cell.

We were still getting phone calls from recruiters asking for him last year.

Department of Communication - Mediated Interpersonal Communication University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

We’re hiring @ucdavis.bsky.social Comm! TT Asst Prof in Mediated Interpersonal Communication. Our dept blends behavioral, biological & computational strengths at one of the most interdisciplinary campuses anywhere. Apps due Oct 15. Glad to chat recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07289

GRE Thresholds, Filtering, and Equity: A Pandemic-Era Reassessment of Communication Doctoral Admissions During the COVID-19 pandemic, Communication PhD programs reconsidered the use of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) amid concerns about structural inequities in graduate admissions. We examined ...

🧵 1/ How does the field of Communication use the GRE for PhD admissions?

Ellie Mercedes Ross, @laramiet.bsky.social, & I set out to answer this question. Our paper explores how GRE usage, particularly minimum score thresholds, can filter out certain racial & ethnic groups

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Pope Felonious.

We visited the Parthenon this weekend... in Nashville. From the days when investing in public infrastructure and common goods was patriotic.

That's got a little Dixon to it, doesn't it?

Domestic use of the military to enforce law/policy. Insisting that he can reinterpret constitutional amendments to mean what he wants (i.e., end birthright citizenship). Is he going to come for your guns next, MAGA?

...which is the Trump strategy. If congress won't eliminate regulation and oversight, he will do it by cutting personnel and sowing chaos.

Yeah, no corruption here at all.

My succulent is sending up its annual flower stalk. This thing has endured neglect, drought, small children's misguided attentions...but it keeps battling back.

Well, if they can wait it out for a couple weeks, there might not be an FDA left to do anything about it.

The man has clearly never taken an intro psych class.

The #AEJMC25 Conference Paper Competition is now open! Carefully review the paper call, create a new account in All Academic, and then you are ready to submit! Extended abstracts are again accepted and the deadline for all is April 1.
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Buttigieg's Poignant Rallying Cry Not To 'Give Up' As Trump Reenters White House Has People Emotional As only Pete can 👏🏼

Very inspiring words from Pete Buttigieg.

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵

In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.

We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.

with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...

For Pete's sake.

Stephen Miller is an odious human being. Or, if he's only one of the two, he's an odious something else.

Department of Partisan Hackery, more like.

Three books, colored yellow, red, and blue, between a pair of over-the-ear headphones.

🚨 Join us for #CommHorizons25, hosted by the Department of Communication @ucdavis.bsky.social!

Theme: Media, Health, & Society: Exploring Wellbeing Across Lifespans & Diverse Communities

Keynotes: Drs. Dana Mastro & @davidmmarkowitz.bsky.social.

Info: communication.ucdavis.edu/horizonconf2...

Boy, did I hate David Carradine at that line.

SKOL!

so much of teaching is teaching students that they are worth taking seriously, that they should take themselves seriously, that the world is in their hands, that they are up to its challenges

(this will be my only contribution to the current discourse about ai in the classroom)

4 panel comic P1: a lone silhouetted figure stands on a grassy hilltop, staring at a towering column of cloud, dominating a pink-purple sky P2: closeup of the figure, whonis a young guy wearing a jacket and beanie. He holds up a phone in his right hand, and ponders: "if I don't take a photo of this moment, and share it online, will it even matter?" P3: A beat, as the POV draws back to show the guy in full, as he looks up in silence. The hand holding the phone has dropped to his side. P4: the POV has moved high in the air, and the guy has been reduced to a tiny faceless figure. He finishes his thought: "on the other hand, maybe the transience of this moment is what gives it meaning..." A gust of wind whips past, with a "FWOOOOOO"

transience
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patreon.com/nhoj

Gross.

More than 75 Nobel Prize winners signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a cabinet choice. nyti.ms/41uQueD

...and maybe be a little more rigorous than they were with Kavanaugh.

That's a lot of hours.

UC Davis Department of Communication Achieves Top 15 Global Ranking The University of California, Davis, is proud to announce that its Department of Communication has ascended to the 13th position globally in the 2024 ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subje...

Good news for Communication at UC Davis:

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