Ariel R. White

Finally, check out AAUP-Penn’s statement that clearly frames the compact as a “threat, not an invitation.”

No to partisan interference in higher education!

@aaup-penn.bsky.social

Statement here👇

Mai Hassan, associate professor of @mitpolisci.bsky.social and faculty director of the MIT-Africa Program, co-authored a guest essay in @nytimes.com discussing the consequences of the international community recognizing Sudan’s juntas.
Read here: nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

My quote to the AP: "What we’re seeing is an unprecedented attempt to silence disfavored speech by the government... Donald Trump is trying to dictate what Americans can say."
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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yeah, other systems def wasting money on "safety" and "not crashing" and "building the rails the correct distance apart," should probably take a page from mbta 😇

screenshot of the top of the first page of the fall 2025 experiments section newsletter

There's a new issue of the section newsletter out! This one's on sample considerations in experiments: professional survey-takers, LLM usage, rural contexts, and more!

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I think it's a mistake to think of the firing of Lisa Cook primarily in terms of Central Bank Independence, and its impact on the inflation rate.

The most significant issue is also more basic: it's the rule of law.

Reminder: It does not matter if Lisa Cook filled out a form wrong or if the raid finds some document in a file folder in John Bolton's house. These actions are wrong no matter what because they selectively target opponents of the government. The rule of law is under attack.

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT NATIONAL TPS ALLIANCE; et al., V. Plaintiffs - Appellees, No. 25-4901 D.C. No. 3:25-cv-05687-TLT Northern District of California, San Francisco ORDER KRISTI NOEM; et al., Defendants - Appellants. Before: HAWKINS, CALLAHAN, and MILLER, Circuit Judges. The government's motion for a stay pending appeal (Dkt. No. 5) is granted. The district court's order granting plaintiffs' motion to postpone, entered July 31, 2025, is stayed pending further order of this court. See Nken v. Holder, 556 U.S. 418, 434 (2009) (factors governing issuance of a stay pending appeal). The previously entered briefing schedule (Dkt. No. 2) is suspended. Within seven days of the issuance of a decision in National TPS Alliance v. Noem, No. 25-2120, the parties shall submit proposed schedules to govern further proceedings in this case. The government's motion for a stay of proceedings in the district court (Dkt. No. 5) is denied. Management of the docket is within the discretion of the district court. See Bigfoot Ventures Ltd. v. Knighton, 132 F.4th 1138, 1143 (9th Cir. 2025). The government has stated that it intends to move for reassignment of this case to a Case: 25-4901, 08/20/2025, DktEntry: 19.1, Page 2 of 2 different district judge, but it has not shown that the possibility of such a future motion justifies a stay of proceedings at this time.

NEW: The 9th Circuit permits the Trump admin to terminate TPS for Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal for now.

This population includes 50,000 people who have been here legally since 1998 and will now have to leave the US or risk deportation. Many have no path to permanent status.

Check out the third cohort of Pathways@GDL Summer interns!

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Yes, my main reaction was "how am I filling out this survey TWO YEARS AFTER THE CEILING FELL IN," literally choose any plan and DO IT before my kid ages out of the damn school

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Gazans Are Dying of Starvation

My overwhelming memory from Hebrew school is being young and seeing images of ancestors starving in the camps. “Never again” was our religion. Here is the paper of record today. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

I hope Suresh Naidu is wrong, but I’m pretty sure he’s right—Columbia’s settlement with Trump is unlikely to stick: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

The latest winners of the Journal of Experimental Political Science best article awards have been announced -

- Rebecca Morton Best Article Award
- Best Article with a Pre-Registration
- Best Replication

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cc @jepsjournal.bsky.social

MIT Political Science is hiring this fall, with junior lines in both American Politics (members.apsanet.org/CAREERS/eJob...) and IR. Please share widely!

My third demo in four days, this one with awesome colleagues at MIT at the Boston courthouse at the AAUP versus Marco ("[W]e don’t need these people in our country") Rubio trial.

"Up, up with education, down, down with deportation!"

@aaup.org

I'm writing this post in high dudgeon because what the Court endorsed today is unamerican and contemptuous not just of the role of the judiciary but also of the responsibility we have as a nation to those in our custody and those we subject to punishment.

I'm mad as hell. You should be too.

We worked w/ #NJISJ to test effective ways of making newly enfranchised people aware of their rights. We combine ethnographic work with organizers w/ a field test of the strategies and tactics they viewed as successful

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

"He had an email from China, offering to move his lab to “any city, any university I want,” he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years. [He] declined, because he loves his adopted country. [Many] just setting out on their careers, however, fear there is no other option but to leave."

The Experimental Research section of the American Political Science Association (@experimentsapsa.bsky.social) invites research proposals from post-prospectus PhD students for its Experimental Research Early-Career Fellowship program. Share this post! @apsa.bsky.social, @poscresearch.bsky.social

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

This framing is all wrong

Our international students are not a “crucial funding source”

They are our STUDENTS

They are the reason we EXIST

We teach STUDENTS

Last chance to submit papers! Due date is tomorrow 5/1

A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U A Call for Constructive Engagement

The presidents of 200 US colleges declare:

"As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education."

Good!

www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

I really like this Nathan & Sands review piece: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
And Vincent Pons' recent work might be fun to include here, either this one: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
or his most recent WP: www.nber.org/papers/w33422

Cambridge asking Harvard to take a stand.

Great to see @ryanenos.bsky.social and many other colleagues speaking up and people cheering on a icy grey rainy day.

It's time to put in award nominations---deadline is 4/15!