Robert W. Gehl @robertwgehl@scholar.social

ooops, at Louisiana Tech. Should have said that

Happy to announce I will join the College of Liberal Arts as a F Jay Taylor Endowed Research Chair in Communication and Media Studies in the fall!

1) Do any of you use Publons to get credit for reviews? 2) Is it worth signing up for?

I just don't see the point, myself. I can put a line on my CV and not hand data over to Springer. But maybe I'm missing something

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I'm editing a project called "Years in Cultural Studies." We're calling for contributions. The full CFP is here (PDF):

https://robertwgehl.org/text/CFPs/CSALateralYearsCFP.pdf

What is that, out in the distance?

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missing from the reporting: who made this app that failed? How was it selected from competing offers? What was its production timeline? Was it tested?

Hello, Canadians -- is canadapost.ca normally just a blank page?

my favorite part of this Russian-produced US news site is the invitation to follow them on social, leading with VKontakt https://usareally.com/page/contacts

A lot of academics get spammy journal article requests, such as "Due to your expertise, we want you to submit an article to the Journal of [Field You Don't Actually Do]." I ignore such requests.

But what do you do if you get a spammy-sounding *review* request?

My practice with spam is to delete, but the professional side of me says "You must email back with a polite no."

What do you do?

all over the city

if you're building a jam around the words "angel," "love" and "above," please stop. right now

Installed Intel's Clear Linux on an Intel machine, with an Intel-made ethernet card and... Clear Linux did not configure or recognize the ethernet card. #backtoUbuntu

I'm in Calgary, AB to begin my fellowship studying alternative social media (like Mastodon). I'm already finding a lot of things to study, things that did not come up in searches in the US. Particularly Indigenous social media.