Me, just a 10 year old singing about bergamot and coriander
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Me, just a 10 year old singing about bergamot and coriander
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"...where I think I part company" is doing so much work. A+ job.
No , my baseline prompt is “assume you’re an intelligent , snarky woman who rolls her eyes at anything written by tech bros”
I probably think about this once a week since 2005. Though I will admit 50 percent of that thought is Mike Myers facial expressions.
Thoughts for folks as we head into Labor Day weekend & to #APSA2025: (1) the DC-based staff work the meeting - you've emailed us, we curate resources for members, we've given you grants, we've help you set up panels, etc. Some have PhDs, others don't. We know who treats folks like "the help". 1/x
Congrats to you both !
Speaking of which, you could enjoy your beverage with community at a section reception! And if you roll by the European Politics reception Fri. at 730, I’m handing out tickets.
In HS, I knew this group of guys who sang “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” every week. They did all the parts. That song is 8 min long. And it was never funny.
Someone has to step into the Billy Joel residency
Off-Broadway star!
I think "demands of scale" were pretty clear. The real buried lede here is the TA scarcity
Update: My kid asked what happens if he uses it? His teacher said "I want you to use it! It gives feedback based on the assignment rubric to help you revise." Now, friends, I'm not in the business of telling people how to protect their jobs. But if a computer can do the job of an English teacher...
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Yes, most of the anti-AI pieces I read are just scolding condemnations of unprepared students, whereas this talked about university mission and building something meaningful.
This piece balances the demands of scale with student readiness to abandon AI, but I think it's best feature is the argument that swapping AI for a more interpersonal education helps in "restoring a sense of community to our institutions."
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
Alas, another argument for more open-ended questions! :)
....require cursive handwriting. 100 % - me
This is how I become the Joker.
My 8th grader asked me to look at an essay he is writing for English class. I found this fresh hell in the program he has to submit his work through:
Danielle Thomsen's (@daniellethomsen.bsky.social) The Money Signal will change how you think about the function of money in US elections. A must-read! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
"Police are very bad at solving crimes where there isn't an immediate and obvious suspect, and even then!" See also: The Amanda Knox story (out now on Hulu)
I am fascinated by museum design, that is, how museums present their narrative. The NMAAHC is clever in this regard. You start in the basement, in the earliest and darkest moments of the slave trade and ascend into brightness. It is metaphorical and literal.
As I become a one-woman broken record book self-promotion machine, this kind of thing makes me glad that I dropped everything to spend ~5 years writing a book that reemphasizes just how much politics in this country are driven by race, starting with slavery.
My Ohio radar went off. Hynde used to own a vegetarian restaurant in Akron. it was amazing.
Jason Robert Brown (music & lyrics) says Parade "has always been the story of the currents of hatred running underneath America." Related, Ragtime opens at Lincoln Center next month. It is a privilege of a free society that art can stare at this theme, while govt wants to rewrite it out of history.
This show premiered on Broadway in 1998 (directed by Harold Prince!). The revival came to Broadway in 2023, where previews were greeted with a neo-Nazi protest. And the national tour of the revival has churned up the most insidious of accusations and conspiracy theories. Wonder what changed.
This is good.
I know this sentence has Em dashes, but ChatGPT could never write a sentence with this much poetic side-eye. From the incomparable Debra Kamin: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/r...
Haha they could’ve just put one Nemo-shaped cookie in each container and called it a day. But no
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"A blessing on you back. Mazel tov mazel tov."
The main innovation of this year is the integration of this new textbook, edited by @saragoodman.bsky.social and Jennifer Cyr, a fantastic all women and non-binary scholars initiative, with concise and practical introductions to "Doing Good Qualitative Research." Highly recommended!
My kid, when I ask him to clean his room
I aspire to write such a devastating burn: “No amount of intellectualizing can sanitize such coddling of primordialist feeble-mindedness.”
The absence of a present tense time warp is the time warp. The OG multiverse.
They say the news is all doom and gloom, and yet I just experienced this wonderful boost of serotonin:
*also maps out worst case scenarios for others*
Intel pointed to outfitters described as urban.
Absolutely. The true art of Succession was they did this to 100% of the characters.
I wish it's airing was a reflection of The Times but I think it's a reflection of Julian Fellowes ran out of storyline in Downton Abbey so he brought the story to America. See also: the bustles are wrong. See also: they made the robber baron a sympathetic character so what are we even doing here.
I have hot Gilded Age takes, but mostly about the surfeit of Broadway talent, comparative advantage of filming in NY and the decline of American entertainment by offshoring and moving production away from cultural hubs. Is that the take you're looking for???
Wow -- congrats! What an exciting endeavor!
when did Torahs drop the vowels?
Yes!! I wanted to keep the prints but did not want another blanket. I am gonna make this chair AND stuff it with scraps. ( I have a “crazy lady” amount of scraps that I won’t get rid of. )
List me 2 alternative uses for those beloved Ts and I won’t object. And do not say stuffed animals
Excited about the new panel formats introduced by @epssnet.bsky.social ! While academia has substantially innovated in research methods, publication formats, and business models, our approaches to conferences have remained relatively static. Glad to see thoughtful innovation addressing this gap.
Second article of today, is Jessica Pisano's great short chapter on "ethnography", from the excellent textbook "Doing Good Qualitative Research", which is the most important new addition to my syllabus. Clear and practical!
@juliaazari.bsky.social !!!!
