Mary-Collier Wilks, PhD

Stop Faking, Start Fixing: Rethinking the Orgasm Gap Think women’s orgasms are elusive? Think again. The problem isn’t biology, but the cultural script around sex. Here’s how to stop faking and start fixing.

If women’s orgasms were “too complicated,” they wouldn’t show up so reliably in some situations and tank in others.
So what’s really getting in the way?
The orgasm gap isn’t inevitable. Here’s how we fix it.
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www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hidd...

you'd think creating working printers would have come before the AI revolution...

Contacts are so expensive. I always end up wearing my monthly contacts wayyyy too long to try to the reduce cost.

Even child naming practices are starting to show signs of politically polarization in the U.S. today - these sorts of unexpected studies are why I love sociology!

This is so interesting!!!

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Agreed!

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I'll be in D.C. for my book launch talk on Wednesday!

If you're a criminologist on the job market, consider coming to work with me!

jobs.uncw.edu/postings/37753

Very excited to check this out.

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If you're in the D.C.-area and interested in the uncertain future of foreign aid, I'll be giving a book launch lecture at American University on November 12th!

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Not me in the exact same boat...

Excited to check this out - thank you for sharing!

‘Not a luxury, a necessity‘: how aid cuts to birth control harm Senegal’s women ‘The women here are warriors,’ says a midwife in Joal, and contraception is key to their health and life chances. But now UK and US aid cuts threaten to undo years of progress

"The Wish programme can empower women and give them a rare chance to make a decision about their body and life, he says. “That’s not something exotic. It’s not a luxury. It’s a necessity … if they make this cut, they are cutting a necessity.”" www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Can't wait to read!

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Need people to understand the difference between "this is a social construct" and "this is not real"

China’s unprecedented expansion of higher education in 1999, increased annual college enrollment from 1 million to 9.6 million by 2020. We trace the global ripple effects of that expansion by examining its impact on US graduate education and local economies surrounding college towns. Combining administrative data from China’s college admissions system and US visa data, we leverage the centralized quota system governing Chinese college admissions for identification and present three key findings. First, the expansion of Chinese undergraduate education drove graduate student flows to the US: every additional 100 college graduates in China led to 3.6 Chinese graduate students in the US. Second, Chinese master’s students generated positive spillovers, driving the birth of new master’s programs, and increasing the number of other international and American master’s students, particularly in STEM fields. And third, the influx of international students supported local economies around college towns, raising job creation rates outside the universities, as well. Our findings highlight how domestic education policy in one country can reshape the academic and economic landscape of another through student migration and its broader spillovers.

A new NBER working paper highlights the positive benefits of Chinese graduate students for American universities, students, and communities.

www.nber.org/papers/w34391

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Interesting! Excited to read it.

Thank you for putting this into words!

Future of Foreign Aid Speaker Series | Center on Global Poverty

I'll be virtually presenting some data from my forthcoming book, "Reimagining Aid" this Friday, October 24th at 3pm EST as part of the Hopkins Center on Global Poverty's Future of Foreign Aid Speaker Series. You can find the zoom link on the website below!

sites.krieger.jhu.edu/cgp/future-o...

AI and the Future of Work In-person reservations for this event are currently full, but please join the livestream.Proshansky Auditorium

Join us online Tues, 10/7, 6:30pm (in-person RSVPS are full) – AI and the Future of Work – feat. @dacemoglumit.bsky.social, @pkrugman.bsky.social, Danielle Li, @zey.bsky.social & @sgreenhouse.bsky.social – reserve now: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/ai-an... @stone-lis.bsky.social @cuny.edu #AI #jobs

Future of Foreign Aid Speaker Series | Center on Global Poverty

Later this month, I'll be giving a virtual talk on my forthcoming book, "Reimagining Aid" for the Hopkin's Center for Global Poverty's Future of Foreign Aid Series. Zoom link on the website below!

sites.krieger.jhu.edu/cgp/future-o...

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91 years is a good long run for most but too short for someone like Jane Goodall. Damn.

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Excited to be working on my book talks schedule!