Jennifer Hough
@jhough.bsky.social
Comm Studies educator, doctoral grad student, queer, neurospicy, still learning and fighting
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!
March 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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!
Dissertation defense date scheduled.
a man in a vest is dancing in a living room with a couch and chairs
ALT: a man in a vest is dancing in a living room with a couch and chairs
media.tenor.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Dissertation defense date scheduled.
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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...
F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots (Gift Article)
The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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/...
Iowa Legislature - BillBook
Information pertaining to the Iowa Legislature as well as the Executive and Judicial branch in as much as they relate to the legislative branch
www.legis.iowa.gov
February 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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!
February 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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!
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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
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Is Being Told to Stop Its Work. 5 Ways That Could Impact Consumers Like You. - Consumer Reports
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is being told to stop its enforcement and litigation work and suspend all rulemaking. How the changes could impact consumers.
www.consumerreports.org
February 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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
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🚨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.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨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.
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Wild. Top is the NBC upload, bottom is the one aired as the live feed
January 21, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Wild. Top is the NBC upload, bottom is the one aired as the live feed
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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...
www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes
Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.
www.404media.co
January 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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...
www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
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Folks—and I'm looking especially at you, catless cat-appreciators out there—your daily dose of joy, right here 👇
go.bsky.app/SiMsaGS
go.bsky.app/SiMsaGS
November 20, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Folks—and I'm looking especially at you, catless cat-appreciators out there—your daily dose of joy, right here 👇
go.bsky.app/SiMsaGS
go.bsky.app/SiMsaGS
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This is concerning.
Wow. This is truly fucked up www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...
BU suspends admissions to humanities, other Ph.D. programs
The university didn’t announce its decision in a news release and hasn’t fully explained it, but two deans blamed a new grad workers’ union contract for the cutbacks to a dozen programs including Engl...
www.insidehighered.com
November 19, 2024 at 6:14 PM
This is concerning.
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This is basically a recipe for a full-scale labour revolt—the prevention of which is the whole reason the NLRB came into being in the first place
SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.
Accused of violating worker rights, SpaceX and Amazon go after labor board
SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.
www.npr.org
November 18, 2024 at 10:38 PM
This is basically a recipe for a full-scale labour revolt—the prevention of which is the whole reason the NLRB came into being in the first place
Dobby is perturbed by what he is seeing on the news.
November 19, 2024 at 5:08 AM
Dobby is perturbed by what he is seeing on the news.
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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
November 18, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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
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First post on this thing feels as strange as my first Twitter post. Awkward. Yet hopeful.
November 18, 2024 at 4:48 AM
First post on this thing feels as strange as my first Twitter post. Awkward. Yet hopeful.
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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:
What is behind FIRE’s attacks on AAUP? (opinion)
FIRE is no defender of academic freedom, Joan W. Scott writes.
www.insidehighered.com
November 18, 2024 at 11:44 AM
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:
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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.
November 16, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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.