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Shabbat shalom! We had a fun little jaunt to NY this week for me to give a couple guest talks for @cnwillis.bsky.social’s class! Stocked up on our special seltzer flavors and Chobani oat milk 😂

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This resource page highlights scholarship on authoritarianism, democratic back-sliding, democracy, and the US democratic crisis, as well as resources on academic freedom, advocacy, and teaching resources. There's a form for sharing additional resources as we intend for this to be a dynamic document

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For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

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Hard writing makes for easy reading “Josh, your future readers are very smart and can understand your complicated sentences, but they will also be very tired, because we are all tired, and will appreciate simple sentences.”

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I’m sure absolutely no issues will come from the government having a list of Jews. Historically unproblematic.

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PENZEYS SPICES 📣Penzeys is having a sale ahead of the owner having to raise prices because of Trump's tariffs. (And phew!! that I learned about it in time!) If you already use Penzeys, you know what I'm sharing this information! If you don't, what a great chance to get on that! www.penzeys.com

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I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.

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Large numbers of people currently get their information from nontraditional media sources. The information they’re getting about climate change isn’t very good.

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Consider submitting to the 2026 'Teaching Day at ISA', a teaching-centered mini conference within the ISA Annual Meeting. This year, we invite proposals of teaching demonstrations, workshops, and interactive activities. Please review the CFP and submit by 15 May 2025. #polisky #teachlearnsky

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Harvard is getting a lot of credit for fighting back, but many smaller organizations, with much less financial stability, are also standing by their values.

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Every single person preaching that AI will "revolutionize" education needs to contemplate who they are aligning with right now. The Trump Administration is gunning to destroy public education by using AI to hollow it out from within. Which side are you on? wapo.st/4lG1eyr

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My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.

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I remember when I started grad school I had no idea what a postdoc was or how to get one. We have an all-star line up including @salahbhpolisci.bsky.social, @erincikanek.bsky.social, Leann Mclaren, and Sherry Zaks with myself and India Lenear moderating!

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Javier and Elle were SO friendly and this was such a helpful workshop for getting feedback on my dissertation. If you have a project that falls in this bucket, I highly encourage you to apply!

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Also, feminism has shown the way! Subsidized childcare! Robust, paid parental leave. Tax credits! Reproductive freedom. Universal healthcare. Until they make the world better, there is little incentive to have kids (though they are adorable lil munchkins)

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At least 2 people—29 and 44 yo—have died while detained at Krome ICE prison near Miami. The facility is so overcrowded people are sleeping in the bathrooms: “Their faces are literally under the toilet.” english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-...

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0 days since buffonery in this administration

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These images and stories from yesterday's mobilizations across the US are inspiring, but one thing that is visibly absent from Resistance2.0 so far is young people. Based on conversations with youth and campus organizers I know and data I've collected, here are some likely reasons (short 🧵)

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data as a means of social control onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... And data as ammunition cyberdefensereview.army.mil/CDR-Content/...

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Yes. I spent some time with Black mothers in Mississippi who use state befits like TANF etc. One thing that came up in their stories is how often their kids’ data/identities have been stolen — they believe from the casual mistreatment of data in those offices.

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I also have a piece I need to resubmit to a journal about this re: reproductive data, but yes- all this AND we have framed folks who don’t want to engage in datafication of themselves through tracking apps, watches, aura rings, or whatever as “irresponsible” or uninterested in their well-being.

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Use the provided pencil. Or bring your own pen. However you choose to mark your ballot, as long as it's just one mark, clearly in the designated circle, it will be counted, cross checked, & witnessed. Our ballot counting is very secure contrary to conspiracy-theorising on X, Facebook & tiktok.

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The other issue is that usage rates are surpassing the rates at which the the footprint is improving. This is old wine of trying to tech our way out of a social issue put in a new bottle of AI discourse

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Browsing articles on AI and environmental justice (across all disciplines). So many of them are like "how to use AI to achieve environmental justice," and totally miss the point that AI is the environmental injustice.

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Truly could not be me. The climate crisis is coming for us all quite rapidly, whether this administration believes in it or not. No way I’m jumping ship in the middle of this.

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1/Hi all. Yes, I’ve seen the document that may be a draft executive order reorganizing the State Department. No, I’m not certain it’s what will reach the president’s desk — if he even chooses to do this through an EO.

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Another story of 1. Admin sends fascist order 2. Media reports on it 3. People are outraged, say no 4. Admin says “actually that order was a mistake” Lesson is defy fascist orders kslnewsradio.com/shows-podcas...

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Congress pays for the Fulbright exhange programs via the Fulbright Act of 1946. The state dept just administers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulbrig... Here's hoping our congresspeople act to keep Fulbrights going, since these are an essential means for international education/research exchanges

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Looking for ways to support your students from MENA given everything? Please send them my way. An online writing solidarity group can help

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Apropos, I ran across this quote from the Seoul govt yesterday: "Ttareungi [bike share program] [...] expand[s] basic transportation rights, prevent[s] air pollution, and promote[s] citizens’ health, so it should be viewed from the perspective of public interest [...], not profitability"

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/w...

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More women than men are viewing climate change as their top political issue. While this trend has been true for a while the gender gap grew significantly in recent years according to a new report by the Environmental Voter Project. 19thnews.org/2025/04/wome...

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This administration breaks norms (and laws) but they are not some inevitable force that can overcome all laws of politics. Public pressure, lobbying, litigation and negative media coverage can change the course of policy.

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And we all need to center our students, who are being targeted, first and foremost, including students who are also graduate workers.

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NEW: In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies. By @alecmac.bsky.social

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This is one of the clearest, most straightforward moral tests of our time. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...

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