I'm quoted in this article looking at a report on state higher ed funding effort heading into challenging times. It gives me flashbacks to Great Recession-era proposals, except for state maintenance of effort provisions not being discussed now.
If you were/are a participant in the US rave scene, please consider submitting your oral history at:
ravehistory.org
Also see rave history maps for some major cities here: ravehistory.org/maps
Title page of our paper, “The Politics of Black Classification: Sociopolitical Cues and Racial Perception,” with Lauren Davenport (Stanford) and Hunter Rendleman (UC Berkeley), dated April 14, 2026. Abstract: What makes someone Black in American society today? From Donald Trump questioning Kamala Harris’s racial identity to Joe Biden’s claim that hesitant Black voters “ain’t Black,” American politics frequently brings questions of racial authenticity and belonging to the surface. Yet political science often approaches race as a fixed attribute rather than a social construction. Here, we seek to understand how Americans define blackness in social and political life. Using a conjoint experiment with a racially diverse sample that includes Black, white, and mixed race Black-white respondents, we evaluate how ascribed and acquired traits influence perceptions of blackness. The results show that inherited characteristics—particularly parentage and skin tone, which are the strongest determinants of racial classification—play a central role, while sociopolitical cues such as partisanship, neighborhood context, and spousal race also influence racial classification. Using a continuous measure, we also show that respondents make graded assessments of blackness rather than purely binary classifications, with some individuals perceived as more Black than others. Black respondents are more likely than white respondents to classify a broader set of profiles as Black, consistent with a more inclusive understanding of racial membership, yet they also place greater emphasis on shared political identity. These findings clarify how racial categories are socially constructed and why that construction carries real political and social consequences.
Our paper, “The Politics of Black Classification: Sociopolitical Cues and Racial Perception” (w/ Lauren Davenport & @hrendleman.bsky.social), has been conditionally accepted at Perspectives on Politics!
Sharing abstract below. Long time coming, but we are really proud of this paper.
More soon!
The NYT just doesn’t know how to cover the sector 🤷🏻♂️
Following last week’s news that Project Jupiter will use more water than previously disclosed, Doña Ana County commissioners took swift action on Tuesday to try to learn more.
Here’s my report. /1
Second Term Worse than the First. Consumer sentiment is far worse in 2nd term than in 1st. Economic sentiment was a tremendous advantage in the first Trump term and is a tremendous burden in the second. 1/n
Thank you, Indiana University Hamilton Lugar School for a fun conference on America’s Role in the World. As someone who has studied and worked at some gorgeous campuses, I will stipulate that Bloomington in the spring is awfully damn pretty!
This seems like a much bigger scandal that the National press ought to be covering
With some elites saying things like introspection is a modern invention and that “great men” don’t waste their time on it… Yeah. I doubt they’ll ever step foot in a therapy room.
Five artists you'll hear on tonight's episode of "The Beat with Dave Lindquist": Allison Russell, the Bug Club and Indiana’s Real Peak, Tad Armstrong and Malingo. 7p, @wttsfm.bsky.social! #TheBeatWTTS
The iconic Victorian clock face in the Dymocks Building on George Street in Sydney, Australia. Above the clock there is a black capital letter phrase that reads: Time Conquers All. The building is immaculately restored and maintained with gold leaf accents, curved and decorative masonry plus glass windows to the right illuminating the high ceilings.
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I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.
Happy March 31! www.youtube.com/shorts/_CeUz...
Outstanding!!
There’s no Republican running in HD95, so it’s very likely the May primary will decide who represents parts of Lawrence and the far east side.
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No spoilers here! Anything I said you could’ve gleaned from the trailers
Anyway, I want that cardigan
Sure, the fox motif in Project Hail Mary (film) can be read as symbolizing Ryland’s cleverness and all that. But I like how it echoes with another story about friendship between beings from different planets: The Little Prince
This is indeed very interesting! I assume these UG writers already knew something about writing before using AI—so I’d be interested to see how this pattern of AI use, or reliance of it, differs as time goes on and AI tools are introduced to students earlier in the process of learning to write
Book cover: the first Trump term
Table of contents
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This is real and available for pre-order! a terrific roster of authors help shed light on how we got here
This is grim reading. Even if you dislike aspects of higher education, declines in academic freedom often accompany authoritarianism.
"the decline in [academic freedom in] the United States has been more rapid and pronounced, particularly in the last year. It has deteriorated by 50% from 2015 to 2025 and is now evaluated as moderate autonomy by country experts" academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...
The Trump administration is engaged in another effort to ban DEI in universities, this time via the General Service Administration
www.highereddive.com/news/gsa-pla...
Donald J. Trump Y @reaDonaldTrump Robert Mueller just died. Good, I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP 602 ReTruths 1.81k Likes 3/21/26, 12:26 J
Remember when people were fired for *reposting* accurate quotes from Charlie Kirk after he was killed.
I’m pretty sure that by the Charlie Kirk death response standard Trump has to be fired
One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...
Grand opening, grand closing.
Liberation should never, ever, ever come through "icons" but through solidarity, compassion, understanding, and mutual empowerment. Everything else is celebrity and fandom. And all celebrities will ultimately be fickle.
Hey friends, my new paper was just published in JAMA Psychiatry. I draw on biological species classification to sketch a new framework for psychiatric nosology.
Brief summary follows below.
Full text link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
🧪 #PsychSciSky #MentalHealth
