Amelia Malpas

thinking of Jessica Cisneros this morning and what could have been if those 2020 and 2022 primaries had gone slightly differently!

Wait this is wild. I learned about Cheney earlier but had no idea abt Netanyahu

I thought the problem with the Democratic Party was that it had vague off-putting messaging??

like wtf does this slogan mean? i'm not sure i've heard a collection of English words that reeks more of consultant-speak

I thought the problem with the Democratic Party was that it had vague off-putting messaging??

like wtf does this slogan mean? i'm not sure i've heard a collection of English words that reeks more of consultant-speak

Collegiate Punctuation Marks Trying to Be the Next Oxford Comma The Notre Dame semicolon, Sarah Lawrence quotation marks, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop em dash, and others.

Some all-new collegiate punctuation marks to rival the Oxford comma, from New Yorker Humor. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/g2qa5v

No, thank you for advice! There are definitely interesting ideas here and I'm trying to draw those out in my report alongside what could be improved.

Ha fair! I'm trying to be nice. But it is not a good paper and I cannot recommend publication in good conscience!

This is ... not good! "Theory" section does not explain how independent and dependent variables are logically linked + other major problems

reviewing my second ever article and I'm afraid I'm reviewer 2 here

Haha it's such a gorgeous place! Totally different vibe from Berkeley but so lovely. I hope you get invited to give a talk there !!

UC Santa Cruz, the other UC with redwoods, is the most beautiful campus in my opinion

one of my funnier moments living in New Haven was defeating this guy's brother, who was also a city alderman at the time, in beer pong at a party

looks great! will read with interest

Delighted to see this paper out in @carlsengames.bsky.social - working with @grattonecon.bsky.social was fantastic; I learned a lot! We develop the argument that technocracy can serve as an intertemporal insurance device for groups who fear their majority status is ephemeral. Because technocrats

It’s even funnier honestly bc this is not something I am good at. Like, at all.

one of my funnier moments living in New Haven was defeating this guy's brother, who was also a city alderman at the time, in beer pong at a party

haha i'm 26 (somewhere between baby to other adults and ancient relative to all that has come before!)

College drafts new faculty-student dating policy — Mount Holyoke News BY MELISSA JOHNSON ’20 Mount Holyoke faculty have joined together to create a campus-wide policy prohibiting all romantic relationships between faculty and students. Pre-existing faculty-student rela...

Yeah! www.mountholyokenews.com/news/2018/4/...

It was only banned at my historically women's college my first year in 2018!

Harvard disgraces itself every day it continues to bestow the "University Professor" title on Summers

The problem was never "cancel culture." The problem is that our elites have no shame. And many are also pretty terrible people

Our @apsrjournal.bsky.social article is now in print! We develop a theory to explain why the public doesn't become more prosocial toward LGBTQ+ people after illegitimate anti-LGBTQ+ violence and provide causal, externally valid, evidence for the theory across 4 studies doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Yeah exactly! the Epstein stuff is the only conspiracy theory I think might be true. I went from neutral to yeah, he probably didn’t kill himself over the last year w the Trump et al freak outs. Idk probably won’t happen w ghislaine but not completely completely out of the question ?

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

oh my god. hadn't thought of that

The problem was never "cancel culture." The problem is that our elites have no shame. And many are also pretty terrible people

Politician Authors Marc Hvidkjaer will explore how political books serve as a distinctive medium through which politicians define their identities and articulate their…

I will be presenting some early stage work at
@europeatharvard.bsky.social . Do join if you are around!
ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/...

San Francisco will have a new representative for the first time since like 2 years after the first registered internet domain names !!

It is wild to me that the leading city of the knowledge economy revolution has had the same representative throughout

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

Excited to share that together with @malojan.bsky.social we’ve published a research note in #partypolitics introducing PartySOME, a comprehensive dataset on political parties’ social media activity. A thread 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...