🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning..
We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance.
And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use!
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Currently stress cleaning my entire house out of a need to feel some sense of control?
As someone who studies resolve, the historical record does not support this statement.
Amaze. Amaze. Our latest episode is live - and we're talking all things Project Hail Mary. We read the book. We saw the movie. We had diet coke and twizzlers. Now it's time to dish. Beware: spoilers and unpopular opinions abound! #projecthailmary
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Our latest episode is out!
Have you ever found a house you would literally kill for? Yeah...us, too.
Join us as we read Marisa Kashino's Best Offer Wins, unpack the American millennial dream, and dive into the highs (and lows) of book merchandise.
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As you revise your #ISA2026 @isanet.bsky.social papers, consider submitting to ISP.
We have fast processing times and publish in three categories: pedagogy, policy relevant scholarship, and practice.
Learn more about our journal here: academic.oup.com/isp/pages/Ab...
See you tomorrow at 4pm for the Publishing in Leading Journals: Meet the Editors Roundtable at @isanet.bsky.social 2026!
Are you traveling to the ISA meeting next month? Be sure to add these @ispjournal.bsky.social panels to your calendar:
Sunday 10:30-12:15
SB97: Publishing in the Age of AI: Perspectives from Leading IR Journal Editors
Wednesday 4:00-5:45
WD15: Publishing in Leading Journals: Meet the Editors
You can find our full reading list for this season and support your local bookstore here: bookshop.org/shop/wereadt...
Academics: You don't want to miss our latest episode of We Read That.
We're chatting about academic fiction, the perils of tenure, and cannibalistic sororities as we dish on Olivie Blake's Girl Dinner @torbooks.bsky.social. What could go wrong?
#academicsky
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They are easily available for all to search.
TW: Graphic Sexual assault
Donald Trump, the president, had parties at
Maralago called 'calendar girls' Jeffrey Epstein
would bring the children in and trump would auction
them off. He measured the children's vulva and
vaginas by entering a finger and rated the children
on tightness.
The unknown man gave
Victim 1 a drink and Victim 1 woke up naked and
sore with $300 on the bed. Victim 1 didn't remember
how she got to the room. She remembered seeing
'a flash' of Trump's face
From the same documents:
Complainant reported
Donald Trump participated regularly in paying
money to force her to perform sex acts with him and
alleged Trump was present when her uncle
murdered her newborn child.
Source: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
The Epstein files are publicly available to search. Within 30 seconds I found this:
[Redacted] an unidentified female friend
who was forced to perform oral sex on President
Trump approximately 35 years ago in NJ. The friend
told Alexis that she was approximately 13-14 years
old when this occurred.
This week on the podcast @drjostojski.bsky.social and I are chatting about The Compound by Aisling Rawle, talking about reality TV, and dissecting Jenny's ability to read 15 books at once.
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My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens.
- Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide
-There's worms & mold in food
-300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows
www.propublica.org/article/life...
@drjostojski.bsky.social and I started a passion project: a podcast where we talk about fiction books!
Our first episode just dropped so give it a listen. This episode we‘re chatting about Lisa Jewell’s The Family Remains, Evan Peters, & mountaineering disasters!
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Marimar Martinez is a hero.
She was shot 5 times by ICE.
The agent told her to “do something b*tch” before opening fire.
He later bragged “5 shots, 7 holes”.
DHS tried to smear her reputation but video footage vindicated her.
Next week she will testify in Washington about ICE’s brutality.
Really fantastic piece by @vox.com: "Authoritarianism feels a lot like normal, predictable life — until it doesn’t. There’s a hidden tripwire you can step on, but you often don’t realize you’ve stepped on it until you find yourself with a gun in your face."
ICYMI: Be sure to check out this incredibly work by Nikola Mirilovic and Myunghee Kim
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this pretty much sums up winter this year:
my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
“Shot dead” is passive. “murdered” names the actor. Words matter, especially when the state is pulling the trigger.
ICE and DHS are out of control and making our communities less safe.
I will not support funding for DHS without clear accountability and stronger controls over the agency.
It is time for the Senate to do its job and rein in this lawlessness.
We've launched our official facebook page! Be sure to follow it for more updates, including author summaries and other tidbits:
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National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
