@bcdreyer.social seems like a lot of unnecessary punctuation.

Public School Funding, School Quality, and Adult Crime Abstract. This paper asks whether increasing public school funding can be an effective long-run crime-prevention strategy in the United States. Specifically, we examine the effect of increases in funding early in children’s lives on the likelihood that they are arrested as adults. We exploit quasi-experimental variation in public school funding, leveraging two natural experiments in Michigan and a novel administrative data set linking the universe of Michigan public school students to adult criminal justice records. First, research design exploits variation in operating expenditures due to Michigan’s 1994 school finance reform, Proposal A. second design exploits variation in capital spending by leveraging close school district capital bond elections in a regression discontinuity framework. In both cases, we find that students exposed to additional funding during elementary school were substantially less likely to be arrested in adulthood. We show that the social benefits of increasing school funding are greater than the costs, even when considering only the crime-reducing benefits.

Public School Funding, School Quality, and Adult Crime - can increasing public school funding can serve as a long-term strategy for crime prevention in the U.S.? Signs are positive. @brittanyvasquez.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/rest/article...

Our first time exhibiting at #PaxEast. Come by and peruse our books and if you add your name to our newsletter list you can get either a Blackwing pencil or custom d20 die with the MIT Press colophon in the 20 spot!

What would happen if Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in response to a US/Israel attack? This classic 2008 article from the @mitpress.bsky.social journal International Security offers an analysis that remains relevant.

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The MIT Press announces winners for 2026 Faculty and Alumni Book Awards image Two new award categories this year for textbooks and children’s books.

Very pleased to have been one of the judges for these awards the past two years. Some very tough choices....

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I’m thankful that in the streaming era we can have access to all #Olympic events live, but it comes at the cost of having the expert commentary spread pretty thin. The English guy calling the Canada v France gm this morning seemed to have a passing interest in hockey at best.

So... IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_ - The Scholarly Kitchen How are two competing neuroscience journals faring since the editorial board of one departed to create the other?

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Uber and Traffic Fatalities Abstract. Previous studies of the effect of ridesharing on traffic fatalities have yielded inconsistent conclusions. We revisit this question using proprietary data from Uber measuring monthly ridesha...

Fascinating research indicating rideshare activity reduces traffic fatalities by 5.2%. "The annual life-saving benefits are $6.8 billion." @mitpress.bsky.social

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Global Environmental Politics amid Geopolitical Turbulence Abstract. Over the past decade, three overlapping trends have fundamentally reshaped and now characterize the global geopolitical order: the rise of emerging powers, increasing military conflicts, and...

What do the key trends in international relations mean for the study on global environmental politics?

New overview article in @gepjournal.bsky.social by crack team @yixiansun.bsky.social, @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social, @matpaterson.bsky.social et al.

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@bcdreyer.social pummels into?

The former director of Amherst University Press is now the bishop in charge of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe. That’s my personal fave of these.

If Maye puts in a respectable performance v Miami is the MVP race over?

With best books in technology, sci-fi, and art, it's been another remarkable year at the MIT Press. Thank you to the authors, booksellers, librarians, readers, and reviewers who make this work possible: mitpress.mit.edu/the-best-of-...

I am envious! I’d give a lot to be hearing those records for the first time. The We Jam Econo doc is terrific.

Opinion | The Thucydides Trap Is Coming for America

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Watching movies on the ad version of @hbomax.bsky.social is unbearable. I saw Eddington last night and there were 8 commercial breaks for a total of 24 ads, which destroyed any sense of flow. @a24movies.bsky.social

Notebooks of a Wandering Monk Matthieu Ricard began his spiritual transformation at the age of twenty-one, in Darjeeling, India, when he met Tibetan teacher Kangyur Rinpoche, who deeply i...

Thanks to @rory-stewart.bsky.social for his ringing endorsement of a calm book on the latest episode of
@therestpolitics.bsky.social. Look forward to the RS bounce in sales this week. @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026204829...

THE RULE OF LAW The concept of the rule of law is invoked for purposes that are both numerous and diverse, and that concept is often said to overlap with, or to require, an assortment of other practices and ideals, i...

@casssunstein.bsky.social doesn't just write books for @mitpress.bsky.social He publishes articles with us as well, including this recent overview of the connection between the rule of law and equality direct.mit.edu/ajle/article...

Really pleased to have @openmindjournal.bsky.social from @mitpress.bsky.social be part of the Open Access Community Investment Program @wearelyrasis.bsky.social It's been generously supported by @harvardlibrary.bsky.social and @mitlibscholarly.bsky.social and we need to broaden the funding base.

A terrific week spent at Tongji University and the China Academy of Art celebrating the 40th anniversary of our journal Design Issues. The hosts put on a remarkable conference and exhibit that showcased the profound impact of the journal on design thinking and research. @mitpress.bsky.social

Fun afternoon talking AI and publishing at @bentleyuniv.bsky.social

2025 Douglas Haskell Award Recognizes Four Student Journals on Architecture - Center for Architecture AIA New York and the Center for Architecture are proud to announce the 2025 recipients of the Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals. The Haskell Award was founded to encourage student journalism…

🎉 Thresholds 53: Idle is a recipient of the 2025 Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals! Congratulations to editors Joshua Tan and Mingjia Chen, along with the entire Issue 53 team:

Out of Now In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh made a series of extraordinary pe...

@mitpress.bsky.social has the definitive overview of Hsieh’s career.

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The Artist Who Lived in a Cage For a Year

Excellent @nytimes.com piece on the fascinating Tehching Hsieh and his upcoming exhibition at Dia Beacon. Hard to believe it’ll be his first ever but I guess his work presents some unique challenges.

The Artist Who Lived in a Cage For a Year www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/a...

@criterionchannl.bsky.social is easily the best, and best value, streaming service of all time but I’ll never understand Criterion 24/7.

Artificial intelligence can detect and interpret social features between people from images and videos almost as reliably as humans. -- new research from @imagingneurosci.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #neuroscience #chatgpt

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This feels like a metaphor. @universalhub.com