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Also, if you assign work by a junior person, it is nice to tell them. They may be able to put it in a file as evidence of impact / feel less like a loser

It's syllabus-writing time for many of us! If you assign anything I've written, I'm always happy to zoom into your class or even just share slides about the work.

As a chemical engineer turned political scientist (who took courses in thermodynamics and thermo-fluids), it gives me the heebie-jeebies when social scientists use that kind of language to study social problems.

And for anyone thinking "that's silly, it'll take ages!": White supremacists/Christian nationalists have been preparing and planning for where the US is today for more than 50 years.

It's telling, for example, that the architects of Project 2025 have blamed falling birth rates on "harmful over-consumption of schooling."
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They want to go back to a time when college was only for wealthy White men. Because that will make the rest of the population easier to manipulate with misinformation and easier to force into unpaid care roles (women) or underpaid manual labor jobs that remain as more jobs get AI-ed (men).

David Byrne is a treasure and he must be protected at all costs.

Typos: EXACTLY the Trump Administration…

Be careful not to give your enemies weapons to destroy you and your guild.

There’s obviously much to criticize and fix in academia and higher education, but I think it’s key to fight together against the common adversary.

Just my two cents.

This is EXACTLY my he Trump Administration’s plan: decimate higher education (in his view, preferably ALL education). And here I see some of my academic colleagues complaining about the politicization of science. Well, as a political scientist, let me tell you: you, too, will be out of a job soon.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

How often do you “refresh” the content of your website?

I had to update my CV and I realized in some ways it feels unwieldy. I do stuff in several areas and I am rethinking how I present myself to the world.

All suggestions welcome (feel free to point to your own website!)

La prisión preventiva oficiosa (es decir: el gobierno te puede meter al bote cuando se le dé la gana) es una aberración y una vergüenza.
Todos los gobiernos quieren ese poder, ningún ciudadano lo debe aceptar.

Well-Being and Pluralism - Journal of Happiness Studies It is a commonly expressed sentiment that the science and philosophy of well-being would do well to learn from each other. Typically such calls identify mistakes and bad practices on both sides that w...

Polly Mitchell and I also have an argument against unifying impulses in the science of wellbeing link.springer.com/article/10.1...

ENTRETIEN – Julie Madon, sociologue : "On pourrait légiférer sur les produits non réparables" Julie Madon est une sociologue spécialisée dans le domaine de la consommation durable. Originaire de Toulouse, cette chercheuse de Sciences Po s’est intéressée à la durée de vie des objets. Un travail qu’elle relate...

Julie Madon, sociologue spécialisée dans le domaine de la consommation durable, s’est intéressée à la durée de vie des objets. Un travail qu’elle relate dans « Faire durer les objets. » Dans un entretien, elle évoque le phénomène de la réparation des objets

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The Checklist to End Tyranny By Peter Ackerman The Checklist to End Tyranny is the culmination of a 50-year mission to develop and share knowledge about how civil resistance campaigns can expand freedom in the world. ICNC is prov...

I think the best think, honestly, is to read Peter Ackerman's book The Checklist to End Tyranny. It's free to download from the ICNC, and it'll help people to fight back. It's just that many of us don't understand what we're seeing, until we SEE it. www.nonviolent-conflict.org/checklist/

Exactly this

This definitely seems like a dudes rock moment.

Let’s all go to Belfast!

Bending the knee one after the next

AI thrives where education has been devalued | The Observer A culture that views knowledge as a means to an end invites the misuse of new technology

'It is less that AI is the cause of degradation in reading and thinking, and more that the creation of a culture that views knowledge primarily in an instrumental manner has made it easier to misuse AI.'

A step-by-step guide to writing a research paper, from idea to full manuscript www.raulpacheco.org/2017/06/writ...

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Relationships between rural migration and perceptions of environmental change: Insights from Bushbuckridge, South Africa Environmental change is increasingly threatening rural livelihoods across the globe. Yet rural communities possess valuable knowledge that could infor…

New paper out with Farirai Rusere, @csamimi.bsky.social & colleagues. Minor contribution of mine, but was a great learning experience to work with physical geographers/ environmental science & population studies and sociology colleagues. Open access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The disastrous dismantling of the humanities in Australia’s universities has begun A crisis is unfolding for the humanities and social sciences at universities across the country.

The disastrous dismantling of the humanities in Australia’s universities has begun www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/31/a...

Cover of Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine, edited by Anne Kveim Lie, Jeremy A. Greene and Warwick Anderson

Look what came in the mail #histstm 👀

Developing a sustainable writing practice One of the first things I teach my students *and* my thesis advisees is how

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I just got an email informing me that my Annual Review on structural racism with @tyson-brown.bsky.social and @pahoman.bsky.social is open access. So, download away.

Underrated in importance: Would have given Trump a foil and encouraged Dems to set up another circular firing squad about 2024, Biden, etc. that the media would have covered endlessly. Harris sitting out keeps the focus on Trump.