I have several advisees who have chosen this route, most of whom could have landed entry level academic jobs (postdocs or better) and simply wanted something different. All of them seem extremely happy.
New REPS Lab paper🚨
Ideological Sorting Helps Explain the Galvanization of Latino Republicans in Contemporary U.S. Politics: Qualitative Evidence from In-Depth Interviews
Led by @solisrodolfo.bsky.social + his fieldwork
1 big theme: GOP Latinos view their ethnicity very positively yet distinctly
New REPS Lab paper🚨
Ideological Sorting Helps Explain the Galvanization of Latino Republicans in Contemporary U.S. Politics: Qualitative Evidence from In-Depth Interviews
Led by @solisrodolfo.bsky.social + his fieldwork
1 big theme: GOP Latinos view their ethnicity very positively yet distinctly
"Beyond state legislators and other Republican politicians, it’s unclear who, if anyone, is supporting these policies."
Would it be uncouth to say “check my website where I have dozens of blog posts on writing that might be helpful to get you started”?
"The University of California system, the California State system, the City University of New York — these are the institutions actually educating America’s workforce, actually moving first-generation students into the middle class, actually delivering on higher education’s democratic promise."
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
The one thing you might say is a reasonable claim is that rising costs have "eroded trust" in higher education. And sure. But here at public universities, we cannot solve that problem on our own. There is a solution, but it's not one we can implement ourselves. It requires the politicians:
🚨New working paper w/ the legendary @cbwlezien.bsky.social!
Lots of talk about inflation & voters' political views. But how well do voters actually understand info about inflation?
We find that most citizens conflate changes in rates w/ changes in prices. This has important consequences...
Fuck around and find out
I laugh internally when I overhear someone complain about how DEI took over faculty hiring. Nevermind most departments in the field have one or two token faculty of color max.
The job market has really shrunk for Black scholars. So many schools are doing their best to get rid of us or never hire us. I know way too many folks suing their institutions or the state over what they research and teach.
Increasingly convinced that American Evangelicalism is just the right-wing version of Oberlin Wicca: The lifestyle brand for a political identity, invoking the aesthetic of, but otherwise fundamentally unrelated to, a real historical religion.
We’re hiring: remote-eligible Provost Postdoctoral Fellow, SEA Lab at Vanderbilt. Great fit for candidates interested in early caregiving, developmental psychopathology, neuroimaging, and ecological methods. Start Aug 1-Dec 1, 2026. Apply: k.humphreys@vanderbilt.edu
A few notes on this piece. I started with the idea of comparing the moments after Jan 6 with the moment last week when people all across the board started talking 25th + impeachment 1/
1. A few weeks ago, I learned that there was a negative vote on my tenure case at Columbia. Posting some quick thoughts below:
Orban has lost. What a great day! (Unlike some sundowning clowns we know, he has admitted he lost, too.)
This is cause for celebration. May the entire white supremacist international he helped create also fall.
If scholars need data (for Missouri at least), the SLU/YouGov Poll surveyed Missouri voters on data centers in February. All data online at slu.edu/poll
