In MAGA biopolitics, teen births "crash"ing is a bad thing.
In AKP Turkey, women should have at least three children.
Everyday media, like cooking shows and #tradwives content, make these agendas more palatable to wide audiences
My article in Politics and Gender www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
and neither can the private sector & private foundations
For social science: *63 percent* of all social and behavioral science research in the United States is funded by the NSF through the social, behavioral, and economic sciences directorate.
As A.I. increasingly and undeniably reveals itself to be a very real threat to the authenticity and reliability of digital data and records, I wonder if we're going to see a societal shift - prompted by those at the bottom, up - back to physical record keeping and old school paper trails.
It's @professormusgrave.bsky.social o'clock again, alas
And you thought AI posed problems for academia...
like i cannot understate that major sources of social science research funding for PhD candidates are just - gone over the last few years, much less NSF support
- ford /national academy of sciences fellowships
- ssrc international dissertation fellowships
- USIP dissertation fellowships (?)
Happy 10th anniversary to the best #AprilFools prank @dadakim.bsky.social & I ever pulled!
Policy implication: facilitating international migration should be in every developing country's toolkit.
Nearly all developing countries already have government agencies for overseas employment. Our evidence says this is the right call: it's not hollowing out, it's building up.
With Tax Day coming up, here's our reminder that TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.
(Published 2019)
This is out of control
Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com: In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University: Nine majors "sunsetting": • Classical civilization • Classics (Greek and Latin) • Digital humanities • Fine arts • German • Latino-Latin American studies • Middle Eastern studies • Modern Jewish studies • Russian ALT
The First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education. The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin). Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership. By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.
Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone
A great write-up on brand-new research I was involved in. We used a really different approach from the ones that we & many others have used previously to estimate how many Covid deaths there *really* were--almost 20% more than known. Our results broadly accord w others but add new demographic detail
![Text screenshot from link: Claude was reminding me of something.
Something where I would be responsible but under-credited when the results are presented.
Oh my god, was I Claude's nanny?!
My male peers might be offput by me calling what it makes of us a 'nanny.' But the point of a nanny is the child, who gets a lion's share of the credit.
Misbehavior is blamed on the nanny, or the parents, never the little boy. And work with Al seems to be prioritizing what a special little boy[1] Claude is: look at him try! Sometimes he makes things up, but how impressive! We will weigh the correct things disproportionately to the things little Claude gets wrong. No, we have to let this little guy keep trying, he might change the world!
No, no, that vase is not valuable. Someone else can spend the time cleaning it up. You just didn't
ask Claude the 'right way!' Look what Claude can do!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c2ea2ksv4vjvax3rzedvkag3/bafkreicbpks4bovp4doevd6f3tdkdd7l6vl6colgw2bxh7ij3msvkgi75e)
Text screenshot from link: Claude was reminding me of something. Something where I would be responsible but under-credited when the results are presented. Oh my god, was I Claude's nanny?! My male peers might be offput by me calling what it makes of us a 'nanny.' But the point of a nanny is the child, who gets a lion's share of the credit. Misbehavior is blamed on the nanny, or the parents, never the little boy. And work with Al seems to be prioritizing what a special little boy[1] Claude is: look at him try! Sometimes he makes things up, but how impressive! We will weigh the correct things disproportionately to the things little Claude gets wrong. No, we have to let this little guy keep trying, he might change the world! No, no, that vase is not valuable. Someone else can spend the time cleaning it up. You just didn't ask Claude the 'right way!' Look what Claude can do!
erincikanek.com/the-rumors-o...
“There are 36 countries on Mr. Trump’s travel ban or restriction list. Twenty-nine of them are in Africa.”
“Nearly 90 percent of African immigrant visa applicants are now banned…”
via @nytimes.com
When I first saw the only public document justifying the US Administration's $100,000 tax on H-1B visas, I couldn't believe it.
The analysis was full of mistakes. Big ones. Basic ones.
So I got the same data and reanalyzed it correctly. This is the result.
3/ Not anti-AI, not pro-AI. A report from someone at the intersection, trying to be honest. If you work in academia, left academia, think about the future of universities, or are quietly navigating your own relationship with these tools, this might be worth your time.
2/ It uses Weber's 1917 lecture to ask what's actually load-bearing in academic work, what's automatable without loss, and what we'd be trading away. It's also about publish-or-perish and adjunctification as slow erosions we stopped questioning until AI forced the reckoning.
1/ New essay: "The Demon Does Not Use a Keyboard Shortcut, or Science as a Vocation in the Age of the Machine"
I work inside AI systems and I have a PhD in political science. I wrote about what it looks like when those two things collide.
fulyafelicityturkmen.substack.com/p/the-demon-...
"the assumption is that survey responses, experimental data, & admin. records are already anonymized & therefore safe to process through AI platforms. But anonymization at...collection does not guarantee anonymization at the point of AI processing." fulyafelicityturkmen.substack.com/p/the-securi...
Incredibly moving piece on the tensions of Iranian diaspora.
My colleague and friend Narges Bajoghli identifies an “anguished double consciousness”: deep loathing for the Iranian regime but unwillingness to celebrate the war’s deaths and destruction.
nymag.com/intelligence...
I never thought I’d have a substack, but here we are.
I wrote something about the other side of the AI in academia debate. What these tools do to the environments we work in and the people we study:
fulyafelicityturkmen.substack.com/p/the-securi...
Coming soon!
A sequel to Outsourcing Repression (and Everyday State Power in China).
Abstract here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
@uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social
this is extremely dangerous.
A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive.
One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.
Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.
(Published Dec. 2025)
I'm sure this is early days, lots more research needed, but how exciting that it's even possible.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”
Congratulations Alysa 🤍 This is what a sport and a career built well and with love could (oh well, should) look like for us all.
The cherry on top? She found herself at UCLA first via the freedom, the friendships, the character built outside the rink. Then, she came back on her terms, as world champion, performing at the Olympics with her siblings in the stands for the first time.
The importance of mental health and just being happy, light, and carefree. The transformation of her immigrant father learning to let her go, to trust and respect her, her decisions, her talent, her joy.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...
Loved every part of this story.
The heaviness of living under immigrant parents who just want to give more than they were given, mostly through "tough love." The Gen Z courage of saying no to things people before them never even knew they could say no to.
