Katharin Tai 戴恺琳

A) Bloating & Floating. B) Sinking. C) Decapitation. D) Sinking. E) Hit the rock bottom

How are you coping with the ills of the modern age? Stages of pterosaur decomposition. Tag yourself.

US-Regierung: „Keine spaltenden Narrative in Museen.“
Weimer: „Keine Sternchen in Texten.“
Jule Lobo: „Keine komplizierten Sätze in Aristoteles.“

2026: Alles wird von einem Labrador in Arial 14 neu geschrieben.

Digital authoritarianism lesson. It doesn’t have to be a big centralized supercomputer command center to violate rights. It doesn’t have to be in a country categorized as autocratic.

Symbol und Schriftzug an einer weißen Wand in einem Zug der Deutschen Bahn: "Psst ruhebereich - Quiet Zone". Von rechts schaut ein kleiner Stoffhai von Ikea den Schriftzug an. Er hat ein wachsames Auge Richtung Kamera, sodass er auf jeden Fall sieht, wer es war, wenn jemand Lärm macht

"Ruhebereich achten, sonst kommt Småhaj!"

My favorite doctor and companion

"think tankies" are actually just tankies with a PhD - it's admittedly quite confusing!

someone asked me the other day "I've actually been wondering: what are tankies?", and finally, *finally* the knowledge I acquired over YEARS of being way too online was exactly what the situation called for 😤💪🏼🎉

It was only a few years ago that I learned American Political Science Departments recognize only four (4) genders: comparative, IR, theory, and america

There's also methods, so we're up to five now!

Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.

The old selection-bias joke about police officers (also told about politicians and other unpopular groups) is that no one who wants to be a police officer should be allowed to become one.

Here's some relevant empirical evidence from the US.

Our uncle in the coal business had a banquet hall in his villa in Taiyuan that looked just like this!

Now in an issue @psrm.bsky.social: I show that the 🇩🇰 Social Democrats could have won policy support for a pro-immigrant platform if their messaging were framed in moral terms. Findings provide a central corrective to the popular notion that the Social Democrats were destined to go anti-immigrant 👇🏻

Excellent (as always) explainer from @reveleth.com on the depressing return of sex testing in athletics. If you're interested in this topic and haven't yet, definitely listen to their podcast "Tested", which dives into this topic super deeply from the science, historical & human angles!

Excellent (as always) explainer from @reveleth.com on the depressing return of sex testing in athletics. If you're interested in this topic and haven't yet, definitely listen to their podcast "Tested", which dives into this topic super deeply from the science, historical & human angles!

I often say that reporting on sex testing in sports is like reporting on a really twisted, 100 year game of wack-a-mole where we see the same things happen over and over. This is a great example. (A short thread, if you'll indulge me.)

Now I'm imagining you doing Chinese law explainers on sesame street

Historian friends: tell me about your favorite research & writing tools.

As a bonus, would love to know where you learned how to use them & if you'd be interested in sharing your knowledge w/ others.

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Buckle in for some @apsa.bsky.social Grad Status Committee updates! First up: you can finally sign up for our newsletter updates without being an APSA member! We send around 3-5 emails per year with PDFs of job postings, upcoming workshops, and $ opportunities.

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I assumed the technical term for baby owls was "fluff balls"

Ooooh I'd never heard that word before, but it's a good new English word to add to my vocab :D

Hope to see people at DCTV on Monday, and here's a new trailer out today for @heightenedscrutinydoc.com:

The thing about this article: there are *plenty* of migrants who want to move to these areas (eg in places like Brandenburg and Saxony in Germany) but too many of the locals have fascist sympathies and hound them out. That is a major problem, unaddressed in this piece.

tiny brown baby owl in a tree looking down and slightly to the right of the camera

tiny brown baby owl in a tree looking down and right at the camera

tiny brown baby owl in a tree looking in the distance to the left, pondering the existential meaning of being so cute

tiny brown baby owl in a tree looking slightly up and into the distance, so you can see it's extremely fluffy, pale brown stomach

my neck hurts from staring up into a tree for half an hour, but i got some actual shots of the baby owls & they're ADORABLE

A small baby owl on a roof in the evening

A tiny baby owl flying away from the roof

We all take what we can get these days. I took some bad pictures of the baby owls, but there are pictures!

Do baby owls learning to fly count as something good? bsky.app/profile/ktai...

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

The baby owls are taking flying lessons in our yard tonight - this is one of the cutest things I've ever seen 🥺

The naivety in Clinton's joke wasn't that he underestimated Chinese skill and determination in monitoring and guiding online life... it was his assumption that the US, as a democracy devoted to free speech, wouldn't also struggle with the new flood of information.

me to @ktai.bsky.social yesterday:

L: “Can I leave this opened bag of peanuts for the crows here?”

K: “Is it okay if I use them for cooking?”

L: “But… but they’re for the crows 🥺”

K: “So you’re saying you won’t leave them here if I don’t feed them to the crows?”

“🤨🤔… yes 😤”