"'If you can increase the diversity of the scientific workforce, there’s some evidence that you can increase the trust in scientists,' Druckman explained... [diversity] encompassing not just race and gender but also rurality, religiosity, and class background."
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There are exceptions, but many of the "conservatives" who a decade or two ago wanted universities to teach more Western Civ both (a) had no idea what universities are actually teaching, and (b) had no idea about the content they purportedly wanted to be taught more.
We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.
This is a boringly accurate, purely factual description of events.
And again, this is simply not receiving the same breathless BIDEN FAILED IN AFGHANISTAN type of coverage, even though this is orders of magnitude worse on every dimension. The two parties simply are not held to the same standards.
Reminder: The Trump regime cancelled nearly $500 million in federal contracts for mRNA vaccine development last year.
Agree and also the Chanel outfits!
I think this is all misinformation based on The Marvelous Mrs Maisel! We figure out later in the series that the fabulous Manhattan apartment is not bc of Abe’s Columbia salary but family money.
Seriously!
We really need to get them better trained to run code
Waffles! It's finally warm and I don't think Charlie knows how to deal with the warmth yet.
Brown lab mix sleeping on a black and white rug
My research assistant is really slacking today.
FYI MPSA folks! On Friday at 3:20 the Pol Pties & IGs section is hosting "Parties, Public Opinion, and Political Behavior in the US: The Intellectual, Professional, & Personal Impact of Ted Carmines," featuring Margie Hershey, Geoff Layman, Jeff Mondak, Eric Schmidt, Paul Sniderman, & Mike Wagner.
Congrats!
This is great. I'm starting the process of nominating faculty to AAAS and it's pretty astonishing the concentration of people in only a handful of schools! And to be elected, you have to be nominated by 2 current members
Awesome news!
That's hard - end of semester and challenging topic. I also do a last day of the semester wrap up of all of the concepts we did over the course of the semester and how they relate to the goals of the class. One less lecture!
What I started to do is to do topics at the end of the semester that I'm most familiar with so I don't have to spend time prepping. So I do new topics or readings at the beginning when I'm fresh and enthusiastic and public opinion at the end (doesn't matter the class!)
This is very true! And as the research on the issue shows and as the Hungarian example confirms, and the Polish one before that, the key to large turnout is long-term, grass-roots organizational labor that helps people understand how their single vote is a dignified part of a larger transformation.
I respect the trolling.
All politics is local, 🇭🇺 edition
Not a partisan issue IN MISSISSIPPI
This is partly why compellence (getting a country to do something it doesn't want to do, or undo what it has already done) is so hard: you need to be able to provide *assurance* that you will accept their actions and refrain from further punishment, etc. See @reidpauly.bsky.social's book!
Hungarians deserve every congratulations for giving Peter Magyar a bigger margin than Orban has ever gotten in all of his rigged elections - and this within the system that Orban rigged. Magyar now has a constitutional majority to undo Orban's constitutional prison and govern as a democratic leader.
If the outcome was different, we would have been looking at an all-out revenge campaign on everyone defying the Fat Fuck™ so in this case I'm very much in Camp Lesser Evil, but I'm guessing that's me being biased and Hungarian again
I doubt that Pope Leo XIV will lose any sleep over this, before he begins his pilgrimage to Africa tomorrow. But the rest of us should. Because it is unhinged, uncharitable and unchristian. Is there no bottom to this moral squalor?
Schrödinger’s catastrophe
The Gulf states are watching their entire development model and years of diplomatic engagement to make it possible crumble before their eyes.
And Israel thinks it is achieving security when in fact the landscape of destruction it's surrounding itself with is choking off any hope of a viable future.
There was no negotiations, no brokering, no deal.
Trump backed himself in a corner and needed a way out. Iran obliged, because the cost was zero and the benefits were significant (no more US bombing and keeping China onside).
Everything else is wasted effort.
We do now know the NSF is proceeding with dissolving the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division. Congress might reverse it, but it is now already underway. YOU CAN NO LONGER SUBMIT FUNDING PROPOSALS TO SBE. Program officers are being moved to different parts of the agency. Call your Congress member
