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Professor @ a large Midwestern univ. Wrote a book about economists + policy, one about academic science + policy. Temporarily on the "government is breaking" beat, but I'd rather be posting about public utility debates from 1906. I support 🏳️‍⚧️ rights.
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Fantastic piece on where we are in global capitalism that answers some questions I've had about a local store. Gift link. defector.com/seven-days-a...

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This is the best analysis I've read in quite a while.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

this is not meant as a hot take or a unique insight but it's remarkable how a lot of scientific discourse is about methods, data, and findings, whereas what really does most of the heavy lifting happens to be the assumptions

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

great to see @arula-ratnakar.bsky.social featured on this @issuesinst.bsky.social podcast!

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

People encounter this with their IoT devices and DRMed media, but this is a general property of cloudification: power, and therefore decisions that affect you directly, are in someone else's hands. Government and military systems are impacted in the same way. Why tolerate this?

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

"If routine childhood vaccination declined by 25%, we...projected there would be 26 900 cases...of postmeasles neurological sequelae, 100 cases...of paralytic poliomyelitis, ...5.4 million hospitalizations...due to all infections, and 80 600 deaths...due to all infections."

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments

Page One. Freep.com

submitted 51 days ago • 52 comments

Our EEPA paper on the media's role in shaping our understanding of student loans, race, and racism is here! Email me if you don't have access & want a copy. One of my fav papers for a few reasons but, most of all, it's my first paper with my husband 😍 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

submitted 53 days ago • 6 comments

Sometimes the really boring stuff is really important (this is basically my motto)

submitted 52 days ago • 10 comments

Does nobody understand what learning is.

submitted 52 days ago • 4 comments

A big thanks to Louisa Kamps at @nytimes.com, and @adamgrant.bsky.social, for selecting my book "The Asshole Survival Guide," as one of "6 books to help you deal with difficult people." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/w...

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Everyone benefits from the partnership between government and universities, which creates irreplaceable public goods.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

FWIW, we've been studying the nationalist pronatalism push for several years now. And it's powerfully driven by what you'd expect: patriarchal gender ideology, perceptions that Whites & Christians are under threat, & Christian nationalism. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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This is incredibly cool: if you search for a condition that’s affected your family, the site returns stats on how much NIH has done for that disease, *and* a contact form for reaching out to tell your Members of Congress why you want to see them defend NIH. Pass it on!

submitted 54 days ago • 5 comments

Small colleges have taken the lead -- but they are now joined by 6 of 8 Ivies: Cornell, Penn, Princeton, Yale, Brown, and -- yes -- Harvard. And, finally, by a handful of big publics: U. of Washington, Wisconsin, Rutgers, SUNY Buffalo and Stony Brook, UC Riverside, UVa, UMD.

submitted 53 days ago • 22 comments

Last night we watched The Rules of the Game -- highly recommend. It's a very enjoyable comedy of manners that gets a lot darker (and more relevant) if you put it in historical context. www.imdb.com/title/tt0031...

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

A short article of mine on civil-military relations and democratic backsliding had been accepted for publication in the journal "Connections". Then I received an email that the editors can't publish the paper unless I "remove the case study/examples of the United States" (1/x) #CivMilSky

submitted 56 days ago • 25 comments

I'm from the county being discussed in the original post and agree 💯💯 with what @anildash.com is saying here. There are good people in all places but the post romanticizes a culture that is deeply racist and xenophobic.

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

every year my history of science survey lesson plans get more and more about the political economy of research

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