Now in an issue @psrm.bsky.social: I show that the 🇩🇰 Social Democrats could have won policy support for a pro-immigrant platform if their messaging were framed in moral terms. Findings provide a central corrective to the popular notion that the Social Democrats were destined to go anti-immigrant 👇🏻
Trump doesn't care about the future, so he has no limits. But I plan to survive him and his regime. I want institutions to pursue truth and publish it. I want businesses and cities to invest in tomorrow. I want a clean abundant future and am willing to fight for it, for myself and others.
🚨 Very excited to share that the call for papers for the EPSS annual conference in Belfast 2026 is live. 🔝 Lots of innovation to enrich the way we exchange ideas in political science in Europe. 🙏🏼 Sharing is caring!
Purse tuna.
*stares in 2008 job market*
US- based academic jobs in poli sci down by 40 percent compared to this time last year. Meanwhile intl jobs (posted on apsa ejobs, so let’s assume an under-sample) trending in opposite direction.
I think if we examined jobs by us vs intl institution, it would look much worse
The only athletic event in which I go pro.
Even the premise made me wince and tbh it’s painful even if you drive yourself !
PS 2: It was a true privilege to work with these wonderful women to produce this paper. I remain committed to transatlantic collaboration and hope such scholarly exchange endures, despite growing pressures that challenge the autonomy of higher education and international engagement. 9/9
Post-script 1: I’d be remiss not to mention we encountered some appallingly misinformed comments about qualitative methods during this paper’s journey to publication. I hope more individuals learn about qualitative methods—not necessarily to use them, but at least to assess them thoughtfully. 8/9
This paper adds important context to evaluations of state interventions and immigrant integration policy. We hope it shapes how scholars thing about defining integration as well as how we can incorporate individual experiences into our studies. 7/9 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We identify three dimensions of program hindrances: classroom composition (ie who you learn with), arbitrary benchmarks in assessment, and tradeoffs, where individuals choose between continued learning and employment. 6/9
Our inductive approach allows individuals to describe their experiences in the IP. Through thematic analysis we identify how the same experience can both help and hinder integration. 5/ 9
In this paper, we provide the first qualitative assessment of these types of state interventions, centering migrant voices. We look at low-literate refugees in Norway's Introduction Programme. These are individuals that need assistance the most. 4/9
Lots of possibilities. Compound treatment effects? Hard to reach populations? A government's definition of integration (i.e., benchmark metrics) diverges from a migrant's definition. What about the program design itself? And what do migrants attribute success or fail to? 3/9
There are tons of studies that examine the causal effect of integration programs, tests, etc., on migrants and refugees in Europe. Most find a positive effect on linguistic proficiency and economic measures (e.g. employment) but null (or even negative) effects on other outcomes. Why? 2/9
Happy to share my latest: "How introduction programs help and hinder refugee integration: evidence from Norway", coauthored with Edit Bugge and Marte Nordanger, is now online at @scmrjems.bsky.social (a short thread) 1/9 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
That’s true. I spent 45 min trying out different videos on starting a “magic ring” in crochet and gave up, drove to my friend’s house, and had her do it :)
My boomer/non-boomer opinion is that it has never been easier to learn new skills! There’s a YouTube for everything! Remember when the only way to learn French braiding was a klutz book? I learned 3 different types of braids the other day, and today I’m making a balloon arc.
I am very excited for this doc. My kids need to go to bed faster
I often say that a lot can be understood in terms of underlying cultural differences by comparing the first couple episodes of the UK and US version of The Office. Same script, completely different attitudes conveyed toward your boss, work ethos, class, etc.
RSS by other means. We’re so close to reinventing google reader. I’m excited for the full circle.
Have we “gamified “ personalities?
And that piece left a deep impression. It was layered and showed the effects on communities, local economy, etc. I think most folks want to hear from their communities and alma maters (and for most, those are the same). But as @mcopelov.bsky.social might say, “where are the university presidents?”
I read one (1) story about western Illinois. I think it was the WSJ. But, yea. Our enrollments in poli sci alone per quarter are larger than the entire freshman class at Harvard
I'm reading this new(ish) textbook and it's such an incredible project and resource. Not only is it the most constructive guide to doing (good) qualitative research I know, all of its contributors are women or nonbinary/genderqueer. Love it! Great job Jennifer Cyr & @saragoodman.bsky.social 👏
You Had One Job Hall of Fame
Let’s see who will have the last laugh when we’re the first country to land a man on a chemtrail.
Once a day I have the thought: "The Federalist Papers but for TikTok"
I’ve been thinking about this for like 12 hours straight. Texas is already the loser team. His argument is endogenous: he does not “got it,” he already lost. It’s the grossest accountability pushing imaginable
Very telling. Government is not a game. And people are not points that can be “reclaimed” in some future. Gosh, those families deserve answers.
Nah, it's only 14 words long.
DC Comics distributed the below image to schools as a book cover in 1949, in association with the Institute for American Democracy. Also, I am contractually obligated to mention that Superman is from Cleveland :)
I especially like when you're good enough *to* review but not to *be* reviewed. Getting desk rejected is fine; getting desk rejected and then told that you still "owe" reviews is....audacious.
They got reports that someone left the cake out in the rain
No one workshopped that name. Task 1 on the apprentice is to give your team a name. This is not a party, it’s an airline
With all due respect to American-based colleagues, any reports of European countries / EU investing funds to specifically recruit American academics when they’ve been starving their own universities and driving out many local academics are just so infuriating.
Two days already and they’re still touring??
This is why I wrote a whole book about it. Many in Europe have tried to replicate it but it doesn’t quite come across the same.
They’ll probably cast Chris Pratt.
