In addition to oil, the war has bottled up the world’s main supply of sulphuric acid, setting back a lot of heavy industrial supply chains. theoregongroup.com/commodities/...
we have known about this threat for 20 years. amazing
Calls that perhaps should’ve been made a few weeks ago
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I had the pleasure of sharing my research on Transitional Justice museums at Stanford’s CDDRL last week. You can find a summary of the talk here:
cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/news/do-tran...
*Now* can we ask about the Epstein Files, AG Bondi?
Were the pardons conceived to work this way?
This is not good.
Turns out shutting off immigration, deporting people, and taxing imports are bad for the economy.
Who knew!?*
*every person who actually took and tried to learn something in Econ 101
As an editor, I really appreciate it when people declining to review suggest potential reviewers. We (editors) don't know everybody and this is super helpful.
Academic folks: do you also notice that every now and then the number of Google Scholar citations gets trimmed significantly? If I remember correctly, my citations were close to 600 for years 2024 and 2025 and they are now around 560. Does anyone know why this can be the case?
idk if anyone's read orhan pamuk's (turkish nobel laureate in literature) museum of innocence but there's now a new netflix adaptation. it wasn't my favorite pamuk novel. what i most remember from it was this endless sense of boredom and dread. like a downward spiraling groundhog day,
Reports that FL Melania Trump will preside over the UN Security Council on Monday, March 2, as the US takes on the UNSC rotating presidency for March
IOC to Ukrainian skeleton racer w/ helmet featuring photos of dead Ukrainian athletes: "Disqualified."
IOC to Catalan skimo fans waving the Estalada and Senyera: "Those are banned propaganda & we're confiscating them"
IOC to Gianni Infantino, wearing a red USA 45-47 hat: "Looks good on you buddy"
One of the biggest wastes of academic productivity is the variation in page/word limits across journals in the same/related fields.
Interesting data:
Amazing. Good luck!
As someone who has to get multiple mammograms and ultrasounds a year, I'm glad to see that Wisconsin has passed Gail's Law, which requires insurance companies to cover repeat screenings for dense, hard-to-diagnose tissue, with no out-of-pocket cost.
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I know the AI hype can drive anxiety about academic productivity, but please remember that an additional paper can have negative returns to both society and your reputation.
This made me cry.
This is big. The last kingpin. Of Mexico’s biggest cartel- CJNG. Many thought he was already dead. Now he is.
WTF? I'm more bullish about the academic potential of AI than most of my colleagues but this is a joke
Reminder that if Trump thinks tariffs are so important, he could work with Congress to pass legislation authorizing him to impose them.
Afegiria que als EUA, Alemanya, Hungria, Itàlia, França, El Salvador, Xile, Holanda, Finlàndia, Rússia, Israel, etc, també és culpa del Procés.
Very excited that my paper "National attachment, past in-group perpetratorhood, and out-group attitudes", co-authored with the great Elias Dinas & Ethan vanderWilden, has been accepted for publication at the British Journal of Political Science. Abstract copied below:
Congrats to Political Science Professor Anil Menon and co- authors who were featured in JHPPL for their article, ""Thoughts and Prayers": The (Non) Effect of Partisan Response to Mass Shootings on Public Opinion."
Read article here: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
Catalan flags were confiscated today in the Olympic games (a Catalan won gold in Skimo) because political symbols are not allowed. As if all the nationalist symbols in the games were not political!
DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
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