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sahrens.bsky.social
Political theory, political philosophy, democracy, trust, film, cats, typos, bike commuting Currently at Boston University as a postdoc in Kilachand Honors College. SEIU Local 509.
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Remembered that I wrote about how awful Woodrow Wilson's historic segregationist purge of Black workers from federal government jobs was last year.... www.thedailybeast.com/woodrow-wils...

submitted 12 hours ago • 10 comments

Maine governor in response to threat to withhold fed $: “No President…can withhold Federal funding authorized and appropriated by Congress and paid for by Maine taxpayers in an attempt to coerce someone into compliance with his will. It is a violation of our Constitution and of our laws.”

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This was YEARS in the making but my first solo authored publication is out. I do more than rant on social media. I also study situational trust! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Teaching Locke’s Second Treatise, chapters 8-16 tomorrow and he has thoughts about the extent of executive power, sec. 151. (We do usurpation and tyranny next week).

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Shoutout to the academics w the time & energy to sift through the news, think, and post. I’m teaching a new prep, on the job market, and doing community-level work. My time to do the sifting and skeeting is 0. It’s nice to open the app, feel less alone in my thoughts, & share your work with others.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Before my dx, I was drowning in grad school despite my love for the work. I had a complex system of organization to sub for exec fn; it crumbled under grad school loads. I can’t explain to you the relief I felt with stimulant meds. I could work. I could do normal life tasks. Still slower than NTs.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I've lived democratic backsliding & authoritarianism across multiple countries. I've watched repression creep across staff planning sessions & editorial rooms, from both the left & right. The #1 way it happens? Self-censorship. Before your opponents ever censor you, self-professed allies do.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

UW-Madison estimates every $1 in revenue has +$26 ROI in economic impact, so defunding universities will wreak havoc on local, state, and national economies. Many tens of thousands will lose their jobs in US. Thousands of startups stopped. State tax revenues lost. budget.wisc.edu/budget-in-br...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

This is why every political scientist you know has been in a state of panic for the past week. This isn't about policy disagreement, it's about the Constitution being destroyed before our very eyes.

submitted 17 days ago • 45 comments

We are hiring several postdoctoral associates at Boston University's interdisciplinary Kilachand Honors College! It is a 3 year teaching position. I am on the committee and happy to answer any questions. The position is unionized. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29595. Please share widely.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Keep thinking about the role of funding and epistemology pressures in research so reading Political Science as a Dependent Variable: The National Science Foundation and the Shaping of a Discipline. Abstract below. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

We are hiring several postdoctoral associates at Boston University's interdisciplinary Kilachand Honors College! It is a 3 year teaching position. I am on the committee and happy to answer any questions. The position is unionized. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29595. Please share widely.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Call for papers: political theory in/ and/ as political science junior scholars' workshop. Please circulate. #polisky @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Shades of what happened to UChicago GSU after we won our original NLRB election during the Trump years.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Scream it from the hilltops. Democratic care must be the ethic at the base of 21st century politics. Don’t write the idea off based on whatever 20th century team you been on. Think about what it could mean. What it should mean.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Small delights: cosmic purple carrots from the week’s CSA box, hummus and snow (which has been scarce since I moved to Boston in 2022)

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

I don't have this all together yet, but I feel for today's university students. What I've seen is a combination of issues (some of which lead to axns that are easy targets for profs shaking our fists at the sky about the youth when the problem is the system). 1/

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Dancers of Dallas Black Dance Theatre put in extraordinary work to hold their employer accountable after the company wrongfully fired all of its dancers. (Dancers voted to unionize in May, and were fired in August.) This is a big deal—& what a gem of a headline from The Barbed Wire!

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Professors with ADHD "Successfully Grade Finals, Answer Student Emails, *And* Remember To Eat Food and Be A Person" Challenge (Kill Bill Siren Nightmare Mode)

submitted 72 days ago • 6 comments

That moment when you realize one paper should actually be three papers

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Re: trans kids and "regret": There are many medical procedures--including extraordinarily invasive, painful, and often unproven surgeries--that we perform on disabled and intersex kids without batting an eyelash. Often, parents and kids are sold on these surgeries with false promises of normalcy.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

450 days without a contract at Miami University

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

I will presenting my chapter on Indigenous Peru at the BU’s political theory workshop next Monday. If you are in the area please feel free to join. Thanks to Paul Gutierrez and BU Polisci for the invitation!

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

The AJPS is taking a brief hiatus from 12/13 at 11:59 PM to 1/13 at 12:00 AM EST. We won't accept new/revised manuscripts and you won't be able to see the review status of previously submitted manuscripts. You will be able to submit reviews and we will continue to make decisions during the break.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

When they scan your ticket and say “nice, you’ll be here all day”

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

I felt no actual surprise but my jaw still dropped when I first heard the news.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Today's the day! -A Pedagogy of Kindness- is now out as an audiobook, available wherever you get your audiobooks (including your library!) Thanks to everyone at the U of OK Press and Tantor Media for this. You can hear a preview at the link below www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr0J...

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments